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The Best Designs Are Stolen

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One of the biggest advantages of creating a custom website design is that you can pull inspiration from anywhere. At the start of a web project or anytime you are considering design improvements, it’s helpful to gather inspiration sites. Then your web strategist and web designer can guide you on how to incorporate these ideas and pair them with the latest design trends and best practices. Whether you are considering a redesign or looking for creative ways to improve your website, here are some tips on how to find inspiration: Check out the competition. Start with your competitors’ websites. Sometimes your competitors may be ahead of the game or their sites are examples of what NOT to do. Take note of any trends that you see on multiple competitors’ sites.   Go outside your industry. Unlike a template design where you are limited, a custom… Read More.

How to Improve Website Speed

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Hi, this is David with Tiny Frog. I’m a web developer here to talk to you today about factors impacting the speed of your website. Speed is very important. You want your website to pop up so fast when people go to it. Nowadays Google puts search engine factors in related to the speed of your website and they have a great tool to test the speed. So speed is very important and as software developers, we have a lot to pay attention to when it comes to delivering your website at lightning-fast speed to your visitors. The number one thing we can do is write our code very efficiently to improve website speed. So if we write code we want to only have to read it through it once, we want to make it very easy for your server and your internet browser to… Read More.

Avoid Slide Shows on Your Website

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Hello, everyone, my name is Nathalie and today I’ll be talking a little bit about slide shows and how they can have a negative effect on the user experience. Now, why is that? The user likes to have control over the interface. So when there’s a slide show, they really might miss out on the message that sits over that slideshow because before they’re able to read it, it scrolls to the next one. This is one reason to avoid slide shows. As we talked about earlier, the statistics are very low on how many people actually sit in front of the slide show to be able to read all the different messages. We just don’t have the attention span nowadays. And last but not least when you’re thinking about doing a slide show, please take into consideration that you know we are designing for… Read More.

Creating Effective Website Content

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Hello this is Mikel Bruce with Tiny Frog Technologies. When you’re building a website most people know that one of the biggest considerations and sometimes challenges is creating content for that website. It is a challenge if sometimes you need to bring a content writer in. That person will need to spend time learning about your company, about the people in your company, your core values, your industry, your competition, your clients. There is a lot that goes into creating effective content for a website. But there’s one other factor that goes into creating content that’s not always considered but it is important, and that is creating content for the search engines and creating content for the user or the user experience. So the user is your website visitor. It’s very important. Probably the most important thing is that when your website visitor lands on… Read More.

New Service: WordPress Fixes & Tweaks

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Tiny Frog Technologies, San Diego’s “hopp-iest” web design agency, announced today that it has added a new service to its menu based on evolving client needs. WordPress Fixes and Tweaks is designed for companies that are troubled by one thing about their website, but aren’t ready for a full redesign. “We’ve been seeing a large number of clients needing continuous design and performance updates to improve their sites over time,” said Mikel Bruce, Tiny Frog CEO/founder. “With this new service, we can fix or tweak something relating to hosting or maintenance to help with speed, performance and WordPress problems that need to be handled by experts.” In addition to fixing slow load times and page speed — something deemed more and more important by Google — the new service can address design tweaks, WordPress conversions, site migrations, security issues, and plugin compatibility. One of the… Read More.

The Secret Web Strategy for Professional Speakers

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Hi, my name is Lilly Ghahremani and I am a web strategist for TinyFrog and today I’ll be talking about what professional speakers need in a great website. I have worked on a number of websites for professional speakers and the considerations are interesting. And the main reason for that is that as a professional speaker that you are your brand. So the way that we approach the strategy for website is different and interesting. You’re looking to do three things on a professional speaker website. The first is to demonstrate that you know things. You know something specific that the audience will be interested in. The second thing that you’re looking to do on your website is to show that you are good at talking about what you know. And the third thing you’re looking to do on your business website is to show… Read More.

10 Things I Hate About Your Website

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We’re throwing it back to the ‘90s this month! The famous poem from the movie “10 Things I Hate About You” may be a love letter in disguise, but our list is a bit less romantic. Here are your website visitors’ top pet peeves. Is your website guilty of anyone of them? I hate when… 1. I can’t find your contact information. Your business’ phone number should be the easiest thing to find on your website and have click-to-call functionality so visitors don’t have to think twice about how to contact you. 2. Your site takes too long to load. Page load time correlates with conversions on a web page. The slower page speed means visitors are more likely to bounce than wait. 3. I get lost and can’t find the information I was searching for. Every visitor comes to your website with a goal. A logical… Read More.

How to Create Video Content for Your Blog

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Hello this is Mikel with Tiny Frog Technologies and a previous blog post I talked about the importance of creating blog content for your website. I want to talk a little bit about a strategy that we use which includes the benefits of video blogs. Right now I’m in a video – obviously – we actually have videos created on a regular basis for our website. It can be challenging to create a lot of videos on a frequent basis. What we do is we kind of amalgamated our efforts and create the videos at one time, three or four months worth, and then our objective is to have a weekly blog video. The benefits of a blog video are pretty significant. One of which this video technically resides on YouTube, so it really strengthens our YouTube channel. YouTube is technically the second largest search… Read More.

Make Website Visitors Fall in Love with Your Business

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Is your website drawing visitors in or pushing them away? The design and messaging on a website should create a positive emotional connection with visitors. This can be a hard quality to define because it occurs on an unconscious level. However, if you master this, visitors are more likely to engage on the site and to remember the experience even after leaving. Here are the top factors to consider for creating an emotional connection: Know who you are connecting with. First, you need to understand your website visitors or you’ll never be able to tap into what appeals to them. If your design, navigation, and content cause confusion and frustration for a visitor, then you are creating a negative experience and your business will be memorable in the wrong way. Don’t be afraid to take a risk. In order to grab a user’s attention, your… Read More.

How to Choose Images for Your Website

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Hello everyone, my name is Nathalie and today I’ll be talking a little bit about how to choose images for your website. First of all, we’ll talk about what’s the difference between custom imagery and stock imagery. Custom imagery would be you would hire a photographer. You would have actors playing out your scene. You would figure out exactly what the lighting would look like, where the setting that you would like to take the photography will be, what your demographic is, and who the models are going to be, what age they’re going to be. Is it going to be a male or a female? Whereas for stock photography you would be going to websites like istockphoto.com for example. Another source would be Shutterstock or maybe Getty Images and you would be going through a whole library of photos still looking for the same… Read More.

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