Respondive web design- Our focus when building your website. We understand your website is your first impression, “First Impressions Are 94% Design Related. (meaning- 94 percent of people notice the look-and-feel of a website or application first, then decide from there if they will continue to navigate through it or move on to another.”
Overall the site needs to be user-friendly and functional. If it's hard to navigate or read you'll lose the visitor quickly. One of the most important things is you need to tell the visitor why what you offer can: save them time, save them money, alleviate a problem, make them happy, or make their life easier. Let me know if you would like to talk further. This is what I specialize in :)
The website must immediately let the visitor know that they have found what they are looking for. BUT being found is the key and to do that CONTENT IS KING! Well developed content that is interesting, engaging, and delivers what the searcher is looking for will ensure success.
Hi Amanda, A business website should be very simple for the viewer to navigate, it should highlight the products or services in a concise, easy to view format. It should be able to convey the benefits for the client quickly. I like to learn about the company I am looking for on the site before I contact them. Also the contact information should be complete on the site.
A business website's mission should be to "Educate the Clients" so they know what we can do to help them accomplish their objectives whether Mortgages, LOC's or loan requirements ! Donn j
Over the years, I think that websites have to be designed from the Users perspective. Make a site difficult to navigate, boring, or bury the content they are looking for, or worse, not provide it - they're GONE. With MILLIONS of sites out there, people will abandon a crappy site in microseconds and never leave the home or landing page.
Along those lines, what's in it for site visitors? I it's just an ego exercise for the site owners, or full of dull self-serving corporate speak - users will be GONE.
Avoid like the kiss of death "under construction, coming soon, page/site being re-vamped" notices. Users will be GONE. Don't promise future content, ANNOUNCE NEW CONTENT. A clean and tidy one page site is better than a big site full of unfinished pages.
Modern sites should be responsive - look good and be functional on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Responsive sites are far less troublesome to maintain than separate mobile sites. - hey Yahoo! Talkin' to YOU. Watch out for the current craze in one-page sites. If you have so much content that the page is as tall as Mt McKinley on Desktop, then scrolling it on a smartphone is like descenting the Mines of Moria, you should probably break it into multiple pages.
Be legitimate. Include legitimate contact and location information. One client refused to have their phone number or biz address, as they didn't want to be harassed by "random internet people." I told them "Then take your site down, you're not really in business." ... you WANT "random internet people" to contact you! And for fraks's sake MAKE IT EASY. Have contact forms, and put your vitals in your page footers.
Last, content, Content, CONTENT. It's literally the ONLY thing that differentiates YOUR site from the MILLIONS of other perfectly appealing business sites out there. The most beautiful, functional, fastest, most polished site in the world is useless without content. Gather it, write it, proof it, get it up there. Use your own graphics and photography, and avoid stock photography. Believe me, your users have seen it. Furthermore, your web site should match and reinforce your company's branding and graphic Identity. If you don't have a good logo, STOP - and go do that FIRST, then think about a web site.
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Answered on May 10th, 2018
I think the most important aspect of a business website is having a clear message of what you do, how to get a hold of you, and how your services or products will help the visitor. That information should be the very first thing the visitor sees. After all, business owners need visitors to become customers. If your website's landing page can't deliver that in less than a 7-15 second read or view, you're probably losing out on some of those customer conversions. Make sure your landing page has a call to action (in a form of a button is good) at least 3 times. What do you want the visitor to do? Call, setup a free consultation, shop, sign-up, or visit your business? People need a clear message on what they need to do to do business with you. You also want that call to action on all other pages of your website. Make it easy for them to do business with you. Make it easy to contact you too. Your contact page should be a reflection of the culture of the business (not just a form to fill out). Believe me, it was hard enough for them to make the step of clicking on your contact page. If you're a friendly office, make them feel welcomed when they get to your contact page with a few friendly words. Make sure you tell them when they can expect to hear from you and if there's an easier and faster way to get in touch. You get the picture. Hope that helps.
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Respondive web design- Our focus when building your website. We understand your website is your first impression, “First Impressions Are 94% Design Related. (meaning- 94 percent of people notice the look-and-feel of a website or application first, then decide from there if they will continue to navigate through it or move on to another.”
Overall the site needs to be user-friendly and functional. If it's hard to navigate or read you'll lose the visitor quickly. One of the most important things is you need to tell the visitor why what you offer can: save them time, save them money, alleviate a problem, make them happy, or make their life easier. Let me know if you would like to talk further. This is what I specialize in :)
The website must immediately let the visitor know that they have found what they are looking for. BUT being found is the key and to do that CONTENT IS KING! Well developed content that is interesting, engaging, and delivers what the searcher is looking for will ensure success.
Hi Amanda, A business website should be very simple for the viewer to navigate, it should highlight the products or services in a concise, easy to view format. It should be able to convey the benefits for the client quickly. I like to learn about the company I am looking for on the site before I contact them. Also the contact information should be complete on the site.
It's not one component, it's the sum of many that bring across what you do. In a few seconds.
Wow there's many. If I had to choose one it would be stickiness. You have about 2 seconds to:
Make it count.
Functionality and “User Friendliness”.
A business website's mission should be to "Educate the Clients" so they know what we can do to help them accomplish their objectives whether Mortgages, LOC's or loan requirements ! Donn j
Along those lines, what's in it for site visitors? I it's just an ego exercise for the site owners, or full of dull self-serving corporate speak - users will be GONE.
Avoid like the kiss of death "under construction, coming soon, page/site being re-vamped" notices. Users will be GONE. Don't promise future content, ANNOUNCE NEW CONTENT. A clean and tidy one page site is better than a big site full of unfinished pages.
Modern sites should be responsive - look good and be functional on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Responsive sites are far less troublesome to maintain than separate mobile sites. - hey Yahoo! Talkin' to YOU. Watch out for the current craze in one-page sites. If you have so much content that the page is as tall as Mt McKinley on Desktop, then scrolling it on a smartphone is like descenting the Mines of Moria, you should probably break it into multiple pages.
Be legitimate. Include legitimate contact and location information. One client refused to have their phone number or biz address, as they didn't want to be harassed by "random internet people." I told them "Then take your site down, you're not really in business." ... you WANT "random internet people" to contact you! And for fraks's sake MAKE IT EASY. Have contact forms, and put your vitals in your page footers.
Last, content, Content, CONTENT. It's literally the ONLY thing that differentiates YOUR site from the MILLIONS of other perfectly appealing business sites out there. The most beautiful, functional, fastest, most polished site in the world is useless without content. Gather it, write it, proof it, get it up there. Use your own graphics and photography, and avoid stock photography. Believe me, your users have seen it. Furthermore, your web site should match and reinforce your company's branding and graphic Identity. If you don't have a good logo, STOP - and go do that FIRST, then think about a web site.
I think the most important aspect of a business website is having a clear message of what you do, how to get a hold of you, and how your services or products will help the visitor. That information should be the very first thing the visitor sees. After all, business owners need visitors to become customers. If your website's landing page can't deliver that in less than a 7-15 second read or view, you're probably losing out on some of those customer conversions. Make sure your landing page has a call to action (in a form of a button is good) at least 3 times. What do you want the visitor to do? Call, setup a free consultation, shop, sign-up, or visit your business? People need a clear message on what they need to do to do business with you. You also want that call to action on all other pages of your website. Make it easy for them to do business with you. Make it easy to contact you too. Your contact page should be a reflection of the culture of the business (not just a form to fill out). Believe me, it was hard enough for them to make the step of clicking on your contact page. If you're a friendly office, make them feel welcomed when they get to your contact page with a few friendly words. Make sure you tell them when they can expect to hear from you and if there's an easier and faster way to get in touch. You get the picture. Hope that helps.