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Your website is your shopfront to the world. Open 24/7 .
The cheapest form of advertising. Advertising on the internet is now only second to T.V. advertising in it's effectiveness.

The majority of business's will be challenged without a professional presence on the world wide web.

Your website needs to present a professional modern image to the world. Clean and crisp design with simple and easy to use navigation is the ideal web site. This will enable your visitors to quickly find the required information.

Your site needs to load quickly. Web users will only spend a few seconds on your web site if the site is slow. The usual habit of web surfers presented with a slow website is just click to another faster site.

The internet is an ever changing place. We can certainly assist you in using these changes to your advantage.

Presentation is essential and initial impressions can help to make or even break a sale.
Your website must be up to date and modern.
If you have an old web site with any of the following problems you need your web site redesigned.

1. Your website is a outdated html document. Today, we are well into the 2000's and the majority of successful websites utilise the efficient resources of a content management system.
Content Managed System websites are simple to use and most importantly super easy to maintain and keep current.

2. Use of a cheap and nasty looking free web template. Presentation is everything. Your business should be presented in a professional manner. A web site quickly assembled with free web templates gives the perception that the business enterprise considers this actually adequate for their business.
Potential customers browsing the internet for services and products will swiftly leave your site and proceed to another more professional looking web site and to a business that they perceive to be more expert.

3. Images used on your site are bmp files and take ages to load even on high speed broadband.
Your web designer should optimise your images as jpg, gif or png files in order to make your site load quickly and do not use unnecessary images.

4. Your website includes frames.
Frames are detrimental for your sites usability, bad for accessibility and extremely negative for search engine friendliness.
We all should aspire to have our site on the front page of google search results.
Consequently modernize your obsolete framed website as quickly as possible.

5. The footer on your site, states "Designed for Internet Explorer" or "Best viewed at 800x600 resolution" etc.
Do not discriminate against particular visitors. A modern website should function and load correctly with all browsers.
You would not display a sign on your store door declaring "Best viewed by individuals dressed in red coats".

6. Time to proceed forward if your website footer declares "Last Updated June 2004" or equivalent.

7. Your site displays a visible hit counter informing your site visitors they are the 53rd surfer since 2003.
Just why are you giving away essential marketing details to your competition?
Why do these people really need to be informed how successful or otherwise your site is ? Statistics are excellent tools, however these tools should be for your eyes not your visitors and competitors.

8. Your site includes background music. Music blaring at your web user is almost cerrtainly one of my personal dislikes.
I invariably quickly close my internet browser in order to to shut off this irritation.
Use background music and your site has most likely lost 50 percent of it's visitors within 2 seconds.

9. I have saved the most detrimental until last.
The excessive use of Flash on websites is a common error.
Flash is incredibly slow to load in most web browsers and actually will not load on some browsers. Flash websites are very bad for Search Engine Optimisation as the Search engines simply disregard flash websites.