Monday, February 9, 2009

Three Areas to Pay Attention to For a Successful Website or Blog

There are approximately 340 million blog sites in the world today and one new blog is designed and created every minute. The content on a blog is as varied as the individuals and companies behind those sites. Yet, there are three areas where all business websites or weblogs must pay attention if they (or their business venture) intend to be successful:

The Site is Pleasing to the Eye
Attention to detail, a theme that works well with the content or product and “freshness” in the design is something that is essential if you want to keep the reader on your site for more than a few seconds. A majority of bloggers update their complete look on a yearly basis and change headers and format even more frequently. Don’t let your audience get bored with a familiar look.

The Site is Easy to Navigate
Most people have precious little time and will appreciate when they come to your website or blog and can quickly and easily find what they are looking for. Research shows that if a person cannot locate what they are looking for in seven seconds, they move on to another site. Make sure you test your site and the time it takes to move from one section to the next.

The Site Can be Found Easily
Much has been written about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The Web is a huge place and a website or blog can be lost without the prominent search engine such a Google and Yahoo being able to find it. Think of it as the catalog in a library. Imagine looking for a book without some sort of systematic way to categorize and find its location.

Gettingraphic is particularly strong in integrating all three of these important aspects so that you can maximize your marketing dollars, and ultimately, your success. These days the competition is far too great to allow your design to be too stale, too slow in navigation or too hard to find for your potential clients or followers. Contact Gettingraphic at 480.585.2196 today to schedule an appointment. You’ll be glad you did!

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Getting fit for the new year - Business / websites

Most people make the new years resolution to get fit, lose weight or just get a little healthier. As a Phoenix Website Design Company, we recommend doing the same thing to your website.

Get Fit:
  • Clean up the look of your website.
  • Change the design, follow some of the new trends so your website design does not look out dated.

Lose Weight:
  • Replace the pages on your website that do not pertain to your business anymore.
  • Eliminate products and services that you do not sell any more.
  • Delete images that re outdated and make your site look old.
  • Cut the dead weight that gives your reader the wrong idea about your business.

Get Healthier:
  • Hire a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firm (like Gettingraphic) to help streamline your content
  • Pick new keywords
  • Build links
  • Get your site more traffic.

Contact Gettingraphic Design for a free website evaluation today, 480.585.2196.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Custom Website Packages

Gettingraphic now offers custom website packages starting at $1500.

Packages range from choosing one of our custom layouts, that we edit the look and feel to work with your brand, or we offer completely custom website designs that are unique to your business prices starting at $3000.

Our custom layouts are not "Template Based Designs" they are custom layouts that gives the client options to choose from and to keep the cost down.

Find out more about our custom layout options for businesses with small website budgets.

Visit us online today at www.gettingraphic.net

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Happy Green Earth Day

Happy Earth Day.

Gettingraphic would like to wish everyone a Happy Earth Day, and share some GREEN links to help all of the new green comers get off to a good start.

For every day people, visit www.wecansolveit.org, together we can stop global warming.

Looking for some green fun, visit http://www.greenisuniversal.com/greenfun.php

If you are the outdoors type, hiking, biking or even off road, visit http://www.treadlightly.org/

If you are a business owner looking to go green, visit www.gettingraphic.net and let gettingraphic help you create a website, marketing materials or even a new GREEN Brand for your company.

Enjoy this beautiful day, and plant a tree at http://americanforests.org/

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Template websites vs. Custom websites

Template websites vs. Custom websites.

Purchasing a template based website does have its advantages, in most cases it is user friendly, and you don't need a wed developer to add pages and make changes. But at the same time, you are limiting your potential for a GREAT website.

When you use a template based website, what separates you from your competition??? Take health insurance companies, they all use a quoting systems, insurance providers, and similar content. Add a template based website from a company that focuses on health insurance, and now you have the same look and feel of other companies, same content and in most cases the same images that your competition uses. At that point, you should just be a franchise or partners.

If you use or are considering using a template based web design from a company in your industry, ask the simple questions, how many other companies in your direct market use the same system? Do they have similar content, if so how does that effect your SEO? What makes you different except the page about your company?

Gettingraphic Design can help you design a custom website with your own content and get you better SEO results because of it.

Step above your competition, don't stand with them.

Contact us today and let Gettingraphic Design give you a custom website design.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Time is money

This blog is to all of the do-it-yourselfers.

I just had a conversation with a client this morning, and they were telling me how much money they saved by creating their own website. Then the conversation switched to how much time they spend working on the site, that does not work the way they want it to. Now they are paying us to recreate the site from scratch and now they are still a few weeks away from having a website that works properly.

What I am getting at here is if you are going to spend your time doing something, spend it doing something that you are good at, go to a professional for the rest.

Time is money.

Example: I am a designer, so I don't clean my own carpets. Instead, I use North Valley Carpet Care in North Phoenix, Arizona. They do great work, and they don't over charge. Call them today at 623.434.9500 or visit them online at www.northvalleycarpetcare.com.

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