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Anyone who has worked at a nonprofit knows that fundraising is hard. With everything a non-profit staff must manage, it’s easy to forget some of the regular engagement tactics that we can implement online. These tips will help engage donors, increase return on investment, and generally help power your mission. Tip 1: Personalize Interactions with…
Read MoreThanksgiving is right around the corner and we have stuffing on our mind. Recently a client asked if we could add a list of keywords to a site. In the past, this was a common way of letting search engines know about the content of a website. But, crafty website owners started to take advantage…
Read MoreWe view SEO in three distinct pillars; Technical SEO, Content SEO, and Brand Strategy. Each pillar is just as important as the last. It’s important for all websites to consider each and ensure each of the 3 SEO pillars is strong. Today we’re going to talk about technical SEO. Mindshare Labs specializes in technical seo,…
Read MoreThis content of this blog is heavily based on this article by John Moore Williams Ah yes… the good old header carousel, slider, slideshow, gallery, or whatever you want to call it. It’s been a staple of website design for such a long time it’s almost synonymous with business websites. Every time our clients request…
Read MoreAchieving a Google Lighthouse score of 90+ has become a personal goal for our website. It’s not that we care much about competition, but as a web development company, having a super-fast, well-ranking website does have its advantages. Google lighthouse measures website metrics in four categories; Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. Part 2 of this series will…
Read MoreWe often have clients come to us asking for help on their Wix, or Squarespace, or Weebly websites. These clients are looking for various upgrades and more often than not their requests are not possible. The problems with these DIY website builders are many and the solutions are limited. Website builders make it very easy…
Read MoreAchieving a Google Lighthouse score of 90+ has become a personal goal for our website. It’s not that we care much about competition, but as a web development company, having a super-fast, well-ranking website does have its advantages. Every client website we work on here at Mindshare gets a speed analysis. We strive for 80+…
Read MoreRanked Choice Voting is having a bit of a moment, and for good reason. In every election season questions get raised about how we vote, why it matters, and how we can make it better. Frustrations and tempers rise as we consistently find ourselves ‘voting for the lesser of two evils’ or ‘voting even when…
Read MoreGravity Forms Settings Navigate to Forms > Settings from the WordPress admin screen. Change Output CSS to No Change Output HTML5 to Yes This helps to clean up some of the wonky stuff Gravity Forms includes in their CSS and makes it match Bootstrap 5 form styling. I’ve included support for the gravity forms css…
Read MoreA cookie is a small text file that is stored in a users browser so a website can ‘remember’ information about them. A cookie policy is a simple document that informs the users about how cookies store information and how to manage them. Every time a user visits a website, their browser stores information in…
Read MoreI recently ran into an issue in trying to add FontAwesome to a WordPress theme. FontAwesome introduced Kits back in May of last year. To use a kit you simply include a and viola, magic icons! In WordPress this is done with the wp_enqueue_script() function. However, I needed to include icons in pseudo elements which…
Read MoreAdjust Gravity Forms Settings Once logged into WordPress admin, navigate to Forms > Settings: Set Output CSS to No Set Output HTML5 to Yes Below is the SASS code to include AFTER Bootstrap. This includes styling for credit card fields, address fields and name fields! Should be a solid starting point (or maybe complete)!
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