Web Design And SEO
SEO Web Design

Are Web Design And SEO Related? How?

When you’re designing a new website, it’s extremely important to keep search engine optimisation (SEO) at the front of your mind. Although many people don’t realise it, SEO and web design are closely linked, and poorly structured sites often struggle to rank in the Google search results.

Unfortunately, SEO is quite a complicated process. If you’re designing your own website for fun, you might not know where to start when it comes to SEO. With this in mind, I’ve put together a number of things to keep in mind when you’re designing your site to make sure that it ranks as well as possible from the beginning.

Get The Fundamentals Right

There are a few important things to get right before you really even start building your website. If you can nail them, you will be well on the way to designing a winning site with the potential to rank at the top of the search engine results pages.

Your domain – Although you might not realise it, your domain, or website address, actually plays a large part in your overall SEO. Make sure that your domain is logical and closely related to either your niche or your business name. Similarly, make sure that all sub-domains point straight to your main site with 301 redirects.

Your hosting provider – At the same time, it’s extremely important to choose the right hosting provider. Choose a host like Web Hosting Perth – that’s fast, reliable, and close to your audiences geographic location.

Your content management system – Most people use WordPress to build their website, but there are numerous other content management systems and website builders out there. Make sure that you choose one which is compatible with SEO-friendly design.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Employ A Web Design Agency To Build Your Law Firms Website
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5 Reasons Why You Should Employ A Web Design Agency To Build Your Law Firms Website

If you come to the point in your criminal lawyers business where the website you have seems outdated, or is failing to produce any perceivable positive benefits, then the time has most likely come for you to have a new website designed. You have many options as to how this can be achieved which include trying it yourself, using a freelance designer or maybe you know someone who builds websites.

One point you have to bear in mind is that your website is likely going to be the first contact any potential has with your business, and if that first impression is not a good one, then they are going to become one of your competitors’ clients and not yours. This why we recommend that you employ a professional web design agency to create any new website. There are numerous advantages of doing so, but here are 5 which we believe are the most significant.

#1 It Removes The Stress And Time Commitment From You

Surely one of the greatest benefits of handing over the responsibility for designing and creating your website to an agency is it removes all that from your workload. No doubt you have clients to see, and dates when you may have to be in the court so having a web design agency taking care of everything, is surely a far more satisfactory solution for you. Besides, they will almost certainly be able to finish the project far quicker than yourself, given your other time commitments.

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Online Business Web Design

The Latest in Web Design for Online Businesses

For an online business to be effective, it is imperative that the owners are well aware of the trends and changes in the market. The owners and website developers should always be up to date on the latest trends regarding web designs so that the website always stays relevant and attractive for the customers. A website is one of the most important assets for an online business and it is crucial that the web design of the website is efficacious, maintained well and trendy. Some of the latest trends that online businesses should be incorporating in their web design in 2017 are:

  • Focus on the Message: The message was, and will always be important! But, nowadays, the customers are so well aware, that it is imperative that the message shines through. Thus, the web design should be such that the message is easy for the customer to find. Make the content the star of your website and make the messaging as easy for the customer to sift through as possible.

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5 SEO Actions Which Are Essential For Your Family Lawyers Website To Outrank Your Competition
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5 SEO Actions Which Are Essential For Your Family Lawyers Website To Outrank Your Competition

It is highly unlikely that you are the only family lawyers that people living in your local area can choose from when they search for a lawyer via www.lawyerslist.com.au. If so, then you can stop reading now. For the other 99.99% of you, that means you have competition from other family lawyers businesses. Now, it might be a friendly rivalry, or for some it could be extremely competitive. Whichever it is, the success of your business means you need more clients opting for you than your competition.

One way you can contribute to that goal is to have your website ranked higher on Google than your competition for relevant keywords used when people are searching for a family lawyer. In turn, that means that the SEO which you do for your website needs to be effective. There are many aspects to achieving high rankings so no one action is going to make it happen. Instead it will be the cumulative effect of all your SEO which does it.

To help you take further steps towards having all your SEO in place, here are 5 actions that you must ensure have been implemented if you want to rank higher on Google than your competitors.

Conduct Extensive Keyword Research

It amazes us when we see some website owners trying to rank their website without even knowing which keywords they should be trying to rank for. The fact is there are potentially hundreds of keywords related to family lawyers that people might enter into Google. if you know what these are then you can optimise for them, and thus rank at the top of those searches. Obviously, some will take more time and effort than others, but some will also be relatively easy to rank for.

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15 Features That Must Be Included In Every Small Business Website’s Home Page Design

When thinking about the web design for a local business website, there are plenty of options that the web designers and the business can consider for the home page, and then opt for which will be included, and which will be excluded. However, multiple web design features are considered essential on a home page and any local business website that does not have them, could be hindered in pursuit of its objectives.

For this reason. we want to highlight to you 15 core web design elements that you must include in the web design of your home page if you are a local business, so that your website is successful, rather than compromised.

Telephone Number: You need to give visitors a chance to contact you directly when they land on your home page, and the easiest way to do so is by calling you via telephone so provide your telephone number in a prominent position.

Logo / Branding: Your business should have unique branding, and this is displayed on your home using your logo and other branding elements such as colours and fonts.

Main Menu: User experience is enhanced if they have a means of navigating through your website easily. This is done most effectively by having a simple menu on, not just your home page, but all inner pages too.

Heading Or Tagline: Your branding and your uniqueness are further enhanced if your home page includes your tagline or USP so that visitors immediately have an indication of what sets your business apart from others.

Text Blocks: Any text on your home page should not be one long paragraph but instead be broken down into small, easy to read blocks.

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Why It Is Essential That Your Family Lawyers Website Is Responsive

Is your family lawyers website responsive? By that, we do not mean do people interact and respond to requests to fill out online forms on your website. Instead, the word responsive is used to indicate that a website is able to be viewed on any device which has the potential to have it appear on its screen. Those devices include tablets, mobile phones, and other mobile devices, as well as desktop computers and laptops.

If you are reading and not sure whether your website is responsive or not, then there is a risk that it is not, especially if your website was created and launched many years ago. Also, if your website was not designed by a professional web designer or web design agency, then it is possible that it is not responsive.

The key point here is that if your website is not responsive, then you must take steps to make it so. In truth, this could mean having your website completely redesigned, which, in fairness, often gives most businesses a boost with regards to their online activities, including the amount of traffic, their ranking on Google and the conversion rates of their website.

If you are still in any doubt about updating your website to make it responsive, here are some reasons to do so, and the advantages that it could bring.

#1: Mobile Browsing Has Overtaken Desktop Browsing

It would seem logical that you want your website to appeal to the majority, well, that majority are those who use their mobile devices to access the internet. That number is only going to increase as mobile data speeds continue to get faster and mobile phones continue to advance with respect to the technology within them.

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Building the Perfect Theme
Web Design

WordPress Web Design – Building the Perfect Theme

WordPress.org is an industry leading content management system (CMS) which powers a huge percentage of the internet. One of the reasons for this is the huge amount of flexibility you have when it comes to WordPress web design. You can choose from thousands of themes from the WordPress template library, but you can also create and upload a custom theme.

Many more experienced designers do decide to go down the custom theme path, especially when they want to build larger, feature-rich sites. But, this isn’t always easy, and there are numerous things to think about when you’re trying to build the perfect theme.

Decide How To Build Your Theme

Once you’ve decided to create a custom WordPress theme, you need to start thinking about exactly how you’re going to do it. There are numerous options, but the most popular are using an automated WordPress theme builder or coding your site manually.

Automated theme builders are useful, but they t end to be somewhat limited. If you have a strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, website layouts and JavaScript, then I’d lean towards the manual coding option. It will give you full flexibility and the ability to create pretty much anything you want.

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ECommerce Myth
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Debunking The Biggest ECommerce Myth

Having an eCommerce business can be highly rewarding and we are not just talking about the financial rewards. It certainly has fewer barriers to entry compared to an offline business which needs premises and staff to name just two. An eCommerce business also enables you to run it from anywhere in the world as long as there is a reliable internet connection.

However, there is one aspect of starting an eCommerce store that lots of beginners seem to have missed or possibly have been misinformed about. As a result, they start their business on the wrong footing, and sadly it fails before it even got started.

The problem is the misconception that you do not need any money to start an eCommerce business. This is simply not true. What is true is you can start an eCommerce business for a fraction of what it would cost to start the same sort of business offline. Offline you have a multitude of start-up costs, which include renting premises, buying stock, shipping and warehouse costs, paying staff, utilities, legal and insurance fees, and all of this is before you even open the doors!

Whilst you don’t have the same costs in terms of what you need and the amount you must pay out, there are still things you must purchase prior to starting your eCommerce business.

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Design Review
Web Design

How to Complete a Fantastic Design Review

At Slinky Creative Agency, they understand that catching an error on your web design during the design phase can save you many problems and concerns as you move forward. No matter what type of website you have, catching everything from spelling errors to links that go to the wrong place can really help you. It will be less expensive to catch a mistake up front, especially if it is listed on the costs page.

One of the best tools you have to do this is a design review. These reviews have been designed to look over everything that comes from a web designer. It is a critical step not only for the company, but for the designer themselves as well.

Here are the four simple steps you can take to ensure everything looks how you want it to:

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Web Design

How to Tell Your Story with Design

When you design something, you have to make sure that the story of the design is absolutely clear. Whether you are designing for an individual, a small business, or a corporation, it needs to be there. The first step is, of course, to know what story you are going to tell. For many companies, it is quite obvious like health, fitness, fashion, or excitement. For others, you have to dig a little deeper to find it.

Start by brainstorming the project. What words do you associate with the brand? Ask other people, including those who work there and those who don’t, what words they would use. You could even ask the people that hired you what words they want to be associated with their business.

The purpose of a story is to help your audience understand the brand, engage with it, and remember it. As a web designer, you have to convey all of that with a simple image or design. Here are five tools you have in your arsenal to help you:

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