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Should I Offer Instant Chat On My Company Website?

The question was recently posed to August Ash by a new customer: Should I offer instant chat on my company website? And while we helped that individual work through the many other questions that lead up to the final answer, it got us thinking. Maybe others who read our blog have wondered the same thing.

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Receive Website Tips 12 times in 2012...For Free

Where do you want your site to be this time next year? If you have goals and objectives for your company's online success in 2012, the August Ash newsletter can help...for free.

If you have 2 minutes to spare each month, you have enough time to educate yourself on topics relevant to your website, including items such as...

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Upgrading to Drupal 7: What's at Stake

Over the last several months, our Drupal developers have been looking closer at the process of upgrading websites from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

In short, it's been reaffirmed that, due to the extremely modular nature of Drupal, an upgrade can be a daunting task.  If all the modules for a particular website have good "upgrade paths," (meaning those modules are easily scalable for new updates), the upgrade process could go smoothly.

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Your Website On Phones, Tablets, and Other Mobile Devices

The final sales numbers from 2010 made it official: mobile devices now play a bigger role than ever before when it comes to how people view your website. The evidence shows that smartphones have surpassed PCs in sales, but the need for mobile-friendly sites goes back long before this recent report.