Website Spokesperson

A website spokesperson is a borderless professional speaker or yourself featured on a website to communicate a unique message to your visitors. There is often no play button and no download countdown to start the spokesperson. The spokesperson starts talking as soon as the website finishes loading. Website spokespeople utilize “borderless technology” which means the video can be seamlessly layered on top your website and make it look like a part of the design. The person will look like they are floating on your website, giving a three dimensional perspective. The time duration of the spokesperson is typically 30 – 60 seconds long.

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Last Minute To Do’s For Web Designers

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What is the last thing you do before getting ready to launch a website? As humans we establish habits, routines that allow us to complete tasks more efficiently and at better quality.  Each of us as individual has different habits which we have formed. Most people will not be aware of these habits but for those who are aware, knowing the pros and cons of such habits can make you more aware of your situation and hence decrease the amount of careless mistakes made.

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Proof Reading Tips


In design, it is crucial that when you present work to a client, that there are no errors. By having errors, you can affect your image causing you to look unprofessional and unreliable. Errors can especially happen during tight schedules where you do not have the time to have someone help you overlook your work and are focused so hard on completing the project that you miss the small details. Here are some tips for proof reading web design work. These tips can also be applied to your normal documents.  Continue Reading »

Web Design Tips to Improve Call to Action Buttons

Call to action buttons are buttons which encourage users to do something on a page, e.g. lead them to fill out a consultation form or make users want to purchase a product via a “buy now” button. Therefore, it is important that these buttons do it in the most effective way possible. On the web, there are many ways in which call to actions can be used. Here are 5 quick tips to help you choose and or design effective call to action buttons.

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Web Design Criticism – How To

If you have just hired a web designer, you need to read this. Web design is a young industry, and often in it, there are those who are experienced and those who are not. Regardless of all, for the most productive project to be completed to good design and marketing standards so here are some constructive web design criticisms.

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Current Web Design Trends of 2010

Gone are the days when overly glossy web pages defined modern web design. Year 2010 is a new era for web design. Here are the trends for web design!

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Trends in News and Magazine-Style Web Design

News and magazine style layouts follow some specific web design trends. If you are planning to create a theme or web design that follows a system similar to a magazine, here are some tips and considerations you may wish to incorporate in your design.

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7 Ways to Improve SEO of Websites You Design

One of the biggest marketing tools to marketing a website is search engine marketing (SEO) therefore it is useful for a website to be designed in a way which SEO can be implemented easier for better company branding and search engine visibility. This post will cover some ways in which the SEO of a website can be improved.

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More Web Design Usability Tips

Website design is important and what the user experiences is even more important. In all good web design, the visitor’s needs should always come first – below are 5 More Usability findings by Smashingmagazine.com including size of the search box, white space for readability, website testing, importance of information for product pages and how users interact with advertising.

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8 More Usability Check Points

Here is a quick list that you may find helpful to follow when doing web design to ensure that your website is usable to retain the most amount of visitors possible.

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