Category: Content Management Systems (CMS)

New Update For Pixelsilk CMS

The Fresh New Look for Pixelsilk Content Management System with the Green Lynx Update   Our good friends from Pixelsilk have recently launched the latest version of their CMS platform that allows developers to save time and manage web content faster than ever before. The Pixelsilk content management system allows users to work smarter, integrating […]


What is A/B Testing – Multivariate Testing for Websites

A/B testing—or multivariate testing—is an experiment that you can use to increase the productivity of your website. A/B testing shows visitors alternate versions of the same web page simultaneously and randomly, to help the website owner find out what elements of the page need to be fixed. Although A/B testing can be applied to any […]


Internet Explorer 6 is Dated

As you might have heard, Microsoft is ceasing support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) as of July 13, 2010, when it stops support for Windows XP SP2.  This isn’t bad news. This nine year-old browser is showing its wear and doesn’t cut it with today’s web standards. The higher-performing and more design-savvy websites of today […]


How Mind Mapping Helps Smart Solutions’ Clients

For awhile now, our team has utilized Mind Mapping, from the tools from a great client, Mindjet.  Mind Mapping has assisted in organizing client’s site architecture while easily and quickly highlighting areas of weaknesses for content structure.    Recently, KM World Magazine interviewed Smart Solutions and posted an article, titled Enriching Web Sites and Engage Customers […]


Linkbuilding Techniques for SEO – June SmartGroup Recap

Thank you to all that joined for this month’s discussion on link building! This is such an important topic as links are the currency of the Internet. Links are like the business referral you get from a networking event and add value to your site from a spider’s perspective and traffic/awareness from a human visitor. […]


Bend Oregon SmartGroup Adds Valuable Insights to Website Success

SmartGroup is a local usergroup setup for our Smart Solutions clients and prospective clients.  We’ve covered monthly topics such as: SEO Basics, Newsletter Best Practices, Everything Images, Local Search, etc.  Throughout the presentations, now offered in a both a day and evening session, we offer insights to best practices and tips and tricks to help […]


Quick Web Design Tips To Remember

Web design has changed.  The novelty of going to the World Wide Web and exploring this new medium has worn off significantly.  No longer are users visiting a site and reading through lines and lines of text or watching humorous animated gifs online. Nielsen & Loranger’s extensive research uncovered four questions users ask when arriving at […]


When will CMS catch up with SEO?

By Scott Orth Interesting that the entire first page of Google results for SEO Friendly CMS returns blogs and forums, filled with folks trying to figure out what solution they should use for their business or their clients. See the SERP here. The consensus seems to be that there isn’t really a CMS out there […]


Warning…Warning…The Coolest New Product of the Year Announced!

By Scott Orth But you’ll have to be at SMX to see it! Well, that’s not entirely true – you can also see it at www.pixelsilk.com; but you’re going to want to be at SMX to really get to know the geniuses behind this leading-edge…some would say “futuristic”… SEO-enabled Content Management System. Pixelsilk will also […]