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Benchmarking is a topic where many people don’t see eye to eye as it is believed to be a bit of a time waster. But in reality, it can benefit your company in many ways including boosted website traffic and sales.  Benchmarking is a process where companies compare both competitors and...

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Are you interested in knowing what your company’s progression rates are?  If so, you need to start taking advantage of Key Performance Indicators which will open your eyes to a whole new way of monitoring your business.  
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User Experience is a vital aspect to any websites, or software build, so it is very important to include
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User interface is a key aspect when developing a website and or app, and is a determining  factor to whether or not your website will be successful.  UI, also known as UX (user experience), is the science of how...

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Communicating data to your target audience can sometimes be an eye-glazing and difficult task to do.  Infographics are used for this very reason as playful, simplified, graphics are used to turn complex concepts into fun and engaging content.  The compelling and attractive nature of...

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Understanding the needs and wants of your target audience is one of the most crucial aspects of a web design project.  In order to grasp the needs...

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PHP Data Objects, also known as a PDO, is a standardized, lightweight, interface used for accessing multiple databases. PDO’s were introduced in PHP 5.1, as a replacement of MySQL or MySQLi extensions, in order to help uniform database connectivity and eliminate the headache of switching...

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Its official, Google’s latest Panda update has hit the search engine world and has started to roll out updates as of May 20th, 2014.  Panda 4.0 is Google’s latest algorithm which has been...

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While some software products reach perfection, Mavericks OS X is an exception.  With its release in October 2013, people are still waiting for bug fixes and much needed improvements to be made to the operating system. Similarly to apple’s iOS 7 release, which fell short to many...

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Making sure your software is ship ready means that it has been thoroughly tested on all levels for all your personas, tested by scrum masters, tested by developers and your internal testers at your own company. We make sure when its your turn to test that all the little things are all ready...

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Solid State Drives (SSD) have been increasingly appearing on cloud servers and are possibly the hard drives of the future. Traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD) have a hard time keeping up processing speeds as they have...

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Having a responsive website is certainly the norm around Red Cherry. We believe that your website should render pixel perfect on any device that it running on a give your personas and awesome user...

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User testing is an often overlooked and not pushed as ship ready critical component of a complex software build. We feel that strong user testing / quality...

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Mood boards also called inspiration boards help establish the esthetical look and feel of a website. Mood boards are presented after our wire-framing stage and help rapidly prototype the design direction. It helps determine...

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With the increased popularity of JavaScript, it is no wonder that Node.js is getting a lot of buzz in the web development industry.  So what is it?  It is a Javascript powered platform that allows for both...

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If you haven’t already heard about the heartbleed security breach, heres the scoop.  Heartbleed is a bug in the OpenSSL software program that takes advantage of a built-in feature called “Heartbeat”.  Heartbeat allows servers to listen to requests and respond back...

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Wireframing is a very important aspect in the web design process and it is one that Red Cherry uses to ensure clients get the best of the best.  A wireframe can be though of like a blueprint; it is a black and white...

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Google offers an amazing tool that helps your website load quicker. It takes pages that are viewed most and helps the pages load quicker. Google PageSpeed service rewrites pages dynamically to lower the number of requests, PageSpeed will grab original...

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In the world of web design, technology has rapidly changed and shaped how we understand websites.  When websites were first developed, designers only had to worry about keeping consistent look and feel for various...

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When it comes to your website, we know that you need top notch security especially if your website is powered by Wordpress.  Wordpress, being one of the most popular content management systems, has become a huge target by hackers as it is an easy way to gain access to thousands of...

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Traditional marketing techniques such a print, T.V and radio ads have been around for years. These types of marketing techniques are called outbound marketing. Outbound marketing is not accurately measurable and compared to the new wave of marketing techniques that have higher ROI and a...

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Building a task model that allows you to prioritize task flows, interaction flows and associates them to your target users help carry critical information forward with the journey mapping stage.  Creating a...

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WebRTC allows uses with HTML5 common browsers such as Google Chrome. To have peer to peer video chat using WebRTC (real time communication).  Most video chat platforms...

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Agile development is an alternative to traditional waterfall processes that moves methods away from fixed production to promotion of flexibility and iterative practice. Traditional waterfall methods, although still used today, can greatly hinder a...

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One of the first things we do at Red Cherry whether it be a website, app or complex software build...

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When completing a new website, many people focus the majority of their time and resources on producing the best design and layout for their site. While design is extremely important as it sets the mood and professionalism of your
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Many companies these days are focusing the marketing dollars on inbound marketing. Traditional outbound marketing techniques such as radio, T.V and print are just speaking out to anyone that hears or sees. Inbound marketing the new marketing of the digital age where people find you using...

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Creating clear top level messaging for your customers is essential to highly engaging customer experience. Top level messaging can come from three levels. The first your
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Usability testing is a great way to measure how users interact with your designs and quickly identify where pains and weaknesses maybe in the design. By prioritizing areas of pains design improvements and upgrades can be made to the
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Red Cherry has designed real time GPS tracking software for Alzheimer’s patients to ski patrollers to trucking company’s all built on top of powerful industry...

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