Garry Seay has a New Website
Garry is running for Sheriff in Union county Florida. We wish him the best of luck and he has a great new website to show off. His campaigners came to me after locating Livewire on Google. We met
Florida Investigators Site is Live
Site is up and running. New responsive layout. Oh, so slick. They’re happy, we’re happy … everybody happy !
New Projects
We’re excited to have new projects coming in on a regular basis. On the menu for the next few weeks are some great opportunities to expand our portfolio and our reach. Lake Butler is electing a new Sheriff
TNA The Facial Pain Association has a new website
Glad to have them on board! The Facial Pain Association does some really great work on helping people with debilitating condition known as TNA. Facial pain is a serious condition and options are often limited for sufferers. Fortunately
Haile’s Angels Pet Rescue has a New Website
Customized WP theme – a great choice for a great organization. Haile’s Angels continues to do some great work in our community focusing on our four legged friends. They take in a good number of pets each month
Offline linking
This is a profound point. A lot of linking takes place offline. Sounds weird but many great links sprout from the personal relationships you make as a business. Noteworthy links can be found at your local chamber of
Why are most government websites so terrible?
The recent debacle with the Affordable Care Act has made headlines but those of us in the development world are just seeing more of the same old thing. Government websites stink! Why is that? I can assure you
Good one on Sitelinks
Sitelinks also factor into your ad rank, and can influence the position of your ad on search page. Ad Rank previously took into account your max cost-per-click (CPC) and quality score, and now ad extensions and formats are another
Session Timeouts
We’re currently fixing a set of issues with a shopping cart created through a different developer for a local client. They did a pretty good job but forgot about session timeouts. A lot of developers gloss over this
Date for our next Seminar is 4/8
Livewire Seminars are the perfect way to collect everything you need to know to do your own website optimization. We have what it takes to put your site on page 1 and we’ll teach you all of the
Budding Biologist has a new website
A cute website for a really neat childrens’ book series by budding biologist. Their new website is responsive, meaning it is mobile ready and will display correctly across all devices and all browsers. Integrated web store and using
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 traditional desktop/laptop users, so the benefit is apparent. If your website is not mobile ready, you are
Insurency SEO
Glad to have Insurency on board with the Livewire team. We did not make their website but we’ll be doing their Internet marketing. We have a great plan for them and will be proud to be competing alongside
New apps coming down the pipe
We have 6 new apps coming out over the next few months. Very excited to roll these out – unfortunately we can’t give you too many details but we have a couple apps geared toward attorneys and the
Sitemaps
Back in the day a simple website could get away with an on-page sitemap. Just a simple list of pages somewhere on the site. Not so much anymore. Sitemaps – at least the ones we intend for search
Thomas Jackson Updates
John Pailing and I have been hard at work upgrading what is already an incredible website. We have made several layout changes and are playing with a few ideas that will really add to the depth and relevance
Understanding Value
At Livewire, we definitely understand what value means. As primarily a B2B driven business we know that value goes beyond a ROI, although that is incredibly important. A proper return on investment is the measuring stick by which
What’s Worse?
What’s worse than these dang North Florida love bugs? Having a poor website, for one. A website should be like the dream employee . It should never call in sick, treat your customers properly and get them the
Jquery XML Shopping Cart
We’ve built all kinds of shopping carts – many from the ground up. Experienced with all the third party vendors – zencart, opencart, xcart, etc… we know that clients need something completely customized sometimes. Many shopping carts are
New Mobile SIte
Head on over to livewiregeeks on your mobile device It’s our new mobile site based on Chalis iwebapp – a powerful framework that works well across the board. Livewire mobile has everything our main website has but is built
Matt Birk has a new website
This is responsive website with layout originally conceived by HTML5. Clean and simple, it is just what the doctor, er, lawyer ordered. Matt needed something up quick, but didn’t have to sacrifice quality. WIthin 2 days we had
Raven Tools
Took a look at Raven SEO tools today. Really, not all that impressed. They have a good price but it mostly looks like you’re just hooking up other services to be managed in one location. That’s valuable in
Our New Look
Take a peak at our main website’s new look! We’re proud to present a brand new layout and style for Livewire Web Design. We work hard on your websites, so we took a few days to upgrade ours
SEO Update: American Metals
Since SEO is our specialty – we know what it takes to put a website on page 1. When American Metals came to us they were back past page 10 for a lot of their keywords and getting
Should you be wary of SEO firms?
Good Call Commander! You should absolutely be suspicious of SEO firms these days. The industry is unfortunately saturated with unscrupulous, downright devious companies that prey on unsuspecting business owners attempting to better their rankings. They pump your site
Database Projects
We are database junkies. Simply put, you can’t beet the flexibility and scalability that databases offer us in the web design world. We prefer using MySQL which is the most common database for web projects. It integrates with
CSS3
Lots of new fun with CSS3. CSS makes styling web pages a snap. Now CSS3, the third “version”, allows for incredibly robust styling possible. For instance, background gradients are a breeze when before developers had to create them
The Flour Pot Bakery has a new website.
NEW!! Sally is one of a kind and so is her business. She really takes the time to put out a quality product and we wanted to give her that same high quality standard with her website that
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 it? Finishing up the LDM iphone app – which has been a big project that has presented
New Beginnings: Mcgriff WIlliams Insurance
New clients start today: Mcgriff Williams Insurance has decided to start a new campaign for online insurance quotes. We’ll be providing a key marketing role with their new website: INSURENCY.com They have the very latest in online quotes
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 be doing the work themselves, right? First and foremost – ask for examples of previous projects. The
Warrington Heating and Air Has a New Website
Warrington Heating and Air is a great company and they made a great choice coming to us for their website needs. Previously they had been with a company out of California. They were not happy with the results
Howe Development Has a New Website
Website is complete on Howe Development. Now for phase 2 – integrating a simply, custom CMS so they can update content on parts of the site. No need for wordpress – we can easily do a custom solution
Starter Websites are Cheap
We’re offering ‘starter’ websites for as little as $175 in the coming months. This will get you everything you need, including shopping cart, to start selling online. Our targets are small, home based businesses. We understand that they
New Web Program: Brain Development Maps
Creating braindevelopmentmaps.org was a great opportunity to work on a very interesting site; Shirley came to Livewire with very specific needs. There is nothing ‘typical’ or ‘standard’ about this website, it is in a word, unique. Braindevelopmentmaps.org allows
New Website: Top Dawg Detection
Bed bug detection is a fascinating new business. Trained in a facility up north, these dogs are trained to detect even a single bed bug. Most of the business is certifying hotels and motels as “bed bug free”.
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 and out of Gainesville via the University – our little town has an abundance of web developers
Learning how to code?
We get questions all the time about how we started doing all this. Where did we learn to code? How on earth does any of that make sense? Some people are interested in learning for themselves. It’s easy
TNT Graphics Needed us Badly
Essy over at TNT Graphics stopped by and requested some changes to his website. He just needed an overhaul of his design and some programming changes to the way the shopping cart operated. Since we can do both
Northwest Seafood has a new website!
Thanks to our killer Gainesville Web Design another Gainesville company has joined the livewire family with a brand new website! It’s wordpress so we can’t take credit for the design in it’s entirety but the layout is great