Category Web Design

Many of us take good web design for granted nowadays. Properly laid-out, visual appeal and responsiveness provide an effortless browsing experience, and make your site easier to use for visitors. However, it wasn’t always this way! Back in the distant 1990’s and early 2000’s (has it really been that long?), the internet was a vastly different place: Dial-up was king (as were slow loading times and ear-splitting connection sounds) Adobe Flash was still the go-to for…

Last week, we busted some common myths regarding web cookies, as well as their importance to online advertising when it comes to making conversions. In particular, we discussed their importance for targeting and retargeting your ads. There’s just one problem: cookies might be on their way out! Cookies have formed the bedrock of digital advertising strategies for almost as long as digital advertising has existed. Whether it’s Google AdWords or any other third-party advertiser, cookies…

Get with the times and go responsive before it’s too late. (Although, if we’re going to be honest, you’re possibly already too late.) Catch up, guys: it’s 2015, and if your website visitors are still frantically scrolling horizontally backwards and forwards, and pinching and zooming in and out of content – basically, taking far too long to read a simple paragraph – it should come as no surprise that they’ll abandon your website in a…

“All web hosts are the same–” STOP right there. If you’ve been told all web hosts are the same, and you’ll get the same options and service regardless if you’re choosing a free or paid hosting service, please, for the love of your business (and our sanity), read on! The old adage “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” rings true in our minds when we read about free web hosts trying to sell…