By Mike McCready on November 17, 2009
This old adage is so true when working with wood or other materials that require measuring and cutting. The premise is that it is far less costly to spend an extra few minutes double-checking your measurements then to make the wrong cut and waste your material.
This also so very true with web design. It is [...]
Posted in User Centered Design | Tagged Information architecture, strategy, UCD, Usability Testing, User Centered Design, User experience design, web design, Web Strategy, wireframe
By Mike McCready on October 21, 2009
In my role as Web Services Manager at a higher education institution, I lead a web team of three (including myself). For a large institution, that is a small team. No matter the size of your web team, you’ve probably asked yourself, ‘What should our web team do?’ I’ve been wondering that myself. I’ve been [...]
Posted in Web Strategy | Tagged competencies, Internet marketing, Online advertising, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Social Network, Web Strategy, web team, World Wide Web
By Mike McCready on October 5, 2009
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be an overwhelming task, but it doesn’t have to be. Once you’ve identified the strategy for your website (eg. goals, audience, messages, etc.), you can then start by building your keyword list.
We will be going through this exact exercise over the next few months as we work not only to [...]
Posted in Analytics & Measurements, Marketing, SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Google, Keyword, Keyword research, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Web search engine, Web Strategy
By Mike McCready on September 21, 2009
Where I work, we are embarking on a web realignment (redesign) project for our main web presence. From the very beginning we’ve had the mindset that this approach had to be strategic in nature. I remember back in the day when designing websites it was enough to be cool and eye-catching and was very creative [...]
Posted in Marketing, Redesign, Web Strategy | Tagged Advertising, Communication, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Redesign, Search Engine Optimization, strategy, Web Design and Development, Web Strategy, Website
By Mike McCready on September 2, 2009
The college where I work is very close to starting a major web realignment project – I’ve actually talk a bit about this in previous posts. The first task to tackle is to develop a web strategy. A key component of the strategy are the goals.
For most institutions, there are many goals for the website; [...]
Posted in Marketing, Twitter, Web Strategy | Tagged Advertising, College, Colleges and Universities, HigherEd Web, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, recruitment, Redesign, strategy, Web Strategy, Website
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