One of our designers (..ahem, me), has been selected to compete in the upcoming Cut & Paste event going on next month during Kansas City’s Design Week! Anna Luckey will be going head to head with 9 other local designers, from various firms, to create split-second designs in front of 300 people. Sounds a little…
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I’ve blogged at least once before about how awesome animated GIFs can be in your email designs, especially because they’ll actually work (for the most part – more about that at the bottom), but I just received a blast from Runza that reminded me that we should all be using them. In this example, just…
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The end of the year has given Adcuda a plethora of clients, which means we’ve been doing a lot of learning and hitting the ground running (which is exactly how we like it!). But that also means we’ve neglected our poor little blog, which is a no-no in the SEO-world. So in order to practice…
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We all know that email marketing is a great way to keep in touch with your customers, but you only have a split second to make that desired impression. Here are a few simple tips you can use in your next email blast to insure everyone gets the best experience. For my demonstration today, I…
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Professional Web Design Tutorial: Repeating Backgrounds
By: Anna Luckey - Posted September 12th, 2011
With millions of websites sitting on the internet, all vying for your attention, it’s overwhelming to think of a way to create a unique and professional web design. If you have too much white space, you’ll be ripping off Apple, but if you have thousands of bright colors, you’ll look like a Lisa Frank memorial….
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Designing websites is difficult. If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re probably not putting in the effort. A web designer has to juggle seemingly hundreds of elements and cram them into a single site. Do you want to be Search Engine Optimized? That’s even more to consider! Amateur and professional web designers alike have to redesigning…
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Quite a few of our clients have come to us this past week looking for Memorial Day sales designs, including emails and website specials, and sometimes they send us some pretty spectacular designs from their competition as inspiration. Unfortunately, this post won’t showcase those lovelies (you can imagine why), however I will share with you…
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There are countless websites out there that catalog cool stuff, but often times they’re just a dump of imagery with no context. Other times the website holding the images is overly designed and impedes your browsing. A fairly new website has sprouted that has taken all of this into account, and fixed it Pinterest is…
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Logo and brand design aren’t something that we do a lot of here at Adcuda, which is exactly why I would like to share with you some great logos – some simple, some fancy, some modern, some traditional, as well as some quick tips. Simple Simple logos are perfect for any brand, because they’ll work…
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People are, generally speaking, visual learners and they react well to images and graphics. This is incredibly helpful when designing websites for conversion optimization (getting your customers to your shopping cart faster), because a loud graphic or a color that pops will capture their attention and push them to the next step. One of the…
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