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Webdesign. Website Design. When Is the Right Time to Redesign?

January 31st, 2012 Seo blog in Seattle No comments

To play it safe, put a poll on YOUR Website to let YOUR visitors do the talking.. If they think it is necessary for the Website to have a fresh look, give it to them!

If you run a Website, chances are you often wonder whether it is the right time to do a total redesign of the layout of YOUR Website.. Here are some points to consider:

Are you thinking of a redesign just for the sake of it? If you answered yes to that question, it is not yet the right time to do a redesign.. Remember, a Design serves a specific purpose.. If you are not sure whether to do an overhaul of YOUR Website, keep in mind that YOUR current Design might have a specific purpose that you might not know about.. You will lose that function if you do a Website redesign..

On the other hand, if YOUR Web Site has had the same Web Site Design since 2000, perhaps it is high time to do a redesign.. The last thing you would ever want to happen to YOUR Website is when visitors leave YOUR Website without taking a look at YOUR content just because the Design is old fashioned.. If this is YOUR case, here are some points to ponder before doing a redesign..

Redesigning YOUR Web Site is like performing plastic surgery on it.. Your Web Site loses its current identity (for the better or worse) and YOUR regular visitors might not recognise YOUR new Design at first glance.. You risk losing them just because they thought they landed on the wrong page.. Hence, it is very important that you retain a characteristic feature from YOUR old layout.. Perhaps it is the logo of YOUR Website; perhaps it is the same text style for the title for YOUR Website..

To play it safe, put a poll on YOUR Website to let YOUR visitors do the talking.. If they think it is necessary for the Website to have a fresh look, give it to them!

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Webdesign. Web Site Elements You Should Avoid Having on Your Site.

January 27th, 2012 Seo blog in Seattle No comments

Don’t let some minor mistakes stop YOUR Site from functioning optimally!


As a web designer, you should Design YOUR websites to give YOUR visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most important of all a welcoming experience.. It doesn’t matter if you had the greatest product in the whole world — if YOUR Web Site is poorly done you won’t be able to sell even one copy of it because visitors will be driven off YOUR Web Site by the lousy design..

When I’m talking about a “good design”, I’m not only talking about a good graphical design.. A professional web Design will be able to point out that there are many components which contribute to a good Web Site Design – accessibility design, interface or , user experience Design and of course the most straightforward, which is graphic design..

Hence, I have highlighted some features of the worst web designs I’ve come across.. Hopefully, you will be able to compare that against YOUR own Site as a checklist and if anything on YOUR Site fits the criteria, you should know it’s high time to take serious action!

  • 1) Background music

Unless you are running a Web Site which promotes a band, a CD or anything related to music, I would really advise you to stay away from putting looping background music onto YOUR Web Site.. It might sound pleasant to you at first, but imagine if you ran a big Web Site with hundreds of pages and everytime a visitor browses to another page on YOUR site, the background music starts playing again.. If I were YOUR visitor, I’d just turn off my speakers or leave YOUR Web Site.. Moreover, they just add to the visitors burden when viewing YOUR Web Site – users on dial up connections will have to wait longer just to view YOUR Web Site as it is meant to be viewed..

  • 2) Extra large/small text size

As I said, there is more to Web Site Design than purely graphics – user accessibility is one big part of it too! You should Design the text on YOUR Web Site to be legible and reasonably sized to enable YOUR visitors to read it without straining their eyes.. No matter how good the content of YOUR Web Site or YOUR sales copy is, if it’s illegible you won’t be selling anything!

  • 3) Popup windows

Popup windows are so blatantly used to display advertisements that in my mind, 90% of popup windows are not worth my attention so I just close them on instinct everytime each one manages to pass through my popup blocker (yes, I do have one like many users out there!) and, well, pops up on my screen.. Imagine if you had a very important message to convey and you put it in a popup window that gets killed most of the time it appears on a visitor’s screen.. Your Web Site loses its function immediately!

In concluding this article, let me remind you that as a webmaster YOUR job is to make sure YOUR Web Site does what it’s meant to do effectively.. Don’t let some minor mistakes stop YOUR Site from functioning optimally!

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Web site Design. Why Hire A Website Designer?

January 25th, 2012 Seo blog in Seattle 2 comments

A lot of online business owners start with no money.. They have to do everything themselves – the preparation of a product, the development of a marketing strategy, the actual building of a Web Site to cater to their product’s marketing needs..

As their business expands over time, they will find that their simple “homemade” Site might not be enough to cover everything, and they will have to take a day or two away to simply dedicate that to the Web Site expansion..

Sounds familiar? Chances are, you’re someone who started everything with no money too, so you’re pretty skeptical when it comes to giving away YOUR money in exchange for something that you could have done yourself.. However, there is a lot more to hiring a Website Designer than just finishing up a job that you don’t want to do..

When you hire a Website Designer to do YOUR job for you, you are doing more than just handing over the “dirty job” to someone else.. In fact, by paying a little money, you can let the Website Designer worry about the little annoyances that always evade the main picture and only come haunting when you’re halfway through the job.. That way, you will be more focused and have more time to spend on YOUR actual business strategy..

On the other hand, the Website Designers you hire a professionals so they are good at what they do.. By outsourcing YOUR web Design jobs to them, you won’t have to worry when problems surface because you can always get them to fix it for you.. Again, they will be able to pin point the problem and fix it faster than you probably will be able to..

Also, the work you pay for will turn out more professional than what you can achieve because the Website Designer have been doing it longer than you have.. After all, they do it for a living so they have to be good!
So, remember to not just work YOUR business, but grow YOUR business too!

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