Now that mobile is so necessary, companies are switching over to responsive design. That’s great, but is it enough? The first thing to consider is  “what makes a good mobile experience?” Here are my thoughts: Good site performance is essential because although speeds are getting better with 3g/4g mobile devices they are still slow as compared to …

We have been working with Google Data Studio ( https://datastudio.google.com ) especially since it is now offered fully to the public without limits. It is an amazing tool to give an elegant, customizible display to your Analytics or Adwords data report. Check out our introduction post, What is Google Data Studio?. One of our first …

Originally termed and explained in a book by Brad Frost, Atomic Design is a process of designing using smaller pieces called “Atoms”. Then taking those building blocks and creating, “Molecules,” “Organisms,” “Templates” and “Pages” which are ever increasingly larger collages of their smaller components. By creating modular pieces of code containing HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript you are able …

We have been recently researching different ways to help increase site speed and performance, especially on mobile devices. It seems in some ways the web is going back to when I first started web design in the early 2000’s. We were designing for 640px x 800px dimension and trying to keep the code as clean …

Facebook Live and other streaming video services are great ways for small businesses to market and promote their goods and services. Some of the benefits of marketing using Facebook live include; it’s is easy to setup on a large and diverse network, Facebook seems to give importance to live video posts, and live video is …

I, like many people, upgraded to El Capitan and it was great and pretty seamless experience… with the exception of one update. I was not able to upgrade my iPhoto application which subsequently made it difficult to use photos in my iMovie installation. While iMovie still worked, it didn’t allow me to add photos because …

If you’ve been wondering how to turn your raw data into stunning, interactive dashboards, Getting Started with Looker Studio is your first step. Formerly known as Google Data Studio, Looker Studio makes it easy to create data visualizations that are customizable, dynamic, and best of all—free! All you need to begin is your Google account login. Step …

Earlier in the year google launched Google Analytics 360 Suite a data visualization and reporting platform for large enterprises. On May 25, 2016 Google dropped a free version of Data Studio for the rest of us! So what is this “data visualization suite and reporting platform?” Basically Data Studio is a Google Analytics custom dashboard report on …

We recently created the 25 second video below to promote our business online. We posted it on our Facebook Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/inforestcom/. We started getting traffic from the time we posted the video (356 views and 572 people reached) at the time we created this post. Not viral but not bad for a small web …