As a nonprofit, your website serves as one of the most important marketing pieces to your organization. It drives donations.It spreads your mission.It creates followers.It inspires volunteers. How your website is built can determine the outcome of its success. You certainly don’t want to take it lightly, and nor should you neglect the power of …
At AWD, we look at your homepage as one of the most important pages on your website. It creates the first impression, telling the user/visitor exactly who you are and what you do. In fact, according to a study by Taylor & Francis Online, “It takes about 50 milliseconds (that’s 0.05 seconds) for users to …
When it comes to working with WordPress, there’s still work to do even after you launch your new website. Currently used by more than a third of all websites in the world, WordPress is an open-source content management system, used to build websites. So, what does that mean? Well, open-source refers to the general public …
We all know that creating a new website for your business is no joke. Gathering content, images, what you want to go where, etc. etc. It can be a big headache. To aid you in this process, we’ve put together a checklist below to make sure you’ve got your bases covered. Have a look, and …
You want to create a new website, but aren’t sure what you should have on it? Let us help! Here’s a list of the 5 most important elements we recommend for a successful website. 1. Ease of navigation If you’re unfamiliar, the navigation is the menu bar most commonly found at the top of a …
Outside of the group we may call “nerds” (it’s okay, I’m one of them), not many people know the details of how websites work. Specifically, I’m talking about website hosting and domain names. For those non-tech-savvy individuals, I’m going to explain the difference between the two so the next time someone asks, you can be a nerd …
