So you have started your own business, and even have a company website. Now you might be wondering how to drive traffic to your site. You need to first advertise your company, and secondly get people interested in your website, products, and services. There are a few particularly popular ways to do this, but one of the best ways to do so is to feature SEO articles about your business, both on your website and on other sites. If you have never heard of article marketing, you are probably wondering what it is and how it could help your company. Furthermore, you might not know what SEO is,

As an Arizona business owner or freelancer, you probably know the importance of a good design for a website, and you may think you have found an effective web design for your site. But is that outstanding web design really unique, or is it a template that dozens of other sites also display? There are few things as unprofessional as having the same website as some other business out there, and this blog will explain why.

If you are an artist, photographer, author, or interior decorator, do you tell potential clients that they should select your business because it is exactly the same as

I came across a great blog post by colorlovers.com

Some of the best color palettes can be found in nature. A great example of this can be seen in butterflies: they have vivid colors either to trick their prey into thinking they are poisonous or to camouflage into their surroundings.

Sites designed with poor color choice can instantly ward off visitors faster than a can of raid on an ant hill. However, in just a few minutes and some inspiration, such as these gorgeous butterflies, we can quickly find some amazing color schemes. Now you are on the road to effective web design. Effective web

There are a lot of websites that I visit while looking for inspiration or just when casually perusing the web that are like nails on a chalkboard for my visual cortex. So I decided to compile a list of things to consider when developing your own design or when thinking about how an effective web designer could create your website.

• What does that say?
  • Make sure you choose correct contrasting colors; green and red, despite being great Christmas colors, are poor friends when it comes to font relationships. Throw the gray background with red text out the window unless you want to give your Uncle

The last topic in this ongoing discussion of effective web design will discuss how much patience the typical user has on your website, and why to have an effective web design you must make sure that you optimize your website with speed in mind.

Speed

One of the top complaints of internet users deals with the speed at which a website is being displayed. The faster your website displays, the faster your users will be able to get to the content they need. Even with today’s affordable high speed internet connection there are still a large number of users who rely on dial up connections or low

Continuing with our discussion on functionality and design, I am going to bring up the next main topic of this blog: Navigation.

Navigation:

Navigation is the key ingredient in allowing people to get the content they want at a rate that they are accustomed to.

The Navigation area is often the first to be tinkered with when developing an artistic or unique design for a site. However, it is also the most fragile of categories…stray too far from the simple and straightforward and you will have a website that no one will want to navigate or even visit again.

Flash banners/headers are a great way to

Before I begin, let me introduce myself. My name is Travis Simpson, co-owner and lead designer here at Arizona-based Webflo Studios. I graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Digital Art. While I was going to school I learned a lot about design, but outside of school in the “real world” I learned a lot about marketing.

Unique web designers and web designs may not be as common as your typical layout, but there are a good number of them present on the web today. However, the issue with many of these websites is the inability to mix functionality with an attention-grabbing