Blog entries tagged Web Design

Best Practices for a Local Business’s Home Page

InvoDesign Staff — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Developing a quality home page has the potential to build, expand, and establish your brand within your local business community. If you follow these guidelines, then you will maximize your selling power.

1. Hire Professional Website Designers and Developers

Your website’s design immediately communicates the type of company you are. View your web design as an investment in future business rather than simply one more expense. The level of quality in your design sets theRead More...

Mistakes to Avoid when Redesigning

Janine — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:10:37 +0100

In school you were probably told to start out with a plan or an outline before jumping into the draft of your paper. Guess what? Many companies forget this first and very important step when redesigning their website. Take a look at the following mistakes you can avoid so that your updated website is a success.

1. Careful when cleaning up. Your web team may want to clear out unnecessary content. Keep in mind, any article they remove has most likely been linked and earned you trafRead More...

What Do You Need From Me To Build My Website?

Tom — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:07:09 +0100

The simple answer is – the more, the better.

The most important aspect of designing and developing a website is the translation of the client’s ideas into the website itself. Thus, the more information that a client can provide with respect to these ideas, the better the end results.

Examples of information to provide include images, content, sketches, written details of what you would like to see, or links to websites that have appealing qualities. Basically, anythingRead More...

Should Your Web Design Company Host Your Website?

Ryan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:42:30 +0100

I once read that 80% of web design companies do not offer hosting services. We decided early on to offer hosting services to our clients because there are certain advantages when your web design company is your host too.

Single Point of Contact
When your web designer hosts your website, you only need to deal with one company. This means that from initial concept to launch, everything is taken care of by the same group of people. You do not need to worry about finding a host, Read More...

Spending Money on a Website in a Slow Economy

Ryan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:33:52 +0100

Last Friday I attended an after-work mixer for small business owners. While making my rounds, the president of a local company expressed concern to me about spending money on his website in this slow economy. He was unsure as to whether improving or maintaining the website would lead to more customers for his service-oriented business. (I was happy to give my advice, despite the fact that this particular small business owner was a competitor’s client).