Hosting Migration: Hughes Precision

Hughes Precision is a small Michigan based company specializing in custom manufactured gun parts such as barrel thread protectors, thread adapters, muzzlebrakes, bolt knobs, etc. They had an established website but they also had a problem: the website was down for extended periods, the website was not very responsive when it was available, their web […]

Website Redesign: iN Style Kitchen & Bath

iN Style Kitchen & Bath is an up and coming kitchen and bath renovation company in the Columbus, IN area. Their roots are in home construction (Benchmark Construction) but their kitchen and bath renovation business has seen significant growth and is now their main business line. With an early focus on business growth, the website […]

When Your Theme or Plugin “Dies”

There are many reasons that your WordPress theme or plugin might cease to be actively developed, maintained, or supported. In my case, the developer of the theme I used for this website (Atelier) apparently passed away a while ago. How Do You Know Your Theme or Plugin is no Longer Supported? Often your only signal […]

Search Engine Optimization

I frequently get asked by clients about “search engine optimization” and whether I can help them with that. The answer is “yes” and “no”. Where your website appears on search engines like Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc. is obviously important to your business. It is only natural for a business owner to want his/her website to […]

Website Redesign: Premier Arms

Firearms retailers have an increasingly difficult time leveraging social media to advertise their businesses. Companies such as Facebook have dramatically curtailed the type of content they will allow on their platform, even content that is perfectly legal in the locale of the actual business. Companies in this situation need to take back control of their […]

Fluid Air Engineering

Fluid Air Engineering had a simple request of Cardinal Acres Web Development: create a straight-forward website for their industrial HVAC manufacturers representative business in Central Indiana. Nothing fancy. This was the ideal scenario for a one-page website. Provide concise information in a simple and easy-to-navigate website. Cardinal Acres Web Development leveraged the Design Mode theme […]

Website Redesign: NARI Central Indiana

Cardinal Acres Web Development recently took over administration of the NARI Central Indiana website. After a short time it became abundantly clear that the existing website wasn’t very well designed. The overall organization of the website was just this side of inscrutable (several navigation menu items pertaining to “membership” weren’t helping) and the user account section […]

Hosting Migration: Kara Kavensky

Kara Kavensky is a public relations, strategic consulting, and storytelling professional whose website was hosted by a company that no longer fit her needs or budget. Cardinal Acres Web Development migrated her WordPress-based site to KnownHost in less than a week to meet a deadline. In the process, Cardinal Acres Web Development also removed unnecessary […]