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Five “Don’ts” for Web Design

Thursday, 1 July 2010 07:30 by onsharp

 

Onsharp is always looking for great information to share with our followers. “Web Design Trends for 2010” is one of the more interesting and well done presentations I’ve seen all year. In the presentation, Tijs Vrolix does a wonderful job describing five “Don’ts” for web design this year. With permission, I am sharing those “Don’ts” with you today: 

 

1. Forget about Smiling Business People

We’ve all seen them. From financial websites to consulting firms, so just say no. 

2. Puzzles 

We get it. The “missing piece to the puzzle”. 

3. Globes

A globe is meant to depict a “worldliness” and describe geographic availability. Can’t it be done another way? 

4. Gears

Yes. Onsharp is guilty of using gears. The major problem: in the real world, they wouldn’t actually function. 

5. Light bulbs

Representing ideas and innovation with a light bulb is a little… unimaginative. 

So maybe our additional comments to Tijs’s five “don’ts” are a little harsh, but there is one running theme throughout those five “don’ts”— Lack of originality. Your site should grab peoples’ attentions and be unique. Admit it. You’ve seen those five images on nearly every business site you’ve visited. 

Tijs suggests: Simplicity, invisible complexity, Big (text, headers, footers, call to action), arty, and the bigger picture. 

 

Onsharp’s design services can help you avoid the “don’ts” to produce a well designed and highly functioning site to enable your business to reach your 2010 goals. 

Click here to begin designing with Onsharp

Click here for Tijs’s Presentation

 

 

 

What exactly does Onsharp do? Part II

Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:08 by onsharp
 What are our services and what do they mean?
The World Wide Web is huge; ginormous- if you will, so we’ve narrowed down to six core services.  These are the areas where, basically, we think we are really pretty good! Here are a few quick definitions of what we do.  Each listing links to its respective page, so check them out if you want to learn more. 
 
Web Strategy – In its simplest terms, web strategy is what we do in order to make sure your business is acting most strategically when it comes to the web.  How you implement your strategy can make a world of difference, and our understanding of the web and web strategy coupled with our passion to help businesses succeed create an overall strong, powerful service.

Web Development – We are committed to coming up with real, lasting solutions for businesses, not simply small answers that merely suffice for the time being.  This is where Web Development comes into play. We want our clients to be strong competitors in today’s world, so we work hard to help develop specific and custom web technologies in order to do this.

Web Design – The 3 core principles of Onsharp’s design philosophy are: Less is more, content is king, and outcomes determine success.  We use these philosophies to ensure our designs are sending a powerful message in a voice our clients want.  Not only do we care about the look and feel, as well as usability of the site, but we take into account a client’s entire marketing strategy when designing a website so we can make sure the design will help reach their business objectives and get results.


Web Marketing – Through our web marketing services, we make sure your business is reaching its full marketing potential on the web.  These online campaigns can sometimes be tricky and time consuming, so we manage them for you, whether it is tracking results or writing the actual ads word for word ourselves.

Web Optimization – Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a means of generating more interest and traffic for your website.  Through enhancing your current site (with methods such as keyword building, metatags, and more) we help you show up in the results of Search Engines (such as Google, Bing, etc.) and in turn help you get the interest you want for your website.  


Web Hosting—We offer reliable web hosting so that businesses don’t have to worry about the security or reliability of their web host.  Equipped with enhanced Spam filtering, we make sure our web hosting clients can have a peace of mind knowing we are doing all we can to filter and block Spam, viruses, and make your online experience the best it can be.  Our web hosting service comes with many features, so be sure to read more on the website!

Hopefully these definitions helped clear up, in a few minutes’ time, what it is we really do.  If you want to learn more or have any questions, visit the respective pages, leave us a comment, or call us toll-free at 1.866.ONSHARP.

Next week, we will cover what really sets us apart from other businesses out there like us: Our 3D Process.  We hope you’re looking forward to reading, because we’re looking forward to sharing!

 

 

 
 

 

 
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