Check out the newly redesigned Gov.uk website which takes hold of not just a great grid-system, but also a flat-design approach. Seeing government entities now thinking in a “responsive design” mind-set is very refreshing as designers and developers.
Ever wonder how fast your websites “Mobile” version loads? You may be suprised to find out that most mobile sites are just as beefy as their desktop-sized counter-parts!
This is a great article discussing Responsive Website Design in the new age. In an article written on SmashingMagazine.com by Drew Clemens, he explores the problems associated with adapting to this new process, and solutions for proper layouts and workflow efficiency. Read the article
Have you ever wondered what visitors expect to find when they come to your Web site, whether through search or inbound links or by directly entering your site URL? Recent design and usability research completed by OneUpWeb shines a light on what’s important to people when they visit particular types of Web sites. Let’s take a look at what the findings reveal that might influence your next site redesign.
In How Well Does Your Web Site Cater to Your Customers? we identified the general attributes that customers require—and desire—from a business Web site. This new research adds specifics for common types of businesses. Table 1 summarizes the findings about visitor expectations for ecommerce, B2B and travel and hospitality sites. Read more
Designing or redesigning your business website should be a positive experience that results in a finished product that looks great and performs superbly to meet your business goals. But with so many Web Design Agency in the marketplace, how do you find the one that’s right for you? With a little preparation, you can narrow the field and find a perfect match for your businesses web design and branding services requirements.
When considering a web design agency, first check out its Web site. Do you like what you see? Is it appealing? Professional? Easy to navigate? Does the company provide a portfolio of work that you can readily find and browse through?
When you study the portfolio, look at the range of designs and the variety of businesses the company has designed for. Is the website design unique to each business? Do the designs bring each business to life? Do the sites in the portfolio demonstrate that the design agency has experience creating features—shopping carts, custom Web applications, mobile accessibility—that you have in mind for your site? The portfolio provides examples of past work, so also ask to see examples of recent work to be sure that the company can deliver what today’s businesses need. Read more
“Technology is changing your customer, and your customer will change your company,” reports Forrester Research CEO George Colony in a recent blog post. “The 2009 customer is unrecognizable from the 1999 customer. … If your business looks the same now as it did in 1999, you are risking irrelevancy.”
How different is your business today than it was in 1999? And more specifically, how different is your Web site now than a decade ago? Because online technologies and consumer use of them has grown rapidly in the past several years, if your business website looks and acts the same as it did even just a few years ago, you might not be supplying what your customers require—or what they desire—to do business with you. It’s a good time to revisit exactly how well you’re catering to your customers online. Read more
An important part of maintaining an effective business website design is keeping an eye on what your competitors are doing. Not only can you get ideas for improving your own site, but you also might discover niche opportunities that can elevate you above your competition.
What areas should you look at when you review a competitor’s site? For starters, try using the same criteria that the Web Marketing Association uses to judge entries in its WebAward Competition. Let’s take a look. Read more
If you Google good web design, you’ll find 35,600,000 or so results that you can peruse for helpful—and in some cases entertaining—information about how to make your Website just that—good.
Well, here at ACS Creative, we discuss and explore good web design all day – everyday. Working with clients from start to finish to ensure that their web properties provide the best possible user experience. But rather than start out by foisting our opinions on you, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to see what wisdom might turn up in that aforementioned Google search. So, my strategy for this introductory post about good Web design is to do precisely what you might do: Search on good web design, check out the listings on page 1 of the search results pages and see what nuggets of information rise to the top. It’s amazing that so many of these sites take only a “do as I say … not as I do” approach to good web design. Despite that peculiarity, here are the nuggets (in no particular order): Read more
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