Google My Business is a free business listing or profile that helps you connect with people using Google Search, Maps, and even when they’re interacting with online ads. It is designed specifically for local places like a bank or credit union branch. Each listing features key information about a location: The address, which users can…
For over 22 years, Pantone Color experts release a “Color of the Year” as a means to predict designs trends for the coming year. This year, Pantone has announced PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri as the 2022 Color of the Year! Pantone shared why they chose this as their color of the year: “As we move…
You need to continuously feature products and services that visitors might not be aware of and potential visitors might like to know about. But, no matter how your website is built, most websites have a problem. Inside pages use one or two different layouts. Creating a page that looks different from any other page on…
On-page SEO is a Local Search strategy that can be adapted to help make your financial institution’s website more relevant to what users are searching for and which locations they are searching from or for. According to 2020’s Local SEO industry report, this was considered to be the #1 search engine ranking factor. Keyword Research…
What Is Open Banking? Wikipedia defines it as: Open banking is a financial services term as part of financial technology that refers to: The use of open APIs that enable third-party developers to build applications and services around the financial institution. Greater financial transparency options for account holders ranging from open data to private data….
LKCS takes cross-training and on-going education very seriously. We see it as the cornerstone of our company’s growth and success over the last 60 years. This post covers the personal journey of training one of our print designers to become a skilled web designer. Since I’ve been employed at LKCS, I’ve dedicated most of my…
A few weeks back, I revealed the typefaces that LKCS’ designers were using that had become their favorite go-to for legibility and flexibility in both web and print work. Well, it’s only fair then, that they also single out some that make them cringe. While some of these choices may be sound typographic options, some…
