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.
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.
The Significance of UX or User Experience and Web Design
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition in Dubai
Dubai is hosting the the International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition for 2015
The International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition is a renowned exhibition which showcases the beautiful art of Arabic Calligraphy to the world. It gives people an opportunity to understand the nuances of Arabic Calligraphy and also helps them connect with this lovely art form which is attaining a whole new meaning these days.
International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition in Dubai
The International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition will be held in between 14th April 2015 and 15th May 2015 in Wafi Mall, in Dubai. The admission is free and the timings everyday is between 10 am to 10 pm. This edition of the International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition being held in Dubai is being organized under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council. The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority is the governing body responsible for conducting the event. Workshops and exhibitions have been planned as a part of the event whose main motto is to promote cultural exchange and nurture Arabic Calligraphy as an art form, which it is.
Web Design Dubai industry is evolving rapidly as the use of mobile devices to browse the internet in Dubai is excessively increasing!
Responsive Web Design Dubai has become a buzz word in the UAE industry. A web design needs a radical change in the current approach to make it a responsive one. How to come up with a responsive web design is a question every web designer is constantly endeavouring to answer. Industry trends are rapidly evolving in Dubai web design industry. In this blog, we try to elicit some ways and reasons on how bootstrap will assist in creating a responsive web design.
Responsive Web Design Best Practices to Keep Up With the Current Trends
Two key elements of a responsive web design which has by and large been a pain point for designers has been the need to use a lot of CSS coding and the increased testing time, where you test on any and every device possible. As most of the internet users in UAE are using mobile devices and a statistical report suggests that more than 70% of the internet surfers in Dubai are using mobile devices. So, the need to test the web design on each and every platform available in the market is exceedingly high. This is where bootstrap can ease the burden of a web designer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
