Web design

  • Visual Clutter at Your Website

    Visual Clutter at Your Website

    Does your website suffer from visual clutter? This gas pump sure does. There are so many options here that the user has to stand and stare to figure out what to do. There are a lot of things that look as though they might be things to press in order to pump gas. There are…

  • What Pages Does Your Website Need?

    What Pages Does Your Website Need?

    Today I have a couple of websites to write drafts for, both starting from scratch. It made me think of the dilemma a lot of people face when planning a new website: how many pages should you have, what should the pages be, and what order should they be in?

  • Navigation for SEO

    Navigation for SEO

    I’m working on a website for a public speaker, so I went around looking at the usual navigation for such sites. Someone who’s looking to hire a public speaker is likely to look at a number of these sites, so I needed to know where things usually turned up at those sites. I want to…

  • A Better School Website in a Week

    If you have a classroom website, a faculty webpage, or a wikki for your students, this is a great time to think about how you might want to improve it for next year. Since this site is about search and marketing, and classroom sites don’t care about search and marketing, I’m going to put all…

  • Content vs. Design at Your Website

    Really, it should never be content vs. design; it should always be content and design together, harmoniously collaborating to get you those conversions you want.

  • Changing Your WordPress Theme

    I had the good fortune to win a subscription at Elegant Themes, one of my favorite sources of WordPress themes, so it seems like a perfect time to talk about themes and what you can do with them at your WordPress site.