Via Janie Kliever at Canva | @canva
Underneath all the design decisions that you have to make, is something even more important: your website's layout. The layout provides a framework that structures your site in a way that makes sense, is easy to navigate, and lets your content shine.
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Via Carrie Cousins | @carriecousins
The web is a rainbow of color options. Color is a great tool for grabbing the attention of users, providing visual interest and impact and creating contrast for readability. Color is also at the center of many design trends, including flat and material styles.
But can you go wrong with color? Are there hues or...
Via Alicia Cressall | @aliciacressall
The re-emergence of hand lettering has taken over Instagram and has made it a sought-after skill again. Good hand lettering looks effortless and fun, but before you commit to including it in your web project ask yourself these questions: Does it fit the brand? Will the lettering scale, or the orientation change? Will...
Via Chuck Cohn | @ChuckCohn
As your company evolves, you may find that the website you began your business with no longer accurately reflects your vision or your products and services. In this instance, a re-skin -- otherwise known as changes to the layout, visual appearance, and/or other elements -- can help you preserve the aspects of your website that...
Via Kissmetrics | @Kissmetrics
It's critical. The design of a website's navigation has a bigger impact on success or failure than almost any other factor. It affects traffic and search engine rankings. It affects conversions and user-friendliness. Everything important about your website is connected to the navigation, from content to the URLs....
Via Sarah Smith | @sarahsmith82110
More and more people are accessing the web from smaller personal devices. With this ongoing trend, it's important to have a webpage with elements that respond differently to different devices. Otherwise, you're likely to use a growing source of traffic.
Using Google Analytics can show these valuable data and...
Via Nadine Kintscher from @smashingmag
Ever wondered why your users don't interact with your product the way you hope? Persuading people to perform a particular action, like signing up or buying a product, is a challenge in most industries, especially when you want that action to be performed repeatedly.
To understand the reasons behind what drives...
Via Faizan Raza | @TechCoHQ
In order to improve the conversion rates of your company's website, there are several things that you can do. These are all obvious things that work; however, many people often lose sight of the basics when they are overly consumed with the latest fads that are here today and gone tomorrow.
So lets take a look at...
Via David Attard | @davidattard
Many times we focus on the user who has the specific intent of visiting our website, but we tend to forget the user who has just discovered our site through an organic search. Are you optimizing the user experience for users who are landing on your site after searching for something?
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