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Best Shopify Plus Add-ons
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Best Shopify Plus Add-ons

Shopify has over 2,400 apps available, on average a Shopify store uses only 6. It’s difficult to decipher what SaaS app is best for your business. Below is a list of the best Shopify add-ons available to assist you in your eCommerce journey on Shopify Klaviyo Klaviyo is more than an automated mailing system. It’s […]

Contentful + Avex
Avex Designs

Contentful + Avex

We would like to take this time to proudly introduce our new partner, Contentful. Contentful is a smarter, seamless content management system, with an API-first infrastructure. Their customer list consists of top brands such as Lyft, Urban Outfitters, Nike and more. We are a strong believer in using the latest and greatest technologies to produce […]

9 Benefits of Shopify Plus
Avex Designs

9 Benefits of Shopify Plus

In 2016, Shopify Plus stores experienced sales growth of 126 percent, demonstrating that Shopify Plus is a stellar e-commerce tool which allows a brand to remain flexible, cost-efficient, and reliable. Shopify Plus provides autonomy and freedom to brands through unlimited bandwidth, reliable servers, and full payment compliance. This allows you, as a brand, to rely […]

5 Growth Marketing Ideas for Beauty Brands
Avex Designs

5 Growth Marketing Ideas for Beauty Brands

Growth marketing is the practice of attracting and retaining customers to consistently increase profits year-over-year. Attracting customers is great, but growth marketing is more focused on conversion and the average lifetime value of a customer. Beauty brands have an advantage in this space, as loyal customers will continue to buy products on a regular basis […]

10 Tips For Better Ecommerce User Experience
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10 Tips For Better Ecommerce User Experience

For online retailers, providing a solid ecommerce user experience isn’t just a preference or a good idea – it’s an absolute necessity. After all, if shoppers don’t like your website, they’ll take their time and money elsewhere without ever telling you why.

Best Start-Up Websites October 2015
Design Inspiration

Best Start-Up Websites October 2015

Start-ups are known for their innovative operating procedures and cutting edge technologies. Because of that, there’s an expectation that their websites will be as inventive and as ground-breaking as their products and services. We’ve rounded up the top ten start-up websites – feast your eyes and perhaps gain some inspiration for your own site.

Responsive design

Responsive Image Map

Recently, I was working on a project that needed a responsive image map. What the heck is that? I cannot remember the last time that I had a reason to create an image map, never mind a responsive image map. Whoa, remember image maps?? In my early days, when using Dreamweaver, I remember drawing image maps to link cropped images from Photoshop.

Designing in the open

Designing In the Open

This is our second post about the new Avex Designs website. As I’ve mentioned before, we will be posting progress on the redesign, designing in the open, and showing our process for this internal project.

Design Inspiration

Best Responsive Websites January 2014

We all need some inspiration sometimes. Especially with responsive design. Here are some of the best responsive websites that have been inspiring me, in January 2014 so far. Some are based on aesthetic and some on technical ability. I tend to come across a lot of websites that look amazing, but have crazy long load times. Although these websites are very eye catching and impressive, I try not to condone this practice. Just because a websites looks great, doesn’t mean a user should have to wait 10 minutes for it to load, or use a certain browser.

Media Temple

New Media Temple Responsive Website

I’m loving the new Media Temple Responsive Website. Even though the design is pretty “flat”, it still has some depth to it, with obvious call-to-actions. The mobile navigation is pretty damn sexy, especially since it is multi-level. Some interesting decisions were made on mobile, which enhance the user’s experience and make the websites very “mobile friendly”

CSS

Responsive Images With CSS

There’s a lot of discussion in the web design community about responsive images. Every blog, including this one, as well as every conference from here to the Mississippi are talking about the problem and possible solutions. (I spelled Mississippi right the first time…No I didn’t) Personally, I would love to see a new image type […]

The web community with a grain of salt
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The web community with a grain of salt

This is going to be my first article in a series on Freelance Web Design Advice. Every week I’m going to be posting a new article about freelancing and the web community. Some might be advice. Some might just be rants.. Like this one below. Enjoy. I read a lot of blogs. A lot… Most […]

Design Inspiration

Best Responsive Websites October 2013

I do a lot of web browsing (we all do). Mostly to look at websites for inspiration and other stuff… But let’s stick to the web inspiration for now. These are some of the best responsive websites October 2013, that I’ve recently found and I’m going to try to post every week / month, sharing some inspiration.

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