How we create • together at interGen
From social media to measuring performance to simply managing your website, there are a lot of details to cover. InterGen operates on the idea that your website, your social media, and your data are yours. Our job is to make sure that you are getting the most out of your digital resources in the easiest, most convenient way possible. Helping people, businesses, organizations, and communities move forward together is an exciting endeavor that fuels us. Beyond just programming your website, our passion can move your business forward.
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- By: Kristin Bird
- Category: interGen Website Standard Performance Tools
Favicons are quite possibly the smallest part of your site, but it's attention to detail that makes a site stand out. We generate favicons for our client's websites based on the simplest version or element of their logo. If you do not have a logo (or your logo is too complex to work as a favicon), we generate one using the branding information we have about your site.
What is a favicon?
Favicons are small - square or round images, usually 16×16 pixels, used by web browsers to visually and quickly identify a website. They show up on the browser address bar's left side or in the tab. You have probably seen them before, even if you don't know what they are.
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- By: Kristin Bird
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We install (and automatically renew) SSL certificates on all our client's websites. We also have configured your site to "force SSL," making sure that your website loads securely every time it loads.
What is an SSL Certificate?
SSL ( which stands for Secure Sockets Layer) is a digital certificate that authenticates a website's identity and encrypts information sent through that site. It is the global standard for security technology on websites.
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- By: Kristin Bird
- Category: interGen Website Standard Performance Tools
Every new website that interGen builds includes an integration with Google Analytics. However, some of our clients' websites were inherited from other developers and did not come to use with that tracking data installed.
Beginning in 2020, we have confirmed that every one of our clients has Google Analytics integrated with your site - whether we built it 10 years ago or you came to us as a customer just last week. If you want access to your Google Analytics data, just send an email to
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- By: Brian Mitchell
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There are really three factors to consider when assessing possible podcasting solutions.
- Reach
- Workflow
- Cost
Podcasting reach by publishing to multiple podcasting directories
Reach is an issue in that the more platforms you post the audio to, the more avenues you are providing for people to "discover" the content.
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- By: Brian Mitchell
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Captcha's are that strange field at the bottom of many website forms (contact us, registration, etc.). The field asks you to prove that you are not a robot. Sometimes completing the captcha is as simple as checking the "I am not a robot" check box. Other times it requires getting a grid of nine pictures. You have to identify all the pictures of a fire hydrant or cross walk or bus or truck or... you get the idea.
When captchas were first developed they were often simple math problems or squiggly letters. In recent years, Google's reCaptcha has been the dominant offering on websites and for several good reasons:
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- By: Brian Mitchell
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interGen loves Joomla! We of course hear about Wordpress all the time. We have been supporting a large number of Wordpress sites for years. There is a lot to like about Wordpress, mostly its marketshare. From time to time it is helpful to talk a little about why we love Joomla so much.
Before we get to the really good stuff, it is helpful to acknowledge what Joomla is not.
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Sucuri is an industry leader in website security across all platforms. Each year they create a “Hacked Website Report”. The data they share is very insightful for what CMS's are safe for creating websites.
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- By: Brian Mitchell
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We love our clients. We love to serve. We don’t always get it right. We are constantly looking for ways to be better.
This week, our team celebrated interGen’s founding as a web development firm 12 years ago. In the beginning it was just me...
It was March 2006. I had a growing awareness that there were a lot of people and companies that were building websites but the service after site launch tended to fall short. Existing service models seemed to fall into one of two camps...
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- By: Brian Mitchell
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Support Team Lead, Kristin Bird and I were thrilled to check out JoomlaDay Florida over the weekend of March 3-5. The event was in the heart of historic Ybor in Tampa Florida.
What is JoomlaDay? Click here to check it out
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For those of us in a professional services industry, service is key to our success, if not our survival. We hear the term “Customer Service” tossed around by companies large and small, on a daily basis, to the point that we almost don’t think about what it really means.
For interGen, customer service means developing and maintaining strong positive relationships with our clients. We understand that technology is a “necessary evil” to many people, so we work hard to make your problems or questions about your website and how it functions as painless as possible for you.