You’ve probably come across your ‘bounce rate’ figure when analysing your website’s performance. Perhaps you don’t quite understand its implications, or are neglecting it completely. That’s all about to change.
Simply put, the percentage of people that visit your site and then close-to-immediately navigate away from it (the bounce rate) has a profound impact on your performance metrics and ultimately your ability to rank well in SERPs.
Let’s face it; in the world of graphic design, it doesn’t matter how good or how creative you are today. What is more important is your ability to learn and progress.
As a designer, your number one concern should be improving your skills and learning new design techniques. Every year, new trends emerge. Some are fads, but others manage to become the norm in just a couple of months. If you don’t manage to keep up, you are doomed.
Websites are getting better, faster, and more attractive year after year. As the entire web development industry is evolving, webmasters keep finding new ways to improve both the functionality and the design of their sites.
This is a critical step as almost 50% of people cited a website’s design as the number one factor in deciding the credibility of a business. In other words, you absolutely have to follow cutting-edge web development solutions to make your site more appealing in the long run.
As the core programming language of the Internet, JavaScript (JS) attracts millions of developers from all over the world. The sheer number of practical features makes JS the main choice among web application designers, while the program keeps getting better and more comprehensive every year.
In the report called “Developer Survey Results,” Stack Overflow concludes that JS is by far the most commonly used programming language out there as almost 70% of developers use it in 2019. There are many ways to explain the popularity of this program, but we want to focus on UI components and their impact on JS development.
Managing your time wisely as a designer can be quite challenging because you usually spend hours and hours sitting behind your computer screen and working through the task quite slowly.
There is nothing much you can really do about that, but there are some ways you can manage your time nonetheless. Here are the top ten tips on how to boost your time management while designing.
Web accessibility is a growing trend nowadays. The fact that in 2018, the number of federally-filed website accessibility cases skyrocketed to 2,285 from a mere 815 in 2017 is proof that a lot of people want to make it mainstream. An increasing number of businesses are also interested in building accessible websites.
As a web design agency, your clients are likely to ask you to build an accessible website. In this regard, they may ask you a few questions to gauge your knowledge of web accessibility.