Usability. It is a buzz word that you hear in all sorts of professions. And yet, it is amazing the amount of times that the usability of something doesn’t seem to be well thought out. Especially when it comes to websites. How many times have you gone to a website because of a specific purpose, [...]

Your website has probably been a major project for your company for the last ten years or more. It has changed with the times and morphed into something that hopefully is one of your company’s strongest assets. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could push a pause button and just let your site cruise for [...]

I often think about how much time I spend on the net, surfing from site to site, following all sorts of rabbit holes to the best (and worst) that these interwebs have to offer. While I know that I spend MUCH more time visiting websites than the average Joe, it got me to pondering how [...]

As a northern colorado web designer, I am often conflicted about one of the most popular and polarizing technologies on the internet: Flash. You probably know that Flash is what gives many websites the slick interactive animation and transitions and you may have read passionate internet rants in favor and against Flash. When done correctly, [...]

In Adrian’s last post, Website Credibility in a Fraction of a Second, he discussed an alarming statistic where web site visitors make up their minds about your company within the first 50 milliseconds of visiting your website.  That’s 1/20th of a second.  People are pretty good at making split decisions.  While that statistic seems frightening, [...]

There is a statistic that I use quite often that measures the time it takes a person to evaluate your website. Studies show that website users decide the credibility of your site in the first 50 milliseconds that they see your site. While this is a widely accepted fact there are relatively few places online [...]

Web design companies in Colorado often make the mistake of talking over the head of their customers. Building a website is a very technical process and conversations with a web developer often leave your head spinning even if you are a reasonably tech savvy person. Below is an entertaining video that has been circulating the [...]

A website design company in Greeley was recently forced to close its doors due to the economy.  To me it’s sad.  I never like to hear that a small business has had to make that difficult decision.  After all, those are real people with families and mortgages to pay.  And now the employees are turning [...]

In my last post I was talking about design mistakes that might cause a website to lose traffic. The first mistake on my list had to do with site navigation. Not only does poor navigation make your site look unprofessional, it leads to frustrated customers, or worse yet, lost customers.  If visitors to your website get confused [...]

Web design companies offer advice all the time but more and more of them are going out of business as this recession deepens.  So how do you know if you can trust the advice you’re getting from your web design company?  I like to use a few online tools to determine if a web design [...]