Redesign. The word itself can send shudders down the spines of any Web designer and developer. For many designers and website owners, the imminent onslaught of endless review cycles, coupled with an infinite number of “stakeholders” and their inevitable “opinions,” would drive them to shave their heads with a cheese grater if given a choice between the two. Despite...
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When you start working with clients you have to understand that the work you produce is not just about how good or bad a design is. It has a lot to do with the way the design fits into the wider spectrum of things.
Does this design fall in line with the overall theme of the company? Does this design ‘say’ what the company tries to say?...
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Would you believe that all great websites that sell products or services follow a formula? They all use the tried and tested acronym AIDA. This stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action.
You grab people’s attention with a headline or catchy product title.
You see. You need to stop the reader from just scanning over the content in their tracks, with a curiosity attention...
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A graphic designer works to provide businesses with any visual communications they may require. This includes logo design, layout design for printed items such as signage, stationery, and marketing materials (brochures, flyers and so on).
In today’s Internet age a graphic designer is often also able to design electronic communications such as e-newsletters, websites and more. Not all...
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One of the first steps in starting your own online business is making a website. This website is your place of business and must be treated as such. Your potential customers will visit your site and decide within seconds if they will stay or go. Turning these quick browsers into buyers is one of the major obstacles in building your new business.
Below are ten things you can do to help...
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First Impressions
First impressions are everything. Lets say two individuals are applying for the same position. One is dressed in business casual. The other in an unkempt dirty outfit. Both applicants are equally qualified. The one in the business outfit takes the job all because of presentation. The same applies with your web page. Just as the interviewer had probably instantly picked...
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For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years...
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For a company to successfully tap into a new market it requires a bit of research and localised content, meaning different websites for different countries.
In order for website to reach its full potential in a foreign market a few steps are necessary: navigation strategy, color of the website, the right tools for the right website, suitable images, professional translation of the website,...
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Today, we’ll continue on our previous topic on when it’s time to rebuild the existing website.
Website Performance Testing
A simple way to test the site performance is to use Firebug web development tool and its integrated plugin YSlow. YSlow analyses the web page and suggest the possible improvement based on the general. The page will...
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The world is changing every day presenting us new and fresh ideas, approaches and tools to use. There are a lot of great features that found their places on the modern websites. Have you implemented them on your website already? Or you don’t need any of those? You like your website the way it is but somehow it doesn’t give you any revenue.
It’s important to know the right moment for...
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