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ABC Zilker Park Kite Festival Website Launch
Monkee-Boy Web Design is excited to announce the launch of the new ABC Zilker Park Kite Festival website launch. The Kite Festival has been an Austin tradition since 1929, and we are happy and proud to be a part of this great community tradition.
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Facebook’s ‘Say Thanks’ Videos are Actually… Fun!
Last week, Facebook sent an alert prompting users to make videos for friends and family to say thanks. The reaction to this new feature has been predominantly negative. Unlike many, though, I am not wholly repulsed by the idea,
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6 Social Media Tips for the Apocalypse (And Other Brand Disasters)
An army of zombies! heading your way! Quick. What do you tweet?But consider, for a moment, that the army is not full of zombies, but rather angry, frustrated customers on Twitter. Now, what do you tweet?Most of the time, the conversation about how to establish a presence for your brand on social media revolves around engagement and shareability. Do your posts make an emotional connection with an audience that inspires sharing? Have you found the right content for your brand?
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Six Must Have Skills in a Web Designer
Lately, we've noticed a welcome movement within our industry toward demystifying design in order to make the conversation between agencies and clients more accessible. A website is essentially a company's home on the internet. You would not want someone to cut corners while building your family's home, and the same can be said for your company's website.
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Monkee-Boy Launches Responsive Website for Adometry
Austin startup Adometry has launched a new Monkee-Boy developed responsive website. The site features an easy-to-use CMS with custom tools for editing content, as well as an extensive section to hold Adometry's resources. Adometry's analytics software helps clients figure out how their digital marketing campaigns are influencing users.
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Form Conversion Rates and How to Improve Them
The biggest obstacle to most people developing a sustainable framework for form conversion optimization is the fact that there are so many things you are supposed to test and numbers to track that its almost impossible to get started, let alone figure out which metrics to track. If you Google conversion optimization and start clicking around on the top blog posts and articles your head will start to spin.
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4 Social Media Management Tools We Love
How many times have you shared a link on social media this week? How many times have you retweeted something on Facebook? How many of your shares were then retweeted or reshared?Searchenginejournal.com recently published the results of an experiment showing that Facebook accounts for nearly a quarter of all site visits, meaning that links and articles posted to Facebook are responsible for referring 24% of incoming traffic to all sites.
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Is Your Design Minimal or Nonexistent?
Like any style, minimalism is loved by some and hated by others. And to the untrained eye there might not be a lot of difference between a webpage that is under-designed and a page that is simple and minimal, but the difference in the design execution is huge. In web design, minimalism means a lot more than sparse. Using the principles of minimal design to simplify your site can shorten load times, facilitate responsiveness, and help with usability.
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