Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” It is the giving time of year. A time when giving doesn’t mean presents, but giving of yourself to help others. Volunteer if you can this year and reap the rewards …
1. Monitoring A site monitor checks pages regularly to make sure it is available for visitors. Basic monitors check if the page is working. Important pages within the site should have enhanced monitors that test if a completed form behaves the way it should. Enhanced monitors are more expensive to …
1. 301 Redirects Sometimes content is repurposed or gets moved to fit the new navigation structure of a site. If you have an existing site and you are changing the URL structure with your new site, you’ll want to make sure you’ve mapped the old URLs to the new ones. …
1. Live URLs Often, sites are built at a URL (uniform resource locator) that isn’t the website’s final destination. When a site goes live, the URLs are transferred from a staging area to production. All the URLs change at this time, and they need to be tested. On small sites …
1. Site speed Check the size of your page sizes and their load time. You can use Google’s own site speed testto do this. Site speed is a ranking factor, so follow any improvements Google recommends as closely as you can. 2. Mobile friendliness Is your website mobile-friendly. Frankly it’s …
1. Spelling, grammar, punctuation Check for proper spelling, typos, and grammar site-wide. Not just in article text and headlines, but also throughout the navigation, calls-to-action, buttons, forms etc. 2. Forms Fill out the forms on the site and go through the following questions: Can the flow be improved? Do you …
I thought I’d share the kinds of calls and requests we recevied from customers last month… Can you please put a Donor Perfect donation form on our WordPress website? The Donor Perfect platform by Blackbaud allows website integration of giving forms as well as ecommerce. Add the Web-to-Lead feature in …
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Marketers and business managers in every industry are facing this same challenge: They need to drive business results effectively and efficiently, using data-derived insights to inform their marketing strategy. To do that, as a CMO or marketing manager you and your team need to work in tandem with the IT department …
The TED Talks speaker Mel Robbins says we have two parts of our brain, one that wants normalcy or routine and the other one that is programmed for emergencies. It is our goal to find the part that balances both of them into what she calls an Activation Force.
