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Web Design
Why A Site Search Is a “Must Have”
Whenever we conduct a website audit, site search is an item near the top of our list. If you don’t have this functionality on your site, hopefully this post will sway you. I’ll share some best practices in setting one up and how to make sure you glean useful user experience data from it. I’ll also mention two plugins that I regularly use on our clients’ WordPress websites.
Landing Pages for Mobile Optimization
With mobile becoming more and more important for getting online customers, mobile landing pages need more attention than ever. Getting customers to purchase online is tough. Smartphones are full of distractions. So how can you keep your visitors focused on your site long enough to make a purchase?
Engaging Website Design For ‘Boring’ Businesses
Not every company gets to sell ‘cool’ products. Marketing is much easier when you’re selling the hottest new technology or the most fashionable new pair of sneakers. But what if you’re selling draft excluders or wall cavity insulation? There’s only so much you can do to make it look exciting. But that doesn’t mean that your website has to be 50 Shades of Beige. With engaging website design, you can build a relationship with your customers, regardless of the product.
Building Perfect Landing Pages
So much of SEO and SEM is focused on getting people to your website, but what happens when they get there? To have any chance of converting a website visitor to a customer you need to make sure your site is focused on helping them make that transition. So let’s discuss how to optimize the post-click experience for your future customers.
Technology Design Reshaping User Experience
Old School or Just Broken? Recently I saw this toddler & iPad video. Prepared for a yet another dose of YouTube cuteness, it actually surprised me. What struck me was this child’s cognitive development and hand-eye coordination; it’s been forever impacted by leaps in recent technology where books are interactive and magazines are perplexing. Perhaps we’re …
Online Sales: The Paradox of Too Many Choices
Killing Sales Thru Choice Paralysis We’ve all been tempted by wanting to show a new prospect everything about our business in order to woo them. We want to show them our value propositions, experience, breadth of knowledge, all the cool stuff we do, and the problems we solve. But the problem is… it’s too much …
How to Interview a Website Designer or Developer
Finding the right Website Designer and Developer for your business requires knowing what questions to ask and the success factors you’ll use to judge the finished product. To help CEOs and marketing managers effectively interview web designers and developers, we’ve created a list of 7 questions to the help you find the right consultant when updating or completely redesigning a company’s website.
4 Must-Follow Landing Page Design Principles To Get More Sales
All too often we see our clients spend hard-earned money on PPC campaigns but are unhappy with the results. Or worse, they’re happy with the click-through rate but don’t realize they are spending too much on mediocre results. Why? Because they aren’t thinking like a visitor and it shows in their landing page design.
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What to Put on Your 404 Page
Page Not Found An often forgotten part of website design is your 404 page. A well-run business always has a plan b. Just like having a contingency plan for if your office has a power cut, you should have a plan for if a user visits part of your website that doesn’t exist anymore. Customizing …