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Integrating Your Concrete5 Website with Facebook

There are a lot of great ways to enhance your social media efforts and Facebook presence with the Concrete5 content management system.  Add-ons for Concrete5 like the Facebook Like Button and Facebook Comment are great ways to bring interactivity…

Concrete5 & Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Often we are asked when we move an existing site into Concrete5 if the site's search engine ranking is going to drop with the change to Concrete5.  Our experience has been that in most cases the keyword ranking after the move to concrete5 actually…

The Myth: Social Media & Search Engine Optimization Doesn't Work in My Industry

Three years ago a long time client, while working on a new website for them told me that, "We aren't interested in search engine optimization.  Nobody in our industry uses the internet to find commercial real estate."  I had heard this once before…

Adding A Block in Concrete5 to Multiple Pages

This is one of those, "I wish I knew that before" blog posts.  After using Concrete5 for longer than I care to admit in this post, I just discovered a new tool that would have saved my dozens of hours over the last year.  The tool is the Add to Child…

Pixo on NBC's The Marriage Ref, Sunday June 26th

Every office has its troubles.  Sometimes it is the missing Swingline stapler.  Other times it is power struggles within the Executive ranks.  Pixo Web Design & Strategy is no different than other companies.  Presidents and Vice Presidents often…

More than You Would Expect from an Open Source Content Management System; Concrete5

One of the cool things about Concrete5 is the number of tools that come with it right out of the box. 90% of the websites that Pixo builds don't need a bunch of additional add-ons or custom code because most of what our small business customers needs…

Using Concrete5 Ecommerce As a Product Catalog

We have had great success with using Concrete5's ecommerce add-on to create online catalogs for customers.  Based on our clients needs we create categories of products with product attributes that allow our clients to sort and display products based…

Convert Any Monster Template into a Concrete5 Theme

Have you found the ideal website design on a service like Monster Templates but want to use it on a Concrete5 website?  We can help!  Pixo Web Design & Strategy are experts in creating custom Concrete5 themes and converting existing website templates…

Logins, Password Protected Pages & Site Permissions Setup for Concrete5

Often you have the need to have an area of your website that you want only certain people to have access to.  Concrete5 out of the box has a fair amount of functionality to allow you to create user accounts and permissions to lock down pages on your…