5 Things Your Clients Should Know
Do you ever feel like you are endlessly repeating the same day? I do, every time I attend a kickoff meeting with a new client. Each time I find myself covering the same old issues from explaining the client’s role, to encouraging investment in content. I find it incredibly frustrating and this is what ultimately led me to write the Website Owners Manual. This is not a criticism of clients, however. The problem is that the client does need to have a very broad understanding (certainly more than can be communicated in a single article), however I have found that understanding certain key issues can make an enormous difference to the efficiency of a client. What follows is a list of the 5 things that I believe will have the biggest impact on a client’s site. 1. I have worked on hundreds of websites over the past 15 years and each site’s success or failure has always been attributed to the quality of the client. As web designers we, of course, like to emphasis our role in the process. 2. 3.
Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
Advertisement Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most popular manifestation of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of clickable buttons that when clicked, perform an action (e.g. "Buy this now!") How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? Best Practices for Effective Call to Action Buttons Designing call to action buttons into web interfaces requires some forethought and planning; it has to be part of your prototyping and information architecture processes in order for them to work well. Draw user attention with size In web pages, the size of an element relative to its surrounding elements indicates its importance: the larger the element is, the more important it is. Size of call to action button versus surrounding elements A web page may have multiple calls for action.
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Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices
Advertisement When designing a large website, especially one that contains a store, you may be required to design a system for ordering online, or a multi-step process of another sort. Walking users through this process by making it easy and intuitive is key to helping increase conversion rates. In this article we will look at various uses of progress trackers and see how they’ve been implemented, what they are doing well, and what they are not doing well. What are Progress Trackers? You may not be familiar with the term ‘progress tracker’, also called a ‘progress indicator’ — but chances are good that you have encountered one at one time or another. An example of a progress tracker at Game1 The Difference Between Progress Trackers and Breadcrumbs As we have detailed previously in Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices2, breadcrumbs are a way of enhancing navigation by revealing a user’s current location. Example of breadcrumbs at Coolspotters3 Uses of Progress Trackers 1. 2.
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Keyword Optimalisatie door Analyse van Eigen Data, een Echte Goudmijn ! | E-Tail
Keyword research gaat meestal over het gebruiken van verschillende externe tool en hulmiddelen maar zelden over het graven in eigen data. Ik toon je waarom en vooral hoe je die data kan gebruiken. Eigen data heeft zoveel meer te bieden dan de data die externe tools ons voorschotelen en toch wordt het analyseren en gebruiken van deze data zoveel over het hoofd gezien. Maar met welke dataset zou jij liever werken ? Of je eigen data : De tooldata geeft me enkel een schatting van wat het totaal zoekverkeer is op de woordcombinaties. Ik weet niet maar voor mij een nobrainer om te zien dat eigen data een stuk waardevoller is… Hoe het in zijn werk gaat Bij keyword optimalisatie zijn er grofweg 3 bronnen om uit te gaan putten : organisch verkeerbetalend verkeerinterne zoekfunctie En zijn er 3 manieren om de gevonden data te gaan optimaliseren : betere rankings versierenin de longtail duikenvanuit de longtail naar boven toe werken De Bronnen Je mag ook niet te bekrompen naar die data kijken. Rankings
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Wordpress Plugins : 116 WP Plugins in 16 Categorieën | E-Tail
Soms een behoorlijk frustrerende taak om de juiste WordPress plugin te zoeken/vinden voor je site (als je al weet dat er bestaan) en er bestaan tal van “best of” lijstjes maar zeer weinigen die up to date en of mooi geordend zijn. Dus ben ik in 2008 begonnen met het verzamelen van gratis en betalende plugins (sommigen heb ik nog nooit gebruikt , dus als je site wordt verneukt, ik weet van niks ) en die mooi in categorieën gaan stoppen. Mochten jullie nog toevoegingen hebben, laat het even horen in de reacties, dan plaats ik ze er nog tussen… Seo Headspace2 : een fantastische plugin die ik vooral gebruik om een aparte pagina titel en meta description aan een post mee te geven. Linkbuilding Internal linkbuidling : In het artikel over “automatiseer je interne linkbuilding” beschreef ik uitvoerig hoe je dat kan gebruiken. Post & Pagina CSVtoPost : Een zeer handige plugin om via excel honderden (of zelfs duizenden als je die luxe hebt:o) posts 1 ruk up te loaden en te controleren. Poll en Rating
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A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design
Web design is so important to ensure a site has a good user experience and each aspect of it can have a huge impact on the usability of your site. One of these aspects, Typography is an often overlooked, but integral part of design and something your web design company shouldn’t be overlooking. Think of all the different uses of typography on the web, from large headlines and bold blocks of text to smaller-sized text in body copy, and you’ll soon realize that not only is it a crucial part of a web design, but that it’s a pure combination of art and science. We’ve come a long way since the start of the internet, but the use of typography is as important today as it was back in the day. Typography Basics Typography is the use of type in a design. There are two major classifications of fonts to choose from: serif and sans serif fonts. Serif fonts have serifs or extra embellishments at the end of stokes; some call them feet or tails. Things to Consider for Typography on the Web Web Safe Fonts
