Category: Web Development
Why This Toronto Marketing Firm Is Like No Other
In the world of top-class business, Toronto marketing firm Brand & Mortar strives to deliver game-changing results from their contributions to clients. Agile, communicative, and driven, our full-service agency adapts to any client’s needs and we make it happen using the combined talents of our professional team. While first headquartered in Toronto since 2011, Brand & Mortar wasn’t just a marketing firm in Toronto anymore, as it eventually expanded its offices to San Diego as well. With cutting-edge technology and innovative ideas, this award-winning agency has years of experience in working on brand development that clients can trust. But what […]
Website Design & Brand Marketing: Lessons from the ER
The COVID-19 crisis has left businesses scrambling to keep their employees and customers safe while staying economically afloat. If you are one of many business owners now relying on a website to achieve your goals, you may be motivated to deliver a streamlined, easy-to-use, professional online experience. In this time of global uncertainty, a website must be intuitive, efficient, and functional to maintain an online presence and support customer needs from afar. So, where do hospitals enter into this discussion? Emergency rooms are always in a state of chaos, with a never-ending lineup of accidents, illnesses, and top-level emergencies, much […]
Why Your Toronto Business Needs A New Website Design
Your website design Toronto, is your 24/7 store front Most people use the Internet to find prices, directions, reviews and more before heading out the door and while on the go. Website’s have become the 24/7 store front for businesses and they need to provide customers with the right information quickly to help them make informed decisions. Increasingly people are browsing websites from their mobile phone and that means your website design has to be mobile friendly. If you’re website is a few years old, it might look okay on smart phones, but that doesn’t means it’s been designed mobile […]
Website Design Toronto Trends for 2020
More UI candy with less load time New libraries like Vue, Ember, and React are blurring the line between website and native application. People’s expectations for readily available, instantly responsive online experiences have been, in part, driven by faster internet speeds and more powerful smartphones. The result, websites now offload a lot of the heavy lifting to the device. Since our devices are doing most of the work, we no longer have to wait for the webserver to process information and return a result. Instead, our devices are processing the data and sending the result to the server. This role […]
Brand & Mortar is a 5-Star Digital Marketing Agency on Clutch
Our team believes in creating well-defined digital marketing strategies that generate momentum for our clients. We’re dedicated to creating new opportunities for our partners, helping them to transform their businesses and boost their market influence. We are a multi-disciplined group of experts that know how to build web traffic for our clients. With the new year upon us, we are excited to announce our partnership with Clutch, a B2B ratings and reviews platform for service providers in the IT services, web/app development, and advertising & marketing industries. Clutch uses various metrics such as market presence, quality of work, and verified […]
Using Garrett’s 5 Planes of User Experience in Web Design
When designing a website, it is important to think through every possible way that users will be interacting with the website. The way they interact with the website is highly dependent on the way it is built. This might sound like a complicated process, but by breaking the process down into its core elements, we can understand it better. Thankfully, Jesse Garrett, an information architect, came up with a principle called Five Planes of User Experience.
Mood Boards: Essential Visual Aids for Creative Projects
A mood board (or inspiration board) is a physical or digital collage of ideas. It is used in all creative fields including interior design, product design, fashion, and graphic design. A mood board, such as Pinterest, is a tool that presents a quick visual representation and first-round benchmark of any visual and creative project.
Finding Love in an Ad-Free Place: Ad-Blockers & Your Brand
Ever since the internet was young and innocent, advertisements have cropped up as a way for brands and marketers to get access to the huge amount of people logging on every day. The pop-up has served as the bane of many an internet user’s existence, popping up in more and more frustrating situations and in greater quantities. Nonetheless, users have revolted and used ad-blocking softwares to dispel the efficacy of “traditional” internet marketing — namely, the pop-up window. The era of the pop-up advertisement is all but dead, and it has everything to do with ad-blockers. What is ad-blocking? Simply […]
Creative Resources
Finding the right tools and creative resources to complete projects can really help their outcome and timeline. There are a ton of resources online that help with completing your projects, no matter the subject. Below I have compiled a list of resources to help complete your creative projects. Web Design Learnable: Learnable provides a list of online books and online courses created for web designers and developers. They provide unlimited access to all courses and videos. This is a great resource for all areas of web design. W3Schools: This website can provide everything from HTML to CSS […]
Tech Skills: Learn To Build Your Own Websites
Tech skills are fast becoming one of the greatest additions to your work tool box; high demand, multipurpose, practical hard skills that can be used in a multitude of settings. With almost everyone needing a website for their business, personal blog or community group – being able to navigate code and website technology is becoming vital in today’s online age of virtual communication. It’s a new year and if you want to pick up some new tech skills for complete newbies the best place to start is with HTML and CSS. HTML and CSS are the foundation of website design. […]