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: Joomla 4 Migration FAQs
Now that Joomla 5 has been released, we are moving all migrations straight to Joomla 5. Both Joomla 4 & 5 provide a number of technical improvements, new features and significant performance upgrades. Below are the benefits that will most matter to our clients.
New Back End Control Panel
For our Gold subscription clients, the redesigned backend administrator control panel speeds up your content creation and content management. In addition, with new article templates, Joomla 4 & 5 can help you and your co-workers keep the page design in mind.
Easier Web Accessibility
Web Accessibility means making your website usable to all users regardless of their abilities. Joomla 4 & 5 offer a variety of new web accessibility features to remove any barriers so that people with disabilities can use your site including those with vision problems or people with physical disabilities, color blindness, and hearing impairment.
In some cases, businesses and organizations may be required by law to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Learn more how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to web accessibility here.
Improved Site Speed & Security
Even if you don’t use any of the new features of Joomla 4 you will see an improvement in the speed of your website for visitors. The security upgrades in Joomla 4 & 5 are designed to maximize safety, keep hackers away, and provide even more protection for your & your user’s data.
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- By: Brian Mitchell • Production Team Lead and President
- Category: Blog
Disruption by its very nature hits inconsistently. Covid is still a thing, but people seem ready to acknowledge the lasting changes to our world and to move on as best we can. Some lost loved ones. Others lost their livelihoods. The dignity of a good job is essential to anyone trying to pay rent, raise a family, or put food on the table. In the aftermath of industry shutdowns we are learning again that cooperation is perhaps the best competitive advantage.
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- By: Brian Mitchell • Production Team Lead and President
- Category: Blog
What does it mean to “be there”?
interGen Web Solutions holds “Places” as one of our core values, and we focus on care for the environment and care for the people and communities that we serve. We do this every day, bt it usually happens from behind our screens, within a teleconference or virtual meeting, or over the phone call.
Is digital connection enough?
Many times yes, but there is nothing like being there. A great website is like a map of the organization that it represents, but the map is not the terrain. We help our clients create online experiences that invite people to engage, to connect, to be there - in person, online, and over the phone. Your website should welcome visitors into a greater appreciation of the real you.
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- By: Brian Mitchell • Production Team Lead and President
- Category: Blog
Resiliency is what happens when the environment changes. Just in Time seems like a lifetime ago. Inflation, labor shortages, and supply chain are the challenges of the moment. The key is to anticipate what the future storms might be and how weather them and even thrive when circumstances change.
I always smile a little when a new client asks about website security and backups early in our conversations. It is a nice clue that we have found a kindred spirit that is thinking long term and about how to be resilient.
Change can be devastating or it can present incredible opportunity. The difference is in how you have prepared for what is next. Let's prepare together
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- By: Kristin Bird
- Category: interGen Website Standard Performance Tools
In 2018, Google announced algorithm updates that place far more emphasis on page speed and loading response times than ever before. In addition, 53% of users will leave a website that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. We enable gzip compression on all our clients' websites to save bandwidth and speed up your site.
What is GZIP Compression?
GZip is a form of data compression - it takes a chunk of data and makes it smaller. It's a hidden process that happens as a website is loading. The end user should be completely unaware that it is happening; the browser takes care of it completely behind the scenes.
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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
- Category: interGen Website Standard Performance Tools
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
- Category: Blog
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
- Category: interGen Website Standard Performance Tools
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: