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Website Design – The Three Most Important Elements

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:16:06 +0000

When it comes to website design, there are three very important elements that must influence the process of developing a site which can be viewed on the Internet.

1. Customer Satisfaction.

Although this should be common sense customer satisfaction does not always take a front row seat in the priority department for many agencies. It seems that in the era of our fast paced society a lack of customer satisfaction is the status quo. Companies often rush from completing one job to the next and in the process they somehow skip steps, miss promised timelines, or fail to meet agreed upon priorities. Which comes to my next point.

2. Listening to the Customer’s Needs

The old adage that the customer is always right has been somewhat lost. Clients generally have an idea of what they want to achieve with their websites. Usually, for businesses, it is to bring in new business or increased revenue. What they often do not know; however, is how to accomplish this online in the form of their website. This should not really be a surprise, because often this is not an area of expertise for many entrepreneurs or company executives. This also does not mean that the web development firm hired to complete the website should just run ahead without consulting the client on their needs.

It takes a practiced skill to help the client identify what they want to accomplish online and what the look and feel of the website should be. This initial groundwork will certainly go a long way in understanding the overall goal of the site, and how to best achieve this within best design and development practice.

3. The Ability to Communicate with the Client

This skill of helping the client identify what they want to accomplish online can be best identified as communication. It is the process of exchanging information through various means to accomplish an understanding or shared meaning of ideas. The ability to do this well only comes with skill and practice. A good analogy of this process would be the traveller looking for directions in a foreign place using a different language. The traveller is like the website design firm looking for directions from the local: the client. Like the local who may or may not know the directions, the client may or may not know what they are looking for in their website. A good project manager in the web design firm will use all their skills to gather the information, and help the client along in their journey of conveying what they want in their website.

These skills may include interpersonal projection, asking for clarification, using probing questions to seek further details, and evaluating and explaining the process thoroughly. The client needs to know sooner than later what is possible with the budget specified, and how modifications during the website design process can increase the cost to develop the website.

Although there are many other elements that contribute to excellent website design, web designers or their project managers must be able to provide these three main aspects for the web design project to be on a successful track.

Wayne Peters is the CEO of The Creation Studio, a website design company and is located in Ontario Canada.

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Web Designs Completed for Happy Clients!

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:12:31 +0000

I just completed a couple great websites that I want to share. One is a local Asheville web design for a company called Laurel Nest Yurts. They offer everything you need to know about yurts including how to build them and how much all the materials will cost. They also sell yurts. The website needed to be something they could update and manage themselves. It also needed to be well organized and have dropdown menus for navigation. We also worked on search engine optimizing the site, and if you search for yurts nc, or yurts north carolina on google their website comes up 1st.

Check it out:
LaurelNestYurts.com

I also have been working on a website for a client from Kauai. It needed to be clean and informative while capturing the theme of the product which is Love. I decided to build the website in Wordpress since it is easy to manage, and has many great plugins including WP-Commerce. We used this plugin to create her eStore, and it worked out perfectly. She is very happy with her eCommerce website, and has been getting lots of compliments on the design.

She is working on a new Supergreen Smoothie Mix which is infused with 528Hz frequency which is the frequency of Love, DNA Repair and Miracles. Her product is Ayurvedic as well. To learn more about this superfood blend that can be used for just about anything visit Susan’s website:

SuperGreen528hz.com

Professional Web Design

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:13:42 +0000

Do you want to share your music, or perhaps create a professional art gallery. Maybe you want a personal photo gallery, or a website for your business. Maybe you already have a website that needs some updating or maintenance. What about getting some search engine optimization, so you can get to number 1 on google and get more traffic to your website. I also do graphic design, video editing, and music production. If you need a logo, youtube video, license musical instrumentals, or any other multimedia production work then check out my Asheville Web Design portfolio.

Heart Based Web Design

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:35:49 +0000

I would love to offer a more holistic approach to web design. I have been building websites for years now, and find that people are naturally more attracted to creative designs than “professional” websites. Just take a look through my Web Design portfolio, and you will see that most of the sites I’ve designed are for more holistic practices like yoga, art, raw food, and health. I find that web design is such a powerful tool that I like to be careful what I promote with my skills. I like to healing arts and conscious expansion at the core of my web design ideals, although I have done some flash design work for HP, and other big name companies. I was subcontracted, and wasn’t being paid fairly for my services. It didn’t take to long to lose my passion for that particular job. If you want me to feel free to go on a creative rampage, and really go all out with your website then I encourage you to make that possible by offering adequate funding for my service. I really have everyone’s success as my top priority. Let me help you, and you will be happy with the results.

Asheville Web Designer

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:25:00 +0000

My name is Jacob. I’ve been designing websites since 1997, and I can design anything from an elegant one page site to a high quality interactive flash website. I also have experience with search engine optimization, so if you search for “DJ Story”, you will find my music website intuitivebeats.com is number 1 on google, yahoo and many others. If you search for “Affirmation Music”, you will find another website of mine myaffirmationsong.com on the first page. You can find out about some of the services I offer in my web design portfolio

Client Testimonials

“I had a vision for my website- and I was blown away when you made that vision come true on screen. And then, it just got tighter, and better, and went far beyond my expectations. Thanks again for such a great job and professionalism throughout building my website.”

-Brenton Keith

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“Jacob is incredibly patient, helpful and easy to work with. I highly recommend his web design services.”

-Kristin Melissa Pixiemagic

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