Chris A. Hughes

August 15, 2015
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Drive Traffic with a Blog?

  Having high quality content on your site is crucial to increasing in the Google rankings, driving traffic, creating leads and increasing sales. Recent patterns have demonstrated that blogging with original content is the best way to make a name...
August 14, 2015
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25 Creative Business Card Designs

Despite our increasing need to digitally make business connections, clients still crave tangible connections. And, while it’s true that you can reach more customers in real time electronically, a creative business card is still a very cost effective way to leave a...
August 7, 2015
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Hero Image in 2015

Why Is The Hero Image So Important in 2015? The hero image is the first thing your potential customers see when they enter your site. It is your first impression, so it better be a good one. It’s a fact...
August 3, 2015
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Toronto Web Design

Chris Hughes is a self-professed nerd. He employs 15 more nerds at his Toronto web design store and head office. Despite the “nerd” moniker, everything Chris does seems motivated by art, not technology. He refers to his staff as artists, and...
July 23, 2015
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Wheat Paste Posters

Itching to make your own guerilla street art or shameless business promotion in an alley, on the side of buildings, highway overpasses and abandoned billboards? The beauty of wheat paste is that you don’t need an expensive canvas or frame to display...
July 21, 2015

All in One SEO Plugin

When it comes to optimizing your website – there is one WordPress plugin that takes all the glory, and it’s the All In One SEO Pack. 1. Simple installation  It quickly and easily works as soon as you download it –...
July 14, 2015

Rank on Google in 2015

1. Content is King Once upon a time, if you wanted to use Search Engine Optimization to increase your Google rankings, you simply crammed your site with as many keywords as possible. Some less scrupulous web designers in Toronto crammed...
July 12, 2015
User Experience UX Design

What is UX Design?

User experience design (UXD or UED) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction on your website by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product. User experience design encompasses traditional human–computer interaction...
July 7, 2015
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Arnold goes Guerilla

To promote the new Terminator Movie and support after school all-stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to prank some people in Hollywood. He got his makeup done to look like a wax sculpture and set up shop in Madame Tussauds wax museum....
June 26, 2015

Bloopers & Outtakes

Nerds have many skills, but public speaking isn’t one of them. We filmed individual profiles of everyone at A Nerd’s World (found here) to give our clients a better understanding of who we are. However, as we were filming, we...
April 21, 2015

Website Mobile Friendly?

Yes, We passed our Google Mobile Friendly Test. Did you pass yours? Google is making changes to the machinery of its mobile searches that will reward websites deemed mobile-friendly and penalize those that are not. As of Tuesday, Google is...
April 20, 2015

DHL is Faster

When it comes to marketing, sometimes we need to loosen our ties and get a little crazy. We’re not talking about swinging from the chandeliers or anything like that, however, sometimes being a traditional marketer just isn’t enough. There comes...