Still not ready to dump your icon images? I know it’s hard. That’s why I’ve provided my team’s three solid reasons for ditching icon images and replacing them with their newer, better-looking version - icon fonts:
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Ten years ago, it was taboo to utter the word “template” to a customer when discussing their new website. I avoided this word at all costs, and if I ever did say the word "template" I quickly followed it with an explanation of why the word “template” just left my mouth. After all, haven't we all heard a client say, "this design looks too much like a template" when rejecting one of our custom website designs. Because of this fear, I along with thousands of other web designers went through a huge identity crisis.We all thought that every website should be custom, because that's what we thought our customers wanted. Looking back years later, I've realized that nothing could be further from the truth. Custom web design is dying and here are 10 reasons why.
Web Design Agencies are great at making beautiful websites, but can they do SEO too? We analyzed award-winning website designs throughout the world to see how SEO friendly they were. We also compared these websites to leading SEO Agency websites to see how they were design wise. We noticed that most SEO agencies have great rankings, but poor designs and we noticed that web design agencies have beautiful websites but poor SEO.
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Will Critchlow announced back in November that Distilled's blog was updated with a new responsive design, but it occurred to me recently that we never went into the specifics of why responsive web design is so great. It's been a hot topic in online marketing for the past few months, but is it really going to become an industry standard? Short answer: yep.
We've all run into the issue of compromising design for SEO, or vice-versa. Why is it that websites that look amazing typically offer little opportunity for on-page optimization? In today's post, Justin Taylor bridges the gap between design and SEO with a solution that makes both sides happy dance with joy!
As I’m typing this, I’m on my way home from an invaluable trip to Distilled’s SearchLove in London (I know, this post has been on the shelf for quite some time). I must say I enjoyed every single one of the presentations, but one really appealed to me. This was the one from ...
It's been a long time since I've written about design here at Moz, but I spent my morning in a great meeting with our designer, Derric, and was inspired by a lot of his ideas and what we reviewed to revisit some of the emerging trends and outlier creatives that are opening our eyes to what's possible. Below, you'll find some truly exceptional, unique elements of creative layout and artistry, as...
The best experience site visitors can have is to find what it is they're looking for. They want easy access to quality, unbiased information, they want to compare prices and they want to know if the company, association, service provider or other site owner delivers the goods or services visitors are looking for. Unfortunately, site owners want something else – a sale, an opt-in, a...
In recent years both Google and Apple have been strong advocates of HTML5 - a new HTML standard which includes features like video playback and drag-and-drop. Many believe that HTML5 will be a replacement for third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Google has just introduced Google Instant Previews where the websites can be previewed straight from Goo...
Its about 6 months now since Google announced they were going to start using site speed as a ranking factor. While this caused the usual hoo-rar in the search industry for about 5 minutes the buzz died down quicker than with other announcements this year.
As the worlds of web design and SEO merge ever closer, we've been seeing design-specific elements produce a positive impact on SEO for the sites that employ them. It's terrific news for SEOs who love design and are capable of and passionate about making it part of their repertoire. It's also great for designers who find that as they evolved from Flash designs to machine-readable CSS and separat...
Let's start by asking one of the most important questions in conversion rate optimization (CRO): A good question In this article, you’ll get: A clear and defined process for CRO Checklists to print and check off a...
Hello there fellow mozDudes (and yes, I'm going to trademark that term). I've popped up from the ether to talk about conversion rate optimisation, and the design process. Now bear with me, because this is going to be a fairly long post. That said, if you read it thoroughly and pay attention, I'm pretty much certain that you'll walk away with some food for thought (and if you apply it, more mone...