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The Best Podcasts of 2018/2019 – Day 6: 30 Days of Blogging
Podcasting is the best thing to happen to storytelling and brand building in a long time. It’s like the old fashioned radio show has come back to us in a modern format. Now, you can find talk shows, local and world news, interviews, fictional series, and...
Why Is White Space Important in Web Design? Day 5: 30 Days of Blogging
What is the most important web design principle? People ask me that question all the time. The most important web design principle is know your buyer’s persona inside and out. I usually answer the question, though, with the most difficult web design...
What Is a Buyer’s Persona? Day 4: 30 Days of Blogging
Other than your product or service, your buyer is the single-most important part of any business. For non-profits, you might be selling a product, but more often you’re providing a service which relies on donors and volunteers and, perhaps, law-makers or...
What is My Brand’s Personality? Day 3: 30 Days of Blogging
Determining your brand’s personality is a crucial step before you start a logo design or web design project for your small business or non-profit. Yet, it’s a step that many organizations skip, either because they’ve never worked with a professional to...
What are brand guidelines? Day 2: 30 Days of Blogging
Many small business owners come to Design It Please for logo design but have never heard of brand guidelines or a brand style guide. Everyone knows what a logo is and can mention some of their favorites, but few people understand that behind every great...
Will I Rank for Web Design? Day 1: 30 Days of Blogging
Today, March 18, Equal Pay Day in Germany, marks the beginning of my experiment into 30 days of blogging about design. I like to write, but I’ve always struggled with writing consistently. You know how it goes: you have a day planned for blogging, but then...
International Women’s Day 2019
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRUkUs-ggR7/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheetToday is International Women’s Day, and Berlin has declared it a holiday. I find that pretty incredible. Now, every man who has the day off work gets to thank women. And every...
Web Design Trends for 2019
Sometimes it can feel like web design trends change in the blink of an eye. Here today, gone tomorrow. From darling of the ball to being kicked to the curb the next morning. With new techniques and tools being introduced on a daily basis, having a website that stays...
WPEngine is the Most Wonderful Web Host Ever
Yes, I am a huge fan of WPEngine - and this is not something I say lightly. It’s the one provider I can unequivocally, 100% gush over because not only do I rate them as the top managed Wordpress website hosting company out of all the ones I’ve tried over 12 years as a...
How a Nonprofit Website Should Differ From Others
Guest blog by Kayleigh Alexandra Websites come in all different shapes and sizes, and two of the most common types of websites are commercial and nonprofit. Commercial websites are targeted towards making money in some way. When it comes to nonprofits, however, things...
Five Quick Tips to Keep Your Website Up-to-Date
Once upon a time, you would build your website and not worry about updating it again for a couple, maybe three years. But the proliferation of social media and the sheer number of new web tools that pop onto the market every day has completely changed the online...
The Two M’s: Maintenance & Marketing
So, You Want a Website? Part 6/6 This is the final post of a six-part series that is covering each of the key elements that go into building an engaging and effective website. You can read Part 5: Hosting, Domains & SSL here. The first M is for Maintenance. Much...
Part 5: Hosting, Domains & SSL
So, You Want a Website? Part 5/6 This is the fifth post of a six-part series that is covering each of the key elements that go into building an engaging and effective website. You can read Part 4: What Does Your Website Need to Do? Building your website is like...
Part 4: What Does Your Website Need to Do?
So, You Want a Website? Part 4/6 This is the fourth post of a six-part series that is covering each of the key elements that go into building an engaging and effective website. You can read Part 3: Content is King here. Here we get down to the practical stuff. What do...
Part 3: Content is King
So, You Want a Website? Part 3/6 This is the third post of a six-part series that is covering each of the key elements that go into building an engaging and effective website. You can read Part 2: What Makes Good Design here. Content, content, content! Content is one...
Part 2: What Makes Good Design
So, You Want a Website? Part 2/6 This is the second post of a six-part series that is covering each of the key elements that go into building an engaging and effective website. You can read Part 1: Your Website Is Your First Employee here. No matter whether you’re...
Part 1: Your Website is Your First Employee
So, You Want a Website? Part 1/6 This is the first post of a six-part series that will be covering each of the key elements that go into building an engaging and effective website. Your website is your business’ first employee (really, it’s your second, because you...
What US small businesses need to know about GDPR
Many US small businesses may not have heard of the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), let alone realize that it is something that can affect them even though they’re based outside of Europe. But later this month, major changes in data...
