Category Archive: Web Design

How should you feed back to your designers? DistilledLive London video discussion

We caught up with Kate Morris and Kristina Kledzik over in Seattle for the last DistilledLive video and an enthused chat on Real Company, ahem, Stuff. This week, we’re back in London asking lead designers, Leonie Wharton and Matt Mitchell-Camp Continue reading »

Mobile sites and search DistilledLive video discussion

In the last DistilledLive video, we talked through the current hot topic of late, content marketing, with the people who know it best; the Outreach team in Seattle. You can also, check out Adria Saracino’s Hangout on the very same subject if you Continue reading »

A/B testing | Optimizely wins and fails

There’s possibly some stigma attached to the idea of Conversion Rate Optimisation. The name alone is a little daunting and then there’s all those other acronyms floating around the search landscape; SEO, RCS, WTF!? It’s hard not to get caught Continue reading »

Guide to Site Navigation for SEO

When SEOs talk about navigation, we tend to stick to the technical side of things: “Make sure that you have internal links to every page on your site.” “Don’t put too many navigation options on a page because you’ll have Continue reading »

Conversion Rate Optimisation & User Experience – Distilled Meet-Up, 12th July

For our third London based meet-up, the focus was Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) and User Experience (UX). For those who couldn’t make it / left their notes on the night bus home – panic not – here’s a round up Continue reading »

Distilled’s new Events Branding – Logo Design

Over the past month or so the Distilled Design and Events team have been working hard to rebrand Distilled’s events. But why are we rebranding our events? Earlier this year we held two link building conferences, one in London and Continue reading »

Tuning Google Analytics for Dense Pages

It has become increasingly common for websites to put all information for a product on a single page and deliver that information to the user in manageable chunks through JavaScript  or CSS or some other web-devilry.  This presents an Analytics Continue reading »

The 12 Days of Distilledmas

Happy Holidays everyone! Here is a little Distilled treat designed by Leonie for you all.  Enjoy!

An Introduction to Magento

My name is Kirstie, I started at Distilled in April 2010 and I am a PHP Developer with a particular interest in all things open source. My specialities lie in PHP5, Object Oriented design and build, application architecture, 3rd party Continue reading »

What Everybody Ought to Know About Twitter Backgrounds

What is your Twitter background? A random photograph strangely filling only a quarter of the screen? Or perhaps a slightly pixelated company logo in the top left hand corner? Or maybe you’re a minimalist… just a plain colour background for Continue reading »