As we Speak

When we talk about websites, it’s their design and performance, the wow factor stuff, that typically gets the spotlight. And that makes sense! The look and feel is the most visible element of your site – the one that grabs users’ attention. But there are also several less visible components that keep your website running smoothly… or running at all.  Your domain is one of the most vital pieces of your website’s ecosystem, and yet, it often goes overlooked a... Read More

Nonprofit leaders, marketers, and champions for good: I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that Giving Tuesday is right around the corner, and with it comes one of your biggest opportunities to craft a campaign that will drive donations for your organization.  More Americans donate money from November through December than any other time of year. With giving on the brain during the holiday season, you’d be remiss not to take advantage of this time to tell your story ... Read More

A domain is simply an address to indicate a specific web page on the Internet. Let’s take this example: you purchased a house with the address of 3200 Awesome Place in the city of Oz. Domain Registrant - The Home Owner Domains have to be purchased, and they are registered where they are purchased and paid for. You have a Domain Registrant, much like a house has a Home Owner. This person pays the mortgage to keep the house, just like a Domain Registrant has to pay for the domain yearly t... Read More

Where it once was enough to amass a large following and call it a day, in the era of micro-influencers and a greater desire than ever for human connection following the Covid-19 pandemic, for many brands and influencers, cultivating a small but loyal community that is actively engaged in what you do is where engagement really counts.  Companies sell products and services to consumers all day, every day, but the truly special organizations, the ones that keep you coming back for more or ... Read More

Through a Slack discussion with a few members of Speak's dev team, we asked the question, "what exactly do you do?" From jokes about code to discussing the future of the profession, we uncovered what it's like to be inside the mind of our developers.  HERE'S TODAY'S STARTING LINEUP: Jessica: Hi all, thanks for joining to discuss the mysterious world of development. Before we dive into exactly what you all do, I’d love for you all to answer why you... Read More

Effective this month, Chrome will begin to clearly label sites without a secure connection on pages that ask for password and credit card inputs. Their long term goal is to start flagging all sites that are non-secure, regardless of the page. What does it mean to have a Secure Site? A securely connected site has an associated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, which signifies to the browser and to the web user that your site is secure and safe to enter login information and make paymen... Read More

Few table-top games raise a player’s blood pressure more than Jenga. Knowing that every move could bring the whole thing to a violent crash is both terrifying and exhilarating. Well, in software development, it’s just terrifying. Every code change comes with a risk that the new functionality will either not work entirely as expected or break pieces of existing functionality. But that doesn’t change the fact that our clients expect stable, reliable software, and that we a... Read More

We interact with text everyday. Emails, text messages, sales proposals, spreadsheets - it’s all just characters strung together at the end of the day. If you work with text on a daily basis, you're likely always looking for a way to make changes faster, to stop repeating tasks over and over again, and to feel productive as you write or make changes to bulk blocks of text.  What is a Regular Expression? Regular expressions are tools built into almost every text processing application to ... Read More

By now I’m sure you’ve heard something about beacons and how they’re being used across a variety of industries from fashion and retail, to concert venues and other attractions. Marketers are beginning to leverage this new technology in a variety of ways to add value to their mobile app and appeal to customers, as well as to gain insight for themselves about demographics and user behavior. With this technology being still fairly new, only two or three years old, early adopters are learning jus... Read More

As the dedicated “support guru” on our SiteWrench website platform, I’m here to convince you that our content management system (CMS) is not as intimidating as you think. I started out as a client just like you, with no formal education in computer science or technology. When I was first introduced to SiteWrench, I feared that this custom CMS was somehow meant for “savvy computer people.” You know the type – people who code Minecraft and hack into the CIA. ... Read More

Where can you go to find 10 million gallons of water, thousands of marine life species, and an unforgettable aquatic educational experience, right in the heart of a bustling city? If you answered Georgia Aquarium, you’d be correct. Known as the largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Atlanta-based aquarium is truly a magical place. Recently we had the pleasure of working with the Aquarium, developing an interactive app for their visitors through our Capacity platform. The app i... Read More