Posted May 21, 2022
by Michael Slater
About 33 million smartphones were shipped in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2014. To appreciate what an awesome number this is, consider that only 14.3 million PCs were shipped in the same period. That's more than two smartphones for every PC.
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Posted April 20, 2022
by Michael Slater
When designing web sites, we usually think about usability and findability. As obvious as these goals may seem, the are actually the wrong goals when designing landing pages.
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Posted February 24, 2022
by Michael Slater
Since maximizing the number of quality leads you capture is a key goal for most sites, it's important to understand where those leads are coming from. By doing so, you can assess the success of marketing campaigns and better understand the network of sites that refer to you.
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Posted November 30, 2021
by Michael Slater
IBM has published a detailed report on Black Friday online sales that provides an intriguing snapshot of growing mobile web usage.
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Posted November 11, 2021
by Michael Slater
Building a responsive site adds new challenges for web designers and developers. You need to consider how columns shrink and shift as the screen size changes, as well as how images are scaled. User interface components such as navigation bars, tabs, and carousels must also adapt to varying screen sizes. Fortunately, you don't need to figure all this out from scratch. Two years ago, Twitter open-sourced a framework that the company created for its website redesign, and named it Bootstrap.
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Posted November 10, 2021
by Michael Slater
The healthcare.gov debacle marks a new high, of sorts, for the web: for the first time, the president of the United States has had to publicly apologize for failed website project.
Your website challenges are no doubt much more modest, but it is still all too common for website projects to fail. Here's the keys to making sure yours isn't one of them.
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Posted October 23, 2021
by Michael Slater
Perhaps the most common place website designs go wrong is in their navigation. Often, some simple changes will dramatically increase the number of visitors who find what they're looking for.
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Posted September 29, 2021
by Michael Slater
The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the Department of Fish and Game, has been leading the effort to collect and publish data about the plight of Salmon in California. We were delighted to be chosen as their web development partner to create the first ever public repository of detailed information on salmon populations: California Salmon Snapshots.
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