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We have a lot of to be thankful for here at Sumy Designs, more than we could possibly put in one blog post. But, in the spirit of being thankful, we’d like to take a few minutes to list a few: We are incredibly thankful for our wonderful clients who have helped us survive for over…
This actually comes up quite a bit. People send me doc files but want them on their website in PDF and don’t know how to create a PDF. Well, I have a secret method of convert documents. I can convert many documents – PowerPoint to PDF, JPG to PDF, Excel to PDF, Word to PDF.…
Your logo is your identity and your identity is what separates you from your competition in the marketing world. Your visual identity has a key role in building customer relationships and it gives your product a brand. Having a brand is an important step in representing yourself and your business. If you’ve made the decision…
We don’t do a ton of e-commerce, but we do some. And one of the things people want to know is, how do I get sales? Or why am I not getting sales? And what I want to let everyone know first and foremost is this: It’s probably your fault. I don’t mean to be…
We’ve had a problem for the last couple of years. Lots of people apparently love our content so much that they choose to use it on their own websites. None of them ask us first, or give us credit, but they post it as their own. It’s frustrating. It was a year or so ago…
If you have a WordPress site, and we made it for you, then there’s a good chance you are using the Yoast SEO plugin. It’s a great plugin, and really has a lot of great options for helping you to optimize your site for the search engines. What I really want to do today is…
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post when Google announced they were going to start using SSL as a ranking factor for searches. At the time, most sites didn’t use an SSL and the ones that did were usually e-commerce or other type of site collecting sensitive data. At the time, it seemed…
Work on your people skills As a business owner, you’ll work with different types of people and not all of those people will share the same wavelength as yourself. Some of your clients will be bossy, lazy, rude or unorganized. Or all of the above. It is difficult at times, but treating everyone respectfully and…
I always do what my Google overlords tell me to do. It’s important if you want people to be able to find your site. A few years ago we had “Mobilegeddon,” which is when Google starting giving a more favorable rank to sites that are mobile-friendly. And this is important, because more and more people…
Dieter Rams is an industrial designer who wrote the book on what good design is – and it’s pretty much law in the design world. Even the Apple designers were influenced by Dieter Rams ten principles of good design when designing their products. Dieter says that all designs need to be: innovative, useful, aesthetic, understandable, unobtrusive, honest,…
First, what is a landing page? A landing page is a specific page about a topic or subject on your website that you want to direct website traffic to for one specific reason. Why might you need a landing page? I’m glad you asked. There are many times when you might need one. Here are…
When I have a question about anything, the first thing I do is open up Google. I’m not alone. But do you remember a time before the Internet, where you would sit and wonder about these questions, without a quick and easy way to find an answer? How a question might be something you have…
I had the opportunity to present for WordCamp DFW, at the University of Texas, Arlington, in September and the video of the presentation is now up on WordCamp TV. Even though I was recovering from a pretty bad cold (which felt like the plague), presenting was a lot of fun and I had a great time.…
In September, I read news introducing variable fonts and I was excited about the potential they have in the web design world. Responsive design had mammoth impacts on web design and variable fonts will most likely have the same impact on typography. There is a great deal of work that went into the making of variable fonts,…
If you have a WordPress site, at some point, there’s a good chance you’ll need to add a user to it. Why? Maybe you’ve got employees who are going to write blog posts, have hired a new developer to give it a facelift or perform routine maintenance. Whatever the reason, you need to give them…
When a client begins a website with Sumy Designs we start by asking our client a lot of discovery questions. We work with our clients to find out just about as much as we can to get the most information available so we can design a website that our not only our clients will love…