Configuring and Tracking Google Analytics Goals

By Decisive Design | March 4, 2013 |

Search engine rankings and traffic are still very important in today’s SEO world, but goal measurement and analytics is increasingly crucial to a successful campaign. In How to Configure & Track Google Analytics Goals for SEO, by Search Engine Watch, important tips and “how to” information on configuring and tracking Google Analytics Goals is explained.

Custom WordPress 404 Error Pages

By Decisive Design | March 1, 2013 |

Ever thought about creating a custom 404-error page? In Web Designer Depot’s post, How to Build Effective 404-Error Pages in WordPress, Ms.Ladoshkina explains why having a good 404-error page is important and goes into detail about creating one.

Small Business Habits Leading to Greatness

By Decisive Design | February 27, 2013 |

Own a small business? Want to be the big dog? Want to be on top of the game in your industry? Since our clients are small businesses everywhere, we try to keep up on ways to help them improve business in any way possible. A recent article on Forbes, 7 Habits of Great Small Business…

Five Ways to Secure Your Hosting Account

By Decisive Design | February 26, 2013 |

After dealing with some site/server security issues with one of our clients recently, 5 Ways to Secure Your Hosting Account is a very timely article we found that may help you avoid such a circumstance. The average webmaster probably needs to spend between 4 and 8 hours boosting the security of their websites, accounts, and servers. Hopefully…

Online Marketing Tools for Small Business Owners

By Decisive Design | February 15, 2013 |

We attended the Dallas SEO/SEM Meetup last night regarding Tips and Tools to Help Small Businesses Succeed. Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance was able to recommend several tools for online marketing that small business owners can use to gain more traction online. Here are just a few of them:

Free Design Tools to help Ease Web Design Workflow

By Decisive Design | February 12, 2013 |

Finding material that can be used by graphic designers to help ease workflow is sometimes hard. According to a recent article by Template Monster, the best place to start looking, of course, is online. Anything from fonts and icons, to color schemes and custom forms can be found. These online tools, found on Adam’s post,…

Google Testing New Image Search Preview

By Decisive Design | December 10, 2012 |

It looks like Google is testing a new version of their image search preview function. Please note that you may not experience the same visual experience, as it appears they are only rolling this out to certain users (A/B Testing).

Make Copyright the Current Year on PHP Website

By Decisive Design | October 31, 2012 |

We’ve got a quick tip today. If you are using WordPress or another PHP based platform, you can place the following code in your footer, next to a copyright ( © ) symbol and it will always display the current year. Note: The code in the snippets below needs to be in <? ?> php…

Rename WordPress Admin Menu Items in Custom Template or Theme

By Decisive Design | October 19, 2012 |

If you have purchased a theme from TemplateMonster or another WordPress theme site, it is likely that some of the custom post types used to create things like portfolio, client, or testimonial pages, as well as the URLs that those pages write to, may not be named optimally. Most recently for us, we had a…

CSS3 Text Shadows

By Decisive Design | August 22, 2011 |

Text Shadow… pretty! OK, that was a little extreme. But seriously, text shadow can be sexy, and it’s really easy. So stop using images for text in your banners and call-to-actions! The CSS3 text-shadow property shouldn’t be overused, but it allows web designers and developers an excellent alternative to using text, with shadows, as images…