Cluttered Home Page – I’ve seen my share of websites that feel like Encyclopedia Britannica threw up on them. These days seconds make the difference between success and failure of your home page. Does the end user get directed quickly to where they want to go? Or are they frustrated they can’t find what their looking for quickly? Frustrated experience leads to a higher bounce rate, percentage of visitors who enter the site and “bounce” (leave the site) rather than continue viewing other pages within the same site.

Awkward Navigation – People need to be able to easily find what they are looking for before they bail out of your website. I’m surprised by the number of companies that are not able to clearly communicate their 3-6 main products or services.

Aggressive Animation – Say away from flash. Yes its cool but its awful for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because all a spider sees is the file name of the flash file. Also flash takes a longer time to load. Overall make sure your animation doesn’t over shadow your content.

Dead Links – A recent survey says 60% of users who click on a deal link won’t use the back button. Instead they’ll leave the site completely. Also dead links count against your SEO score! No Beuno.

Long Scrolling Pages – If your potential customer can’t see it, it’s not there. Long pages can actually be helpful for SEO at times. However, if your ultimate goal is convert visitors into sales. That happens with the kiss (keep it simple stupid) principal. Unless your in a research field its a good chance long pages are a turn off. Besides if you have a product or service that needs that much space to convince someone to invest in your company, its probably better the customer contact a live sales person for information.

Long Load Times – Optimize all your graphics to load as quickly as possible. Stay away from Flash. Keep your home page clean and elegant. Don’t believe less is more? Ok lets look at Apple’s home page. Apple just reported the most successful quarter of business of any company any where! They have 6 images and less then 100 words on their home page. I’m pretty sure Apple has more services and products then your company.

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UHoops.net, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides public basketball courts around the U.S. with brand new, high-quality basketball nets; works with other organizations that are also committed to cleaning-up and renovating neighborhood basketball courts, making for a better basketball experience, and a safer place for kids to play.

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Lightbox pop-up video
Lightbox player cards
Blog

Hillside Library is a local Chicagoland Library serving the Hillside community. The website serves library information and programs to the community.

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Slider
Blogging
Various Search Indexes
Wireless Printing

The MedEdits team comprises a group of medical professionals committed to clients’ success. They focus only on medical admissions and therefore have unique expertise. MedEdits has over 6,000 followers on Facebook.

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Video integration
Opt-in to Constant Contact
Facebook & Twitter widgets
Various custom forms

Belmont Assembly of God is helping people ‘Find Direction’ for life. Belmont Assembly of God is part of the national and international fellowship of churches known as the Assemblies of God. Belmont Assembly has been in continuous existence in the City of Chicago since 1907.

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Media center / video sermons
Community calendar
Facebook & Twitter widgets
Staff directory
Online donations / tithing

In most cases you’ll just receive a cease and desist letter. However, depending on the copyright of the image you might get a fine and taken to small claims court. Apparently there’s a large photo brokerage who enjoys small claims court so much it seems they have become predatory in nature.

The right way is to purchase an image from an image company like istockphoto.com. Most images needed for a website are x-small or small and only cost 1-5 bucks. Another consideration is royalty free images. Here’s some links to choose from.

• stock.xchng Probably the best solution. This is where I usually go first. Some images are of excellent quality and large enough to print. Log in necessary.
• PhotoBucket Nice size selection. Small web images only. No login necessary.
• ImageAfter I like what’s available, some larger images as well. It will be nice when they and more quantity. No login necessary
• morgueFile I’ve used morgueFile only a few times. No login necessary.
• FreeDigitalPhotos Smaller web images only. No login necessary.
• indisain.com Annoying website in terms of usability but good quality large images.

There’s a right way and wrong way to obtaining images

At the end of the day its your responsibility to know where your images came from on your website. You should save receipts and download history (which can be hard to do) and file it away. Always check the copyright to make sure your image complies with the intended use.

Innovative Coatings & Chocolate is a typical Brochure Site. Clean and elegant design and a web presence they are happy to refer clients to. Innovative Coatings & Chocolate creates compound coatings made with no partially hydrogenated oils to chocolate coatings and chunks with probiotics . . . ICC has a proprietary delivery system to sustain probiotic life over a long period of time.

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Brochure Site
Contact form

Picasso Gaglione founded the first StampArt Museum in 1990, in San Francisco. The history of that museum was recently the subject of a large show at the Stendhal Gallery in New York City. The complete catalog collection of the gallery shows is now part of the permanent collection of the Archive Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Today, Stampland creates US made stamps and products available at various shows or online. The new website features a huge 500+ product catalog of stamps that are readily available.

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500+ Product eCommerce
Blog News & Tips
Travel Calendar

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