Update version of WordPress is available

In WordPress 5.7, your site is updated in three major areas: new editor is easier to use, can do more without writing custom code, and simpler default colour palette and much more.

Taking good care of the back end of your site can have a big impact on site performance and is critical to keeping your site secure. If you’d rather spend your time running your business and attracting new clients, than spending your time on site maintenance, we can help!

Give us a shout at 403-257-7047 or email design@simplyeffective.ca.

Keep Covid Stress out of your Customer Communication

12 steps you can take to help your customer success team stay positive and put all kinds of good vibes out into the universe!

  1. Acknowledge the stress
  2. Care for your employees
  3. Be ground zero
  4. Know what it sounds like
  5. Tool for it
  6. Nip it in the bud
  7. Enforce the rules
  8. Protect them from toxicity
  9. Create a pressure valve
  10. Let them rest
  11. Recognize key moments
  12. Make it stick

Read on for more details about each step https://www.sitepronews.com/2021/03/02/keep-covid-stress-out-of-your-customer-communication/

Article by May Habib in Business Miscellaneous for SiteProNews

Thinking of shifting your business online?

There are many benefits to taking your business online, from helping customers understand the products or services you provide, to retaining customers and generating sales at safe distances.

We can help you transform your existing physical business to an online presence +/or store. From treating your home page like your business’s ‘storefront’ and featuring new offers and promotions, to informing your clients about changes/announcements, and navigating through your product/service pages in an easy, fast and convenient way.

Before going online or adding an e-commerce platform, there are many essential things to consider:

  • your goals and purposes depending on your product and your customers’ needs
  • a customized, eye-catching and functional website design
  • the best online platform/store/shopping cart for your business
  • your business name and matching domain name
  • your website/online shopping cart host, and generally…
  • be innovative and open to change, reorganization, restructuring, rearrangement

Despite a changing economy during the pandemic, your business — online and offline — will have an expanded customer base making the process of shifting your business online worthwhile.

QUESTIONS?

Let’s talk. We can help. Contact us at your convenience at 403-257-7047.

 

Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Dashboard

WordPress is an open source software system that has become the world’s most popular website-building platform. WordPress allows total flexibility over the design of each website and makes it incredibly easy for you, as the site owner, to edit existing content and add new content yourself.

The WordPress “admin dashboard” is the back end of your site, the behind-the-scenes part that isn’t visible to the public; the place your WordPress functions and the core itself reside. WordPress offers a great set of flexible and easily modified features and with some instruction you will be able to figure out how to manage the dashboard on your own. Click on the image below to read the full article.

Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Admin Dashboard for Complete Beginners

Article by Karl Murphy in Business Web Design Web Development WordPress

Need a new website? A fresh look? Monthly maintenance service?

We can help! At Simply Effective Web Design we specialize in WordPress installation/customization. We cater to businesses of all types offering full-service website consultation & design, customized mobile phone apps, explainer videos, monthly website clean-up/maintenance packages, WordPress assistance and much more.

Feel free to contact us at 403-257-7047. We’d be delighted to work with you.

Another new website launched!

We’ve been busy working on a design concept for our client, TWS Structural Steel Fabrication, a Calgary, Alberta business offering complete custom metal fabrication from concept, design and drafting, to fabrication and finishing.

TWS requested an updated, clean, fast and fully-functional website that’s easy for visitors to find information about services offered and recent projects quickly and easily.

To have a peek at the design concept visit the live site at https://twscalgary.com/

Another website launched

We’ve been busy working on a design concept for our client, Calgary Shrine Stables, an equestrian stable situated on the beautiful Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, the only inner city stable in the province.

The Shriners requested a simple, crisp, clean website that’s easy for visitors to find information about Boarding, Training, Stable Rates, Events and more quickly and easily.

Here’s a peek at the design concept for the Home page. To visit live site see https://calgaryshrinestables.com/

Questions? Looking for something specific?

If you would like more information, or would like to discuss a spring project, don’t hesitate to contact us at 403-257-7047.