Friday, February 22, 2013

How Behavioral Targeting Works with eCommerce



Behavioral targeting should sound familiar if you have been an avid eCommerce trend follower for some time. But, What exactly it is? By Andy Sowards

Designing an Accessible Site Without Losing Your Mind

Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing and hot keys for every minute function of a site, and writing over-descriptive metadata, so most people just give up and don’t even bother. By Just Creative

Web Design + Psychology = Satisfied Users?

What’s one word people associate with web design? Some may say creativity. Creativity is often described as “making something that has value”. That’s one definition. Another one is “recognizing ideas and concepts and using them in solving a particular problem.” By Just Creative

9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client

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The design phase of creating a website is fairly standard for most web designers however when it comes to presenting the mock up to a client before slicing / coding the design, some problems do arise so I went out and asked the community about how they present a web site design to a client. By Just Creative

How To Make Your Next Website Design Pop

Web design is one of those areas that when done right, you know it. It looks polished, refined and generally, just well done – it pops! By Just Creative

7 Facts and Myths of HTML5

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As Opera evangelist Bruce Lawson puts it, “Everyone’s talking about HTML5”. It’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners & gradients on everything. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned DHTML or AJAX. Mixed in with all the information is a lot of misinformation. By Just Creative

Web Design Tips & Advice from A to Z

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A nice list of tips when designing your web site. By Just Creative

10 SEO Rules for Designers

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a vital component of any website. As a web designer or blogger, it’s important you understand how SEO works. Here are ten easy rules that will immediately improve the SEO on all of your web sites. By Just Creative

9 SEO Tips You’ve Probably Forgot About

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SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) has, as most of you probably know by now, become one of the most important elements when setting up a website. By Just Creative

Eight ways to avoid common website mistakes

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Everyone has a website these days, but not every website is equal. As the online environment becomes ever more crowded, you don’t just need to have a website, you need to have an outstanding website. In pursuit of the perfect page, here are some of the top web design mistakes to avoid. By Just Creative

How to Effectively Pitch Your Website Idea to Designers & Developers

The following post will take you, step-by-step, through the creative process. And once you go through it, you’ll hand your prospective designers everything they need to get started. By Just Creative

Agile Development + Content Strategy: An Opportunity or Headache?

Agile is not the latest marketing craze or trendy buzzword. Its origins date back to the 1970s, in the field of software development. Thousands of successful titles have been built with agile methodologies. By Experience Matters

Create Favicons Online With These 5 Useful Tools

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Favicons are to websites what bread and water is to human beings: essential. They’ve been around long-since and will still be when we all have perished. By Noupe

Responsive Design vs. Mobile Sites vs. Native Mobile Apps: Which One’s the Best?

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With constantly changing trends and a five fold increase in mobile Internet users, more and more companies are aiming to create sites which will make their services available to mobile users. By Vandelay Design

5 Keys of Successful Logo Design

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The best logos make an impact. They are memorable and they instantly evoke images of the brand with which they are associated. By Vandelay Design

25 Awesome Websites for Unique Businesses

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Now that nearly every business in every niche and industry is online these days, it can be difficult for even the highly unique businesses to stand out. Small businesses have a need to be highly innovative and original to really draw in loyal clients, and one way to be innovative is with your brand elements, including your website. By Vandelay Design

Building a jQuery Sticky Sidebar Navigation Menu

There have been countless efforts in creating a dynamic set of codes for sticky sidebars. Most commonly this effect is used on blogs or magazines with fixed social media sharing badges. By Team Tree House

Build a Simple Website

Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project. By Team Tree House

What is HTML5?

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In this Quick Tip, Nick Pettit provides an overview of HTML5, including a look at some of the new tags now available to designers and developers. If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the new features of HTML5, this video is for you! By Team Tree House

Adding Motion into Web Design with Animate.css

Lots of frontend web developers have been getting interested in dynamic interfaces using motion effects. This is all too common with many advancements within popular JavaScript libraries. But there has also been a lot of interest in CSS3 animated effects. By Team Tree House