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The Tools for Successful Web Page Optimization: Beyond the Minute
There’s science behind the SERP. Results brought to the top of a Google search are there after careful web page optimization. It’s a little keyword research, a sprinkle of image attributes and a dash of coding that makes up the secret formula for a well-optimized page. Lucky for you, this blog has all the web…
Frequently Asked Questions about Web Development
Computer engineers, programmers, developers, coders, code monkeys – by whatever term you know them, web development professionals are the backbone of the web. Likewise, our team of developers is the backbone of many projects, especially website design/redesign and custom campaigns we’ve launched for clients over the years. When prospects reach out to us about web…
New Website Launches: What to Anticipate
Hopefully, you’ve selected us to redesign your website and we will be handling your stress-free launch. But if you haven’t, we want you to be prepared for your launch day. Most of the time the designers and developers at Oneupweb are replacing legacy sites that have been up for years. This means we’re updating more…
Beyond the Marketing Minute: Google Tag Manager
What is Google Tag Manager? Google Tag Manager is a free Google tool that allows you to drop code (or tags) on your website through a container snippet. Therefore, you don’t have to hardcode anything. You can just load tags and triggers to your Google Tag Manager container. If the explanation above made you more…
How to Track Link Clicks on AMP Sites with Google Tag Manager
As if Google Tag Manager wasn’t already difficult enough for us non-developers to grasp, Google decided to change the trigger variables for AMP websites. With huge help from my developer friend and colleague, we found a solution that allows us to quickly implement basic event tracking on new AMP websites that we have recently designed,…
10 Best Practices to Boost Your UX Strategy
What Is UX? Before we get into UX strategy, let’s talk definitions. UX, or user experience, is a term that Don Norman coined in the early 1990s, when he was VP of the Advanced Technology Group at Apple. He defined user experience as encompassing all aspects of the end user’s interaction with a system, including…
Mobile-First Indexing: Beyond the Marketing Minute
When you ask yourself “Should I optimize for mobile first or desktop first?” the answer should always be mobile, whether you’re making speed, UX, or accessibility optimizations. The mobile experience is more error-prone because (1) the screen has less room and (2) mobile users are typically very impatient and ready to bounce. Optimizing for mobile…
Monday Marketing Minute: Getting an SSL Certificate
Every Monday, marketing experts from Oneupweb take a minute to talk about industry tips and tricks, new and noteworthy trends, and more. This week we sit down with Ashley Mugnolo and Gillian Cobb to discuss why you need to buy an SSL Certificate for your site before July 2018, the penalties for not having one, and more! Check out the…
Updating Your Site to SSL
On February 8, 2018, Google released a statement that its Chrome 68 update – to be released in July 2018 – will increase web security by clearly marking all HTTP (non-HTTPS) sites as not secure in Google Chrome. If your website is currently HTTP (not secure), it’s recommended switching to HTTPS as soon as possible by getting an SSL certificate through a certification authority….
WCAG 2.2: How Digital Accessibility Affects Your Business
Most digital marketers know it’s beneficial to stay on top of accessibility standards when it comes to building and updating websites in 2022 – and tech companies strive to do the same when developing new technologies – but did you know that level of accessibility can affect the reputation and web traffic of absolutely any…
2018 Marketing Predictions: Web Development and Design
With it being the end of the year, it’s time to focus on what changes we can expect to see in 2018 that will affect marketers. As part of our “2018 Predications” series, we talked to Oneupweb Developer Paul Houser and Senior Graphic Designer David Kehrer on what they think 2018 will bring in the…
The Best E-Commerce Platform For Your Business: A Woocommerce v. Magento Showdown
In your search for the best e-commerce platform, there’s no doubt you’ve come across both Magento and Woocommerce. These incredibly robust software platforms are built for housing online catalogs. Both have matured to a point where, feature by feature, they offer nearly identical functionality. Both platforms can produce the same user experience. Both have easy-to-use administration…