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If you have a smartphone, a tablet or a regular computer, chances are you have used an app at some point. We can’t get enough of them. They make life easier and quicker. Apps help you remember things, help you find and see things and just all around help you be an awesome(r) person.

There’s so many to choose from, whether you want a mobile app or a web-based app. Maybe you want something for your Android phone, or perhaps something to boot up on your MacBook Pro. Either way, chances are the app is doing something amazing to help you or create some fun in your life. Apps are increasingly popular and it’s becoming easier for people to create them.

In making these apps, part of the marketing and promotional...

In order to be a great designer, you need to be on top of the trend before it becomes a trend. Being able to have this sense of what’s going to take off is key in creating a wonderful product. You’re recognized for being one of the ‘firsts’ and you’re also given props for your innovation and new approach to common problems.

All this is great and desired. It can, however, be tough to keep up with trends because they come so frequently and you never know what’s...

Whilst the trend for online business continues to grow, there is a significant increase in the number of consumers choosing not to do business online. The most oft-quoted reason is privacy.

Six months ago, several thousand euros were charged to one of my cards. A criminal had somehow accessed my Amazon...

With over 9 billion indexed sites on the web and counting, sites are having to do more to get noticed and encourage users to spend time on them.

With more websites competing for users’ attention, color is becoming more and more important in making your page stand out. Here are some sites that do just...

Being in love is great. It’s often a crazy journey where you find out much about your partner and especially yourself. The beginnings of a relationship may be the most exciting, but once that’s all done, it’s time to take the big step; it’s time to get married!

Marriage is often looked at as such a traditional thing. With the rise of the DIY bride and the modern bride, many of these traditions are being thrown out the window.

Save the date and wedding announcements are often sent via mail. People respond with an RSVP and send congratulations. However, there seems to be a...

One of the recent developments on the web has been the rise in the use of one page websites by everyone from web designers to large companies to promote their product, app or portfolio.

One page websites look great with many having very simple designs, large typography and amazing illustrations and graphics too making them some of the best looking sites on the web in 2012.

Often using the very latest...

Knowing whether your website is working properly is the first step in making sure you nip problems in the bud.

And unless you want to go check your site every five minutes (who has time for that?) or wait until one of your visitors tells you about a problem (very unpleasant), you need some kind of monitoring service.

Monitor Scout is a FREE web-based monitoring system that lets you know when your...

For America, creating a government website from the states, all the way down to the federal government can be an interesting but controversial task.  It’s important to follow a user-centered design process and make it easy for citizens to find the information they’re looking for.

Any confusion in the way the site is setup, its search functions or even the appearance can create large amounts of controversy between citizens and governments; as history has shown.

With that said, we’re going to look at the best practices for creating government websites by comparing local with federal,...

Surprising as it may sound, colleges and universities seem to have finally figured out social media. Long berated for giving only the most modest efforts at developing an online presence, higher education is, at long last, taking the Internet seriously.

As a higher and higher percentage of high school students spend more time online (and on social media in particular), colleges have made the realization that they stand a far better chance of attracting new applicants if they come visit them on their own turf.

The big social media sites have all become darlings of academia, and students seem not to mind one bit—the most successful schools rack up thousands of Twitter followers, hundreds of thousands of Facebook likes, and millions of views on YouTube, likely in large part from current, prospective,...

Step with me, if you will, into my humble DeLorean, and travel back in history to that time you fell asleep in your design theory course.

You didn’t need Gestalt theories, you thought. You already knew how to make a killer logo. You had more important things to do, like daydream about becoming Sagmeister’s next protegee.

I hate to break it to you, but those fundamentals of perceptive organization go way beyond just making a pretty picture.

In...

One-page websites are hot and popular — no doubt about that. But they aren’t for everyone or every business. It’s easy to want one because they’re popular; and if done correctly, yours could be a hit. But make sure you’re project qualifies first.

A good candidate for a one-page website is not super-heavy on content. You only have one page to get your point across, and there are only so many animations and tricks you can throw in before they get stale.

Plus, most one-page websites are unconventional in their layout. Trying to fit a lot of content onto one page without looking cluttered is pretty tough.

Potential uses vary, but some of the most popular candidates for one-page websites are...