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Plug It In, Plug It In
Today’s lesson deals with an issue that is endemic to WordPress, so we’ll stray from our usual general-interest Web topics for just a moment and focus on this one issue on this one platform. A few weeks back we briefly alluded to a best practice on WordPress sites, concerning whether advanced functionality like e-commerce should… Read more
No One Cares What Color You Like
Research. Strategy. Metrics. Conversion. These things are all important elements of building a successful Web site that will turn your visitors into paying customers. What’s dramatically less important is the business owner’s personal preferences. This is an actual (albeit paraphrased) conversation that took place recently between a client and one of MWD Web’s partner companies:… Read more
New Year’s Resolutions for Your Web Site
Happy new year! It’s the 3rd of January, so: how many of you out there still haven’t broken your new year’s resolutions yet? With the new beginnings and fresh starts that a new year brings, consider making some resolutions for your Web site. Things like making your site lose weight, eat better, work out every… Read more
Evver Named In Top 25 Websites
Remember Evver? We posted about it a couple months back, in our “Finished Projects” bucket. in case it doesn’t ring a bell, or view the spectacular case study. In any case, Evver was recently named as one of the top 25 Web Sites for December of 2013, by the site Tech Attend. That’s a nice… Read more
Ready Set Design!
For five weeks now, we’ve been leading up to the part about designing your site where we get to actually design your site. The wait is over! Previously, we addressed these questions: Do I need a website? What are my goals? What sort of content will my site have? What exact content will my site… Read more
NOW Is It Time for Design?
Continuing our series on Web strategy, let’s go back to our pyramid metaphor. We’ve established that we need a site; set some overarching goals for what we want the site to achieve for us; and come up with some brilliant verbiage that will turn visitors into customers. Surely, now is the time to dive into… Read more
What to Put on My Web Site?
In the last two weeks, we’ve looked at the process of determining IF you need a Web site, and of determining what your goals are for the site. Now we jump into design, right? Not so fast there, turbo. It’s important that your site look good, sure – but if you don’t know what content… Read more
Is Your Web Site Design Obsolete?
Last week we examined how a new, flat design aesthetic is sweeping the internet. Flat is definitely the flavor of the month. So what does this mean for your site designed in the 3-d, skeuomorphic style? Don’t Panic Let’s get this out of the way: your site does not need an urgent, complete makeover. Well,… Read more
Is Flat the New 3-D?
Web design, like fashion, tends to follow trends and repeat itself over intervals of several years. In the beginning, when the internet was just computers sending text to each other, the design aesthetic was very flat. Text on a page, perhaps an image or two drawn in MacPaint. As computers’ graphics capabilities improved, we got… Read more
Cool New Features of WordPress 3.6
Things are a little hectic at MWD Web this week, so today’s post is a short one. We’re doggedly committed to posting every week, though, so by gum we’re going to post! The team of developers behind WordPress released their latest version, 3.6, earlier this month. We’ve had a few weeks now to play around… Read more