News, Guides & Ramblings.

Read through the latest news, guides and advice from the MeanDigital team below...
16th October 2023
Weather targeting on a site

As we know, we can use geotargeting to detect where a customer is.  With this information we can get information about their local leather and serve them products appropriately. Sounds easy right...well yes it's easy to do.  But it's the rules behind what's sold and when that become more complicated.  For example, should you say […]

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24th May 2019
Use geotargeting to your and your customers' advantage

There are a few ways to geotarget people to our and their advantage.  This is a step towards personalisation and great user experience.  So what can you do? Location branding - A great way of personalising the site for people is to understand where they are at the time they access the site and feed them products […]

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22nd November 2018
Images and reviews are important

It seems that sites are choosing to use larger images with more spacious designs.  Using large images gives people a better idea of what a product will look like.  What do you think of images, the bigger the better, no? Larger images work well on desktops and laptops because there is a lot of space […]

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22nd September 2018
Help users buy in the shopping cart

Carts aren't used by everyone.  But a lot of users to tend to use them as holding areas for a lot of products they like. Thin of it like grabbing everything you like off the shelves before you go and try them on in the changing room.  You take them all in and review them […]

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22nd July 2018
Do people actually read what they find online?

Yes.  Sometimes.  Rarely though. People will read an article or page word by word if they're really interested in it.  However the majority of people will skim the site reading certain words, subtitles, bullet points, smaller paragraphs and images.  People believe that skimming will get them to the information they're after a lot more quickly, […]

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23rd April 2016
Promote buying guides on your site

A great way to engage with customers is to help them choose or buy products with a buying guide. It can be simple size guides for clothes and shoes or more complicated car or holiday planning.  The more information they receive, the better informed their decision will be . The better informed a customer is the […]

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1st April 2016
Use contrast to show up actions

Making a call to action (CTA) more prominent should help people find them on the page more easily at a very quick glance. Users these days are looking for the information they want very quickly.  By showing them a bold bright and different CTA we're going to attract them a lot more quickly. We can […]

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1st April 2016
Be direct rather than tentative

Delivering a call to action (CTA) with confidence can make a difference to a customer. We can't be tentative around what we want a customer to do.  We must tell them what to do within a CTA.  Appearing uncertain will hold no favours with a customer looking for help or advice. "Click me now" rather […]

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1st April 2016
Use distinct styles and branding

Making a site look and feel consistent across the board is absolutely key.  If a customer is looking at our site and we have different colours and styles for each button, link or body of text then we're going to confuse them. By keeping different elements unique, but branded means people won't get confused as […]

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1st April 2016
Merge similar functions

This is an obvious point, but making sure that there aren't multiple similar functions in one place is a must. Over time with multiple deployments, builds and re-designs it can be easy to duplicate functions, like "Contact us" links or buttons.  they could be in the head, the sidebar, in an article and the footer. […]

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