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Web Design Observations by North Texas Web Design

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Since 2006, North Texas Web Design has been providing custom and professional web design services for small and medium business throughout the Dallas, Fort Worth metropolitan area at prices typically far below our competition. We ve grown into a full service web design firm, providing not only professional web design services, but also providing:

Web hosting services

Search Engine Optimization

Social Media marketing

Custom database designs, including MsSQL and Microsoft Access

Customized eCommerce applications

Web maintenance

North Texas Web Design

is extremely proud to have earned an A rating with the Better Business Bureau. We ve accomplished this by giving our clients only the best in customer service.

Listed below are just a few of our observations regarding current web design market trends.

Search Engine Optimization

Over the past few years, the rules and trends associated with web design have changed significantly. Several years ago, just about any website that was built would eventually be found by the search engines. With the advent of complex algorithms such as Google s Penguin algorithm, this simply no longer occurs. Website owners are now challenged in numerous ways if they want their website to be a source of revenue. North Texas Web Design is a Plano based web design firm who provides services designed to stay abreast of current market and SEO trends.

For more information on our observations about this changing trend, see our article titled Build It and They Will Come Truth or Fiction at http://www.northtexas-webdesign.com/BuildItAndTheyWillCome.asp.

Social Media

Never before has Social Media been more important to web design. Having social media integrated into your website is now as crucial as having basic navigation. Although the practice of including social media links and feeds on websites is certainly not new, web designers have started to devise more and more ways of integrating social media into their design. Within the next year or so, the value of social media relative to gaining presence on the web may well overtake basic search engine optimization.

For more information on our views regarding the evolving trends around Social Media, see our article on Social Media Marketing at http://www.northtexas-webdesign.com/Social-Media-Marketing.asp.

Responsive and Attractive Design

With the advent of JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, it s become much easier to animate websites without resorting to Flash, which is still not compatible with mobile devices. Most modern-day browsers support JavaScript, but most importantly, degrade gracefully when the scripts aren t available or supported. Ultimately, you want users to feel comfortable when interacting anywhere on your website.

Mobile Devices

In the past couple of years it s become evident that SmartPhones and Tablets are growing in popularity. Since 2011, we ve noticed an explosion of mobile sites. The popularity of the iPhone and iPad, along with Android powered devices, means visitors can fully interact with your website in ways they never did. Mobile websites often are completely different. Depending on the industry you re in, it may be essential that your site include a mobile site as well.

WordPress

WordPress continues to grow in popularity, not just as a blogging application, but now many websites are built completely using WordPress. This allows clients to manage their own site in ways only a CMS could do in the past.

Galleries, Slideshows and Carousels

As the popularity of JavaScript libraries have grown, more and more jQuery applications are being dropped into websites, especially on the Home page. Photo galleries, slideshows and carousels offer colorful, yet W3C compliant ways of making a website much less bland, while avoiding all of the negative issues associated with Flash.

Conclusions

The above represent but a few of the more popular trends evolving and emerging in the world of web design today. As we move into 2013, these trends will only continue. Website layouts will continue to be more colorful and engaging, while still being compliant with W3C standards and algorithms such as Google s Penguin algorithm.

If you need a new website, or your current website is long overdue for a complete make-over, please consider

North Texas Web Design

at www.northtexaswebdesign.com.

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