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Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Voices That Matter)

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“While you’re reading Neuro Web Design, you’ll probably find yourself thinking ‘I already knew that…’ a lot. But when you’re finished, you’ll discover that your ability to create effective web sites has mysteriously improved. A brilliant idea for a book, and very nicely done.”
— Steve Krug, author of Don’t Make Me Think!
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Why do people decide to buy a product online? Register at your Web site? Trust the information you provide? Neuro Web Design applies the research on motivation, decision making, and neuroscience to the design of Web sites. You will learn the unconscious reasons for people’s actions, how emotions affect decisions, and how to apply the principles of persuasion to design Web sites that encourage users to click.

Neuro Web Design employs “neuro-marketing” concepts, which are at the intersection of psychology and user experience. It’s scientific, yet you’ll find it accessible, easy to read, and easy to understand. By applying the concepts and examples in this book, you’ll be able to dramatically increase the effectiveness and conversion rates of your own Web site.



About the Author

Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology. For the past 30 years she has been an industry leader, consultant, and expert in usability, interface, and web design. Most recently she has been reviewing the research on the psychology of persuasion and non-conscious decision-making and has been a keynote speaker on this topic at conferences and for clients. Susan is a national and international speaker for user experience and usability conferences, most recently the keynote speaker for the Internet User Experience Conference in Ann Arbor MI, and an invited speaker for the Usability Professionals Association, just held in Baltimore MD. She has hundreds of clients, mainly in the US.


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Tags: pay per click, web design
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Selling Graphic and Web Design (Paperback)

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Selling Graphic and Web Design

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Expert guidance on selling graphic design, in print and online

* New edition of a classic
* Up-to-the-minute advice on selling to Internet clients
* Get top clients and keep them

Attract today's savvy design clients! A veteran designer who turned his small business into a multimillion-dollar new-media company shares his strategies for success in this new edition of the acclaimed Selling Graphic and Web Design. Donald Sparkman's approach blurs the lines between graphic design, web design, and marketing by building strategic partnerships and thinking outside the box. No-nonsense advice for writing proposals and offering the right design solutions, plus information on providing services that fit a client's needs and budget, have made this book indispensable. Now, in this revised and expanded version, leading Internet designers share strategies on effective marketing for the web, including pricing, billing, portfolios, ethics, brand design, web content management, brand law, and much more. Trusted advice and the latest strategies combine to make Selling Graphic and Web Design a great one-stop resource for designers in every field.



About the Author

Donald Sparkman is the president of Sparkman + Associates, Inc., which has won many awards for design excellence. Sparkman has developed graphic communications for AT&T, Black and Decker, Coors, Eckerd Drugs, GE, Marriott, MCI, Mobil, NASA, and countless other top companies. He lives in Washington, D.C.


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Tags: "Web, Design, Graphic, web design
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5 Excellent Ways to Screw Up your Web Marketing Campaign

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

After years of optimizing and promoting websites our team has seen about every web promotion fumble, roadblocks, hindrances possible that can limit a webmaster from reaching their online saturation goals. The fact of the matter is that many of these problems could have been easily avoided.

We are going to review the top 5 bloopers webmasters can make when they are trying to promote their website.

Here is number 1:

Web Designers who still use frames

Absolutely amazing that this problem still exists. In the late 90's the use of "frames" became very popular in web design. You can tell if a website is using frames by viewing their source code and finding the script that looks like the following:

<frameset rows="*,1" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">

  <frame src="home.html" name="mainFrame" id="mainFrame" title="mainFrame" />

Frames are usually used to accomplish some web design goals/tricks. The most often is to include an audio file/music when you visit a website.
The problem is that frames inhibit search engines from crawling necessary content and information needed for indexing. They also limited an entire website to just one webpage which severely limits search engine saturation and internal link popularity.

When I was first introduced to this issue in early 2005 I believed that the majority of the web design community understood this mistake and would cease using frames in web development. However in the last 6 months our company received web marketing requests from three different websites using frames. It turns out that some amateur web designers are still using frames/framesets to acheive aesthetically pleasing designs but are clueless of the consequences.

To save some time, headache and money make sure to communicate with your web designer about how SEO Friendly your current (or future) website is. If you have your doubts make sure to look through their source code for the word "frames" or contact us at info@seoprodigy.com to take a look at the website.

While frames are not the only web design structure problem you can have when promoting a site....they are certainly one of the biggest.

And yes, we have a full web design team that can make SEO friendly websites 100% frame free.

In the next post I will blooper number #2: Not 301 redirectly to your new URL.

Tags: Internet Marketing, Online Marketing, SEO, web design, Web Marketing, website frames
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