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Website Design To Make Your Brand Name

by frederick talactac

Corporate websites often reveal the attitude of the company to new media. When a company utilizes the minimum of website design, it shows a poor understanding of how to use the internet, and a powerful tool for branding is squandered.

When considering website design, don't create a corporate profile. Your company site is a prime opportunity to make your company's name known, and to reach your target audience easily. Online you won't be searching for them; they're out there searching for you. Your job is to make it easier for them to find you and to get them to share your brand name to others.

This gets triggered with the online interface. At the basic level, you would need to pull their attention to the site and make them want to stay around. But you'll want to maximize their interest by making them want to interact. You can add share buttons to popular social networks, connect your site to them, or make a dedicated social network for your company itself.

Your website's user experience is still based on the content you provide. That content also influences the kind of web surfers who do go to your site. For example, you can make a small flash game to appeal to kids. If you're targeting those kid's mothers, however, you'll want a popular blogger to write about you.

You'll also want that user experience to be real. A lot of what works in traditional branding won't work online, where skepticism abounds. So use promotions and incentives that people are actually inclined to.

Finally, website design should always be dynamic, conforming to the changes occurring in the online community, as well as to what your target audience wants to see and experience online. You don't necessarily have to make your brand name trend 24/7. In fact, that strategy may end up giving you backlash when people get sick of it. It does mean consistently maintaining interest in your brand.

Your company site is a prime opportunity to get your company's name out, and to reach your target audience easily. It all begins with an online interface that makes them want to interact. Your website's user experience still relies on the content you provide. Website design should always be dynamic, conforming to the changes occurring in the online community, as well as to what your target audience wants to see and experience online.

Published July 22nd, 2010

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