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Website design is both a science and an art. For your site to be
effective it must be memorable, engaging, dynamic and user friendly
while creating that sense of WOW. This is the art. But
it should also be easily found
and very marketable.
This is the science.
The emphasis on found and marketable is not an accident. If your
site is beautiful and fun but attracts no visitors because it cant
be found on the web, it does nothing for you. Likewise, if your
site can be found but is not marketable to visitors, it also does
nothing for you. The art and science of website design is a double-edged
sword... and both edges must be sharp.
The key to your site being found lies not only in the time-consuming
and exacting task of properly listing your site with the right Internet
search engines, but also in effectively presenting your site on
existing brochures, cards, letterhead and other collateral materials.
The key to your site being marketable lies in ensuring the right
content, look, feel, and user interface to cause visitors to take
an action of purchasing, calling, emailing, completing a survey,
or other desired action that ultimately results in a sale.
An important aspect of your site being marketable involves branding,
the promotion within your website the desired or established image
of your company. This is vital to creating and expanding an awareness
of your product or service. Branding not only creates a strong first
impression but also develops an on-going relationship with your
visitors. Branding is not just for large companies. The website
and general execution of this concept is essential to all businesses,
large or small. After all, how do you think the large companies
became large?
Some questions to ask yourself:
Does your site enhance the brand image you want to portray?
Is your site designed as a whole or as jumbled pieces?
Does the look and feel of your site create the emotional impact
you desire?
Does your site compliment your existing brochures, cards, letterhead
and other collateral materials?
And most importantly... is your website getting the results you
want?
Ingrained into our everyday work at CCS Webmarketing is the impact
for each client of these ideas, concepts, questions and answers
as they evolve with our ever-changing technology. But dont
just take our word for it.
Visit our portfolio and see how these basic concepts of found
and marketable are applied in conjunction with cutting edge graphics,
text, and multimedia to create website design that works.
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