Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Why Hire A Web Designer
A lot of business owners start their businesses with an extremely small budget so it makes sense do everything themselves including putting up their websites. With the many variety of site builder tools provided by web hosting companies and FREE non self hosted services like Blogger, WordPress.com and etc, you can get a good looking site up in less than a day.
Email Marketing Essentials
Do you think you need to have email marketing as part of your business success strategy? Yes you do!
And if you haven’t started using email marketing in your business, now is the time to start. It definitely is for me, as I’ve finally just sent off my first email newsletter blast to my mailing list. Yes, it’s taken me this long…3 years! The funny thing is I do this for clients regularly. I design their newsletter templates, input their content and send out blasts via their email marketing clients, but never for myself. My excuse..too busy doing for others. Doesn’t this sound familiar.
Why Every Business Needs A Website
The first thing people do when seeking information about people, businesses, products and/or services is do an online search. This is where the process of elimination begins for your potential customer or client. Firstly, businesses without websites get disqualified, then those with out-of-date websites, next those with websites that are difficult to read and navigate and it goes on from there. Here are reasons why your business needs a website and remember it’s not just having an online presence but having one that speaks to your target audience and helps your connect with them.
My 10 Favorite WordPress Plugins
Here is a list of my top 10 favorite WordPress plugins.
1. SEO Pack
Web Design & Colors
I haven’t come across anyone yet who doesn’t have a favorite color or colors. For the longest time, my favorite color was blue but in the last ten plus years, I’ve added Red and Gold to my favorites list. There aren’t any colors that I dislike, because all colors are beautiful and I’ve come to appreciate colors that would have seemed a little bit off before I started designing websites.
Pros & Cons of Flash-based Website
I recently had a client ask me about the pros and cons of having a flash based website and I thought…a good idea for a blog post. So here are some of the points to bear in mind when you are thinking of having a flash central website.
The good:
5 Ways to Lose Business via your Website
I heard a very interesting comment on the news this morning: “Court defendants who were smartly dressed during their sentencing got lesser sentence terms compared to these who were dressed shabbily.” This got me thinking about websites, can you lose business by having a shabby website? How is your website representing your business? Is your website gaining or losing you business?
Is your Message Short, Simple and Clear?
A few nights ago, I saw the Pfizer “Life Without Cigarettes” commercial for people who want to quit smoking and I can’t stop thinking about the technique used in creating the ad. The message was so simple, really direct and I immediately decided that I was going to quit smoking! The funny thing is that I DON’T SMOKE! I was so amazed at how powerful the message was, especially when I wasn’t even a target audience.
HTML E-Mail Hypertext Link
In our quest for providing you helpful techniques to maximize the internet to gain potential clients, we here at AI Virtual Solutions, are supplying you with the following tutorial for creating a simply e-mail hypertext link.








