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Web Branding: The Benefits of Top-Level Domains

Be one-step ahead of your competition when the new domain names catch on Within the past two years, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has released more than 1,000 Top-Level Domains – TLDs for short. A TLD is simply a little word or set of letters that comes after the “dot” in your […]

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Branding Website Design

Convey It: Rebranding Your Business

Is your brand current? Does your business need a minor or massive makeover? Here are a few questions to help you decide if your brand is in need of a makeover … be honest with yourself. Are you seeing a drop in sales? Are you getting negative feedback about how your website works, looks, or […]

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Branding Design Website Design

Convey It – The Psychology Behind Fonts

Typography strengthens your brand, creates interest, and highlights your message Content marketing is one of the primary ways of retaining customers, attracting new clients, and generating leads, sales, and profit for a company. While the content itself on a website is incredibly important, another crucial aspect of content marketing is typography. Typography isn’t often given […]

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Branding User Experience (UX) Website Design

Using Web Design to Brand Your Small Business

A cohesive website design is crucial to branding The needs of small businesses are no different than those of larger corporations. Small businesses need to establish their brands in the marketplace just as much as the big guys, if not more. When you are talking about choosing between Coca-Cola and Pepsi, that’s one thing. But […]

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Marketing Strategy Website Design

Convey It: The Importance of a Marketing Plan

Marketing Plans Put the Pieces Together Your marketing plan is the written document that describes your communication and marketing efforts for the coming year; it includes a statement of the marketing situation, a discussion of target markets and company positioning and a description of the marketing mix you intend to use to reach your business […]

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User Experience (UX) Website Design

Trending Now: The User Experience

Here’s why is UX so important … User Experience (UX) is all the rage these days in the web world. Companies are hiring UX Designers to help them improve the way users interact with their sites, while maintaining User Interface (UI) Designers on staff, too. It all gets very confusing. Who does what? Why are […]

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Design Website Design

Why You Should Not Build Your Own Website

Don’t Go it Alone … You’ve finally jumped in headfirst into the entrepreneurial pool, and now you need a website. It’s natural to think that you can do it yourself (DIY). But … here are four things you should consider before starting a DIY website: Cost, Features, User Experience, and Support. Cost There are a […]

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SEO Website Design Website Development

Website Trends for 2016

Maximize User Experience and Search Engine Optimization When you run a website, it’s not about keeping up with the Joneses; it’s about keeping up with Microsoft, Apple, and other high-tech companies. Microsoft and Apple not only stay on the cutting edge of all new trends, but sometimes they create them in house. 2016 is the […]