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Five Penguin SEO Problem Recovery Steps is a summary of creative steps you to take when your website's traffic gets hammered by seo problems.
Explore the top web designing trends for 2015. The infographic discusses the top 6 predictions that are set to rule the web designing world in 2015.
5 Web Design Implications Evolution Of Web Design Our @Curagami Evolution of Web Design Infographic (http://sco.lt/74Nvsn_ broke daily view records for our startup. Here are 5 Web Design Implications implied by that infographic:
- Leave Room For THEM (visitors & customers) - As User Generated Content (UGC) becomes increasingly important its important to build in ROOM for comments, reviews and other UGC. UGC needs an ASK and the room to curate and share results of the ask.
- One For You, 2 For Them - Every System & Process you build for YOU, build 2 for them. Can users follow each other? Can users share a profile? Can users share content ideas and content easily? What is your social reward system for content shares.
- Social Graphics - there is a reason people in the army wear rank. Wearing "social rank" immediately says who someone IS with a single graphic. Easier to trust social avatars when they are similarly grounded with graphics earned and proudly socially displayed. Social graphics reward those who've earned them AND set the stage for the next generation of people aspiring to "be like them" so a double win. Find ways to share feedback in social spaces like charities do with thermometers.
- Build an Ambassadors Area - ambassadors are so important to creating and sustaining online community. Ambassadors are volunteers wiling to sacrifice to JOIN and ADVOCATE you and your ideas. One CSF our startup Curgami is working on is how to quickly identify a website's 1% Contributors and 9% Supporters. Once identified GIVE THEM JOBS and a special place to "hang out".
- Curate & Collaborate More, Create Less = more "blank pages" - design is an important wrapper, but web design can become an obstruction too. If you curate a "Member of the Month" feature leave room to fill up as you go. Maybe this month's feature sits on top of 3 previous months. The more face-time you can build for THEM the more social shares and support your online community earns.
What about you? What design changes do you see ahead? As we move to "community" how can our design support and create trust?
Take a look at the top skills that you require if your designing a website . For more information visit http://websitedesignn.com/
Over here at Paper Leaf Design, we make much ado about communication & process. In our minds, these two elements are key to a successful design project
Engage website visitors better by designing your site to match how people's eyes move on the page. Here are some surprising eye tracking stats to help. Putting together a great looking website is a great start, but it is just a start. True web design requires you to venture beyond the aesthetic and into the worlds of User Experience and Conversion Rate Optimization. Knowing how the viewers of your site really see it can help to shine light on new and/or missed opportunities within your current design. It may also bring out the need for new elements or changes. While there are plenty of options for improving CRO, eye tracking analysis provides some of the most useful information for optimizing your biggest digital marketing asset, your website. A good design will catch people’s eye, but a great design will keep people on your site and get them engaged with your content. And while you shouldn’tunderestimate the power of good copy, your design is what people notice first. We teamed up with our friends over at Single Grain to put together the infographic below in hopes that it will help everyone get a better, basic understanding of what eye tracking is and what it can do.
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Little doubt enterprise crowdfunding will play an important role in ecommerce next year. As the first Ecommies shared on Curatti.com Ecommerce is stuck in its own mud (http://curatti.com/is-ecommerce-stuck-in-the-mud/ ). CrowdFunde is a new tool that helps add crowdfunding to any website. Crowdfunding is about to explode thanks to the SEC ruling in late October to allow equity crowdfunding. Enterprise crowdfunding is about to explode too and eCommerce will be changed by the addition of a new low cost, high return marketing channel that reminds us of what email marketing used to be before everyone started curating email with mobile devices, driving open rates down even as the size of many lists increase. This CrowdFunde infographic shares color, growth and tribal acceptance information proving ecommerce is ready for a change, a crowdfunding, and social, mobile, gamified change.
This is the most shared, visited and viewed post on Design Revolution. December is always HOT for trend predictions. Interesting to look over December's predictions to see if they are coming true:
1 & 2 Diverse Women & Hands Dirty Dads Gladly we are seeing both of these trends. Loved Dove's What Dad's Really Do campaign http://adweek.it/1kYVCwI
3. Beards Yes beards on on the rise thanks to sports stars and Hollywood.
4. Lens Flare We are seeing LESS stock art (thankfully) and more "real" photos and videos. Marketers are starting to realize sharing warts and all helps create authenticity and a sense of immediacy.
5. Human as Robot Not sure this trend is happening any more or less than it already was.
6. Cameras we wear I think Google Glass is sucking up much of this "wearable" trend at the moment, but GoPro hasn't done badly (lol).
7. Multi-racial Models (was STRONG going into the year, stronger now).
8. World Cup Was huge and America STILL doesn't get soccer :).
9. Witches and bye bye vampires (end of True Blood signals this trend is right on and about time).
10. Handcrafted Vectors This is another "break down the perfection" trend and seeing it too (like the lens flare or nonperfect but more real photo).
11. Instagrammy FOODies - this is BLOWING UP almost as fast as "selfies".
12. Experiences over Things = Team Curagami (http://www.curagami.com ) is placing a HUGE bet on this one as we see the future of ecommerce being about the quality of interactions instead of their quantity.
13. Creative Collaboration - another one team Curagmai is betting on HUGE and we are seeing demand grow. Think about your life. I like to say I don't "passively consume anything" anymore. If I can't bend, shape and spin the content I go somewhere else. If the content isn't fascinating, cool and fun I go somewhere else. Curagami makes this "ambassador" interaction easy so your customers can advocate and share your brand.
TRIBES are the key going forward.
I would say IStock got way more RIGHT than wrong with their December design predictions. What do you think?
Attracting a potential customer is hard enough. Grabbing their interest and retaining them is even more difficult. It's important to design your site
The Art of Color Coordination Such a helpful infographic. Beyond helpful for web design.
User Experience UX Software Design 2013 Trends. Agree, big 2013 design trends include: * Visual Marketing & Design Simplicity (lean content, lots of Infographics and other data visualizations). * Content Marketing heavily influenced by mobile first and mobile's content constraints (speed, small, UI). Would add bubbles about the size of "mobile first" for: * Predictive Analytics. * Real Time "read the cookie, fire the design" triggers. * Move to branching business logic controlling design elements. I may be the only champion of the freedom from design boxes movement. I just don't see UX and design functioning in such limited ways for much longer. Design is most impactful when it is relevant and we have enough persona and behavior information to "read the cookie, fire the design" now. Why aren't we? I saw this same problem with the move from A/B to multivariate testing. MVP testing puts such a load on shifting THINKING and creative that adoption was slow. AI-like web design has the same problem. Once you create a branching path algorithm based on personas and behaviors you need LOTS of creative to support the move.
Oh, this isn't the ONLY time I've been up on a soapbox all by my lonesome.
This piece was posted by Loren Sorenson for Hubspot, I selected it because as she says "If you aren’t prepared for the visual content revolution, you may be left in the dust. Not convinced? Let's take a look at exactly how visual contentis positively contributing to marketing strategies -- it may just give you the push you need "Learn why visual content is a critical part of your content creation strategy. Here are some highlights: **People remember only 20% of what they read **83% of learning is visual Condenses and Explains Large Amounts of Information **Today, there is too much information on the Internet you have about 3 seconds to catch someone’s eyes so they'll consume your information. Gives Your Brand an Identity **Visual content draws people in, letting viewers better understand your brand's identity Drives User Engagement **If you've ever read a book with a child, you probably know they find pictures more interesting than words; but are adults really that different? Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond" Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/Ifujbp]
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I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject...
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. Web Designers Beware If you can make Wordpress sing like a fine violin we applaud you. We're leaving Wordpress because it's promise of publishing well-designed content to the web feels false, spoiled and crushed.
Crushed under the weight of battling plugins, poorly supported themes and the false belief that beautiful design beats SEO basics (like not putting a rat;s nest of code into your HEAD). Ugly and Google friendly gets more traffic than beautiful and Google nasty.
We've proven the point. Our ugly Blogger site (Scenttrail Marketing started in 2008) had 100,000 visitors. Curagmai.com looks great, but Wordpress is crushing us for 5 reasons:
* Spam, Attacks and Potential for HARM * Unrealized Promise * Crap Overload * BAD SEO and poor site performance (load times) * No Easy Multi-Platform Content Curation
Let's Compare to @Scoop.it where we've spent LESS TIME to get more results including:
45,000+ followers 276,000 Views 204,000 visitors 95,000 reactions
WINNER = Scoop.it (as you can read on our Curagmai post). And the horse race isn't even CLOSE!!!
When we started using WP six years ago the platform was full of promise. But there is a problem. Ugly and Google friendly gets more traffic than beautiful and Google nasty. That sentence is worth repeating. If you are a designer who can make WP sing don't forget the ultimate goal - creation of RETURN for your customers.
Beauty and great design is ONE ASPECT of creating online ROI. Make sure your WP designs overcome the 5 reasons we are leaving, out, history, see ya :). Marty Ugly and Google friendly gets more traffic than beautiful and Google nasty.
This infographic illustrates what responsive web design is, how it works, and why you should make the switch.
We asked Randy Krum, Founder and President of InfoNewt, an infographic design company, and editor of the Cool Infographics website, to share some of his insights from working with and reviewing infographics.
Infographic: Planning, Design, and Optimizing a Website by Douglas Karr on Marketing Technology Blog
Designed by Colin Harman , How Would You Like Your Graphic Design? made me laugh this morni...
Web Design Trends 2014 * Simplicity. * Long Pages. * Interactive Infographics.
YES, YES, YES. These are 3 bedrock web design trends for 2014. Interactive Infographics are going to be a MONSTER trend. Infographics WORK add interactivity and the increased engagement it brings and WE HAVE A WINNER!
If you are a content marketer and you are NOT figuring out how to create interactive infographics next year even if you have to hire an agency to help (OUCH) you are nuts.
Brush up on what’s trending in the creative world with this quick look at the top visual design themes and tools for 2014.
What do we predict will be the web design trends in 2014? Here is an infographic with our predictions Marty Note Here are my thoughts on web design in 2014. 1. Code Free = Disagree, not in 2014, I have tried Webydo and it is as hard to master as code so why bother, until there is a tool that is EASIER than code we will continue to code. 2. More CMS based site - Agree and this is another way of saying more blogs acting like websites. Good idea to read my Websites vs. Blog post on Curatti.com earlier in the week to know how to keep the things that matter from a "website" as your blog fills both shoes: Websites vs. Blogs Which One Is Better and Why http://curatti.com/websites-vs-blogs/ . 3. Single Page Sites - Disagree - I GUESS you could have a robust enough social presence that a single page site would be fine, but you give up a lot and you are asking a single page to accomplish a lot. Google doesn't rank websites they rank web pages, so pagespread (# of pages in Google) can help build traffic via SEO (that is left of it anyway).
A single page website is only viable for strong mobile or social players and somewhere there has to be an engine generating NEW out into the world. If you use a single page, push NEW out and then wipe it clean that is simply CRAZY with the way traffic is parsed and how we gain authority today. Oprah could have a single page site, how an average website could achieve all that is needed with a single page is beyond me. 4. Interactive Infographics - Agree with this one. The Infographic has legs, or should say the idea of visualizing content has legs. The infographic is an expression of a larger movement - our desire to understand things FAST. Other 2014 Web Design Trends I see include: * Lean Design - This movement plays off of #4 and the strength of the marketing visualization movement. Creating more understanding faster is a trending trend. * Social Net Tapestry - Website designs MUST be social and agnostic about social nets. Including Facebook, Twitter, GPlus, YouTube, Scoop.it, StumbleUpon and 10 more I can't think of right now in ways that make sharing easy, rewarding and not overwhelming is a trend no one has figured out all that well yet, but we will begin to see novel ideas that build on the social media "widget" idea in 2014 (only much better let's hope). * Content Curation - we must build websites in 2014 that are focused on KEY CONVERSATIONS and become agnostic about where those conversations happen. Own the conversation, own the traffic.
Curating content INTO a website (or blog) is an important trend no one has quite figured out yet either. Start with traditional ORM (Online Reputation Management) tools. Use ORM to crack some APIs so when something relevant happens to your company, brands or products out there in social media's north forty you
- Know about it.
- Filter it into your content by having ways (filters) to attach curated content into existing themes.
- Gamify contributors so reward is generous, immediate and competitive.
* Appification of Everything - the Mobile Revolution is not about the phone. It is about redesigning our THINKING about how information creates interaction, engagement and conversion (so a small thing lol). Thinking of everything we do online as an app we will be improving is a very "Mobile First" way to think. Those who understand the "Appification" of everything will win BIG as the rest of the world catches up in 2014.
* Gamification - If your website design doesn't find ways to profile, reward and share (curate) content from contributors you will fall hopelessly behind in 2014. The social web is here, despite few understanding the breadth of that that means, and websites need to promote an ever increasing amount of User Generated Content (UGC). Best way to do that is by using game theory to create web design.
Amara presents the complete infographic guide to colour psychology. Covering the theory behind different colour psychology, cultural meanings, connota
The Art of Color Coordination Such a helpful infographic. Beyond helpful for web design.
Branding and social media — they seem to go together so well, yet they're both widely misunderstood. While social media can serve as a gigantic megaphone for your brand, social ...
We've telling you about Pinterest for a couple of months.
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