Tuesday 28 June 2011

Corporate website design

A corporate website can serve many purposes, so before designing one we must make up our mind. It can be an official one for viewer awareness or it can have intrinsic business interests linked, or it can be amalgamation of both. E-commerce sites have exploded business opportunities for companies. A localized company can now reach to an international customer without any strong infrastructure and do business with that person. So the visible customer base of a net based company is many times more than an ordinary one and care should be taken to maintain this advantage. So internet is conventional marketing with easy operation and multiplied benefits. Well heeled customers of a good brand can shift to a smaller company simply if the latter have an option of conducting their business over the net and so saves a lot of time and labor of the customer.

The basics of corporate web design remain same. A fast loading page even for a dial up connection, smart, columned, clear content, easy navigation through the site, sidebar for thorough information are some of them. It is to be remembered always that with increased viewers both the revenue and the competition grows manifold, so all actions should encounter that. While designing a site corporate logo or slogan or such if is there, should be brought into prominence on the front page in the top part to help the customer identify with the site. Front page should have small, clear text to describe the company and businesses that it has. Navigation to other parts of the site has to be smooth and the business area of the site should be easiest to operate as  confusion there will cost you revenue. Payment options should be broad to cover as many customer options as possible. Product display or briefings are the only portions where elaborations are necessary to avoid confusion. Details about modes of delivery have to be given for choice. A prominent section for feedback is a must. Listening to your customer is the way to upgrade your product.

Picture of products is another factor to attend to as it shows the customer product packaging, different stock keeping units for utility, and their appearance. It is necessary for some customers to see the product before buying, pictures do that. A few pages or a section can be segregated for products only, with a link in the sidebar.

With internet explosion websites are an unique growth engines for corporates so take care to grow them.


Walton Street Web Design is a Chicago web design company with years of professional expertise and experience in designing corporate websites.

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Designing flash games


Designing flash games for your clients’ website is always a challenging job! Interactive flash games can enhance huge visits to any games website. Designing flash games need highly expertise, professionalism with top quality technical skills. 

While design any flash game for your clients’ website a designer should keep in mind the below issues:
1.       Try to make the game that needs intelligence. Do not make it critical also so that who plays will lose interest! Make it such way that people could find it interesting and that interest will induce him/her to come back to the site again to play the game. This way the website could increase its popularity and credibility as well.

2.       Make the game unique with using proper flash action scripts. Try to make something different that visitors could rarely get in other places. This way you can tell people about your technical expertise and improve your clients’ websites visits at a time!

3.       Ensure that visitors can share your flash designed game to their friends or known circle.  This will make the site and your designed game quite popular and dramatically improve the flow of traffic to your website. Hence adding social bookmarking and networking buttons to them is very necessary.

4.       Check out the technical areas thoroughly. Do not make it such way that users could experience it bad from any angle! Check properly whether it has browsers compatibility and works well in all environments.

Walton Street Web Design, a Chicago web design company has experienced Chicago web designer team with years of expertise and experience in designing flash games.  

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Designing a professional looking banner


It’s useless to say more about the importance of banner for successful online campaign! Banners really can do wonders for your online business if the way of presentation is attractive with professional touch! You need to be very careful for some important factors that can enhance visitors’ attention and induce to click the banner.
A professional looking banner can definitely looks catchy and grab visitors attention. But how can you make such an interesting banner?

1.       Look after your banner size: Try to maintain a standard size of your banner. Unnecessarily making a large banner can lose its importance. Try to make it such way that it does not seem odd with a bold heading with simple but attractive design.

2.       Font: Another important factor that improves your banner look! Do not use very large font size. Check what can be the best font and appropriate size that look great from a standard distance. Accordingly select the font that helps visitors to understand well the heading and other promotional texts.  

3.       Color combination: Should be impressive with a soothing effect that matches with the website. It should not look like that someone forcefully added that banner to the website that’s looking totally odd!  

4.       Animation: An animated banner attracts more visitors so it’s always better to use animated banner instead of using a simple looking banner with normal graphics.  

5.       Selection of proper words: Your banner design is mainly for attracting visitors. So there must be some words that can give your banner a unique and appealing look!

Walton Street Web Design is a reputed Chicago web design company that can provide highly quality professional looking banner for getting potential customers to your website!

Friday 3 June 2011

Social networking website design in Chicago


Designing a social networking site is not so easy task. Especially if you don’t have much experience in designing such websites where you might need to take challenges in any moment. There are many professional Chicago web design company available that can offer you designing social networking sites at affordable price! But here you need to be very selective before going to hire anyone for you! First thing is social networking site design as I stated earlier is not an easy to do job for all web designer. It needs skills and experience with proper understanding of clients’ needs what he wants actually. So it’s better to go for any reputed web design company in Chicago for hiring an experienced professional instead hiring a freelancer!

You’ll find lots of social networking sites but only few among them are popular and people use them for communicating with friends, relatives, colleagues. Over there they share their thoughts, views and ideas with each others. Social networking sites like Facebook, linkedIn etc. are quite popular and people use them for business also. Now the question is why designing a social networking site does not always show profit? What are the mistakes designers and developers do that really make the thing difficult and visitors started avoiding the site? 

Delay in downloading the site- It’s really bad for any social networking site to take much time in downloading. It’s quite common to understand that if visitors need to wait long for getting your entire page ready for their use, they’ll hardly come to your site. You’ll lose your reputation and credibility! A professional Chicago web designer always designs any social networking site that quickly loads on users’ browser! The entire website design, coding, images etc. should be used properly and faultlessly so that there should not be any delay in downloading the site. 

Failure in implementing useful idea- This is your site so you should be very much clear about the requirement of your site. You must be very specific about the visitors for your site…the type of visitors, niche area etc. Accordingly you must talk to your Chicago web designer and tell him your needs. If there would be any problem in proper interaction with designer then naturally he’ll be unable to implement the proper ideas and naturally you’ll fail to get good traffic to your site! 

Lack of a catchy and professional look- Remember visitors first impression is the main. That greatly depends upon designers’ skills and experience! If your social networking site does not have a catchy and professional look, if seems that a novice has designed it then hardly you would get good visits to your site. Most of the Chicago web design companies have quality web designers who know designing a social networking site in professional way.