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Common Web Site Mistakes

Top Small Business Website Don’ts

Based on our experience, we’ve compiled this list from internet sources, information regarding web design, and just our general experience. We thought this list applied to a lot of people and we also found this funny too…

Have your cousin create your website… Your cousin might be a great person, but unless he is a professional web designer, he is likely to create a website that is almost unusable for first time visitors.
Leave Under Construction pages… Back in 1996 it was common to have Under Construction pages on websites, but nowadays it makes a website look unprofessional.Don’t link unfinished pages to the website until it is done being constructed.
Force visitors to view a splash screen before entering your real website. Customers are looking for information not impressive graphics. If they have to wait 30 seconds to get through your introductory (splash) screen before actually viewing your content then they will leave.
Create confusing navigation… Content is very important, but the best content in the world is useless if customers can’t find it. Put your navigation, or list of links, on the top or left-hand side where people are used to finding it on most websites.
Make visitors guess what your business can do for them… If a customer comes to your website and within 20 seconds can’t figure out what you can offer them, they WILL leave. On your home page, prominently display the purpose of your business in a few sentences.
Hide your contact information… You want customers to be able to communicate easily with you. If they get frustrated trying to find a way to contact you then they will likelyleave your website and go to a competitor.
Fill your website with every piece of information you can think of… Overloading customers with information is a very common mistake. More isn’t always better. A clean,easy to read website is more desirable than one cluttered with unnecessary content.
Use Free Web Hosting… Free comes with a cost. Free Hosting adds banners and pop up ads which make your website look cluttered and unprofessional.
Have out of date content… Nothing make a website look more irrelevant then outdated information. It’s great that you had a company picnic, but the time and location for it should not be there six months later. Revisit your website often to keep it updated.
Ignore submitting your website to search engines… Even the best designed website is useless to your business unless people can find it. Submit your website to all of the major search engines, such as Google and Yahoo .
Test your website in only one browser… Unfortunately every browser interprets a website differently. Yours could look great in Safari on a Mac, but look awful in Internet Explorer on a PC.

This seems to cover the majority of topics, but there are always more. For a free analysis of your website, contact 314media today.

WordPress Development

St Louis WordPress Website Development

314media has been on the cutting edge of open source software utilizing the latest tools in personal publishing. WordPress allows you to update your website by simply using a web-based WYSWYG editor. If you have word processing skills, you can edit your website online.

St. Louis based 314media can provide you the tools you need to take control over your website and only call a web designer when you are looking for major changes or other such large projects. This can eliminate your day-to-day web designer and give that job to someone with basic word processing skills that can save your company a great deal of revenue.

Contact 314media today for a comprehensive analysis of your website and see how we can reduce costs and still allow you to have full control of your website via an online website design interface.

Customer Service

After the sale…

314meda prides ourselves on providing the best customer service in the industry. 314media is available provide customized solutions for your small business or organization to allow you to have greater freedom from website maintenance. We are also available to help with basic support after their inital “go-live”

Search Engine Marketing

Pay Per Click Online Marketing

At 314media, we provide customers with expert PPC marketing maintenance.

From campaign setup to custom ad writing and monthly analysis & maintenance, 314media works to make sure that customer accounts are utilizing their best performing ads with their highest searched keywords.

Monthly reports aren’t just printed and mailed, but they are reviewed by our staff as a benchmark to improve upon. Researching highly trafficked keywords and keyword phrases allows 314media to provide its clients with new and updated information to best search for qualified online traffic.

In addition to campaign setup and management, we also offer Search Engine Optimization to better align customer sites for organic placement in today’s competitive Search Engine marketplace. Please call for objective review and pricing.

We can also build custom landing pages to best track SEM results! Contact us to find out more about out web design services.

Fenton, MO Web Design

…we are just around the corner

From web design and development to SEO and custom web design, 314media can provide many services to our clients in the area surrounding Fenton as well as the St. Louis metro area and beyond. If you are trying to find a new web developer, if you need a website for your new business or organization, or if you need to sell a product you’ve just invented; give us a call and let us know what you are looking to do.

We can help…

314media takes great pride in our outstanding customer service and simplicity of our billing. Find out how we will eliminate your web site design headaches.

Content management, ecommerce, blogs, MySQL database functions, PHP, HTML, CSS, SEO and SEM are all services that st louis based 314media can provide to your business. Web Hosting and Domain name purchases can also be setup and billed directly from us to eliminate multiple bills from multiple vendors.

Conveniently located in Fenton Missouri, near Downtown Saint Louis, 314media will provide you with the tools that you need to deliver information effectively to your customers. We provide monthly financing and web hosting packages that will allow your business to only pay one vendor for all of your internet and web site needs.

Contact 314media today for more information about our St. Louis web design services.