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EPORIA Serves Up D’Artagnan Gourmet Food eCommerce Website with Unprecedented Results EPORIA and leading gourmet food purveyor D’Artagnan announced that D’Artagnan’s eCommerce website, which was launched in October on the EPORIA platform, generated higher online sales for the months of December and January than the company has ever seen, with January seeing double digit sales [...]

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Consistency In this final post of our series on Guidelines for Good Web Design, we’re wrapping it up with the element that ties all of the other pieces together – consistency. Consistency is critical to good web design to ensure everything matches. Heading sizes, fonts, colors, spacing, navigation, etc. Good web design should be consistently [...]

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Crisp and Sharp Web Design Keeping your web site design looking crisp and sharp requires thinking at the pixel level. Sure, everything in your CSS will be pixel perfect, but in software such as Photoshop you’re going to have to work for it. To achieve a sharp design for your images and graphics you have [...]

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Alignment in Web Design All good web designers understand the importance of using alignment to create associations between visual elements of a web page, which helps site visitors easily understand the objects on the page. Alignment in web design works by visually associating multiple elements in a way that the elements become instinctively related to [...]

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Usability As important as a great looking website is, it’s not going to perform well if it isn’t easy for your visitors to interact with. Therefore, web designers need to ensure they provide for both eye appeal and a site that’s designed for easy use. Although, we have previously covered some areas of usability such [...]

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Text and Formatting The text you choose for your web site is among the most important design elements you need to consider. Even though you may have always liked Arial font on previous sites, a new project may not necessarily look as good with this tried and true font. To set off the overall look [...]

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Design to Build Thanks to CSS layouts building great looking websites has gotten a lot easier, but you still need to do some thinking while you’re in the ‘design’ mode. Things you want to consider include: Can it be done? – Are your design ideas compatible with current standards? If not you may have fonts [...]

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Site Navigation Have you ever been to an incredible looking site that pulled you right in, only to find the navigation structure too weird for you to intuitively figure out? Sure, you may remember such sites, but more than likely you can’t recall their names since you know you’ll never be going back to them… [...]

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White Space, the Final Frontier When most of us first started designing web sites we couldn’t resist filling the whole page with lots of stuff. Maybe it was because we viewed empty space as wasteful, like empty shelves in our brick & mortar. Now, most of us have grown up and learned that the opposite is true. Generous, [...]

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Probably the most overlooked page of most ecommerce websites is the Thank You page. You know…the one your visitors see after they made a purchase from you. When people are in the “buying mode” and they have already placed the confidence in your site to buy from YOU, this page offers a lot of opportunity. [...]

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