When You Are Looking For A Web Site Designer.....

 

You are preparing to have your business web site built. When Building a website or updating your existing website you need to hire a designer to help you, because it can quickly become overwhelming. There are thousands of web designers, so how do you decide what makes one designer better than another designer? Check out the Social Media Place web site at SocialMediaPlace.net

Designing is Important

Some people think and will tell you the most important thing is experience. Some may say a designer without a lot of experience cannot give you the quality that an experienced designer can. Not always true. While experience can be useful, it can also be a drawback. Before you base your decision solely on how many sites they have built or how long they have been in business, consider that their training in new, fresh and within current trending techniques

Stuck in Old Habits

Some designers are stuck in age-old habits and might not be willing or able to give you a cutting edge website. So, why have a web site if it is not on the cutting edge? Cutting edge web sites get the most attention, which should be your goal. Younger designers are likely to have a  web design degree, however a programmer may create great functionality, but have little eye for design. At Social Media Place, we think outside of the box and create a custom experience for each client. We love making you happy.

Portfolio

While experience may not be the most important, having a good portfolio is. You should not be as concerned with whether the portfolio is made up of live sites, so much that the examples show diversity and range for the designer. This is especially important if you're looking for a designer to build any type of interactivity for your website. Ask to see their portfolio. See www.SocialMediaPlace.net

Some people will tell you that the way the web designer's personal site looks is a good measure of how good a designer they will be, and I disagree. While I do think having a good web design business site is important, your style may be different. You may have a  law firm, restaurant, real estate company, clothing store, etc. We design around you.

That said, the design style of differing companies will differ and designing is not changing the colors within a template. You want a designer who is open minded and unique. That will gain you the most traffic and keep people coming to your site. You don't want the same boring template web site, do you?

Take Note: If a designer says they've been building websites since before 1995, they are most definitely exaggerating. In 1995, very few people had even heard of the web, let alone had set up a business.

If you are ready to have your business seen on The World Wide Web let us know at Social Media Place. www.SocialMediaPlace.net

I am Tracey Cole, contributing writer for Social Media Place 2.0.

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Why Your Business Needs a Web Site

Your Business needs a web site to establish a presence and tell the world what your business is about. Over 263 million people world wide have access to the world wide web. Do you know 263 million people? Most people do not, but with a Google search you will be found. Web sites are for networking as well and smart business owners know it is not what you know, it is who you know. Being able to pass out your business card is very important and every business person can tell a great story of passing out a busines card by chance turned into a big deal. What if you could pass out your business card to thousands, maybe millions of potential clients? Well, you can do this 24-hours a day in a simple and affordable way, on the internet. You can make so much information available to people on your website and through social media marketing. Posting your hours of operation, what you do, information about you, and your business, where you are located - these are just a few things a web site can and will do for your business.

Here are more very important reasons why:

*Sites are not local, they are GLOBAL

*Sites never sleep

*Sites establish more clients

*Sites improve small businesses higher revenue

*Sites are found in Google search

*Sites improve customer confidence and corporate image

*YOUR TOP COMPETITOR HAS A WEB SITE

*With that being said, if you do not have a web site you may be losing business everyday.

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Facebook Profiles Can Now Convert To Pages.....

Read carefully before pulling the trigger.

From AllFaceBook.Com

You can now convert a personal profile into a business page.

The social network never formally announced this new capability but Facebook’s help center explains how to convert a profile to a page.

In fact, seven different help entries describe this process, making it look like this has been an option all along when in fact it’s news to us — as it was for blogger Josh Constine.

Converting a profile into a page retains all of one’s friends as fans, but all other information gets lost in the process if a user doesn’t first copy and save all of their personal information onto their computer.

And once you convert your profile into a page, there’s no way to reverse the process.

Facebook’s help center describes how to download the contents of one’s profile in ample detail.

The ability to convert a profile to a page seems like a logical next step in functionality for the site, given how Facebook redesigned the layouts of profiles and pages to look alike.

Converting a profile into a page would suit someone who is simply more interested in maintaining a business presence on the site than a personal one. Small companies and sole proprietors might have a stronger inclination to do this, but so would page administrators whose usage of Facebook has become so professionally focused that they no longer use it for their own social lives.

Readers, would you ever convert your personal profile to a business page, and for what reasons?

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