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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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How to use CSS animations to improve user experience

Following best practices for CSS animations can improve a site’s user experience The Cascading Style Sheet, more commonly known as CSS,  not only styles your website in terms of colors, buttons, font selections, but can also help give users feedback and improve their experience on your site. Using a few different techniques you can really improve […]

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How to set-up redirects in WordPress

Have you ever gone to a website and clicked a link and gotten a 404 error page instead? Super annoying! Either that page has been moved, or it’s been deleted. As a site owner, this sort of error will hurt your SEO and your search engine rankings. Instead of having your users get an error page, […]

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DIYer’s guide to migrating a site

There are times when you want to move your website to a new hosting provider. On the surface, you would think it’s pretty simple. However, there are a few things you need to make sure you do, in a particular order, to ensure the process is as painless as possible. Here are the 5 steps […]

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Speeding Up your Website

How to speed up your website - Part I: Uncovering performance issues

Fast websites are often taken for granted, but performance is incredibly important. Bloated websites may seem fast on broadband, but not everyone is on super-fast wi-fi. User who try to access bloated websites on slow wi-fi connections or over mobile networks may get frustrated with you. That could tarnish your brand and actually send customers […]

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What’s Markdown good for?

Many of the articles you find online that speak about using Markdown are mostly explaining the “What” and the “How”. But what about the “Why”? Answer: Tons of reasons. Let’s go over just a few! Ubiquitous support So yeah, weird to have the first point be “well, everyone is using it”. But it’s probably the […]

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Wordpress vs Drupal: which should I choose?

What’s the difference between WordPress and Drupal? That’s a question I hear often, and it’s an understandable question. WordPress and Drupal are both open-source content management systems (CMS) that are very well known. Both have their strengths and weakness.  But which one you choose really should depend on your site’s needs. Standard Beagle specializes in […]

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