January is the perfect month for out with the old, in with the new. Unless you like the old, in which case disregard this blog. However, if you’re revved up and ready to make this year the best one yet for your business, we have some tips for you. Read on. Depending on where you [...]
It’s October so you know what that means! Halloween! In honor of the illustrious holiday, we at Web Symphonies decided to do a roundup of scary website mistakes. As a Charlotte web design company, we’ve seen them all, but don’t worry, what was once alarming can quickly become alluring. We’ll show you how. The number [...]
So you're ready to create a new website: congratulations! But if you want to do it yourself, which website builder do you choose? There are so many options available, which one is best? Especially if you're not an experienced web designer like Web Symphonies, it can be tricky to parse out. Below we tackle some [...]
So you have your own business. Congratulations! Now what? As small, Charlotte web design company, we understand how hard it can be to stand out in a crowd. You want to be the person who wears prints in a sea of neutral colors. Luckily for you, we've rounded up some high-tech and low-tech solutions for [...]
Happy new year! The start of the year is when people often set goals for themselves – whether that's exercising more, eating better, or picking up the guitar. But what about checking in on your web security? Did you know there is a hacker attack every 39 seconds? The cost of data breaches increased [...]
You have a gorgeous new website. You’ve spent so much time designing it, building content for your blog, and ensuring everything is perfect. So your site is good forever now, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, we see this happen too often. People build their dream site and then forget about it because they think now that the [...]
There are many options out there for hosting your website. A 'host' is the server where your website physically lives and you need to have a website host in order to launch your site and have it be view-able by others on the Internet. It can feel confusing to begin researching all your choices and [...]
One day I discovered in one of my blogger's iThemes security logs that there were a number of daily requests for variously sized "apple-icons" returning a 404 error. After some research, I decided to customize the site's favicon code. Thus, you may come across a situation, like I did, where you need to remove the Thesis [...]
After recently upgrading to Wordpress 4.0, one of my client's blogs who was using Thesis 1.8.4 stopped seeing the actual comments. She saw the comment count, but was unable to see the actual comments themselves. She was able to see them in the backend, but was unable to see them in the front-end. After doing [...]
What can small businesses learn from the development fiasco of Healthcare.gov? As a web developer of over 15 years, every time I hear news updates about the mishandled government healthcare website, I chuckle a bit to myself--and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Every web developer has had a moment or two where things [...]
