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Web Design & Website Development


Boston Web Design and E-Marketing Web design is the process of creating a user experience and is made up of the look and feel, the user interface and information architecture.

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Here are rules we follow when designing websites:

  • Meet with the client to understand exactly what is desired and needed to gain the most from all current web design and marketing techniques
  • Learn as much about the client's future site visitors and customers and design for them
  • The look & feel should represent the company's attitude, business persona, and messaging
  • Navigation should be easily learned and remain consistent
  • Limit big images or large file streaming media to decrease page download times
  • Bells and whistles should be kept to a minimum
  • Test, test, test
  • Get the company's message across easily and succinctly
  • Design the site to facilitate e-marketing
  • Make the pages search engine friendly
Look & Feel
(appearance)
User Interface
(usability)
Information Architecture
(organization)

Color schemes
Font styles & sizes
Font colors
Graphics
Page layouts

Links
Forms
Search capabilities

Site navigation
Content organization
Site maps

Web design is made up of the look and feel, the user interface and information architecture.

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About Web Design

The most important facet of Web design is the user. The design of a website or Web service should be driven by the user’s needs. One cannot practice Web design without being affected by the expectations of future users. A business’s website exists to communicate and help the user, the existing and potential. Following this rule will help make sales. Therefore, the user needs to be central to the creation of a site. To ignore this principle would be like a retail store planner ignoring the fact that customers will soon be navigating through the store and insisting on creating a confusing floor plan that resembled a tortuous maze of racks, trapping even the most experienced person in a labyrinth of aisles of goods who will never see the light of day again.

To successfully accomplish the goals of helping, communicating and selling to the user, a website must have an appropriate appearance and be easy and intuitive to use. Web design involves first and foremost the look and feel. This is made up of color schemes, font styles and sizes, graphics, page layouts, and how all these elements come together to form the site’s overall appearance.

However, Web design is more than just look and feel, it’s also usability. Usability is the measure of a website's potential to accomplish the goals of the user. It is accomplished with the User Interface, the way in which a user can interact with the site and how the site invites interaction and responds to it. Other types of user interfaces (UI) include html forms and site search functions. Any element of a Web page that invites user interaction can be considered part of the UI.

When designing a site, the number one question to be asking is, “How can I design our site’s appearance and usability to optimally achieve our business’s goals?” If you plan to hire a person or company to design the site, have the answer to this question handy when signing the contract and make sure they understand and can carry out exactly what you need. Beware of design for design’s sake. In fact, when carrying out any action involving your business’s website, from designing to coding, to maintaining and marketing, the issue of optimally achieving your business’s goals and facilitating the user’s experience should be front and center at all times.

We were so successful for designing, creating and marketing ClickitTicket.com that we started our own entertainment tickets website, Oak Web Works Tickets. At our tickets site, you'll find cheap prices and a huge selection. And you can find Broadway tickets.

There are many, many types of live music going on this concert season. From country to alternative to good old rock and roll, there are many current and planned tours. For example, get Madonna tickets or Feist tickets like Feist at Red Rocks. Maybe see the Dave Matthews Band at in Mansfield at the Comcast Center or the Verizon Wireless Center in Charlotte.

Find a fantastic selection of country music tickets too. For example, you can buy Kenny Chesney tickets and Tim McGraw tickets for their Brothers of the Sun tour. See them at Reliant Stadium in Dallas and Soldier Feild Stadium in Chicago too. Another hot ticket is tickets to Alan Jackson. See Alan Jackson at Red Rocks in Colorado.

We encourage you to search Oak Web Works Tickets for tickets to any live entertainment you want to attend, including Broadway shows like The Book of Mormon Tickets on Broadway in New York City and in Los Angeles at the Pantages Theatre. Another show that is hugely proular on Broadway and across Nroth America on tour is Million Dollar Quartet which is showing at theaters such as the Paramount Theatre in Seattle or the Apollo in Chicago. And one last show which is also a hit movie is War Horse which is playing in L.A. and Dallas to name only a few cities on its tour.

 

Whether you need small business Web design or large business Internet marketing services, we offer it all.

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