Let’s start by briefly defining what a call to action is. A call to action, commonly referred to as CTA, can describe any piece of content on your website that you want users to take action on. This could be a simple...
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Why You Need Mobile Mock-Ups
With over 80% of internet users owning a smartphone and 50% of those owners grabbing it immediately upon waking up (according to both Smart Insights and Express Pigeon, respectively), it’s no wonder that more and more businesses are strengthening their marketing strategies...
Read More Why You Need Mobile Mock-Ups5 Tips for Creating Landing Pages That Work
Website landing pages are important. They are a sales opportunity. Think of them as windows for conversion—your chance to influence a website visitor to become a customer. That’s why landing pages should not be taken lightly or treated as an afterthought. There...
Read More 5 Tips for Creating Landing Pages That Work3 Tips for Proper Web Form Design
Recently, I advised a client on the best practices for designing a form on their company’s website. Originally, they were considering using a lightbox form, a JavaScript technique that allows for a window to pop up when a website visitor clicks on the...
Read More 3 Tips for Proper Web Form DesignWhy Your Organization Needs a Style Guide
Style Guides can offer a lot of value to your organization’s digital presence and even reduce cost associated with design and development time. We’re going to talk about why you need one, but first we need to talk about what a Style...
Read More Why Your Organization Needs a Style GuidePost-Event Report: WordCamp Raleigh 2017
This year’s WordCamp Raleigh was the most attended #WCRaleigh in the event’s history, with over 300 in attendance! I was representing WebDevStudios at this year’s event, along with my awesome coworker, Jay Wood. Here’s my recap. As with any WordCamp, the highlight...
Read More Post-Event Report: WordCamp Raleigh 2017Design vs. Art: What’s the Difference and Does It Matter?
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem. —John Maeda Have you ever called your designer “a creative,” or asked them to just “use their imagination” when discussing new designs? Maybe you even came to them with a...
Read More Design vs. Art: What’s the Difference and Does It Matter?Creating Better 404 Pages
404 pages–every website has one, and everyone has landed on one from time to time. The goal is to structure our information architecture and design so that no one ever lands one in the first place, but that’s only in a perfect...
Read More Creating Better 404 PagesWeb Design Anti–Patterns: Setting Your Site Apart
There are around a billion websites live on the web today (according to the ISL). That’s about three websites for every single person in the USA. We all want our darling websites to stand out from the rest, but with numbers like that,...
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