Grind your own business
The latest coffee buzz
We love coffee here at Foraker. And we are such coffee addicts that we insist on having the freshest, best coffee we can get our hands on. (We even have one of those fancy grinders.) Enter some exciting news: Foraker is now a wholesale customer of Kaladi Brothers Coffee, straight from the Land of the Midnight Sun in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Finding a harmonious balance between usability and SEO
Creating effective web content involves artfully balancing usability and search engine optimization. Viewing content through the lens of your audience is a great first step. On the Web, your audience consists of both website users and search engine bots or “spiders”. Let’s take a look at some of their unique attributes, as well as corresponding content development methods.
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How we get fantastic people on the Foraker bus
We recently opened up a position in the Technology department for a Ruby on Rails web application developer. So I thought it might be a good time to write a post about how we go about trying to hire the very best people here at Foraker.
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The Best Parts of Boulder and Foraker
Sadly, this will be my last blog post, as I go back to college next week. For this reason, I wanted to write a comprehensive article on the most important things: the experience, and the people. After living and working in Boulder, Colorado for three months, I’ve compiled information on the best parts of the area, and the best people.
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Using WordPress as a CMS
With so many solutions out there for managing your website, you may wonder “Why would I use WordPress as a CMS when it wasn’t intended to be so?” There is no doubt that Wordpress is primarily intended for blog development, but that’s not all it can do. There are many advantages to using WordPress over other content management systems, but on the other hand, there are also some instances where WordPress may not be the right fit. Please note that WordPress is not a fix-all, do-all solution, so your first task in making a CMS decision is to weigh the pros and cons of each platform.
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