Thinking about site speed and performance for your Shopify store should get you excited. While the idea of investing time and money may make you cringe, the impact on eCommerce sites directly correlates to conversion and bottom line. Now we’re back to exciting!

It's crunch time, but, there's a problem. Now your project will be delayed and may even exceed its budget. If only the problem had been found sooner. How many times has a launch been delayed or a project exceed its budget due to poor quality or missing requirements? Delivering a quality product is a significant part of creating a successful customer experience. In fact, the latest Capgemini’s World Quality Report states that companies are allocating 35% of their budget to meet their quality assurance needs.

It should come as no surprise that we're big online shoppers at eHouse. We've scrapped the weekly grocery runs for Amazon Pantry and book concert tickets and cooking classes weekly with the haptic click of a mouse or tap of a finger.

For the better part of seven years, eHouse Studio has used—and continues to use—the widely-popular CMS platform ExpressionEngine due to its trusted ability to handle large, content-rich websites and ease of scaleability. Each year, we take some time to audit our use of tools ensuring the proper selection for each of our clients' needs. As you may have noticed in our retrospective look at 2014, with the introduction of a new brand and redesigned website, we explored a new CMS platform that has gained the attention and respect of many of our esteemed industry peers named Craft.

On a recent site build there was a need to include a responsive, interactive Google map. The map also needed to display the organization’s location and a link for directions. Pretty standard but… not without its share of tricksy issues. I found a lot of information on the inter-webs which helped it respond smoothly¹, and that allowed me to add multiple tooltips with unique info windows². Responsive google maps won’t get us down! Along with using these helpful web resources I came up with a little edge on an issue I encountered on mobile views and other small touch devices. So, I’m paying it forward with this nugget of information.

We recently entered the Android Marketplace with an app for Pantech USA that would accentuate their role as the official handset sponsor of the 2011 Dew Tour and primary sponsor of the first leg of the tour in Ocean City, MD. The Official Dew Tour App is the essential guide to the Pantech Open and the other three tour stops across the country and features videos, news, results, athlete bios and more.