No Web Design is Complete without Good SEO

Quad City Web Design and SEO

Every now and then we get an SEO related call from an existing web design or hosting client. Sometimes they want to improve their search rankings in key areas while other times they’re looking to change focus a bit with regard to SEO. Some clients seem a bit nervous about such requests as if we might feel they’re complaining. In truth, […]

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Bent River Credit Union Unveils New Website

New Website Design More Member Friendly Bent River Community Credit Union announced the unveiling of their new website in June. Some important new features of the design include the ability for members to apply for loans on cars, boats, recreational vehicles and even mortgages online. The new website also includes much easier access to the member […]

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Converting Raster Images to Vector

An Easy Solution to a Common Issue If you do design work, you’ve probably been in a situation where you had a raster image, like a jpeg or png file, that you needed in a vector format. Maybe it’s a logo where a client wanted to make a large banner or sign but no longer […]

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10 Ways to Tell You Probably Need a New Website

Quad Cities Website Design

If you’ve been thinking about whether or not it’s time to invest in a new website for your business then you probably already know the answer is yes. If you’re still not sure, though, here are ten easy ways to tell that you probably need a new website. 10 Things That Say a New Website is Needed […]

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9 Things to Avoid in Your Website Design

Website Design Best Practices

Life’s Too Short for Bad Web Design Most of us spend hours each day online and this number continues to grow. This can mean visits to literally hundreds of websites per week. Unfortunately, this also means each of us is probably visiting a lot of really bad websites. We don’t mean they’re evil or dedicated […]

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Top 5 Reasons To Use WordPress as a Content Management System

WordPress Doesn’t Just Blog If you’re in the web design and development game you’ve probably heard of WordPress. If you haven’t you’re probably not really in the game. WordPress is viewed as one of the top, if not the #1, piece of blogging software available. It is virtually synonymous with blogging to a lot of […]

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Best Famous Logo Designs Using Numbers

We put together a post a while back featuring an alphabet of famous letter logo designs and it became one of our most popular posts so we thought we’d take a look at famous logos featuring numbers. Surprisingly, it was pretty hard to find good, famous logos featuring numbers as a primary component of the […]

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Branding Your Blog for Success

This article is a guest post from our friends at My Social Agency, a UK Digital Marketing Agency. Branding Makes a Difference Blogs are becoming increasingly commonplace and a necessity for lots of types of industry, which means that many of us find our blogs look run of the mill. However, by adding a number […]

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Logo Make-Over: Top 10 Vector Design Tutorials

Your Logo is the Face of Your Company In business, logos are a must to have your own stand in the industry. The logo design should be impressive as well — logos are emblems or graphic symbols that represent your company. In this age, ideograms and symbols are deemed more effective as marketing tools than […]

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Creating Effective Print Ads [Video]

Great Print Advertising There is a great deal more to creating effective print advertising than just choosing a pretty image and adding your logo and copy. The effectiveness of your print ads is heavily dependent on colors, layout, type and number of words and a variety of other factors. Following is our short video introduction […]

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