Under the surface…SEO

You are aware of website ranking I’m sure. You want to be page 1 .. this part of web design takes time .. sometimes up to a year to get exactly right. This great graphic shows some of the work that has to be done in order to get a site google or in fact any search engine ready. It can take …

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Under Compression – Images Sized for Speed

Here’s a quick tip … compress your images and call them by a name that makes sense… gshstv.jpg is not going to help you..product_use_position.jpg will.. Compress using tinypng.com and keep under 2000pixels wide as screen sizes on most computers will be max 1920 across.. Here is a couple of examples of the same image with the same settings.. The above image is name …

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Make a Splash! Design a Landing Page for Funnels

Just a little tip on splash/landing page design…. working out your design v the function your design has…With websites for example.. If you are creating a splash page it has a certain function whether to gather emails or to sell one product for a launch. With this in mind the functions need to be small, one clicks, so cluttering the landing page …

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The Homer of websites!!!

For those people that still don’t know the facts about websites and how they operate, especially what makes a website work, load fast, to engage, here’s some FACTS… don’t end up with THE HOMER.. IMAGES – big images slow down websites FACT if after I have built a site you put up large files then YOU will be slowing your site …

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Design Tip – Colours

My final tip for this now…. Colour me pretty… Contrasting colours work so well but you may get a little out of your depth so this great colour chart by adobe is a easy tool to help you make the right decisions when it comes to colour. https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel You can see I have used my business colour to find the contrast colours…

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Design Tips – Flow

If you have a design style for multiple campaigns it makes more sense to your viewers…..Keep the same format across the elements so you keep the flow of information… just swap out the text or add small elements to enhance your message each time…Layers of information slowly trickled out keeps your viewer engaged. @trondez_design

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Design Tip – Space

White space, also known as negative space, is the empty space around or between elements in a design. It can be any color, not just white, but is typically left blank to create contrast and emphasis on the elements that are present. White space is a crucial element of design as it helps to create balance, harmony, and clarity in …

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Design Tips – Fonts

Whats the difference between fonts….. San Serif, Serif, Script… This will help you with your choices.. Serif: Serif typefaces are those in which a small line is attached at the end of the stroke in a letter or symbol. Sans-Serif: Sans serif typefaces are those that do not contain serifs at the end of strokes. Hence the term “sans-serif.” Scripts: …

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Design Tips – Fonts – too many

Its all about the font… . . When designing anything try not to have too many fonts…. limit to 2 but use those fonts creatively by using bold and thin… the same font can look so different with just this method.. . . Also use one font for a header and the other for the body text and you can …

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Design Tips – Rules

Its been a while… but here goes for some design tips. Follow over the next 2 months for some handy tips. You don’t have to be a designer to follow these rules which will help you create some nice graphics for your blogs or social media.. Start with a great colour palette some thing that stands out as your key …

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