Things To Think About As You Prepare For Your Site
Obviously, the purpose of having a website design is to attract people to your product or service. More and more people are relying on the internet for instant information on companies and what they have to offer. That is why more and more businesses are appearing on the 'net' each day. You may have noticed that many companies are showing their web addresses on their television commercials. This is because they know that they can get a lot more information to the public via this visual media. For instance, if you have a catalog it can be included on your web site. If it is a price list the same thing. Ordering can be done over the web. Pictures of the product can be shown. The possibilities are literally limitless.

Ideas For Site Design
As mentioned above, a site doesn't need to be too busy, i.e., tons of graphics. Graphics are what is contributing to the slowing down of the whole internet. A web page with too many large graphics will load slowly. People surfing the Web are typically impatient. Many are also paying for their web access by the minute or they only get so many hours per month. These are just a few things to keep in mind when designing a web site.

One of the first things on your home page should always be an index of what the rest of the site has to offer. Keeping the home page uncluttered and focused on the purpose for your site, will keep people coming back. It will also, quickly, point them to exactly where they want to go.

Along these lines, regular page maintenance is essential . Updating your pages needs to be done often. Most people will only visit your site if it is current. If you are selling some product, it would be a good idea to list weekly or at least monthly closeout specials or deals your company is promoting. There are many, many sites that have not updated their pages for months and even years! What would be a reason for going back? Does anyone like reading a 2 day old newspaper? You may not have to update every 2 days, but you get the idea. Of course, this is part of our service. We update at regular intervals consistent with your business. (There is an extra charge for this kind of maintenance)

Use links to secondary pages to provide the main content of the web site. The home page is used to describe your organization and also act as an index to the entire web site. Or we could create a page devoted to just acquaint the visitor with your organization, like maybe an "About Us" page. Also, a "What's New" page to give revisitors easier access to changes and improvements.

These are just a few simple ideas in designing your web pages. Of course, we will get together by phone and/or e-mail and create pages that you will be proud of, that look great, yet are functional. This should increase your exposure and your profits!

Interactive Flash

Strengthen your message with media that gets your target audience involved in the action. Combining the visual intensity of Multi-Media Flash design with the innovative programming of user-engaging Action Scripts, we are creating the most powerful tool available.

Banners

Increase sales with a Banner! Whether you're building an online commerce or looking to enhance what you're already doing on the web, Pop-Up technologies turbo charges sales by selling content affiliates in small, relevant "stores." And Johan's Graphics will strictically design your pop-up store in high concept design that ideally fits your brand identity.

Pop Up Technology
Increases the effectiveness of your sales by letting the customers shop without leaving the content environments they choose. Instead of just intercepting traffic from content sites, bring the sale home with just a few clicks.

Capture Your Audience with an EYE CATCHING Flash Banner!

To make your site more interesting, you can also provide other information closely related to your business, linked perhaps to other sites. This adds a lot of spice to your site. Your site should not be overly busy. It should be well organized, simple, yet attractive.Involves a lot more than creating an attractive looking advertisement. The Internet is an electronic medium and text and images need to be specially prepared for web-publishing. Here are some of the ways we make you look good :

LOOKING GOOD...ALL-WAYS
Netizens will access your site using a variety of platforms and browser configurations. Data and images sometimes get jumbled or lost when accessed by hardware/software that is not able to display them properly. Before publishing your pages, we test them using the popular configurations, so that most viewers will see them the way you want them to.

SPEED
"Time", as they say in the Crystal Maze, "is the enemy". If your page takes too long to load, the average netizen will abandon it and skip to the next site. There are ways (besides being hosted on a fast server!) to make your pages load faster ... and we know them.

NAVIGATION
We help you structure the information on your site so that people will find what you have to offer without getting lost or frustrated.

TRICKS & TREATS
We can create games and advertising gimmicks which will keep netizens coming back to your site.

BUSINESS-WISE
Depending on the type of Rapidsite plan you opt for, we can set up these features for you :
1. E-mail accounts make business communication efficient and cost-effective.
2. Auto-responders send out automatic replies to customers queries.
3. The cgi-bin allows you to put up a form and collect information or orders.

the chat feature allows you to chat on-line, in real time, with personal or business contacts anywhere in the world. This feature is useful for clarifying orders etc.

AESTHETIC APPEAL
We can achieve the image you want to create by the skillful use of page layout, graphic design, illustration and animation. If you chose, we can enhance your site with Real Audio and Real Video.

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
The Internet has no boundaries, but netizens do follow certain unspoken conventions in creating content for web sites. We would be happy to put our experience at your service to create a site with universal appeal.