5 Tips for Hiring a Great Web Developer
Via Nelly Yusupova | @DigitalWoman It's important you hire the right talent the first time out. Otherwise, you risk hurting your business, as well as wasting time and money seeking a replacement (Naturally, we hope you'll consider Signal ;)). Read full article
Microsoft Edge Will Soon Stop Loading Flash Whenever Possible
Via Napier Lopez | @napilopez Microsoft is sounding the latest death knell for the technology by blocking Flash from loading altogether. Read full article
Thinking — The Mistake Your Website Shouldn’t Make
Via Andrew Schulkind | @AndrewSchulkind We do want visitors to our website to think about our content. What we don’t want them to think about is how to find our content or the contact form or anything else for that matter. We want to avoid playing with expectations. Cleverness should not get in the way of clarity. Read full article
The 10-Step Recipe For Creating Sizzling Landing Pages
Via Neil Patel | @neilpatel For online businesses, landing pages are the revenue gatekeepers. They are lifelines for collecting leads. Read full article
Your Website Is a Conversation, Not a Presentation
Via Andrew Schulkind | @andrewschulkind Your website is a proxy for you. You’re not actually sitting face-to-face with your prospects. But even without the back-and-forth of an actual conversation, you can get better Web results by striving to create a dialogue. Read full article
Website Navigation: 7 Best Practices, Design Tips and Warnings
Via Andy Crestodina | @crestodina Little things make a big difference. Your website navigation is a great example. The structure and labels of your navigation can have a huge impact on results. Read full article
The Never-Ending Website
Via Tracy Halvorsen | @TraceyHalvorsen Let’s start planning for a site that doesn’t need to be thrown out in five years. Read full article
Why your website needs to be responsive
More and more people are making smartphones and tablets their primary paths to the Internet. There're lots of statistics to support this, but one recent observation really stands out: According to the world’s most popular search engine: “More Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the U.S. and Japan...