Five Blog Conferences to Put on Your Radar
Need to find your blogging mojo? Whether you’re looking for tips, networking or to gain exposure, consider adding one of these conferences to your calendar.
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Five Essential Items in a Blogger’s Toolkit
Get your blog up and running with these essential (and free!) resources.
New Infomedia Webinars about Blogging, Social Media & More!
We’ve been offering a series of Lunch & Learn trainings for years now, and we love being able to teach you more about using your website to get the very best for your company. We’ve been able to give trainings on Google Analytics, blogging, social media, digital marketing, content entry and more. We listen to what you want to know, and we try to address that in our Lunch & Learn topics.
Be a Better Blogger by Creating a Calendar
Next week, I’ll be presenting a Lunch & Learn on one of our most requested topics: blogging. We almost always recommend that our clients blog, because it increases customer loyalty, creates a connection with potential clients, and is an opportunity to really boost your SEO by giving Google the information it needs to get your company noticed.
Five Reasons to Come to April’s Lunch & Learn
You don’t have to attend Hogwarts to unlock the secret of making your blog work. Come to our free Lunch & Learn April 20 at Innovation Depot in Birmingham, AL.
Three Reasons You Need a Blog
Think you’ve missed the blog bandwagon? Don’t worry: We saved you a space. Now is just as good a time as any to blow your business or brand’s horn on the internet. Actually, maybe it’s the best time, because you can learn from the intrepid souls who launched theirs before you.
Redesigning Your Website? You’ll Need these Logins Handy
Redesigning your website? You’ll need logins, passwords and credentials for DNS, Google Analytics and your website admin, plus access to your email and social media accounts.
Download Your Free April 2017 Events Calendar
With so many events going on in and around Birmingham, keeping up can be tough. Infomedia is stepping in with the assist — our Birmingham, Alabama events calendar shares a monthly roundup of things to do for our blog readers and clients.
Birmingham Beer Tasting: A St. Patrick’s Day Guide
Brewing in Birmingham has really grown over the past few years. Once the Free the Hops legislation passed and selling high-gravity beers in Alabama became legal, several breweries started perfecting their craft — and we’re happy to say that now some of our favorite beers are brewed right here at home.
Happy Pi Day from the Math Nerds at Infomedia!
Happy Pi Day! Sure, Pi Day is technically a day celebrating the mathematical constant Pi — because Pi = 3.14, and March fourteenth is 3.14 — but we like to have a little fun and bring in pi-themed food like pizza and pie.
Save Time and Money with a Great Site Map
Toward the beginning of our web design process at Infomedia, we create a site map for your new website — this functions as a kind of outline, or plan, for the way your future site is organized.
5 Free Stock Photo Sites That Make Life Easier
While we at Infomedia encourage our clients to use their own photography whenever possible, there comes a time when stock photography is the way to go, and let’s face it — finding images for your website can be a hassle. With so many resources flooding the internet every day, it’s vital that the images you choose for your site don’t come with strings attached that could lead to copyright infringement fines.
Seven WordPress Superpowers You Didn’t Know You Had
If you’ve ever daydreamed about leaping tall buildings in a single bound or flying an invisible plane and resolving problems with a lasso of truth — well, so have we. Who hasn’t wanted to save the day or find a creative approach to common tasks?
March 2017 Events Calendar
Do you find yourself scrambling to find content for your social media posts and blogs? One way to get ideas is to base your blogging and content calendar on what’s going on in Birmingham and the world so you can tap into those events and put your own spin on them. Here’s what we’re planning on covering in March 2017.
Tune up Your Website at March’s Free Lunch & Learn!
Keep your site in shape with a spring makeover. We’ve got tips at our free Lunch & Learn March 16, 2017 at Innovation Depot in Birmingham, AL.
Happy Random Acts of Kindness Day!
Happy Random Acts of Kindness Day! There are a lot of Internet holidays, but we thought this sounded like a particularly great one. Need some ideas for how to celebrate? Check out our Random Acts of Kindness Generator to get a few ideas for how to brighten someone’s day around the office. Or read on for ideas from the web designers and developers of Infomedia!
10 Reasons to Love our 2017 Lunch & Learn Series
We’ll admit it — we’re crushing on our clients. We love designing websites that help small businesses get stronger and developing websites that help big businesses stay robust, organized and ready to handle even more sales. Once we launch a website, we’re not ready to say goodbye — so we stay in touch through our Support department, and we also invite our clients to a Lunch & Learn once a month for tips on keeping websites running smoothly.
Looking for a Last-Minute Valentine? We’ve Got You Covered!
At Infomedia, we love our clients — and they do it all, from making donuts (like The Heavenly Donut Co.) to engineering complicated machinery (like Louis Allis). We design sites for non-profits, municipalities, financial organizations and companies big and small … and we love learning about the incredible products our partners are creating.
Can’t See Changes You’ve Made to Your Website? Try Clearing Your Cache
At Infomedia, we create custom websites for our clients — and we usually build them in a CMS like WordPress or Craft so clients can update their own websites with up-to-date information, new blogs and even navigation and page changes. But sometimes these changes don’t show up until you clear your cache — here’s how to do it.
Infomedia Goes Red
Did you know that heart disease and stroke are the leading killer of American women? (Now you do.) Read on for five ways to improve your overall health and minimize your risk of developing life-threatening diseases.
February 2017 Events Calendar
There are so many great events happening around Birmingham that it can be tough to keep up — so we decided to make a Birmingham, Alabama events calendar listing a few of our favorite things going on in and around the Magic City to share with our blog readers and clients. We love promoting the best of Bham, and we hope you enjoy our February 2017 Birmingham calendar.
Opposite Day: Infomedia’s President Answers Support Phone Calls
Today is Opposite Day (it’s a real thing — kind of — you can Google it), and we thought it would be fun to turn the tables here at Infomedia. So we grabbed our company president, Jason Lovoy, and asked him to take a turn at the phone lines answering calls from customers.
What Your Non-Profit Website Needs
At Infomedia, we love to work with non-profit organizations. There’s nothing better than helping someone else do good, and we’ve been honored to work with so many organizations that we believe in. We’ve been building websites for non-profits for over 20 years, so we thought we’d share feedback on what works for a non-profit website … and what doesn’t.
Student Portfolio Reviews Can Teach Pros a Lesson
In December, Infomedia web designer Joy Sandlin visited the University of Alabama as a guest of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations’ portfolio review. The review is part of a program the University began in 2015 to assist future art directors and writers with developing professional portfolios before graduation.
What We Learned from Our Own Website Audit
Near the end of 2016, we decided to reevaluate how our website was working for us. We’re a web development company, so you’d think that would mean we’d be great at updating our site; but sometimes, it’s hard to practice what you preach, and even though we help clients improve their websites every day, it was hard for us to the same to ours.
Five Tech Goals for 2017
There’s no time like the present to reflect on and revamp your online presence.
We’ll See You in 2017!
Infomedia is taking our Christmas break from Friday, December 23 through Tuesday, January 3 so our staff can enjoy the time with family. Thanks so much to all our clients for a great year, and we hope you all have a happy holiday!
An Infomedia Office Christmas Party: A Poem of Good Cheer
Last week, on the eve of the Rogue One release, we celebrated with our annual Infomedia Christmas party. Each year, we get together with lots of good food and drink. We also hold an epic Dirty Santa gift exchange — the only rules are that gifts must come from the thrift store, which results in some very interesting choices. We asked Katie to write a little poem about this year’s party.
Do or Do Not See Star Wars: Rogue One. There Is No Try.
Want the inside scoop on how real Star Wars nerds prepare for watching Rogue One? We’ve got you covered.