Bean Bites: Is your website guilty of 2017’s worst offenses in design and development?

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Layla Masri

As we round the bend toward the end of the year, it’s time to take stock of your website’s strengths and how to best position yourself for sustained growth in 2018 and beyond.

New Year Ahead street signBack by popular demand, here’s our interview with the Washington Business Journal — after once again being named to the Book of Lists top web design firms — where we provide expert, insider tips on what sites should (and shouldn’t) have in a great website design.

There’s still time to start the new year off right to maximize your goals and deliver digital dynamite to your audiences!

Read on for our blog post on the top 3 best practices & worst offenses for 2017 website design and development.…

Layla

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Try this one simple exercise to guarantee a successful website kickoff meeting

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Layla Masri
Ranger Rick

Much to our chagrin, Ranger Rick was NOT present at the kickoff meeting 🙂

Yesterday, the Bean Team kicked off the redesign of Ranger Rick, the leading nature magazine for kids aged 7 and up.

Leading a strategic planning and ideation session with National Wildlife Federation, we collaborated with staff ranging from the editor of the magazine to their content authors, web staff, designers and IT folks.

While there is always a palpable sense of excitement for kickoff meetings, there are often heavy expectations to meet diverse departmental needs, too.

How do you align it all?! Continue reading →

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Bean Bites: Follow these 3 essential steps to make content connections through taxonomy

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Layla Masri
Bean Beat

Associations Now picked Bean’s brains for the three key steps to building strategic taxonomy for your website. Taxonomy is essential for today’s modern websites, since it dictates how everything in your content management system is categorized and labeled. Continue reading →

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Bean Bites: Did you catch us in the Huffington Post?

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Layla Masri
Bean newspaper graphic:

5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Launched My Start-Up.

After 20 years of running Bean Creative, I was excited to spill the beans (tee hee!) in a Huffington Post interview on how to build a business and keep your sanity intact 🙂 Continue reading →

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The #1 timeline killer for website redesigns (and how to tame the beast!)

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Layla Masri

In our 20 years in the web dev business, we’ve overwhelmingly found that the key area where folks underestimate their ability and time to deliver revolves around website content.broken pencil Continue reading →

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We’re on the hunt to hire an amazing web developer

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Layla Masri

Bean Creative, one of the most respected digital agencies in the Washington, DC area, is seeking a talented web designer ready to create amazing user interfaces for web, mobile, apps, and games. Continue reading →

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