Web Design Entries

Are You Happy With Your Website?

Filed under: SEO, Web Design by Chip on January 14th, 2009

This period of difficult economic times may be a good opportunity to analyze your website and the results it had over the years, in terms of new business. Yes, results. A small business website should bring you business even in today’s economic environment. Can you say the same about your website?
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Internet Marketing and Usability

Filed under: Internet Marketing, Web Design by Chip on October 2nd, 2008

For a small business owner located in the Raleigh-Durham area, Internet Marketing can help advertise and sell products or services over the Internet. Effective Internet marketing requires a strategic web design since your website will ultimately determine a whether or not a visitor takes action. That’s why banner ad campaigns and pay per click [...]

Web Design Prices

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on August 14th, 2008

Often times I get emails and phone calls from people in the Raleigh-Durham area asking for a web design quote. I have some of the best prices around for the quality I provide, and still, some of them say “your quote is over our budget”.
For small business owners in the Raleigh-Durham area who want a [...]

Web Design Big Mistakes

Filed under: SEO, Web Design by Chip on July 2nd, 2008

Before you decide on a web designer or web design company in the Raleigh-Durham area, check and see if any of these mistakes are obvious on their website or portfolio:
Not Optimizing for Search Engines
Ask your web designer about search engine optimization. Ask him how he plans to optimize your site. Search engine optimization (SEO) is [...]

Wordpress as CMS

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on March 27th, 2008

When quality websites for low prices is your business model, it makes sense to use the best, most cost efficient publishing tool available, Wordpress. Because it’s easy to develop websites powered by Wordpress, and from the design point of view you have flexibility, once you start to using it, you won’t even remember how you [...]

Free Templates Are Not For Everyone

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on January 8th, 2008

Templates are great tools when developing a website that is easy to update and maintain. The internet is full of great looking templates and themes, sometimes even developed by recognized, award winning designers. Building a website from a template, theoretically can save a great deal of time and money.
But what if your ideas [...]

Real Estate Web Design

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on December 14th, 2007

Most of Triangle real estate websites are missing the point:

They are not user friendly
They do not respect usability rules
They do not respect the web standards (valid CSS/HTML)
They are not optimized for search engines
They do not have a good identity

Realtors and real estate web agencies alike, treat real estate web design as if it is [...]

Selecting a Web Designer

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on November 27th, 2007

The most important thing when considering a web designer is the quality of his portfolio.
But the quality comes with a price. Sure, if we will charge $10,000 for a website, we are sure the website will get awarded and recognized by the professionals. But is this what the client really wants? He wants a website [...]

Better Image Redesign

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on November 10th, 2007

Although the old, award winning design, was not so bad, we concluded that a web design company should show its clients and potential customers that it can keep up the pace with the latest design trends and technologies. We decided to use Wordpress because it is the best publishing platform from the esthetics point of [...]

Benefits of CMS

Filed under: Web Design by Chip on November 9th, 2007

Having a static website in this Web 2.0 environment can easily make your website to lose interest. Users will get bored with it and do not have any incentive to come back. Updating a static website will cost you time and money, and in the long run even customers. How good will it be [...]

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