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4 Simple Steps to Improve Your Website Speed

Tips to make your website work faster

If you’re a business owner, your slow website speed can cost you returning customers. If you’re a visitor, a slow loading website can be pretty frustrating.

If however, your website performance is fast, you can make it even faster. Every millisecond counts.

Does site speed really matter?

As a user, you can confirm that every now and then you bump into websites that have a poor performance. This makes you consider spending your precious time waiting for the page to load and you end abandoning it. There are other similar businesses, with a web presence, that can provide to their audience a better experience.

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10 Critical Questions to Ask a Web Design Company Before Hiring

Hiring web design company: questions to askThe web design agency that you choose to build your online presence is your ally in achieving your business marketing goals. During the recent years the number of web design companies has increased significantly, each and every one of them offering custom-focused and not only services. Although web design practices are the same for all types of websites, it is the approach to work that makes a difference for the businesses that are in search of the best partner and makes them end their quest by choosing one or another agency.

When hiring a web design company or web designer the procedure is practically the same as in the case of recruiting a new employee. There are questions you ask the person to see whether he/she fits your business purposes and goals, if the knowledge and expertise he/she possesses is in tune with your demands and expectations.

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Popular Web Design Trends for 2016

Web Design TrendsResponsive website design becomes increasingly popular, practically a must for companies that wish to extend their reach across numerous platforms and attract visitors with various devices. Knowing the new tendencies is extremely important for web designers and design studios in general. Nevertheless, it’s worth to read the research papers on the new trends to see if they actually pay off and work as they were intended to, attracting masses. Sometimes, people think that they want something, while actually they lose interest to this item/action very quickly. You need to design your website in a way that will appeal to customers and attract them whether they like it or not.

For example, people just love information, especially interesting one. We are all information junkies, it gives us some sort of rush, like tasty food or sex. However, we’re unable to process big volumes of information, despite our desire to have it. This is the reason why text on the websites is presented in short blocks with clear and large headlines. Thus, you will pay your full and undivided attention at least to one of the presented articles and won’t divert it to some eye-candy: shiny and engaging.

So, in order to be on top of your competition you need to know for sure what tendencies are and will be in next year. What innovations and web design trends are we to expect in 2016? Let’s take a look at the most popular ones.

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