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5 Tips for Improving Your Website

  1.  Visit the sites of other companies to find out what you like and dislike. Do some sites seem to “work” while others don’t?

   2.  Decide what objectives you want your site to meet. Do you want it to be fun, funny, educational, “cool,” or all of those things?

   3.  Consider your corporate culture and your company image. Your site should support both.

   4.  Design or re-design the site to meet your objectives. Unless you have a real expert on staff, hire a consulting firm to do the job.

   5.  Get feedback. Ask customers how your site can be made more useful to them, and keep making improvements

5 Tips for Domain Naming

1. Create an online identity. Get a web domain now, even if you aren't building your site until later.

2. Pick three domain names that fit your business. Your first choice may be taken, so have a few domain name ideas. If your top three picks are available, consider getting all three. It's not too expensive and then you have flexibility to create a site for a special promotion or use a special landing page for an event.

3. Check out domain name vendors. You can register your domain with your choice of vendor. Here are some well-known, domain name registrars:

Concentric, www.concentric.com
Network Solutions, www.networksolutions.com
Yahoo Domains, www.yahoo.com
GoDaddy, www.godaddy.com
Domaindirect.com, www.domaindirect.com

4. Keep your renewal current. Don't forget to renew your domain name. Businesses have been known to let a name expire and then find that their Web site has disappeared from the Internet. Don't let that be you.

5. Once you have a domain, name your URL mycompany.com, place your URL on every marketing and business document that you produce. Let your company be known.

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  Learn the Latest at our Website Workshops 

Presenter Iain Lopata 

Taking Your Business Online - Build and Improve Your Website 
January 28, 2010

This internet workshop is designed for business owners looking to venture out onto the world wide web.  Whether you have a product or service that you would like to sell, an interest in building your business website or creating an online business, this session will introduce you to the key concepts and concerns faced by small business owners as they take their business online. 
 

Designing Your Website for Success(co-presented with Becky Davis) 
February 25, 2010

This website design workshop is geared toward business owners who are either getting started with their first website or have an existing website that they would like to improve.  During this workshop, we will walk participants through the standard graphic design process for a website and show them how to make design decisions themselves or find and work with a graphic design professional to take their website to the next level of quality and customer satisfaction.

See also internet marketing workshop
Drawing Web Traffic
March 5, 2010

Counseling on Websites

Talk to a Free Volunteer Counselor like charlene Gervais  about Your Website Issues

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