Website Tutorials & Guides
These website tutorials and ultimate guides serve as a resource to help you make informed decisions on website design, development, and redesign projects. From guiding you and educating you about web design processes to providing valuable step-by-step tutorials on how to redesign and best implement a project.
How to Create a Top-Notch User Experience by Enhancing Your Website’s Information Architecture
Read how crafting a website’s information architecture typically begins with research in order to best understand what the users will be looking for, what their intent is, where they are coming from, and so on.
Designing a Nonprofit Website in Six Steps
If your nonprofit website design is poorly-performing and mismanaged, you may be turning away your prospective donors and advocates. Your nonprofit brand will suffer as a result, leading to less than maximally desired or achievable impact. Read these six steps to fix your nonprofit website design.
Tips for Connecting Your Website to Holistic Analytics Tools to Measure KPIs in Real-Time
The process of gathering, analyzing, and using this data to make measurable improvements to your website and marketing strategies is called website analytics. Website analytics measures key performance indicators (KPIs), helping you set goals for improvement. But how do you gather this data and what do you do with it once you have it? What do you need to know to get started with website analytics tools?
How to Get Users to Actually Read Your Words
Have you ever picked up a book and not been able to set it down? Maybe you’ve opened an email and started reading it, only to realize before you knew it you were half-way through. Have you ever stopped to wonder why you may stay longer on some websites, and simply click away from others?This has to do with the narrative and the words used. Yes, the written content on any website or book plays a huge part in retaining our interest and keeping our attention.
Content Strategy vs. Content Tactics
Modern companies did not invent content marketing; it has been around for well over a century (as you can see) but now everyone does it. You don’t get as big of a slice in the market as companies did in the early days. But in order to stay relevant in a world full of content, you need to have your content strategy and content tactics in place.
How Google Uses Contextual Signals to Personalize Messages to Mobile Users
More than half of all Google searches are now conducted on mobile phones, which means that it’s now more important than ever to ensure your website and every single page on your site is optimized for mobile, is user-friendly, and optimized for local search.
Website Redesign vs Rebuild
The average lifespan of a well-designed and structured website is anywhere from three to seven years. The decision to redesign shouldn’t be taken lightly and shouldn’t be done on a whim to follow the latest trends. Redesigning and rebuilding your website to ensure it’s in top form can be the best investment you make; however, the bottom line is that redesigns and rebuilds are expensive. Let’s take a look at redesign vs rebuild: which is better value for money and which will get you long-term results.
Website Performance Metrics
How do you know if your website is performing well or performing poorly? Learn about the tools and metrics to use to measure that performance for your site.
Top Four Website Structures and Sitemap Design for Purpose-Driven Organizations (Guide)
There’s both an art and science to great web design. There are the visual, layout, and psychological aspects but also the underlying technical aspects such as sitemap design, user experience considerations, technical SEO, on-page and off-page SEO, local SEO, schema, understanding Google’s search journeys, preference for mobile-first and mobile optimization, and AI-first, and much more.
Keeping Your Vision While Growing Your Organization
Growing a business is not a simple task; it takes an enormous amount of hard work, dedication, and devotion. With all the advice and opinions out there, sometimes growing a company can be overwhelming for entrepreneurs and business people simply because they have so much input coming at them. Toss in the pressure that can come from backers and investors, and if not carried out with purpose, it’s incredibly easy to lose your vision in the growth process.
