barba.js is a small (4.4kb minified and gzipped), flexible and dependency free library that helps you creating fluid and smooth transitions between your website’s pages. It helps reducing the delay between your pages, minimizing browser HTTP requests and enhancing your user’s web experience. This technique consist of preventing the normal link behavior, changing the browser url manually, and manually injecting the new content in the page. In this way there will be no browser “hard…
Are you a content marketing genius? If you answered no, but you’re ready to become one … well get ready. We’re about to have a look at the following strategies below that will grow your content IQ like a beanstalk and skyrocket your visitor engagement into tomorrow. Before we begin, let’s think back to another genius by the name of Albert Einstein. Here are the facts … that we have a Nobel Prize winner who…
My neighbor’s dog walker’s barber said that the host of her fortnightly book group knows someone who makes up to $500 an hour online! Read on to hear her story and find out how you can do it too. Yeah, right. Attention-grabbing, spurious claims like the one above are ubiquitous in the virtual world. But presence doesn’t equal credence. Whoever or whatever is making these outlandish posts around the Internet is nothing but a fraudster:…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is made to change. It both enables and polices web traffic. It has to evolve with time and use, and you can expect significant advances in the coming years. Start with these seven dynamic trends in SEO: 1. Assisted Search: As algorithms take more ownership of what you like and want, you will be able to opt in or out of virtual assistance. You will have your own secret shopper or…
There are three mind blowing statistics every person who specializes in site design should know, and on which this entire post is built around: 38% of people abandon a website if it’s unattractive. (Source) The analysis of 200 small business websites showed that 70% of them failed to include the most basic marketing elements. (Source) The top four organic (not advertised) results on the first page of a Google search gets 63% of all clicks.…
A world of mobile is here. You may love it or hate it but in any case you have to consider this modern tendency. Today more and more transactions are happening via smartphones and tablets, so it’s not enough just to have a responsive checkout, your whole site must be mobile-friendly. In case you’ve missed it, even Google treats mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. So in this article I will cover some mobile design principles…
As Internet connections have sped up, it could be thought that it is not so important to have a speedy website as it used to be. It can be tempting to pack a website full of content, videos, pictures etc to keep people interested and looking at it. However, not only do you need to make sure that your host will allow you to have this much content but you also need to make sure…
Over 1 billion websites exist on the Internet. How are you going to make sure the people visiting your website will remember it? They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If you design a favicon that people remember, that “picture” can be worth more than mere words. Design Counts You are working with an extremely small space for your favicon. Since most people will be browsing your site through Chrome, Safari, and IE,…
No matter what techniques and approaches you use, web design is all about making an impression on the user and bringing them closer to the brand. Indeed, far from being a mere information portal, a website constitutes an entire experience – and the more engaging you can make it, the better. Whilst responsive web design has had a huge hand in making the web more interactive, it may be about to go up a notch.…
If you are a complete beginner and are unfamiliar with the term ‘responsive,’ when it comes to web design, then you are probably wondering what it means. Responsive web design is simply an approach to web design that is aimed at making sites that provide optimal viewing and an interactive experience for the user, meaning sites are easy to read, and require minimum resizing and scrolling. Responsive design typically refers to designing a website to…