Standard Beagle Blog

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The team at Standard Beagle regularly shares deep insights and best practices you can use as your design and create your own products and services. Look to our blog for expertise in UX design, research, and other industry topics.
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Blogpost - Why we moved to HTTPS and HTTP/2

Why we moved to HTTPS and HTTP/2

Standard Beagle strives to keep on the forefront of technology on the web - it helps us consistently provide the best possible service to our clients. We wanted to explain some of the steps we have recently taken with our clients' sites that will aid in providing that service. Over a small series of posts, we will review what Standard Beagle has done to increase speed, enhance security, and improved stability of the servers and the sites we host on them. In this post, we will take a dive into the upgrade to HTTPS - the why, a little bit of the how, and the benefits that come doing so.

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Business

What I learned about being a leader from the best bosses in my life

As Standard Beagle has grown, I suddenly find myself looking and acting a lot more like a manager than ever before. I’ve managed a lot of stuff — projects, client relations, myself. But managing employees — people — is pretty new for me. Now I’m the boss, and I feel like I’m moving into new […]

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Business

What a Professional Web Designer Can Do

This is a common question among business owners who are trying to cut costs by designing their websites themselves. With the growing amount of online tutorials, software, and platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly, it is becoming more commonplace for businesses to try build their own websites instead of hiring an outside company.  While those free platforms can […]

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Social Media

The 4 C's of Social Media: Content, Conversations, Community, and Connections

Marketing used to be centered around the four P’s (product, price, place, promotion), but within the past few years these have become less relevant. There has been a shift in the world of marketing, web, and social media and these four P’s that we all know so well have been transformed into the four C’s […]

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Social Media

5 Do’s and 5 Don'ts of using Instagram for business

Instagram has become one of the most popular forms of social media and one of the most popular ways for social media users to share photos and short videos with their followers since its launch in October of 2010. Instagram is about engaging followers. Instagram allows companies, individuals, non-profits, etc to share their stories in […]

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Social Media

7 Social Media tips from the PBS social media experts

While at SXSW, I attended the PBS Social Media session which featured the social media teams of Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow and American Experience.   The biggest shock to me was that these “teams” actually consisted of one single person for each show.  And it wasn’t even their full time gig! Some of their best practices that […]

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