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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 24, 2015 9:30 AM
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A lot has been spoken of light user interface elements and they have been showcased widely either as concepts of working products over the years, but what about their dark counterparts? We have some equally good or even better user interface elements in dark colours, but in general we do not opt for them for our projects.
So, in this article we will be showcasing some of the most beautiful examples of dark UI design that we have on the Internet posted either as concepts or working app
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 24, 2015 9:00 AM
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Google’s Material Design guidelines have elevated the concept of user interface design to a whole new level. It has spearheaded web and mobile application development. Material Design principles allow users to have a uniform browsing experience across various Google platforms for desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices. Hence, it is gaining prominence in mobile app design as well. There are a gamut of user interface design tools and tutorials on how to make an app using Material Design features. Front-end design frameworks like Materialize and such other tools are also in high demand. In short, Material Design has enabled UI designing to acquire a special place in the entire process of UX design and development.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 24, 2015 8:00 AM
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Composition and balance are two major properties of great design work. Contrast often accompanies these two visual properties where the designer creates certain areas that draw more attention than others.
Crisp contrasting areas should be used sparingly but appropriately. I’d like to cover a few uses of contrast in relation to web design and how this can affect the overall layout design style.
It takes years of practice to reach a level of competency that best suits your vision. But the more you practice the better you’ll get and the quicker you’ll recognize problems in a design. When using contrast seek a visual balance to create some areas that require more attention that others.
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August 24, 2015 1:08 AM
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Web design has vast expanding avenues with so many design elements constantly being added to the design frame. While this offers designers a platform to experiment with their design space, sometimes too much of innovation backfires, seriously affecting their web design architecture. Here, you’ll find a little smattering on 7 deadly web design mistakes that both pro and novice web designers must know about.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 20, 2015 9:00 AM
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Making the navigation responsive in mobile emails is a key area in improving usability by offering functional links to a message and guiding recipients to your site, even if they aren’t receptive to the particular message or offer in the message itself.
Today, on average, half of all emails are opened on a mobile device so it’s critical to ensure they are easy to read and interact with whichever device they are being viewed on. Thanks to responsive email techniques you can choose different email design patterns when it comes to navigation.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 20, 2015 8:00 AM
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The days of “above the fold” are over.
Long scrolling, single-page sites, and infinitely scrolling sites are becoming more and more common lately, and it’s no mere trend or coincidence. Web design in general has been moving in this direction for years now, and the recent popularity of long scrolling is the decisive result of current functionality issues and user tastes. Now is the right time for long scrolling, and for good reason.
Pricing pages are clutch. Everything in the marketing process boils down to a single, critical, all-important page: The pricing page. And for some businesses, that’s where everything goes totally wrong. In the first place, the pricing page is an afterthought for development. Second, it’s usually a templated model. Third, it remains untested by CROs. Fourth, it is not designed with an eye to buyer psychology. These problems and a host of others plague online price pages. The result is that pricing pages are not as effective as they could be.
Via Pedro Da Silva
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 8, 2015 1:21 AM
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In your home, chances are there are several points people could enter your house from. These entry points include front doors, back doors, garage doors, windows, and so on.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 5, 2015 8:57 AM
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Web UI design is built upon many common repeatable patterns and best practices, but not many “carved in stone” rules. Design is an art form, and as such, “good” or “bad” design is often subjective to users. However, there are certainly guidelines derived from design fundamentals that can help designers train their eye to build layouts which are considered “good” by a majority of users.
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August 5, 2015 8:47 AM
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Starting as an alternative to the then-popular skeuomorphic style, flat design originated as a wholly simplistic and minimalist style that lived up to it’s name. Throughout the last few years, however, it’s been evolving to satisfy the shifting tastes of users and to implement the advancements of technology.Flat design in its current state (what Ryan Allen calls “Flat 2.0”) is a style different than, but similar to, what it was in the past.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
August 1, 2015 9:30 AM
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There are many elements to take into account when creating a pricing page. From strategy to messaging and finally the design, each element has an active and important role in converting visitors into paying customers. Below I have divided the building of a pricing page into two main categories: The strategy and the design.
Each part of the pricing page structure is important for increasing conversion rate. Take a look at the pricing page examples below to see what other businesses are doing, the good, the bad and how to fix it.
Building a Pricing Page Strategy When it comes to our purchasing habits many different elements influence our decision making process. From evaluating the decision to be made, gathering the right information, identifying the options, weighing the alternatives and finally making a decision, many psychological triggers kick in and effect our final decision. There are many elements to take into consideration before the actual design.
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July 31, 2015 1:32 PM
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The art of creating a captivating website design is one of skill, efficiency, and precision. When it comes to website layout and design, seasoned web design professionals work smart, not hard.
In order to accomplish award winning WordPress web design, designers will often turn to helpful website design and layout tools which are available on the internet to do much of the heavy lifting. That is not to say that these tools do all the work; they merely make it easier.
The web design game seems to be constantly evolving, and at a break-neck speed. It is hard to keep up with all of the tools that are available, so with this in mind we asked our friends and colleagues what tools they rely on for the best web design layouts.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 29, 2015 8:00 AM
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A website is a good way to display your work or products in front of world. People can find you from anywhere in the world and know about your products just by visiting your website. you can display your products on your website in a very creative way and mention all the feature and price details too.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 26, 2015 8:11 AM
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It will be interesting to see how many of these trends will last the year.
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July 24, 2015 8:00 AM
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Do you remember the last time you went to a mobile site and had an -- ahem -- unmoving experience? (Pun intended.) Maybe the site wasn't responsive. Or perhaps it was really difficult to find what you were looking for. Or, maybe it just loaded really slowly.
Whatever it was, you may have left to go to another site as a result. Google knows that unhappy website visitors will go elsewhere, thereby increasing bounce rates and decreasing the chances a site will rank on mobile searches.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 21, 2015 10:05 AM
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More online retailers are turning to responsive design websites to serve their mobile customers.
According to mobile marketing firm Pure Oxygen Labs, 20 percent of Internet Retailer’s top 500 mobile retailers adopted responsive design websites since last year, a sizable increase from the 9 percent of sites using responsive design in 2014.
After analyzing all 500 mobile retail websites, Pure Oxygen found the number of mobile retailers using responsive design now outnumbers those that use dynamic serving to deliver a mobile website. The majority of the retailers still have a dedicated mobile site, although this number is dropping.
In 2014, 15 percent of the Internet Retailer top 500 mobile retail websites used dynamic serving. That number has increased to 18 percent, while 54 percent of the sites have kept a dedicated mobile site, down from 59 percent in 2014.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 21, 2015 9:31 AM
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The need for addressing the importance of responsive web design has long since passed. Now it’s time to focus on how to make the most responsive design possible.
20 Myths Busted About Responsive Web Design
It’s what everyone is talking about, but unfortunately, not everyone knows what they’re talking about. All too often, you’ll come across some information on the Internet that challenges what you know about responsive design.
Sometimes the tidbit will be extremely constructive and will help turn your web design strategies in the right direction. Other times, you’ll end up confused, or wind up going in the totally opposite direction. When that happens, there’s no need to point any blame. The field of responsive design is still fairly new, and all of the kinks are still being worked out.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 17, 2015 7:22 PM
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The design team at Retrofuzz reveal how they redesigned and updated Wrangler's website.
As one of the world's leading denim brands, Wrangler needed a website that reflected its heritage, style and commitment to innovation. It was also looking to expand its online offering to enable it to target consumers around the globe and sell directly to customers.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 17, 2015 6:05 PM
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According to a new report from the website back-up and monitoring service CodeGuard, WordPress is the leading content management system for site owners, by far.
Evaluating 250,000 SMB sites, the Q1 2015 State of the Web Report found 78.8 percent used WordPress, followed by Joomla, Drupal, Concrete 5 and ExpressionEngine.
Of the sites using WordPress, Askimet was the top installed plugin, and Avada was the most often used theme. The study revealed 51 percent of the sites were not optimized for mobile.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 13, 2015 9:30 AM
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One of the challenges for business owners and marketers is coming up with enough relevant content that customers either need or want to engage with. Taking a collaborative approach to these challenges often produces outstanding results and you’ve got your best “brand experts” at your finger tips. Employees possess the knowledge your customers need and their seasoned expertise fosters more trust than any ad you’ll ever run.
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July 13, 2015 9:00 AM
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There are many settings and plugins available to optimize WordPress sites. Here are the ones that will help most businesses' web marketing efforts.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 10, 2015 7:22 PM
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It is hard to argue against the fact that we have become more addicted to energized projects that feature some process of movement. Whether it is a video, gif or animation we need and love the action in website design. Thankfully, developers are perfectly aware of this small yet all-consuming passion. So we are witnessing more and more websites with motion. Today we are going to talk about animations and their variety and usage.
Along with the maturation of CSS and HTML, animation is also becoming a more and more sophisticated and multifunctional instrument in developers' arsenal. From simple effects that enhance a look of CTA buttons to huge complex animations that set scenes in motion, today you can stumble upon many different types of animation that populate the web. They are used for various purposes, not only for transforming a simple website into a 'blockbuster'. They help to improve visual and user experience as well as enrich the general effect produced by a project.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 10, 2015 6:05 PM
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A website cements your online identity in the virtual world. You can use it as an effective platform to display your products and services, attract customers and improve your credibility on the market.
The scope provided by a website is immense. It is your website’s success, which ultimately determines your online success and converts leads into sales.
The difference between selling on physical stores and online is that you don’t have the luxury of ‘wooing’ your target audience without any limitations on the time, when it comes to the virtual world. Sometimes, you only have seconds to create a first impression on visitors, especially those who are visiting your website for the very first time. In fact, it is said that you have only about 50 milliseconds to make an impression on your users. This is the reason why, you need to need to have an aesthetically appealing website that attracts maximum visitors within 50 milliseconds so that they do not head towards your competitors’ sites.
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
July 10, 2015 8:00 AM
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Consistency is definitely the key, but at the same time it is essential that individuals are acquainted with the set of skills and abilities, which are required to complete the job successfully.
As the technology has progressed and the dynamics of our environment have changed, there are a number of important factors that have become an integral part of our everyday life. Not only these factors, but also countless opportunities with regard to having careers, jobs and skills also have come up on the scene. For example, a couple of decades ago no one thought that being an expert in internet marketing will be a career and that too a highly successful one. However, with such technological revolution we have seen things like this becoming a normal part of our lives, with even bigger things becoming a crucial aspect of our living.
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June 20, 2015 1:05 AM
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There are two website design styles that have become so trendy that you might be slightly concerned about using them: minimalism and responsive. However, if you want to capture the attention of today’s Internet user and ensure that everything works properly across multiple platforms, it is definitely wise to turn to the responsive design. Additionally, you can take a minimalist approach without losing the overall impact of how the responsive design is intended to work.
Why is the Minimalist Design So Popular Right Now?
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