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Content Management Marketing
When delivering video content through your website, there are many user-friendly tools available at your fingertips to ensure your video content is accessible to all users and devices.
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Technology Use Video & Search to Quickly Improve Your Website
Marketing Strategy
The case for incorporating video into your association's marketing plans is difficult to refute in 2019. The numbers are in and they are promising.
Strategy
Google Analytics offers many reports that can be configured to provide additional insight into how your audience is interacting with your content, including document click reporting.
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Design Marketing Strategy
Imagine your smoothest transaction whether it's online or not. Think about how many steps it takes to complete it.
leadfonts
Did you know that you can add interest and usability to your website simply by picking the right fonts?
Development Strategy
Implementing a faceted search on your search results page of your website will help users find the content they are looking for quickly and efficiently.
Design Strategy
When we build new sites and experiences, narrowing the scope of what to create to simply "what's trending" can often lose the focus of why, how, and especially who we design for. So, how do you create designs with a purpose?
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Design Sitefinity
One of the best features of Sitefinity is its robust image library management system which allows content creators to upload and manage images based on an organizational system. But did you know that you can also leverage the same system to generate custom thumbnails of images?
Content Management
Learn how implementing a content workflow can increase efficiency and productivity for your content editors.
Design Strategy
Did you know that the colors you choose to display on your website can impact a user's emotions and behaviors?
Vanguard Tips & Tricks
Concentrating can be difficult in a world of distractions, but there are many ways you can set yourself to be productive.
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Content Management Sitefinity
Ever wonder how you can click on a link at the top of a web page and it brings you right down to the part of the page you wanted to get to without having to scroll? This is done by using anchor links.
Strategy
Sitefinity CMS is your one-stop-shop for Analytics information. Make sure you are utilizing the Site Search feature in Google Analytics.
Vanguard Tips & Tricks
We all use WiFi, but did you know that there are actually several alternatives to it?
Vanguard Tips & Tricks
If you work at a desk and spend 8 or more hours a day at a computer, this article is for you! Learn about the world of keyboards and find out which type is best for you.
Design Tech Support
Learn how to embed simple and custom Google Maps on your website.
Tech Support
Vanguard offers VIP plans to our clients for post-launch support to meet and maintain your website needs.
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Content Management Design
One of the coolest features to come out of the recent versions of Sitefinity is the implementation of cards. A card is a content widget where you have the option to place an image, heading, summary text, and a link within a bordered box that can help drive traffic to other pages of your website.
Vanguard Tips & Tricks
If you have a job that requires spending more than 90% of your day sitting at your desk, it's important to take the necessary precautions to make your work environment benefit your health.
Strategy
Have you heard of the term "Canonical URLs?" If you use Sitefinity CMS are looking to increase your SEO, learn how Canonical URLs impact Sitefinity Content Types.
Are the winter blues decreasing your productivity at work? Try these three tips to make the most out of your work days this season.
In the News
Internet access via satellites in space is not a new phenomenon, however, the world seems to be gravitating towards this concept as humans yearn for faster, more affordable connection.
CSS Images SVGs
Learn how to easily use SVG graphics in your Sitefinity website.
Cyber Security
The word “Encryption” may sound familiar to you, but do you know its purpose and where it came from?
Content Management
As we enter the new year, it's important to reflect on accomplishments made in the previous year. Vanguard is proud of the projects we launched in 2020.
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Content Management
The paragraph tag is the most commonly used element available in HTML. Its main purpose is to separate large chunks of content so that it’s much easier to read.
Website SEO
Marketing Use Video & Search to Quickly Improve Your Website
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a bit of a mystery to most people not only because search engines like Google keep their algorithms a secret, but because it is both incredibly simple yet wildly complicated at the same time. It reminds me of how some professional poker players describe how Texas Hold ‘Em, “takes a moment to learn but a lifetime to master”. In its simplest form...
Content Management Strategy
We are all guilty of word vomit. It is crucial to write website content that is easily digestible for users.
Content Management Sitefinity
Sitefinity is a powerful and complex CMs, and there is always more to learn. Here are four quick tips to consider when working with Sitefinity CMS.
Design Development
Get to know the difference between Web Forms and MVC. Which framework is best for your website?
Among Us Characters with one labeled 2FA waving at another character while behind both of them an imposter with the label "Phisers" is about to attack a character labeled "Grandma"
Cyber Security
Someone asking you to "trust" that they are not an imposter is not enough to prove it. You need some sort of external verification, just like how websites use 2FA to verify you are who you say you are.
Making YouTube and Vimeo videos fit on a mobile device is easy with Bootstrap. A couple lines of code is all you need
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Development
Websites and Mobile Applications are usually seen as two separate beasts to build. However, new frameworks are making it possible to easily create a shared experience between these platforms.
Strategy Tech Support
If you run into any website issues, are planning a new strategy or branding initiative, or if you are just looking for guidance, the Vanguard Client Management team is here to help as an extension of your team.
Development
Sitefinity offers more flexibility for developers and content editors to manage and control layout elements on your website.
Drive Connections with Website Personalization Marketing
The more you can refine your audience segments the more likely you are to connect with people and reach your goals and objectives.
Drive Connections with Website Personalization Technology
From the earliest planning discussions to ongoing tracking and analysis, technology team participation will help ensure the success of a personalization strategy.
Drive Connections with Website Personalization Leadership
People value, and reward, websites that tailor their offerings to their individual needs and interests.
Design Strategy
It is important to have a website that is accessible for everyone. There are many simple adjustments as a web admin that you can do to achieve a more accessible website.
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Content Management Development
You have launched your website and now maintaining it is top priority. Testing new features and content on a live website can be a challenge. Explore these three reasons why a development environment
Development
Successful communication between the client, project managers and developers results in a successful project.
Design Strategy
What do a Project Manager and a Jedi have in common? Neither speak in absolutes. PM's speak in estimates, and it is important to have an understanding of what goes into a project timeline and why it is ever-changing.
Tapping the Long-Term Potential of Virtual Meetings Technology
Integrating your website with other systems and applications will help ensure your organization get the most out of its virtual meetings.
Marketing Tapping the Long-Term Potential of Virtual Meetings
Virtual meetings can help you strengthen your connections with your audience and create long-term value for your organization.
Leadership Tapping the Long-Term Potential of Virtual Meetings
Virtual meetings can help your organization not only invigorate your events but also restore revenue streams hurt by the global pandemic.
Content Management Marketing Strategy
Reaching your SEO goals for your website is easier than you think. Here are a couple of tips to improve SEO organically.
Development Tech Support
Images, documents, and videos are all managed in Sitefinity libraries. For much faster load time, consider external integrations.
Design Development
Font Awesome is a font icon library consisting of more than 600 icons that relies on CSS rather than static images to generate over 600 icons to enhance a website. Font Awesome has a 38% market share for sites that use third-party fonts, ranking second to Google Fonts.
Tech Support
If you are a website administrator or a frequent visitor of the web, there are several FREE online tools that you can utilize to significantly improve your web experience.
Leadership Redesigning Websites Under Budget Constraints
Extending the timeframe for your website improvement project will help you deal with uncertain financial environment.
Marketing Redesigning Websites Under Budget Constraints
The marketing team's knowledge of your audience's current and future needs will drive the success of your website changes.
Redesigning Websites Under Budget Constraints Technology
Getting your technology team involved early can you save you time and money during a website redesign.
Sitefinity Strategy
There is a lot of machine learning technology out that can predict what people want, even before they know. When it comes to your organization’s website, it’s important to know and understand your users and their needs, so you can do this organically.
Content Management Sitefinity
If you use Sitefinity CMS, be sure to check out the Form Builder feature. Configuring forms and capturing information from you website visitors has never been easier and more streamlined.
Sitefinity Tech Support
Integrations with external systems will create a seamless user experience on your website.
Cyber Security
Most people are aware that there are malicious hackers on the internet. An increasingly common type of attack, called a DOS attack, targets websites and brings down entire servers. What do you need to know about DOS attacks?
Development Sitefinity
Some of the most useful tools in Bootstrap are the spacing classes - let's take a look...
Marketing Use Video & Search to Quickly Improve Your Website
Leadership Use Video & Search to Quickly Improve Your Website
Sitefinity
Sitefinity's out-of-the-box form feature capabilities have improved drastically in the most recent version. Learn how to utilize these form capabilities for a seamless and tailored user experience.
Content Management Sitefinity
Customizing different experiences for different users of a website is called personalization. Learn how to customize the information that displays for each user based on targeted demographics.
Development Sitefinity
If you are a backend user of Sitefinity, check out these helpful HTML hacks when working within a content block.
Association Website Relevancy Post-Covid Leadership
Association Website Relevancy Post-Covid Marketing
Association Website Relevancy Post-Covid Technology
Content Management Strategy
The navigation on your website helps guide your users to the desired content. Aside from the main navigation, it is important to pay attention to what you put in the side navigation as well.
Content Management Development Sitefinity Strategy Tech Support
When beginning a web development project or task, there are four main stages of development. Each stage has a significance.
Cyber Security Tech Support
The internet is a powerful tool, however, it can sometimes be dangerous if you aren't careful with your personal information. Protect yourself and your loved ones from phishing attempts.
Content Management Design
It is Vanguard's rule of thumb to have a "formatting" page, where all the CSS classes are easily laid out for the back end user to access easily.
Sitefinity Tech Support
Vanguard uses a ticketing system called Zendesk to offer our clients support. Here are some helpful tips for clients when contacting our support team
Content Management Strategy
If you are in the midst of a website redesign or looking to restructure the navigation of your site for a better user experience, here are three questions to ask yourself while creating a sitemap.
Sitefinity Tech Support
Since all you see on your news feed is COVID-19 related content, Vanguard wants to share some news about what is going on in the web development industry, what we can look forward to this year, and how these new advancements can improve your site.
Strategy Tech Support
Due to safety precautions in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are now working from home. Learn the best ways to ensure your team's workflow remains efficient and productive.
Content Management Tech Support
Is your website loading slowly? You may be missing out on potential revenue. Here are three tips on how to decrease website load time.
Content Management Sitefinity
What does your website and ogres have in common? Website are like Ogres, Ogres are like onions, onions have layers.
Content Management Sitefinity
If you use Sitefinity CMS to manage and create content for your organization's website, these helpful tips will come in handy!
Content Management Sitefinity
Like any software or devices, regularly upgrading your CMS comes with protection, bug fixes and new feature benefits
Cyber Security Tech Support
Web farming improves user experience by distributing hosting through the use of a load balancer. Not only does web farming prevent site downtime due to excessive web traffic, but also increases security.
Cyber Security
Let’s Encrypt recently announced that they planned to revoke about three million SSL certificates due to potential security risks.
Content Management
If you have ever worked with a web page, you know that header tags are a great way to organize the page into sections. There are many other beneficial reasons to use header tags, and it's important to know how to use them correctly.
Design Development Sitefinity
Bootstrap is the number one framework developers utilize due to its mobile compatibility capabilities. Recognizing the exponential use of mobile devices among users, the CMS Sitefinity has integrated Bootstrap into its newer versions.
Development
In honor of Valentine's Day, enjoy this poem that all web developers can relate to.
Marketing
Your website should have content specifically for members. How can your organization benefit from restricting some content for members only?
Development Strategy
Heatmap reports track user interaction within a website based on mouse-cursor clicks. Find out what heatmap reports can do to help your organization best tailor website content for your target audience.
Development Tech Support
What is a Single Sign On and how does it work? Learn about the benefits of using an SSO.
Content Management Strategy
When writing copy to display on your website, it is important to consider these questions to ensure you are getting the most out of your web copy.
Sitefinity
What a great year 2019 has been! See some of our favorite projects launched this year.
Cyber Security
How secure is your website? Learn what's out there to protect you and your users.
Content Management Sitefinity Strategy
Migrating content from your old website to your new one can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be! The more preparation, the easier the move.
Content Management Sitefinity Tech Support
When is the right time to upgrade your software? Work with your web developer to determine whether an upgrade or a patch is right for you.
Content Management Sitefinity
The ability to customize and change the function and structure of content types is a game changer for content management.
Sitefinity
If you use Sitefinity as a CMS, you should be taking advantage of all of its features, including some you may not know about!
Content Management Strategy
How do Scope & Depth give us a better framework for how we should design content?
Content Management Marketing
Businesses that blog about their industry will see a 126% increase in lead generation, if done successfully as part of their content marketing strategy.
Content Management
The term "Machine Learning" is thrown around a lot but do you know what it means or how it came about? How can machine learning benefit your users?
Content Management Sitefinity
Within Sitefinity, Vanguard has the ability to create custom content modules to better sort and display content. What are the benefits of using content modules?
Content Management Development Sitefinity
How searchable is your website's content? Customizing the internal search tool on your website ensures you are delivering the most relevant content to your visitors.
Sitefinity Tech Support
Design Strategy
When styling a website, where do you draw the line between implementing commonly used elements that have been proven to work and unique elements that push limits and stand out?
Strategy Tech Support
It is crucial for Internet users to have a basic understanding of how the Internet works in order to troubleshoot issues that may come up while surfing the Web. It is also important...

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