A website isn’t just the numbers behind it, and a blog can’t be defined by its clicks alone. If you want visitors to stick around and come back for more, you’ll have to offer them a cool place to hang out. The amount of clicks you get won’t even matter when you start focusing onRead more

Here’s what Neil Patel has to say about infographics and how huge they’ve been for KISSmetrics (a customer intelligence tool and one of Neil’s businesses): Within 2 years, we were able to generate 2,512,596 visitors and 41,142 backlinks from 3,741 unique domains from 47 infographics.[4] Does this sound like a good enough reason to perhapsRead more

With each passing year, the smartphone becomes more and more popular. As a digital culture, we’ve all grown accustomed to our handheld devices wearing ALL the hats. We use our smartphones to wake us up, remind us of meetings, organize our day, take photographs, capture video, and provide us with entertainment. In the past two years,Read more

Never before has information been condensed into images as often as it is today. Take into consideration how many infographics you’ve read. Ten, twenty, a thousand? The latter wouldn’t be that surprising. Companies are taking traditionally long-winded information and presenting it in a more compact yet visually-intriguing way. With this in mind, let’s take aRead more

Every network event you go to has that one hot word buzzing around. It’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue, at the forefront of each conversation. It could be a new app, a trendy wearable or some form of strategy; but whatever it is, it’s about to blow everyone’s minds. This past week, during aRead more

It’s tough to negotiate unfamiliar territory, especially when it comes to something that takes your investment. You want to hire someone to build your website, but you’re unfamiliar with all the jargon involved. What CMS are you going to use? Do you need a site that’s fully accessible? You may not even know what InformationRead more

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word accessible? I think about my ability to gain entry to a place, but that’s some pretty selfish thinking. Accessible really means that something is available for everyone to gain entry. So when it comes to the internet and websites, accessibility doesn’tRead more

Have you ever thought up an original joke and then shared it with a friend, only to be met with the sound of crickets chirping? In your head, it was the funniest thing you’d ever thought of, so what went wrong? Or what about that time you wrote an essay for school, proud that youRead more

60% of the entire CMS marketplace is dominated by WordPress. That’s millions of people. And when you have a market with so many participants, you better believe there’ll be some huge add-ons available. In WordPress’ case, it’s plugins. We’ve created a stripped-down list of essential plugins perfect for a bare-bones website. Here are seven ofRead more

If you haven’t heard of information architecture, then it’s about time you did your research. When you make design decisions for your website, you’re engaging in information architecture. It’s an all-encompassing field of study that helps us understand how a user’s experience is affected by the slightest changes to organization, navigation, tagging, labelling and otherRead more