tagged as: Magento, Magento Development, Web Development
categories: Magento, Web Design, Web Development
Making a new page layout or template with Magento is kind of a tricky task. Magento comes standard with a 3column, 2column-right, 2coulmn-left, 1coulmn, and a empty layout but what if you wanted to create a 4column or maybe just create a custom template for your pages or even just certain pages. Well in order [...]
tagged as: Compressed CSS, Compressed JavaScript, Faster Sites, Web Development, Website Optimization
categories: Web Development
What can you do? There are many different things that you can do to make you site faster, but what are the main things that you should start with? Well if you have a slow site you really should have an expert such as a web developer take a look at it, as they know [...]
tagged as: Chosen, Chosen Development, Lansing Web Design, Michigan Web Design, WordPress Theme Developer, WordPress Themes
categories: Shane, Theme Development, Web Design, Web Development
This week Shane Strong launched a few different sites. One was launched by Shane and Alex Tourtillott. Two more were launched by Shane and Chosen Development. Our first site is a small site using the Chosen CMS. This site was designed by Alex Tourtillott and Developed by Shane. This site is called www.neighborhoodres.org. They are [...]
tagged as: Fast SEO, SEO, SEO Optimized, SEO Tools, Shane
categories: SEO, Shane, Web Design, Web Development, Work
What do you use for SEO? What do you consider the best tools? I have a list of SEO tools that I use daily. My list is a little more than 10 but I figured for simplicity I will give you the top 10 SEO tools that I use. The reason I am putting together [...]
tagged as: Fast SEO, Search Engine Optimization, SEM, SEO, SEO Optimized, Shane
categories: SEO, Shane, Web Design, Web Development, Work
What is SEO and how can it help me? That is the question you should be asking your self if you have a web site. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. How do you get your site to the top of search engines? Well this is a really great place to start. SEO optimization can [...]
tagged as: jQuery, Lansing Web Design, Lansing Web Development, Shane, Shane Strong
categories: Lansing Web Design, Shane, Web Design, Web Development, jQuery
As a developer I hate the fact that Internet Explorer is not up to date with their web browser. For instance the w3 has approved that you can use the :hover selector on anything not just a tags. Now most browsers do support the :hover selector but IE. Why they can’t catch up with times [...]
tagged as: Chosen, Lansing Web Design, Magento, Magento Themes, Shane, Shane Strong
categories: Chosen, Magento, Web Design, Web Development
One of the biggest and best e-commerce shopping carts is Magento. Magento has a free version at Magento Commerce. This system can be quite confusing when you are trying to change your theme. It isn’t like most other systems where you get one folder and all you have to do is upload it and activate [...]
tagged as: jQuery, Lansing Web Design, Michigan Web Design, Shane, Shane Strong
categories: Chosen, Lansing Web Design, Shane, Web Design, Web Development, jQuery
jQuery was made to change the way that you write JavaScript. jQuery has tons of really nice effects that you can experiment with. One of my favorite things to do with jQuery is to do a toggle this is a really simple effect to do but will make people go WOW when they see it. [...]
tagged as: Chosen, Chosen Creative, Chosen Development, Fast SEO, Lansing Web Design, Lansing Web Development, Michigan Web Design, SEO, Shane, Shane Strong
categories: SEO, Shane, Web Design, Web Development
Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it. Well if you just look at the site it won’t build any traffic. My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website. I would because that means my site is getting so [...]
tagged as: Powered by WordPress, Shane, Shane Strong, Theme Development, Web Development, WordPress Theme Developer, WordPress Themes
categories: Shane, Theme Development, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress-Help
New Release 2.8 With the new release of WordPress 2.8 the developers really took in what people had to say and made some vast changes to the content management system. One of the biggest changes that the team made that the end user and really the admin won’t really see is the database changes. The [...]
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Hi I am Shane the main author of this blog and co-owner of Chosen LLC. A little about me, I went to Ferris State University for 3 years in the Computer Information Systems program at there College of Business. While at Ferris most of my time studying was ... Read More
