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Pay Attention to Footers

Website footers are under-utilized and pretty much ignored by most web designers. But, if we are trying to find ways to improve the user experience, we shouldn’t neglect what’s at the end of the page. An engaging footer provides guidance and next steps. Why You Should Pay More Attention to Footers They say to mention …

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Digital Agency Lingo Explained

Digital agencies, like the military, have our own (usually abbreviated) language. Before you get lost in the lingo, let’s go through a few of my favorite terms digital agency-types might throw at you. “Anchor Pricing” Anchoring or focalism is a cognitive bias agencies may recommend as a pricing strategy. Basically, it works on the common …

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Reactvertising (sort of)

From the Toronto-based digital agency that brought us Catvertising, John St, introduces Reactvertising™ (trademarked, of course). As one client remarks in the video, “there’s no one better at not thinking than these guys.” in social-media-marketing-is-the-greatest-thing-ever circles. &modestbranding=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&rel=0&fs=1 I hope our friends understand the video is just a funny (albeit dark), tongue-and-cheek idea from a digital …

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jHost CSS Design Award WOTD Nomination

We’re proud to announce our work on the jHost website has been nominated for Website of the Day (WOTD) by the CSS Design Awards. The website is now appearing in the Nominees gallery along with other world class websites. The CSSDA judges awarded our work on jHost a score between 1 – 10 in …

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Zombie-Proof Your Website

With big-name website hacks in the news and Halloween just around the corner, we thought it time we talk a little bit about website security. Here are 8 basic tricks to zombie-proof your website or blog. 1. Buy Sucuri We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. The best defense is a good offense …

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3 Cool Things You Can Do with wp-config.php

One of the most important files in your WordPress installation is the wp-config.php file, located in the root of your installation. WordPress users might think it’s just a place for database configuration stuff, but there are a LOT of options there. Here are three cool things you can do to modify some of the core …

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Our 2nd Award Nomination in 2 Weeks

We didn’t go through the gut-wrenching process of renovating our website and our brand to win awards, but we’re not complaining. I’m proud to announce, JDM Digital’s website has just been nominated to be included in the FWA’s Public Shortlist. That’s , for anyone counting. The Favorite Website Awards, or FWA, is widely recognized as …

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Our 2014 Awwward Nomination

We worked very hard on our new website and refreshed brand. Today, we’re proud to announce it’s been nominated for an international website award. The site is being evaluated over the next 6 days. View our award nomination and consider voting for us. The Awwwards recognize the talent and efforts of the best web designers, …

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Should you allow reposting?

Even professional copy writers are familiar with how intimidating a blank sheet of paper can be when you’re trying to create great content. But, once that content has been produced and published, should you allow other people to repost your hard work? What are the impacts from an SEO perspective? I received a question from …

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Great Interactive Infographic Examples

Your typical, static information graphic or “infographic” is a long scrolling image that quickly and visually represents complex information, data or knowledge. Infographics aren’t all that new. Interactive Infographics, however, take this visual storytelling in a much more immersive direction. JDM Digital has been designing static infographics from some time and has recently started producing …

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Link Structure Methods for SEO

The link structure is one of the most important factors in SEO because it heavily affects Rankings, PageRank flow, and user experience (UX). Let’s take a look at 4 of the most popular Link Structure methods used today, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and see how to optimize each method for user experience and SEO. …

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4 Free CDNs for a Faster Website

A content delivery network (CDN) increases page loading speed by decreasing latency, but did you know there are a handful of wicked-fast, free CDNs out there hosting popular libraries like Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery and Font Awesome? Well, there are. Here are 4 of them compiled by our friends at jHost. What is a CDN? A …

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