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Visitors rarely tell you what annoyed them. They show it: clicking the same spot again and again, clicking things that do nothing, and leaving. Here is how to read those signs, and how to fix the usual causes.
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Visitors judge a website in a fraction of a second, and an old-looking site costs trust before anyone reads a word. Website Age dates what your site is built with and tells you which year it feels like.
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DesignScan started in 2008 as the first site where designers judged each other’s websites. After years of silence it is back, rebuilt from scratch: a free scan in about a minute, ten gauges, a plain-language fix list and people who vote.
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Mobile app design is shaping web design: as phones overtake desktops, app and web interfaces grow together. What that means for the way websites are designed.
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Why moving from a desktop website to a mobile-friendly one is so hard: device limits, tricky navigation, a sea of platforms and impatient mobile visitors.
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Season’s greetings from the DesignScan team for Christmas 2014, with a hint of the announcements to come in 2015.
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November 2014: a rebuilt, responsive support section, new forum and wiki templates, a copywriter for the website text, the first social media numbers and passing 200 designscans.
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Navigation, visual design, content, interaction, branding, conversion and more: ten things that separate a good website from a great one. Which one matters most to you?
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Four short video tutorials for the first DesignScan: signing up, logging in, the dashboard and voting.
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Behind the scenes in September 2014: a CMS upgrade, lossless image compression, faster pages through optimising and caching, and passing 100 designscans.
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By popular request, a free account: FreeBee. Keep the credits you earn by voting under your own name and take part in the forum, the blog and the Vote section.
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One month after the launch: bugs fixed, the first paid scans, the first blog posts, an author section for guest writers, a clearer front page and the start of the support section.
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Search engine optimisation looks like alchemy from the outside, but there is a science to it: ranking factors that work together, weighted from 1 to 3, and the violations that hurt your chances.
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A $25,000 quote lost to a $1,000 offer, and a client who regretted it. A freelancer’s story about subsequent costs, and the one question every client should ask before signing.
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June 2014: after three years of spare-time work, DesignScan.me goes live. A look at the first version, with Made Scans, the Dashboard and Support, and the plan to bring website owners and web designers together.
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