If you run an online business, drawing customers to your website is vital for your continued success. While lots of effort tends to be spent on SEO and gaining new visitors, ensuring they return is another matter. Email newsletters are the perfect opportunity to inform your past visitors of reasons to return.
Author: unuzero
Traditional typography meets modern techniques
Web designers are raging with excitement and renewed passion for typography as browsers advance, as web services emerge, and as doing fantastic things with text generally becomes a whole lot easier. Sure, we have had the likes of Cufon and sIFR for some time now, and they continue to be very useful, but typography has advanced far beyond and is a more natural part of website architectures now.
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Many non-designers believe that they’re unable to create visually pleasing websites because they didn’t go to art school, or they lack creative flair. Thankfully, this is not true. There are certain design maxims and techniques that anyone can learn and apply to ensure that their website is not only functional, but sexy too. No art school required.Whether you want to improve the look of an ordinary website or learn a new set of skills, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, Second Edition will teach you good design fundamentals, ensuring that you avoid making any rookie mistakes.
How do you convince the average web user to switch to a non-IE browser?
As web designers and developers, we love to see how our sites and web apps look and function using a really good browser. It’s true that with the release of IE9, Microsoft has made great progress in the so-called browser wars. And although IE9 is a fast and reliable browser that has pretty good support for CSS3 and HTML5, there are still quite a few missing technologies that we all would like to see in Internet Explorer soon.
Reflections campaign by Tom Hussey
Tom Hussey is a photographer who focuses on advertising and portrait photography. The project featured on this post is called “Reflections” and was created for a new Novartis drug called the Exelon Patch. The drug in question is a prescription medicine for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s dementia.