Web design

  • First Thoughts on Typography for Your Website

    First Thoughts on Typography for Your Website

    The subject of typography at your website is a large one, and I’m not trying to cover it. I’m assuming here that you’re not doing the design work yourself, and that what you need is enough information to recognize whether you have a problem, to choose a designer who has the skills you need, or…

  • Analytics and Your Web Site Redesign

    Analytics and Your Web Site Redesign

    Industry expert Dave Taylor says that he’s never arrived at a meeting about a site’s SEO redesign to find clients with analytics data. Me neither, unless I bring it with me.

  • The One Question to Ask Your Web Design Firm

    The One Question to Ask Your Web Design Firm

    Here’s the paper rocket ship I send to congratulate clients when their new sites launch. You’re only getting a mere hint of its awesomeness in this snapshot, but I think it helps to capture the excitement of launching a great new website.

  • Which Comes First, Design or Content?

    Which Comes First, Design or Content?

    In building a website, you can begin with the content or you can start with a design (perhaps a template) and work from there. Sometimes I write the content first and the designer fits the design around it. Sometimes the design is already finished, and I write to fit the design. If you hire your…

  • Your Website: Not Just a Pretty Face

    Your Website: Not Just a Pretty Face

    Your website provides essential information for your customers and prospective customers: who you are, what you do, what you have to offer, where to find you, how to contact you. These things are essential. But your website can do more than that.

  • Using Notable

    Using Notable

    I’ve mentioned Notable before, but I think I’ve mentioned it in a sort of “We all know about this” kind of way. I’ve discovered that in fact we don’t all know about this, so I want to share a little more about it. Click on the name of the site back in that first sentence…