7 content promotion strategies for healthier website traffic.
Content promotion isn’t rocket science, it does however, when done right, take almost as much time as the content creation process itself.
Web Design
Refreshing web design ideas from Front.
Refresh Belfast is a regular meetup of designers, programmers and pretty much anyone involved in the web in the Greater Belfast area. It is designed to help educate and grow the community at large, encouraging debate, best practise and standards, and is part of the Refreshing Cities movement.
35+ websites to gain serious design related traffic
The first thing that I do when I’m promoting a particularly good piece of content is to scope out the websites within the design community that allow user submitted content. There are a couple of larger sites / blogs with good content that allow this – a simple tagline with a link that can direct [...]
5 must see techniques for sexier web fonts.
For creative graphic designers, fonts on the web have always been (and probably always will) be a bone of contention. Essentially typography on the web has been limited to a small subset of fonts that exist on the three major platforms (Win / Mac / Linux) – and thus creative use of these has come [...]
6 must see sites with unique keyboard navigation
Keyboard navigation is something that many of us simply ignore. That’s the browsers job right? Well, it is sort of. Some developers have decided to go the extra mile, and implement custom keyboard navigation on their sites, to further enhance keyboard navigation using javascript. Even some sites which don’t implement custom javascript navigation via the [...]
Web design in the cloud. A pancake tuesday guide.
In the future, it looks very much like there is a real possibility that the processing of all (or most of our apps) will be done server side. Already, a lot of us use web applications to get the web design job done.
14 Useful online tools for webdesign planning and prototyping.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. An old adage and one that still rings true. With any website project, it can be easy to just jump straight in and start developing, once you have client approval before taking time to plan. By the time you show your first iteration of the design [...]
14 awesome open source music sites for digital creatives
Hopefully this compilation of free open source and creative commons licensed music will help you to find the tunes you need to compliment your project – and who knows maybe it will help to propel the artist(s) to stardom.
17 mega-creative side scrolling websites.
Side scroller websites have been around for quite some time, but with the penetration now of javascript effects and frameworks, some new sites popping up around the web are really beginning to shine. Some of the following websites show how javascript can be employed to great effect to create eye popping content and imagery. Enjoy [...]
Design and social proof.
The recognition of your brand online is connected extremely closely to your site design. In fact I’d go as far as to say that your brand is your design. It’s never been more important to look good, in order to attract customers / visitors. The bar has been set high – look at the site [...]
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