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Got confused users? Here are two quick fixes for under $10

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Nick Armstrong in Making Your Website Convert

We’ve all been there. A button on our site that leads to all sorts of awesomeness, dormant and unclicked. How do you spice it up? Iconography, my friend. And good iconography at that. First, the free option: FontAwesome. FontAwesome is a font filled with icons (think Dingbats or Wingdings). In this case, all the icons…

Why are you punishing your users with bad spam controls?

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Nick Armstrong in Making Your Website Convert

We get it. You hate spam. Everybody does. As of 5PM on July 1, 2014, Akismet had filtered out 176,453,691 spam WordPress comments since 12:01 AM July 1, 2014. That’s 176.5 MILLION spam comments that were stopped. And that’s just on blogs that have Akismet installed (WordPress.com by default, and quite a few WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and other…

Your generic yahoo/hotmail/aol email address is losing you money

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Nick Armstrong in Making Your Website Convert

Your generic email address is losing you money for no good reason. A study conducted by Visible Logic indicated that 70% of those who see a “generic” email address on your business card (ie: @aol.com, @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com) have a lesser opinion of you than if you had an @yourbusiness.com email address. In fact, of…

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Michelle Nickolaisen on Got confused users? Here are two quick fixes for under $10
I've never heard of Font Awesome - I'll have to look into that! Funny thing is that I HAD heard...
Posted Sep 10, 2014
BusySuperVA on Got confused users? Here are two quick fixes for under $10
I have heard of Font Awesome - I never used but agree it's neat. A new one for me is...
Posted Sep 09, 2014
Carol Lynn Rivera on Got confused users? Here are two quick fixes for under $10
I like Font Awesome, too. Pretty nifty. Haven't heard of the other but I'm a bleeding heart support-the-artist liberal so...
Posted Sep 04, 2014
Sharon Hurley Hall on Got confused users? Here are two quick fixes for under $10
Never heard of the Noun Project, so thanks, Nick. Icons do come in handy. :)
Posted Aug 27, 2014
Melanie Kissell on How Web Designers Market: Jargon that Costs
So true, Nick. We have scads and scads of information at our fingertips. No excuse to not put our hands...
Posted Aug 01, 2014

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2014-01-01T11:49:52-07:00

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2014-01-01T11:57:28-07:00

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2014-09-10T15:47:51-06:00

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