Why Great Website Content Matters
What is it that keeps visitors engaged and interested in your website? The beautiful design? Easy navigation? While these components certainly make a good first impression, it’s content that makes a lasting impression. But not just any old content. We’re talking about truly great, high-quality content. What is Great Content? ...
7 Reasons to Redesign Your Website
Your website is the heart of your digital marketing campaign. Your 24/7 salesperson. Your key player in lead generation. It’s important to understand the critical role your website plays in your customer acquisition efforts and the impact it has on sales and revenue. To be effective, your website should say ...
Help! My WordPress Website Looks Different!
Every time a new version of WordPress rolls out, there’s always buzz surrounding the new, cutting-edge features and functionalities. However, few versions have garnered as much buzz as WordPress 5.0 with its new block-based editor—otherwise known as the reason everything looks different when adding and editing your website’s content. Since ...
What is Local SEO and Why Do I Need It?
How many times have you added the phrase “near me” to a Google search? Nowadays, searches made using voice-enabled gurus, such as Alexa and Siri, are becoming increasingly commonplace, while mobile searches for local services continue to rise and influence local sales. So if you haven't optimized your business for ...
Why Net Designs Uses WordPress
In the world of website design, there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes. And at Net Designs, a lot of that behind-the-scenes work is done using WordPress. What is WordPress? WordPress is a content management system (CMS). It’s the software that facilitates creating, editing, organizing, and publishing content ...
5 Questions to Ask Your Designer When Your Website is Complete
Congratulations! Your shiny new website is complete! Your online presence is up and running and you’re gearing up to field a ton of new leads, enjoy better and more efficient communications with customers, and reap all the other benefits of having a beautifully designed and highly functional website. But even ...
Reminder: It’s Time to Update Your Website!
Your website is the center of your brand identity, marketing, sales, and customer relations. Thus, it’s incredibly important to keep your website properly maintained and updated so it runs like the well-oiled machine you need it to be. At Net Designs, we know you don’t need one more thing to ...
What a Professional Email Can Do for Your Small Business
Email—the workhorse of modern communication—has completely transformed the way small businesses operate. As a small business owner, a substantial part of your communication with clients will be done via email. When getting your business up and running, it can be tempting to try and save a little money by using ...
Domain Name Ownership Tips
The first question you should ask a website designer: Will I be the owner of my domain name? Registering a domain name is the very first step to getting your website up and running. But this isn't something you have to figure out on your own—your website designer can help! Domain ...
Is Your Website Ready For 2019?
When it comes to websites, a lot can change in a year. As technology continues to evolve and advance with reckless abandon, your website could be left in the wake of its wreckage if its not keeping up with the latest trends. But there’s a big difference between a trend ...
Why Your Business Needs a Domain Name
Nothing beats the thrill and excitement of starting your own business. You get to be your own boss, have more freedom and flexibility, and you get to shape and flesh out your dreams on the daily. Then there’s the satisfaction of saying you’re a business owner. Being able step back and ...
7 Trust Signals Your Website Must Send
Have you ever been on a website that immediately made you wonder, “Is this site legit?” With no lack of Internet privacy scandals, data breaches, and cyber security disasters plaguing headlines, everyone from regular online shoppers to casual surfers are more than a little skittish when it comes to online ...
6 Tips for a Higher Google Ranking
Every business owner dreams of their website ranking number one on Google. The reasons are obvious: summiting the mountain of Google’s search results page would mean more visibility, increased traffic to your website, and the potential for sales to catapult your business ahead of the competition. Unfortunately, achieving a high ranking doesn’t ...
How to Create Content Google Will Love
In the website design industry, one question we often hear is, “How do I get my website on the first page of Google?” Google has many criteria that must be met to grab and keep that top spot. This article focuses on the "content" aspect of google's expectations. We will ...
6 Services You May Not Know
Net Designs Offers
At Net Designs, we do more than design websites. We go above and beyond to bring more to the table than just the basics to meet the needs of your business. Many don’t realize that we offer a number of services to position your website, and your business as a ...
5 Tips for a Successful Ecommerce Website
Ecommerce growth is off the charts and is expected to continue to grow at lightning speed as more brands embrace the digital retail landscape. It may be daunting trying to break into the ecommerce sector when it seems like Amazon has total dominion over the industry. But the truth is that ...
Are You Feeding Your Website?
At Net Designs, we understand that your business is a living, breathing thing that you’ve worked incredibly hard to keep alive. You’ve had to deal with change and adapted to survive. Which at one point probably meant hiring a professional website designer to feed your business with a beautiful, high-functioning website ...
The Story Behind Net Designs
As a website design company, a big part of our job involves getting the opportunity to hear our client’s stories. It’s absolutely essential to have the full picture to build a website and the best way to capture it is by listening to the client speak passionately about their business ...
The Power of Visual Content
Seven seconds. That’s how much time the average person can focus on a website before their attention is hungrily snapped up by the millions of other distractions vying for their concentration. So, what does your business website have that’s gripping enough to grab hold of your visitors attention and hang ...
Website Content Checklist for Small Businesses
Content is one the most crucial ingredients that shape the recipe for an outstanding small business website. When your visitors come to your website, they need to be given a compilation of content that inspires a connection with your small business and also provides answers and solutions to their problems ...
6 Tips to Keep Your Website Hot During Winter
The warm glow of the holiday season has dimmed and now been replaced by the inevitable and uninvited lull in business that sweeps in every year along with Southwest Michigan’s permacloud. However, the lack of busyness that looms between the drop of the New Year’s Eve ball (and dropping the ...
5 Reasons to Hire a Professional to Write Your Blog
It’s no secret that incorporating a business blog into your website is one of the best ways to connect with customers and potential clients. Once you’ve come to terms with the seemingly unlimited potential and influence your future blog holds and you've decided it’s time to enter into the blogosphere, ...
5 Steps to a Successful Website Launch
Congratulations! You've officially said goodbye to that outdated (or nonexistent) website your business was trying to stand on. Now it’s time for the big reveal of your shiny new website. How do you make the most of this momentous occasion? The process of launching a new website is, for ...
12 Questions to Ask Your Website Designer Before the Project Begins
Whether you’re still searching or you’ve honed in on a website designer to build a website for your business, you’ve probably figured out that the process can get confusing fast. Designers may talk about design technology or methodology that goes right over your head or present you with an overwhelming ...
Why Your Website Needs an SSL Certificate
Have you ever wondered why some website URLs begin with “http” and others with “https”? You’ve been just dying to know, right?! OK, just stay with us here… That little old “s” stands for “secure,” and it indicates that the website you’re browsing is using an encrypted connection that keeps ...
It’s Time to Evaluate Your Website Content
You've probably heard the phrase “content is king” once or twice since you’ve launched your website. At the very least you’ve picked up on the simple truth that content is the reason why people visit your humble online abode and share it with others. Basically, when it comes to a ...
Regularly Scheduled Maintenance?
You did everything right. You hired a professional website designer, filled your webpages with killer content, and set-up a business blog. You even waded into the seemingly impenetrable land of SEO. But now—out of nowhere—the gold star you earned for all your hard work is starting to lose its luster ...
Exclusive Behind the Scenes Look at Net Designs!
A lot goes on behind the scenes here at Net Designs—where we work hard so you don’t have to! We have thoughtfully established our path to success by developing strong relationships with our clients by cultivating a flexible business philosophy and constantly mastering the tools of our trade. Now, we’re ...
5 Biggest Mistakes of DIY Websites
DIY website builders now occupy a not-so-small corner of the Internet, proclaiming their easy to use services that extraordinarily require no coding experience or tech skills whatsoever. The allure of DIY websites have many business owners trying their hand at building their own websites to save money. But the truth ...
Why Your Business Website Needs a Blog
In today’s world, consumerism has evolved and settled in a place where people are becoming more conscious about what companies they give their business to. Before shelling out their money, consumers need to be sold not only on your products and services, but on your business as a whole. Customers ...
15 “Must-Haves” For Your Website
There is no clear-cut way to go about creating a website. Nor is there a secret handbook that details how to piece together all the personalized elements of a well-rounded website in a way that is exclusive to your company. The only known definite is that a prosperous website pulls ...
Ugly Website? We Can Fix That!
If you’ve spent any time perusing the World Wide Web lately, it’s obvious that this revolutionary tool has transcended boundaries, become a lot more useful, and made life a lot easier. Yet another detail that is hard to overlook is the fact that websites have gotten a LOT better looking ...
What’s the Big Deal About Mobile First?
Mobile devices and smartphones have advanced far beyond their originally intended communication purposes and continue to blaze down a path paved with unlimited potential. Mobile devices are less of a voluntary supplement to daily routines and are now more of a permanent appendage. But more importantly, they are the device ...
Early Risers BNI Website Unveiling
Net Designs created a website for the Early Risers BNI group that meets in the Stevensville/St. Joseph, Michigan area. The group is made up of 21 local businesses which support each other's growth through "word-of-mouth" advertising and referrals. Joe Daniel dove into this project with gusto and created the following video ...
How to Attract More Visitors to Your Website
As a business owner or entrepreneur, it’s easy to feel like the deck is stacked against you when it comes to staking your claim in the digital world. Unlike massive corporate competitors, an extravagant marketing budget and an army of tech savvy millennials hashtagging up a storm about your business ...
Net Designs Participates in MailMax Saluting Women In Business
Net Designs Salutes Women in Business Net Designs participates in the MailMax Saluting Women in Business February 18, 2017 issue. By focusing on client needs, we create website strategies that work. We are here to serve local business women by creating websites that truly represent their character, spirit, and ingenuity ...
5 Signs Your Website Needs Work
Accelerating at full speed into unknown territory, technology continues to push boundaries and surpass unfathomable limits. Driving right alongside, marketing strategies and business practices are similarly revolutionizing to keep pace with the times. Many of these advancements have undeniably eased a few burdens, but becoming complacent and falling asleep at the ...
What Is Responsive Design and Why Does My Site Need It?
Take a moment to consider what device are you reading this on. Is it your work laptop? Home desktop? Maybe you’re thumbing through this page smartphone in hand? If you are reading from a smartphone or mobile device, you probably noticed that you didn’t have to endure the painful, tedious ...
Why Do I Need a Website Designer?
As the world rapidly journeys further into the digital age, having an outstanding website is no longer optional, but vital for business, marketing, and communication. Free website builders now occupy a not-so-small corner of the Internet, proclaiming their easy to use services that extraordinarily require no coding experience or tech ...
Moody on the Market Article features Net Designs
Any Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce member who might be struggling to succeed picked up a free, but world class round of advice from a world renowned audiologist who just happens to be a hometown super star who continues to anchor her business right here in Michigan’s Great Southwest. They would ...
Net Designs – Voted Business of the Year
At the Annual Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce dinner held at the Tabor Hill Restaurant on January 23, 2017, Wendy Bedell of Net Designs was awarded "Business of the Year" and Representative Al Pscholka was awarded "Community Spirit of the Year." Keynote speaker Dr. Gyl Kasewurm of Professional Hearing Services educated the ...