Landing page design is crucial for the success of your product or service. While we all want to believe that a good product or service will sell no matter what, the design of your landing page can be the difference between no conversions and tons of...
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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...
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...
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...
How to Choose the Best Stock Photography for Your Website
You’ve done it! You and your team have toiled day-and-night to ensure your website design is pixel perfect. You’ve labored over your website copy. You’ve planned an editorial calendar, and you’re ready to start blogging and focusing on inbound marketing....
7 Things Every Author Website Needs
You’ve got something important to say. You’ve got a story, an idea, a real message that you know will be a game changer for other people. You’ve got the chops and the stamina to get all these ideas out on paper (or at least on a Google doc). You are a writer. It’s...
The Creative Confessional
Looking for a place to confess your creative sins? Did you take two hours to "think creatively" yesterday, but you were really on Facebook? Do you intentionally ignore what clients say because they don't know anything anyway? Do you recycle design elements to save...
What Online Shopping Looks Like IRL
Google Analytics put together some brilliant videos to demonstrate how most online shopping experiences would translate to real life. Remember that your User Experience is just as important as your aesthetics. http://youtu.be/N5WurXNec7E http://youtu.be/cbtf1oyNg-8...
The Slow Web Movement
Jack Cheng wrote a great blog on The Fast Web and why we need to slow down. Give the whole article a read. Here's my favorite quote: "What is the Fast Web? It’s the out of control web. The oh my god there’s so much stuff and I can’t possibly keep up web. It’s the...
Can MySpace be cool again?
The new design looks like it will be a giant leap forward for MySpace. I do hope that their team has spent just as much (if not more) time on the user experience as they have on creating a modern user interface. With so many different actions to choose from, it could...