Tag Archives: usability

Want A Successful Website? Let The Designer Be Your Guide!

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: August 19, 2009

We all want to succeed. It’s important to our self-esteem but even more so to our financial security. After all, most of us start a business to become financially independent. But the road to success can be tricky. This is especially prominent in the area of creating local business websites. Many small business owners are [...]

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5 Non-SEO Tips To Improve Search Rankings

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 24, 2009

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the basis for better search rankings. There are many techniques utilized by SEO specialists. When combined they can improve your SERP (search engine result page) positioning if you know what you are doing. There are also non-SEO ways you can leverage to increase your search engine rankings as well. These [...]

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10 Tips For Creating a Brilliant Landing Page

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 16, 2009

Building a great landing page should be on top of your priority list if you want your website visitors transformed into customers. While a great looking website can grab the attention of your visitors, a strong landing page will keep them involved and get them to buy your products/services. Wikipedia defines a landing page as: [...]

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7 Reasons Why CSS Is Better Than HTML Tables

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 12, 2009

Website designers have been utilizing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for many years now. I’ve touched on “What Is CSS and Why Use It” few months ago. Over and over again, however, I come across an argument that CSS offers no real advantage and whether you code with it or not is just a matter of [...]

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How to Turn Website Visitors Into Buyers

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 9, 2009

Some companies tend to concentrate on getting traffic / visitors to their websites. Then they wait for the magical thing to happen – they’re waiting for the visitors to simply buy, for the money to start rolling in. But getting your visitors to turn into paying customers involves a little bit of work. First, you [...]

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Benefits of Paper Prototyping

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: June 5, 2009

Paper prototyping is an extremely valuable tool that I always start with when designing or redesigning a website. Instead of jumping straight to coding, I first put my ideas on paper. I found this an effective way of coming up with best layout in terms of usability and content placement. Rather then sketching the whole [...]

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Small Business Web Design – Keep It Simple!

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: May 31, 2009

Information overload – it’s the nature of the beast when it comes to the internet. We are all bombarded with more information that our brains can process. Websites used to be much simpler to decipher back in a day. Today, with all the technologies and solutions at hand, designers go overboard often producing their next [...]

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5 Steps To An Effective Website

By Joanna Ciolek | Published: May 9, 2009

Every business needs a web presence these days.  Many choose to sign up with large or small template building sites offering pre-built designs that you can “tweak” yourself and be online in minutes. Oftentimes, these business owners find themselves overwhelmed with the whole process even though it’s claimed to be simple. Worse, websites built this [...]

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