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How to Prepare a Web Design Brief 

How to Prepare a Web Design Brief  | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

A Blog post from our Sponsor. Good tips to follow to ensure your web designer understands what outcomes you need from your new website.

Magdalena Motyl's curator insight, October 30, 2017 1:48 AM

 

Many businesses struggle to adequately brief their web designers when they first seek quotes for a new website, and this usually leads to poor outcomes, that could have been avoided. To ensure that the quotes you receive from web designers, will if accepted, lead to the delivery of a great website that meets all of your requirements, you must prepare a comprehensive web design brief. This article outlines the minimum requirements you should include in any web design brief.

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15 Inspirational Examples of Minimal Web Design

15 Inspirational Examples of Minimal Web Design | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

The principles of minimalism in web design are that a website (and other mediums as well) should be stripped down to their bare bones, while carefully making use of whitespace and improving readability with clearer typography. When implemented correctly, the result will allow users to focus on what’s truly important without being distracted by non-essential elements.


While this may sound easy, it can be difficult deciding what the truly important elements are and what’s little more than decoration. It can also be risky. Accidentally removing a seemingly innocuous element could be deemed critical by the user and could result in the wrong message (or worse, no message at all) being delivered to your target audience....


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Jeff Domansky's curator insight, May 14, 2017 10:41 AM

Some inspiring minimalist web designs to consider over coffee.

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7 Best Free Website Builders

7 Best Free Website Builders | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

Do you want to build your own website that is easy, affordable and effective? If so, why not consider using a website builder? The best website builders allow you to build a site effortlessly in just a few minutes and with a few clicks of the button.


The best part? You do not need any special skills. The most popular WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editors let you create a website from scratch by utilizing a drag and drop HTML5 editor. No programming, HTML, or Photoshop experience needed!Another benefit of website builders is that they don’t require additional web hosting, unlike WordPress. org.


There are a lot of website builders out there in the market these days and some of them will incur monthly costs. How do you go about choosing the most suitable website builder when you are just starting to dip your toe into creating one? We have done all the heavy lifting to round up a list of the 7 best free website builders. The builders listed here offer completely free websites without any trial limitations.


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Jeff Domansky's curator insight, October 12, 2015 3:12 AM

There are a lot of free and paid website builders out there. So how do you choose the best website builder? Check out these 7 free website builders..

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FREE Website | Responsive One Page Template • START

FREE Website | Responsive One Page Template • START | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

by YoArts in Templates  Websites

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Honor the eyes and brains of your readers: Whitespace

Honor the eyes and brains of your readers:  Whitespace | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

By Mark Boulton:

 

“Whitespace,” or “negative space” is the space between elements in a composition. More specifically, the space between major elements in a composition is “macro whitespace.” Micro whitespace, is—yes, you’ve guessed it—the space between smaller elements: between list items, between a caption and an image, or between words and letters. The itty-bitty stuff.

So what does whitespace do?

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Wix Tips: 8 Web Usability Boosts That Take Under a Minute

Wix Tips: 8 Web Usability Boosts That Take Under a Minute | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it
When people think about creating a great website they often envision a stylish and professional layout, a striking design and images that look like they were just taken out of a magazine. But while looks are definitely important for a website, it’s crucial not to neglect another significant criteria – the site’s usability.
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15 Great Google Font Combinations For Your Next Project Design

15 Great Google Font Combinations For Your Next Project Design | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

Thankfully, the design world has advanced to the point where fonts are not nearly as limited as they once were. Starting with 2010 the Google Fonts were released, making the process of choosing and pairing fonts easier and quicker.

However, you should be aware that not every font combination in Google’s library is a recipe for typographical success. With the right font pairings and usage considerations, your brand will convey the right message to your audience, professionalism, and reader friendliness without the need for expensive customized fonts.

In this article, I’ll show you 15 great Google Font combinations that will help you to accomplish all this.

You will find below 15 spectacular Google Font combinations that together with images and graphics, will help you define your brand’s personality.


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Jeff Domansky's curator insight, September 28, 2017 11:58 PM

Here's some useful guidance on typography and fonts.

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Help! I just launched a new website and my search rankings tanked!

Help! I just launched a new website and my search rankings tanked! | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

Imagine this nightmare scenario: you’re on the verge of launching your newly redesigned website, and you’re already anticipating new leads and returning customers. You’ve spent countless hours working through every last detail before even considering unveiling your new creation to the world. The big day arrives, and you give the green light to launch.

Suddenly, you realize you forgot to plan for one crucial element: the SEO best practices that you had so carefully incorporated into your old website.

Unfortunately, this is not just a nightmare that can be forgotten once you’ve had your morning coffee, but something I’ve seen happen to countless small businesses over my 10 years as the owner of an SEO and online marketing agency.

Your redesigned website was meant to give your business a new lease on life, but instead, you’ve destroyed your organic search rankings and traffic overnight. When you change your site without thoroughly thinking through the SEO implications, you might do something harmful like throw away substantive content or change every page’s URL without making sure to redirect the old ones....


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Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 4, 2016 11:28 PM

Cautionary SEO tips to help you launch your redesigned website without losing your page rank.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, July 4, 2016 11:29 PM

Cautionary SEO tips to help you launch your redesigned website without losing your page rank.

 
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Own a Websites or Blog? Or Want One?

Own a Websites or Blog? Or Want One? | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it
Must Reads For Owners of Websites and Blogs.
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Design Revolutions Arrives At Curagami Thanks To Scoopit Bus

Design Revolutions Arrives At Curagami Thanks To Scoopit Bus | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it

Design Revolutions Now On Curagami
Finally decided to use @Scoop.it's easy to use embed tool. The tool makes it easy to add content curation to a blog. Simply copy the embed code and your Scoops appear inside your blog. 

Why would you want Scoops on a blog? Content curation has more reach and costs less than content creation. Content curation is or can become a big help to content creation.  

The "4th Estate" for Scoop.it is finding ways to bring the easy content curation Scoop.it creates with a company's content marketing. Scoop.it's easy to use embed (you embed the feed) bridges the 4th estate of content marketing. Well done! 


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9 Important Steps To Effective Home Page Design

Effective web design must begin with a clear goal or purpose for the website. When visitors enter a website they normally start scanning from the top left. …
Ness Crouch's curator insight, June 17, 2017 5:50 PM
This will be a great resource for classroom. 
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Web-Based Tools to Create Free Infographics

Web-Based Tools to Create Free Infographics | Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology | Scoop.it
Now days you must be seeing many big websites and companies releasing Infographics daily to show their company data or to do an analysis. Infographics has become a good way to express your data information quickly in an easy and understandable way. In this post we cover some free web based Infographics services through which you can create your infographics very easily.

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Dave Barry's curator insight, July 30, 2013 10:29 PM

A great way to share a lot of information