With consumers 44 percent more likely to engage with you if you use pictures and images and Google using page load times in their search rankings, it’s more important than ever to optimize images on your website. But beyond Google search considerations, mobile web use is approaching 50 percent and the last thing a mobile […]
View PostGoogle Apps Training
With over 5 million businesses now using Google Apps for collaborating between employees now is a great time to be able to do some Google Apps training. The adoption of Google’s productivity suite has skyrocketed over the last few year, and with small business being the suites prime customer training on these products is more […]
View PostDigital Branding: You and Your Business
Reiko Beach gave her Digital Branding: You and Your Business for the United Regional Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Digital Technology has changed the way we communicate, the way we see the world, the way we live and the way we brand ourselves and our businesses. With the explosion of the Internet and social networks, Digital Branding is more important […]
View PostWordPress Search Engine Optimization
As WordPress Developers we know that if you keep posting great content, WordPress does a great job of search engine optimization all by itself. If you want to maximize your sites SEO, just add WordPress SEO by Yoast and the socialize plugin. When I saw this article from Search Engine Land with their Periodic Table […]
View Post Search Engine Land, Search engine optimization, SEO, social media marketing, the toolbox, Web search engine, wordpress, WordPress SEO, YoastChild Theming – WordPress Development
At our last Intermediate WordPress Workshop Kurt and Jon talked about Child Theming. If you are new to WordPress Development, working with child themes is really important. This is a fairly large topic to cover, so they were only able to cover it a little bit. I thought I’d post this video from WordCamp 2010 […]
View Post bostonwp, Style Sheets, Template, the toolbox, web development, wordcamp boston, wordpress, WordPress DevelopmentWordPress Intermediate Workshop – Web Development
Jon & Kurt from Boston WordPress Meetup gave a great workshop to a very attentive group at the Labor Guild. WordPress development has become a hot topic with over 16% of the web now running on WordPress. Here at The Toolbox Inc. we’ve developed in WordPress since 2008 and are confident that there is not […]
View Post boston wordpress, bostonwp, jon bishop, kurt eng, the toolbox inc, web development, WordPress Development, wordpress workshopWordPress Beginner Workshop – WordPress Development
Kurt and Jon were fantastic with the WordPress Beginner Workshop at the Labor Guild June 1, 2013 and now offer the best wordpress hosting training. WordPress development has become a hot topic with over 16% of the web now running on WordPress. We thought the energy brought by all the attendees and both Kurt and […]
View Post bostonwp, jon bishop, kurt eng, Search engine optimization, the toolbox, web development, wordpress, WordPress Beginner Workshop, WordPress DevelopmentSEO for WordPress Half Day Workshop
Continuing our Web Development & Marketing Workshop Series for Entrepreneurs, Start-ups & Non-Profit Organizations, our next workshop is all about SEO (search engine optimization). WordPress combined with great content marketing is already pretty good with search engines. Our SEO for WordPress will take your site the rest of the way to maximize the potential for […]
View Post Search engine optimization, SEO, seo for wordpress, seo training, social media marketing, tech day camp, the toolbox inc, WordPress DevelopmentMaking Infographics with infogr.am
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networking sites. It is absolutely great if you are an interior decorator, wedding planner, chef, or any other industry that has a lot of visual aspects to it. But what do you do if you don’t have a lot of visual images to post? Creating infographics about […]
View Post infogr.am, julie campbell, pinterest, social media marketing, tammy jacobsen, tech day camp, the toolbox incCreate Word Clouds with Wordle – Social Media Marketing
The last session I attended at PodCamp Western Mass was Productivity Tips run by Christine Pilch and Leslie Lambert. Almost every one I know that is active in social media marketing or web development is always looking for ways to save time or do the same things more efficiently. This session came up with several […]
View Post christine pilch, Games, leslie lambert, PodCamp Western Mass, Social media, social media marketing, Tag cloud, the toolbox inc, Uniform resource locator, Word Games, Wordle, wordpress