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A recent article from Smashing Magazine relates how to make your corporate website a design success, but the strategies presented aren’t your obvious sort of rules. Instead, they offer seven key components that make a web design great. They don’t all concern simply imagery or content, but they highlight the necessary facets a good website should employ to please their users.

Over 11,000 bloggers join our web design company’s blog today to combat poverty by changing our discussion, for one day, from our usual topics to the biggest concern of our global community. While web design and online strategy constantly occupy our minds, this Blog Action Day, we’ll take our brand of innovation and apply it to the problems facing our world. Read more below to see who joins us and what we all can do.

Regular readers of this blog will know that we give a lot of advice. We recommend many “do”s and admonish many “don’t”s, but here is the most important advice of all: Once you know the rules, break the rules. Our web design company believes that progress is created by knowing what makes a website a traditional success, and then by smashing expectations and providing the consumer with something new, different, but above all better.

Any person– whether web designer, company owner, or internet customer– can get bogged down in bad website design. When a site is cluttered, clunky or confusing, no one involved in the interaction is served. To help you avoid any of the cardinal sins of design, here are the Ten Commandments of Web Design, as voted upon by web gurus to BusinessWeek Magazine. We follow them religiously at our web design company.

As always, here are some of our web design company’s favorite blog posts and articles for your weekend reading:

Get Elastic writes about optimizing your reviews for different buyer personalities.

When you hear the word “design,” you get a distinctly artistic impression. “Website,” on the other hand, is a far more technical term. So in “website design,” what takes precedence? The name of the process is itself a balancing act of form and function.