Wesley Bates

Although brick-and-mortar retail businesses continue to struggle, e-commerce continues to reach new heights. According to data reported by Shopify, worldwide e-commerce sales exceeded $3.5 trillion in 2019, representing an 18% increase from the year before. By 2023, e-commerce sales are predicted to double to an astounding $6.5 billion — and considering the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on how people shop for just about everything, it’s likely that online commerce will continue to thrive. If you currently run an online business or are looking to launch your e-commerce venture in the near future, the opportunity to succeed undoubtedly exists. But if your e-commerce website doesn’t measure up, prospective customers are likely to abandon their efforts to buy your products or services. And since they’ll have no trouble finding a competitor who can provide what they need without the hassle, you’ll be losing out on a lot of earning potential. So how can you make sure your e-commerce ...

Beginning of the year is a good time for reflections. Looking back at 2019 and what we were able to accomplish, what happened and what we could have done better… It is a time of changes, resolutions and hopes for the new year. It is also a good time to look at your website and make few changes and updates. So you may be excited, but is your website ready for new year? Steps to keep your website ready for new year Update copyright year in a footer section website ready for new year Many websites are designed were the footer will automatically display a current year. But not all of the websites are set up that way. So it is good to do that as it is a disclosure that protects the content of your website.  Review who has access to your website Throughout the year you might have given access to somebody to fix a problem, work on an update. Or maybe one of your previous employees had access to your admin panel? It’s always good to review your website access periodically. Just click “User...

In the real world, you can make a point by speaking smartly, interacting and building real relationships. But on the web, the world is different. You don’t have direct interpersonal interactions – your website is your representative and the medium to reach people. So, it’s not just what you say but also HOW you say it. Hence, your content does not need to be just good; it also needs to be appealing and it should catch the reader’s attention. After all, how will you make your point if the user doesn’t notice your content in the first place? One of the main ways to optimize the content on your website is the appropriate use of Sidebars. Of course, other elements of website design like other plug-ins, fonts, layout, the navigation bars, etc play vital roles too. But we shall discuss side bars today since they can strongly optimize or enhance your content representation and highlight your content in your website design. How Should Your Sidebar Be? The sidebars are used to display ...

Your website is the representation of your products or services that you offer. It’s the place where most people will interact with you for business. It only makes sense if you come forward, interact with your audience, and satisfy their thirst with their needs. Even if you do offline marketing or activity, it will most likely send users to your website. Whether it’s about purchasing the product or leveraging services or to make bookings, or to get contact details. When it comes to web designing, it consists of a multitude of variables like layout, content, graphic, search engine optimization, and conversion rate optimization. While web design is a significant and essential part of your promotional efforts, many businesses forget that it’s just one part of an overall digital marketing plan and should be consistent in look, feel and purpose with your other marketing efforts such as PPC - Pay Per Click advertising. Your website is a great marketing tool which offers several benefits. In ...

Good website design is very essential for a business to generate an excellent impression in the minds of the customers. It can be very helpful to establish the brand of a business and to attract more traffic that can be converted into leads and bring more revenue to the company. T here are a few basic things that can help to make very good website design. Keep it simple: When you make over-design for your website page, and put too many elements, it distracts the visitors and diverts the attention from the main purpose. The simplicity of the design is the key to making effective website design and a clean and fresh web design is appealing as well as helpful for navigation. Consistency in design matters: It is important to give attention to the consistency of design in all the pages of a website. The use of fonts, sizes, button styles, heading and subheadings, etc must be maintained same throughout the pages of a website. Cascading style sheet always comes in handy to keep the complete i...

“Give visitors what they want, and give it fast.” The average response time of any professional website shouldn’t be above 3.5 seconds. It showcases the human susceptibility of losing patience in the 21st century after a certain period. Being fast now is more important than it ever was. Let put it this way that your website speed must be in par with the improving technology for perfect user experience. Nobody likes to use a laggy website or one that takes ages to load. If you are a business owner of any kind, you wouldn’t certainly want your website to be slow. Most Website making companies or even renowned website builders really don’t do much for speed as for the visual essence. So what can you do for a better run speed of your business website? Here, we present you with eight easy ways to achieve a better website speed in 2020: – 1. Improve your Hosting Plan Yes!!! As simple as that. Most of the business websites get a bit stingy or careless in hosting after spending all that money ...

Your organization needs to feature an effective homepage that informs your visitors and encourages them to venture into your website. We’ve designed hundreds of websites over the years and are regularly performing user-experience (UX) research to discover how each audience interacts with homepages. Our research has led us to 10 key features that are ideal for every website’s homepage and will provide significant benefits to your visitors and online goals. 10. Contact Information Your audience should be able to reach out to you at any time, easily. Encouraging your visitors to inquire about your products or services often produces a solid lead or sale. Depending on your business, it’s likely a good idea to include a contact form or phone number not just on your “contact us” page, but also on your homepage. 9. A Synopsis of What You Do Your visitors don’t understand your organization as well as you do. Don’t just rely solely on your “about us,” your products or your services pages to exp...

For an attractive online presence of your business, you need to have a professional web design. A good and professional design will help you earn more. It is the web design that gives an impression of your business. Your website must look appealing for anyone who browses it. Your website will then get more traffic so your sale will ultimately increase. What you Need For Your Business Success? For making design of your website, you should follow proper guidelines.  First of all you have to make a consultation with us. We are working at the company for you so that your company may get what you are looking for. We are experienced in offering you the design that is meant to attract more customers. We are skillful in making user-friendly search engine database. We know search engine optimization very perfectly and our best techniques will help you get top of the search engines. When you get your website designed from us, you will be sure to get the right from us. We ensure our customers...

  When you create a website for your business, time and money are likely to be major concerns. Luckily, there is a web design method that can help you save time and money while also improving your visitor’s experience. Cascading Style Sheets, more commonly known as CSS, has fast become the preferred web design method for the benefits it offers web designers and website visitors alike. CSS is a language used to detail the presentation of a web page’s markup language (most commonly HTML or XHTML) – such as colors, fonts, and layout. One of its key benefits is the way it allows the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). If you already have a website that was designed using tables, you may be reluctant to make the switch to CSS, which will require some time and effort. However, the benefits of CSS are the same for new and old websites alike — so why wait? Here are 5 great reasons...

The beauty of the internet is that since its development in the late 80s and early 90s, it is constantly evolving and new ideas are being brought to the table almost daily. Since the introduction of images to the internet in 1993, powerful imagery has been the longest lasting trend in web design. As of 2015, hero images, parallax scrolling, original photography, stock photography, and blurred photography are a few of the latest trends for images on the web. With all these different image and photography buzz terms floating around, it can be hard for some to truly understand what each is and what the benefits are of incorporating these popular web image trends into your web site. Full Width Hero Images Once the norm, table based layouts required background images to be sliced up to fit into the different cells of the table. Now, with modern markup languages, full width hero images are being used on many websites as a place for companies to welcome visitors and give them an immediate sen...

  Let’s begin at the beginning. At the start of every year, like clockwork, you see everyone talking about trends that will dominate the year: fashion, decorating, politics, and, of course, web design trends. When it comes to latter, a lot of people focus on the small stuff like specific layouts or typographic styles. Others, like Pantone, make broader predictions—and in Pantone’s case, it’s about color. But movements in web design don’t happen quickly or even on a timed yearly basis each January. They take long, slow steps that occur over greater periods of time, and it’s really difficult to pinpoint them. So let’s take a look at where web design is moving as a whole and make a few predictions of what we might see solidify in the next few years. Before we can do that, however, you have to know where we currently are and have been. From the late 2000s to now, graphic design on the web has been about clean, utilitarian design. Websites have been mainly white-backgroun...