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10 May 2012

Choosing a font for your website

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Here at Direct Sites Online, we have blogged about the importance of good design, good content and the right colours for your website. There is another area to consider – fonts.
Obviously, you want people to be able to read your site when they arrive, so the importance of a clear …

24 April 2012

The importance of colour in web design

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While we have posted before about how important clean design and relevant content are when it comes to the success or otherwise of your online presence, there is a third vital element – colour.
Your website colours will affect the moods and emotions of your visitors, as well as reflect your …

5 April 2012

Does your website need a revamp?

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Is your website looking a little 2011? Maybe it’s just not attracting the leads and sales that you had hoped for, or perhaps it is invisible to search engines.
Remember, to the casual observer, your website is an online shopfront, which means it has to be be eye-catching, well-maintained, and always …

29 March 2012

Why you need a mobile friendly website

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As more and more people use their smart phones to access the internet, more and more websites are going unseen as they are not mobile friendly.
In fact, forecasts predict that by next year there will be 1.7 billion mobile internet users worldwide. That’s a lot of potential customers.
But if your …

18 March 2012

The pros and cons of custom versus template websites

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So, we’ve convinced you that you need a website, and now you are wondering whether to invest in a custom built site or if a template will suffice.
Or maybe you do not even know the difference – so we’ll start there: As the name suggest, custom-built sites are uniquely developed …

12 February 2012

Four simple steps to getting online

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Is your company one of the 51 per cent of Australian small businesses without a website? Did you know that getting online is as easy as 1-2-3? And then a bonus fourth step promoting your site.
So where do you start?
1. Get a domain name.
That’s the yourbusiness.com web address by which …

14 January 2012

Website design: 10 mistakes you should avoid

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There are approximately 16 kabillion websites out there – varying from really, really good, to atrociously bad. So what makes the good
ones stand out?
Well, for a start, they are better designed and have interesting and informative content, thus being clever enough to avoid these 10 common
mistakes.

All flair, no substance: Sometimes …

4 November 2011

Make the most of your landing page

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We’ve already discussed the scary fact that you have less than 10 seconds to impress a first time visitor to your Web site, which is why landing pages are crucial.
Landing pages are the first page a visitor sees if they enter your website by typing in the URL. And when …

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