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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
The visual appearance of your website is an integral factor to its success. If your website is not pleasing to look at, then visitors aren’t going to want to stay on the page for very long and therefore they won’t get the information from the page that you want them to get. For this reason, you must ensure that your design is excellent. If you aren’t particularly good at web design yourself, then it is a good idea to hire a professional to do the job for you.
But how do you choose the right professional for the job? Well, allow me to tell you.
Any web designer worth their salt has their own web page. For this reason, it is always worth doing a web search in order to see if you can find anyone that catches your eye. You can even refine your search to find only designers in your area or those that are based in a particular country. We hope you’ll agree that OUR webpage does the job nicely 
Viewing a few of the designers’ websites can be a very nice way to sort the good ones from the not so good as, generally, someone who is able to produce a stylish design for their own website is going to be able to produce a stylish design for your website. If the designer has an aesthetically poor web page, then the odds are that they won’t be able to produce a solid design for your website either.
If none of the organisations and people you come across take you eye, or even if you just want to find some more alternatives, there are various online directories of web designers and also websites that designers congregate on that are set up for prospective clients (which here means you) to present details of the job they want doing. Then, designers are invited to bid for the project and the client chooses who they want to hire for the job.
These websites are useful as they often have a rating attached to each designer based on reviews from previous clients. This allows you to get a feel for how reliable a worker the designer is and how high the quality of their work is. The same can be achieved by testimonials from customers on the websites of designers.
However, you must always be aware that only pleased customers would have provided positive testimonials and the designer would not print the bad reviews. Due to this, independently produced feedback ratings are a far more reliable way of judging how good a designer is.
So basically, there is no definitive way to find a good web designer, but there is very little chance that the first one you come across is the best you could possibly have. You are unlikely to find the right designer by doing a very quick search. It in fact takes a great deal of research and a look through some comprehensive feedback to ensure that you pick someone who knows what they are doing and will be able to make your web page look fantastic.
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Before the turn of the century and the beginning of the new millennium, no-one would have been able to tell you what ecommerce was. Now though, ecommerce is big business. More and more companies have decided to utilise the power of the web in order to get their products to their customers in a way that is more convenient for everyone.
An online arm is now almost essential for any business. Not only does it give the opportunity for another wave of sales along with your physical point of sale selling, but ecommerce allows sales to happen in an easier and more convenient way, over the Internet, meaning that your customers don’t even have to leave the warmth of their homes.
There is little question as to whether going out to a shop or buying online is easier. It is obvious that a customer would much rather find the item online and order it from a website, waiting for it to turn up at their door. This is reflected by the fact that high street stores are being forced to close and that online retailers such as Amazon are getting gradually bigger shares of overall sales, particularly around the Christmas period.
This shows that the market for online business is huge already and is continuing to grow every year as more and more people convert from high street shopping to doing it all from the comfort of their armchair at home. Due to this growth, it is all the more important that your business capitalises on this trend and moves itself into the online market as quickly as is possible.
So the next question is, how do you do it? Well, all you really need is a website and a simple payment system. Domain names can be picked up very cheaply and hosting is equally so. There are websites that enable you to set up simple shopping cart systems and also developers who will charge a very small fee for a higher quality system, along with customer support bundled in.
Alternatively, you can choose not to bother with a fancy system and instead just ask for money to be paid to you manually via your chosen payment method in return for your goods or services. This method can be just as effective as a clever and intricate system and also can save you a bit of extra money in the process, whilst also meaning that the customers put their trust in a person instead of a fancy online system.
So ecommerce is easy to set up, depending on how complex you want to go and it can also be a hugely beneficial method to bring online sales into your company and transfer your products to a wider audience than what you would get from selling them in the high street.
It is certainly a method that companies should take on if they truly wish to capitalise on the trends and now it is likely to be a battle not of who can do it, but who can do it best.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
In March we’re celebrating our BIGGEST promotion ever – for just £20 we’ll design your brand new, bespoke website.
Yes, this may look too good to be true but it’s really not! When you order any simplewebhosting.co.uk hosting plan, we’ll create a three-page website for your business or organisation for just £20.
We don’t use off-the-shelf templates for any of our web designs; whether you pay £20 or £2000, every single web site we produce is individually created by our talented web designers.
Find out more and get yourself online today.
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
In this day and age, a website is an important, almost essential feature of any business. Having a web presence gives potential customers somewhere to go in order to find the information that they need on your company without having to go through the hassle of contacting you or travelling anywhere. They simply need to type a few words into a search box and all of the information that they need is right there in front of them.
Of course, you could use a free website builder to make your website or you could even try a hand at learning some simple coding and knocking up a basic design. You can’t go wrong with some flashing lights and vibrant text colours, right?
Wrong.
In fact, those things and design features are the cardinal sin of web design. So many websites with great potential are ruined by the fact that people do not have an eye for the best kind of web design. People seem to think that adorning their pages with flashing pictures and garish colouration is the kind of design that will bring the visitors flocking in.
Whilst these kinds of design techniques may work on posters that the eye only has to fixate on for a second, a web page that customers may look at for an extended period of time should be simple and easy on the eye. The need for fancy banners is minimal as it is highly likely that the person visiting your site is already interested and thus does not need to be “drawn in” by your graphics.
For these reasons, it is best for your website that you hire someone who has an eye for detail and a level of experience in making a website look exactly how it should. If you are truly serious about increasing your sales with an online presence, what you need is a professional web designer.
It is easy when browsing the internet to tell which websites have been designed by proper web designers and which ones have simply been knocked together by someone with a few minutes and a copy of Microsoft FrontPage to play around with.
A professional is able to produce a reliable website based around a skin that has the correct level of flashiness compared with easiness on the eye. They can produce the kind of website that someone would be happy to look at for long enough to read through the information. If you look at the most popular commerce websites, eBay and Amazon, you can tell that they are both easy on the eye. This is done so that people can spend hours happily browsing these sites without being distracted by stupid graphics and these sites pull in millions of pounds every year.
The moral of this all is that it is certainly worth shelling out the money when making your website to hire someone who can produce a proper design. If your site looks good, then people will buy your products. It is that simple, so make the right decision today and show just how serious about business you are.
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Did you know that as well as providing great value web hosting and domain name registration, simplewebhosting.co.uk are also award-winning web designers? We’d like to tell you about one project launched this month.
 Victoria Carpets and Curtains is a local, family run business established in
1979 based in nearby Stoke-on-Trent. Proprietors Joe and Julie Harrington Thorley are confident their business’s friendly, confident service can furnish customers’ every need and bring a touch of luxury and quality to every home.
We had already created Joe and Julie’s Orlando villa website in 2007 (http://www.victoriavillas-florida.com) so when it came to updating their business website, simplewebhosting.co.uk was the obvious choice.
The existing Victoria Carpets and Curtains website was becoming difficult to update and, more importantly, was very unattractive to the search engines such as Google and Yahoo! We were able to closely match the current design (which the customer liked), add more information, extra pages and make the whole site much more search engine friendly.
Visit www.victoriacarpets.co.uk to see the end result.
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