Like a wonderland full of rainbows, WordPress has a boundless collection of plug-ins (extensions) you can install to make your website do just about anything. But like the real world, there is a time when you can have too much of a good thing. We just found one of those moments: too many extensions. Here’s […]
5 Steps to Data Visualization
Data is a powerful tool for influencing decisions. If you sell technical solutions, there’s a good chance that you use data to make your points. Readers will make the effort to understand complicated information if it is attractive and welcoming. You may also know that one problem which most readers encounter is that bar charts […]
Live Arts Website Overhaul
Live Arts is one dynamic theater. A dozen staff, two dozen productions, hundreds of volunteers, thousands of patrons and friends… there are a lot of moving parts. The requirements for their custom website included the ability for numerous people to easily add information to the website, streamline their office workflow, allow staff and volunteers to […]
Flux Report: Ford E-250
Last November we compared alt fuel types against each other to show their costs and emissions per mile with data collected from the DOE, Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center. This year, we decided to get more specific and compare the same alt fuels using the Ford E-250 as a model. If you have […]
How to use design and function to improve your real estate website
Websites come in all shapes and sizes. Everyday, there is some new technology to explore or widget to add. Fortunately, you don’t need to engage with all of it to see results in your marketing. If you get the basics right, you’ll have a functional website that helps you score business without being left in […]
How to measure and analyze the performance of your real estate website
The first tip in a four part series entitled Improving your Real Estate Website So many tools, so little time. If you’re actively marketing real estate listings in this digital age, chances are that you have more information about your promotion efforts than you know what to do with. For today, we’re going to focus […]
3 Steps to Distinguish Yourself as a Realtor
Previously, we talked about strategies to improve your real estate web presence. Here are some tips for realtors looking to take their brand to the next level. Realtors operate in a crowded industry. To thrive and improve it is important to distinguish yourself as a realtor. A common approach is to focus on a subset […]
Life in the Times of Big Data
There was a time when we were thirsty for data. Now we are drowning in it. Business models were built around the scarcity of data and the inconvenience of gathering all of the information oneself. As a provider of information, the challenges you have now are how to communicate your message clearly and how to […]
5 Practical Tips for Software Design
By now, you’ve experienced the wonder of web-based software. Virtually everyone in the modern world uses it when they get online. A few examples include online banking, maps, web-based email, photo-sharing sites and Facebook. Web-based software does just about anything you can imagine with data. For the most part, well-designed software doesn’t make you aware […]
The Flux Report is featured in the BioFuels Journal
“If you’ve noticed an overabundance of information about green technologies lately, you are not alone. If you’re like most people, you don’t have time to sift through all of it to get to the one kernel of wisdom hiding among the multitude of emails and blog posts. For this reason, Virginia Clean Cities and Birch […]
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