In this webinar you will learn some of the SEO tips you or webmaster should follow to make sure that your website is well optimized for mobile devices, tablets and smart phones alike. 1) Use the same site and have a webmaster make it responsive. Do not use 2 sites, one for the desktops and 1 for mobile. Having two sites is old school and might to be penalized by the search engines. It is also easier to maintain one site than two. 2) Visitors looking for pr...

(Posted updated 01-18-17 with newest Google Test) Last week, Google made an announcement about their upcoming new ranking algorithm. The biggest change we are going to see is in regards to mobile searches. It is not the first time they (and other search engines) mention that making a website responsive to mobile devices is important to them, but this is the first time they make it clear that not having a mobile-friendly website will affect its ranking. This change is scheduled to take ...

Real estate has been for many years and continues to be one of the most competitive industries online. There are different types of real estate websites: - Directories of properties for sale in a specific country, - Directories of properties for rent or lease in a specific country, - International directories of properties for sale, - International directories of properties for rent or lease, - Directories combining different types of real estate, - Sites integrating with local MLS (m...

This is the last post of our 3 part-series on Responsive Design. We truly could spend the entire year discussing its importance and different attributes but we want to create some variety in our blog. As always never hesitate to email us if you have additional questions about mobile responsiveness for your website. One of our team members will be happy to answer you. Today we want t...

Welcome back to our responsive design series. Making your website responsive on mobile devices does not mean that you should try to compress and fit in every single image and text you have on your desktop version on a small device like a smart phone. The new trend is to actually rethink your website so it makes sense to visitors when they are using a phone or tablet to view your site. Let's take our own website for instance. The desktop version of our homepage is quite intricate with lots of ...

In our company, we were doing responsive design websites before it became a necessity or well known by most. At the time we were using JavaScript but now the code (thank you CSS3) has evolved so much than responsive design has truly become the coolest and biggest change in website design in the past ten years. What is responsive design? It is the readjustment of a website design, layout, elements and text to conform to a specific screen size. For a long time (and many olde...

Thanks to new coding techniques using HTML5 and faster Internet connection throughout the world, having a video as a background or moving backgrounds is now a possibility. The video can be coded to play upon the visitor’s arrival with or without sound. It can also be set to play with a specific time delay or play upon clicking on an icon. What is even more exciting is that these videos can be filling up the entire screen of the visitor no matter what their screen size is. Thanks to responsi...

It was not long ago that having a full-width high resolution image on a homepage was quite a coding challenge. First there was a compatibility issues with all major browsers (reacting differently to the code), mobile device issue (since compressing such a large image would greatly slow down the website on a smart phone or tablet) and an Internet speed issue (as large images typically are very large files). Thanks to HTML5 and CSS3, web designers are now able to design cool an...

Yes you may have noticed that today’s newer websites have less clicking and far more scrolling. This trend has been influenced of course by mobile devices especially smart phones. We are almost at a point where we, web designers, are designing websites for phones and tablets and then adjusting the design and code to desktop. This is going to be one of the most popular trends in 2015. The homepage especially has become a landing page where each element is a way to either giv...

In this week's broadcast we talk about many of the trends that have been taking hold over the last year and moving forward into 2015. We talk about the use of fonts and how they have changed, the use of high resolution images, and websites being built around a mobile design instead of for desktop and then being adapted. We talk about how pop ups were used in the past and how they are making a resurgence. We also talked about the use of new types of menus and using photos or videos as part of ...