How To Get Customers To Love Your Website Even More

It’s here! Launching Monday, you’ll discover how to open your website up to a larger number of customers. If you’ve been struggling to find the perfect mobile theme, this expert solution is for you. In Practical Responsive Web Design, you’ll discover how to retrofit your existing website with a responsive web design and not worry…

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How To Make Your Book Cover Stand Out And Get More Sales

Choosing the right book cover can make or break your sales figures. Too small a title and it will be difficult to see on Amazon, iTunes and B&N. Cover art that is too bland will not entice interest. Moving Past Average Design A visually appealing book cover with a large title will already be in…

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Estimating Client Cost On Your Responsive Web Design Project

If you’re knew to responsive web design (RWD), putting together an accurate bid for your first RWD project can be scary. There are many unknowns to contend with. For your first project, it might be safer to go with hourly billing. Once you have a few projects under your belt, you can switch to high…

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Responsive Web Design And Usability Of Smaller Screens

When designing a responsive web design, you eventually get the site working in smaller and smaller screens. But simply getting the site usable at smaller screens may not be enough. What do I mean by that? If you are doing is making sure everything looks great on smaller screens, you may find there is a…

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Measuring The Cost Of A Responsive Web Design

Building a website from scratch is a great cost benefit for responsive web design. It is less complex to implement a responsive web design on a new site than an old one. But more often, we are dealing with an existing, complex website. One that likely has a heavily modified theme. This means we can’t…

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Handling Ads In Your Responsive Web Design

When setting up an ad campaign, you usually configure the ad dimensions based on the desktop version of your website. But what happens at smaller screen widths when your responsive design kicks in? If the ads are in your sidebar, they may just tag along with your sidebar. If you hide the sidebar at lower…

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Risks Involved With Responsive Web Design Frameworks

Believe it or not, responsive web design is still in its early days. There aren’t any official standards on how it should work. But then again, there aren’t any official standards on how a mobile site should work. And therein lies the risk of using any responsive web design framework. It might sound like a…

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Responsive Web Design Or Mobile Website: Which Is Right For You?

It’s not uncommon to see the term responsive web design used interchangeably with the term mobile website. On the surface, they make look the same. However, the two are very different. First, let’s look at responsive web design. This type of website scale fluidly as the screen size changes. The website mostly keeps it’s original…

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Why Plugins Aren’t The Solution To Your Responsive Web Design

Properly implementing a responsive web design takes some rethinking about how you want to display your website content. Transformations occur as screen size gets smaller. Ultimately culminating into a single column. If you’re use to thinking in two columns (main content plus side bar) or even three as in a newspaper design, figuring out how…

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Transforming Your Navigation Menu For Responsive Web Design

Most websites use a horizontal navigation menu. We’re going to focus on transforming this menu into a vertical arrangement (or stack) or responsive web design. Here is an example of a common navigation menu: Home | Products | About | Blog | Contact Transformed for responsive web design, the menu will look like this: Home…

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