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I come from long line of people who love making things grow. Gardening is a long-held family tradition that has cultivated my creativity, inspired my mom and grandma to harvest from the earth, and is ingrained as a way of life that blossomed through necessity for my dad.  Growing up, my dad says he always enjoyed the foods they harvested, but “as a teenager, when my parents expected me to work in the garden, I didn’t find it nearly as attractive.”  It was a lot of hard, manual labor, but the results were worth it. 

In baseball, there is a logical path of progression. The batter comes to the plate, gets a base hit, moves to first base, advances to second base, then third, and finally returns home - scoring a run. After a hit, runners can’t go directly to second or third base; they must go directly to first base, then second, and so on. In 2012, according to Forrester Research, approximately 15 percent of the online businesses that failed, failed because they did not follow good business practices - they attempted an easier path to second or third base. 

When it comes to planning for the holidays, you can often predict the upcoming season based on statistics from previous years. Since the numbers for 2014’s Cyber Five are still coming, we’ll start with some insights from 2013.

From May 12th to May 14th, Magento invaded Las Vegas for Imagine, their premier global ecommerce conference full of announcements, speakers, networking fun, and more!  Amid the excitement, Magento launched a new certification allowing eligible attendees to become the first Magento Certified Solution Specialists.  In addition, the newest versions of Community and Enterprise were released, along with some sneak peeks into Magento 2.  Below, we’ve rounded up a few of the key enhancements benefiting users in these releases.

Last week, Magento Imagine 2014 took over the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for three days of announcements, keynote speakers, networking, and innovation.  They may say, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” but as technology becomes less and less for work and more and more a part of our lives, we know nothing really stays in Vegas.  These takeaways are too good to leave behind!

How are you going to attract your customers when all that is on their minds is fun in the summer sunshine? With the beginning of summer right around the corner, you want to put up your sails and go with the current. 

Gardening has always been a part of my family.  For as long as I can remember, my mom has had a garden; and for as far back as she remembers, her mom has always had a garden, and so on.  Granted, the further back you trace it, the more likely gardening happened due to necessity; however, now it is a stress relieving hobby that provides both rewarding and delicious benefits.

Updated November 2, 2017

From desktops to smartphones to an expanding galaxy of different connected screens and devices, we can safely say that access to the world’s information on-demand is part of our lives now, and for the foreseeable future. We’re at the end of the beginning and companies must evolve. People now expect connectivity wherever they are and on whatever device they choose — this is the new norm. It’s time for businesses to catch up and understand their connected customer.

As mobile web browsing becomes more common, it's increasingly important to design websites for mobile use as well as for desktop browsing. This can mean anything from tweaking your regular site so it looks good on Android and iOS devices, to CSS media queries, responsive layouts, and even completely separate websites for mobile users.

The question is: How do you make a website work well on a mobile browser? It helps to start out by thinking about how the mobile browsing experience differs from desktop browsing.

Updated March 31, 2017

Once the weather starts warming up, people come out of hibernation, open up windows, and start cleaning house. But don't forget, spring cleaning is not just for your house.

Sure, opening windows means something completely different in the digital world, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get some spring cleaning done on your site. You should be checking site health and function on a regular basis, but for the sake of timing and clichés, it’s a springtime site cleanup!

For the record, a quick technical scan & cleanup is not considered a site audit, though it is often called one. Kristine Schachinger wrote a great post about this, SEO Website Audits: Everything You Need to Know. She lays it out pretty simply:

“Site audits are, in the simplest terms, when you pay someone to forensically examine your site with tools and their eyes utilizing their knowledge and expertise to tell you what is good and what is not so good about your site (or as we say – where you have challenges