Lowering Web Design Prices
If a business decide to outsource its website designing needs, it would usually contract the website out to a professional design company. These companies can charge as low as hundred dollars and go upwards of hundred thousand dollars. It all depends on who the firm is and what type of requirements the business has for their website. When picking a web design firm, a business often gets what they paid for. That means a hundred dollar website may not be as impressive as a business with a hundred thousand dollar website. But this doesn't necessarily always hold true. There are many starving designers who can create impressive looking websites at low web design prices. There are also many web design firms out there who design websites at high web design prices that aren't worth a dime.
Website creation requires the skills of both a web designer and a web developer. Web designers focus on the actual look and feel of the web site. They create the text and graphics that make up a web page, and work with web developers who take the graphics that the designer makes and then generate the website with the necessary scripting or programming. However, developing the web site is just the first step. Maintaining the site can be an ongoing work requiring just as much or more skill and time. In fact, website maintenance is as important as your original web site plan. Therefore, web design prices that anticipate the need to modify and update content to improve performance are desirable.
Businesses realize that bad interface means lost revenue, and hence want to keep their website's content up-to-date, interesting and in web-suitable style. The most effective web sites are those that change and are updated at least weekly or even daily. For instance, prices of products or services may change rapidly, or new products are introduced, while those from inventory that do not sell well are discontinued. Additionally, newer technologies may be introduced to make the web site more alluring or just faster to navigate. Since web sites need constant upgrades, more work is assured for developers/designers, whilst the web design prices keep escalating. But if the design firm provides the tools necessary to update the website, it may be possible to maintain the website in-house, thereby lowering web design prices.
Delicious Bookmarks
SEOmoz | The History of SEOmoz (1981-2010) + Open Q&A
Mixergy's Andrew Warner interviewed me about the founding of SEOmoz and our trajectory to date. It was a very personal interview about the background of the company, but turned out to be a great experience. I've posted it below for those who might want to watch over the weekend and if you prefer, there's also a full text transcript on the Mixergy blog post.
The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page.
How to Customize YouTube Embedded Player - Hacks, Tricks & Tips
I won’t spend time in this post debating whether you should or should not use YouTube to host videos for your website. Clearly there are some advantages as well as disadvantages for posting video vs. hosting video. If you are going to use YouTube to host videos for your site, at the least, you should know some ways in which you can customize YouTube’s embedded player to your liking.
Google Organic SEO Click Through Rates
Ever since the famous AOL data leak of 2006 people have been endlessly quoting the same old figures when asked for amount of clicks a particular ranking gets. Recently the data has become a lot more accurate thanks to the release of click data in Google Webmaster Tools and a new study by the Chitika ad network.
Link Bait Case Study: How We Got a Link from The New York Times
Recently at WordStream, we launched our first link bait campaign. By our standards, the campaign was successful, and we thought we'd share the details. In a nutshell, we attribute the campaign's success to setting clear objectives, creating killer content and aggressive marketing. What resulted from our hard work, planning and execution was a link from one of the most trusted sources on the planet: The New York Times. How did we do it? Read this post and find out.
Delicious