Everywhere you look, there’s AI-created website designs and stock photography that’s overused. If you’ve ever looked at a web page design and swore you’ve seen that very same photo or design somewhere else, that’s because you have. Proper design has one trademark:...
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Four Reasons Speed Matters for Your Web Design
Website speed: nobody likes visiting a slow website. We’re going to cover a few key points that can’t be stressed enough – your website speed is critical. Here’s why: SEO Tactics In short, a slow website will actually damage your SEO strategy, and can even lower your...
How to Improve Your Website’s Lead Generation
We’re all after more clientele, a wider revenue stream, and the chance to create lifelong clients and customers with brand loyalty. You haven’t build an entire online presence for the fun of it – it’s an investment, and you expect to see leads. Here’s what you can do...
Ecommerce Site Design Has to Compete With the Big Names: Here’s How to Stand Out
In case you haven’t noticed, ecommerce dominates billions of dollars per year, and it’s not a very widespread market. When you look at the ecommerce giants, such as Amazon (46% of all ecommerce sales), Walmart and Apple, they all have one thing in common: they’re...
Six Ways to Know If Your Website Design Is Optimized for Visitors
It’s easy to assume that your website is performing optimally when you’re looking through from the other side. Truth is, your visitors may be encountering problems that aren’t so apparent to you. These are the top six ways to know if your website development has paid...
Website Design Needs Clear Navigation: Here’s Why
We all understand that having excellent web design is crucial to your brand and overall website structure, but there’s an underlying aspect that requires balance. There’s such a thing as over-designing your site, and not truly focusing on the fundamentals of your...
Small Business and Responsive Web Design: Why It’s Needed
There’s web design, then there’s responsive design—the ability to adapt to the device and browser that the viewer is using. In the ever-changing digital landscape, we’re seeing the tides turn on mobile internet use overtaking PC or laptop internet use, which begs the...
Why SSL Security Certificates Are a Must For Your Business In Today’s Age
Website design plays into a lot of things in today’s day and age: responsiveness per device, security, and staying away from the web vulnerability that scares us all just a bit. An SSL security certificate isn’t an option, really—not if you want to actually conduct...
How Secure Are Mobile Websites?
We’re using more mobile internet than ever before, meaning we purchase, input sensitive information, and access our bank accounts all on mobile web apps and sites. It begs the question: How secure are these platforms? Let’s talk about that. Website Security Relies on...
What The Mobile Future of the Internet Means For You
In 2017, we saw a shift in power: Mobile internet users and desktop/laptops users both represented half of the statistics. Mobile web use has been increasing over the years, and now it’s aiming to surpass standard desktop use. Consumers Use Mobile Internet More Often...
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