Just came across an excellent article that clearly illustrates core design concepts that help inform any website design.
Written by Ahmed Hussam for Web Design TutsPlus (Apr 13th 2012), the following is an excerpt from Visual Direction in Web Design.
Sharing information is crucial to success in the modern online marketplace. Well written and well researched articles aimed at educating, entertaining and engaging your site visitors can help boost your business’ credibility and favourably influence your site visitors behaviour. But what if your audience doesn’t like reading on screen?
That’s where Content Repurposing comes in. [...]
Think of the websites you visit the most — chances are they are clean, professional, and easy to navigate. This is no coincidence: the human mind takes just a millisecond to make a definitive decision as to a site’s credibility, and this initial judgment is based entirely on aesthetics which means a good web design [...]
If you’re like me, you may have a section in your filing cabinet for instruction manuals for household equipment and electronic devices. Everything from your wireless printer to that novel bread machine that lurks in the back of your pantry.
However, not everything we own comes with a manual. Looking for a specific one on [...]
Everyone wants to get their blog as much attention as possible.
One way is to tie your blog into the social media sites. The heavy hitters are of course Twitter and Facebook. I have tried numerous plug-ins in an attempt to make an automated connection between my blogs and associated Twitter and Facebook accounts. None of them have [...]
I recently needed to reduce an A0 size file down to A3 and was confronted by loads of pages showing formulas for working this out.
But I wanted an easier way. Thankfully Markus Kuhn‘s website has a quick reference chart with ready-made resizing percentages.
The A series of paper [...]
So you’ve gone ahead and made a Facebook Page for your business, but you’re disappointed to find that each time you log in, there’s still only the loneliest number saying they ‘Like this’. So what so you do? How do you start to attract potential customers/clients/fans?
Start here!
On [...]
Inbound Marketing is marketing that focuses on being found by customers.
In traditional marketing (outbound marketing) companies focus on finding customers. They use techniques that are poorly targeted and that interrupt people. They use cold-calling, print advertising, T.V. advertising, junk mail, spam and trade shows.
Inbound Marketers flip outbound marketing on its head.
Instead of [...]
