What do shoppers look for in a mobile website design?

A whopping 92 percent of people in the UK now shop online, according to research cited by Twenga Solutions — and a significant percentage of that shopping is mobile. More than four in 10 people shop while in bed, 20 percent shop while in the car and 20 percent shop while in the bathroom (TMI?). What do shoppers look for in a mobile website design, and what motivates them to buy from you? Here’s what you need to know.

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Is your website mobile friendly?

We’re now living in a digital world, where literally everything is readily available at our fingertips. You can order your weekly shop on the commute home from work, catch up with your emails and have your finger on the pulse of world news, with a device that can fit neatly in your pocket.

The digital age has rocketed since the days of dial up internet. Not only has it transformed our day to day habits from counting our steps and monitoring our health, to late night spending sprees and catching up with friends all over the globe.

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10 mistakes to avoid when creating an eCommerce site

Customers expect a certain standard of website design and usability, especially when shopping on eCommerce websites. If you make too many design and functionality mistakes, you will not only lose customers, you will harm your long-term reputation. Fortunately, most mistakes are relatively easy to fix. If you want to improve your current eCommerce site, or you’re thinking of creating a new site, here are some of the most common design mistakes to avoid.

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Importance of logos in business

Corporate logos are intended to be the “face” of a company: They are graphical displays of a company’s unique identity, and through colours and fonts and images they provide essential information about a company that allows customers to identify with the company’s core brand. Logos are also a shorthand way of referring to the company in advertising and marketing materials; they also provide an anchor point for the various fonts, colours and design choices in all other business marketing materials.

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How to improve your customers’ online shopping experience

Your eCommerce site needs to be user friendly to ensure the best customer experience for your visitors.

We can go into depth about customer journey mapping and advanced approaches of CX (Customer Experience) like establishing Customer Rooms, but I think sometimes, even the simple things can improve customer experience and make the biggest impact to your online store .

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Web.com content management system

At Web.com, we believe that it’s important to provide our customers with the tools they need to run a fast, effective, and professional business. This is why with all our available website packages we include a free Content Management System (CMS) to provide our customers with extended control over their websites.

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Litho print and printing plates

When I first started my career in graphic design after leaving college in 2003, my first role was with a small printers based in Newcastle upon Tyne at a town called Byker. It was here I first started using and creating printing plates. Printing plates back then were mainly created using the old plastic film (like used in old cameras before digital became popular) it was not an easy process:

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Google release The Speed Update

Following an update from Google in January 2018, they have now rolled out for all users – The Speed Update.

The Speed Update is where Google are now using page speed on mobile devices to rank websites.

As of the 9th July this update was released by Google.

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Increasing your website speed for a better customer experience

As technology improves, we have become less patient. Today, we expect to find the information we’re looking for in seconds. We want websites to load quickly, regardless of which device we’re using, and if they don’t, we will leave.

Just how impatient are we? According to Kissmetrics, 47% of consumers expect a webpage to load in 2 seconds or less and 53% of people will abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. So, if your website is too slow, it’s costing you money.

When you increase website speed on your site, not only does it allow for a good customer experience, it can also increase engagement and conversions on your website.

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