Web design
How Long Does it Take to Make a Website?
Tom Hapgood once said that a year is a normal length of time for getting a website from idea to launch. The fastest one we’ve done in the past year took two weeks — but that was from the client’s contact with me to launch, so it could be that the client was thinking about…
Website Makeover: Liquid Dispatch
The good people at Liquid Dispatch, Inc. needed a new web design. Their website wasn’t coming up first for the name of their company at the search engine results pages, and they weren’t sure that anyone was visiting them. Their old site needed updating:
Friction at Your Website: Good or Bad?
Friction is a key concept in transportation, but it’s also an important idea in commerce. Economist Thomas Friedman describes human contact during commerce as “friction.”
Website Music
Music at your website is a lot like kissing. We all like being kissed, but that doesn’t mean that we want to be grabbed and kissed, willy-nilly, by just everyone. We all like music, but that doesn’t mean that we want it thrust upon us just because we visited a website.
Finding a Web Designer
Last week I met with a client who brought her husband along. As we were discussing the new website we’re planning for my client, he expressed some dissatisfaction with his own website.
The Cute Website
I was working with a client the other day, and she expressed dislike of a paragraph I’d written for her because it was “too sweet.” Another phrase was “too cute.”