5 Key Points to Remember While Designing a Logo

Logo Designing is an important aspect of a web design and it is good to be abreast with logo designing trends. So if you are a designer of websites or if you are someone looking to get a logo designed for your organization, this post of ours will give you 5 key points to assist while you are going through the journey of designing a logo!

Learn about some important aspects to be considered while you design a logo

  1. K.I.S.S!

Before you start having visions of romance, K.I.S.S stands for Keep it simple, stupid! Remember that the idea behind a logo design is that it should be communicating and creating an image about the organization to the viewer. So the simpler is it, the better is it to convey! Convoluted and complex logos confuse and complicate the viewer’s mind and they are more likely to look away or forget! So just K.I.S.S! Continue reading “5 Key Points to Remember While Designing a Logo”

Typography and its Impact on Website UI – Web Design Dubai Trends

Web Design Dubai Trends Series

Are you a website designer on the verge of designing a website? Are you abreast with the latest web design trends? Are you in Dubai and embarking on web designing? Well this blog of ours has been written for you! Heard about typography? Yes? No? Okay, it does not matter what your answer is. By the end of this blog you will be better conversant with typography and its impact on your website’s UI!

Typography Is…

Typography is the art and science of arranging printed matter in a format which is readable. It is the way printed content and text appear on your screen. Continue reading “Typography and its Impact on Website UI – Web Design Dubai Trends”

Utm Tags and SEO Best Practices – SEO Dubai Trends

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This is yet another blog of our SEO Dubai Trends series with a focus on UTM tags. What are UTM tags?  How to use them? What are the best ways to adopt them? What role do they play in search engine optimization? We answer all these questions in this blog of ours!

Introduction to UTM tags and their role in SEO

UTM tags or UTM parameters are teeny weeny bits of text which can be added to your URL. Now why should you add them? Good question! As a person involved in search engine marketing you will adopting many algorithms to drive traffic into your site through multiple channels. How can you measure the effect of any particular channel on the traffic to your site? The answer is by using UTM tags which can be added to the URL. These UTM tags are unique and one tag can be used to denote one particular channel through which people access your site due to your SEO and marketing efforts. Continue reading “Utm Tags and SEO Best Practices – SEO Dubai Trends”

Two Best Practices to Adopt in Crawling and Indexing

How to Create an SEO Friendly Web Design

SEO Dubai Trends Series

Welcome to the next blog of our SEO Dubai Trend series where our focus is on keeping you abreast with the latest trends in search engine optimization. If you are from Dubai, then this is definitely of a lot of relevance to you because we have written keeping you in mind! If you are from elsewhere, do still read on. Our blog will give you a lot of inputs on two best practices which you can adopt while web designing or after the designing with regards to crawling and indexing.

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Welcome to the next blog of our SEO Dubai Trend series where our focus is on keeping you abreast with the latest trends in search engine optimization.

All of us know that crawlers are our friends who go through websites and pages in order to sift across the updated content and information, and help us by locating them and featuring them on the search engine page. Indexing is their way of making a relevant bibliography for us to get information from! So how do we make use of crawlers and indexers in a smart manner so as have the optimum search engine optimization for the page? Read on! Continue reading “Two Best Practices to Adopt in Crawling and Indexing”

The Important Link between Interactive UX, Businesses, and Ajax

Web Design - User Experience and SEO Rankings

User Experience or UX is increasingly becoming paramount for businesses as it helps them connect with their audience in a better manner. An interactive UX forms the basis for better user interaction and hence better presence. This blog of ours throws light on the importance of a lively UX and also how AJAX can be intelligently leveraged to drive an interactive UX which will translate into better business operations.

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Interactive Design: The founding bedrocks

One of the much ignored yet most important founding principles of an interactive UX is defining what the objective of creating the user interface is and who the target audience to be engaged are. Many organizations fail in defining a primary objective to their designer and hence the user interface designed does not immediately cater to their needs, requiring alterations. Once the objectives are clearly defined, it becomes easier to come up with an apt UX which engages with the user and keeps them on the site for longer.

See also: Typography and its Impact on Website UI – Web Design Dubai Trends Continue reading “The Important Link between Interactive UX, Businesses, and Ajax”

SEO Optimized Content for Your Users and Search Engines

How to Create an SEO Friendly Web Design

Our New SEO Dubai Trends Series!

We are launching a new SEO Dubai series of blogs is on SEO trends in Dubai, which will be featured periodically along with our other blogs.  This blog is the first of the series and talks about how SEO will help you in optimizing your content to satisfy your users and garner more footfalls by featuring high on search engine queries. Here are some easy ways in which you can optimize your content. While this content is valid for all regions across the globe, if you are in the region around Dubai, this article will definitely be of immense help for you!

How to write SEO Friendly Content for your Website?
How to write SEO Friendly Content for your Website?

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Tip 1: Understand why people are searching for the particular content or information

You may be a business offering a service or a product. You may be a trader. It does not matter what business vertical you are in. The foremost step is to understand why people are searching for the particular information. Is it to compare prices? Is it to evaluate different companies? Understanding this is the first step towards using SEO to gain more online traction. Continue reading “SEO Optimized Content for Your Users and Search Engines”

User Experience in a Flat User Interface Design – Web Design Dubai Trends

Flat Web Design is a simplistic web design which eschews all frills and three dimensional effects

Flat User Interface design has revolutionized the web space. This blog of ours focuses on how the user experience has been catapulted by the advent of a flat user interface. Flat designs are also very trendy world wide and web design Dubai industry is also welcoming them in the year 2015.

 

Information Presentation

The nicest thing about a flat user interface is that the UI is simple and easy on the eye. Unlike older UIs which cluttered a page with too much information, in a flat user interface the information presented is less. This helps a user to read and understand better. It also enhances the user experience because the user is not overwhelmed with too much information.

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Google’s Mobile Friendly Update: Are You Affected Yet?

Google Mobile Friendly Update 21 April 15

What do We Mean by Our Title?

From 21st April 2015, Google will be incorporating mobile friendliness as a parameter in its ranking algorithm and this is being termed as Google mobile friendly update. This simply indicates that if a website is mobile friendly, its rankings are likely to get a boost. On the contrary if a website is not mobile friendly, then its current ranking are bound to drop.  In a nutshell responsive sites or websites with a separate mobile site will be rewarded while non-responsive sites will see a downward plunge. An alarming situation for search engine optimizing agencies who are working on non-responsive websites.

See also: Web Design Dubai

Google Mobile Friendly Update - Official Announcement
Good News for Mobile Friendly or Responsive Websites

Why is Google Doing This?

Google Inc has always categorically pushed for the value which a user gains out of a website. This has been the bedrock of their ranking algorithm. Given that 30% of the organic traffic is through mobiles, Google has started acknowledging the trend of mobiles driving more traffic to the internet in the upcoming days. Furthermore, being a search engine, Google wants its users to be able to search for the necessary information with ease.

See also: Local and Regional SEO for Small Businesses – An Overview Continue reading “Google’s Mobile Friendly Update: Are You Affected Yet?”

How to make Retina Display Compatible Web Designs?

How to make Retina Display Compatible Web Designs?

Retina Compatible Web Designs – The new frontier in the Designing Industry

The advent of Retina Display, as coined by Apple, has changed the way in which we view web designing. The premise of this blog is to elucidate what is retina display and how to create web designs which are compatible with retina display. Want to revamp your website for retina display? Get a free quote from the best web design company in Dubai.

What is Retina Display?
The pixel and resolution of a retina display will be at least 300 pixels per inch!

What is Retina Display?

Apple came up with the term “Retina Display”. It denotes monitors and other devices whose pixel density and resolution is very high. Such a display will make it impossible for anyone to differentiate between individual pixels, when viewing from a regular distance. The pixel and resolution of a retina display will be at least 300 pixels per inch! Not just Apple, but every modern day manufacturer swears by a retina display. Continue reading “How to make Retina Display Compatible Web Designs?”

How to Reduce the Load Time in Responsive Web Design

How to Reduce the Load Time in Responsive Web Design

The responsive web design is slower as compared to mobile site, but can provide best user experience, here is how to reduce the load time for a responsive web design.

Responsive web designs have been the buzz word in the industry ever since the mobile internet traffic has increased. Responsive web design will continue to be of primordial importance as web designs have to cater to customers viewing websites from multiple kinds of electronic devices. Most of the web design Dubai companies these days are preferring responsive web designing. A responsive web design will enable a website to be viewed from any electronic gadget and automatically re-size to ensure that the website viewing is user friendly.  A responsive web design does away with the need to have separate mobile sites to aid viewing on smart phones and other mobile devices.

See Also: How to Create an SEO Friendly Web Design

Responsive Web Designs are Slow - Poor Load Time
Responsive Web Designs have Slower Load Time

One major challenge facing a responsive web design has been the loading time. The loading time of a website is the time taken to view the website on the device. A responsive web design takes more than 2-3 times the loading time of a mobile site. This leads to a longer user wait time and hence a sense of disappointment on the web design. The premise of this blog is to elucidate some of the reasons which lead to a slowing down of the loading time of responsive web designs, and to find ways to reduce this.

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