As a Minneapolis web designer myself, I’m often asked to help someone find a good designer or developer when I’m unavailable. As a helpful resource I’ve put together this list to help you find the right resource, and have even built a fledgling Minneapolis Web Designer Directory! Check out some of the people I’ve already […]
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Why collect ‘Key Performance Indicators’ – KPI’s for your digital marketing efforts? Well, if you determine the right one’s – the one’s that affect the traffic to your website and conversions / contact forms / sales, you can create a brief one page document that lays out these key pieces of data so high-level people […]
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How do you determine if a trend is used poorly? Empathy and intuition. Consult your inner jiminy cricket. Would you like it if someone did this to you with their website? If the answer is no, perhaps you should forgo the fifty pop-ups even though you ‘got so many newsletter sign-ups’ that you can spam […]
The art of the shitty website takes more than just a hacky coding skill set and a bad eye for design. It requires an understanding of what beautiful design is so you can spit in the face of that. Here are 5 amazingly bad websites – that appear to be – please god please be […]
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User experience design is full of peril and intrigue. UX is all about making the experience of being on and navigating around a website easy as possible and pleasant. It involves testing, planning, and being creative on how to best serve and delight people on the web. And yet, the struggle is real here are […]
Creating a content calendar is hard – or so the thousands of plugins and tools would have it seem. “We’ll simplify it for you,” and so on and so forth, but the real nuts and bolts of the situation are that you need a place to come up with ideas for blog posts, and you need […]
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After reading many posts on HubSpot, I was always appreciative that their call to actions at the end of blog posts were specific to what I just read. When I finished a post about social media, there would be a call to action: “Enter your e-mail now, for a free download of ’99 quick tips […]
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After studying Unbounce founder Oli Gardner’s un-negotiables for landing page design, and digging deeper into what the absolute ideal looks like according to marketers who A/B test on a regular basis I’ve come up with these helpful guidelines: Include your unique value proposition. What is the purpose of the page and why should the ideal […]
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If you’ve ever felt like the task at hand was way too big for you to handle… perhaps you could benefit from breaking the task at hand into smaller tasks. The world of web design and online marketing attracts a lot of dreamers, people who will always think outside of the box no matter […]
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A Material Design website is a website that uses a general Material Design language, as developed by Google. The Material Design website options are some of the most advantageous available for website designers. The Material Design system, which is also known as Quantum Paper, expands upon existing card motifs that are available with Google Now […]
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