Archive for January, 2011

Best Practices for an E-Commerce Website Design

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

When creating an E-Commerce website, your goal is to attract visitors, but it doesn’t stop there. Once you get them to your site, your mission is to get them to take action, make a purchase, and then provide their credit card information and submit the order. Each of these tasks takes work to accomplish and you must pay attention to each one. Surprisingly, a large percentage of visitors will abandon the shopping cart before completing the transaction, so you want to make sure you do some hand-holding through every step of the way.


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Incorporating Social Media into Web Design

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Having a great website is not enough to promote your business. The important factor is how much traffic your website gets – that will determine the size of your potential market. Multiple landing pages, blogs and link exchanges have for a long time been the accepted ways of promoting a web presence and making sites more attractive to search engines. While all these still play an important role, using social media to drive traffic to websites is now a highly effective channel worth considering. The exposure that a Portland area business could achieve because of using this method is proof of its success. Incorporating social media into web design to maximize the potential is not a difficult task.

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