August 31, 2010

Top 5 Reasons for Redesigning a website.

We hear ” I need my web site redesigned” quite a bit these days. While there are many reasons here are our top picks.

I need my website to look more professional.
Looks are everything and online you have just a few seconds to make that all important first impression. A well designed fast loading web site can do wonders to encapsulate your expertise and reach and engage your target audience.
We need our content reorganized.
If your site visitors are having click through page after page to get to the information they want, you are making then work too hard. A web site with intuitive navigation and well organized content = “a don’t make me think visitor”
My web site is not doing what I want it to do.
Whether you want your site to act as a lead generation tool, a portal of information, or a selling platform, it is important to guide or funnel the site visitors exactly where you want them to go via “call to actions”
I need to add some additional functionality
Want to add a blog, additional pages, links to your social media networks? A well thought out web site will always be able to accommodate additional functionality without a complete redesign but sometimes there comes a point when a redesign is the best options.
I want my site to perform better in the search engines.
The structure and design of a web site bears a huge relation on how well a site performs in the search engines and a skilled web designer will know how to optimize all elements that make up a web site, for best search engine results.

Now lets take a look at these in action with three before and after web redesign projects.

Peter Meder and Company

We addressed all 5 reasons in the redesign of a web site for Chicago headhunter, Peter Meder and Company. The new site has a much more professional look/feel and immediately imparts the nature of the business. Visitors have easy access to the current position searches which is a huge time saver for both client and job hunter.

Bear Essentials

Content reorganization was the main driver behind our redesign of the Bear Essentials web site. We produced a much more appealing user friendly site with clear call to actions.

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