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Category: Web Design
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How To Know If You Need a New Website
Familiarity on a website can be comforting. Everything is where the user expects it to be, with no unwelcome or confusing surprises. Yet “familiarity” can easily turn into stale, boring, and undesirable. The key is to strike a balance between the old and the new. Good website managers know when to mix things up to…
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Mobile Web Design: What Snapchat Teaches Us About User Experience
Capturing the Moment Even though Snapchat is an app, you’d be surprised at what this app can teach us about modern mobile web design. Most websites and applications prioritize displaying content to the end-user at login with elements like feeds, popups, lists, and grids. However, Snapchat is different: it prioritizes the user themselves through the…
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Top 5 Firefox Browser Extensions for Web Developers
Browser Extensions: An Introduction There are thousands of Firefox browser extensions out there nowadays for web developers. Some are fantastic and can provide a major benefit to your browsing experience and some can be broken, cause performance issues, or even be malicious. As a web developer, some browser extensions can be invaluable in assisting you.…
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The Best WordPress Plugins of 2016
Today we are going to showcase our top 8 choices for the best WordPress plugins of 2016. The utility of these plugins range from dynamic, to social media and even developer focused plugins; and are based solely upon our opinions and experience with them as developers. While there are a number of reasons why developers…
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Bootstrap 4 – What’s New?
As a front-end web developer, my passion centers around all things modern, extendable and well documented. Bootstrap 4 ticks all of those boxes – and then some. In many ways, Bootstrap has shaped and driven the mobile-first movement in web design (responsive web design, specifically). With its breadth of extensive HTML, CSS and JavaScript functionality,…
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How to Use Youtube to Grow Your eCommerce Brand
Ever since Amazon started including video and picture reviews with its product listings, people can learn more than ever about the products they purchase. They can see them in action before hitting “add to cart.” Incorporating natural, product-enhancing videos to your ecommerce site is a great way to drive traffic from a social giant like…
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How a Website Redesign Can Help Your Business
Your business’s website is arguably the most important tool for reaching and converting potential customers. In today’s technology-driven world, your website should be as accessible and easy to navigate as your bricks and mortar store – which is why a website redesign project should be one of the first things on you checklist if you’re…
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What Is Responsive Design – And Why Should I Have It?
Have you recently browsed a website on your mobile device, only to click away when its layout didn’t work well with your screen? Non responsive design is the culprit in these situations, and it’s hurting site traffic more than business owners realize. Responsive design is a term you’ll hear often in discussions concerning website building,…
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5 Tips For Modern Web Designers
The landscape in web development and web design has changed drastically over the past few years. With emerging technologies like Mobile Responsive Web Design and front-end JavaScript application frameworks like Angular and React – coupled with the slow decline of old-faithful tools such as Flash and Fireworks, the line between being a web designer and…
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Top 5 Reasons to Consider a Website Redesign
At Imagine Monkey, about half of the work that we do involves redesigning. There’s a whole host of reasons that clients come to us looking to update their web presence. From gaining an edge against their competition to improving mobile responsiveness, the list of valid reasons to consider a redesign are endless. In this…
