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7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert

7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert

Last week we presented 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert – we discussed various rules and guidelines from marketing, such as subliminal suggestion, prevention of choice paralysis, AIDA-principle, attention guide and the Gutenberg rule. The main idea was to help designers and developers create a design that would ...

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Clear And Effective Communication In Web Design

Clear And Effective Communication In Web Design

Communication is one of the foundational elements of a good website. It is essential for a positive user experience and for a successful website that truly benefits its owners. All types of websites are affected by the need for good communication in one way or another. Regardless of whether the ...

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8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter

8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter

Twitter is the new big thing. With everybody from Britney Spears to Barack Obama now on Twitter, it is safe to say the social networking platform has gone mainstream. For many users worldwide Twitter has become a crucial tool for maintaining contacts, exchanging opinions and making new connections. But what ...

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7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design

7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design

Look at what you’ve made. Beautiful, isn’t it? But does it work? For whom does it work? Of course you can use it, but can anyone else? In short, is it functional? At the heart of every piece of practical design, whether it be a website, product package, office building, manufacturing ...

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How To Communicate Design Decisions To Clients?

How To Communicate Design Decisions To Clients?

You may have noticed that in certain business and marketing circles there exists a “backlash” against the design community. Despite the rise of attractive, user-friendly solutions, in such cirlces unattractive designs have somehow managed to remain at the verge of acceptance. You’ll hear ideas being thrown around like “design is ...

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10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, ...

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How To Choose A Logo Designer

How To Choose A Logo Designer

A well-designed logo is probably one of the most important issues when it comes to design of corporate identity. The logo has to be describable, memorable, scalable and effective without color. To fulfill these criterias is a quite hard task to accomplish which is why you need a professional logo designer ...

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Corporate Identity Manuals & Guides

Corporate Identity Manuals & Guides

The protection of visual identity is probably one of the most important issues when it comes to developing concepts in which corporate identity (CI) is used. Both in web design and in print – corporate identity manuals are supposed to give designers precise guidelines on how logotypes, colors and typography ...

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Printing the Web: Solutions and Techniques

Printing the Web: Solutions and Techniques

Users don’t read, they scan. In fact, after many years, reading online still didn’t manage to assert itself against reading offline. Therefore long articles are usually printed out and read on paper. However, not every page will be printed out correctly by default – sometimes layout doesn’t fit, sometimes ...

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