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What is a wireframe?
As with any website design and development process, the early stages are full of excitement, brainstorming, and of course strategy. At FirstPage, we focus on a few main goals for the new website and develop strategies around achieving those goals. A wireframe allows our design team to articulate our strategies in the form a physical drawing. A wise person once…
The Need For Mobile Websites
Since mobile phones were invented they have never stopped evolving. From making calls, then sending messages, email, and eventually browsing the entire Internet. It is actually more fitting to call them “mobile devices” as making phone calls has become more of a secondary function now. Because we have the entirety of the Internet at our fingertips, we might as well…
Bringing Together Design & Business
Making smart design choices can mean making smart business decisions. A couple weekends ago, a few members of the FirstPage team traveled down to Seattle for An Event Apart 2014. These annual conferences cover everything website design and development, from emerging code trends to the user experience research. We heard from many great speakers, but one stood out to all…
Website Trends for 2013
2012 was a fantastic year. As more and more digital devices flooded into the hands of people, young and old, technology continued to evolve to meet the needs of the users themselves. In 2013, we look forward to more exciting developments, and anticipate seeing the following trends take a defining role in businesses’ digital marketing strategies. 1) The web will become more…
Going Responsive
Over the last few years, one of the key questions to help determining whether a website was working properly for users was: “who is looking at your website”; however, “what are they using to browse the website” is becoming a more important question to ask. The root of this comes from the fact that we now have a wide array…