First of all, what is the action goal for your website? What is it that you want viewers to do as a result of visiting your website? If you have no particular goal in mind, then it matters not what you design. See: 13 golden rules for designing website. Design with behavior research in mind. See: 4… Continue reading 5 steps to designing a church website
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4 insights from web user behavior research
Design your web based on user behavior research to design well. Your target audience may not be like you. Users are impatient and desire instant gratification. Users scan. Design with scannable layout (headings, categories, bullet lists, images, etc.) that fits eye sight trail. Users expend enough effort to satisfice. Design for minimal information and layout… Continue reading 4 insights from web user behavior research
13 golden rules for website designing
What is the action goal you desire from users visiting your web site? You have 10 seconds or less to make a good first impression. Answer user questions quickly and intuitively. Krug’s first law of usability, the web-page should be obvious and self-explanatory. Who are you serving? Be user-centric. Target-audience behavior dictates design. What do they… Continue reading 13 golden rules for website designing
From information to action
Websites for information are valuable. They inform folks about life and death issues as well as not so drastic issues. But websites for information are not designed to get a response from visitors viewing their sites. And more than likely, such websites have no strategy to drive traffic to their sites. So, they float, largely… Continue reading From information to action
3 Steps to Driving Traffic From Social Media
Just finished reading Neil Patel’s excellent article: Stop Guessing: Here’s a Social Media Strategy That Works. Below are my take away thoughts. Understanding your Traffic Use Alexa and Google Adwords to study traffic demographics of popular sites that offer what you do. Questions to answer about your traffic (Design a survey): Why do they want… Continue reading 3 Steps to Driving Traffic From Social Media
3 Steps to Designing a Compelling Sales Page
The goal is to compel the viewer to buy something. The design should be simple, elegant, and fluid. The text is focused on one goal: to buy something. The sales page is the first page visitors see when they click on your ad link or banner. They are not sent to the home page first. Why?… Continue reading 3 Steps to Designing a Compelling Sales Page
7 Step Strategy for a Compelling Sales Page
1. Compelling Target What is your best and main Unique Selling Proposition (USP)? This will target your viewers. All other offers for viewers are subset and supportive. Identify the target audience that is best matched to your USP. 2. Compelling Narrative Identify the pain points. What are client’s greatest struggles, biggest problems and worries.… Continue reading 7 Step Strategy for a Compelling Sales Page
Your new web site on Brineyweb.com
Open your Domain registrar account (where you purchased your domain name), select your domain name link, and then select ‘domain name setup’ or ‘Transfer to another hosting DNS server’. Specify custom DNS servers by entering the domain name server(s) information into the proper field boxes (This is sent via email when your account is created by brineyweb).… Continue reading Your new web site on Brineyweb.com
Email setup for your website
Open your webhost server account, and select email account link. Create an email name and password. The Primary email address, using cpanel login username, is for spillover email not for daily use. Suggestion: Though many email accounts can be created, only one is necessary to receive all emails. Suggestion: Additional email addresses desired should be… Continue reading Email setup for your website
Install WordPress on Hostgator
Open your web host server account cPanel, and select the Quickinstall. The following is for Quickstall: Click on WordPress, choose URL to install too, then fill in URL information. Select the correct domain name, from the drop down box, to which you will install. Admin email: is the new site’s email. Blog title: new of… Continue reading Install WordPress on Hostgator