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Mobile navigation and the rule of the thumb
User patterns inform user interface design and, when it comes to mobile navigation, users vote with their thumbs. In a 2013 study performed by UX Matters, the vast majority of mobile device users navigate with their thumbs. While our opposable thumbs have not evolved...
How much does a website cost?
A website is an investment that should pay for itself post-launch. You must invest correctly, at the right pricepoint for the right quality and level of functionality you need to make that return. There's no charm bracelet inside the Padora's Box you just opened, only...
How does a Content Management System (CMS) work?
When content is king, and up-to-date information is vital to SEO efforts, every website should have a CMS. Understanding how your CMS works is vital to understanding how to manipulate your website's content. In this post, we will be discussing how a CMS allows you to...
Why does custom WordPress theme development cost so much?
Wordpress is one of the most popular CMS on the web, and has been installed on over 60 million websites. It's a decade old, which is an eternity in the web world. There are tens of thousands of plugins that provide advanced functionality and the community of...
If You Build It, You Must Have A Plan
Lo and Behold, we're at the bar again on a rousing Saturday night and it comes out that some of the people at our table work in the web and development world. Let the impromptu "Next Facebook" app pitches begin. I like to follow these up with the mind-boggling...
The five PHP tricks every web designer should know
Over fifty percent of web designers are privileged (or cursed) enough to code out their own designs. Many of us understand the nuances of HTML and CSS enough to be pixel-perfect front-end coders. However, when it comes to Wordpress and other CMS systems, web designers...
Moving Navigation Arrows Outside of Flex-slider
Flex-slider is hands-down, one of the most widely used responsive sliders in web-design today. Created by Woo-Themes, the scalable slider handles screen-widths elegantly, scaling to meet each screensize. One of the few issues you'll run into when implementing...
Hierarchical Scale in Marketing
Design in advertising relies on a concept thousands of years old. Hierarchical scale is "a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork."...
Eight Steps for Improving your Website Content Writing
You've probably seen the unwashed legions of spell-checkers out there, correcting grammar on every Twitter and Facebook post they can. We will admit, most of us at 360 are in the same boat, leaving one word comments of "*you're" or "*an." Everyone can leave their...
A great user experience is necessary to ensure visitor engagement
We write a great deal about ROI on our blog. We insist on measuring your website's performance through analytics and event tracking to arrive at a tangible number. Today, we're going to discuss an element that is unquatifiable and why it will either make or break your...
Free Guide
Even a simple conversation about websites can sometimes sound like a different language entirely!
So, we’ve created our own little Rosetta Stone to provide simple explanations for many of the most common words and phrases you’re likely to encounter when working on your website!
