Mobile Goes Wild
As we monitor our customer’s sites we are seeing, understandably, a huge increase in traffic from mobile devices. What does that mean for your web site? What does that mean from a design perspective? First it is important to understand that tablets (iPad, Kindle, Surface, and a variety of Android tablets) are considered mobile devices. […]
Building Websites on WordPress
A few short years ago we built most of our websites on pages that were more or less static. If a customer wanted to try something called blogging, we would add a piece of software into the site that allowed them to do this. We had also been building sites on Content Management Software (CMS) […]
Is Your Site Performing?
Have you looked at the stats for your web site lately? If you haven’t you should. There are two sets of statistics I recommend looking at. One is the stats from your web logs – we like to use AWSTATS as they provide a nice overview of stats but also allows you to drill down […]
Web Site Development: A Case Study
In 2010 EduCyber began meeting with representatives from the Lariat Loop regarding a redesign of their web site. We sat down with them for a 90 minute discussion on what their goals were and how the web site could help them meet their goals. During the discussion, as we brainstormed ways to make the web […]
Web Site Bridge
I’ve been asked a lot lately what sets us apart from the competition. While we fill a distinct niche, it is often difficult to articulate how what we do is different from others. Today I’ll use a bridge analogy. This bridge on the right gets me where I’m going. It is very functional. One side […]
Standing Out in a Crowd
Most business owners understand the value of having a Unique Selling Proposition, that special something that sets them apart from the rest of the competition and makes folks choose their company when there are lots of choices. Only some folks get it better than others. Look at the picture on the left. The wearer of […]
Different Angles
Do you look in the mirror in the morning? Do you look to make sure everything looks fine? How many angles do you look at? Designing web sites requires that you look at a lot of different angles. Once upon a time, we only had to check two or three “angles” – looking at the […]
Change Your Perspective
I just took a look at my schedule. Next week I have lunch with Brian DeLaet twice. The problem you see is that I am Brian DeLaet. Two different colleagues have sent me calendar invitations to have lunch with them. The problem is they didn’t think about it from my perspective. So my calendar now […]
Top Five Mistakes in Web Design
With the explosion of the web – from new sites to new friends / pages on Facebook to new followers on Twitter and new connections on LinkedIn, there are distractions and sites screaming out for our attention all over the place. So how does a professional website design agency do it right? Well here are […]
Click
Sometimes that is all it takes. Click and all the pieces fall into place. In our case that is usually what happens. We intentionally go after those “Click!” moments as that is when we know that we’ll be working with a new customer / partner. Click happens when your internet marketing goals converge perfectly with […]