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E-commerce Web Design – A powerful tool for your online success.

Posted on: January 23rd, 2012 by Beverley

A perfect, fully functional working e-commerce website can only be created by experts in e-commerce web design. A professional e-commerce website should allow the clients customers to browse through the website and purchase products or services easily and effortlessly.

The purpose of an e-commerce website is to initiate significant growth in sales by implementing product management, professional design, customer personalisation, comprehensive content management, promotional tools and much more, all to use as a powerful sales and marketing strategy for your online business.

A professional web design company like CWD are one of the few web design companies in this country that can achieve a successful e-commerce website design for their clients. An e-commerce web design has to be approached with refined skills to enable the client’s website to be successful.

An e-commerce web design has to be completely functional to allow the web design professionals to configure the solutions that are necessary for your complete business requirements. The e-commerce web design has to be created with the dynamics of the content management system which is the powerful tool for design and presentation, content, promotions and product data, orders and returns management.

Only a professionally built e-commerce web design can give you the tools to have a successful online business. To be able to add as many products or services when you want to, as and when your business grows. To have a comprehensive ordering system which would allow you to track your orders, email your customers and automatically print out generated invoices, tools which record everything necessary to support your business growth and customer satisfaction.

Web Designers – Mobile Devices

Posted on: January 23rd, 2012 by Beverley

Data reported more than 60 million people surfed the internet in America using mobile devices. Future reported statistics say that mobile internet users will increase world wide to more than 1.7 billion by 2013.
Web designers who are worth anything have taken these stats very seriously over the last few years and concentrated on enhancing their designing skills for mobile devices. Web designers know that they have to produce the same quality designing for hand held devices as they do for traditional websites, if they are going to stay at the top of their game.

Web designers have to think in a different way for mobile devices and also have to consider the different factors for designing and developing apps. Most online businesses require websites that provide information on products and services conveying the branding message and making sure the targeted audience is kept informed of the business activities.

Web designers are challenged to appease the desire of the mobile user by getting the information they require much faster than the PC user. This requires a simple layout of overall structure of a website.

The Web designer has to realise the limited size of the display screen and how important the visible view of that content has to be. The web designer has to make sure in the design that everything presented on that screen is readable, accessible and usable with the same quality as a PC.

Web designers need to consider the sequence of different elements and put them in order of the importance and size on a screen. Elements such as  logos, buttons, boxes and many more.

Web Design – Responsive Web Design

Posted on: January 23rd, 2012 by Beverley

A New Year bringing forth new web design trends for 2012, or maybe not so new! Many web design companies can make predictions on forthcoming web design trends and maybe some of them will survive 2012 and beyond, and then some of them will ‘die a death’ before the end of 2012. That’s the story of trend predictions we never really can tell with most things.

However, one web design trend that was emerging more strongly in 2011 was mobile and tab browsing, and will surely overtake PC’s and laptops over the next few years. And as all things with the internet it will happen fast and ‘surfing the internet’ will take on a whole new attitude.

Many internet users prefer to surf using mobile devices already and this creates a stronger demand for easier navigation in the web design. The various screen sizes as well as the ever increasing different devices demands clearer and easier navigation.

Many web design companies who have had the foresight to predict the coming trends for mobile devices have also started implementing responsive web design in to websites. Responsive web design is still a relatively new concept but the top quality web design companies are already using it and it is definitely the web design trend for 2012.

The landscape has been shifting now for the last couple of years and web design companies have encountered an increasing number of devices, input modes and browsers than ever before.
A report published by telecom analysts and our global technology predicted this trend for mobile devices way back in 2009.

Search Engine Optimisation – King and Queen!

Posted on: December 22nd, 2011 by Beverley

SEO or search engine optimisation would be incorporated as part of your web design if requested by the client and should always be implemented by a skilled search engine optimisation technician.

There are many elements to a search engine optimisation campaign and if you need this for your website here are a few things that would contribute to a successful search engine optimisation campaign – or not!

The ‘King and Queen’ meaning: the content of the website is king and ultimately you have to have clear, well-written content that is unique and focuses on your primary keyword or keyword phrase. (beware of any SEO campaign that creates a whole pages full of the keywords known in the industry as a ‘doorway’. ) This is definitely NOT GOOD search engine optimisation!

So, if the content is the ‘king’ then the ‘queen’ has to be the links: good practise for search engine optimisation is to build a network of back-links. These have to be quality back-links and always using your keyword or keyword phrase as the link. (Never link to a site if there is no good, acceptable reason for that site to link to you. They could prove to be BAD LINKS and you don’t want them! or need them!

I could write pages and pages of good and bad search engine optimisation as it is such a complicated and technical application. But, if you are thinking of launching a new website or maybe redesigning your original one then that is the best time to include search engine optimisation. CWD are a web design company with many years of experience in SEO and would ensure that your site was designed or redesigned to be search engine friendly, if requested by a client.

Web Designer – Could be the difference between online success or failure!

Posted on: December 22nd, 2011 by Beverley

The professional web designer knows how important the initial impression is when a visitor first clicks on to a website. The visitors first impression has a significant effect on the products or services offered. It also can determine whether they stay or navigate to another site.

A web designer aims to impress the targeted audience as they are fully aware that the web design can affect the positive or negative attitude of its online visitors.

If the web designer applies professional logos, good colour contrast, clear images and graphics it serves to at least spark an interest in the visitor. This is a reflection on the website owner so it can inspire confidence in the visitor to investigate further in to the site.
This being the aim of the web designer as it is a known fact that the longer a visitor stays on a site increases the chance of that visitor becoming a customer.

All online businesses have the potential to be a success and therefore highly profitable. Many people nowadays have access to the internet whether its from home or their workplace, and not forgetting the added prospect of growing mobile internet.

This could be good news for the internet market as more people can access the websites. On the other hand it means that more access means more online competition which only  clarifies the absolute necessity of investing in a professional web designer for your online business.

With the increasing online competition a professional web designer will certainly mean the difference between success and failure for many businesses.

CWD Web Design Promotional Video

Posted on: July 28th, 2011 by admin

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Readability in Website Design and Website Development

Posted on: March 18th, 2011 by admin

When you read a book, magazine, leaflet etc… and you can read it with comfort and ease then it means that the content and style of text is doing what the author, editor, advertising company etc….meant it to convey.

It is the same with a website, your web design and web development should have ‘readability’. This is another part of your web design and web development you have to get right for your visitors. If you do not have the skills to compile your text then go the professionals. Copy writing is an art and if your website design and website development doesn’t portray your message in a clear and precise manner it will affect the whole of your website.

There are some techniques you can adapt in your writing to make your site readable. Here are a few tips to guide which a professional copy writer would

employ.

When you have something to say don’t drag it in to a paragraph if it can be conveyed in a sentence. Short and clear sentences on a single subject are easier to read than whole paragraphs.

Be clear and precise with your information and get straight to the point

Make sure you space between paragraphs keeping your spaces the same.

Manage your information to make a professional appearance. Use headings, subheadings and bullet points to indicate to your readers specific information. And make sure your headings and titles etc… stand out from the rest of the text.

A major benefit from clear headings, subheadings etc…. is that your visitor can scan down to see what is in the article.

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Posted on: August 12th, 2010 by admin

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New CWD website launched

Posted on: July 20th, 2010 by admin

We launched our new website this week. We always like to keep fresh and up to date & feel that the new CWD does our design team proud. We’re always interested in what you’ve got to say about it so please do.