Category Archives: Design

Our Favorite Web Design Trends of 2011

Last year was yet another huge one on the Web as things continued to move forward at a breakneck pace. The explosive growth of traffic from mobile devices influenced everything and meant huge advances in both technology and new ideas. … Continue reading

2012 New Year’s Resolutions

It’s a new year and that means it’s time to reflect on 2011 and set resolutions for 2012. Here at MarketNet, the resolutions we’re focused on for the new year are 1280×800, 1366×768, 1280×1024, 480×320, 320×480, and good old 1024×768. … Continue reading

Redesign Spotlight: Energy Future Holdings

A lot of changes have happened when it comes to website design in the past four years since energyfutureholdings.com launched its previous website.  Monitors have become larger, bandwidths have become faster and visitors are looking to have an experience with … Continue reading

5 Fantastic Google Chrome Productivity Extensions for Designers

Being a creative at this interactive agency means wearing a lot of hats. We are thinkers, strategists, writers and of course designers. We work in all aspects of marketing and stay very busy. So when it comes to a project, … Continue reading

Mobile Email Design 101

Depending on when you send and who makes up your audience, mobile devices will account for 10 – 30% of all email opens (source). Let me repeat that: 10 – 30% of your emails are being read on a mobile … Continue reading

Using Modern Techniques for Great Web Typography

Great typography use is one of the most important factors in creating beautiful design. Unfortunately, at the same time web typography has been the most limiting and frustrating technology in web design and development for some time. Not too long … Continue reading

Why You Should Be Using Google Chrome and Why It Makes the Web More Awesome

If you flash back to 1994, when this crazy thing called the “World Wide Web” was starting to catch on, you’d have to admit it was a pretty static experience in comparison to today’s. A “web site” would consist of … Continue reading

MarketNet Creates iPhone App for New LifeStyles

The New LifeStyles iPhone app, developed by MarketNet, offers a free, quick and easy way to find nearby retirement communities, senior living communities, nursing care and Alzheimer’s care.   The matching locations are color-coded so that you can filter your … Continue reading

Best Practices For iPhone App Icon Design

These days there are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad apps in the iTunes App Store. With more apps being added every day your biggest goal is to get your app noticed, otherwise you’ll just fall back … Continue reading

Top 2 Reasons to Do a Competitive Analysis Report

Whether you are redesigning an existing website, or setting up one from scratch, it is worth the time and cost to check out what your online competitors are doing. A competitor analysis report is a review of a specific number … Continue reading