A simple introduction to on-page and off-page SEO factors With every website vying for a moment in the spotlight, and viewers becoming more discerning between the value of various websites, the subtleties of search engine optimisation has become crucial in ensuring your websites visibility. By reading through this infographic, you can review 16 success factors…
How to go international with your ecommence Ecommerce opens up a world of opportunities (pardon the pun). Being based online rather than in a physical location means you potentially have access to vast amounts of customers. You are restricted only by the number of countries you can deliver to; in theory any one of the…
Earlier this year WordPress passed the 24% mark, running almost a quarter of all website – and for good reason. It has a loyal user base and scores of dedicated developers bringing better features to the system all year round. This article is for those of you who are either new to WordPress, or are…
Maxwell is a researcher at a design firm that is working on a mobile payment app. He wants to learn more about how users currently interact with point-of-sale terminals. Maxwell contacts a local grocery store to coordinate times to observe customers as they are checking out. He then asks every fifth customer who checks out…
Debunking the misconceptions that may prevent you investing wisely in strategies and resources while creating Social Media Campaigns As many as 72% of all internet users are active on social media, with 936 million daily active users of Facebook worldwide, one billion YouTube users and 270 million active Twitter users. And these figures are only…
With the majority of email now read on smartphones, to be effective, your emails have to stand out from the crowd There are a lot of boxes to tick to design a successful email. It needs to be on brand, it needs to stand out, it needs to work on multiple devices and it needs…
Twitter tweaks timeline to show most engaging Tweets top Importance: (For Marketers using Twitter)Recommended source: Twitter’s blog Twitter has been grappling with a series of problems of late. Falling share price, stagnating user growth and some high profile exits from some of the top brass. It’s looking to re-invigorate itself, and has decided to do…
Photoshop is still a favorite among a lot of web designers, and the right tools make it even more powerful as it already is. To help you boost productivity, save time, and, obviously, nerves, we have picked some valuable Photoshop resources, plugins, and scripts for you. Some of them will speed up routine tasks so…
Cross-browser testing is time-consuming and laborious. This, in turn, makes it expensive and prone to human error… so, naturally, we want to do as little of it as possible. This is not a statement we should be ashamed of. Developers are lazy by nature: adhering to the DRY principle, writing scripts to automate things we’d…
As I was leading my course in responsive web design between 2011 and 2012, I kept stumbling over the process of wireframing. My students tended to focus on the wireframe as being the end game in the planning process. They didn’t understand that responsive design focuses on how users will access the content. You can…
