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What started out as humble beginnings working out of an apartment in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood has turned into a profitable full-fledged web agency and digital marketing agency. Their client base has expanded rapidly to include major companies such as Allstate Corporation, Mount Franklin Foods, and Young Innovations.

From The O'Hare 21 expansion to The Michael Reese / Bronzeville Lakefront Redevelopment to the Adaptive Reuse of the Old Cook County Hospital, Level-1 is Chicago's Smart City Innovation leader in IT infrastructure design and planning--integrating hardware, software and network infrastructure systems to create environments that are optimized for the future.

If you’re running a specific promotion campaign that sends people to your website, you should add campaign parameters, called UTM parameters, to your links to track how well they perform in Google Analytics. This simple guide will walk you through it!

Xeno Media had the pleasure of working with Mount Franklin Foods, a national food brand that manufactures unique and flavorful snacks and candies. This Christmas we brought them a quirky, fun, a little bit out-there video concept, and they were all in. 

We migrated Durabilt's site from BigCommerce to a modern and responsive WordPress/WooCommerce platform.

Google's de-indexing bug has been resolved. What should you do to see if you've been affected?

Web design and web development are two parts of a process - one's drafting a blueprint for a website, the other is building it.

As trends shift in digital marketing, what your visitors will expect and accept will change too. Learn to see the most common red flags that you're in need of a refresh.

Reports have been flowing in of a new email threat: pay a ransom in bitcoin or have embarrassing webcam footage of you sent to your contact list. Learn what to do when this phishing scam lands in your inbox.

We are proud to share that we have been recognized as a top developer in Chicago for our open communication. Now featured on Clutch.co with an overall 5-star rating and on The Manifest. These ratings and reviews are independently verified by an independent business analyst through a phone interview.

Website maintenance is the regular monitoring, updating, and patching of your sites core software as well as optional modules and plugins. This is a critical and often overlooked part of owning a website. We automated a portion of the process for increased accuracy, speed, and thoroughness.

Open-source is great for business. With the source code being openly available, we can modify, improve, or build on it as we need and updates are actively developed and released in a collaborative community. But open source isn't just good for developers. It's great for business.