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Effective Website Forms 101

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2009-01-25

Plenty of consideration and planning is required in creating successful website forms, even the most straightforward ones. In fact, best forms tend to appear uncomplicated.   No matter the size or complexity, web forms are one of the most important tools of a website and need to be approached as such. Full Article

Defining a Quality Website

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2008-11-05

Quality, as it pertains to the assessment of a website, can be defined in many ways.  Appearance is an obvious factor as quality is often attributed to sites that are visually attractive.  Yet even in this instance, looks can be deceiving.  Once you remove the value of a brand image or the site data itself, my criteria for defining website quality, from most to least important, is as follows - user friendliness, engineering, business logic, design, and search engine friendliness. Full Article

The Path to Website Re-Design Success

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Web Design, Web Development on 2008-06-06

For various reasons, sooner or later companies get an itch to re-design their web sites. The process most commonly begins with requests for quotes from a slew of web design companies found on the first pages of a Google search. If this is the approach you and your company are taking, know that you’re heading in the wrong direction. Full Article

Warning: Canadian Spelling can misdirect your traffic!

Posted By Ezra Silverton in Best Practices, Internet Marketing on 2007-08-03

Spelling can be challenging for Canadian companies especially when selling to the United States. Some commonly misspelled Canadian-English words, such as Full Article

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