Happy Thanksgiving From The Ocean Agency
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from our web design company!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from our web design company!
In honor of the upcoming holiday, our web design company is sharing some of the things we are thankful for this week, so here are five blogs we are thankful for:
In honor of Thanksgiving, our web design company is focusing on the things we are thankful for this week - first up, the top five websites. Although there are plenty of sites on the web that we visit consistently, these are our favorites.
As always, here are our web design company’s favorite blog posts and articles this week:
Just Creative Design shares seven tips that will give your blog an extra edge.
As always, Friday brings our web design company’s links of the week! Stay up-to-date on the news and happenings in the web design world.
Explore the world of newspaper online design with Smashing Magazine.
Usability is the most important key to a functioning website. To generate traffic to your site is great, but if your users can’t actually use your website as a tool, you may fail to convert visitors to customers. On this World Usability Day, our web design agency is taking the idea of usability beyond just simple functionality, though.
As always, here are our web design company’s favorite blog posts and articles from around the web this week:
In honor of this week’s historic election, Elite by Design lists twelve inspirational political websites. Of course, our favorite is Obama’s new site, Change.gov. Simple, elegant, and highly usable, it is a masterpiece of website design.
Does your business have a truly iconic brand, or one with iconic potential? Our web design company means brands like Nike and their tag line “Just Do It” that is recognized the world over, or Apple and their amazing ad campaigns and highly coveted products. Of course, one of the original iconic brands is that of Notre Dame’s four horsemen - they eventually became the first element of the legendary Notre Dame mystique.
Although we discuss design often on our web design company’s blog, today we want to discuss content. The writing on your blog needs to be simple, concise and accesible to any visitor. The words need to represent your brand message in style, while delivering your ideas and abilities succinctly and persuasively. But more importantly, your content must convince visitors to convert to customers.
One of the first things your company must decide is what kind of web design will best emody your brand image to an internet customer. For many companies, this means creating a space that the consumer will feel comfortable in and will visit again. To achieve this, many websites employ imagery that detracts from the technological implications of a website– like hand drawn details. If you think your company’s website would benefit from the informality and intimacy of hand drawn imagery, see the following websites for inspiration.