Apr 24 2010

We merely want a rather simple web design…

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Anytime most people make any statement much like “I simply want a basic website design”, they’re usually thinking of a really big and complicated site that may cost a arm as well as a leg to create. People may or may not necessarily require that, but the thing that they actually need is to show a terrific representation of their establishment or maybe organization on-line, especially seeing as there are virtually 2 billion individuals surfing the net at present. The last thing you wish to do will be deliver your online business in an unsatisfactory way to almost 2 billion individuals!

Aquiring a incredibly clean, good, dynamic webdesign shouldn’t be a hard thing to do in today’s website design environment. The right website designer can perform amazing things aided by the current technology that’s available. I make use of the expression “online business” today much more than I utilize expression “website”. Our world has improved radically. It is possible to put your enterprise online and improve your entire destiny forever if you execute it right. And executing it right is a very large matter in terms of web design and bringing your organization on the web! That’s exactly the reason why you need somebody that understands precisely what they are undertaking in most elements associated with website design and even internet marketing. Website design is simply a wide-ranging term today. Plenty of web designers are wonderful artists, quite a few are excellent coders, a handful are excellent at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and quite possibly a smaller amount are great at Online marketing; having said that, IM along with search engine optimization (SEO) are usually more crucial plus more highly effective compared to the rest.

In the event that a business owner basically expects a cheap web design, then he in all probability has got the wrong idea about the internet. Anything at all under $1,000 for any website design and you’re simply not getting a lot. A cheap website is a cheap website, and any cheap website is really a waste of money. You can obtain an automobile for $100, but do you realistically want a $100 automobile? You could buy a home for $10000, but would you intend to reside in it? Price is usually an issue in the event that there’s no value present.

The issue with a cheap web design is always that it will certainly not end up being found in search engine ranking positions. Except if the business owner is an search engine optimization (SEO) guru or even internet marketing authority, there is no way the website would have sufficient enough work performed to it for it to be in the path of traffic. You will need an enormous level of skills and experience in order to perform suitable search engine optimization (SEO) and additional expertise and experience to become good in internet marketing.

I’ll still design “simple” websites for customers should they have their heart set upon one. As a web designer you ought to be very careful since the simple website which your customer asked for might not obtain the success the customer appeared to be looking for.

If consumers say the fact that they really want a “simple” web design, what these people are truly expressing is the fact they really want an “inexpensive web design” which is certainly easy to understand in today’s economic climate. Clients without a doubt can enjoy a very nice, appealing and also pleasing web design for a very manageable amount of money. For $1,000 to $3000, you could expect a good looking, clean not to mention dynamic web design that could be expandable and simple to update for a long time.

© Copyright 2010 Michael A LaHatte

Michael A. LaHatte is an experienced authority on web design, web development, SEO, graphic design, and most other subjects relating to the world wide web. You may find out more on web design on his Mississippi web design website.

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Jan 29 2010

What Comes First – The Web Design Or The SEO?

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Should I optimise my new website for SEO or is the design more important? This is a question that will raise a lively debate but the answer you give will be heavily weighed by the job you do.

A graphics design specialist will argue in most of cases that the website design is the prime consideration of course. And let’s be honest without that visually pleasant to the eye design a browser will navigate away from your site within a matter of seconds or so they lead you to believe. But then that raises an all together different debate of how did they find your site amongst all your competitors?

The most common web development curve goes along the lines of website gets designed ..website design looks excellent and gets client approval. Needs some content ok, we’ll rustle something up…..site gets published and time passes but only minimal traffic!

And then even more time passes by until eventually perhaps months and sometimes years later the situation is either so critical or the company are having to spend out on adwords that finally website promotion firm gets called in or the sales manager starts to question the lack of inbound enquiries from the web, and before you know it you are investing in a web marketing strategy to try and get noticed by the search engines.

Is this the fast road to success? The thousands of website owners that have travelled this route will certainly argue that it most definitely is not as this hope for the best web development criteria delays any websites success by far too long, and even more frightening  results in huge losses of both business opportunity and profitability.

The search engines don’t care about what the site looks like but with minimal attention to search engine optimisation so often this important first exposure when the website first gets indexed is totally wasted, if all the search engines find is a poorly optimised site with scant regard paid to any SEM requirements or keyword capture.

With only a little extra investment spent on pre development SEO (which should at the very least include keyword research and SEO copywriting) gives an worthy return on investment as invariably when the site goes live and gets indexed it will achieve a far better search engine position from day one and it has been known for pre-optimised websites to hit a page one result straight away.

To find out more about SEM visit SEO Southampton .

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Aug 30 2009

New Privacy Regulations For Internet Companies Envisaged – Yahoo Tech

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Yahoo Tech has released a report about the efforts of a group of advertising associations to instill a set of rules and regulations to give the consumers the privacy they expect and let marketers keep the freedoms that government intervention would likely hinder.

The main idea behind these guidelines is the provision of transparency in tracking practices and easier opt-out for consumers. The guidelines are being presented by trade associations that represent 5,000 companies – this consortium includes the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, Direct Marketing Association, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Better Business Bureau.

An impressive roster, which comprises some of the nation’s largest companies, including Google Inc., General Electric Co., Microsoft Corp., Coca-Cola Co. and Procter & Gamble Co.

The guidelines recommend that companies tell consumers exactly when they’re being tracked, work to educate consumers about web tracking, give them an easy opt out, ensure “reasonable” security for the data they collect, limit how much data they retain and for how long, and get consumer approval before making material changes that would erode privacy protections – particularly in areas such as children’s personal information, financial data and medical records, which all agree require extra levels of security.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour weighed in on the proposal:

“Consumers deserve transparency regarding the collection and use of their data for behavioral advertising purposes. I am gratified that a group of influential associations – representing a significant component of the Internet community – has responded to so many of the privacy concerns raised by my colleagues and myself.”

Google Managing Policy Counsel Pablo Chavez talked about the topic on the Google Public Policy Blog:
“When we launched our own interest-based advertising product in March, we worked hard to include several innovative features to give users more control and information — including ads labeled ‘Ads by Google,’ a tool called the Ads Preferences Manager (which lets users view, add, and remove the categories that are used to show them interest-based ads), and the choice to opt out of interest-based ads altogether.”

“One of the key strengths of the principles is the fact that they apply to a broad range of companies participating in online advertising — advertisers, publishers, and ad networks. Of course, for any self-regulatory effort to be effective, there has to be some kind of enforcement process. Between now and early 2010 — when the principles are expected to be implemented — the Better Business Bureau and Direct Marketing Association, two of the groups involved, will work to set up that process to make sure it has real teeth.”

Rian Schoeman
SilverFox Web Design

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