A website is your very own piece of real estate on the internet. It’s a place to showcase your products, services and ideals, and give your customer everything they need to know about your business. From the logo and colour palette down to the font type and how easily customers can navigate through the site, having a stunning design and streamlined build is essential for any business to grow.
Designing even a simple web page used to call for skills in both graphic design and computer programming. Now, however, businesses can simplify the process and make websites using specialist web templates. Web templates are pre-designed ‘generic’ website pages with spaces for personalised information to be filled in – for example, photos, articles, blog posts […]
Mobile marketing is a way of reaching customers and potential customers using mobile phones, smartphones, tablet computers and similar devices. Types of mobile marketing There are several different ways of marketing through mobile devices: SMS (text) – a short text message sent to a mobile phone to promote a company, product or service. MMS (Multimedia […]
Almost every business can benefit from having a website, whether to raise brand awareness, increase enquiry levels or sell products directly to customers. Creating the right website can be expensive, so choosing a comprehensive web design package could be a cost-effective alternative to producing an original site from scratch. What a web design package includes […]
Web accessibility for your web site is not difficult Consider the following guidelines in your website’s visual design. A good web site designer will already be fully aware of these and will only produce web design ideas which consider web accessibility, but you can always take these as requirements to your designer to be certain. […]
Summary Web accessibility means making your website accessible and usable for everyone. It means your website is inclusive to the whole population, not exclusive only to some. Web accessibility means people with disabilities can use the Web. It’s important because if it’s not accessible you may be breaking the law, lose custokmers, get a bad […]
Summary User experience is about how to make your website easy to use, valuable, and effective for visitors. User experience will help your business with lead generation, a better online reputation, matches your customers’ needs to your business objectives, gives you a competitive advantage. Good user experience helps to reduce costs and increase revenue. It […]
Websites with good user experience have not happened because the person or people responsible for the website necessarily have any website design expertise. They have happened because those people have thought about their customers. 1. They know their customers They have all designed their websites around their users. This means they’ve understood: Needs – asked […]
Summary Case studies and examples to show good website user experience. The Apple Story A good example of a business that has created a lovely user experience and turned that into good business is Apple. Apple are a great user experience story. Apple nearly went out of business a long time ago. They spoke to […]
Summary User experience is made up of different parts. What your customers experience on your website is made up of different things that all come together to create the user experience. In other words, it is not just ‘the skin’ or the user interface on the screen. All the parts come together to create a […]
If you’re just getting started with digital marketing, this is a quick intro to what website user experience is, is not, and how it will help your business. You don’t have to be a big established business to have a good website with a good user experience; size and age do not matter. User experience […]