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Oddo Design is an Austin web design company that creates, improves, supports, and maintains visually appealing, easy-to-use, one-of-a-kind websites and web-based applications. With a primary focus on custom WordPress web design and development, Oddo Design has been serving clients— from Fortune 500s to startups— with creative and professional web design services for over 20 years.

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Websites

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Customization

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Maintenance

Drawing upon decades of experience, Oddo Design employs a methodical, user-centered process to deliver: stronger, more consistent multi-media branding; high-quality multi-device user experiences; clearer competitive differentiation; better conversion rates; improved SEO and social networking capabilities; and smoother, more secure content management workflows.

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Website Maintenance

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Software Updates

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Security Monitoring

WordPress
Offsite Backups

WordPress
Uptime Monitoring

WordPress
Help

Don’t wait for a disaster to realize the importance of regularly updating, securing, backing up, and monitoring your website. Let an experienced, U.S.- based, WordPress specialist take the hassle out of WordPress maintenance— for just $150 per month.

FAST and Mobile-friendly

Oddo Design websites are custom-designed using a lean, high-performance, mobile-friendly (i.e., responsive), built-exclusively-for-WordPress framework called ThemeOddo. This framework also speeds up the design and development processes, and in most cases, renders the use of predesigned Themes (a.k.a., templates) pointless.

In Design:

Heat Maps, Scroll Maps, and Confetti: See Exactly What Your Website Visitors Click On and How Far They Scroll

A Heat Map is like a snapshot of a web page that has been dusted for visitors’ finger prints. It shows us what they’ve clicked on. And its sibling, the Scroll Map, shows how far down the page they’re willing to scroll. Let’s see how these, and yes, Confetti, can help improve the user experience on your website.

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Measuring Engagement: Bounce Rates and Why They Matter

When a visitor leaves your website after viewing just one page, it’s called a “bounce”. Your “bounce rate” may be an indicator of a poor user experience, which can lead to frustrated visitors; poor conversion rates; and less search traffic. Let’s take a look.

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Getting Started with Data-Driven Design Improvements on Your WordPress Website Using Google Tag Manager

By default, Google Analytics tracks pages. But to make data-driven design improvements, we’ll also want to track events, which will help us better understand how visitors interact with your website. Let’s begin with the setup and installation of Google Tag Manager for use with WordPress.

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In Development:

Protecting Your WordPress Website

Recently, I had the pleasure of appearing on The Let’s Talk Tech Show, a podcast hosted by Winnie Anderson. We talked about the vulnerabilities surrounding WordPress (and actually, websites in general), and what you can do to protect your WordPress Website. It’s a great listen! Listen Now!

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5 Mistakes WordPress Developers (and Clients) Make That Drive Me Crazy

One of the reasons I like customizing and maintaining WordPress websites I did not originally design/develop (in addition to creating new Wordpress websites), is that I get to see how other designers and developers work. One of the drawbacks however, is that a simple 1-hour task, can end up taking all day if the website I’m working on is in bad shape. And they usually are.

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Why and How You Should Auto-Send Sales Leads from WordPress to Your CRM

In this article, I use the Gravity Forms WordPress plugin and a web-based integration tool called Zapier, to send leads to a CRM called Insightly. But the process is basically the same for most popular CRM’s.

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In Marketing:

Introducing Oddo Audit— a Website Audit Service Exclusively for WordPress Websites

Last week, I introduced a new service that helps small businesses determine if their website is a clunker that’s due for a major overhaul, or, a diamond-in-the-rough that just needs polish. This article helps you identify what elements of your website require the most scrutiny.

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5 Ways to Save Thousands on a New WordPress Website and Spend Twice as Much Getting It Fixed

Small businesses often use price and speed as their primary criteria for choosing a web firm, and end up with “throw-away” websites. Here’s how to prevent this from happening to you.

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How to Prevent Google Analytics from Recording Your Own Visits

Here’s a handy browser add-on that allows you to easily exclude your website visits from your Google Analytics reports— even if you have a dynamic IP address. Give it a try!

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Recent Articles

In Design:

Heat Maps, Scroll Maps, and Confetti: See Exactly What Your Website Visitors Click On and How Far They Scroll

Measuring Engagement: Bounce Rates and Why They Matter

Getting Started with Data-Driven Design Improvements on Your WordPress Website Using Google Tag Manager

In Development:

Protecting Your WordPress Website

5 Mistakes WordPress Developers (and Clients) Make That Drive Me Crazy

Why and How You Should Auto-Send Sales Leads from WordPress to Your CRM

In Marketing:

Introducing Oddo Audit— a Website Audit Service Exclusively for WordPress Websites

5 Ways to Save Thousands on a New WordPress Website and Spend Twice as Much Getting It Fixed

How to Prevent Google Analytics from Recording Your Own Visits