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Article Content Strategy What Should A CMS Do? by Mark O’Brien on August 30, 2012 At Newfangled, we've been building sites exclusively on CMS platforms since 2000, so we've had an up-close view of the comings and going of the CMS market for just about as long as it's existed. In some way, content management is unrecognizable compared to what it was in 2000, in other ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same. This month, Mark O'Brien pushes to redefine CMS, from content management system to conversion management system... Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Google Analytics in 15 Minutes Per Week by Mark O’Brien on July 26, 2012 Consider that you take the bait and install Google Analytics, and you set up one goal for each call to action on your site. Now what? Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Website Design Style Guide by Justin Kerr on July 26, 2012 Last year, I produced a short tutorial video on how to prepare Photoshop (PSD) files for web production. It's a quick overview of the process I use to properly set up and organize template files so that Newfangled's developers can use them to apply the visual design to the site architecture. One of the template types mentioned in the video is a style guide; a very useful "cheat sheet" containing text styles, colors, notations and key design elements that comprise the majority of a site's design. Since posting the video, I've recevied requests to provide an example file that our agency partners (or anyone) could download and use as a reference for creating their own style guide. Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Using Analytics to Ensure You’re Getting the Most From Your Site by Mark O’Brien on July 24, 2012 All things considered, Google Analytics is the best web analytics tool on the market. It is free to use and easy to install on your site, so there is no excuse not to have it. Every site you build for yourself or your clients should have Google Analytics installed from the day it goes live. Once you have it installed, the next crucial step is to log in to it and pay attention to what the data is telling you. That is where things get difficult for some people. Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Content Styling Tips: Using Newfangled’s CMS Formatter Tool by Justin Kerr on July 10, 2012 This fourth installment of "Content Styling Tips" will focus on the formatter toolbar, an important part of Newfangled's content magagement system which allows our clients to style their site's text and images. I've created some tutorial videos that will show you how to preserve the design of your site by formatting your content correctly. Read Now About
Article Content Strategy The Truth About Content by Christopher Butler on January 24, 2012 Are you struggling with content? This month, Chris Butler tackles the ins and outs of content marketing—covering everything from knowing when content works well and when it doesn't, to choosing the right kinds of content, to creating a system to manage the entire content creation process, to how not to let your ego get in the way, to how to avoid burnout. All of that plus much, much more… Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Delivering a mobile experience by Dave Mello on April 6, 2011 About a week ago Chris Butler and I were invited to speak about the mobile web at UNC's Wilson Library. Chris shared some thoughts about the state (both current and future) of mobile technology. I followed up with some technical considerations. The first topic I discussed, which I'll cover in this post, was how to deliver the alternate experience. I examined two approaches. Read Now About
Article Content Strategy 10 Years | 10 Things by Justin Kerr on February 9, 2011 Once a month at Newfangled, we have a Lunch & Learn session in which a member of the team shares a presentation (amidst pizza and soda) on a topic that interests them and relates to their role at the company. "10 Years | 10 Things," explains some of the things I've learned since working as a web designer. Read Now About
Article Content Strategy The Content Entry Process by Chris Creech on October 22, 2010 The process of content creation and content entry for a new website can often be a daunting one. It is a long process that often takes more time than anticipated. Think of it as moving into your first house after college. Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Our Mobile Architecture Explained by Dave Mello on June 9, 2010 When we recently rolled out our Mobile Suite offering, we saw the culmination of months of work building a solid and customizable set of tools. The trickiest, in some ways, was the addition of a mobile framework to our existing CMS. We had some clear goals and requirements defined from the onset, and the end result provides us with an elegant mix of new and existing development practices. Here's an overview of what we did... Read Now About
