One of the most important parts of designing a website is clearly communicating your ideas for the site layout. Often you have an idea of how you want it to look but you don’t have the software or design skills to build a decent mockup and sometimes you just need to see your idea before you can tell if it’s a good one or not. You may sketch something out, send links to other sites you...
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We put together this web design workflow chart to help communicate the process of building a website to our clients. This simple document has been extremely helpful in illustrating some very important details about the process and client involvement. For those clients who have never been involved in a site design, it serves as helpful road map that helps grasp what they may feel is an...
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In promotion for the upcoming Season 3 of Mad Men on AMC (which in my opinion is one of the best TV series of all time), they have created “Mad Men Yourself,” where you can create your own Mad Men character to look like you! Pick your features, your clothes, setting and extras. Here is mine…. That’s me arriving on my first day at Stanley...
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BING is Microsoft’s recently rebranded search engine. They changed things up in an attempt to compete with, or at least slow down, the increasing dominance of Google. The jury is still out as if it will gain any market share, but it still pulls enough traffic that it is important that your site is well represented. One of the main focuses of BING is comparison shopping. Bing is focusing a...
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Stock photos are an affordable way to quickly get great looking photos to use on your website and marketing materials. However, it is important to remember that the photographers, stylists, models and artists who created those images are hard working individuals just like you and me, so it’s important not to steal and misuse their art. Many clients often ask what the rules and laws...
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Google has just recently updated the local business search reporting interface. Some of the new reporting features are pretty great and show you a lot more about how customers interact with your local search listing. The new reporting dashboard shows statistics about your business listing, like how many users saw your business as a local search result, zip codes where driving directions requests...
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