Selecting a web design agency vs a freelancer What is better for your organization--a web design agency or a freelancer? The differences between the two many be significant, but the answer depends on your needs. The first step to answering this question is to begin to define your project. Start...
Many organizations spend countless hours scrutinizing the color palette of their website during the design process and completely ignore those elements critical to lead generation and business-critical metrics. Of those business-critical metrics are using analytics appropriately to gather...
Product pages for eCommerce and within websites can rank in standard web search, but there is an alternative and additional way to gain search visibility for products. Ecommerce businesses should explore the Google product feed, which is a datasource of all your product meta data stripped from your...
Today's websites are designed, developed and implemented with mobile in mind. Responsive Design, one of the more effective ways to approach designing websites for mobile devices, has quickly emerged as an important way to meet the need. Every decision made during the process of designing a website...
Using the APIs really aren't as hard to use as it might seem. Here's how to make use of APIs to do things like gathering data with little or no advanced programming. APIs can seem intimidating and can only be implemented by advanced web engineers. But, in reality many APIs are designed to be...
How to prevent scope creep on web design projects by Rachel Greene Anyone who’s worked on a web design project can probably look back at a project or two (or three) and wish they’d developed more finite project scope when the work first came to them. Having a well-researched, clear, and agreed upon...
Although social conversation, utilizing networks like Twitter, StumbleUpon and Facebook, have affected how we publish content online, blogging, and the integration of blog technologies, remains an important cornerstone of the web. Social networks help build audience and extend the reach of content,...
by Katelyn Campbell 1. DO - Know Your Audience and Design for Their Experience It is vital to know your audience. Design and develop your site with your users in mind, not just yourself. The users' perspective may be very different from yours, which includes making your site user-friendly. Users...
Healthcare web design best-practices Healthcare organizations are faced with expanded challenges as the internet becomes a vital and growing requirement for the industry. Pharmaceutical companies, providers, non-profits and caring organizations are all confronting new challenges instigated by...
It is clear that today's internet users spend significant time viewing websites through their mobile devices and that the percentage will only continue to grow. Today's websites need to be conceptualized, designed and developed with all devices, from desktop to tablet and smartphone, in mind....