The impression that your website gives off in the first five seconds to a visitor is critical. This is the amount of time that it takes for someone to decide if they will look through the rest of your site or not. For this reason, it is extremely important to have a visitor-oriented homepage. A visitor-oriented homepage means that the …
SEO Defined
What do people think about your company when they can’t find your website? With 4.9 billion internet searches being conducted every month, you need to make sure that your website is being found by prospective customers. Search Engine Optimization is just one program available to assist with your search engine ranking. Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization also known as …
Tip: Optimize Those Photos!
An important design element that can give life to your site is photos. Photos can add a lot of character to the site, put visitors in the correct frame of mind to view your site, as well as help someone determine in the first five seconds if they should even bother looking at any other pages. The most important thing …
Writing for the Web vs Print
How did you decide what content was going to go on your website? Did you just take the text from your sell sheets and other materials and retype it onto your site? If so, you need to know that the content on printed materials may not be effective for the web. Print media does not always translate well to the …
Tip: Navigation Font
One of the easiest ways to tell if a site is useful or not is to check out the navigation. The navigation has several important elements that must be followed to make it something that is useful. The font size is one of the important elements of navigation. All of the navigation choices should be the same size font. The …
Tools for Website Planning
As you are putting together your 2009 website plan you need to consider how you are going to make your website even more useful to visitors. Here are some questions to ask and some tips to help you plan. First, write a plan for how you are going to have visitors move through your site. Actually map it out or …
Wisconsin Web Design – Everything you need to know
Type “Wisconsin Web Design” into Google and you will get a huge list of results. What makes one design company different from the other? For starters, not all businesses have the customer’s best interests in mind! But how do you know if they do or do not? Simple. Have you ever called up a design company and asked “how much …