Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine a user-updated news blog, remarked that, “Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.” Although thought provoking ideas and well written articles are important, a great deal of your success as a site has to do with design and performance.
In the book Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink describes a lot of the senseless food phenomena that influence our eating habits. One of his findings is that presentation not only would influence how likely someone was to buy a particular food product, but also that it’s packaging would influence the way it tasted. This same principle can be applied to your website. The design and performance of your website can not only influence how many people come to your website, but also their perception of your site as a whole. There are a few types of bad sites that we at A Small Orange typically see…
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