Creating a powerful user experience today is vital to the success of your business. If you aren’t consistently focused on ways to improve user engagement in all of your customer interactions, it will...

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How Writing Good Meta Descriptions Can Help Click Through Rates

If you’re looking to increase click through rates, there are many ways to do so, one of which is by writing good meta descriptions, also known as meta tags. Whether you know it by name or not, you...
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DrupalCon New Orleans

The Big Easy Back in May, I was lucky enough to attend DrupalCon New Orleans, and it was nothing less than extraordinary. The NOLA experience is unlike anything else I’ve ever seen. The “Big Easy” is...
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Nauset Construction Launches New Website After 10 Years

Nauset Construction, a construction management and design-build firm in Needham, MA, reached out to CommonPlaces to redesign and redevelop their website that they first built for them ten years ago....
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PHP 7 and Drupal 8 Can Help Improve Website Speed

Drupal 8, the latest release of the open source CMS, has already proven to have many new and improved functionalities and capabilities. One of the main advantages of investing in an upgrade to Drupal...
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What is Open Source Software?

A common question we get asked as a web development agency is, what is open source software? In its simplest definition, open source software is software with coding that can be shared and modified...
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Beautiful Websites Might Actually Be Hurting UX

For longer than I can remember, I’ve been hearing the term, “keep the website light and efficient”, however I feel this isn’t as high enough priority as it should be when planning a website. It seems...