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3 Simple Ways To Improve Your Website's Performance

Gabriel Shaoolian | Posted 05.15.2013 | Small Business
Gabriel Shaoolian

With more than 2 billion people surfing the internet, and more than $1.25 trillion rung up in on-line sales annually, your corporate website can be one of your most valuable assets. But how do you harness its true power to increase sales, move up in search and keep customers coming back?

5 Seconds to Better Looking Documents: Get Un-centered

Spencer Critchley | Posted 03.28.2013 | Business
Spencer Critchley

In five seconds, you will be creating better-looking documents: Five, four, three, two -- Stop centering your text! -- One. There, now your documen...

Reader Flow and the Article Gateway

Garrett Goodman | Posted 04.01.2013 | Media
Garrett Goodman

As more and more traffic comes to news sites sideways through shared links and search results, news organizations have begun reworking their article pages to act increasingly as the beginning of a reader's journey, and not the final destination.

Web Design and SEO: How to Make Your Website Look Good and Rank Well

Jayson DeMers | Posted 04.29.2013 | Technology
Jayson DeMers

SEO companies around the world aggressively follow the SEO principles they read on the web. But when it comes to decisions that affect usability and the simple functioning of a website, they're innocently ignorant or willfully so.

How to Build the Perfect Website

Penny C. Sansevieri | Posted 12.02.2012 | Technology
Penny C. Sansevieri

For most of us, building a website is the single biggest and most significant thing we can do for our business, brand, product, or book. Yet I'm amazed at how often folks will jump into this work with little or no knowledge of what it takes to build a website that is mediocre at best.

The New Design

Margie Ruddick | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Margie Ruddick

The design of a virtual network has emerged as an American-driven industry that many in the conventional design world have yet to recognize as artful design.

Data Is Not Television: Advertising Is a Toxic Scaffolding for the Internet

Nathan Newman | Posted 01.14.2012 | Technology
Nathan Newman

The integrity of personal and commercial data is critical to the functioning of the modern economy and the need for advertising is having a range of toxic effects on the data services provided to consumers.

Where Is Your Front Door? Dealing with Front Door Disease

George Weiner | Posted 11.27.2011 | Business
George Weiner

Front Door Disease is defined by an organization that focuses all of their design and conversion goals on the front page of their site -- ignoring sub pages. A conversion goal can be a donation, email sign-up, or a new user registration.

SEO: An Open Letter to CEOs and Boards of Directors

Larry MacDonald | Posted 09.25.2011 | Technology
Larry MacDonald

Search engine optimization? CEOs and board members, as well as managers of international companies wrote me asking why they should be concerned about ...

14 Websites We Don't Even...

The Huffington Post | Craig Malamut | Posted 09.20.2011 | Comedy

As the Internet continues to grow and mature, we sometimes forget its humble beginnings. Web designers may look back on the 90s as the dark ages of th...

The Verdict On Google's Redesign

Ty Fujimura | Posted 09.10.2011 | Arts
Ty Fujimura

Google produces exceptional interfaces, but their aesthetic is famously unhip. It's not surprising: They're an engineering-first company that took 7 y...

Temporary Trances: An Interview With GIF Artist Rick Silva

Posted 09.10.2011 | Arts

Via Beautiful/Decay. There's no question that GIFs have had a long history on the Internet. We've been accidentally stumbling upon them for as long a...

Poetry: Lorem Ipsum

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 08.20.2011 | Arts
Hannah Stephenson

image courtesy of Glenn Fischer Lorem Ipsum To see design more clearly, sprinkle tormented gibberish across the page, flouring a counter top so...

Can Ugly Design Be Good Design?

Ty Fujimura | Posted 08.08.2011 | Arts
Ty Fujimura

Respected entrepreneur Jason Fried once wrote that the notoriously hideous Drudge Report is actually well-designed. He was right, and he still is. The...

Obama's Winning Design Strategy

Ty Fujimura | Posted 06.17.2011 | Arts
Ty Fujimura

President Obama kicked off his 2012 campaign last week by releasing a video and website urging supporters to "Get In" early. The site sports a handsom...

Food Bloggers: How Google's New Recipe Search Works

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Meathead

Here is my interpretation or what food bloggers need to know. A recipe for recipe writers by a recipe writer.

Newscorp's The Daily: Print May Be Dead, But Print Design Isn't

Ty Fujimura | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Ty Fujimura

Newscorp's audacious iPad-only publication, The Daily, features a surprisingly elegant design more reminiscent of print than the screen. Like any maga...

Candi Harrison on useful web design practices

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Craig Newmark

Hey, Candi has a lot of real experience getting the job done, and I really do recommend How Does Your Website Stack Up?Lot of good stuff there, here's...

Building A Website: 5 Things You Need To Know

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Julia L. Rogers | Posted 08.09.2011 | Small Business

We no longer live in a world where entrepreneurs can stay offline and still be competitive in the marketplace. Every business, no matter how small, mu...

Most Innovative Web Site Designs Of All Time: Inspiration And Ideas From Elite Designers (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

The Web can be a repetitive and boring place. Many Web sites look the same or are created based on the same basic principles. Fortunately, that's not...