Super Salve Case Study: 120% increase in sales 1 month after launch

by Erica Falke, Creative Director; October 2018 The Problem Super Salve is an all-natural, ethical skincare company. All their products are 100% natural, ethically-sourced and handmade without phthalates, parabens, sulfates or GMOs. You can practically eat these products. Trust me, I've been tempted. They smell amazing, they work like magic. And Super Salve [...]

Career Solutions Inc. Case Study

The Problems Career Solutions, Inc. is actually an expansion from the original "Foundations of Brilliance" program created by Bernard Percy. This new company is co-founded by Bernard Percy (Writer, Educator, Author, International Speaker and Consultant) and Ben Kugler (Writer, Executive, Relationship Expert), and offers additional services. While they've been quite successful and have helped [...]

Choosing Colors in Design-The Duffweb Cheat Sheet

There are many tools in marketing & design. Here's a cool guide we put together on how we use the COLOR tool. There’s a lot to know about the use of color in design, as well as a lot that we consider when making decisions on color palettes, accents versus main colors, etc. In [...]

Duffweb Website Process – Doughnut Infographic

I like Donuts (regardless of how it's spelled) and after I asked our Creative Director Erica to break down our process as an infographic I said "And hey, while you're at it, can you throw donuts in there somewhere?" She, as usual, delivered in spades and here it is for you mouth-watering approval: The [...]

Bulletproof WordPress Backups

Technical level: Intermediate || Please read this whole thing and understand it before you start in on any of the steps. Let us know if you have any questions. Why You Need To Know This WordPress is possibly the most widely used website creation platform. It's flexible and robust and has [...]

By |2020-03-04T00:16:00-05:00April 4th, 2017|Design, Web Design, Website Planning, Security|0 Comments

Why Google Wants Your Website To Be Secure

How Secure is Secure? Google likes it when your website uses what's called an SSL. I'll explain why later but first: SSL stands for Secure Socket Layers. That's the official geek term for the technology that encrypts information while it is sent from your host server to a web browser, or mailbox, etc. Remember those [...]

By |2020-03-04T00:16:00-05:00January 23rd, 2017|Design, Web Design, Website Planning, Tips & Tricks, Security|0 Comments

How to tell if a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is right for your website

What IS a CDN? CDN stands for Content Delivery Network and simply put, it's a series of computers in multiple data centers strategically scattered throughout the world available to deliver content. Did I say "simply put"? OK, stick with me. What does a CDN do? The goal of a CDN is speed. This is achieved by [...]

By |2020-03-04T00:16:00-05:00January 5th, 2017|Web Design, Tips & Tricks|0 Comments

Upgrade your WordPress Memory Limit in 6 Simple Steps

So you got a memory error, something like: "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12345678 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2345678 bytes) in /home/your-username/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line..." Don't worry. You'll be fine. Themes are getting more robust and require more resources than the default limit WordPress gives you.  And it appears that different hosts have different requirements, making it [...]

By |2020-03-04T00:16:01-05:00September 12th, 2016|Web Design, Tips & Tricks|0 Comments
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