Category: Websites
09/03/2023
Starting Web Design and Development Projects through Toronto’s Inflationary Landscape
In the dynamic economic landscape of Toronto, where businesses must contend with various economic climates, embarking on a web design or development project takes on heightened importance. The intersection of economic dynamics with the digital realm underscores the necessity of a strategic approach that caters to businesses’ unique needs across varying economic conditions. Enter Shift8, […]
12/10/2022
Why good web design is important for your business
Web design is an important aspect of a business’s online presence, as it can have a significant impact on the success of the business. Good web design involves a combination of factors, including a user-friendly interface, visually appealing graphics and layout, and easy navigation. It is also important for the website to be mobile-friendly and […]
02/08/2022
How to push your single post or page content with this new WordPress plugin
Hello! There is quite a bit of documentation with how to scale your WordPress site for enterprise. Additionally there are quite a few enterprise WordPress hosting solutions that allow you to “stage” your content on staging sites with automated methods to push or clone the staging site (once an internal approved process gives the thumbs […]
04/07/2020
How to transition your Toronto business online
Hello! Without a doubt, the covid-19 pandemic has caused a massive disruption to the global economy including a fundamental shift to how small, medium and large enterprise businesses can conduct their day-to-day operations. The impact of social distancing and other quarantine strategies as dictated by the various health regulatory bodies have had a staggering impact […]
11/21/2019
What is good web design?
Hello! Trends in web design have come and gone over the years, however there have been some recurring indicators that have manifested as good web design in different iterations as styles change, web development technologies change and the internet changes. CSS, HTML and Javascript frameworks have all come a long way in terms of front […]
10/30/2019
Web Design for Toronto Businesses
Hello! If you are operating a local business in Toronto, one of the most important things you need to do is maintain a web presence. Whether your business is a startup, business services or restaurant : your web presence is key to the fundamental survival and operation of your business. What does it mean to […]
02/23/2018
WordPress plugin to remotely manage and automate multiple WordPress sites
Hello! Being a Toronto based web design and development agency means that we interact with a significant number of WordPress sites. This tends to happen when a project starts (obviously), but often continues after a site is launched. This is something that we offer along the lines of “post launch maintenance”. By no means once […]
05/10/2017
Read and auto populate fields in WordPress Gravity forms with jQuery
Hello! When designing and implementing Gravity forms there may be occasions where you would want to auto populate multiple fields based on a preceding field selection. This was the case in our scenario where we wanted to populate the selection of a drop-down box based on a Google Map location field within Gravity Forms on […]
03/03/2017
How to use PHP to recursively transfer files in parallel over HTTP
Hello! There may be some scenarios where you might want to clone your site or push files to a remote location completely and 100% using PHP as a web service, without touching the command line. There are many console or command line utilities to help complete this type of job such as rsync, scp, ncftp, […]
03/10/2016
How to customize WordPress search results page
Hello! When designing websites, especially websites that have an active blog, it is often necessary to style, customize and design the WordPress search results page. When styling the search results, we typically like to modify the way the results are presented as well as append a few custom CSS container classes in order to ensure […]
