It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
Sure your site can be marketed by you anyway you want, but it is your website page content will be judged by your readers who. Still, you may not know just what makes for good content, so that is something you have to find. Well, it certainly appears that Google is not fooling around this time, that is for sure. You may have to go and move your ads below the fold and if there are a lot get rid of some.
Work on getting better at creating good content because this is a skill that is significant in every place of life, when you are challenged in the subject of writing. Try to remember that you need to be patient and that what matters is that you focus on really helping people.
People are not looking for literary greatness in your copy, but they are looking for a minimum of competence. Someone can be cheaply hired by you to quickly proofread your work through Fiverr – - merely to make certain things are acceptable and to suggest repairs. Make sure your copywriting formatting is great. This is not hard; things are included by some of the basics like paragraphs and short sentences and not making use of bigger words. Most sites that you fall upon on the internet have only general advice, nothing particular. These are the dreaded low content pages and sites that nobody really cares for. Finding a content-based site that is based upon solid research is something worth looking for. Meat is wanted by readers in their on-line content, just like me and you. Because it is particular and quite comprehensive people sometimes call this the meat of the narrative.
Persons that are looking for specific content like this are generally professionals in a specific market. Every audience out there should be able to read your content, along with the meaty content for your market readers. Take a look at this web page – it gives useful information on how to solve a specific problem – i.e. how to watch the BBC abroad on an iPad, it is detailed and well written and links into a product that can solve the issue. It will also rank highly within the search engines despite being primarily a sales page.
You can link too much in your posts, so just remember all things in moderation. People will always hover over an image to see if it is a link, so that is a hint of what advantage can be taken by you of. People clicking on picture links is well known and why you really should use this that is. That makes this more significant, since you know about the rise of Pinterest. If you are an affiliate marketer, you can link to a presell page or even the seller’s sales copy. Internal linking and pictures are useful for many things beyond this, and in this case it is search engine optimization.
Changing your habits is perhaps the best way to change up your strategies for coming up with content for your company site. Get to work constructing a new system, after you get all of the appropriate knowledge to help yourself. The reason for this is it will be easier for developing the appropriate habits. Then, as your content gets even more powerful, you can learn even more.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
There is nothing sadder in the world of online commerce, to see a person who has stumped up thousands of dollars for a wonderful website expecting a flow of visitors and money which never come. Thankfully the number of web design companies which leave people stranded like this is slowly reducing – but there’s still many of them out there.
Most web design companies now have some SEO experience which they can at least start these new sites off in the right direction. For those who just wish to remain designers only, the good ones will point the customers towards SEO specialists or at the very least some reading material. But for the stranded it can just seem like one big waste of money.
I met a couple two weeks ago who had spent about $10,000 on a great looking site for their new consultancy business. It looked great but they were completely stuck about what to do next – they had no real analytics enabled so had no idea who was even visiting their site. They expected a trickle of business from their site to justify the investment but they were receiving nothing.
Well to start off anyone needs to know something about your visitors and their demographics. You can install Google Analytics or the excellent Statcounter very easily on most types of websites. This will provide you with information about who’s visiting, geotargeting and importantly how they are finding your site. If you are a Painter and decorator in Liverpool – your most important visitors will be local ones who may become customers. It’s essential to find out if your site is attracting the right sort of visitors – eg in our example we’d hope to see some search engine traffic based on the keywords – “Liverpool decorators’ or similar.
Your website should be focussed on attracting the right visitors for your business – i.e. potential customers. Some people will hide their information for example by using a proxy a UK visitor could appear to have a US IP address. However the number of people who do this will be very small and not worth considering too much. Most of the analytics programs are very easy to use and you’ll quickly get an idea of who is visiting your site. With this information you can start optimising to make sure your web site pays real dividends.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
While traditional board games have entertained families and friends for hundreds of years, the move to playing computer based games has been monumental in the last decade or so. The popularity of these games just seems to keep increasing as developers and designers fall over themselves to come up with ever more engaging and attractive web based board games for people to play and enjoy.
What is it that makes these fun, family oriented Internet games so popular and so attractive to players the world over? Let’s take a look at the reasons people play board games online in preference to their real life traditional counterparts.
Graphics
One way in which web based games have an edge over traditional physical family games is in the way they can be presented. Recent advances in the hardware technology that provides the capability to render ever more amazing graphics has given developers and designers so much more scope to play with when it comes to creating really incredible graphical interfaces.
People are easily attracted to visual triggers, which is why television has been such a phenomenal success story for advertisers. More recently of course, computer based advertising has become the latest “must have” solution to selling more products.
Games are no different. Because they are based on visual stimuli as the primary interactive mode, the more exciting and attractive the graphical presentation, the more people will go for them in a big way.
Playability
Of course, a combination of accelerated graphics hardware, Internet connection speed and software enhancements factored in to take full advantage of these benefits has resulted in games that are almost lifelike in representation. While many younger players are glued to the latest shoot ’em up or car chase themed games, older players are getting into virtual board games in a big way too.
The almost instantaneous response speed of web based games now makes them so realistic, many people are expressing a preference to playing them instead of setting up a real game board on their living room tables for people to get around. With multi-player capability and being able to play opponents on the other side of the world just adds to the attractiveness of these games.
Traditional Board Games
Of course, there is still a huge market for traditional board games and timeless classics like chess, checkers and backgammon will always have their place in people’s living rooms. Families will still enjoy getting around the Monopoly board for some real entertainment with the advantage that if the power goes down, you can still play by candle light or flashlight!
But web games are here to stay and will only continue to evolve into better versions of themselves. As long as designers and programmers can keep churning out ever better games, more and more people will be playing them.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
Many of the big guys are looking to mobile advertising as the next ’big thing’. As more and more of us are using mobile devices like phones and tablets, then it’s inevitable that this is where people are going to be looking to advertise. In fact there have been some studies suggesting that the spend on mobile ads would reach $4 billion in 2012, that’s a huge increase on the previous year of nearly 200%.
For a company like Facebook it’s even more important than the other internet giants. Remember over 80% of Facebooks much criticised revenues comes from advertising and about 20% of that comes from mobile adverts. This figure keeps rising and it’s a trend that no company can afford to ignore in this space.
However introducing your advert to a mobile devices must be done very carefully particularly if you have a brand reputation to protect. There is no doubt that mobile adverts have the capacity to be really annoying to the consumer. Look at the rage generated on some Iphone games and applications about intrusive adverts.
One of the main difficulties is targeting your adverts correctly, putting adverts for sewing patterns on a car site or game is liable to achieve nothing for viewer and adertiser. The tactic for websites and blogs and used extensively by many advertisers is to use geotargeting. However this is mainly only of use on location critical good and services. Also the problem is it’s becoming unreliable particularly as many people now use thinks like a fake IP to try and access restricted or block content. That means that the visitor that you think is from the US maybe from somewhere completely different, which can make a lot of advertising a complete waste of time.
However the age of social networking sites like Facebook means that targeting your adverts can be much more specific than merely using location. Getting as much personal information as possible means social sites can very specifically target users in a way that is simply not possible to a visitor coming to a website. Although some choices and preferences can obviously be saved to cookies, this is no where near as accurate and detailed as is possible from analysing behaviours and profiles.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
You’ve probably come across the phrase – geotargeting, but perhaps aren’t aware of how widespread this practice has become. Basically it’s when you serve up different content from your website depending on the location of the visitor. The search engines like Google have been doing this for years, for example they tailor their results depending on your location. When you think about it, there’s a lot of sense in this – after all if I’m sitting in London and request results for ’local plumber’, I’ll need completely different results than if I was in New York. In fact whever you visit Google you’ll get redirected automatically to your regional version of the search giant.
However sometimes this is not such a helpful feature, have you ever been blocked from watching a video on Youtube – ’due to your location’. Many websites redirect their viewers in order to charge them different prices – many global sites will charge vastly different prices. Big media companies are the worse for this – Napster used to sell subscriptions at much different prices if you were in the UK, Germany or USA. Given that the product was essentially the same – music downloads, people tried to subscribe from the cheapest ones. Using Geotargeting enabled them to keep their markets slightly apart and hence maximise profits at the consumers expense.
Sometimes geotargeting will be used to completely block functionality. For example if you are outside the United States then you’ll not be allowed access to the music site Pandora or the media giant Hulu. Again your IP address will be checked whether you are allowed to access the site or not. The same thing happens with the BBC Iplayer site if you’re not in the UK – although this can be bypassed using a proxy server like this site demonstrates - http://www.proxyusa.com/bbciplayerabroad2012. It’s not very difficult you simply use a proxy server in order to hide your real IP address and show a fake one instead (the IP of the proxy).
Adding this functionality to your web site is relatively easy to do, you simply need a way to look up the IP address of your visitors. Most webmaster use a paid database service from suppliers such as Maxmind, although they do have a basic free version available too. This is simply a huge list of IP address ranges and the countries they are assigned to, by using this information you can work up with relative accuracy where your visitor is from.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
In designing a website, people tend to get overly obsessed with the graphics and how to make the site look nice. Of course, the way a website looks had a huge impact on conversion rates especially on ecommerce sites. Even with personal websites, the site design says a lot about the brand; people will have a first impression of the site based on how it is presented.
Web design is tricky business. You will have to play with colors and color themes based on what kind of site it is. There are a lot of predesigned themes, even premium ones which caters different kinds websites such as for business, photography, arts, writing, amongst many others. There has to be a balance of graphics and functionality of the site. You have to play with div layers and CSS to achieve the look you want without compromising certain user functions.
In searching the web, I have encountered an optin box in a slider on a home page of a certain site. If you know website development, you would also know that these homepage sliders are just a series of featured posts which are set to come up on page in the slider. Most featured posts contains just written content and a picture that best describes the content. With this certain website, an optin box and a video post came up in the slider, and ever since, I have been trying to learn how to do this as well.
If you lack the time to fully design your website’s graphics, you can just use a clean minimalist theme like what I did here on my website about outdoor swing sets for kids. Put up the most basic functions you want like the search box, and the ability to sort out post into categories, and you’re set. You can always improve your site and add graphics later on – it’s the content that needs to be up there as soon as possible. This is good for search engine optimization as well.
If you want an ecommerce site, it is better if you get an ecommerce theme from the get go. That way, you know that it does indeed have all the functionality you want that is needed for an ecommerce site.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
If you have website it is worth looking into your conversion rates. This is easy to find out – simply divide the number of hits you have in a week by the number of money making clicks you get. If you are running an Amazon affiliate website you should expect a conversion rate of 5% or more (Amazon nicely tells you the conversion rate). With an adsense site the click through rate (another name for conversion rate) should be higher – about 6%. If you are running a travel website with booking affiliates you should feel happy if you convert 2% of visitors to money.
The worry is that a website doesn’t have enough bells and whistles like shopping carts, social media plug-ins, forums, flash movies etc. Website owners tend to think that the more interactive a website is, the more money it will make. That is not always the case. Sometimes the interactive elements of a website can distract the browser from clicking through. Instead they end up playing with the map feature, or other cool gizomo you have on the site and lose the impetus to make a booking.
The trick is to use good graphics. Good graphic design on a site gives the website authority. It also makes the site look attractive. I have a very a simple website about Koh Samui accommodation. I found I improved my conversion rate dramatically by just using simple graphics in a flash movie at the top of the screen. I also use a subtle shading effect. The gizomo is tucked out of eyesight but subliminally works on the viewer. Since adding the graphic, my conversion rate has gone from under 1% to 2.5%.
People often say that just changing the color of the text in ads can dramatically increase revenue. They are right in highlighting the importance of graphic design. To the untrained eye it might not seem anything special, but these small graphic alternations have a profound impact on revenue.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
It seems we use computers for pretty much everything nowadays – they control out cars, our homes, our offices, and even the design of most everyday objects we use. The initial concept still has to come from a human being of course, but once an original design has been programmed into the humble computer, it becomes infinitely easier to tweak and improve on the design.
One area that has benefited immensely in this area is the design of electric shavers. Until relatively recently, most electric shavers took on the form of a cigarette packet with shaved edges (no pun intended). The designs were practical and functional, but they were never going to win any awards for innovation. In practice though their lack of aesthetics didn’t affect the quality of the shave in any way, but there’s no doubt the sleek designs we see today sell more shavers.
Many companies aspire to make the best electric shaver, but when you go above a certain price point there is little to choose between the best models available. The manufacturers are only too well aware of this, so attempt to differentiate their products by making them look as sharp as possible and by adding a host of new features that were unheard of a decade ago.
The new kid on the block as far as features are concerned is the self cleaning unit which also doubles as a charging station for the shaver. There’s a lot of debate whether or not this feature is worth the extra money you pay for it, but from a pure design standpoint, it makes the most up to date shavers seem a million miles away from the modified cigarette packs I mentioned before.
It's hard for small businesses and non-profit organizations to keep up with the latest web technology or to even create a website in the first place. Small businesses and non-profit organizations need to compete with bigger companies that have many dynamic features on their websites. That's why we started Affordable Web Design and Graphics Solutions. We wanted to help provide web design and development along with dynamic features for small businesses and non-profits to help them stay competitive and lower their costs in today's web driven society. Having a website can actually lower operating costs for some organizations when they utilize the web as a central communication tool for their members.
Web Site Content
Affordable Web Design prefers that clients provide content as it should appear on their web site. Content is preferred in soft copy format. Written material, graphics and photos may be sent via email. Content provided in hard copy form such as manuscripts, brochures, literature, photos, graphics, etc., incur additional fees for processing.
Web Hosting
As a convenience to our clients, Affordable Web Design recommends hosting with ICDsoft.com (see link on the left). Customers also enjoy outstanding value and services with either of these companies.
Our customers also free to choose any web host. We can help pick on that will meet the needs of your site. At no additional charge, the web site is uploaded to selected host; however, the host must be able to grant FTP access.
Domain Name Registration
We are happy to complete this step at no set up charge; the client pays only the registration fee. You may choose to use any Domain Name Registration service that you choose.
Site Maintenance, Updates & Support
If a client wishes to have Affordable Web Design maintain the site, making changes or updates will be quick and easy. In most cases, all that is needed is a simple email exchange, and the web site will be updated within a matter of hours. We guarantee updates to be completed within 48 hours of receipt of email from client requesting a change(s).
Very often with volunteer organizations, small businesses and non-profit organizations - maintaining the website can be hectic, unreliable and inconsistent. Affordable Web Design offers a service to your business that is guaranteed to be reliable, consistent, and supportive of your goals.
E-Commerce
To sell products or services on the internet, clients will have to accept payments. This is a growth area and there are a number of different payment processing solutions. The right on depends upon your predicted sales volume as well as value of each sale.
When setting up an e-commerce store you will need a Merchant bank account that allows you to accept credit card payemnts.
One of the great advantages of computers over the last few years has been to allow us to make better models of the world. It is by making models of the world that we come to better understand it. Computer modelling has become so advanced that it can now be used as a tool to predict the future. We input the data and we can see how things like climate warming will unfold in the future. It is compelling, if sad viewing.
More mundane, but no less important is the ability of computers to help us design more economical spaces to live in. We can now measure accurately how increased insulation can reduce heat loss in the winter and can stop heat entering a home in the summer. The same for awnings over south facing windows. The cost of materials and labour can like never before be weighed up against potential savings in energy bills to decide whether a course of action is profitable or not.
Computers have consistently shown that using an Energy Star recommended programmable thermostat such as those made by Honeywell, Lux or Hunter can reduce heating and cooling bills by as much as a third in a year. The variables involved are geographic location and the settings used. It is assumed that a person doesn’t have the thermostat turned ’way up high’ in the winter and ’way down low’ in the summer. Reasonable settings combined with accurate programming to match schedules to on and off times can make savings that quickly pay for the programmable thermostat and soon go on to make a profit for the home owner.
In such ways we can design our homes to save money and resources as well as reduce carbon emissions. That makes complete sense to me.
