Going Mobile

Global mobile traffic data grew 159% in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row.* Capture your market share with a website designed by Effective Design Studio. We develop responsive web solutions that maximize our client’s marketing reach. A responsive website is a web solution that elegantly scales to the format of the viewing device–desktop, tablet, or mobile device — with striking results.

Our latest web launch is a new responsive website for Seattle Dances!, a Plymouth Housing Group annual fundraising event now in its third year. With a 397% increase in mobile device usage over last year, the Seattle Dances website needed redesigning to improve access anywhere, anytime. The new responsive website maximizes online donations and voting opportunities for fans supporting their favorite dancers — all from their mobile device. Additionally, the website is built on a WordPress platform with built in content management tools, allowing Plymouth staff to make ongoing updates throughout the event season.

Before you begin developing your new website, talk to the professionals at Effective Design Studio. Responsive web solutions for the growing Mobile market.

* Cisco Report

What do CNN, Lollapalooza and Volkswagen all have in common?

They all use WordPress. What started as an open source blogging tool and publishing platform is quickly becoming the tool of choice for Content Management Systems used for everything from the coffee shop on the corner to major news outlets. Not to mention Katy Perry and Jay-Z.

As it turns out, here at e! we are on the cutting edge. We've been busy creating custom web solutions using WordPress for clients for the past few years. Check out our lastest project for Plymouth Housing Group's Seattle Dances. It's even optimized for mobile devices!

Contact us to find out how we can help you build your business through the Web.

e! Goes Mobile

We're excited to announce that we have launched the mobile version of our website (whoot!). Please experience it for yourself — simply visit our website from your mobile device and you'll automatically be directed to the fast, slimmed-down version of our site.

Before creating our site we set a few simple goals:

• Make content easy to find
• Files should be as small as possible to minimize load time
• Maintain the visual identity that is established for our brand

Our mobile site meets all of the goals while maintaining our high standards of functionality and design.

Certain experiences are different on desktop computers than on a mobile device. Take scrolling for example. The fundamentals of good web design tell us that scrolling is bad, but touch technology has made scrolling fun, thus shifting the paradigm. We’ve embraced this shift to make our site easy and fun to navigate.

The mobile nature of handheld devices means that an Internet connection cannot be assumed to be consistent. As anyone who's traveled through downtown Seattle while surfing on their smart phone can attest (not while driving, of course!), data connections can be incredibly spotty when you're on the move. Planting enough data on each page helps us to minimize page transfers. This allows our user to absorb a good quantity of information before they commit to visiting another page.

Mobile usage is growing every day. The data from our top clients shows a 500% increase in mobile usage in 2011 compared to the year before. To keep growing numbers of mobile viewers (i.e. potential new clients) from experiencing the frustration of long download times and difficult navigation, now may be right time to develop your company’s mobile site. And, of course, we’d be glad to help.