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5 Reasons You Need A Mobile Version Of Your Website

November 29, 2019April 23, 2013 by Editorial Staff

Every business needs a mobile version of their website. With 83% of the population owning a phone, and with over 55% of those phones being smartphones, cell phones are being used more and more to browse the web on the go. For businesses to make a name for themselves and their products, they need to get their name out there and keep it out there. The easiest way to do that is to keep up with the trends of society, and the latest trend is mobile browsing. Here are the top 5 reasons why a business needs to create a mobile website to be able to keep up with that trend.

7 Things Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games

January 2, 2020June 15, 2012 by Editorial Staff

What makes a video game blast the monotony of repetitive actions and sometimes mindless clicking? The short answer to this is the story and the interface. Because in a video game players expect great content to be delivered to them without breaking the fantasy, I believe that web designers have a lot of things to learn from them.

Getting Your Friends to Help Create Your Website

August 17, 2020May 30, 2012 by Editorial Staff

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If you are trying to make money from a blog or a website as a hobbyist or as an entrepreneur, then you will be at a rather large disadvantage compared to many of the other blogs out there. You see the problem is that you are just one person – and while you might be very talented and very dedicated, you will be going up against blogs and websites run by whole professional teams. If you want to make a gaming website for instance, then you will have to go up against IGN which has offices full of people uploading numerous posts daily, teams of web designers with professional degrees and the best software, and support from the games industry as well.

Is Your Website In a Pro-Selling Mode? 7 Ways To Optimize It

November 14, 2019April 23, 2012 by Editorial Staff

A basic condition for a site’s success is to be a good seller. Of course, by this I don’t mean selling the website itself, even though Internet is full of multi-figure site transactions. Take for example the recent Instagram takeover by Facebook for around $ 1 billion, or Interclick bought by Yahoo for $ 270 million. But to close the brackets, what do these sites have in common? It’s their aptitude to attract eyeballs to their online showcase by being sales-oriented.

There are types of websites that do sell on an explicit basis: online merchants, web services and apps, blogs which sell advertising space, NPOs collecting donations. However, generally speaking, all websites (even non-commercial ones) have to convert visitors into some form of leads: subscribers, Facebook fans, prospects for direct purchase. These conversions mean sales at some point.

If you are the proud owner of an online asset, read on to see how you can optimize it for instant sales.