Web Design Blog | Tips & Strategies for Website Success
You have probably heard of the term responsive website, but understanding exactly what it is can take some research and time. Responsive websites have become the new buzzword in today’s world of mobile web browsing, where users visit websites on a range of devices ranging from a traditional computer, to iPads to comparatively small screen smartphones. A website needs to be able to function well on all of these devices if it is to be successful.… Read more…
The thing with entrepreneurs is, their place is at the head of the pack. Whenever a new industry springs up, it’s always the individual entrepreneur that jumps into the market first. This truth holds all the way back to the initial computer revolution: When the home computer first became available, it was the garage tinkerers like Michael Dell and Steve Jobs who started building desktops when they realized “Hey, people want to buy these things and there’s nobody else selling them!”
Are you an entrepreneur?… Read more…
It’s kind of strange to realize it, but online shopping still doesn’t seem to feel as accessible as real-world shopping. There’s the obvious barriers that are unavoidable: customers can’t touch, run, or try on a product virtually; slinging your personal details about online always carries a small risk, and so on.
The thing you have to remember about your target market is that they want to feel comfortable with the experience. You should have everything be visible and easy to manage.… Read more…
Ecommerce entrepreneurs have this great resource, the Internet, native to their business, and then 95% of them fail to harness its full potential. You have to face the facts: If you do business online, then you are a marketer first and foremost, regardless if you’re selling hand-crocheted rugby jerseys or splash-guards for dog-bathers. Marketing online is a full-time job all by itself. Here’s some fresh inspiration when you get burnt out on it:
1. Link fluidly between social media accounts.… Read more…
“Responsive” is the new word going around the web design campfire. It was first coined by the web design blog “A List Apart” and has become the term being batted around the meeting table every Monday morning.
OK, but what does it mean? For a web design to be responsive, that means that it must respond to how it is viewed. In other words, it should serve different content or styling depending on if a visitor is using a mobile phone, a tablet, a laptop, or a full-screen desktop to view it.… Read more…
A handful of information nuggets about responsive web design for ecommerce websites:
#1. Mobile traffic now accounts for 10% of all traffic online. The two regions with the biggest recent gains in mobile traffic are Asia, where mobile users now count for almost 20% of all web users, and Africa, where mobile use is almost 15% of all web users. Why is this? It’s because large parts of Africa and Asia never got on board with the whole “nation-wide Internet access” bandwagon in the 1990s, so mobile use is the only solution for almost everybody in a rural region.… Read more…
The year is 2013, the competition is tough, the number of competitors is high, and you only have 3-10 seconds to make the most recent visitor to stay on your website. If they stay, chances are that they can be converted, and to make them stay, web design plays a critical role.
Don’t get us wrong, we still believe that content is king. However, the web design can highlight and present the content effectively and efficiently, or it can overpower it thus reducing the effectiveness and clarity of the message.… Read more…
