Online Marketing

Industry news, best practice and tips and tricks on online marketing. This category discusses the key players in online marketing: SEM – search engine marketing, SEO – search engine optimization, web analytics and more.

Top 10 Conventional Web Design Clichés (must die)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

BoringI enjoy and loathe working with online marketers/consultants when going through the design. I truly appreciate usability conventions and their benefit to usability to the public. As a rule of thumb, the consultants made sure the design is made for internet users with computer literacy at the lowest denominator – which is really nice of them but this also lowers your design’s ‘cool factor’.
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