When you decide that it is time for you to have a website designed to showcase your product or company, you can start thinking about how you want to represent yourself online. How will you make your site represent your current business model, look and feel? These are important decisions for any company looking for a quality web design. Getting a quality web design professional to undertake this responsibility is always a good start.

If it is your intention to utilize your website for any real results then you will not only want a graphically pleasing, user friendly website, but one that can drive traffic as well. Working with an experienced website designer/search engine optimization specialist is going to give you a big advantage to make sure your web design gets better results than the competition. Quality in design and quantity in traffic are the factors you will need to strive for in your website project. An experienced web design company can make sure that you are on the right track in both areas of development.

Make sure you find a company that has a proven track record and has delivered results. Check out all prospected web design companies and make sure they produce elegant web designs with user friendly navigation. Don’t stop with those tests though! It is also important that the web design company can show you a portfolio of websites that are currently indexed by the search engines and can handle any particular needs you might have from creating email marketing opt in campaigns, to anything you might want like e-commerce or custom web applications.

Once you have choose a web design firm that can meet your needs it is important that they provide you with proper hosting, email, budget and time frames that will meet your demands. There are a lot of web design companies out there so take care to pick the one that fits your project perfectly!

Levi Brown is a web design/search engine optimization specialist for Holonyx Inc. that has produced many websites and campaigns in the Colorado area and nationwide. Visit Holonyx’s web services site at http://coloradowebdesign.holonyx.com

Author: T L Brown
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The perfect web page is not only nice to look at, but is easy to use. Most web visitors stay only seconds before they leave your site. That is one sad fact you must come to terms with. There is no second chance for a first impression, as they say. You must grab their attention and hold it.

Here are some of the most often overused designs you will come across and ones you may do well to avoid.

Background music

Music has become so overused and misused that it is downright annoying. If a visitor hears music without requesting to hear it, they may leave. If they again hear the same music on each page they visit, you can bet it will not be long before they will be gone forever. If you have a music site and have samples for visitors to listen to, that is another story, but at least give them the option to turn it off or on at will. Do not force them to listen. Personally, I leave my speakers off because I am sick of the whole thing. I especially hate it when a person on-screen starts talking to me when I did not hit the play button. In addition, music takes longer to load and the visitor may leave before the music ever comes up because they are tired of waiting.

Popup windows

Pop up windows used to be cute; used to be. Now I find them another of the oh- so- annoying attempts to get you to sign up or buy something. I realize we are all in this business to make money and we all must use the devices available to us, but use some common sense and don’t beat people over the head with all of theses techniques at once, a little goes a long way.

Here are some essential practices to follow:

Give your visitor an easy way to find what they are looking for by including a navigation menu, a site map and perhaps even a search bar if you have a lot of information on your site.

Pay attention to the font size so that your pages are easily read. Too large of a type makes for a strange looking page and too small makes people squint or worse yet, leave altogether.

Do not use strange color combinations unless your site is all about art or very esoteric. Black background with white type for example you will see but I can hardly stand to look at it!
Take care not to over-use images and be careful of their file size. Large file sizes make pages load slowly and you are then faced with the same situation, people leaving before the page loads. Most image editing programs have the capability to reduce file size.
Be sure every link in your site is working. It also goes without saying that you must test every link on your site before you place the site on the web. Broken links are a sure sign of sloppy work.
Make more paragraph breaks than you normally would in a written paper. This makes it easier to scroll and read and keeps your visitor on the page.
Check your site in different browsers as they do not all behave the same. . The most important is Internet Explorer, but many people prefer Mozilla Firefox as well as others.

Hire A Designer?

You can see that there is a lot to think of when it comes to web design. There are many ways to get a simple web site up quickly. Many hosts have web templates that you upload images to and type directly into the page. This is fine for an informal site and for the initial learning phase, but soon becomes old and looks the same as everyone else. You can buy software designed for this purpose which is what most people eventually do, or you can hire a designer if you have the funds and lack the desire or the time to learn yourself.

If you are a business owner, for example and are using the website to sell products you will have many things to do rather than spending countless hours learning the process of web design. There is a time to hire a designer and this makes sense not to waste all your time doing everything in your business. After all, you cannot be the bookkeeper, the human resource manager, the warehouse manger and the web designer! You need to concentrate on the big picture. If on the other hand you are a work at home business, you may find it helpful and perhaps necessary to do everything yourself.

No matter which way you choose to go, remember the design of your website is the most important first impression you may ever make and perhaps the last.

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Many potential online business owners want to develop a powerful website that is a blending of their own personality and a potent visual presentation that will be attractive to visitors.

These same business developers often have very little in the way of solid direction for their site. They know they want to sell products to customers, but may not be sure how to translate that desire into a web design. This is where a web designer can come into the picture and help identify what you may actually need in the form of a web design.

The biggest problem with hiring a web designer is you are likely to pay a significant outlay of capital to get the site up and running. The straightforward answer to your dilemma is your lack of planning will cost you significantly in present and future web design.

Think about a website in terms of a family tree. Instead of the patriarch of the family at the top of the tree, you have your homepage. Under that homepage you list primary pages (instead of children). These pages may consist of features such as “About Us”, “Contact Us”, “Shopping”, “FAQ”, etc. Then you should identify how many pages you will need under each of these pages. For instance in the shopping section you should determine how many pages you need to list individual products and descriptions.

If you can work to develop a site map (something like a family tree) for your web business then you can develop the website yourself at significant savings. What’s more you can also make any changes to your website on your own without needing to work through a web host or designer.

Template rich site builders can allow you to develop your own web design. The primary difference is you will need to take some time to plan the site and then work to implement the ideas on your own.

Most of us have some idea about how a family tree works. With that same principle a new website can take shape that conforms to your own personality and offers the opportunities to use the latest in web tools to help you make your site unique and distinguishable to site visitors.

Think about it another way. If you are looking to complete a home repair you might likely look at a website designed to provide details on fixing an item. This information can allow you to gain the satisfaction and pride that comes with saving money and gaining a new skill.

Online tutorials can help you learn what you need to learn about web building tools for positive, self-directed web design.

Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of HighPowerSites and many other web projects.

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Author: Scott Lindsay
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