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Google Removing Anonymous Reviews

So it appears, as far as Search Engine Journal is reporting, that Google is removing anonymous reviews. And, honestly, why wouldn’t ...

Using Google URL Shortener

It really could not be easier. Google’s URL shortener is certainly the best one out there. https://goo.gl/ Our latest rollout, InfoGopher, ...

November 27, 2016

Florida Web Design Guru

CSS Animation, The New Flash?

I’ve used it, so I am not immune to the pull of CSS animation, but what are we doing here folks? ...

TradePMR has a new website

A really great client – TradePMR – just launched their new super awesome, totally spectacular, mobile responsive website! We worked with ...

October 26, 2016

Florida Web Design Guru

The problems with Wix

Wix is a do-it-yourself website builder. While this may seem to be in direct competition with Gainesville Web Design companies, they ...

October 25, 2016

Florida Web Design Guru

Branding & Marketing Services

Livewire is proud to announce that we are now offering professional branding and marketing services. Phil, the owner, never considered branding ...

February 7, 2016

Gainesville Web Design Gal

You get 15 seconds! Web Design Trends for 2016

Mobile is in and users are becoming increasingly impatient. In 2014, 55% of users spent less than 15 seconds on a ...

April 10, 2015

Florida Web Design Guru

Using Warning Lights or Guages

A good article on fox-business about whether your business uses warning lights or gauges to understand how your business is growing. ...

March 21, 2015

Florida Web Design Guru

Small Business Sees A Rise In Cyber Threats

Come on, let’s all live in the real world: we’re all vulnerable. Really the only chance you have these days is ...

February 13, 2015

Florida Web Design Guru

Redirects & Canonical. What’s The Difference?

There is a lot of confusion about the difference between setting redirects and canonicalization. Here’s the deal. What a 301 says ...

January 6, 2015

Florida Web Design Guru

Recover From A Negative SEO Attack

Nothing can be quite as irritating or as damaging as an unscrupulous competitor or determined unhappy client that is willing to ...

Messaging When Switching From iPhone to Droid

Sneaky little issue pops up when you move away from iphone. Other iphone users that previously texted you won’t be able ...

Pretty Awesome Image Packages

Nowadays, it’s just best to buy your images. As Gainesville Web Design experts, we purchase them almost on a daily basis. ...

How To Survive A Good Google Dinging

This is a great demonstration of what can happen with unnatural linking schemes and getting hosed by using link farms. This company ...

September 6, 2014

Florida Web Design Guru

Extend Your iPhone or iPad Battery Life

A common problem in todays world – batteries haven’t really kept up with the rest of the tech world and are ...

Authority + Trust + Relevance = Rankings

Here you go – the magic formula for ranking on Google. Yes, Yahoo and Bing still matter … even though the ...

Is PPC Advertising Worth It?

The answer is: it depends. In our experience it really comes down to your industry, your ad’s effectiveness and … dum ...

Don’t Get Smacked by Copyright Infringemnt

Developers do it all the time – they need an image for a website and head on over to Google images, ...

Firefox is dead to me

That happened a long time back. Now it seems that the once beloved browser is now in the same situation with ...

Offline linking

This is a profound point. A lot of linking takes place offline. Sounds weird but many great links sprout from the ...

No Business is too Small for Mobile

No matter how small your business is, you need to be on mobile. There are more mobile users these days than ...

Sitemaps

Back in the day a simple website could get away with an on-page sitemap. Just a simple list of pages somewhere ...

Jquery XML Shopping Cart

We’ve built all kinds of shopping carts – many from the ground up. Experienced with all the third party vendors – ...

Raven Tools

Took a look at Raven SEO tools today. Really, not all that impressed. They have a good price but it mostly ...

CSS3

Lots of new fun with CSS3. CSS makes styling web pages a snap. Now CSS3, the third “version”, allows for incredibly ...

What we’ve been up to lately

Here’s what’s been going on at Livewire in the last few weeks – because, well, why not? It’s a blog ,isn’t ...

What You Should be Asking

When hiring a developer, many people don’t know what questions they should be asking – if they knew, then they’d probably ...

Gainesville Web Development

What a market. Gainesville has it all, especially its share of web developers. With new blood coming into the market – funnelled into ...

Project Gutenburg

Every heard of it? If not, make sure to check it out. They have tons of books online, free for anybody. ...

Facebook Dings Developers

In the ever growing app community, Facebook is putting the screws to developers looking to use their vast resources to build ...