Raincoat or Sunscreen? Preparing Your Website for AI Search
Better believe there’s no shortage of forecasts about AI website optimization… what’s coming, when’s the blizzard arriving and the drought and the winds and those raining frog phenomena’s. Sadly it’s …
Make Your Site Intelligible to AI Bots by Defining Your Identity
Referees introduced something new at the World Cup this summer. During the USA vs Paraguay match they reversed a foul for “mistaken identity”. At openbox9, we have been reviewing our …
Make Your Site Hospitable to AI Bots by Cleaning Up
The AI bots crawling your website take a virtual tour of every nook and cranny of your house. They see that cabinet stuffed with to-go containers with no matching lids, …
How to Choose a Web Host: Part 2
Everyone has their favorite amenities when they travel. Free parking. Fitness equipment. Pet-friendly. (My favorite hotel offered a fish. You picked up your fish, in its bowl, at check in.) In …
How to Choose a Web Host: Part 1
According to realtors, finding a place to live starts with “location, location, location”. But your website lives on the internet – one big world-wide neighborhood. How picky do you actually …
Jargon Often Heard When Talking to a Developer
Decoding a coder
Comparing Inkling vs. Pressbooks
The battle for the better online publishing tool
Background Videos, More Background Videos
Tips and guidelines for using looping background videos
2016 Website Trends, the Newness
What new(ish) things you’ll hear about this year
7 tips for customizing your WordPress admin
Here at openbox9, we work with several different content management systems to build innovative and relevant websites. One of those is WordPress. If your website runs on WordPress, here are …
A guide to using shortcodes
Shortcode is your next shortcut A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would …
Six Things You Didn’t Know Word Could Do :: Design and Microsoft Word, Part 1
Using the humble Microsoft Word for in-house materials