First impressions are just important on the Internet as they are in real life. We only have a few seconds to impact the person we meet in real life, it’s no different on the Web. You only have a few seconds before when a first time visitor to your site for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again, and a bad first Continue reading
Is Your Web Site Full of Cobwebs? It Might Be Time for a Website Update
Our BlogFinally spring time has sprung in the South. I always get in the mood for that fresh start, that spring cleaning mode every year right when the dogwoods are in full bloom in the woods behind the office . Just like we spring clean our homes, change the smoke detector batteries and clean out the cobwebs, when was the last time your cleaned out the cobwebs from your website?
When was the last time you changed any Continue reading
What Are Your Expectations of Web Designers?
Design Our BlogI was at a networking function for the International Business Academy, LLC recently and part of our speaker’s table top exercise was to go around the table and each person ask this question, “What expectations do you have of a ____________ that you would do business with?’. As we went around the table it was very revealing to me as to what the business community thought of each others industries. When it was my turn I asked the question, Continue reading
The Importance of Web Standards
Design MarketingWeb Standards is generally defined by a set of principles that are meant to make websites more accessible, more usable, more findable, and easier to update. There are many factors that contribute to web standards and there are a few different organizations or groups that attempt to define them. For the purpose of this article I’m going to focus on a few of the most common and important implementations of web standards. Continue reading
Why you aren’t getting repeat website traffic
Our BlogIt’s a fact that most people seldom return to new sites that they discover in their Internet travels. Aside from the obvious Internet resource sites like search engines, newsgroups, and our own home page, we seldom go back to a site for a second look. It’s easy to see that some of the most successful sites on the Internet are those that get tons of return traffic. Their website traffic grows as new Continue reading