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Design & Development Digest

On the Web, image is everything – and so is function. Improve the visual design and function of your digital property with WM’s Design & Development channel.

Websites for Restaurants with GoDaddy & Locu

GoDaddy's Website Builder, which provides ready-made designs for those looking to establish a Web presence, has formed an alliance with Locu - a technology solution that enables restaurant owners to update manage their menu's...

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Passing Go with Optimized Landing Pages for Gamers

:: Maximilian Beer, Senior Online Marketing Manager at TrafficCaptain :: Spurred by the increasing popularity of online games, the computer and video games market has in recent years seen rapid growth and today constitutes an important...

Easy Web Overlays with Chardin

One of the most popular posts in April 2013 here at Website Magazine was about the Intro.JS jQuery plugin which enables users to create guided virtual introductions on their website. But Intro.js isn't the only available option;...

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Tubular: Use YouTube Videos as Website Backgrounds

Delete that tired old static website background - and get Tubular ! The jquery plugin lets designers/developers use a YouTube video as a Webpage background - how cool is that? Now, I don't have any idea at all how or when this...

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Barriers to Engaging Web Design

For all intents and purposes, design is the most important part of a website when it comes to getting users to convert, and what matters more than that, right? Unfortunately, even on the most thoughtfully designed websites, there can...

Simpler Checkout for Single Page Websites

Single-page site design is a popular Web trend, but it's not typically a good fit for those actually selling products. There are plenty of good examples where this style of design is used, but it's mainly for information publishers...

Supersize Image-Based Websites

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so imagine how much you could convey on your website with an attractive, full-screen background slideshow. Well, you no longer just have to imagine it, thanks to the Supersized jQuery plugin...

Lettering.js Ensures Truly Fontastic Web Designs

A good font can make all of the difference between an attractive website that effectively communicates its message to visitors and one that, well, doesn’t do that. Unfortunately, at present, CSS doesn’t offer a complete...

Parallax Scrolling, Responsive Design Make Nice

Responsive design is top-of-mind these days for website owners and designers, alike. Plenty of developers are also talking about another hot new trend sweeping the Web known as parallax scrolling. If you haven’t heard, parallax...

Extend Image Value by Tagging with Rich Content

Image tagging is a popular new way to make pictures on a website more informative and engaging for users. Now, website owners and designers can bring that engagement to their own images with the iPicture jQuery plugin that allows users...

Designing Websites for Multivariate Testing, Key Considerations

:: By Kim Ann King, Chief Marketing Officer, SiteSpect :: If you are like most digital marketers, you are doing everything you can to optimize your website. One of the best ways to optimize your site is through multivariate testing...

The Web's Most Gorgeously Designed Websites

:: By DJ Miller :: Stagnant websites simply can't keep up in the continually evolving online world. Those that update often and experiment bravely with an eye to gorgeous, yet functional design are sure to grab visitors' attention...

6 Super Call-to-Actions (Plus Tips)

Whether it’s completing a project or taking an action, people will take as long as you give them to do it. This is why in business, deadlines (enforceable ones) work and why, on the Web, call-to-actions (good ones) are integral...

Award-Winning Websites That Inspire Us

There are millions of websites on the ’Net, so how do you get yours to stand out from the competition? While the answer to this question depends a great deal on the type of site you run, implementing a combination of design best...

Just LayoutIt: Really Easy Boostrap Interface Builder

As designers - from novice to ninja-like - increasingly turn to frameworks such as Bootstrap and others (see here and here ) as the ‘structure’ of their websites, opportunities are emerging which help those new to design...

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