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Web Design Tip Archive
Weekly Tip #005 – July 22, 2008
What is your call to action. Just having a web site that describes your products or services won't entice people to buy or request more information. You have to direct their behavior toward a specific call to action. This could be a large "Request Quote Now" button or a newsletter sign up. Tell people to perform the action you want them to!
Weekly Tip #004 - July 7, 2008
How deep is your web site? Site depth is important from an information architecture standpoint. If it takes a user four or more clicks to reach a level of content, your site might have a hierarchy that is too deep. Once you get this deep, users can easily become lost and will leave your web site.
Weekly Tip #003 - June 30, 2008
Are you tracking who visits your web site? Do you know where those visitors are going? How about where exactly did those visitors come from? If you aren't, you need. Fortunately, Google provides a free online web site analytics program that is easy to put on your web site.
Weekly Tip #002 - June 23, 2008
Does your web site have a sitemap? If not, you may want to consider creating one, regardless of the size of your site. Sitemaps can help people having trouble navigating your web site, and more importantly, it helps search engines to index all your web site pages.
Read more about why Google likes sitemaps.
Weekly Tip #001 - June 16, 2008
When was the last time you changed your copyright date? 2 years ago? 4 years ago? Surprisingly or not, people do notice when it's out-of-date. Keep it fresh and set it for 2008!