Web Design, Video and Photography

Free Video Editing Software that Works Great

Anyone doing video production knows it can get really expensive. Not only does the equipment cost a good amount, along with the expenses of traveling, permits, paying for actors, and everything else that goes along with shooting, there’s also the expenses and time involved in post production. This can include video editing programs, compositing programs, 3d modeling programs, and several others depending on what you’re hoping to achieve as an end product…. Continue Reading

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On Guard Fire Protection

On Guard Fire Protection was a client we picked up to modify the website from a previous Web Designer who had not finished. While the previous web designer did a great job, there were several things the clients wanted changed from the design. We added several pages of content and changed a bit of the code to improve how well it ran. We also set the website up in such a way that it will be easy for the clients to add their own content in the future and have it flow with the rest of the website…. Continue Reading

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Fit and Fashionable

Fit and Fashionable is an online magazine website designed using the Yii Framework, which is set up slightly different from WordPress but allows for much greater control over databases and tables. While we usually recommend WordPress for most of our clients due to ease of use and the availability of plugins, a framework such as Yii allows for great scaling and can handle heavier web traffic than a WordPress site could although it takes much more work to set up…. Continue Reading

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A Vegas Nite Party Bus

A Vegas Nite Party Bus is a client offering party bus services in Las Vegas that we worked with to build custom forms for bookings, along with a responsive website design and blogging system. Organically, Google has several of the website’s pages ranking from page 1 to 5 of their search engine before they adjust for things such as location and other factors. We’re also currently helping A Vegas Nite Party Bus with their Google Adwords campaign…. Continue Reading

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Understanding Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

Understanding aperture, shutter speed, and ISO should be the first thing every new photographer learns. Being aware of how they work together will not only help in getting proper exposure in a shot, but will also lend to different artist options you might want to make as a photographer. For instance, let’s assume you’re taking a picture of a waterfall. Do you want to see each speck of water as it splashes on the rocks, or would you prefer the water look more like a steady and smooth rush as it passed over the rocks? Or maybe you’re taking a portrait. Do you want everything in the picture in focus, or just the person you’re photographing where the background is a smooth blur?… Continue Reading

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Do You Need Social Media?

It seems today that the first thing everyone asks about is social media accounts as if it adds legitimacy to someones business or website. While social media is a great tool for a lot of people, it doesn’t always fit well for all websites, or at the very least requires one to think of different ways to incorporate it into their marketing. From what we’ve seen, the one thing it appears most people forget about social media when promoting themselves is the social part of it…. Continue Reading

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Is Your WordPress Plugin Great or Junk?

One of the great things about WordPress is the availability of plugins to do almost anything you want. It saves the cost of hiring a web designer, and for web designers it can save them time on getting a website up and running just the way you want it. Not all WordPress plugins are created equal though, and even being top ranked in WordPress for your plugin doesn’t mean it’s efficient…. Continue Reading

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Responsive vs Dynamic Web Design

When you’re looking into having a website built, you may be asked by your web designer if you’d like it to be a dynamic website or a responsive one. This question usually relates to making the website mobile friendly and the different ways to do so as dynamic websites and responsive websites achieve those results in different manners. Granted, there are other reasons besides mobile devices to maybe use a dynamic website but for many people it comes down to that alone. It’s important to understand the difference between the two as both have pros and cons depending on what you’re planning to do. That also means having at least a very basic understanding of how the internet works…. Continue Reading

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Martin Douglas

MartinDouglas.info is a dynamic designed websites that changes up based on the device used. The slideshow shown on the front page, and shown on various pages in the photography section is a plugin designed specifically by us and built into the theme. Because the photos for that plugin are stored in a different area than WordPress stores other uploads, we also added functions to work in conjunction with the Yoast SEO plugin to ensure those photos get indexed by search engines such as Google…. Continue Reading

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How to be Successful at Pay Per Click Marketing

Pay per click marketing can be scary. A lot of people shy away from it because they’ve heard horror stories of large costs without making anything in return. Usually the stories they hear though are from people that attempted pay per click without understanding how it works and the different ways to minimize losses. This doesn’t mean you can’t lose money, but it does mean it can be so minimal that it doesn’t hurt. By running a pay per click campaign smartly, it also means that once you see what’s working you can roll a portion of the profits you make from it back into it without losing anything out of pocket…. Continue Reading

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