You can’t underestimate the importance of consistent, high-quality web design across devices of all shapes and sizes. Responsive web design is the way forward — but it’s often linked to performance issues. This is critical when 64% of smartphone users unforgivingly expect websites to load in under four seconds, yet average page weights continue to…
Non-profits need to use big data and mobile to present clear messages in 2016 2015 has seen charities gaining increased confidence to streamline, simplify and even surprise. With increasing demands from an ever increasingly digital savvy audience, standing still has not been an option. The larger charities are capitalising on ever more sophisticated opportunities gained…
Social media strategy and planning essentials First let’s answer the question, “What is a social media strategy?” A social media strategy defines how your organisation will use social media to achieve its communications aims and the supporting platform and tools it will use to achieve this. At a basic level it’s a simple statement of…
Don’t let your digital marketing campaigns fall foul of these mistakes The great thing about making a mess of a digital marketing campaign is that, with the benefit of hindsight, it becomes clear which actions were a mistake and which contributed to a winning campaign. In this article we share some examples of ‘epic fails’…
Editor’s Note: Some people seem to have a magic touch when it comes to digging up design goodness. Veerle Pieters is one of them. As she explores print and web design, photography, art and type, she uncovers a lot of brilliant gems. And because they are too good not to share, she has compiled a…
Improving re-engagement emails to help bring a dead email list to life According to MarketingSherpa, on average, marketers lose 25% of their email list every year. HubSpot have also modelled email database decay and suggest a similar figure if you don’t take action. Essentially, subscribers stop engaging with your brand which results in fewer clicks…
Another week comes to an end, with new browser announcements, releases and cool new tools that you might want to check out. I make it short: Have fun reading this week’s reading list and enjoy your weekend! Firefox 45 is out and now re-evaluates responsive images in srcset on resize or viewport changes. Also, the…
Taking you through setting up Facebook’s new Canvas ads The Facebook advertising juggernaut moves on with yet another huge product roll out. This time it’s Canvas Ads. As with Instant Articles for mobile, the idea is to provide an “immersive” experience with a rich media combination of images, videos, gifs, text, products, carousels and more…
Desperate times call for desperate measures. In attempts to fight back against the growing adoption of ad-blockers, many publishers and ad-dependent websites adopt all kinds of techniques from introducing “light” paywalls to limiting access to the site to fully blocking ad-blocker users from accessing the content altogether. It seems a bit ironic that a website…
How to increase loading times and keep web visitors happy Loading Times: Are They THAT big of a deal? Web performance optimisation, or WPO, is a term that relates to the various techniques IT specialists use in order to increase the speed in which websites are downloaded and displayed on a user’s web browser. You…
