By Jennifer Johnstone, from Search Engine Watch – Latest – http://bit.ly/1jFoZ6w
As advertisers, we have a lot of questions.
What type of messaging motivates users to act? Is my CTR higher this week than it was last week? Why is that?…Category: Strategies for Design
from Yoast – http://bit.ly/1hAo9bq
In releasing our themes, we got lots of reactions about the aesthetics of our themes. Some people found them plain looking, boring or unappealing. Others were very enthusiastic. Of course, there is no accounting for taste. But it made me wonder, how important are the aesthetics of a website?…
by Helga Moreno, from Onextrapixel – Web Design and Development Online Magazine – http://bit.ly/1khaYeY
Do you know the proverb: “Plenty is no plague”? How is it connected to today’s topic? The author begs your pardon for her passion for proverbs, idioms and metaphors, but some of them contain the quintessence of human intelligence and, as you know, “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure”.…
By Geoffrey James, from Inc.com – http://bit.ly/1eoiP4V
What makes a presentation good aren’t the same things that make a presentation great.
Good presentations are uncommon, but great presentations are rare as basilisk teeth. That’s because, when it comes to presentations, the jump from good to great is larger than the jump from bad to good.…
by Amanda Sibley, from Inbound Hub – http://bit.ly/1oWOMex
Marketers have started focusing more and more on the design and layout of their content — and it makes sense. Research shows that 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text.…
by Jenn Lukas, from A List Apart: The Full Feed – http://bit.ly/1kyYcLk
We have plenty of considerations to design for when crafting web sites. Web accessibility is not a new design consideration, but is still very important, no matter the size or speed of device we’re testing on.…
By Rand Fishkin , from Moz Blog – http://bit.ly/1k8a6tn
In a way, we often treat our websites like our children. No matter how awful they might be, we rationalize their behavior and tell everyone else how wonderful they are. Those blinders can stop marketing efforts before they even begin.…
by Ginny Soskey, from Inbound Hub – http://bit.ly/1iwRP85
On the surface, landing pages seem simple, right? They’re one page with one form. They have a paragraph or two of copy, and an accompanying image. If you have all the elements of successful landing pages, you should be good to go … right?…
by Editorial Staff, from WPBeginner – http://bit.ly/1hDugMQ
According to a recent survey, WordPress is powering nearly 21.2% of all the websites on the internet making it the most popular CMS in the world. Despite all that, there are still people who know very little about it.…
By David Marland, from Smashing Magazine – http://bit.ly/ShrySq
The BBC’s Programmes website is huge, and is intended to be a rolling archive of everything that the BBC broadcasts on television and radio. Originally released in 2007, it now has pages for over 1.6 million episodes, but that’s barely half of the story.…