Notes From the People Who'd Actually Do the Work.
Field notes, playbooks, and straight answers from the 11 Marketing + Design team — what's actually moving the needle in search, sites, and ads right now.
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Is Website Design an Asset?
A website earns asset status when people can find it and use it. What separates a site that generates business from one that just sits there costing money.
Which Degree Is Best for Web Development?
There is no required degree for web development. Computer science, a web development program, IT, a bootcamp, and self-teaching all lead somewhere. What separates them is depth, speed, and cost.
What Is the Purpose of a Home Page?
A home page has to answer who you are, prove you are worth trusting, and send people somewhere useful, usually in under ten seconds. Here is the short list of jobs it has to do and how to tell when it is failing.
Can Web Designers Work From Home?
Web design is one of the easier careers to run from home, since the tools already live online. What makes remote design work, and the three things that trip people up.
What Is Web Design?
Web design is the practice of planning how a website looks, reads, and behaves. It pulls from graphic design, UX, and UI, and it is governed by a handful of principles that decide whether a site is usable.
Can Web Design Be Self Taught?
Yes, you can teach yourself web design. Here's what actually makes it hard, the order to learn things in, and how to build a portfolio when you have no clients yet.
Why Web Design Is a Good Career
Web design pays creative people to solve business problems. An honest look at what the work involves, what makes it worth doing, what wears people down, and what it pays.
Why Web Design Is Important for Business
Your website is usually the first real impression a customer gets. Why design quality affects revenue, and why the platform your agency builds on matters more than it sounds.
What to Consider When Designing a Website
Most website projects fail in planning, not in design. These are the decisions to settle before anyone opens a design tool, and how they change depending on the kind of business you run.
Will Web Design Be Replaced by AI?
AI can generate a website in minutes. What it cannot do is decide what the site is for. A look at which parts of web design are being automated and which are not.
The Best Web Design Software
WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace all build good-looking business websites. What actually separates them, and how to pick the one that fits how you plan to run your site.
Is Web Design a Good Career?
Web design sits between visual design and code, and businesses of every size need it. What the job requires, where the demand comes from, and the trade-offs worth knowing first.