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Case Study: Digital Community Portal for Niwot, Colorado

Overview Niwot needed a modern, centralized website that could serve as the primary online hub for its town center—supporting local businesses, promoting community events, guiding visitors, and providing clear, organized information to residents as well as serving as a municipal hub gateway to services in Boulder that would normally be on a city website. The Niwot Business Association engaged Apricity Web Solutions to design and build a municipal-style web presence that would unify the town’s

Avoiding Hosting Headaches: What Startups and Growing Teams Need to Know

Choosing hosting for your website shouldn’t be a gamble, but if you’re new to having a website or just don’t understand the set up, or follow bad advice, too often, it is. For startups and mid-sized teams launching or rebuilding a website, hosting is one of the first decisions that can quietly impact everything: site speed, security, email reliability, even your budget long-term. At Apricity, we’ve inherited a lot of messy builds. Hosting is almost

Generate an accessibility statement for your website

When creating a new website, you should think about making your site accessible – more information can be found here on the website. But something that’s vital is an accessibility statement. Not only does this protect you from legal consequences, but it also provides guidance for anyone having issues with your website. A website accessibility statement should clearly convey your commitment to making your website accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. To achieve

Domain Verification for Your Newsletter

Having an Email newsletter is still one of the best online marketing tools, but starting February 2024, email authentication will be a requirement if you’re sending to Gmail and Yahoo Mail customers. If you’re not familiar with it, Email authentication is a process of verifying the identity of an email sender. If you have your own domain name – like apricitymarketing.com and your own email address (like mary-frances@apricitywebsolutions.com) you will want to send email that

Common Elementor Update Issues

Elementor is my favorite Editor – I really enjoy all of the available templates and flexibility to alter those templates. HOWEVER…. Every once in a while when your Elementor updates, you can visit your website and see this: Just for comparison, the site normally looks like this: It’s a fairly upsetting problem, but with a super simple fix (thankfully). All you need to do is log into your WordPress Dashboard. Navigate to “Elementor” and