I’m pleased to share our new blog design with you today.

A few months ago, after neglecting our website design for several years, we concluded that we finally had to pay it some attention (!)

I’d like to share how we approached our own blog and website redesign. I’d also like to share our new approach to website redesign, called Evolutionary Site Redesign (ESR). I believe it represents the future of website design for companies that care about results.

We’ve had lots of interest and inquiries about Responsive Web Design since our recent blog post. In it, we showed how Google recommends Responsive Web Design and is evolving their SERPs to use RWD.

With mobile usage skyrocketing and confusion abounding about how to handle T-commerce and various screen sizes, the high level of interest is justified.

As the debate around how ecommerce websites should optimize for T-Commerce and mobile shopping continues, the challenges for ecommerce retailers mount as new mobile devices and platforms hit the market. The data is unambiguous: without a mobile site experience, shoppers abandon in droves.

Recently we’ve noticed that Google has switched to a partial responsive web design for their maps on Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). They’re also now recommending that mobile sites be built using responsive design. I’ll get into that in a moment, but first, you may be wondering what I mean by responsive web design.

What is Responsive Web Design?

Responsive web design has been gaining traction in recent months within the web design community. It’s a relatively new way of designing sites to detect a visitor’s browser size and customize the page display to match. You’ll know you’re on a responsive design site when the images change size and the page layout shifts as you resize your browser.

Smashing Magazine’s Responsive Design

Smashing Magazine provides an excellent example of responsive design. Take a look at how their page layout shifts with decreasing browser size.

The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, has lots of applications in the online marketing world, like here and here. I even wrote about it here in a past life. Another instance of the magical 80/20 ratio in Marketing occurred to me the other day as we were analyzing a client’s online checkout [...]

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Here is some fresh thinking to start the year: Do you *really* need a web redesign? Maybe it makes more sense to not invest in that large-scale web redesign you had planned for 2011 but focus only on improving the conversion rate on key web pages (and pocket the difference)?

I have to admit that I joined Facebook many years ago not so much because I was interested in participating in a social network overpopulated by teens, but primarily as a way of stalking my own kids. Well, it looks like I was ahead of the curve. While online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and [...]

It’s not race or ethnicity, it’s gender that makes all the difference. This morning, eMarketer reports that US men are the minority online:

You will probably agree with me that beauty is subjective. Some would say that good design is not subjective, but follows set principles. Jason Fried of 37 Signals opines that the Drudge Report (shown below), is an ‘aesthetic masterpiece’.