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Wireframing is a vital part of web design that helps everyone stay on the same page. They’re the blueprint around which the webpage is designed, connecting the underlying architecture to the information presented to the visual design. A wireframe is a visual representation of the interface that explains a site’s intended: Structure: How the pieces [...]
Happy Independence Day, Americans! On Monday I wrote a post about web design and SEO working together, and I mentioned universal navigation as one of the important elements where the two areas of endeavor intersect. As I was wondering what I was going to blog about, I got an email asking me if I could [...]
So I have this book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and it’s all about the insights into wealth that the author (Robert Kiyosaki) received by growing up with two fathers, one on each side of the income spectrum. One of the core insights can be summed up thusly: ‘Poor people work for money, rich people [...]
At its core, web design is about taking what is essentially bland, context-free information and elevating into a form that is as intuitively usable as it is aesthetically pleasant. It’s about making modern communication easy, in much the same way that good handwriting was the key to the scribes of the Dark Ages and the [...]
I watched an interesting video on SearchEngineJournal this morning, and it got me thinking. The guy from SEJ was talking to the head of eBay’s SEO team, and the eBay guy talked a bit about how they’re currently quite focused on user experience — particularly, on CTR: Click-through rate. This got me thinking that there’s [...]
Since the advent of Google’s Authorship Markup, Internet marketing has become significantly more dependent on something that it lacked for about a decade: credibility. Now, Google has recently backed off a little bit on that by removing the author photograph and the ‘In X circles’ from their listings — but they still use authorship markup [...]
There are those web design mistakes that are so normal, we’ve come to accept them as standard practice when they really, really shouldn’t be. There’s a mountain of items I could list if I wanted this to be one of those five-page blog posts, but I’m going to keep it concise today. Seriously, be done [...]
Fluid Grids Fluid Images Media Queries That’s all, blog post done. Have a good day! …just kidding, of course. Responsive web design continues to get attention worldwide as the single best way to create a website that works well on any device, mobile or non-. But not many people have even the slightest grip on [...]
Rewind a decade. It’s 2004, and SEO is just starting to really explode. The industry is obsessed with mechanics — everyone is convinced that with a bit of cooperative reverse-engineering, we can ‘solve’ Google’s algorithm and get a website ranked wherever we want it ranked. PageRank dominates everyone’s attention, as do keyword lists and competition [...]
The ‘hero image’ ideal came into being a few years ago — iStock had an article on them way back in 2010 — but only recently has it gone fully mainstream, with a few big-time companies like PayPal adopting the hero image motif on their login screen. You’re getting ahead of yourself, Jared. Right — [...]