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Case Study: Photos by Kintz Website Redesign
Website RedesignCase StudyPhotos by kintzLaunched December 2023Photos By Kintz is a celebrated photography team based in Vermont. They approached Wheelhorse Web to redesign their website, upgrading their online presence to reflect new developments in their...
How to Make a CSS Image Sprite Accessible
Solution: Use transparent text to provide a screen-readable description of your image. Here's a problem we came across on a client's site recently: a previous developer had created a CSS sprite to display a series of logo images on the home page and when we checked...
7 Quick Hacks to Speed up Your Website
I am a huge proponent of prioritizing speed when it comes to website optimization. Speed has been a confirmed Google ranking factor for over 10 years and in most cases, gaining points in the speed department is faster and cheaper than many other SEO tactics (ie...
How to Write Compelling Website Copy
Capture Their Attention I have a job right now: to keep you reading this blog post. Why? Because it contains something that is valuable to you. And yet, it is difficult to get people to stay on a website. In fact, almost everyone skims through text blocks,...
Choose the right SSL certificate for your website
“Warning – your connection is not private.” Not the words you want to see when trying to visit a website. And definitely not the words you want your visitors to see on yours. You may think this only happens to people who try to visit nefarious websites or accidentally...
9 Quick Tips for Stress-free WordPress Software Updates
Routine maintenance of any kind is probably one of the least sexy – but most important – parts of owning your own business. Website maintenance is no exception. DIY website builders like Squarespace include back-end software updates in their service so you don’t have...
Which is Better: WordPress or Squarespace?
From the moment your alarm goes off, you're faced with So. Many. Choices. Do you hit snooze or jump out of bed? Pull-on your comfy sweatpants or go for something with a waistband? Steel cut oatmeal or Lucky Charms? Don't even get me started on the milk choices – cow's...
How to Fix 3 Annoying Facebook Ads Errors
Last updated 7/31/2021. If you’ve never run into a mysterious error message in Facebook Ads Manager, you probably haven’t run very many ads. They are as common as the day is long and sometimes they go away on their own, but sometimes they don’t! Here are a few that I...
5 Ways to Improve Your SEO Without Hiring a Web Designer
“How counterintuitive,” you may be thinking. An SEO specialist/web designer is writing a post about how to avoid hiring her. Why? Well, aside from the fact that his blog post itself is beneficial for my own SEO purposes (you’ll see why in item #1), I’m not just a web...
Wheelhorse Web has a YouTube Channel
Website Editing Tutorials I'm often making tutorial videos for clients, and I'm still happy to make individualized videos upon request. However, it occurred to me that I could offer much more detailed instruction if I made these videos public and made them available...