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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

msalvatierra

<a href="https://www.duda.co/">Duda</a> is a comprehensive digital platform for agencies that promises to do more than just help them build professional-looking websites.
Unlike blogging platforms, content management systems, and other cloud-based site builders, <a href="/duda-website-builder">Duda</a> focuses on technology that encompasses brand-building, client management, and team collaboration for businesses and digital agencies.
To help determine if the platform is right for you, here’s a closer look at some of the key features of <a href="/duda-website-builder">Duda</a>:
<h2>1. Custom Branding for Back-End Tools</h2>
When building a website for your client, Duda can help you incorporate custom branding elements to your back end’s admin interface.
Doing so is also essential if you want to package and resell the Duda platform as your own system. It can also help foster brand loyalty — assuming that you provide clients with a satisfactory user experience.
In some cases, white labeling gives web design agencies the option to insert visual elements that assist inexperienced users through notes and contact details.
Some of the elements you can modify include the logo, text colors, buttons, and background images.
You can also use HTML and CSS for more advanced customizations.
To access Duda’s custom branding features, simply navigate to the “White Label” tab and select “Custom Branding.”
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Here, you can use the visual editor to customize different areas of the website builder’s interface, such as the login screen, main dashboard, and website preview.
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<h2>2. Client Communications</h2>
As a website design agency, it’s your duty to educate and inform clients with regards to project benchmarks and division of labor. If it’s your goal to enable clients to manage their own website once it launches, Duda’s powerful collaboration, communication and role governance tools can make it happen.
You can start by configuring the default sender and signature for client emails in the “Communications” section under the “White Label” tab.
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Take note that these settings apply to the “welcome” email that informs clients that their site is up and running. This email also prompts them that the website is now ready for their content submissions.
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In addition to the welcome email, you can also schedule a “Statistics Digest” that automatically sends performance reports to clients. You can also <a href="https://www.duda.co/developers/rest-api/pull-analytics">manually pull site statistics</a> with the Duda API found using the link: https://api.duda.co/api/analytics/site/(site_name). 
<h2><a name="_8mnxv3qo3vob"></a> 3. Smart Asset Collection</h2>
Appropriating existing assets from clients can be a tedious task. But with Duda, the process can be expedited with a “Content Collection Form,” which makes it effortless for clients to submit images, files, and important business details.
To view the link to your form, launch the Duda Site Editor, select “Content” from the left menu, and then click “Collect from client.”
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You can then preview your Content Collection Form by copying the URL and pasting it into your browser.
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If, however, you’re trying to import assets from another website, you can use the “Import Content” to automatically scrape them into your database. All you need to do is enter the website or Facebook page URL and click “Import.”
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With these asset collection features, you can significantly reduce the build time of websites, allowing you to take on more work, grow your business, and maximize your revenue.
<h2>4. Website Admin Roles and Permissions</h2>
When it comes to account permissions for clients and team members, Duda lets you manage both in one place.
It may seem like they’re two different sections, but the “Team Permissions” and “Client Management” tabs will direct you to the “Users &amp; Permissions” page. Here, you can view specific access privileges granted to all user groups.
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Some of the permissions include creating pages, publishing blog posts, managing other team members, editing the website’s HTML/CSS, and purchasing images. If you want to create a new user group with a unique set of permissions, click “Add Custom Group” and then select all the access privileges you want to apply.
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<h2>5. Resell Your Branded Duda Portal</h2>
For web design agencies, Duda is more than capable to help you build a resellable website platform.
Using white label customization, permissions management, and the Duda API, you can empower other customers to use Duda’s features with the experience you’ve tailored for them.
The traditional approach is via a DIY onboarding flow. This requires your Duda API key, password, and workable knowledge with REST API.
For the first two requirements, you can obtain them by going to the “White Label” tab and clicking “API Access.” You then have to issue a request to obtain access to the Duda API, which is normally processed within 72 hours.
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<h2>6. Integrated Widget Builder</h2>
To help clients and team members build faster through your Duda portal, you can take advantage of the powerful Widget Builder to design custom interactive experiences for site users. You can build a FAQ accordion, interactive calendars, a sidebar Facebook Messenger integration, and more.
The Duda widget builder offers a drag-and-drop interface that can help you manage your widget codes as well as directly modify the output and input elements.
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Of course, experience with JavaScript, CSS, and some HTML is important if you want custom widgets to run properly and safely in the Duda platform.
But because all widgets are built within Duda, you know that they won’t break your site or cause any conflicts with each other, like plugins and apps are known to do on other platforms. And once you’ve got a set of widgets that you like for one client, it’s easy to duplicate and customize them for subsequent projects.
You can refer to <a href="https://www.duda.co/developers/widget-builder/getting-started">this documentation</a> for more information on how to start with the Duda Widget Builder.
<h2>7. Modular Site “Sections”</h2>
Finally, Duda provides modular content sections that serve as the building blocks of your website.
These dynamic sections can be added anywhere on your website and can contain anything from testimonials, text blocks, logos, and various other content types that make sense for the current page.
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Duda also allows you to easily create new sections using the page builder, which lets you mix together elements like text, images, columns, and more.
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You can also compile a “Team Sections” library, where you can assign them to various team members, be it a designer or widget developer. These sections can then be easily added to different web pages, allowing you to save a great deal of time with new builds.
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Lastly, sections can be duplicated if you need to tailor multiple versions for different website projects. You don’t have to start over from scratch if you want variations with the same template.
<h2>Verdict</h2>
Overall, Duda proves to be a platform that’s worth any web design agency’s time and money.
Not only is it jam-packed with tools that agencies can use to skyrocket their growth, but it even has branding and automation features to it that other platforms do not have.
The best part is, Duda comes with a free trial version that you can use to get a first-hand look at all the features outlined above. It may not be for everyone, but since anyone can take it out for a spin at zero cost, it’s definitely a platform worth looking into.

Duda Review: A Powerful Platform for Web Design Agencies

mike-johnston

Is screen tearing while using Nvidia drivers in Linux driving you nuts? Do you have an Optimus laptop? I believe we may have a solution for you!
I experienced this issue for quite some time before finally finding a fix. This would happen in Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu and similar distributions where Prime was used as a method to switch between Nvidia and Intel drivers.
Typically on the Intel side of things, everything was fine but as soon as I switched to using my Nvidia driver, all hell would break loose. That was, until I found this solution buried in the Ubuntu forums.
In terminal –
<pre>sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/zz-nvidia-modeset.conf</pre>
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<div>Now, you're going to add a line such as the one below, replacing 384 with whichever driver version you are using, Add this line, adjust 375 if using newer driver, ex. 381 or 384 ect.</div>
<pre>options nvidia_375_drm modeset=1</pre>
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Updated for Ubuntu 18.04: I took me a while to find this but if you are using Ubuntu 18.04 or any of it's derivatives and finding the above does not work, it's because prime synchronization does not require the driver number. The proper command should be:
<pre>options nvidia_drm modeset=1</pre>
Save and exit nano
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<pre>sudo update-initramfs -u</pre>
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Reboot and keep your fingers crossed. If all goes well, things should be fixed.
Update for Solus users:
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<div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr">Go to /usr/lib/modprobe.d and make a file called zz-nvidia-modeset.conf. You then put the following code within it:</div>
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<pre>options nvidia_drm modeset=1</pre>
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<pre>clr-boot-manager update</pre>
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Let me know if this works for you or if you have another workaround that has been successful.

Stop Screen Tearing with Optimus Laptops using Nvidia Drivers in Linux (Including Ubuntu 18.04 and Solus)

The cornerstones of any successful CMS are innovation, artistry, and versatility. Wix.com is one of the most popular content marketing platforms in the market right now thanks to its ability to adapt the best attributes of its competitors and improve upon them. Let's take a look at this website builder in my Wix Review.
The online app uses smart <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/algorithm">algorithms</a> to help you find the ideal look for your website, customizing it for your marketing, blogging, and retailing needs, or simply to add exposure to your company.
With Wix, small businesses, online stores, restaurants and artists of all website-design levels are able to create a site with a logical and intuitive user interface that will attract the attention of consumers, while also keeping SEO considerations in mind. The look of a site is essential to its success and Wix realizes this, offering a variety of layers, backgrounds, fonts and colors to help suit your needs.
Plus, it’s affordable and easy to use, requiring no HTML or Java knowledge as the CMS walks you through the process of creating your site. Here’s how you can get the ball rolling with Wix.
<h2>Getting Started with our Wix Review 
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The first thing the CMS asks you is whether you want to create a website for yourself or someone else, followed by the type of business you’re running. A number of website options are offered to you such as a blog, an online store, music, a portfolio and CV, an events page, a photography site, a restaurants and food locale and more.
Wix then asks for your level of expertise in four categories such as “I’ve built sites professionally, created many websites, built a few websites or never done this before.” For beginners, Wix lets you create your business’ site with custom text and images in minutes by answering a few questions. More advanced website designers can choose Wix Editor to meticulously bring their ideas to life.
There are also six pricing tiers for you to choose from, one of which is free but will include ads on your site and it will not include your domain name. The $5-per-month Connect Domain option connects the site with your domain name, while the $10 option removes ads and has plenty of storage.
The fourth plan is Unlimited, which is a $14 choice for businesses that need up to 10GB of space, while the $17 eCommerce plan is ideal for online retailers. The VIP choice will set you back $25 a month and it includes customer support, ideal for larger stores.
<h3>Customization</h3>
Once you’ve settled on a plan, Wix will ask you a series of questions to determine what functionalities you’d like your site to be equipped with. These include whether you’re looking to add a storefront, take bookings and appointments or get subscribers. You will also have to share the name and address of your business.
You are then introduced to <a href="/how-to-create-a-blog-with-wix-adi-artificial-design-intelligence/">Wix ADI</a>, an AI feature that helps you combine text, images, video and more to create your ideal site. The bot works like a recommendation engine, asking you stylistic and practical questions to determine the look of your site. In under 20 minutes, you can have your website up and running with a variety of sections and a relevant stock photo to beef up your brand.
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However, most of the text and visuals on your site will be generic and written ahead of time for all sites that fit your criteria. Wix ADI walks you through the various sections of your home page, allowing you to fill in the description and subheadings of these.
For example, a thought-leader blog will display a series of links to blog posts for generic websites with these types of articles. You can edit these without a hassle and link them to your own blogs, or write your own from scratch and add them to the site.
At the bottom, a “Contact Us” is also available that allows people to call your business or contact you via email. You can also preview what your site will look like for mobile users as Wix has great capabilities to ensure your platform looks just as good on smart devices.
<h3>Other Features</h3>
Much like other content developers, Wix includes a FAQ section to help you overcome any roadblocks you face during the creation process. The CMS is also available in 16 different languages to satisfy people all around the world, and you can also design multilingual websites.
The platform also includes a number of widgets you can use to your advantage in the Wix App Market. You can add or remove these on your site to improve it as the company has developed more than 80 top-tier apps instead of relying on third-party sites to develop these for them.
The apps include an appointment scheduling feature, an event management tool in Wix Events, a newsletter tool, a Photo Gallery, Video, Wix Music and Wix Restaurants for food vendors. These are all found in the <a href="https://www.websitetooltester.com/out/wix-appmarket">Wix App Market</a>.
With the more advanced plans, you can choose the domain name of your website, as well as whether it ends on a .com, .org, .info., .net or .co.uk. Wix sites are always equipped with SSL encryption to protect your site from breaches.
It is also possible to monetize your ad by adding certain tools such as Google AdSense through the Wix App Market. You can also include banner ads and affiliate links to bulk up your site. Integrating Google Analytics is easy as well, offering you a variety of metrics on your site such as the number of unique visitors, total visitors, SEO prowess and more.
Overall, Wix has a lot to offer SEO-wise, such as the ability to edit page titles, alt tags on images and meta descriptions. More advanced tools are also available such as metrics that monitor how visible your various sites, text and images will be based on keyword density, readability and whether or not you need to add visuals to a page. The site has an <a href="https://www.websitetooltester.com/out/wix-seo-optimization">SEO tutorial page</a> that is ideal for those looking to learn more about the subject.
The app also includes pages where you can add the option of subscribers adding passwords through its membership website. This option allows you to choose whether or not users get added immediately to your site (which is ideal for newsletters or blogs), or whether they have to wait to receive approval.
Wix’s e-commerce pages are very well designed if you buy the $17 plan, offering you tracking details on physical goods that are sold, while also letting you sell digital goods. You can also see how many items you have in stock with the tool.
The Wix mobile app allows you to publish blogs and newsletters on the blog. Plus, the app includes a forum that lets visitors leave comments and like your posts.
Pros
Wix has a lot going for it–it’s evolved quite a bit since the days of being a flash-based site with limited options to a full-fledged CMS that can be tailored to professionals in a wide array of industries.
Perhaps the most attractive element of Wix is how visual stunning its templates are. The company has done extensive research on what sells in the restaurant world, as well as what layout an e-commerce retailer would need or what a content marketing blog needs to look like. And they are all a step above the competition. You can even add a touch of artistry with GIFs or animated text.
The aforementioned AI bot Wix ADI has quite a bit to offer, although it’s not perfect. The app can help you with a number of projects such as artist portfolio, creating a payment system for e-commerce, create a contact form, connect your social media and a few more things. Wix ADI is still a work in process but the company is off to a good start in its incorporation of AI into smart website design.
Wix also excels in backing up your saved data at any given point to make sure that you don’t lose any progress made in case your Internet goes down, your computer dies or you accidentally leave the CMS. The app includes a tool called Site History that also allows you to return to any previous version of your site.
Cons
Some of the negatives of Wix include the fact that, while the CMS has plenty of SEO tools, it’s still not as the level of the likes of WordPress. The company has made great strides in getting to this point, marking a considerable improvement from where it used to be, but it’s not quite there.
Also, the Wix membership feature is very effective for a number of its sites, but it has yet to be integrated with the company’s e-commerce page, which is something Wix is likely to roll out in the near future.
The app also lacks a chatbot support system on your website’s support page, despite the fact that it has a FAQ, email, and telephone information on the “Contact Us” page. Other CMS developers have started working on chatbots, so Wix has a long way to go on this arena still.
Another negative of Wix is the fact that its cheapest domain-name plan is $10, which is $2.50 more than the cheapest Jimdo plan. Also, it’s hard to change your template once you’ve picked it and designed part of your website.

Wix Review - Create Beautiful Websites Quickly & Easily

karl-utermohlen

One of the reasons why I love my job as a freelancer is the fact that I have a CMS that is intuitive, logical and includes a slew of tools that you can add on to enhance your website design and content creation. In the CMS world, WordPress is like an amusement park that already has all the best rides but keeps on expanding in order to keep content wizards hooked in with new functionalities. And much like a well-oiled machine, the platform is resilient as it is capable of bouncing back from the not-so-frequent crashes that threaten to jeopardize your content.
I started using WordPress six years ago as a blogging platform that already had a leg up over competitors such as Google’s BlogPost. While the latter was essentially an extended version of Microsoft Word online with formatting and cropping tools, WordPress was more like a combination of Word and Excel. The CMS mimics Word in the way that it can create and format written and visual content if you like to keep things simple, but it has Excel’s ability of entering data into a spreadsheet of churning out impressive results that affect your website’s visual content in the form of GIFs, graphs, layers, charts and videos.
WordPress is known for its SEO capabilities, offering users the chance to create a title, an SEO title, a meta description, a slug, an excerpt, category checkboxes, stock tickers, tags, keywords, alt texts on images and a variety of other tools that help your website gain visibility. The platform also links up with Google Analytics to measure the success rate of your content based on its readability, visual appeal and SEO prowess. If something about your content is off, the CMS tells you what you need to do to improve the quality and visibility of your online content.
A key advantage that WordPress has over its competitors is that it has open code access. Website developers can take advantage of this functionality as it allows them to customize their toolbox or develop new features as they see fit. Having open code access makes the CMS very flexible, drawing in more than 80 million websites, including e-commerce, business, membership and forum sites. The fact that WordPress is so popular makes it easy to find a solid developer anywhere in the world who is familiar with the CMS’ ins and outs.
Plus, WordPress has no shortage of open-source plugins that are already available, allowing content developers to use their coding prowess to create new tools, themes and functionalities. The CMS’ plugins library is massive as it includes a product management tool, a payment services platform, membership access capabilities, stock information in real time, recommendation engines for retail sites and more.
Every great CMS needs to combine functionality with likeability, and WordPress excels in this fact as it has a user-friendly interface in addition to its ever-growing toolbox. Creating content is simple as you can enter content in one of two areas: the “visual” tab or the “text” tab. The visual one will show you what your content will look like, while the text tab has all the code behind the text, formatting and visual aids you are adding to your piece. Less experienced content developers can stick to the simplified visual region, while experienced coders can embed YouTube videos and include side content on the text region with their HTML knowledge.
The CMS also makes it easy to manage content as when you exit a particular piece, you can go back to an overview of all the content you’ve created, as well as the content that your freelancers have created (if you’re the manager or editor). You will be able to see each post as its own section, with the title, author, tags, category, last modified date and other pieces of data about the piece. Plus, you can filter posts and search them based on keywords or phrases.
All in all, <a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> is one of the most complete CMS out there if not the most complete, making content creation and content management an easy and convenient experience. Additionally, it’s wide array of SEO and visual tools can enhance the visibility and appeal of your website without any advanced coding techniques. You won’t know how great it is until you try it out and get a feel for it, and I highly recommend you do so as I’ve never enjoyed content creation more than I do now.

Why WordPress Has All the Tools You Need Out of a CMS

A new version of 3dcart is available for store owners and it includes quite a few sexy updates for those of you using (or considering using) the platform.
To start off with, they've introduced Google Pay which allows your customers to use their Google Wallet for transactions either from the desktop or via their Android Phone. This is another great way that 3dcart is making the overall purchasing experience easy for customers.
3dcart also now supports 3-D Secure 2.0 through our integration with Cardinal Commerce, which includes Verified by Visa, Mastercard SecureCode, American Express SafeKey and Discover ProtectBuy.
Another great addition is the ability for customers without PayPal accounts to use the PayPal Express, which allows them to check out as guests without an existing PayPal account.
Furthermore, for those who have stores that wish to integrate a loan solution, Affirm has also been integrated for orders over $50 which means customers can pay in installments but store owners are paid in full immediately.
Check the release announcement over at <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/3dcart">3dcart</a> for more information on this release.

3dcart Version 8.1 Released - Brings Google Pay, Drip, and Square POS

Postach.io is a blogging platform with a difference. The whole premise of Postach.io is to negate the need for users to use a separate blogging tool, and it works with the note management system – <a href="https://evernote.com/">Evernote</a> – to achieve this. Postach.io turns Evernote into a content management system, which allows users to sync notes directly to their Postach.io blog. My inside scoop on Postachio.io will show you how it works and to help you decide whether it could work for you. Read on for the full review.
<h2>Signing Up</h2>
To sign up to Postach.io, you’ll need to select your Postach.io domain name, and insert your full name, email address, and password. If you don’t have Evernote, you will also need to set up an Evernote account. 
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Once you have your Evernote account set up, you’ll be asked to log in and write a test post which you’ll tag with ‘published’. This post will then automatically sync with Postach.io.
<h2>Usability</h2>
Once you’ve signed up, you can access your blog in two ways. You can log in via Evernote to write blog posts or log in to Postach.io to manage the blog. This sounds a little awkward, but it’s actually fine because you’ll likely be using Evernote most of the time anyway. 
There are two main menus on Postach.io which are easily found. The first one is displayed when you log in, on the right hand side of the page. This menu offers navigation to the Sites, Account, and Help sections.
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The Sites section allows you to manage your websites, the Help section offers some useful FAQs and the Accounts section allows you to control your billing. Evernote is a freemium service so you can only manage 1 account on the free option. If you need to add more than this, you’ll have to upgrade to a premium account. The pricing is quite reasonable and starts at $5 a month for 5 websites – with a 2 months free option if you sign up for a year. This package gets you your own domain, password protection, premium themes, source code access, and priority support. However, if you’re a premium Evernote user then you should be taking that cost into account too.
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The second menu on Postach.io will take you to a menu for managing Details, Themes, Add-ons, and Source Code. To view this menu simply click on the edit button on the Sites section and you’ll automatically be directed to the Details page, where you can select a customer domain, change your Evernote notebook title or author, add social links, and other extras such as adding a cover photo and bio.
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<h2>Add-ons</h2>
There are now 5 add-ons available which is a big improvement from the 2 available when they first launched. These include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Disqus, and Google Analytics. For some reason, Postach.io developers decided that you have to actively add Disqus to allow comments on your blog. It seems odd to me that this isn’t the default setting, but it’s simple to add it in this tab. 
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<h2>Themes</h2>
The themes available are all professional looking and quite sleek, but if you’re particular about your website design then you might not be too happy because there are only 15 to choose from, however you can customize these if you upgrade to a premium account. 
What you may not have known – if it weren’t for this blog post – is that you can also upload your own theme via <a href="https://github.com/postachio">GitHub</a>. So, that solves that issue. Or, if you’re of the tech savvy variety, then the Source Code section will allow you to customize your site to look exactly how you want it.
<h2>So, what’s the scoop?</h2>
If you’re already a regular Evernote user, then I highly recommend trying out Postach.io. It’s a great extension of Evernote and it’ll really streamline your content management process. However, I think it might feel like unnecessary hassle for anyone who isn’t already using Evernote on a daily basis. There are tons of blogging platforms out there, and it’s important to choose one that fits in well with your current content management process. 
To sum it up, this is a great platform for Evernote users and anyone thinking about adding Evernote to their workflow. If you love Evernote, you’ll love Postach.io.
Are you thinking about trying Postach.io, or have you already signed up? We’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.

Postachio Review

Best Video Experience

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Brands and their local retailers are moving to digital faster than ever. Weekly promotions, coupons via print offers are being supplemented by digital postcards (landing pages). There is an immediate savings from the hard cost of print and when paired with changing consumer behavior mobile and online shoppers – digital marketers know where to put their brands money. In order to drive additional traffic to their core websites, brands are building promotional <a href="https://rallymind.com/blog/how-to-scale-landing-pages-effectively/">local landing pages</a> to deliver offers. Using localized landing pages, brands are capturing more in-depth information about their local consumers, determining what promotional messages are most effective and gathering key demographic and redemption information to further segment their audiences for future promotions. Why Online Coupons and Offers? According to <a href="https://www.inmar.com/press-release/2017-marks-the-demise-of-print-at-home-coupons-as-digital-redemption-climbs-67-percent/">Inmar</a>, while digital coupons and offers only represent approximately 12 percent of all coupons redeemed, they regularly convert at higher levels between 5 and 20 percent compared to .4 percent for print coupons. In fact, <a href="https://retail.emarketer.com/article/emarketer-forecast-us-consumers-slow-let-go-of-paper-coupons/58fa7500ebd4000a54864b2a">eMarketer reports</a>, “52 percent of adults used a digital coupon in 2017.” Using online targeting and corresponding loyalty program information, retailers are able to better deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. Utilizing a landing page allows brands to more accurately target their local audience and deliver more actionable information on a landing page. Major brands, using landing pages to market weekly promotions and offers, also find they are able to localize offers and experiment by region or market to test which campaigns perform the best. So where are consumers actively looking for offers and promotions? A recent <a href="http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2015/digitally-disrupting-the-habitual-shopping-routine.html">Neilson study</a> shows, “50 percent of digital coupons and offers are found on brand sites and apps.” With significant investments in core websites and location pages, brands and their local retailers are more determined to drive additional traffic to engage customers and increase revenue. The Mobile Shopper The mobile phone has had a significant impact on the way people shop. Whether shopping online or in a store, shoppers are using their phones to look up competitive pricing, search for coupons or offers or seek additional information like reviews or more in-depth product features before making a purchase. A <a href="https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2016/05/10/72-shoppers-research-smartphones-buying/">Nielson report</a> finds that “60% of shoppers use their smartphone to find a product first.” Using websites and promotional landing pages, specific to promotions, allows brands to influence shoppers who may not have any particular product in mind. Mobile shoppers in particular can be influenced prior to shopping when they have the ability to send promotional codes or coupons to their phones. Neilson also found that “59 percent of pre-shopping activity was focused on finding sales and coupons.” Using printed ads and email marketing containing specialized mobile-friendly promotional landing pages allows marketers to further increase the success of their campaigns. 

Using Landing Pages to Drive Traffic and Brand Awareness Locally Promotional landing pages are a “creative canvas” allowing brands to inform consumers about the unique benefit the product(s) fulfills. Great page design and visually appealing photos and video conveys the brand benefit in an engaging way while offering incentives to purchase such as a coupon, promotional code, product detail or signing up for future offers and incentives. The key to successfully using promotional landing pages is the ease of designing and publishing promotional landing pages to a single site or multiple local sites. The RallyMind platform has found that brands with 40 or more local or <a href="https://rallymind.com/brand-to-local/">regional landing pages</a> receive 12 times more leads. Nearly every action taken by visitors to the landing page(s) is tracked and made available via API access, allowing marketing teams to make key decisions on campaign direction and advertising channels. Also, <a href="https://rallymind.com/">RallyMind</a> has made it easy to deploy landing pages with a simple spreadsheet thats integrates A/B testing, giving brands even more data to track and drive sales and marketing decisions.

Landing Pages Are The New Print

Last month, Adobe announced its decision to discontinue the popular website building app Muse. This decision has upset thousands of creatives all over the world and an onset of social media outcry has ensued, with a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/adobe-systems-adobe-do-not-discontinue-muse">petition</a> to reverse the decision.
Adobe is trying to migrate Muse users over to Dreamweaver in the short to medium term, but this move won’t be appreciated by its core users for a number of reasons. For many long-standing Muse users, Dreamweaver just doesn’t stand up to the task of replacing their favorite app and they’re pretty cheesed off at the implication. Well, they’re cheesed off in general. So let’s examine why.
While the news of Adobe’s decision was an unpleasant notification, it came as no surprise to veteran Adobe product users. The impending discontinuation of Muse is the latest in a line of web app obsoletion following the demise of the incredibly popular Macromedia acquisition GoLive in <a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/1133181/golivedead.html">2008</a>. The Muse discontinuation seems to be a hard turn away from WYSIWYG web development, which mirrors what happened with Adobe GoLive when it went the same way.
Muse had initially attracted a lot of users on the back of its simplicity of use as an “InDesign for web development”. When it was initially launched in 2012, Muse was marketed as a program that would allow users to create bespoke, adaptive websites (it added responsive elements in 2015), without having to write a single line of code. Muse later allowed third party plugins to add blogging and eCommerce functionality. The WYSIWYG functionality of Muse allowed designers and other visual creatives to make a step into web development that would have previously required pretty extensive coding knowledge at the very least. This was Adobe’s in-house answer to the DIY website market that demanded ease of use, ease of design, and seamless transition from construction to page. In this regard, it was incredibly successful.
Muse allowed design specialists to bring their designs to life online without the need for specific web development skills and the interface. This was much more intuitive to Muse users than learning how to code in the traditional way. When third party plugins brought blog functionality, eCommerce, animation, social media integration, and other items into Muse’s healthy array of templates and multi-platform functionality, it became a vital part of design-focused agencies and SMBs. This discontinuation hurts these businesses immensely as many of them have built their businesses around Muse’s ease of use.
Is this a move by Adobe to consolidate Dreamweaver as the one stop shop for all aspects of design? It’s hard to say. It could be that Adobe is looking down the track at future web standards and deciding that a WYSIWYG heavy app will be too difficult to maintain. Or it could be that they don’t want to isolate the web development part of their business. It wasn’t too long ago that Muse was being <a href="http://www.developerdrive.com/2011/09/will-muse-kill-the-web-development-industry/">touted as a possible industry killer</a> for back-end web development.
Either way, the fallout from Muse’s discontinuation promises to have a profound effect on the front-end, WYSIWYG, website building market.
<h2>The Great Migration</h2>
Adobe’s discontinuation of Muse isn’t a hard deletion of the app and the company has been very vocal about this. Muse will still be accessible to everyone who currently has it in the CC package but it won’t be updated for bug fixes or to stay in line with new web standards from May 20th, 2019. Any sites built using Muse won’t be deleted if they’re hosted on third party servers but any sites hosted on Business Catalyst (which Adobe allowed for free for short periods of time) will have to be re-published to another hosting platform to remain live after March 26, 2020, when Business Catalyst hosting is no longer available.
In reality, this discontinuation will force a lot of people to migrate their sites and businesses away from Muse. It’s much easier to move a site to a platform that offers similar functionality to Muse than it is to learn CSS or HTML to the level required to sell your services professionally.
The first step here will be platform migration. <a href="https://www.devhub.com/platform-migration">DevHub</a> offers a comprehensive package and this is a vital service if you have multiple sites to migrate to a new server or CMS. The end of Muse will see a large volume of potential users leaving the platform to find sites and programs that mirror what Muse used to do. <a href="https://rallymind.com/">RallyMind</a> is a good option due to our WYSIWYG roots and the “centralized control” function which allows you to manage overall design layout and personalize each of your migrated sites landing page using a Google Sheet.
Adobe’s decision-making in the discontinuation of Muse has certainly <a href="https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2470082">provoked anger amongst users</a> and it will be interesting to see what effect this will have on the company’s position at the top of the food chain in the design world.

The End Of Adobe Muse And What It Means For Users

Today, Pixel &amp; Tonic, the team behind Craft CMS is excited to announce the long-awaited release of Craft 3 and the Craft Plugin Store. Craft 3 has been highly anticipated in the Craft Community as the platform has been completely rewritten, redesigned, and refactored for better performance and more out of the box functionality. Craft 3 is more than 3X faster than its predecessor and includes hundreds of new features and improvements notably:
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<li>Multi-Site – Run multiple sister sites from a single Craft install at no extra cost. It's Craft's localization features, only better.</li>
<li>Image Editor – The ability to crop, rotate, flip, and set focal points on all your images directly in the Control Panel.</li>
<li>In-line Asset Preview – Quickly view your photos and assets everywhere in Craft CMS by pressing Shift + Spacebar.</li>
<li>Debug Toolbar – Allows developers to learn everything there is to know about how requests are being processed.</li>
<li>PostgreSQL – Similar to MySQL, but better in every way.</li>
<li>The Craft Plugin Store – Quite possibly the most anticipated feature in Craft 3. The Craft Plugin Store is an online marketplace that allows web developers to purchase Craft plugins directly through the Craft Control Panel. No more having to visit third-party sites to discover, purchase, and download Craft plugins. The Craft Plugin Store also utilizes <a href="https://craftcms.com/news/introducing-craft-id" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Craft ID</a>, an online portal for Craft customers, where they can securely store payment and license information enabling every Craft-related purchase to be made through one secure transaction.</li>
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The addition of these features and upgrades demonstrates Pixel and Tonic's continued commitment to creating a modern content management framework that is enjoyable to use for development professionals and content creators alike. Craft 3 allows developers, designers, and content teams to create bespoke websites that look and function to their speci­fic needs without having to wrestle with the CMS.
Learn more or grab a copy here: https://craftcms.com/

Craft CMS Announces the Release of Craft 3 and the Craft Plugin Store

I've been with Google for quite some time on their G Suite offering but recently, for some silly reason, I thought moving to Microsoft's Office 365 so I could use Outlook would be a good idea. Boy was I wrong. Let me walk you through why.
Many years ago, I, like many people, had a Hotmail account. Sometime around 2008 or 2009 or so (when I launched this site) I managed to add my mike at cmscritic dot com email address to this old personal Microsoft account. Now, this normally wouldn't matter unless I was trying to use that same email for Office365 for Business, which is what I wanted to do. So I decide I'll just remove it from that old account and use it exclusively for my business Office365 account. Should be easy right? Here's where the problems arise.
In my divine wisdom, I decided to switch things over so I now have an Office365 Business account to manage my CMS Critic domain and offer me email services. Now, let me get to why this does not work.
Ok, as mentioned, I now have my email attached to two accounts; a personal Microsoft account and an Office365 account. Following along? It's confusing a bit, I know..
Here's where the problems occur. I haven't used the personal account in years so now any time I try to log in to any Microsoft login link (or use Microsoft to log into any third party website or service) other than office365.com with my CMS Critic email, I get this:
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That picture, btw, is a super old one from when my wife and I first got married. Now, you'd think that going through the verification process would allow me to get in and remove my work email from this account and / or delete the account entirely. Well not so fast.
The recovery process asks a huge number of questions both personal and ridiculous ranging from “Tell us the last few emails you sent, to whom they were sent and their subject lines.”
Who on earth is going to remember this information from years ago on an old account? Not this kid. I can barely remember yesterday let alone 5+ years ago. So of course, the verification process fails and I receive an email telling me so. This is all still not the main issue. In fact, I don't care about recovering my old Hotmail account at all. All I want to do is either log in and remove my work email from it or have someone from Microsoft do it. This should be easy since I can, in fact, prove that I own my CMS Critic email address since I'm the only one with access to it.
So I move past the verification process and think to myself, OK, I'll call Microsoft and explain it to them so I start with the obvious, I call Office365 Business support, whom I am now paying a monthly fee to and whom you'd think would want to keep their business customers happy. After explaining the situation numerous times to the representative, I am told they cannot help me, I need to call Office 365 Personal support.
I think to myself “That's odd since I don't have an Office 365 personal account” but I call anyway and go through the whole explanation process again. Guess what? I'm told they can't help me either and that, since they have absolutely no support for Microsoft accounts (being that they are Microsoft, this makes lots of sense), that I need to write a post on their answers.microsoft.com website with my issue.
Frustrated, I head on over and do so. I write in extreme detail since this is a hard thing to describe. I wait two days, I get a reply back from a “support” person telling me how to remove an account from Outlook. &lt;forehead slap&gt;
Way to read the post guys.
I then head to <a href="https://twitter.com/MicrosoftHelps">@MicrosoftHelps</a> on Twitter and explain the entire process again. I am referred again, in a loop, back to Office 365 support or to call Microsoft Accounts team.
The entire time, I've repeated that I simply want my work email removed from an old personal account. Not a single person has taken the time to find the right person for me or connect me with them or even stay on the line to make sure I am getting a solution. Not once has anyone actually tried to fix it. It's been one brush off after another.
So here I am, back to square one. Nobody can figure it out, nobody can assist and nobody really wants to. Microsoft has proven to me once again why I should continue to not use any of their products.
So back I go to Google for my email needs and I will continue to run Linux until the day I die because frankly, Microsoft simply can't fix anything.

Here's Why I'll Never Use Microsoft Software Again

MODX Revolution 2.6.2 has been released. This new patch release fixes a number of bugs and offers a few enhancements to the system.
Here's a list of the changes in this release:
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<li>Display context name and key in Context dropdown</li>
<li>Only save properties modified from the default for an element in Property Sets</li>
<li>Replace usages of each() to avoid deprecated warnings in PHP 7.2</li>
<li>Prevent adding ./ to filepath when in root of a mediasource</li>
<li>Fix error with getonline processor on systems with only_full_group_by sql_mode</li>
<li>Prevent logging errors for comments or empty tags</li>
<li>Fix typo preventing verbose CURL option from being set in modRest</li>
<li>Prevent http headers from being overwritten in modRest</li>
<li>Fix sending messages to wrong recipients in message/create processor</li>
<li>Stop sending too much data on package install request</li>
<li>Add events permission to Administrator policy on new installs</li>
<li>Remove max width from the tree sidebar</li>
<li>And more.</li>
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For a full list of changes, check out their <a href="https://modx.com/blog/modx-revolution-2.6.2">announcement post.</a>

MODX Revolution 2.6.2 Released

A new version of SocialEngine PHP is now available. If you haven't used it yet to build a powerful social network, you can do so by visiting the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/social-engine">SocialEngine website</a> and signing up.
Fixed in this release:
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<li>Fixed – Issue with SDK and Windows local development for language packs.</li>
<li>Fixed – Added default “everyone” privacy value for “view_privacy” for SocialEngine official plugins where it was missing. This impacted imported sites.</li>
<li>Fixed – Removed 2CO from the admin payment gateway list as social networks are on the 2CO prohibited list. The gateway is still in the files for any experts that may want to work with it.</li>
<li>Fixed – Profile video browse UI as it was cutting off details and username for long titled videos.</li>
<li>Fixed – Issue with hashtags with a “null” value. (This is not a common issue and most would not have it)</li>
<li>Fixed – Added phrase “From %s %s”;”From %s %s” for Recent Messages widget.</li>
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Also, do be aware that this version requires your server have a minimum PHP 5.6.31 or above.

SocialEngine PHP 4.10.3 Released

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A new and interesting-looking game, Ash of Gods: Redemption, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
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Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements and a constantly evolving story.
Rogue-like Storytelling means that every decision you make will need to be pondered carefully as any character, even your main one can die permanently. Even this, however, won't stop the game from progressing.
The game uses a blend of turn based strategy and card RPG where the cards drawn will determine how you progress and the strategies you employ. Everything including the character classes has an impact on your battlefield tactics.
It also features PVP and PVE Multiplayer opportunities for those interested. Unlock new characters and cards, upgrade them to build your own unique strategy and tactics. Create your own clans, join forces with friends and participate in the battles together.
Sound interesting? Check out the trailer below:
<h2>Ash of Gods: Redemption – Trailer</h2>
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You can buy the game from <a href="https://www.gog.com/game/ash_of_gods">GOG.com</a> or Steam.

Ash of Gods: Redemption out now for Linux

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