Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category
Website intro pages, the good and the unnecessary!
…sometimes we don’t really need the introduction. In my previous post on website sins I focused on some sites’ lack of a web analytics feature and in this second post to the series the discussion will be on website intro pages both the good and the not so necessary. The main challenge in achieving simplicity...
Common website design sin, the lack of web analytics
There is a lot of common website design mistakes made by web designers, I will dedicate a post to each mistake that I’d like to address. The first ‘sin’ for this series is the most simple to implement but quite an often overlooked feature, especially by ‘newbie’ web designers. This is web analytics, or rather...
IEC website punishes its visitors for NOT using ancient technology!
I wrote about something similar regarding sabc one’s website, but this time I stumbled upon a worse situation. Firstly, let me start by educating those of you who aren’t website developers. There’s a traditional web design strategy called progressive enhancement, simply put: a website must be developed in such a way that all users are...
How many concepts should creatives present to clients?
This is one of the many debates amongst creatives themselves (and sometimes with their clients), some creatives developed this mentality that the more concepts they present the more the client will believe they’ve earned what they charged. While it’s tempting and might sound like a good idea to feed the clients with multiple concepts, it...
My views on facebook’s advertising model
Mark Zuckerberg and the crew behind Facebook has just launched their redesigned users’ profile layout. One thing for sure is that loyal users will definitely need some time to ‘digest’ and get used to the new layout. In this post my focus is more on Facebook’s ad system and a bit on the new layout....
eAdvertising: pay per click or per exposure?
The internet has without any doubt grown rapidly in the past decade, attracting billions of visitors daily to the world wide web. Which in return initiated an opportunity for advertisers to expose their brand, products or services to billions of online visitors world-wide on a daily basis by advertising on websites. One of the competitive...