Kerry is a prolific technology writer, covering a range of subjects from design & development, SEO & social, to corporate tech & gadgets. Co-author of SitePoint’s Jump Start HTML5, Kerry also heads up digital content agency markITwrite and is an all-round geek.
Kerry Butters's articles
Kerry Butters shows us how to use Deep Linking in our apps to improve discoverability.
Forms are often the make-or-break point for conversions on our web applications. Kerry pulls together a checklist of good UX design for passwords & forms.
In The Ultimate Guide to Guest Blogging, Kerry teaches aspiring writers how to get published and increase their online influence by guest blogging.
Infographics aren't just decorated data. As Kerry Butters shows, when well-executed they can change hearts, minds and even entire governments.
Freelancing can be tough! But there are ways in which you can supplement your income so that perhaps you don’t have to work quite so hard just to survive.
Kerry Butters reviews the Dublin Web Summit where she learnt about the latest innovations in the tech industry from software through to physical products.
'Don't Make Me Think' was the the UX bible before UX was a thing. Now Steve Krug has rewritten the book for the mobile generation.
Standing desks have been hailed as a solution to the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. But Kerry Butters says standing isn't enough — you need to get moving
Read Surviving in the Age of Internet Pirates and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Lots of us go into freelancing with neat design skills but little else. Kerry reviews a book written to fill in the gaps 'Web Designer’s Success Guide'.
Finances are an intimidating topic for many new business owners. This guide to accounting for freelancers will help you get started.
Kerry continues her review of some of the big name stock photography sites. In part two she test-drives Fotolia and Shutterstock. Which did she pick?
How do you choose a stock photography provider? Kerry has studied range, price and UX and gives us her insights. IStockphoto and 123RF are first up.
Communicating with clients is an essential part of the job for most designers. These tips will help you avoid sour relationships that can kill a project.
JavaScript, UX, HTML5.. How do you choose what Web books to read? Kerry helps out with our first 'must-read' - Steve Krug's 'Don't Make Me Think'.
The internet is filled with red buttons and green buttons, but they don't always play well together. Kerry looks at the battle between red and green.
Good designers have intuition but today we have the tools to confirm or scuttle our design hunches. Kerry has the designer's guide to A/B testing.
A report by Martin Goodson claims that most winning A/B tests are misleading. We look at the analysis and offer suggestions based on Goodson's research.
Read SEO Disasters: What Happens When Google De-Indexes Your Site and learn Blogs with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read How To Really Measure the ROI of Social Efforts and learn Blogs with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Logo design is a short and often beautiful language. Kerry Butters takes you through some of the most common pitfalls.
A brief introduction to the HTML5 canvas element and how to use it to display and manipulate text.
How to build a WordPress theme from scratch, specifically what you need to learn before you even think about coding.
This article is about Usability. Usability is something that’s at the forefront of most designers’ minds, whether they’re front or back-end developers.
Read Design Trends: Where Do We Go from Here? and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read How to Move WordPress to a New Server (without losing anything) and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read A Beginner's Guide to CSS Regions and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read SEO Strategies for Designers, Part 1 and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read Getting Started with Flat UI Design and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
In this article, we’ll be looking at planning the content to address Return On Investment (ROI) and usability.