Design Inspiration #33

Posted by on May 18th, 2012 | No Comments

Design Inspiration from Fountain, Everyme, Google Ventures, Guided Creative and Soup Peddler! Design inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions for submitting your [...]

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What is your company’s killer marketing word?

Posted by on May 16th, 2012 | No Comments

A large part of Marketing is the perception and embodiment of a company within the consumer’s mind. An affective way of achieving this is to make a word or short phrase so synonymous with your company, that any mention of it instantly conjures the vision of what you represent to the market. Although this is [...]

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Dealing with Darwin [Review]

Posted by on May 14th, 2012 | No Comments

Continuing with our Geoffrey Moore business and technology book reviews, Dealing with Darwin looks at how companies deal with innovation and evolution and how they overcome innertia at different stages of the technology life-cycle. It is this evolution that seperates the good companies from the great, as disruptive innovation can literally make or break the [...]

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Design Inspiration #32

Posted by on May 11th, 2012 | No Comments

Design Inspiration from Glamour, Local Wisdom, The Vintage Catering Company, Ride for the brand and Eleven Media Design inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” link at the bottom of the page and follow [...]

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Resources for getting a job in the web industry

Posted by on May 9th, 2012 | No Comments

It is no great secret that much of the Western world is gripped by widespread recession and financial uncertainty. Previous thriving industries are struggling and people are getting laid off or unable to find jobs every day. This is is stark contrast however to the thriving industry of web design, development and online business. Whilst [...]

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How to develop User Personas for your website

Posted by on May 7th, 2012 | No Comments

In last week’s post, How to make a home page that converts I touched upon how important User Personas are to developing a good website. Crafting User Personas is a topic in of itself and so it was out of the scope of that article to really cover it. However, developing good User Personas seems [...]

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Design Inspiration #31

Posted by on May 4th, 2012 | No Comments

Design Inspiration from Neonmob, Sketch, Shoplocket, Action Method and The Art of Flight. Design inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” tab at the top of the page and follow the instructions for submitting [...]

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How to make a home page that converts

Posted by on May 2nd, 2012 | 1 Comment

A common problem of business websites is the complete lack of a strategy for the home page and how it aims to convert traffic into sales. This is fundamentally a huge problem to tackle as having an aimless home page could be detrimental to the entire performance of your website. With just about any brochure [...]

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Should I interlink my website for SEO?

Posted by on April 30th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Whenever a website has gone through the “SEO Optimisation treatment” you are almost guarenteed that the number of internal links pointing to particular pages will skyrocket. Internal linking of exact match phrases to pages that are required to rank highly seems to be one of the most overused techniques by SEO agencies and practioners who [...]

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Design Inspiration #30

Posted by on April 27th, 2012 | No Comments

Design Inspiration from Camayak, Layer Cake, Dropmark, Wear You Belong and Cake HR! Design inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” tab at the top of the page and follow the instructions for submitting [...]

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