It is clear that today's internet users spend significant time viewing websites through their mobile devices and that the percentage will only continue to grow. Today's websites need to be conceptualized, designed and developed with all devices, from desktop to tablet and smartphone, in mind....
Search engines can be an important source of traffic for marketing campaigns and websites. The study of SEO is important for both marketing agencies and web design firms. Search engines ultimately have two major roles: crawling & building an index of web content, and offering answers by determining...
Engagement is a desired outcome for content websites, blogs and brands. Comments, Likes, links, shares and up-votes are all demonstration of engagement, which content websites seek with fervor. There is an additional challenge to building engagement besides great content and great positioning. This...
Ironpaper is a growing agency, and we frequently have to reach out to find candidates to fill new positions as the company grows. Our preference is to handle the HR hiring process in-house, rather than hire a recruitment company. This has given us the opportunity to try out many online job boards...
Content is at the heart of search engine optimization. Too many SEO professionals over-emphasize how robots will interpret the content of your website, whereas humans should be the real focus. User-experience should be at the heart of every SEO plan. After focusing on quality content and compelling...
Not all B2B websites or businesses have the same goals, intentions or needs. Yet, all B2B websites are still portals for communicating with other humans. It is a common falsehood that B2B should have a less customer-centric focus than a B2C website. Real humans visit both types of websites, and it...
Blogs can be a vital part of an organization's marketing strategy. The format and intent of a business blog can give authors the freedom to explore new and creative ideas not present in other parts of a business website. These ideas can spawn new innovations for marketing, as well as serve as a...
The goals and intent of each business blog are unique to each business. It is vital to define and keep true to those goals, in order to assess the success of a blog or web property. For some businesses, the intent of a blog is to build a following with new visitors as potential customers, and the...
Even the most beautiful wireframe or diagram is a waste of effort if it does not have a business purpose or align to the core strategy of a web project. Information architecture and wireframes are central to web strategy. The creation of these documents are not an arbitrary process. These visual...
Good communication is the backbone of web project management. This is especially true for any web development process, where many clients may feel "out of their element" in discussing web technologies. The simple fact that clients may not clearly understand what goes into the development of a...