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By Jeremy H.

Download Yours Now: Free Email Template! (PSD + HTML)

It’s Valentine’s Day and because we [HEART] our customers and blog readers we’re giving away a free email template in a fully editable PSD format, available for download for your personal or commercial use. Edit away and have your mobile-optimized template coded and ready for your next email campaign. Perfect for advertising your next event!

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By Jeremy H.

Top 5 Web Design Mistakes of Modern Websites

These days, when we stumble upon a website that doesn’t grab our attention or immediately meet our needs, we surf away faster then you can say “HTML.” So how do new sites grab and keep a user’s attention? One of the first steps in creating a compelling and useful website is by avoiding the 5 remarkably common web design mistakes detailed in this post.

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By Jeremy H.

The Benefits of Flat Design

Flat design, which is often touted as the future of web design, is a trendy, minimalistic design aesthetic that eschews more complicated design techniques for a more simplified, classic appearance.

If you are planning to design a new website and are trying to decide what type of design is right for you, check out this post. It contains many of the benefits you will reap if you choose to design with flat design.

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By Jeremy H.

Why Responsive Web Design? Here’s 3 Reasons

In today’s digital age, If you want to make sure your business succeeds, you have to make sure that you have an effective online presence. There are lots of ways to engage customers online – including social media and e-mail marketing campaigns – but one of the most important and effective ways to maximize your online business is through a well-designed website – and, more specifically – a responsive one.

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By Jeremy H.

How to Create Awesome Landing Pages

The landing page is perhaps the second most important page on any website (besides the Checkout page, of course!). This is where casual lurkers turn into prospects and actionable leads. Building landing pages is part science, part art. In this blog post, we’ll tell you everything you needed to know about making landing pages that soak up leads like a sponge.

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By Jeremy H.

Wireframing Tools, Design Inspiration, and Resources

Wireframing is often the first step in any web design process, where elusive ideas take starting taking a concrete shape. Long before the Photoshop mockups and the actual website, the designer will sit down with her favorite wireframing tool and sketch out different layouts and design ideas. Wireframing can also be a wonderful source of inspiration. Most professional designers swear by wireframing, which means this is one skill you wouldn’t want to go without. Read on for all things wireframe, plus tools and other design resources.

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By Jeremy H.

Bootstrap 3 Released!

The long awaited update to the premier responsive framework has arrived! On August 19th, the folks behind Twitter Bootstrap took the latest version out of beta and announced the release of Bootstrap 3, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the original release. Here’s a few things about the release worth calling out.

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By Jeremy H.

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