Yet more top UK financial adviser and IFA websites
January 12th, 2010
The latest in our showcase series, feature in my opinion two of the very best website designs in financial services going. Read on to find our which ones!
Popularity: 57% [?]
New look and feel
January 8th, 2010
Yes I’ve been tinkering again! Whilst the previous theme was excellent I was never overly happy with it, so I’ve decided on a re-vamp and gone for a very simple and clean theme that really make the content stand out!
Here’s a screenshot for posterity:
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If you want to see what it looked like before, check out the Cutline theme.
Popularity: 7% [?]
New tool from Google Labs to help you understand “the fold”
January 5th, 2010
UPDATE: I found this which succinctly summarises things for you.
“The fold” is a “line” that gets drawn across the screen on your website by the bottom of the visitor’s browser. It relates to the physical fold you experience in printed newspapers and as the early web was seen as simply a translation across from printed media the name stuck.
Sadly some people believed (and still do) that users would not scroll past the fold and so did everything in their power to cram content “above the fold” to maximise exposure. What this approach failed to recognise was twofold (pun intended):
- Users scroll. That’s a fact.
- User operate on different screen sizes with browser viewports open in a myriad of different ways, thus meaning the fold was never the same.
Recently I found an interesting article from CX Partners on some user research into the fold: The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing, which helps support the case that the fold isn’t a barrier. Also here’s another article from 2 years ago that helps by Blasting the Myth of the Fold from Boxes and Arrows.
To help with understanding how people might view your webpage and potentially to dispel the myth of the fold, enter Google Labs from stage left with their latest gizmo: Browsersize. This great little tool helps illustrate in a very visual way how much of your content will be seen by the user without scrolling. It’s based on probability not fact, but does give you a strong indicator when looking at the content and design of your homepage.
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Popularity: 15% [?]
Win a years’ subscription to Pingdom
December 21st, 2009
The good fellows over at WebAppers are running a competition to win a year’s subscription to a Pingdom Basic account. For those not in the know, Pingdom lets monitors the availability of your website and emails or texts you when there is a problem. The system gives you uptime reports, response time reports, email, text & twitter alerts, multiple check locations, error analysis and public and email reports. Very useful if you are running a public site and want to keep on top of it’s performance.
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Popularity: 8% [?]
My Financial Calendar from Unbiased
January 14th, 2010
Unbiased, the place some consumers go to find an IFA or financial adviser, have launched a new consumer tool: The Financial Calender. It is intended to help consumers think about the finance related things that occur on specific dates throughout the year, for example renewing one’s car insurance.
It’s a great little tool that can integrates with Outlook to add the key dates into your diary. It’s a slight shame it doesn’t integrate with anything other than Outlook as I personally use Google Calendar, but it’s a good start.
Popularity: 8% [?]
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