Mayven — what does it mean?
What is a Mayven? As we head into the end of another wonderful year, we want to update our customers and friends on what it…
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Mayven — what does it mean?
What is a Mayven? As we head into the end of another wonderful year, we want to update our customers and friends on what it…
Learn how to code WordPress sites
Learn the hidden secret power of WordPress, and craft beautiful, elegant code that will make you money! Our team at Mayven is launching a WordPress Tutorial…
How (And Why) to Test Your Next Project Idea With a Remote Dev Team
It’s a tricky dilemma. Your business is growing, your priorities are already stretched, and there aren’t enough hours in the day. But you’ve had one…
Create Amazing Emails with the Really Good Email Checklist
Creating a great looking email campaign that also converts can be a challenge for even the cleverest marketer. That’s why our friends at Campaign Monitor…
Why Software Developers Should Track Their Time
This week’s post written by Dann Albright, Marketing Manager at Hubstaff Time tracking is a surprisingly controversial topic among developers. Some swear by it, and…
8 Must-Have Chrome Browser Extensions for Agency Designers
Google’s continuous development of the Chrome browser has brought it a long way over the years, made especially useful due to a massive collection of…
Getting Started with Swift Development: 4 First Steps to Take
If you’ve ever thought of building an iOS or Mac app, then you need to get familiar with Swift. It’s the new programming language and…
What’s the Difference Between Virtual and Augmented Reality?
Just a few years ago, we’d look at blurry photos of Earth taken by satellites in amazement at how far our technology had progressed. Today,…
The Ultimate Guide of How to Hire for Web Development
It’s easy these days to find a web developer Hell, do this search to jump right in. There’s loads of people out there wanting to…
5 Popular Node.js Frameworks (And What They Do)
Node.js is a tool to help developers build apps outside the browser environment using JavaScript. It’s an emerging technology that bridges the gap between the…
5 Best Cross-Platform Mobile Dev Tools for Your Next Project
A few years ago, building cross-platform mobile apps was difficult, to say the least. Developers had to write code and systems from scratch to develop…
Learning When to Say “No” and Keep Perspective
Sometimes the best answer isn’t the one that’s easiest to say. While there are many business consultants that encourage you to say “yes” and take…
Contract or full-time? Which to hire and how to evaluate the costs.
Building software is expensive And, making software is not like making widgets. They may call it computer science but maybe they should call it computer…
How Siri, Alexa, and Conversational Systems are Changing Business
The conversations of the future are between a person and a machine. With just a few voice prompts you can play music, look up information,…
20 Inspiring Creative Agency Portfolio Page Designs From 2017
For a design agencies, your website is one of the most powerful weapons you have. It’s a great tool to showcase your skills, creativity, and…
How to Monetize Your (Inevitable) Business By-Products
When Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein were working at Facebook, they found it difficult to effectively collaborate on the projects they were working on. So,…
4 Ways to Differentiate Your Agency Pitch (And Win More Business)
Winning high quality clients, reliably, is all about making a great first impression with your pitch. But it’s not just about having a well-designed slide…
What is Machine Learning? A 5 Minute Introduction
Machine learning still feels like a futuristic concept — a connected set of technologies and algorithms that allow computers to learn new skills, context, or…
20+ Best Mobile App Landing Pages of 2017
There are several types of landing page. You might be aiming to generate leads, tease a new product or service, offer a freebie, or ask…
How To Handle Project Scope Creep with Agency Clients
It comes in many forms and names. Whether you call it scope creep, requirement creep, function creep, or feature creep, it’s a challenge that all…
6 Killer Tips for Better Front-End Design
Building a beautiful, modern front-end design requires more consideration than ever before. From user experience, to bold visual elements, to animation — there’s a lot to…
4 Reasons Why You Don’t Need an In-House Dev Team
The cost of employee salaries mounts up fast when you’re building a dev team — it’s well known that salaries are the biggest expense for…
How to Make Your Clients Fall in Love With Your Work
There are countless factors to consider in an agency-client relationship. You’ll need to be thinking about where to find your next client, how to pitch,…
Top 4 Issues Designers Have With Developers (And How to Fix Them)
Designers and developers don’t always get along too well. They can have two different mindsets, backgrounds, and approaches to work, which commonly leads to not…
How To Build, Develop, and Ship a Project in 3 Weeks
Do you have a stellar idea, but a short time frame? Or maybe you just need a deadline to jump-start your minimum viable product (MVP)…
8 Key Technology Trends to Expect in 2017
It can sometimes feel like technology is evolving too fast to keep up. But peek into the industry a bit, and you can see some…
How (And Why) to Eliminate Recurring Meetings
In the US, there are 25 million meetings per day. Unproductive meetings costs companies more than $35 billion per year, and these meetings waste 15%…
6 UX Tools and Trends Creative Agencies Should Try in 2017
It doesn’t matter how much money and work you put into developing an amazing looking website or an app, if it doesn’t offer any value…
3 Traits That Separate Great Software Teams From Good Software Teams
A good software team can help you meet your digital needs, but might leave you wanting for more. A great software team anticipates the needs…
Should You Develop an Apple Watch App?
To create a watch app or not to create a watch app, that is the question. When you are thinking about digital design strategy it’s…
4 Tools to Create Functional Mockups Without Code Compared
Have you ever wondered why companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft invest millions of dollars in creating prototypes of products before sending them into production?…
3 Ways to Add Application Development to Your Agency Repertoire
Application development is becoming more important for your business every day. You don’t just need a website and team to build and develop it; having…
Getting Started With Open Source and GitHub
When Linus Torvalds first released the original version of Linux back in 1994 under the General Public License (GNU), he would’ve never even imagined how…
How to Build a Software Specification Document
We’re entering a time when most professional’s day-to-day work touches some aspect of code. At Mayven we are seeing more and more teams turn to…
Make a Great First Impression with a New Agency Client
Successfully closing a deal with a client depends on how comfortable they feel with your agency. And it all starts with your first meeting with…
How To Keep Your Agency Team Skilled Up
Have you ever wondered why some companies get stuck in routines and stop developing? This could happen to your team. New trends and technologies are…
15+ Examples of Design Agency & Brand Style Guides
Have you ever considered developing a properly documented style guide to build your brand identity? Often times this question receive a negative answer. And don’t…
5 Steps to Creating an Awesome Design Agency Culture
Finding productivity advice online is easy. Just do a quick Google search for “productivity tips” and you’ll get over 38 million results with plenty of…
Hiring From Anywhere: Why You Should Think Distributed Team First
Buffer, the company behind the popular social media marketing tool, recently reached a special milestone as their team grew bigger. Now, the company gets powered…
10 Essential Apps for Running a Web Design Agency
Finding clients, managing projects, tracking team progress, organizing finances. Running a web design business is no walk in the park. Thankfully, you’re not living in…
4 Project Management Apps for Design Agencies Compared
Have you ever wondered how some entrepreneurs are able to run companies and manage teams even while they’re traveling around the world or relaxing on…
5 Tips for Growing Your Web Design Agency
After successfully launching a new web design company and receiving a few repeat clients, most businesses usually gets trapped inside a comfort zone. They just…
4 Tools for Quick, Professional Invoicing Compared
Do you still use Google Docs to create invoices for your clients? Or generate dull invoices with PayPal? Then it’s time for an upgrade because…
25+ Best Design Agency Websites of 2017
Learn How Mayven Works With Creative Agencies Planning on designing a website for your agency, or maybe revamping your old site? Well, you came to…
How To Choose a Name for Your Design Agency
Coming up with the perfect name for your business might just be the hardest part of starting up a web design company. You’ll come up…
Starting a Web Design Agency: 5 First Steps to Take
So, you’ve just finished learning all the necessary skills for designing websites, saved up some money, read some articles on entrepreneurship, and now you’re all…
How to Create Client Work That Gets Your Design Agency Noticed
With more and more people learning to code and use Photoshop, web design has now grown to be one of the most competitive industries in…
20+ Inspiring Design Agency Portfolio Websites
Having a killer design agency portfolio website is the best way to persuade your big design clients to hire you. Your portfolio website is the…
Onboarding Design Agency Clients: 6 Vital Tips & Ideas
Have you ever wondered why 90% of all startups fail within the first year? Well, there are many reasons, but the most common reason of…
30+ Best Infographic Templates for Illustrator
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Software Development Team. Infographics give you a way to represent information in a…
20+ Annual Report Templates
Like these Design tips? You’ll like our software developers more. Learn more about our Custom Software Developers. Getting that annual report right is important. Whether it’s…
Website Navigation Trends: 10 Tips & Examples
Like these Website Design tips? You’ll like our website developers more. Learn more about our WordPress CMS Developers. By now the term “hamburger menu” is something we…
Tips For Designing Better Mobile Typography
Mobile is big right now. But often the typography is small. When it comes to creating great type on small screens, there are plenty of…
7 Tips for Choosing the Best Web Font for Your Design
There’s no way to quantify all of the font options available for website designers. Almost every day a new typeface shows up in my inbox…
Minimal Design: How to Design More with Less
Minimalism and the use of whitespace are big design trends right now. Mastery of these techniques might look easy at first glance, but it is…
How To Balance Text and Visual Content in Design
We’ve all heard the phrase “sex sells” but when it comes to design, what does the selling? Text or images? The reality is that both…
Designing Without Images: Making Typography Work For You
You don’t need a great image for every design project. In fact, you can create a great design with no images at all. It’s a…
7 Tips for Designing a Better Checkout Page
With the holiday season right around the corner, many of us will be doing some shopping online. (OK… maybe a lot of shopping!) The checkout…
Form Building from a Designer’s Perspective
When people think of beautiful web design, form building isn’t usually the thing that comes to mind. But for the crafty designer, form design creates…
10 Tips for Designing Icons that Don’t Suck
Almost every designer is thinking about app design these days. One of the smallest features of every app is the icon used to represent it…
Why Good Website Design Matters for Every Business
Almost every business or individual working in today’s market has a website. Sadly, a large number of these websites are poorly designed or come straight…
How to Hold a Meeting That Gets Everyone Excited About Design
The dreaded project kickoff meeting. It’s on your calendar. You can’t avoid it. But you can make it a more memorable event that helps generate…
Do You Need a Style Guide?
It’s a simple question: Do you need a style guide? And it has a simple answer: Yes. Any brand, company, blog or webpage that wants…
10 UX Phrases and Terms to Know Right Now
It seems like the world of the web – and web design – is changing every few days. Trends, new techniques and users who demand…
What’s the Deal with Em and Rem?
With all the talk about designing for responsive websites, two little words keep cropping up – em and rem. But what are they? Em and…
How to Design an Email People Will Actually Read on Their Phones
Email marketing is one of the most popular ways to reach an audience. Wait, that’s probably not new information. But did you know what a…
15 Tips for Creating a Great Website Footer
Like this footer tutorial? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Services. One of the most important locations on your website is…
Build a Sliding Client Testimonials Carousel with jQuery
Like these jQuery tips? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Many portfolio websites include a list of previous clients…
How to Easily Manage Cookies Within jQuery
Web browsers can generate unique sessions organized for each user on a website. Often these are handled on the backend using languages like PHP or…
25+ Awesome Responsive Blog Designs
Hire Mayven for Your Responsive Blog Design Project One of the very first steps that you should take in any major redesign is to get a…
The Difference Between UI and UX
Hire Our Expert Developers In today’s creative and technical environment, the terms “UI” (User Interface) and “UX” (User Experience) are being used more than ever….
The Lowdown on :before and :after in CSS
Like these CSS tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. We recently took a look at :active, an extremely handy…
The Lowdown On Absolute vs. Relative Positioning
Like these CSS tips? You’ll like our software developers more. Learn more about our Custom Software Developers. When I was first learning web development, the style side…
Mobile First Design: Why It is Great and Why It Sucks
Design & Build Your Mobile App Historically, most web designers and their clients have approached the desktop side of any project first, while leaving the…
Inner Shadows in CSS: Images, Text and Beyond
Like these CSS tips? You’ll like our code better. Learn more about our Front-end Developer services. Shadows in CSS are quick and easy, whether you’re slapping on…
How To Center Anything With CSS
Like these CSS tips? You’ll like our code better. Learn more about our Software Development Services. Recently, we took a dive into the very core concepts…
How to Build a Minimalist User Profile Layout with Content Tabs
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Software Development Team. Dynamic content is a big part of modern web design….
5 Really Useful Responsive Web Design Patterns
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Responsive web design requires a very different way of thinking…
10 LESS CSS Examples You Should Steal for Your Projects
Like these CSS tips? You’ll like our software developers more. Learn more about our Custom Software Developers. LESS, Sass and other CSS preprocessors represent an awesome way…
How To Find or Create Your Brand Personality
Like these branding tips? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. What is the personality of your brand? No, it’s not…
Should We Kill The CAPTCHA?
Do you like CAPTCHAs? Don’t lie, of course you don’t. On a fun scale, you rank them right up there with dentists and IRS agents….
50 Shades of Black: Effective Use of No Color
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. There has been a bit of debate stirring on the…
10 Tips for Designing for Wearables and Watches
Every day we are getting a little closer to the release of the highly anticipated Apple Watch. The device is going to further change the…
10 Ways to Use Mapping in Web or App Design
Almost everywhere you look these days, you find a map or location-based nugget of information. Almost every app asks for a location and it is…
How to Design a Killer Annual Report
Like these annual report examples? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Regardless of when your company’s fiscal year ends,…
The Ultimate Developer’s Guide to Converting PSD to HTML
Our team at Mayven has worked on web projects for a long time, over 15 years! We started in back when slicing images from a…
Designing Hover Styles and the Future of the Technique
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Software Development Team. Despite arguments that hover styles are dead, these small boxes…
Do You Have a Design Checklist?
While every project is unique, every project also has a set of things and processes that are always part of your workflow. That’s where having…
10 Crucial Elements for Any Website Design
Like these design tips? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Services. While every designer may have a different plan when it…
How to Build a Brand Bible & Visual Style Guide
Like these brand tips? You’ll like our software developers more. Learn more about our Software Application Developers. Every brand, from the smallest website or startup, to…
20 Fresh Sites With Amazing Scrolling Effects
Like these Scrolling Samples? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Scrolling effects are becoming more and more popular as…
12 Brilliant Direct Marketing Pieces You Have to See
Like these Marketing tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Mobile Application Developers. Direct marketing is all about connecting with customers in a real way….
35 Awesome Fluid and Elastic Layout Examples, Templates and Tutorials
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Fluid and elastic layouts are extremely useful for creating websites…
50 Fantastically Clever Logos
Like these logos? You’ll like our code better. Learn more about Mayven Front-end Development. I know everybody and their brother does logo roundups so…
15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables
Like these Website Design tips? You’ll like our website developers more. Learn more about our WordPress CMS Developers. Tables of information are boring. In a sense, they’re…
25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme
Like these Website Design tips? You’ll like our website developers more. Learn more about our WordPress Website Developers. As a designer, color management should be an…