Ever visit a confusing website? You try to find a product but end up scratching your forehead in frustration? So you exit the poorly designed site in search of another site that proves more user friendly. Web designers utilize a process called usability testing. This testing ensures your website makes sense and is easy to …
What is RSS? This acronym stands for really simple syndication. This technology proves helpful for creating email campaigns and generating website feeds. How does this work? When you publish a blog post, your RSS feed pulls in your post’s information. So the title, published date, and description information for your posts feed your really simple …
Like a forgotten pair of shoes, many website footers get neglected. Since footers are at the bottom or base of your website, it’s easy to overlook them. But used strategically, website footers can be an important part of your website’s design. How can you utilize your footer strategically? How can you maximize this part of …
Writing is difficult. Web design in too. So to write for web should be VERY difficult, right? I mean, it’s hard enough to write clearly but then to make your text format correctly on the web and be search friendly by Google, how monstrous a task! If this describes your situation, there’s hope. A friend …
Passive verbs are like weeds. And your website is like a garden. The two don’t go well together. Yes, I used two of them in the first two sentences, so they sometimes fit. But not as a general rule of green thumb. As you recall, passive verbs are words like: is, are, were, and was. …
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White are known for their little book, The Elements of Style. This compact book provide the necessary tools to help you provide punch to your writing. Following its principles will help you write effectively for your website’s copy. In a Pinterest-infatuated image-based society, we often overlook the importance of …
Ever eat one too many dinner rolls and feel stuffed? Or one too many breadsticks from your favorite Italian restaurant. If so, you know the feeling of overdoing it. Some people overdo it in other areas of life. Like saving files for the web. We overdo it and try to upload an image that is …
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Event management is time consuming but essential. Poor management will lead to poor attendance. And increased frustration. To make matters more complicated, event registration, email marketing, and payment processing can make event management challenging. Each of these important components can be stumbling blocks for getting people to your event. But with the proper tools, event …
As we approach the new year, it’s appropriate to revisit your web strategy. Thinking through how you plan to market your company in 2013 allows you to pause and think about the big picture: what you hope your website will accomplish. Successful planning can help you maximize opportunities for online growth and also remove obstacles …
