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How to Know When It’s Time To Redesign Your Website

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Once you’ve gone to the trouble of designing a website, the last thing you want to think about is redesigning it. However, in order to be successful with your online business, you’re going to need to stay on top of new trends, monitor how well your current design is doing and find ways to improve your business. In some cases, this means collecting information from analytics to see what you could be doing differently. This helps you create a site that is stronger and more effective. Let’s take a look at a few of the warning signs that your site may need a redesign.

1. Customer complaints. One of the most obvious hints that you need to redesign your site will be if you get consistent complaints. For example, if you get a lot of email about trying to locate specific products, or emails that state that your site is malfunctioning, hard to navigate or somehow offensive to the eye, this is a very good sign that you will need to go through a redesign.

2. Your sales figures are dropping. If you have noticed a drop in sales figures, and customers just don’t seem interested in what you have to offer, you may need to find a way to get their attention again. Highlighting different products is a great way to accomplish this, but it may not be enough. Sometimes, adding a completely new design or extra features is what it takes to get those sales figures back where they should be.

3. Your repeat business has declined. If your site always looks the same, this gives visitors the impression that you have nothing new to offer. We’re not saying that you need to completely redesign your site every month, but if it has been awhile, you should definitely consider making a change. Just remember to keep your branding intact when redesigning so you don’t lose all of that hard work you put into building up your brand.

4. Your error logs are showing an increase in broken images or links. It’s a good idea to go through your error logs periodically to see what is going wrong with your site. If you are seeing a lot of 404’s or “image does not exist,” this is a sign that there are a few things on your site that are not functioning as they should be. An redesign can address these issues.

5. You have not met your goals. Sometimes, when a site fails to perform as expected, design flaws may be to blame. A redesign can help you refocus your goals and find new ways of meeting them.

If you did not have a professional design the first time around, you may want to consider hiring a company to do the work for you. For website design in Canada, the Royal Atlantis Group is a great choice. They’ve worked with hundreds of companies to help them fine tune their internet presence and improve their sales.

Disclaimer: The information in this Press Release includes certain “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of Provincal and Federal Laws. The public is cautioned that such statements are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future financial performance of the company. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will provide to be correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to successful performances of internal plans, the impact of competitors, and general economic risks and uncertainties.

For additional information on the website design and development services of Royal Atlantis Group, visit their website at www.royalatlantisgroup.com

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Keeping Your Brand Current

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

In today’s competitive market world, it is rare to see any brands remain exactly the same, year after year. Every corporation updates its look and persona, a reflection of service and value, in order to stay fresh in their customer’s mind. With this effort to stay cutting edge and keep the attention of the client, the effort to bring your website should always remain in a state of ongoing evolution. With this eye towards the future and an attempt to keep your product has fresh and relevant as possible, it can be a highly effective method of retaining the interest of the public in general. With so much competition in the world, it is more important than ever to maintain a fresh and updated brand identification, especially in the case of website branding. For many users, the website will be the first time that they come into contact with you or your product. With this critical first impression, you should absolutely focus on being as recognizable as possible and maintaining a cutting edge in order to attract a larger potential user base.

In the case of staying current with your website branding, is necessary to bring in the professionals, those who have maintained steady training on the latest trends and design techniques. With this functional approach to design and navigation, the branding of your website can be the central focus of your advertising effort. As more and more traffic rolls in and is greeted by a fresh and updated interface, you will be more likely to retain that traffic and enjoy returning visitors more often. Even in the case of established names such as McDonald’s and other types of well-known corporations, a fresh and updated look comes every few years in order to stay current in the mind of their customers. With this constant updating comes plain evidence that this fresh take on an old idea is important to keeping customers walking through the door.

Keeping your brand current on the Internet means making sure your website brand is getting in front of enough people and that the design is contemporary and easy to navigate. With the functionality of modern-day website design, users are accustomed to getting a lot of things done in a very rapid fashion. Without this extremely useful and easy to utilize design, end users will very quickly have their fill and simply look elsewhere for their consumer needs. Along with keeping their website brand current, constant attention has to be paid to navigation and other important aspects of the user interface. This attention to detail over time is important to maintaining the interest of the client base and ensuring that old customers aren’t lured away by some fresh up-and-coming brand due to lack of attention on the part of the original brand.

Without constant attention, your website brand will quickly age and users will lose interest in your message. By staying on top of current trends and the latest designs, you can ensure that you aren’t left by the wayside by the newest model off the factory floor.

Disclaimer: The information in this Press Release includes certain “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of Provincal and Federal Laws. The public is cautioned that such statements are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future financial performance of the company. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will provide to be correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to successful performances of internal plans, the impact of competitors, and general economic risks and uncertainties.

For additional information on the website design and development services of Royal Atlantis Group, visit their website at www.royalatlantisgroup.com

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Toronto, Ontario M6M2L7 Canada

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Maintaining Multiple Brands

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

While you are very likely already familiar with the importance of maintaining a website brand, it might not have occurred to you to maintain multiple brands. With different methods of introducing yourself to different customers, the addition of multiple branding can be a highly effective method for increasing your user base. By utilizing several different websites that are basically introduced to the clientele in different manners, you can cover more bases and advertise to more people more effectively. These multiple brands should differ enough to attract a drastically different set of users, as any crossover between the separate brand user bases would simply be counterproductive. In the case of many brands, there are multiple uses for the product or service to begin with, or need from a different user base than is commonly targeted. With the idea of multiple brands and a diversified marketing effort, a greater cross-section of user base can be effectively exploited.

While it might seem complex to maintain multiple brands, it is actually a simple matter of establishing a need and filling it, or in this case, establishing several different needs and filling them all with the same product. By utilizing this method, it is a simple enough matter to branch out and service more customers than what is currently being taken advantage of. With the millions and millions of users that see this type of Internet-based advertising and website branding, it is a simple matter to quickly multiply an existing user base and take advantage of communities and traffic that the existing brand might never have drawn. A simple example would be multiple websites designed to attract different types of users from different types of product categories. While it is true that most traffic comes from search engines and the like, it is very common for word-of-mouth or other types of advertising to bring in very targeted and niche specific traffic. Even search engines quite often bring in this extremely focused traffic. With the multiple branding technique, several niches can be filled with the same product, depending on versatility, and a whole new user base can be actively advertised to.

While it might seem a simple matter to specifically choose certain niche topics or products, the truth is, most products are as versatile as others. In this case it would be necessary to utilize some cross promotion. In this case, it is important to remember that your multiple brands have to remain similar, such as a lawnmower website advertising weedeaters for a weedeater website. While this might be something of an oversimplification, it is a good rule of thumb to maintain commonality between your multiple brands. In this way maintaining the multiple brands will be much simpler and the crossover from the targeted traffic would be much greater.

Designing multiple brands can be challenging, as is selecting a single product to fill multiple niches. Whatever original advertising that your product brand originally received has to be maintained while introducing more advertising and brand promotion of a different nature. With all of the branching out and different types of advertising, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and bogged down in the details. Fortunately, when using a professional service, these specific details are easily dealt with and rarely cause any difficulties.

Disclaimer: The information in this Press Release includes certain “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of Provincal and Federal Laws. The public is cautioned that such statements are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future financial performance of the company. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will provide to be correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to successful performances of internal plans, the impact of competitors, and general economic risks and uncertainties.

For additional information on the website design and development services of Royal Atlantis Group, visit their website at www.royalatlantisgroup.com

royalatlantisgroup.com – website design and development company
7 Ingram Drive, Suite 115
Toronto, Ontario M6M2L7 Canada

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