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How to stage a photoshoot for the web
Recently we took a trip to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve in Carmichael to do a photo shoot for their new website we created. We had a great experience and wanted to share some photography tips that not only help create a great website but that can be beneficial for...
NationBuilder: A comprehensive online tool for political and fundraising campaigns.
Traditionally a combination of separate online tools would be used and managed with their own logins interfaces and support. An example might be using WordPress for a blog MailChimp for newsletters and email audience engagement Salesforce for Customer Relationship...
Migrating your online store to Shopify
Earlier this year migration from Magento to Shopify received a major overhaul so that the process was simpler and more compatible. Already we've began the process of helping a client with that very process. Shopify is continuing to make efforts to help that...
Why Hiring a Web Design Agency is beneficial to Your Online Business Strategy
With so many cheap services and tools out there that allow you build your own website how do you determine if you should hire a professional web design agency or just do it yourself?We can tell you from years of experience and customer feedback that the do-it-yourself...
2016 Q3 Website Designs
The fall has technically began despite the high temperatures and the CTS team has rolled out some new fully responsive websites. The site designs include some nice animation effects with both light and dark design themes. Quarter 4 of this year is loaded with some...
Help I broke my WordPress site!
"Help I broke my WordPress site!" That is a call our web design team often receives from small businesses who have a site developed on the WordPress platform. While there can be many reasons for the issue the underlying cause is generally the same; the...
Midtown businesses buy building for $1.925 million
After years of looking two midtown Sacramento businesses have found and bought permanent homes.Escrow closed last week on the purchase of 2831 G St. by Capitol Tech Solutions and Midtown Dental Group. The property on two parcels includes a two-story 10000-square-foot...
Typography in Web Design
Typography has been important for printed materials though has not always been as important for the web. Modern web design techniques have been changing this quite significantly and researchers are finding that typography can play a huge role in design and has a...
How Featured Snippets can drive traffic to your website
What are Featured Snippets?You may have noticed how in many question based searches Google now offers answers before requiring you to actually go to a website. This is what has been coined a "Featured Snippet" and really has nothing to do with any code you...
Boost your walk-in customers using Pokemon Go
No doubt you've already heard about Pokemon Go and you've likely seen people of all ages walking around stairing into their phones playing it. Not only is Pokemon Go a huge gaming fad right now but it's also a great opportunity to bring in business....
Capitol Tech Solutions Honored with 2016 Top 10 Best Web Design Firms Award
SACRAMENTO CA - Capitol Tech Solutions a Sacramento web design firm was named a winner of the 2016 "Top 10 Best Web Design Firms” award by Top Design Firms a nationally recognized authority in internet site design. Capitol Tech Solutions beat out thousands of...
Effective Facebook Advertising
Facebook advertising performs significantly better than many other forms of user experience that I've tried. For email marketing I've found anywhere around 1-2% is pretty average and that's very similar for Google AdWords.For Facebook advertising I've...
Ready for a Website Overhaul? Learn from Our Expert Panel! July 27 at Cafe Bernardo
Website Refresh: How to Plan Implement & Launch a Website Redesign Presented by Robert Reed Capitol Tech Solutions Eric Weidner Workbox.com Bob Schewe Vision Service Plan (VSP) REGISTER WEDNESDAY July 27 11:30 am- 1:15 pm Cafe Bernardo Midtown 2726 Capitol Ave....
2016 Q2 Website Designs
The summer has officially begun. This latest quarter we've produced more outstanding and fully responsive website designs many featuring some subtle and impressive animation effects. If you ever see any animation effects on sites that we've designed and would...
Removing Google Analytic Spam to increase web traffic accuracy
As a web design and user experience company it is important to us to present out clients with accurate web traffic data. Unfortunately there are a both spam bots and monitoring services that access your site and skew your analytic results. We will focus on setting up...
Event: Website Need An Overhaul? Ask Our Experts May 25!
Website Refresh: How to Plan Implement & Launch a Website Redesign Presented by Robert Reed Capitol Tech Solutions Eric Weidner Workbox.com WEDNESDAY May 25 6-8 pm UC Davis Extension Sutter Galleria 2901 K St. ROOM 200 Get Your Tickets Now! Let's face it --our...
PowerSchool Services Division
Are you ready for the CA Custom Field Data Migration? Will your migration be successful? Will you lose data? Our developers were part of the team that WROTE the migrations for PowerSchool in California and can now help you migrate without issues. We can help with the...
3 Things you may not have considered when you decided to design your own website instead of hiring a professional firm
I’ll start by assuming a couple things: (1) you may be tech-savvy, but aren’t very comfortable working with website languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and (2) you will be attempting to use some kind of software to build your website.Money vs TimeQ: How much do...
Monthly Newsletter (November)
THE NEWSLETTER IS BACKAfter a 2 years hiatus our Newsletter is back and here to stay. We are planning to send out a newsletter each month to keep you updated with both our company and the tech industry as a whole.THUMBTACK AWARDWe recently won the "Best of 2015 -...
