Creating a responsive design for content-rich news websites can never be an easy task – at least not for those who are at the editorial end of it. While designers and developers can sift through various options of code and play with the perfect color for the navigation bar, the editorial end struggles with how and where they would want to present their content – never an easy task given the plethora of options available. Web-design along with content plays a very crucial role in visitor’s conversion, be it Ecommerce, Brand or Local business site. Initially opposed to constant changes and revamps…

Ever since mobile devices really started becoming a primary method of surfing the internet and performing various online tasks, experts have debated over whether businesses and organizations need mobile websites, mobile apps, or both to help their presence online. In many ways, it comes down to goals – is it bulk exposure or user stickiness that’s important? This infographic breaks down the statistics surrounding the two types of mobile engagement styles. Click to enlarge. From: Denver Honda Dealers Via: MDG Advertising Hat Tip: Honda Thomasville…

Depending on how you view American society, you may either believe that we’re moving too fast for our own goods and the internet is enabling us, or we’re heading in the right direction for productivity and innovation and the internet needs to hurry up and get out of our ways. It works in both directions as the digital age expands to where our expectations in the real world are matching our expectations online. People are going to websites and leaving before they’re able to load. Heavy images, large files, flash, and other elements that can slow a page down are quickly finding their way to the website…

The online video world is dominated by YouTube with others such as Vimeo and Metacafe picking up the scraps. They are free, convenient, and practical for most website owners to use. Those who need more flexibility or something proprietary turn to self-hosted video players to fill their websites and we have an excellent graphic that breaks down the four majors. Major brands who want more control over their videos often turn to players rather than YouTube, giving them the ability to “own” their content more easily. GM, Disney, Dell, and AT & T are just some of the brands who look to YouTube second…

Google has been on a rampage over the last few years promoting the cause of increasing internet speed. They are pushing for faster connections and faster loading pages. Faster connections are something they can have a direct effect on by helping build a stronger infrastructure, but they can only encourage people to code their websites better to make them faster… … or can they just fix it themselves? They can and will. Page Speed Service is being designed to allow people to point their site’s DNS entry to Google.  They will fetch the content from the servers, rewrite the pages, and present…

Millions of websites have had to go through hell and back to survive long enough to reach profitability, but there is an elite list of websites that have managed to survive and prosper through the past decade and beyond. The things they went through dwarf any issues that their more recent counterparts have had to face. It wasn’t easy by any means for these sites though. From the dot-com bubble to the economic recession, the web has, at times, been plagued with turmoil that would make most website owners pack up shop. But, by luck or by design, the following have managed to keep their business going…