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Ready Set Design!
For five weeks now, we’ve been leading up to the part about designing your site where we get to actually design your site. The wait is over! Previously, we addressed these questions: Do I need a website? What are my goals? What sort of content will my site have? What exact content will my site… Read more
NOW Is It Time for Design?
Continuing our series on Web strategy, let’s go back to our pyramid metaphor. We’ve established that we need a site; set some overarching goals for what we want the site to achieve for us; and come up with some brilliant verbiage that will turn visitors into customers. Surely, now is the time to dive into… Read more
A Tale of Two Business Owners (a Fable)
As part of our ongoing series on the process of creating your Web site, today we present a story of two business owners and their respective quests to create compelling content for their sites. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles and Sydney had each launched a new business:… Read more
What to Put on My Web Site?
In the last two weeks, we’ve looked at the process of determining IF you need a Web site, and of determining what your goals are for the site. Now we jump into design, right? Not so fast there, turbo. It’s important that your site look good, sure – but if you don’t know what content… Read more
OK, So I Need a Web Site
Last week we asked the rather unorthodox question: do you even need a Web site for your business? For the rest of this series, we’ll assume that you’ve decided that your hypothetical business does indeed need an equally hypothetical Web site. After all, if you decided you don’t need a site, there’s very little point… Read more
Do I Even Need a Web Site?
Imagine that you’re a new business owner looking at the prospect of building a Web site for your company. If you already are a new business owner, well, imagine you’ve also got a Tweety Bird Pez dispenser on your lap. Your first impulse might be, “I have to get a Web site built.” After all,… Read more
Is Your Web Site Design Obsolete?
Last week we examined how a new, flat design aesthetic is sweeping the internet. Flat is definitely the flavor of the month. So what does this mean for your site designed in the 3-d, skeuomorphic style? Don’t Panic Let’s get this out of the way: your site does not need an urgent, complete makeover. Well,… Read more
Is Flat the New 3-D?
Web design, like fashion, tends to follow trends and repeat itself over intervals of several years. In the beginning, when the internet was just computers sending text to each other, the design aesthetic was very flat. Text on a page, perhaps an image or two drawn in MacPaint. As computers’ graphics capabilities improved, we got… Read more
Say Hello to Evver
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our latest Web project, Evver. Evver is a Web service that turns your photos into fun slideshow videos set to music of your choice. MWD Web built the marketing side of the site, a WordPress build that integrates with Evver’s product side for a seamless user experience. The… Read more
Cool New Features of WordPress 3.6
Things are a little hectic at MWD Web this week, so today’s post is a short one. We’re doggedly committed to posting every week, though, so by gum we’re going to post! The team of developers behind WordPress released their latest version, 3.6, earlier this month. We’ve had a few weeks now to play around… Read more