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Design and Usability

When website projects involve web designers and SEO’s, it’s almost a sure fire recipe for conflict. However, it doesn’t have to be that way if both sides are willing to communicate and understand each other’s point of view. [...]

I love ads. No, really – I do.

I watch movies for the previews, I watch TV for the commercials (OK, I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials). As a marketing consultant I pay attention to ads [...]

 

As a blog reader, do you come across some issues in blog design that leave you scratching your head? “Why would they do that?” you might think to yourself. I have those moments too. Now to be [...]

As iPhone’s, Blackberries, Palm Pre’s and other smart phones become more widespread should site owners and publishers start to offer mobile versions, and from an SEO perspective what should you be concerned about?

Now that smart phones are [...]

When designing your marketing material, you’ll notice that creating all the elements of the design can take a lot of time. To save yourself some time on often-used design elements, these free Photoshop brushes should be very useful. [...]

The majority of web site layouts fit in one of two directions:

Completely fixed width (NBC.com is an example of this) Completely fluid (amazon.com is an example of this)

Fluid sites, in general, have the left and rightmost [...]

If you read our prior article about magazine style blog design, you hopefully got a good overview of what magazine style design on the web looks like, and examples of sites that incorporate it well.

But analyzing an [...]

Although it is difficult to get data on the relative sizes of the mobile web versus the Internet as people access it from their desktop PCs, it seems likely that the mobile web will outstrip the regular Internet, [...]