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Putting a Value on Website Design Budgets

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A number of clients have asked “what’s the cost of a website?” There’s a loaded question. Design on the Web is as important as packaging design, product design and corporate identity. This is becoming increasingly so. The value of good website design is in some ways subjective. Website design implies more than just the “graphic” [...]

Tags: Marketing & PR · Usability

The Art of the Font…or Typeface

April 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Words. Text. You’re reading text now. If you’re a professionally trained designer then you can probably recall the long lectures and struggles dealing with the different types of fonts, sizes and placement alongside imagery. Weighting and columnar placement and usage. The right font style, size and placement on your website is perhaps one of the [...]

Tags: Marketing & PR · Usability · Web Design

Content Vs. Time

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the big mantra’s of Web 1.0 (circa 1996-2006) was “Content is King” and that hasn’t changed much. Content used to pretty much mean “text.” Today it means good design, video and audio. We argue that if “Content is King” then “Time is Queen.” We’re all busy these days. Knowledge workers spend a lot [...]

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