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		<title>Cyno™: A revolutionary way to manage website content</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike W.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>At Tarheel Media, we're always striving to serve our clients in new and meaningful ways by improving upon our technologies or outright upgrading it to an entirely new technology. For the past 6 months, we have been beta testing a new system of managing websites for end-users...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap" style="max-width:1310.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% / 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% / 2 );"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-1"><p>At Tarheel Media, we&#8217;re always striving to serve our clients in new and meaningful ways by improving upon our technologies or outright upgrading it to an entirely new technology. For the past 6 months, we have been beta testing a new system of managing websites for end-users (you) that has come to completion. The new system we&#8217;re doing, we&#8217;ve dubbed Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />. Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> does this differently, simply speaking. First, how you edit your website has forever changed.</p>
</div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap" style="max-width:1310.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% / 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% / 2 );"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="fusion-content-boxes content-boxes columns row fusion-columns-1 fusion-columns-total-4 fusion-content-boxes-1 content-boxes-icon-on-side content-left" style="--awb-body-color:var(--awb-color7);--awb-title-color:var(--awb-color5);--awb-item-margin-top:30px;--awb-item-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-hover-accent-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-circle-hover-accent-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-item-margin-bottom:40px;" data-animationOffset="top-into-view"><div style="--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:100px;" class="fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-1 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last-in-row"><div class="col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade" data-animationOffset="top-into-view"><div class="heading heading-with-icon icon-left"><div class="icon"><i style="border-color:var(--awb-color8);border-width:0px;background-color:var(--awb-color5);box-sizing:content-box;height:80px;width:80px;line-height:80px;border-radius:50%;font-size:40px;" aria-hidden="true" class="fontawesome-icon fa-i-cursor fas circle-yes"></i></div><h2 class="content-box-heading" style="--h2_typography-font-size:38px;line-height:43px;padding-left:100px;">A NEW WAY TO EDIT</h2></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div><div class="content-container"><div class="fusion-image-element " style="text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);"><span class=" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none"><a href="https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing.png" class="fusion-lightbox" data-rel="iLightbox[9925eca208695c07f9f]" data-title="cyno-editing" title="cyno-editing"><img data-dominant-color="dbe1e5" data-has-transparency="true" style="--dominant-color: #dbe1e5;" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="2558" height="1382" src="https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing.png" alt class="img-responsive wp-image-4012 has-transparency" srcset="https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing-200x108.png 200w, https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing-400x216.png 400w, https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing-600x324.png 600w, https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing-800x432.png 800w, https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing-1200x648.png 1200w, https://cdn1.tarheel.media/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cyno-editing.png 2558w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2558px" /></a></span></div>
<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with our old framework, this one screenshot alone will more than tickle most of our clients.  Gone are the days of opening a box and editing text on your website.  Now, you simply edit your website just like you would edit a document in a word processor like Microsoft Word.  Virtually everything from the header, and the footer, to the content of a page or blog post can be edited or added in the exact same context you just saw.</p>
</div></div></div><div style="--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:100px;" class="fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-2 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last-in-row"><div class="col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade" data-animationOffset="top-into-view"><div class="heading heading-with-icon icon-left"><div class="icon"><i style="border-color:var(--awb-color8);border-width:0px;background-color:var(--awb-color5);box-sizing:content-box;height:80px;width:80px;line-height:80px;border-radius:50%;font-size:40px;" aria-hidden="true" class="fontawesome-icon fa-flag-checkered fas circle-yes"></i></div><h2 class="content-box-heading" style="--h2_typography-font-size:38px;line-height:43px;padding-left:100px;">IT'S A SPEED DEMON!</h2></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div><div class="content-container">
<p>But that&#8217;s not quite all.  The powerhouse that Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> is isn&#8217;t just in its editor but in its modular design with you at the helm.  That means this new framework is truly scalable to your needs, a genuine one-size-fits-all framework for any website solution.   I imagine that sounds a bit odd, so allow me to explain.</p>
<p>Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> works differently than other frameworks.  It has many modules you would need for a website &#8211; counters, meters, blog postcards, archives, projects, product pages, image CSS, and JS tricks (lazyload, etc),  the works!  However, these modules simply don&#8217;t load until you&#8217;re ready to use them. Then, and only then are they enqueued into the website&#8217;s javascript and back-end PHP meaning your website uses fewer resources by using only the resources it needs which means your website runs LEANER and FASTER both on the server and in the client&#8217;s web browser!  This optimization alone has improved our clients&#8217; websites (and ours) by over 560% by simply not loading modules that aren&#8217;t necessary for your solution.</p>
</div></div></div><div style="--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:100px;" class="fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-3 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last-in-row"><div class="col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade" data-animationOffset="top-into-view"><div class="heading heading-with-icon icon-left"><div class="icon"><i style="border-color:var(--awb-color8);border-width:0px;background-color:var(--awb-color5);box-sizing:content-box;height:80px;width:80px;line-height:80px;border-radius:50%;font-size:40px;" aria-hidden="true" class="fontawesome-icon fa-search fas circle-yes"></i></div><h2 class="content-box-heading" style="--h2_typography-font-size:38px;line-height:43px;padding-left:100px;">INBUILT SEO</h2></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div><div class="content-container">
<p>Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> comes with its own SEO solution using <em>Generative AI</em> to automatically flag content and tag it so search engines know how to better categorize your content.  And this all happens without you even knowing.</p>
</div></div></div><div style="--awb-backgroundcolor:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-content-padding-left:100px;" class="fusion-column content-box-column content-box-column content-box-column-4 col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 fusion-content-box-hover content-box-column-last content-box-column-last-in-row"><div class="col content-box-wrapper content-wrapper link-area-link-icon icon-hover-animation-fade" data-animationOffset="top-into-view"><div class="heading heading-with-icon icon-left"><div class="icon"><i style="border-color:var(--awb-color8);border-width:0px;background-color:var(--awb-color5);box-sizing:content-box;height:80px;width:80px;line-height:80px;border-radius:50%;font-size:40px;" aria-hidden="true" class="fontawesome-icon fa-sign-out-alt fas circle-yes fa-rotate-270"></i></div><h2 class="content-box-heading" style="--h2_typography-font-size:38px;line-height:43px;padding-left:100px;">GETTING UPGRADED</h2></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div><div class="content-container">
<p>The best thing is, the upgrade to Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> is likely less expensive than you might think. Only costs us an average of 3 hours per upgrade, the biggest cost will be the per-domain license for other proprietary software we use in this framework which includes our cost in the inclusion and support of premium WordPress plugins such as <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/filebird/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FileBird</a> which our framework depends on. For less than $400.00, your website will not only look awesome, but you can manage the content in a more meaningful way while preserving its original awesomeness.</p>
<p>For that price, you can expect significant visual improvements to your website as well as new features you can deploy yourself and with little to no design knowledge or web development skill whatsoever.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="fusion-clearfix"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling" style="--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;" ><div class="fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap" style="max-width:1310.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% / 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% / 2 );"><div class="fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column" style="--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;"><div class="fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column"><div class="fusion-text fusion-text-2" style="--awb-font-size:32px;"><p>You can get started by simply contacting us using the <a href="https://tarheel.media/support-center/"><b>Support Center</b></a>. All new websites are deployed with Cyno<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />.</p>
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<p>The post <a href="https://tarheel.media/company-news/2024/03/19/cyno-a-revolutionary-way-to-manage-website-content/">Cyno™: A revolutionary way to manage website content</a> appeared first on <a href="https://tarheel.media">Tarheel Media Digital Marketing</a>.</p>
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		<title>Web Design and SEO: The Perfect Blend for Maximum Visibility and Aesthetics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Gilmore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In today's digital landscape, having a strong online presence is crucial for businesses of all sizes. Whether you're a small startup or a well-established company, your website serves as the face of your brand in the virtual world. It's not enough to simply have a website; it needs to be visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized  [...]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://tarheel.media/tips-tricks/2023/06/07/web-design-and-seo-the-perfect-blend-for-maximum-visibility-and-aesthetics/">Web Design and SEO: The Perfect Blend for Maximum Visibility and Aesthetics</a> appeared first on <a href="https://tarheel.media">Tarheel Media Digital Marketing</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In today&#8217;s digital landscape, having a strong online presence is crucial for businesses of all sizes. Whether you&#8217;re a small startup or a well-established company, your website serves as the face of your brand in the virtual world. It&#8217;s not enough to simply have a website; it needs to be visually appealing, user-friendly, and optimized for search engines. This is where the perfect blend of web design and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes into play.</p>
<p>Web design encompasses the visual and interactive aspects of a website. It involves creating an aesthetically pleasing layout, choosing appealing color schemes, selecting captivating images, and ensuring smooth navigation. A well-designed website grabs the attention of visitors, makes a positive first impression, and encourages them to stay and explore further. However, aesthetics alone are not enough to drive traffic and achieve online success.</p>
<p>Enter SEO, the process of optimizing a website to rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). SEO is like a roadmap that helps search engines understand and navigate your website. It involves various techniques and strategies to improve your website&#8217;s visibility and organic search traffic. When web design and SEO work hand in hand, the results are powerful.</p>
<p>First and foremost, a visually appealing website design enhances user experience. Visitors are more likely to stay and engage with a website that is easy to navigate, loads quickly, and presents information in a clear and organized manner. Web design elements such as intuitive menus, logical site structure, and responsive design ensure that users can easily find what they&#8217;re looking for, leading to longer browsing sessions and higher conversion rates.</p>
<p>But what good is a beautifully designed website if no one can find it? This is where SEO steps in. By optimizing your website for relevant keywords and search terms, you increase your chances of appearing higher in search engine rankings. When your website ranks higher, it becomes more visible to potential customers who are actively searching for products or services like yours. This increased visibility translates into more organic traffic and, ultimately, more leads and conversions.</p>
<p>Optimizing your website&#8217;s structure, URLs, and meta tags ensures that search engines can crawl and index your content effectively. By conducting thorough keyword research, you can identify the terms and phrases your target audience is using and strategically incorporate them into your website&#8217;s content. This not only helps search engines understand the context and relevance of your pages but also makes it easier for potential customers to find you.</p>
<p>Backlinks, another crucial aspect of SEO, play a significant role in improving your website&#8217;s authority and credibility. When reputable websites link back to your content, search engines perceive it as a vote of confidence, signaling that your website provides valuable and reliable information. A well-designed website with compelling content is more likely to attract high-quality backlinks from other authoritative sources.</p>
<p>Social media integration is also an essential component of the web design and SEO blend. With the growing influence of social media platforms, incorporating social sharing buttons and integrating your social media profiles into your website can increase your online visibility. This not only drives traffic from social media platforms but also helps to boost your website&#8217;s credibility and engagement.</p>
<p>Additionally, web analytics tools provide valuable insights into how your website is performing. By analyzing user behavior, traffic sources, and conversion rates, you can identify areas for improvement and make data-driven decisions to optimize your website further. Monitoring the impact of your web design and SEO efforts allows you to fine-tune your strategies and achieve even better results over time.</p>
<p>In summary, web design and SEO go hand in hand to create an exceptional online presence. A visually appealing website with a user-friendly interface enhances the overall user experience and encourages visitors to stay longer. Meanwhile, SEO techniques ensure that your website is easily discoverable by search engines and positions it in front of the right audience.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://tarheel.media/tips-tricks/2023/06/07/web-design-and-seo-the-perfect-blend-for-maximum-visibility-and-aesthetics/">Web Design and SEO: The Perfect Blend for Maximum Visibility and Aesthetics</a> appeared first on <a href="https://tarheel.media">Tarheel Media Digital Marketing</a>.</p>
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