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Posts Tagged ‘New Website Basics’

Needing a logo completely depends on what market you are pursuing.

If you want to charge as though you are a freelancer, to be hired by clients that are looking for a “cheaper solution” than hiring an established company, a logo may work against you. A logo makes you look like a company, which will make people to expect a higher level of service and market rate prices.

If you want to charge as a company, you WILL need a logo. A logo is an investment into image, which usually represents a commitment to build a long term presence.  Prospective clients respond to your illustrated confidence in your long term presence, by a greater confidence in purchase, and a higher valuation of the work provided.

So the long and the short of it is this: if you want to charge below market rate, don’t get a logo. If you want to charge market rate, you need a proper brand, including a properly designed logo and web design.

 

As a rule I suggest putting all company information on the contact page that is relevant to your clients getting in touch with you; the purpose is to provide the information that is going to WORK for your clients and your company.  Posting every detail on the contact page is not necessarily the best way to go.

Channeling your business communication

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This interview is with Britta Bennett from West Coast Web, on how to choose the right designer.

 

Choosing to build a website yourself, or have a qualified professional build your site, is all about ROI.

Picture the following:

  • X = the number of people who will buy from you, just because you have a website, home-made or not.
  • Q = the number of people who will only buy from a business they perceive to be the best quality. Potential clients that find you online, equate the quality of your business brand with the quality of your product or service. If you have a topnoch site, they will assume that’s the quality of your product or service as well.

If you get a website built by a company that outputs top quality work for a reasonable price, your sales will be X+Q.

If you do the job yourself, you will loose Q sales on an ongoing basis until you rectify the problem. And then, you’ll still have to pay to have it done by a professional.

It’s best for your bottom line to pay to have it done right to begin with, and start collecting those Q sales from the start.

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META TAGS

Once your site is up and running, the final thing you need to do is for pick your keywords (if you have not had us do keyword research as a part of SEO) so that the search engines will know what your site is about.

The most important part of this is the page title, as Google will ignore any extra keywords. You should not put more than 3 keyword in the title, for instance: Read the rest of this entry »

 

So you are thinking, the reason I’m hiring a web design company is because I don’t want to have to learn all this! Well, you don’t have to! We will explain everything that you need to know in simple terms. However if you would like to learn a little about web site nomenclature for your own satisfaction, read on…

SPLASH PAGE GRAPHICS- A “splash page” is the first page you see when you come to a site which is made for the express purpose of looking impressive. You can think of it as the cover of a magazine with lots of photos and a little text. A word to the wise: A splash page is not needed or advisable for every business. For some types of businesses it is better to let your user go straight to content. Once you enter the site you come to the

MAIN PAGE GRAPHICS – the graphic layout such as the banner and left side navigation bar and any other repeated images on the content section of the site (where you read pages of text and see the information about products and services)

GUI - stands for Graphic User Interface. A fancy way of describing Read the rest of this entry »