Posts by Cody Landefeld
5 Website Challenges Retail Stores are facing today
Currently, retail stores face challenges related to their websites that they did not have to face in the past. If you run a retail store, knowing how to effectively market and differentiate your retail store will help you stay ahead of your competition. Below are 5 challenges that retail stores up against, and what you can…
Read MoreHow Starting an E-Commerce website is Like Opening an Actual Store
Recently I was on an episode of WP (WordPress) Water Cooler, a weekly online roundtable of experts in the WordPress community share insights on how to best approach WordPress development and running your business using WordPress. This episode I was able to be a part of was focused on how to improve the user…
Read MoreWhat Is Website Accessibility?
Browsing the web is like a second nature to most of us. But others with physical challenges can seem overlooked when we are creating our websites. We can take for granted the process of seeing the screen, reading the text, hearing the sounds, and being able to handle the mouse and keyboard. Cody Landefeldco-founder at Mode Effect.…
Read MoreRe-designing Stinkweeds, a Phoenix, AZ local mainstay.
If you live in the Phoenix metro area and are a music fan you’ve likely bought a CD or an LP from Stinkweeds, a independent record store in downtown Phoenix. For over 27 years Stinkweeds has been focused on providing a selection of independent and popular music to customers looking to find their music by…
Read MoreMobile Responsive Web Design – Critical Tool For Business Success
In today’s world, just about every single business has some form of online presence. This means that simply having a website is not going to be enough for your company if you want to beat out your competitors. You need to find every advantage that you can to ensure that your website is visited more…
Read MoreUsing Analytics to Improve User Experience
So your company is growing and your website isn’t cutting it anymore. You’re simply not converting users into customers. Don’t panic! There’s effective ways to understand what needs to be part of your website. If you built your website a while ago and haven’t been actively tweaking it, chances are you’re missing out on customers. One…
Read More5 Critical Mistakes with Retail Websites
Whether it’s clothes, shoes, electronics, music, or movies. We buy so many of these things online nowadays. It was estimated that in 2010 Americans spent $186 billion dollars on retail websites. That’s massive. It’s estimated that this will continue at a rate of 150% percent into the next year. That means 100 billion will go…
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