Web Design Blog | Tips & Strategies for Website Success
A controversial subject in tech circles is whether or not a layman should learn to code. Some say no, as this post does. But we might want to think twice.
At least learning some rudimentary basics, even if you never touch an editor, will help you understand what works and what doesn’t and why. Anybody with a part of their business on the web should at least spend a couple of days browsing beginner’s level HTML tags.… Read more…
For those of you who have never had the occasion to learn how all this “font” stuff got started in the first place, 37Signals has a great post up about The Art of Computer Typography. It’s a great little history lesson on how hacker guru Donald Knuth basically brought typography to the computer age the way Moses brought the commandments down from the mountain.
It’s good to appreciate how you website’s font setup can make the difference between visitors staying and leaving.… Read more…
It’s like we’ve had one Armageddon after another in the SEO field lately. We’re down to mulling over our hard lessons from Penguin. It’s as if we’ve been spanked and sent to stand with our nose in the corner, lamenting the poor decisions that caused us to come to such ruin.
Well, not us, specifically. Honestly, we’ve been telling people for years that spammy tricks don’t work, and lo, it came true, the apocalypse has come and the bad moon has risen and the seven angels have blown their seven trumpets and unleashed the plagues of wormwood and boils… sorry, got carried away there.… Read more…
Some marketing blogs – even though they’re dishing out good advice – just put us to sleep. Such is not the case with Duct Tape Marketing, a sassy breath of fresh air in the marketing blog-world. Here is a post by them about how to sell to customers before they look for you, and it’s filled with inspiration. We loved the tree-removal service and their idea to offer to haul away Christmas trees after the holidays.… Read more…
The big brains over at ReadWriteWeb attempt to explain PInterest. We can tell you right now what the point is – free marketing! It’s a site loaded with a 3-to-1 female to male ratio, women put up pictures of products they like and share them with others. It’s like the important parts of Facebook with all the pointless stuff cut out.
Here’s how to Pinterest and get traffic today:
Saw this interesting post over at eCommerceTimes about the concept of “social shopping”. It’s about how community feedback and recommendations fit into the scheme of ecommerce, harnessing the power of peer review to encourage sales.
It’s a good idea, if you have confidence in your online business, to put in features to allow customers to discuss and compare products. The article points to many good examples – for instance, when you shop for clothes, you take a friend and get their opinion.… Read more…
Are you a retailer who needs some help with an online strategy? Need an eCommerce website? A recent statement by Retailers Traders’ Association of WA executive director Wayne Spencer says WA retailers must get online or do what he describes as master their defence against online retailers in order to survive.
“Shoppers are looking for convenience foremost and the trading hours [in WA] have meant people don’t have opportunity to visit retail outlets,” he said.
Read more here; Retailers finding it tough to compete with online
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Frequently asked questions (eCommerce websites)… Read more…
