Choosing a web design agency to build your website is a daunting choice. A new website is a big investment, and if you get it wrong, it can be thousands of dollars in your marketing budget gone to waste. It’s difficult to discern between all the different choices — there’s so many web agencies out […]
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Embed YouTube Videos Without Competitor Videos At The End
Published February 14th, 2019
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People want to embed YouTube videos on their website, but don’t want competitor videos showing in “Recommended Videos” at the end of the video play. YouTube changed embeds in 2018, to where you can no longer disable recommended videos from appearing after a video finishes playing. They want people to keep watching videos as much […]
How Does Your Agency Measure the ROI of a Website Redesign?
Published November 4th, 2017
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Your website is the foundation for your online marketing efforts. As a growing company, you re-evaluate your website periodically to make sure it is serving your business objectives. One question you should be asking your partner web agency is, “How will you measure the ROI of a website redesign?” I believe that any website redesign […]
The Three Legs of the SEO Table
You’ve heard it said, “it takes three legs to make a table stand”. Similarly, your website, your most important marketing asset, also takes three legs to stand. The three legs I’m talking about are content, link profile, and overall design and UX. Much as a table lays flush with three legs, your website needs these […]
Solved: Firefox Font Weight Renders Too Bold
Every web browser has it’s quirks. In Firefox, some fonts render as bold when they should render at a normal font weight. How do you fix it when the Firefox font weight renders too bold? There are some CSS rules you can add that will fix the problem. When Does Firefox Incorrectly Render Fonts As […]
Change the Bullet Color of a List Item with CSS
In web design, sometimes it is useful to change the bullet color of a list item to some other color besides the text color. We can do this using CSS. For example, perhaps you have a bulleted list, and you want to keep the text black, but make the bullets green. There is no CSS […]
Why You Should Invest In Web Design Retainers
The basis of all great service work is good relationships. Think about your personal life. When you hire somebody like a car mechanic, accountant, or plumber, and you find someone that delivers great work, you keep going back to them. In some cases, you might even keep them on a retainer, like with a lawyer, […]
Ordered Lists With A Different Color For Numbers
In HTML, there are two types of lists: ordered and unordered (ol and ul). Ordered lists have numbers for each list-item (li), while unordered lists do not have numbers. Unordered lists are generally used for many different things, like site navigation, widgets with links, bullet-point lists, or any place a set of links might show […]
Styling the Select Element Consistently in HTML
Getting different web browsers to show the same element the same way can be tricky, especially when it comes to form inputs. One of the most finicky HTML elements to style consistently across different browsers is the select element. Here are some tips for styling the select element to make it look the same from […]
Talking Content First Strategy on Rethink.fm
Recently, I had a chance to sit down with my friend Jackie D’Elia of Jackie D’Elia Design. She just launched a show called Rethink.fm, the forward-thinking podcast about web design and front-end development in WordPress. We’ve had several discussions leading up to this about content first strategy and design, which is the polar opposite of […]