Digital Marketing & Concrete5 Tips Blog
Advice, tutorials, news, training and expert advice on the Concrete5 content management system, ecommerce, website design, online marketing and social media optimization from Pixo Web Design & Strategy. To watch training videos visit our Concrete5 videos page. To learn more about our Concrete5 services or to get your own Concrete5 website please feel free to contact us.
May
03
What the Google Penguin Update is and is Not; How to fix Your SEO
Google's most recent update to its search algorithm called the Penguin Update is Google’s way to even the playing field between website’s that deserve to be ranked highly and websites that in the past have ranked well strictly due to search engine optimization. Many sites recently have fallen out o…
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May
01
Ecommerce on a Budget with Concrete5
We've built countless websites for customers with ecommerce ability. It always suprises us how much some companies pay to have ecommerce added onto their website. In our opinion ecommerce doesn't have to be expensive, clunky or hard to maintain. With our Concrete5 ecommerce solutions you can have…
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Apr
01
Congradulations to Concrete5 on Winning Award for Best Web Tool
Congratulations to Concrete5 on winning the WebHostingSearch.com award for best web tool. This award is not something that many companies or sites can brag about. To receive this award you have to provide extra value to your users. This award is handed out only if WebHostingSearch has been convince…
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Apr
01
Concrete5 Releases 5.5.2
A new minor relase of Concrete5 is out available. Version 5.5.2 comes with a number of new features including:
Replaced Picnik with built-in crop, rotate and zoom functionality. Crop+Zoom provided by jQuery Cropzoom by Gaston Robledo (http://www.cropzoom.com.ar/)
Added ability to specify a file …
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Mar
22
Concrete5 Theme Design with Strategy
We talk with people every day that feel like there website has become stale and doesn't properly represent the image and professionalism that their company should exhibit. At Pixo we do custom Concrete5 themes (AKA website template) for business websites that not only exhibits a professional design…
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Feb
25
New Pixo Google Products Export Add-on for Concrete5
Now available for Concrete5 websites with ecommerce is a new add-on package that allows you to export your products into Google Products (aka Google Shopping).
What the add-on does is create an export of the C5 ecommerce products to Google Products and it creates the export on a set schedule. In G…
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Jan
25
Concrete5 5.5.1 is now Available!
The stable release of Concrete5 5.5.1 is now available. This release is probably the biggest release concrete5 has done to date. With it many important enhancements have been made and the entire Dashboard interface has been overhauled into a clean, fast and easy to use menu system. From the Concr…
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Jan
23
Picnik.com is Closing it's Doors
Amber Johnson, Vice President at Pixo, pointed out to me this weekend that Picnik is closing in April. Picnik is a great online editing tool that is integrated with Concrete5's File Manager. That integration was very handy for users that didn't want to use an image editing tool like Photoshop or f…
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Jan
11
The Coming forth of IE10 and the Death of IE6
We look forward to the coming release of Internet Explorer 10. If for no other reason it will mean the death of IE6 & IE7. Rumors indicate that a beta release of IE10 will be out this month and that IE10 will be out with the Windows 8 release. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Windows 8 will be o…
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Jan
05
Online Marketing Escalation Strategies with Concrete5
One of the great things about Concrete5 is that it is easy to enhance the functionality of the website. There are many add-ons that we install for our customers to suite their website needs and adding custom code to Concrete5 is easier than any other content management system that we have used. Fo…
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