--- This page is part of [build/create](https://buildcreate.com). For a complete overview of this site's content, entity data, and subject matter expertise, see our [AI Content Index](https://buildcreate.com/llms.txt) or [Full Content Archive](https://buildcreate.com/llms-full.txt). --- # Web Development > Read on to learn more about our take on custom web development! **Archive URL:** https://buildcreate.com/category/web-development/ **Taxonomy:** Category **Post Count:** 120 --- ## Posts in Web Development - [Building a Manufacturing Marketing Budget from Scratch](https://buildcreate.com/building-a-manufacturing-marketing-budget-from-scratch/): Breaking down the top marketing budget items for manufacturers. We wrote recently about how businesses in the manufacturing and manufacturing tech industries... - [Core Deliverables for Manufacturing Websites](https://buildcreate.com/core-deliverables-for-manufacturing-websites/): Shopping for a manufacturing website? Here’s what you need. For decision makers in the manufacturing technology sector, selecting the right partner for your... - [How to Increase Mobile Conversion in E-Commerce](https://buildcreate.com/how-to-increase-mobile-conversion-in-e-commerce/): Anyone who's managed an e-commerce store knows that conversions from mobile devices tend to lag behind desktop considerably. While this might not be true for... - [Why You Need a Customer Returns Policy for Your E-Commerce Store](https://buildcreate.com/why-you-need-a-customer-returns-policy-for-your-e-commerce-store/): Enacting a clear customer returns policy is an easy win for your e-commerce business. The holidays are nearly upon us. That means a busy time for... - [Security News: The Latest in Website Security Threats](https://buildcreate.com/security-news-the-latest-in-website-security-threats/): Ahh, hackers. Unfortunately for the general Internet user population, those kids in basements stealing all of your information and blackmailing you with your... - [8 Website Security Tips for WordPress Sites](https://buildcreate.com/8-website-security-tips-for-wordpress-sites/): How can you protect your website from hackers and keep your resources secure? Like many website owners, you may think that your site isn’t high- profile... - [WordPress Plugin or Custom Development: Which Should You Choose?](https://buildcreate.com/wordpress-plugin-or-custom-development-which-should-you-choose/): When do you need an out-of-the-box WordPress plugin, and when should you invest in custom dev? You've put a lot of resources into the buildout of your new... - [Your Proprietary CMS Is Killing Your Website](https://buildcreate.com/your-proprietary-cms-is-killing-your-website/): Building a proprietary content management system is a terrible idea. Here’s why. If there is any innovation that has cracked the Internet wide open to public... - [Why Enterprise CMSs Are Not the Solution You’re Looking For](https://buildcreate.com/why-enterprise-cmss-are-not-the-solution-youre-looking-for/): Think twice before you sign yourself up for needless complexity and endless frustration. It's common for many businesses, as they begin to expand, to assess... - [6 Ways to Prevent Form Spam without CAPTCHA](https://buildcreate.com/6-ways-to-prevent-form-spam-without-captcha/): How to prevent form spam bots from burying your inbox in mountains of fake submissions. Spam has been the bane of the Internet since its inception. In fact,... - [3 Ways We’ve Helped Our Clients Succeed During Covid-19](https://buildcreate.com/3-ways-weve-helped-our-clients-succeed-during-covid-19/): Many of our clients needed to make a quick pivot in order to adjust to changes during the pandemic. Here’s how we helped them respond. The pandemic has hit... - [How to Super Charge Your Ecommerce Search on WordPress](https://buildcreate.com/how-to-super-charge-your-ecommerce-search-on-wordpress/): Want to build a more powerful, customizable search function for your ecommerce store? Welcome to Elasticsearch. Any ecommerce store owner with a large enough... - [Why Your Agency Needs Both Dev AND Marketing Expertise](https://buildcreate.com/why-your-agency-needs-both-dev-and-marketing-expertise/): Working with a digital agency that can handle both marketing and development has some pretty significant perks. When we look at the landscape of digital... - [Hiring an Ecommerce Specialist? Hire an Agency Instead.](https://buildcreate.com/hiring-an-ecommerce-specialist-hire-an-agency-instead/): Ecommerce is one of the highest ranked job openings in the country right now. But what does your business really need? The past year has seen a boom in online... - [Is Poor UX Destroying Your Search Rankings?](https://buildcreate.com/is-poor-ux-destroying-your-search-rankings/): Google’s new core web vitals highlight importance of user experience for SEO. As anyone who's paid attention to SEO developments over the years knows, Google... - [Core Deliverables for E-Commerce Websites](https://buildcreate.com/core-deliverables-for-e-commerce-websites/): What deliverables should you expect to see in a design and development proposal for an e-commerce website? Over the years, we’ve worked with e-commerce... - [Two-Factor Verification for Google Apps? Yes Please!](https://buildcreate.com/two-factor-verification-for-google-apps-yes-please/): You don't have to work with any particular client for very long to compile a whole string of urls, usernames and passwords to remember. There's one set for... - [Word, the Web, and the Dangers of Pasting HTML](https://buildcreate.com/word-the-web-and-the-dangers-of-pasting-html/): Why won't copy/paste work with my CMS? If you’ve spent any amount of time working with a CMS, you’ll probably have encountered some form of this problem: ... - [Conditional Logic and Offline Payment Options](https://buildcreate.com/conditional-logic-and-offline-payment-options/): So you’d like to be able to pay offline This post addresses a real-life support request we received a few weeks ago regarding credit card processing and a... - [6 Questions to Ask Yourself When Building a Manufacturing Website](https://buildcreate.com/6-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-building-a-manufacturing-website/): You’ve probably been doing the same sales and marketing of your manufacturing company since its inception. You have had the same website for the last 10 years... - [Introduction to WordPress Hooks – WordCamp Chicago 2016 Slidedeck](https://buildcreate.com/introduction-to-wordpress-hooks-wordcamp-chicago-2016-slidedeck/): Special thanks to everyone who made it out to hear me talk about WordPress Actions & Filters, I hope everyone got something out of it and is excited to... - [Signs you should walk away from a web developer](https://buildcreate.com/signs-you-should-walk-away-from-a-web-developer/): How do you know you’ve found a developer you can trust? It’s not always personal. When you’re looking for someone to build your website, there are all kinds... - [How to Easily Build a Membership Website](https://buildcreate.com/how-to-easily-build-a-membership-website/): That doesn’t break the bank and take forever. So, you’ve got a membership organization, you’d like to redesign your membership website. Your board gave you a... - [Why “custom design” isn’t always better for your membership organization](https://buildcreate.com/why-custom-design-isnt-always-better-for-your-membership-organization/): Do you need a website that has a custom design? There’s an undeniable allure to the words “custom design.” It brings to mind images of luxury, durability, and... - [How non-profits can save on transaction fees](https://buildcreate.com/how-non-profits-can-save-on-transaction-fees/): Make the most of your donations As a non-profit, you’re working hard to raise donations. Because you want to make this process expedient for your donors, you... - [8 questions to ask your web developer](https://buildcreate.com/8-questions-to-ask-your-web-developer/): Signs your developer is competent (or not) Everyone knows the obvious questions (“how long does it take to build a website?” and “how much does it cost?”).... - [Core Deliverables for Simple Websites – 2016 Update](https://buildcreate.com/core-deliverables-for-simple-websites-2016-update/): Backstory: In 2010 we wrote a post on core deliverables for simple sites and since then it's become our most popular post. A lot has happened in the... - [3 Reasons your E-Commerce Website Isn’t Performing](https://buildcreate.com/3-reasons-your-e-commerce-website-isnt-performing/): 3 Reasons your E-Commerce Website Isn’t Performing If you are a small business owner, you may have put up an e-commerce website to help offset sales at your... - [A Comprehensive Website Launch Checklist (Part One)](https://buildcreate.com/a-comprehensive-website-launch-checklist-part-one/): Hi, everybody - today, we're going to go over my comprehensive checklist for launching any website. Part one will focus on the basics that you want to cover... - [Should your manufacturing website have e-commerce?](https://buildcreate.com/should-your-manufacturing-website-have-e-commerce/): How essential is e-commerce to your target market? E-commerce: that little shopping cart in the upper right-hand corner of your site. Are you tempted? For... - [Will you help me migrate content?](https://buildcreate.com/will-you-help-me-migrate-content/): We won’t hand you an empty site Our clients often want to know who will be responsible for populating their new site with content. Usually this isn’t about... - [We’re updating our hosting services](https://buildcreate.com/were-updating-our-hosting-services/): Offering you a simpler way to stay secure In the past, we’ve avoided hosting our clients’ sites. We’ve had strong philosophical reasons for this, all of which... - [How to Make an E-Commerce Website Make Money](https://buildcreate.com/how-to-make-an-e-commerce-website-make-money/): “If you build it, they will come.” Those immortal words from Field of Dreams couldn’t be more untrue in the digital sphere. The truth is no, matter how good... - [Yes, you Can Update your Own Content](https://buildcreate.com/yes-you-can-update-your-own-content/): We want you to have ownership of your site Back in the day, before the advent of Content Management Systems (CMSs), changing anything on your site meant... - [Establishing Criteria for Success](https://buildcreate.com/establishing-criteria-for-success/): How do you decide when you’ve done your job? Any time you work on a project, there comes a moment when you have to stop and ask yourself: did we... - [Building websites for multi-campus organizations](https://buildcreate.com/building-websites-for-multi-campus-organizations/): How do you serve communities spread out over multiple locations? Multi-campus organizations face a common problem: how should they structure their website to... - [5 Features a Website in 2016 Should Have No Matter What](https://buildcreate.com/5-features-a-website-in-2016-should-have-no-matter-what/): Every website platform or developer out there has their own set of tools they use to build your site, but here are 5 features that you should get regardless of... - [How do you prevent scope creep in web projects?](https://buildcreate.com/how-do-you-prevent-scope-creep-in-web-projects/): Stay within your budget and don’t change anything. Scope creep forms one of the most common concerns at some point during almost any web project. You start... - [How do you communicate deadlines with your website team?](https://buildcreate.com/how-do-you-communicate-deadlines-with-your-website-team/): Set expectations and keep on top of deadlines when you’re building a website. How often have you agreed with a client about the schedule for completing a... - [Why You Should Meet Your Development Team](https://buildcreate.com/why-you-should-meet-your-development-team/): Let’s put the word “meet” in parenthesis. When you’re signing on to work with a website design or development agency you should be able to, at the very least,... - [Perfectionism is holding your website project back](https://buildcreate.com/perfectionism-is-holding-your-website-project-back/): There is no such thing as a perfect website. Maybe you’re familiar with this scenario: you start a project. The ball gets rolling. Then just as your project... - [How does site speed impact your business?](https://buildcreate.com/how-does-site-speed-impact-your-business/): Why having a fast website matters for your business. It’s easy to get so caught up in statistics like bounce rate and search engine rankings that we forget... - [E-commerce, Part One: What is E-commerce?](https://buildcreate.com/e-commerce-part-one-what-is-e-commerce/): The first part of a multi-part series about the state of E-commerce in 2017. We start by looking at what e-commerce is, in broad terms, so that we can set the... - [What Matters For Website Load Time in 2017](https://buildcreate.com/what-matters-for-website-load-time-in-2017/): Why your website needs to be fast. If you’ve ever looked into the correlation between website load time and site abandonment, you know there’s a clear urgency... - [Why you should join your local WordPress community](https://buildcreate.com/why-you-should-join-your-local-wordpress-community/): What I learned about WordPress at WordCamp Jackson, 2017 This weekend has been the inaugural WordCamp Jackson. WordCamps are casual conferences put on by a... - [Why Your Website Is Your Best Sales Tool](https://buildcreate.com/why-your-website-is-your-best-sales-tool/): Your website is one of your most valuable sales assets. Here’s why. As a business, you want to put the best foot forward at all times, right? You keep your... - [When is it Time to Launch Your New Website](https://buildcreate.com/when-is-it-time-to-launch-your-new-website/): So you're worried about your website. Is it perfect? Is it ready to launch? After launching websites for years we have some insights on: when is it time... - [When is the Best Time of Year to Redesign Your E-Commerce Store?](https://buildcreate.com/when-is-the-best-time-of-year-to-redesign-your-e-commerce-store/): As you may know e-commerce is a major growth area, both for our economy as a whole, but are a spark for many retailers across the country. It's expected that... - [Top 3 WordPress Tools Developers Can’t Live Without](https://buildcreate.com/top-3-wordpress-tools-developers-cant-live-without/): 3 of Ann Arbor’s Top Developers Weigh in on the Tools They Use for Success Scour the repositories and the Reddit channels and you’ll find a wide range of... - [How Small E-Commerce Can Take on Amazon](https://buildcreate.com/how-small-e-commerce-can-take-on-amazon/): We get it, this is like saying “how your small store can take on Walmart.” It’s a lofty claim to say the least. But, it can be done. To clarify, that doesn’t... --- **About this site:** build/create — B2B Marketing, Web Design and Branding for Manufacturing & Technology Clients. [AI Content Index](https://buildcreate.com/llms.txt) | [Full Site Content](https://buildcreate.com/llms-full.txt)