The last post of Corporate blog trends is dedicated to several really success corporate blogs. We'd like to present them and we take a closer look to those features that make them so efficient and useful. Besides, below the post you'll find a gallery with print screens from numerous corporate blogs. American Express Corporate Blog American Express has one of the most impressing corporate blogs. It’s a part of OpenForum.com and its aim is to offer businessmen information and resources. The blog in Open Forum features trendy design and easy navigation. Besides the main navigation, the left slide menu is used for product promotion. If you pay attention to the posts you'll find that popular authors like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin often write posts. With its blog in Open Forum, American Express strives to provide useful information to its target clients – small business owners – and doesn't encourage directly its products' consumption. McDonald's...

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It’s hard to believe that it’s only 25 years since the registration of the first dot-com domain. Nowadays, 668 000 dot-com websites are registered monthly and 80 million dot-com names are used which means that Internet has passed a long way during last decades. Generally, technology on which websites are based and developed hasn’t changed dramatically since the last 10 years. What has changed are several other factors: the way users interact using websites, the way they broadcast content and the real time they communication. A distinguishing feature of contemporary online content is the fact it’s dynamic and socially integrated. The main reason is users’ requirement web sites to be functional and interactive and involving at the same time. It occurs that websites with dynamic content receive with 73% more traffic than static content websites. Thanks to Internet development people who don’t have professional skills in web design and web...

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Obviously, websites play a crucial part in successful business development. A site is the factor that influence future clients and communicates the company’s values. Each company strives to convince their target that it’s reliable and steady business partner and to a great extend these emotions can be inspired in customers by a company web page. No matter whether the company is small or big, whether it’s local or international, its website appearance and functionality are truly essential in its communication with its clients. Logically an important question occurs – how to choose web specialists so that you can get what you expect. Having a market flooded with IT companies and freelancers make the choice even more difficult. Prices vary although it’s one of the defining factors when it comes to choosing a web studio or a freelancer for a web site development. Price factor A small company can hire a freelance designer for its website...

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Blog web design’s big problem is the fact that they all look the same which makes them indistinguishable and difficult to be remembered. In spite the fact that it’s a blog content that is most important, design and navigation are the factors that will grab a user attention or will drive them back. It’s important to know that as all social media, a blog is a tool for achieving certain goals – promoting the services or products you offer; or establishing a closer relationship with your customers. A blog offers a great deal of opportunities – for example, you can show emotional attitude towards you clients. That’s why it’s very important how a blog looks like and how user-friendly it is. If you already have a blog but you don’t like it’s design, below we offer you 5 short redesign advices for creating an impressive blog. 1. Break the standards Breaking the standards means to take a step that discerns form...

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Human beings and socialization go together hand in hand. A person can’t survive in this world without meeting and interacting with other people. The same rule can be applied to your website – a web page can’t survive online without public. Websites are meant to draw traffic, but if your website is not attracting a decent amount of traffic you really need to focus on its socialization. Below, you can find a few smart ideas how do this. Search engine optimization Around 80% of the internet users rely on search engines to find any probable product or service they are searching for. If your website design or coding is not suitable and search engine-friendly (have in mind huge search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing) then you are simply non-existence to your online customers. If you can’t afford getting a fresh and trendy design, then you can spend money on professional SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It will definitely give some useful results. And...

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I’d like to start the article with an important principle. To a great extent your business success depends on two factors – your easy accessibility and your appropriate communication with your customers. Having a professional web site where your future clients can get useful information about your company and your products/services is a must for your easy accessibility. How does a good web site look like? First, you have to realize that although it’s the attractive layout that impresses online users, it’s not the basic feature of your site. The entire web construction and navigation of your website is what determine your business success. Designing and developing a website that turns online users into loyal clients should be an aim of every business. Unfortunately, many websites finally turn to be complicated and chaotic which automatically bores potential clients and pushes them away. It’s important to pay attention to the entire website...

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On October 2, 2009, Rio De Janeiro gained the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic games. The logo which was designed to represent the candidate city and which afterwards became symbol of the 2016 Summer Olympic games, is a stylized replica of Sugar Loaf – a prominent local heart-shaped landmark. Ann Soter, the winning designer, explains that the mountain in the shape of a heart represents the Brazilians' indisputable passion and desire to sport. The exclamation mark replacing the numeral 1 in the writing 'Rio 20!6' symbolizes Brazil's heightened expectations to win the opportunity to hold the event. The distinctive shape of the Sugar Loaf is representative of the city's natural assets with which cariocas, Rio De Janeiro local citizens are so proud of. The proposed logo is intended to embody the varied colors of Rio's exuberant nature. You can see from the picture of Rio below how the logo ties in with the landscape. The colors that are use in the logo design are the same...

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Starting a web site project, you have great designing options. The opportunity seems limitless. But it is ironic that as the potential ideas ahead of you grow, the mistakes you may make become too common, as well. In the following post, we have presented several web site recommendations that can be useful for commercial web sites, but t can easily be applied to personal and entertaining web sites. It’s essential to avoid these mistakes at all costs. About Us: Every Web site should be very clear about its purpose. It’s important to provide brief information about you and your web site significance on the home page of your Web site. The resume can be link to a sub-page named About Us where you can publish more descriptive text. It’s useful to facilitate the navigation because many users may experience difficulties in finding the information they need. You’d better provide more information about your services and products risking that users find...

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All web designers want their work to be distinguished from the rest by its certain creative style. The challenge occurs every time is that an acceptable compromise – from one point of view, their product should be designed according to all requirements, to be functional and customized. From another aspect, it should be creative and original enough without copying elements from other sites. In this post, we tried to collect several truly outstanding designs. We’ll support our choice with short explanations what indeed makes these web sites so good and remarkable. We hope that our brief revue will be useful for you in you work/web sites. Less = more Design simple web sites. It’s just too easy and seductive to fill a web site with a lot of information. Don’t be afraid of space on a page. People often ask questions why a web page has a lot of empty space but when it comes to discuss print design nobody asks this. Because everybody knows that empty...

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