Website Design Trend – Knockout Backgrounds

Example of Knockout Backgrounds from Unmapped Brewing

Website design is a constantly changing field. What’s popular one year might be completely dead the next. Technologies come and go (anyone remember Flash?), and the devices people use to access the web change.And so here at PageCrafter, we are extremely interested in anticipating upcoming trends, and even in trying to create them ourselves. Enter: the Knockout Background.What are Knockout … Read More

Video Dashboard for WordPress – Now With Vimeo Support

Video Dashboard plugin in the WordPress Repository - Now with Vimeo Support

We just updated the plugin we have in the WordPress repository – Video Dashboard. As many of you already know, this plugin allows you to embed a streaming video into the dashboard of your WordPress website. For a couple years now I’ve been wanting to add Vimeo support to it, and I am happy to report that we have completed … Read More

“Too much content” isn’t the problem. Complexity is.

This picture represents the complexity you wish to avoid in a website.

A great website has lots of (great) content.You’ve probably heard at one time or another that having lots of text on your website is a bad thing. That visitors will see it and immediately begin hyperventilating and exit their browser in a panic.I’m here to tell you that it’s not that simple. It’s not content that’s bad, it’s complexity.When a … Read More

How to Improve Your Website’s Usability

It’s easy to take for granted that people visiting your website don’t have the background with your company and website that you do. While you may think it is easy to place an order for something or navigate the services section of your website, first time users could be having a pretty hard time getting to the information they want. … Read More