Topic: Website Design

At this time of the year, it is always good to reflect on what has happened over the past year and see where the tide will be taking us for the year ahead. In this post, I will talk about the developments that have occurred over the past 12 months and how they have shaped…

The truth is that most visitors that come to your website are not ready to buy from you. So if the only “conversion” goal you have is to get them to request a quote, contact you, or actually make a purchase, then you can expect your conversion rate to be less than 5% (probably closer to…

One of the most frequently used tools I’ve discovered not too long ago is PicMonkey – an online photo editor that I use to resize, crop and change images. Best of all, it’s FREE! Why do I use PicMonkey instead of other tools like Canva? It’s mainly because it’s super easy to use and doesn’t…

Never pay for stock images again if you use the following list of sites to source your images! These are all royal-free, high quality, high resolution images that don’t suck like the ones you get when you search cheap stock photo sites (we won’t name any names). Most of these sites are created by photographers…

Carousels, sliders, or rotators are seen throughout the web. They were originally created to serve multiple images or messages within a limited space – the image and message simply changes without the user having to do a thing. It’s like watching a television commercial. However, these carousels, sliders and rotators are going out of favour. Why?…

Many people think that a web designer and a web developer are the same person, it’s just a case of semantics. The problem is that you couldn’t be further from the truth, as a designer and a developer have completely different focuses when it comes to websites. In simplistic terms, a developer focuses on making…