Finding a Wordpress Developer in NYC

What's your industry is your company in? Start-up, Fashion, Real Estate, Financial Services, E-commerce, Arts and Entertainment, Non-profit, etc. 

Finding a good website design and development company is not as easy as you think. Trust me!
Big agencies that treat you like a number & charge a fortune, are the worst. They are over priced you you will not get the results your business needs. 

Many people come to me after years of thinking about designing a new website. They realize it is time for a change and they want to re-brand their website/image. All too often they are clueless about where to begin. Plus, they are not a Fortune 500 company an unlimited budget! 

I've heard many stories about years of searching for the right web design and development agency, or even ending up in court with a former designer. This process is draining and it needs to stop.

That's where DigiMix comes in. We're a small digital agency in NYC producing big results. Wether you are looking for a Wordpress developer NYC,  a creative web designer, or a real SEO expert we ar the go to team for some well known companies in Manhattan.  We design and develop cutting edge website and digital marketing strategies while working directly with our clients. This means we hold face to face meetings and our clients get to work directly with pro designers and developers (not just account managers and sales reps). Our creative and tech team takes the time to understand your business, your vision and your goals so we can deliver the best possible results. 

Here is what one of our clients has too say about DigiMix: 

Fortunately, once again after another search, I can't say how happy I was when out of a sea of companies online, I stumbled across DigiMix Web Design New York, co-founded by Michael Salafia. I had a good feeling after reading his background and I just knew I didn't need to search anymore. Whew!! It was just an instinct. 
After our 1st meeting, I knew I was right!! I trusted him, knew I was in good hands, and gave his team creative freedom to design what they thought would be best. And my site is awesome! If I do say so myself. :)
With a MBA in High Tech Entrepreneurship he has put a team together unlike most agencies where you're not just a number. (Great concept, Right? LOL) He understands that web design is more than throwing a flashy website together & telling a client- "Look how great this design is." 
Michael takes the time to learn about your business, demographic, and what you want your brand to say. If you're not sure of any of the above, struggling with your company, or looking to expand to a new market, Michael can guide & educate you to the best and most cost effective way to create an image, marketing plan, & website that will work & appeal to YOUR client base. 
Thanks, Michael. You are one class act all the way around! 
It's not easy to to trust someone with your brand, especially when it's personal and YOU are the brand. However, I knew when we met that you were THE person and and I was not hesitant in the least to trust you and and your team to create something with TOTAL creative freedom. I cannot thank you enough and I'm truly grateful for everything you have done. 

My website is better than anything I could've imagined! 
It's not easy to to trust someone with your brand, especially when it's personal and YOU are the brand. However, I knew when we met that you were THE person and and I was not hesitant in the least to trust you and and your team to create something with TOTAL creative freedom. I cannot thank you enough and I'm truly grateful for everything you have done. 
My website is better than anything I could've imagined! 
My website is better than anything I could've imagined! 


He educated me about my options for the different technology solutions to power my website, and helped me select the Wordpress content managment system. Other companies I had spoken with tried to hook me into using their custom system, so I would be committed to working with them for the life of my website. Michael was confident that I would choose to work with him based on his quality of service and made recommendations to me genuinely based on my best interests. I had always thought Wordpress was just for blogging, but after a personal Wordpress training session, I feel like I am in completely in control of my website. It's easy to use and follow the digital marketing plan DigiMix put together for me has helped me to attract new customers.

Finding a good web designer in New York

Finding a good web designer in New York City is tough. There are allot of graphic designers or IT professionals out there posing as freelance web designers. These types of people may offer you a great rate, but often turn around and outsource the project some one internationally their hired online. Websites like Odesk or Elance have tons of freelancers offering their services, but you never actually get to meet the people you are working with. At any point they could just disappear. On the other end of the spectrum, there are many large web design and internet marketing companies, like Yodle, who will charge you a lot of money for a cookie cutter website. They will continue to nickel and dime you until you have spent a small fortune on your website. In either of these scenarios, you end up unhappy with you website and not seeing a return on your investment.

Here are is a check list of things to consider when looking for a web designer in New York.

1. Web design portfolio: Every real web designer has a portfolio of their project. 
2. Web development skills: A flashy looking website may look great, but the engineering of the code is what actually makes the site work. Make sure your web designer has the technical skills to develop the site properly, or a partner to handle the development work. 
3. Business and marketing: Behind every good website design is a good marketing strategy.
4. Search Engine Optimization: If your new site is not optimized for search engines, then no one will find it. SEO is a science, not magic. Good web designers understand how SEO works and employ the best practices for SEO when designing and coding websites. 

To learn more about web design new york visit the digital marketing experts at Digimix. They work with companies in NYC to design, develop and manage high performance internet marketing campaigns. 

Best Plant Care Website

Have you ever tried to find a good alternative to rose for Valentine's day? Or maybe some one has given you a bonsai tree and you thought to yourself "Great, now how am I supposed to take care of this?". PlantCare.us is a resourceful website offering plant care advice from professional florists, horticulturalists and gardeners. They make it easy to figure out things like, the what the best tall growing plants are or how often to water a bamboo palm. If you have a specific plant care question you can even ask a florist. This site will definitely make trips to Home Depot and Loews allot easier this spring. 

Boston Live Twitter Stream

Check out this new website designed and developed by DigiMix, a boutique digital agency in NYC offering Wordpress web design and development services. BostonGuider.info is a live stream showing all Twitter posts about Boston. So if you're looking for Boston events or trying to find out what's trending in Boston, this site is a great resource.

If you would like a landing page or Wordpress website like this please contact DigiMix Marketing & Design by visiting DigiMix.us.

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Why Your Company Needs a Mobile Website

Have you ever accessed your company’s website with a smartphone or tablet? I can almost guarantee your customers have. Millions of mobile searches happen daily, and research predicts that by 2015 more people will access the Internet through their phone than their computer.

The 2011 Mobile Search Insights Study (conducted among smartphone users by Performics and ROI Research, Inc.) reveals some compelling numbers:

• 84 percent use mobile search to look for information about local retailers (hours of operation, address, contact information, etc.)
• 66 percent use mobile search while watching television
• 71 percent use mobile search to learn more about a product or service after seeing an advertisement

Despite these large numbers, some surveys indicate that as many as 70% of business do not have a mobile website.

Does your company advertise with billboards, company car decals, bumper stickers, or television and radio spots? You can bet customers are accessing your website from their cars or couches — it’s your job to ensure their mobile experience is as good, if not better, than when they access your site from a computer.

Your customers are going mobile; it’s time you do, too.

First steps

Before you hire someone to design and develop your mobile site (or dive into that work internally), do some research to find out what will make your audience happiest.

Establish your mobile audience’s goals

What do mobile users want to do on your mobile site? Are they stuck on a long plane ride and want to read articles or blog posts? Do they come back often to check sports scores or weather updates? Or could they be one-time visitors who wants to know your location or hours of operation?

What your audience wants to do on your mobile site should affect how your mobile site looks and functions.

Choose a development approach

There are several ways a developer can create a mobile site; the goals you set for your website will help determine which approach will work best for you. You can simplify your main website, create an adaptive or responsive layout, or create a dedicated mobile site.

Each of these has their pros and cons, and should be discussed in detail with a designer and/or developer.

Tips

Stay focused

You want your mobile website to be accessible to all, but it’s crucial to cater to the needs of your target audience (the ones who will spend the most time on the site). In trying to please everyone, you’re more likely to frustrate everyone, including your target audience.

Keep your audience’s wants and needs in mind throughout every step of design and development.

Test, test, test

Although there are many smartphone and tablet simulators you can use to see how your mobile site will appear on different devices, there is no substitute for design and function testing of your mobile site on the devices themselves.

Do you want your mobile visitors to visit a certain page, fill out a form, or interact with your site in a specific way? Test—either internally or with a focus or test group—that it’s easy for visitors to perform those tasks.

Keep testing and tweaking until you’ve optimized the user experience for your target audience.

How to get started

For a more detailed look at mobile website design ideas, strategy planning, and best practices, download the Marketer’s Mobile Blueprint to Mobile Websites. This guide has everything you need to get started with your mobile website.

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Time Out New York Launches New iPad And iPhone Apps, Embraces E-Commerce

Time Out New York is making a big leap into the digital world today, says Aksel van der Wal, who’s president of Time Out North America and chief operating officer of the Time Out Group. Specifically, it’s launching its first iPad app, an updated iPhone app, and a new e-commerce model for all of its properties.

As a product, the new iPad app sounds the most interesting. (I wasn’t able to try it, and also I don’t live in New York, so I’m going off the company’s description.) Time Out specializes in reviews and listings for arts, food, entertainment, and more, and now the iPad app personalizes the experience. Apparently, every time you select content in a specific category, that increases the likelihood that the app will present you with similar content in the future. In six weeks or so, Time Out plans to improve these personalization features, so that content that’s been viewed or liked by similar users is also recommended.

The personalization is based on technology from LikeCube, a semantic analysis company that Time Out acquired last year.

More broadly, van der Wal characterizes this as major milestone in Time Out’s shift from the print business into “more of a digital direction.” And that includes settling on a digital business model — the website now allows transactions, so if you read about a great Broadway show or a hot new restaurant, you can buy tickets or reserve a table. Time Out will also be offering discounts and deals. (Advertising will play a role too. In fact, MasterCard will be the first global sponsor of the iPad app.)

Apparently the new direction can be laid at the feet of Oakley Capital, which acquired a 50 percent stake in Time Out London in November 2010, followed by a majority stake in New York (which operated independently) in May of last year. Time Out says unique visitors to the website have increased 92 percent since the deal, from 967,000 in May to 1.85 million in February.

Time Out London will get a similar revamp eventually, van der Wal says.

I will update the post with a link to the iPad app as soon as I get it. In the meantime, you can download the iPhone app here.

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This Year’s Digital Spend Expected to Surpass $98 Billion

2012.04.09

GROUPM STUDY SAYS 2011 GLOBAL INTERNET AD SPEND HIT $85 BILLION FOR 17 PERCENT OF TOTAL INVESTMENT

 

GROUPM STUDY SAYS 2011 GLOBAL INTERNET AD SPEND HIT $85 BILLION FOR 17 PERCENT OF TOTAL INVESTMENT

 

Internet advertising hit $84.8 billion in 2011, representing a 16 percent increase over the previous year and accounting for more than 17 percent of all global measured advertising expenditures, according to a new report from GroupM.

 

North America led the pack in terms of overall digital ad spending with an estimated $34.5 billion; Asia-Pacific came in second with $24.8 billion followed by Western Europe with $21 billion, according to the study, entitled This Year, Next Year: Interaction 2012.

 

The study is part of GroupM's media and marketing forecasting series drawn from data supplied by parent company WPP's worldwide resources in advertising, public relations, market research, and specialist communications.  It was released today by London-based GroupM Futures Director Adam Smith and New York-based GroupM Interaction Global CEO Rob Norman.

 

The study also predicted that in 2012 digital advertising spending will reach $98.2 billion globally, almost 16 percent more than this year.  The figure represents almost 19 percent of all measured advertising investment.  In the 2012 forecast, North America once again ranks first with an estimated $38 billion in digital ad spend; Asia-Pacific follows with $31.4 billion followed by Western Europe with $23 billion.

 

In the U.S., digital advertising spending hit $32.2 billion in 2011, representing a 22 percent share of the overall domestic market and a 12 percent increase over the previous year, according to the study.  This year those figures are expected to reach $35.4 billion for a 23 percent share and a 10 percent increase over 2011.

 

The report also includes detailed commentary on the current state of various digital marketing developments and offers insightful observations on the evolution of digital communications and the inherent implications for marketers.

 

“At the risk of an ‘oh really?’ response, it’s possible to argue that for the first time since these reports began that the last year has been one of evolution rather than revolution,” Norman wrote in the report’s introduction.  “It seems that less is brand new and that a combination of scale of usage of an increasingly social and mobile web, the penetration of devices supported by it, and the continued atomization of audiences and content, in both their creation and distribution combine to tell the story of the year.”

 

Norman added: “In 2007 we speculated about a world that would be truly social, searchable, mobile, addressable and interactive and illuminated by data that could be collected and applied across all marketing functions; in 2012 that is no longer a matter for conjecture.” 

 

In addition to spending forecasts, the comprehensive, 20-country report also details ad investment in paid search and Internet display as well as providing data on broadband penetration, media time spent online and e-commerce per user data.

 

Additional key findings in the survey include the following:

 

• Digital advertising’s share of total ad investment rose from 4.4 percent worldwide in 2004 to a projected 18.8 percent in 2012.  

 

• The average percentage of consumers’ “media time” spent online increased from 11 percent in 2006 to 19 percent in 2011. The absolute number of broadband homes worldwide has nearly tripled in this period to reach 500 million, and the typical country has seen broadband penetration grow by half.

 

• Aside from general monetary inflation, ad investment growth has two main vectors: aggregate audience hours, and advertising intensity per individual. Average online advertising investment per online user doubled between 2006 and 2011.  For 2011, Norway had the highest per-capita online ad investment in the study’s sample--$200.

 

• E-commerce accounts for about 5 percent of global retail sales today, with instant-on devices, secure and simple payment, vouchering, and the optimization of retail for mobile serving as catalysts for growth.

 

• Consumer tablet penetration reached double digits in only three of the survey’s countries in 2011: the US, Finland and South Korea.  However, take-up is expected to be rapid and nine countries should reach double digit penetration in 2012.

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Next step: Integrate Instagram content into a Facebook Places map interface. "Instamap" or "Intaplace". Or someone should develop a Facebook app that automatically monitors Instagram and will post photos that were taken at a the business location to their Facebook page.

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Wordpress Development Hacks: Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 : Changing default Page width from 940px to anything you want

<blockquote class='posterous_long_quote'><h3 class="post-title entry-title">Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 : Changing the default Page width from 940px to anything you want </h3> <p> <div class="post-body entry-content"> Twitter bootstrap 2.0 is out and it is more cooler than ever check it out here. I generally don't find the default width of 940px suitable for the kind of websites i create it leaves no much space for left and right hand side content and if i force them then the main content is too squeezed. If you still need more help with your site contact the Wordpress web design experts at DigiMix Web Design NYC.

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