1. Paint Your Pictures At Home
If your core demographic is women between the ages 35 and 65 who have an annual income of $60,000+, you would treat them different than the 18- to 25-year-old male demographic. First and foremost in e-tail: forcing your visitor to think is a bad idea. When creativity stops being subjective [...]
Web Design Trends For 2009 (Part I)
Let’s first take a closer look at the main trends we identified, discovered and observed over the last months. In this overview, you’ll find a review of each trend and more beautiful examples that can inspire you in your next project.
Embossing Letterpress
Rich user interfaces
PNG transparency
Big typography
Font [...]
Practical eCommerce recently asked a number of industry insiders to share a great, innovative idea that could potentially help an ecommerce firm. Here’s what ten more of them had to say.
Most businesses use one main company website, some use a series of smaller, focused websites in addition to their main company website. Which is the best way to go about marketing a business with a number of distinct products, services or events to advertise?
One of the big problems with using just one main company website [...]
10 ways to be a great SEO
Despite the fact that SEO can make or break a business online, SEO still conjures up a lot of negativity.
Most of us see the same tweets, read the same blogs and know the same case studies. We know to optimize titles and anchor text, fix canonical issues, write compelling [...]
Even worm creators write buggy software.
Once it infects a computer, the Conficker worm closes the hole in Windows that it used to get onto the system so no other malware can get in. This also makes it difficult for organizations to detect which computers have the legitimate Microsoft patch and which have the fake Conficker [...]
Mozilla had planned to release its new “Shiretoko” version of Firefox in early 2009, but with the scale of changes made to the open-source browser, a date halfway through the year now looks more realistic.
After releasing Firefox 3.1 beta 3 last week, the organization behind the browser said a fourth beta is planned–and with the [...]
There’s so much hype these days about starting an Internet home business and making truckloads of money online, that’s it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s just more B.S.
eCommerce internet solution is proving its significance in the world of business for the last few years. It has become equally beneficial for entities involved, customers as well as companies who are providing ecommerce solutions.
5. Font Replacement
As designers pay more attention to typography, they also pay more attention to the fonts that are used for the copy in the body of websites. Although classics such as Helvetica, Arial, Georgia and Verdana undoubtedly dominate, we observed a slight trend towards font replacement (for instance, with sIFR).
What is interesting is that [...]
