Creative Business Marketing

Should I Make My Own Website

Creatif — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:49:32 +0000

Should I Make My Own Website?

Website Development is a profession so our high recommendation is to use a web developer if you want your business to look professional on-line. There are a lots of platforms offering you ways to save money and make your own website.

Lots of people love Wix. It hearkens back to happy childhood memories of playing with Lego or Barbie sets, bringing your imaginary scenes to life with all of the provided pieces. Should you want to take your website, and your business to the next level, there are some major hurdles to consider:

Wix is designed for people that aren’t familiar with the web

Wix’s greatest advantage turns into a major disadvantage as your website needs evolve. Wix works by greatly simplifying the web design process, which means that it also ignores many of the best practices that have been developed in the last 15 years. From a web developer’s perspective, Wix websites are equivalent to websites built in the year 2000. They almost entirely ignore essential concepts like keeping design separate from functionality and maintaining layout consistency. These things are important because they make your website easier to maintain and create a better user experience for your website visitors. And happy visitors means more clients.

You can’t do deep customizations in Wix

Want to change the way something works? Or have precise control over a visual component? Well, you can forget about it with Wix. There’s no getting behind the scenes to tinker. No tweaking. No custom programming. What You See Is What You Get. Period.

You can’t move your Wix website

That’s right folks. Once you build your beautiful Wix site, you are beholden to Wix for the entire life of the site. Not only that, but you can’t even move pages or content between Wix sites. You can duplicate a site and that’s it. The one bright spot here is that 3rd party tools exist that will pull the text and photos from your Wix site and move them to somewhere else. From there, you can build a new site from scratch.

99% of Wix websites look amateur

If you want to communicate that you and your business are professional, you will eventually need to say goodbye to your Wix website and hello to the world of professional graphic design and web development. By enlisting the help of experts, you can create a website that has clear intention, excellent user experience and measurable results. Combine that with a stellar business model and great customer service and you have yourself a successful business!

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Choose Your Website Developer

Creatif — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:48:00 +0000

What to look for in a website developer?

Hiring a web or application developer to build your website or an eCommerce application can be a challenge, especially if you do not know what skills or experience the developer should have.

Many entrepreneurs have a good idea for an ecommerce or informational website business, but they don’t have all of the technical skills needed to develop the website. So they start to interview for a developer. Whether you’re hiring a freelancer, a web development agency, or a full-time employee, review your candidate’s development portfolio and look for the following;

Pick the Websites you like

The web developer you choose should build websites you like. Be sure you order the latest styles and be sure that the website comes with a responsive design.

Site Performance

Websites should load quickly. Site visitors are not going to wait long for your website to load. If the page doesn’t pop right up, the shopper will simply leave. Average websites should load in under 4 seconds or you could be losing potential customers

Site Functionality

As you visit the websites in your prospective developer’s portfolio, test for functionality. Click everything, fill out forms, and maybe even make a purchase.

On an ecommerce site, even minor breaks in functionality will kill sales. You want to hire a developer that builds intuitive, easy-to-use websites that have the features and functions your shoppers will expect.

Site Performance

WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT OUR DESIGN AND DEVELOMENT

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My Google Ranking

Creatif — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 03:47:39 +0000

Quick summary to rank on Google

This is a quick introduction into SEO as to what you should do to either start optimising your website or to improve your search engine results.

Website Speed – the faster you page loads the better the user experience
Quality Content – stay away form misleading content
Content Writing – be sure that you’re targeting your market by describing you products/services
Back Links – Create as many back links as possible creates popularity of your site

Plan Your Business Exposure

Google Business

Your business name and details will be displayed on Google search results and will include your map

Join Google Analytics

Analytics will allow you to track your visitors and conversions

Google Web Master Tools

This will allow you to submit your links and verify your site for tracking

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