1. Include a Phone icon button next to your menu icon for quick communication. Yes, this depends on the business you are in, but don’t get scared of letting people get at you. They won’t always use your quick contact details which should be available as much as possible, but these types of items […]
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How to Create a Content Strategy for Your Web Design Business
Devising a workable and effective content strategy can be difficult for any company or brand, as the needs and desires of readers, clients, and businesses always vary from individual to individual, and from day to day. With a bit of work and the following content strategy guide to get you started, you should be well […]
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32 Web Designers & Marketing Influencers to Pay Attention To
I’ll be frank and honest with you. These are people I want to collaborate with, ask questions to; just pick their brain for a couple minutes. You don’t become a web design or web marketing influencer without rubbing a few elbows with some. You become who you hang around, and so follow these men and […]
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Hacking the Paid Search Game: 3 Deep-hitting techniques
Running a successful SEM campaign can be easy, given the right budget and time to dedicate towards management. However, many of us don’t have the luxury of spending someone else’s money when advertising and have to be more conscious of costs. Every click your ads receive resembles money leaving you, never to return, unless the […]
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Big Call-to-action button: CSS Example
I found this glorious button when setting up Jetpack for WordPress, and love the pressability. In User Experience… clues that something is clickable are referred to as “affordance.” This button takes advantage of some dynamics associated with the modern flat design feel but isn’t confined by it. It’s a really lovely design. This is an […]
Experiments in Blogging – What worked in 2014
This post will go over all of my blog’s most popular posts of 2014 and why they were popular or got more traffic, and where they got their traffic from. 1. Excellent Modern Fonts: 8 Modern Script fonts – 1823 Views. This post was very popular because it was bringing in people from […]
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Twitter Ads vs. Facebook Ads vs. LinkedIn Ads
In a recent experiment I created ad campaigns on 3 of the most ad-friendly social media outlets, and spent a small amount of money promoted the same piece of content for around 5 days. My motives were simply to give this little piece of content (my Design-Dev Manifesto) a bit more visibility in the web […]
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When and How to Make Sure your Website is Compatible with IE8
You’ve felt the horror. You’re busy plugging away at creating a website for a company, eaking out visual design and code with passionate intensity. Suddenly you get a phone call with edits for problems you can’t reproduce on your computer. Perhaps you’re using Chrome, pull up firefox… nothing. Click on safari.. looking good. “Um, excuse […]
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