What’s the difference between typical self-hosted WordPress hosting and our new Managed Hosting service? Quite a lot! Self-hosted WordPress on a big-box host is certainly less expensive, but you really do get what you pay for. With a cheap hosting account comes slower load times, less security, and vulnerability to the whims of other users…
Not really a ‘new’ service, since I do it all the time… but a different way to package it. WordPress is free and is easy to use out of the box – but it’s also very flexible. You probably want to do more than just edit and add pages and posts, but how exactly do…
In the past two weeks Red Kite has launched two new sites: Beyond the Brochure and Reduce-My-Property-Taxes.com. Both are WordPress sites with custom themes, and both include some custom development work: Beyond the Brochure has embedded videos from Brightcove that play in a custom lightbox; Beyond the Brochure has a private section where auto dealers…
One of my clients earlier this year had request three matched sets of HTML templates so that she could use them to revise three websites for her employer. This client was just learning HTML and had a lot of questions and a lot of requirements; and did an enormous amount of upfront research. I don’t…
You’re looking for a new website – and a new design/development company. As you’re interviewing potential companies, many of them will probably talk to you about content management systems (CMS). Most companies will probably talk to you about open source CMS – these are the popular platforms like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and many other less-well-known…
The Colorado State University Environmental Learning Center came to Red Kite looking for help with a few things: We obliged. The new ELC website has all of these features and more, including two calendars (one public and one for internal use), a blog, and a few photo galleries from various programs. We used WordPress, our…
Fort Collins photographer Ralph Smith wanted a site for selling and showing off his work. We used WordPress and the commercial Shopp ecommerce plugin to create a product-based website that’s easy for him to update and grow. We used one of Ralph’s images as a background photo that resizes with the browser, and a simple…
I read a great post this morning from the Marketing Executives Network Group; sometimes it’s hard to keep those blogging basics in focus and you need a little reminder. Here are what MENG considers the most critical questions for business bloggers: What’s the purpose of the blog? Who is the audience? Do you have a…
I install Analytics tracking code on all sites from Red Kite, yet I know that most clients never go past the dashboard to see what’s going on. Here’s a great set of references for beginning Google Analytics users.
Fort Collins Baseball Club approached Red Kite with a need for a complete overhaul of the design and code for this well-established ASP-based site. When we examined the code, we found an enormous old Javascript-powered image rollover menu that accounted for hundreds of lines on every page. Ack! We created a new theme and built…
If you’re not already accepting credit cards on your website, here’s a quick review of two reasonably-priced payment solutions. Paypal Website Payments Standard If you definitely want to take Paypal as well as credit cards and don’t mind customers going to the Paypal site to enter billing info, then go with Paypal Website Payments Standard….
Thinking about updating the look of your business website, but not sure what changes might be best? Before you spend the money for the change, consider a comprehensive website evaluation. The results of our 46-point site review will be provided to you in an easy-to-read report – you’ll know for sure what elements really need…