The 3 most common mistakes when choosing images for your website design

The 3 most common mistakes when choosing images

Good images make a good website, pure and simple. Think of any site that you like, and I guarantee there’s an eye-catching photo or illustration that caught your attention. There are some basic principles that I follow when designing a website, such as that people respond to colour, faces and movement. My best websites combine all three, with the result that visitors spend longer on the site and are more likely to contact the owner. However despite these simple rules of website design, the majority of sites, especially corporate ones, continue to break them. Here are the 3 main errors…

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Is your website on life support?

Overlooking the long term survival of a website is fatal, but incredibly common. It’s true that designing, building and writing a new website can seem a daunting prospect, which is perhaps why people forget to ask the most important questions, such as: Will I be able to update the copy and add new content myself? (ie without incurring regular fees and waiting for a slot in someone else’s schedule). If I can update it, which bits can I change? You may have access to the news blog, but what about the home page or about us? How much will it…

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Website Design for Specialist Floors

New WordPress website design repays dividends for specialist flooring retailer Online retail is growing 6 times faster than high street sales and is predicted to exceed £37 billion by 2014. Customers are increasingly using the internet to research and compare goods and services in all markets, from daily groceries to luxury design. So for Colchester – based company Specialist Floors, getting the website right was critical to long term growth and success. Digital design agency, Ultimate Website Design, was brought in to create a new site that would do justice to the company’s impressive product range and prestigious brands. Managing…