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Who is your web site built for: User or Observer?
Friendship [and a web site] can be like a bowl of wax fruit: beautiful until you bite into it [try to use it.] Web site visitors can be divided into…
Top 10 Web Site Features #1
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC “All the talk of getting my words out of mere electricity and onto sturdy disks had lulled me into the notion that the…
Top 10 Web Site Features #2: Finding the Contact Us Button
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC 1. Backup at the same frequency as changes 2. Finding the “Contact Us” Button This is another seemingly unimportant and often neglected web…
Top 10 Web Site Features #3: A Responsive Mobile Design
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Backup at the same frequency as changes A Contact Us form with multiple recipients A responsive “mobile” design Responsive web design (RWD) is…
Top 10 Website Features #4: Website Logistics
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Backup at the same frequency as changes Finding the Contact Us Button A responsive “mobile” design Website Logistics Life’s about logistics. With the…
Top 10 Website Features #5: A “Clean Well Lighted” Home Page
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. – Ernest Hemingway, “A Clean Well-lighted Place” In Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-lighted…
A Day in the Life of a Web Architect
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Taking a break at the midpoint on my series, Top 10 Website Features I thought I’d keep track and write about a day…
Top 10 Website Features #6: Building Your Agile Website
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC When was the last time you went into your kitchen for a drink of water and the water glass went from empty to…
Top 10 Website Features #7: Storytelling Copy
by Mark S. Burgess, Page Mountain LLC Who wrote what’s on your website? When was the last time you read through it? As mentioned in earlier editions of this series,…
Top 10 Website Features #8 The Checklist
For the final three parts of this ten part series, you get my client Revelation Worksheet. Developed over years of building sites for clients, this list helps turn end-of-project surprises…
Top 10 Website Features #9 The Checklist: Presentation
Website presentation addresses the physical interaction of the site with its visitors
Top 10 Website Features #10 – The Checklist: Logistics and Project Management
For the same reasons you can’t just slap a website onto a company and expect it to work, no amount of branding, user interface design and content management will make…