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The Khao San Road - June 2021
Only about a year and a half back, the Khaosan Road was buzzing with backpackers..
Even though it was beautifully renovated, Khao San still stands empty waiting for tourists to return.
Now #Thailand has begun a #vaccination campaign, the #khosan will soon get its life back.
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Defining a growth marketing strategy is very easy; it is marketing your business with expansion. But making your business grow is not at all simple! First of all we all need is an idea that would work very well. That’s where it starts; you need to have a profitable niche. In niche, you must state your demographic and have something valuable to sell.
When you are planning to sell your product and services; it is undoubtedly troublesome. But with the correct growth marketing strategies, you can expand your business, make profits, and can stay virtually present.
If you are picking up the right strategies to promote your business then definitely you are on the right path. Before we begin many questions might come into your mind:
= How can you convey the right message to the audience?
= How to do it effectively?
= How can we have better visibility?
= How can we increase sales by maintaining the profits?
Nowadays, there is so much struggle to get attention from social media, search engine optimization, blogging, and pay-per-click advertising. Growth marketing doesn’t just simply happen. There are many different forms of strategies that can help to accomplish marketing goals.
How Do Online Business Marketing Strategies Help?
Online business marketing strategies helps to:
= Increase the number of backlinks by building up relations with the people who would be interested in reading and sharing your content.
= Coming up or getting exposed to the most reputed articles and keywords with the help of others in your industry.
= Authenticate and validate your location, hours, and respective contact information for Google Local and other business listings.
= Provide you with every element to evaluate all commitments, so you can get updated as to what all your customers want and need from your website.
What are All Effective Growth Marketing Strategies?
Let’s have a look at some of the small business marketing strategies that your business could use:
1. Understand Trends
You might find it easy to get into growth marketing; you might also think that you are missing prospects only if you don’t jump right in with some type of marketing message. Though, the most important thing you can do is to take a deep breath and think about the list of things you are supposed to do before coming up with something new. Once out, changes will be difficult to make.
Keeping a check on the trends of the market, business, and customers should be a continuous process that has a great impact on growth strategy. Trends keep on changing and they are easy to understand with the help of social media platforms. Media sites and audience influencers state the means of intelligence as to where the interest is shifting so you can be ready to bring out the new change.
2. Choose your targeted area of growth
We all lookout to expand our businesses, but the main question is how can you do it? Your business plan should work in specific work areas of growth.
The main aim of any strategic growth plan must comprise of:
= Keeping a check on employee headcount
= Adding up new branches at new locations of your business
= Expanding up at new regions, locations, cities or even going worldwide
= Bringing up new products or services
= Growth in revenues and profits
= Expansion of customer base
Make sure your growth plan must include these initiatives stated above; which means the best growth doesn’t happen all of its own.
3. Understand Search Engine Optimization
This area is all about marketing, where all you need is passion; but many people are scared about this area. YES! SEO can be worrisome. However, it can also be powerful at the same time. But when you learn how to control SEO the correct way, the sky's the limit.
Many companies are there to guide you as to how to use PBNs (Private Blog Network) and connect plans to trick Google. It might result in short-term results, but in the future, you will have great results. Because there are no shortcuts with SEO! SEO demands time and your great efforts.
Some key points
= Keywords are the most important element of SEO.
= Create your own original content all the way from the home page to search engines.
= Your message should be understandable, engaging, exceptional, and should be totally worth it.
4. Google AdWords
This form of advertising is done through paid advertising through Google; also called “Pay Per Click”. Google AdWords let you show an ad to people who might get interested in your business. The ad is shown in the following way:
5. Be mobile optimized
With each passing year, people spend more time on their mobile devices. But many small business websites are still not designed according to different screen sizes and load times. The main role of mobile optimization is to take a look at site design, site structure, page speed, and many more things; to make sure that mobile visitors don’t turn away.
6. Speed up your website
As discussed, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is the one that helps to speed up the usage of the mobile web. However, it is somehow getting controversial, and it is not taken to be the most excellent solution for improving the speed of the websites. It is taken for emergency cases known to be a ‘quick fix.
Do prioritize the speed for your authentic site. The main factor in ranking is the site speed. But, do keep a check as there are many different ways you can improve your performance.
7. Create an Environment for better User Experience
Great user experiences act as a backbone of a top-level website. The user experience ultimately states whether you see an increase in your bounce rate/exit rate or an increase in your conversion rates.
By the term user experience, we mean experience for the overall feeling of a user at the time of interaction with your respected website. A web design is user-friendly only when your website is easy to use and pleasing at the same time.
8. Create a Brand Identity
Before starting your communication, you must state your company details; meaning what your company is, what does it do and what does it stand for? Giving your customers a clear picture is very important. Once the customers have a clear picture, the next step is to move forward with a suitable name, logo, colors, and description of what you need to communicate with your customers.
9. Emails
In marketing, email plays a very important role. Emails can easily be written & exchanged, give potential customers the right direction, are easy to automate, cost-friendly, and also easy to reach out to customers on a big scale. Customers are only a clock away; because addressing customers should be eye-catching, interesting, and most importantly to the point of content. The main aim is to bring the maximum number of people to your website and make the purchase happen, which email supports better. Reports have shown that an email has the maximum conversion rate.
Conclusion
So, here you have it. Small business marketing strategies should have a strong and well-built digital presence. You might have a very long road ahead to launch your online business marketing strategies for your online presence, but taking effective and well-planned steps can make a huge impact on your business. A few things help such as blogging; it might take a few months to get started with the traffic. But, social media plays a very efficient role to get immediate effects.
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The website designing tools help build up a professional web design, typography, colors, animation, perfect layout, etc.
The industry of web design is growing fast and also getting difficult with each passing year. With the growth of the industry, several new web design tools are required by designers to design a website. Many different web design tools are present and further help with the formation of frameworks, mockups, testing, and many more. It also helps in building up good web design, typography, colors, animation, etc.
While doing web designing many problems you must be facing for which you must be looking forward to solving, and then you come across web designing tools that offer many different modules. Users normally have a lot of issues, but such tools help in the smooth functioning of the app.
The purpose of developing any application is not just to finish it within a particular timeframe but to ensure that it serves the wholesome purpose, for it was built, initially. And for such development, you generally need certain UI design tools and development platforms that could help along. Keeping this in mind, let’s have a look at some of the flexible and easy-to-use responsive web design tools that help you to work smarter.
Trello
Trello’s platform helps in making the working simple and easily manageable to make spreadsheets, emails and perform tasks that engage the full team for collaboration.
There is transparency in working on projects, tasks, and assignments. All team members have access to what everyone else is doing. Keeping a track of all pending tasks are pending by accessing the relevant board and cards; which results in outstanding performance.
PixelModo
PixelModo is among the online web design tools that help in building amazing graphics. Building a website is not at all easy, especially in terms of creatives because finding the correct graphics is quite a challenging task. When you are looking out to avoid copyright issues; PixelModo can help you. This design tool can easily be used as it helps in creating outstanding and exclusive graphics from scratch.
It has a good amount of high-quality images that can also be customized as per need and requirements.
Figma
This tool helps in demonstrating the web designs. Both designers and developers work individually to add up Figma to their webpage design tools inventory. This helps in easy collaborations and real-time feedback from their clients.
With this app, there is no need for third-party tools; as it helps in exchanging mockups or updates.
Squoosh
Squoosh is a built-in Google app; this app can compress any of the images of your choice without affecting its quality. Web designers make use of this app, as it is perfect for the ones who want to compress their memory-hungry image files.
It is very simple to use. You can drag and drop an interface that makes the process a great pleasure. After that, you can simply play around with the slider to set the amount of density as per requirement. You can make a perfect balance between the file size and quality of the picture and that too with no time. This app works both offline online.
Wireframe. cc
Wireframe. cc tool helps in designing very simple wireframes for websites and mobile-related applications. Their simple designs demonstrate website elements, by eliminating all disturbances. With this frame, you can save the URL to demonstrate in front of the clients.
Colors
Coolors is a very simple tool; this tool provides a perfectly fitting color palette for your site or any of your respected projects. Any web designer knows its importance as they really have a tough time with color coordination. Basically, this tool is a great help for those who have problems related to the colors of a web page.
Adobe XD
Adobe XD is a powerful vector design as well as the wireframing tool. This tool is very stable and gets better with each step. XD is a collection set of very nice drawing tools. This enables you to have non-static interactions, mobile and desktop previews, and sharing tools to provide feedback for a particular design.
Balsamiq
Balsamiq is a wireframing tool. This tool is great for developing wonderful layouts for any kind of project. Moreover, they have a drag-and-drop interface, which makes the process very simple and easy to perform even if you don’t have enough knowledge. When you get all things laid on a tray, which results in an amazing-looking website.
Canva Logo Maker
If you are into website designing, then you must already know about this tool. Canva logo is a free tool; this tool helps in creating simple logos most efficiently. It already has pre-made templates, so you don’t have to begin all the way from scratch if you are not willing to do it. Your job is simple; all you have to do is to pick a template of your choice and customize it as per your need. Lastly, you have to download it and your website is ready to use it.
ARKit
ARKit tool’s primary function is to serve the user in creating AR experiences for whichever iPhone or iPad. The process with these tools is very smooth and easy to manage once you have a good hand on it. Moreover, it also makes it possible to throw real objects on your web page and develop a super-immersive experience for the users.
InVision
InVision is the world’s top design prototyping and collaboration platform. This tool is so good in transforming designs into interactive prototypes along with correct and suitable transitions, animations, and working buttons without any HTML process involved.
It provides great help by putting up ideas using real-time presentations and collaborations. Users are just a click away to experience something amazing and the live demos before starting the development process.
Conclusion
So, here we have all the best web design tools for the year 2021. All the discussed tools are very simple to use, though many small things when put together can bring out a unique website. We have put down different web page designing tools; so that everyone can find something constructive.
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So, if you are confused as to “How much does a Website cost?”, then you are at the right place. Here, we provided you with detailed information as to where you can start-up with.
Working offline or online, it is very important these days that you form and maintain a website in this moving digital world. Now, here the question is “How much does it cost?” Averagely, the site cost mainly includes launching and designing. So, approximately it costs around $12,000 to $150,000, with the maintenance cost ranges from $35 to $5000 per month or $400 to $60,000 per year.
1. Web Design $12,000 to $150,000 / design
2. Website Maintenance $400 to $60,000 / year
3. Website Marketing $2,500 to $12,000 / month
What all it cost when you are designing a website?
When we talk about the designing of the website cost, it is mainly categorized into two things:
1. Infrastructure
Infrastructure comprises the basic stuff that controls or influences your website. This includes software, hosting, domain name and many more.
2. Design and functionality
Designing and functionality is all about the stuff that your visitors will interrelate; just like the design of your site and its functionality.
How much does it cost for a website backend infrastructure?
To start up a website all the way from the scratch, the main key is to understand how demanding and in-depth the process is. When a term website comes in your mind, you must think about all the facts:
1. Creation of content
2. Uploading of each product individually
3. Listing of products online
A lot of people want to know as to how they can start up with a website for their business. If you aim to make quick money—then you must focus on your profitable and scalable business that lasts.
Backend infrastructure required While building a website
1. Domain name
2. Website software/content management system
3. Hosting
4. PitchBox
5. Choosing CMS
6. eCommerce Development Services
7. Email Marketing Service
8. Focus Your Efforts on Engagement
Domain Name
Basically, you need a domain name that will be classified as your brand. This can be done in two ways, either buy a new domain name or you can simply connect a domain name that you already own. Don’t over think for this step; you can easily purchase a domain name for less than $10.
Website software/content management system
Nowadays, one of the most reliable one is WordPress. WordPress was brought up by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little on 27th May 2003. This is the software that stores all the data such as text, photos, videos, music, documents and many more. It can easily be presented on-site. This is known as a Content Management System and was declared for the same in the year 2009. This theme is also flexible in editing, publishing and modifying the content of the website.
WordPress helps to manage the user information e.g. change the role of the user, create or delete the user, changing the password or user information, etc.
The main job of the user manager is to Authenticate WordPress.
This further allows for changing the site view and functionality. It comprises images, style sheets, template files, and custom pages.
This theme helps in managing the media files and folders; which further helps to upload, organize and manage the media files on our websites.
Many plug-ins are provided that present custom functions and features following the needs of users.
It helps to import data in the form of posts.
It imports all custom files, comments, post pages, and tags. This theme also helps to translate all the content into the language preferred by the user.
It offers some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools that make the entire on-site task very easy. This platform is offered for free.
Hosting
One should pick one of the most accepted website designing platforms to save down the time and money. I would suggest Shopify, WooCommerce or BigCommerce. Many of the developer’s use these platforms as they help in integration of plug-in, processing of payment and many more.
If you like to pick a website builder like Squarespace and Wix, these are the services that comprise hosting in their prices. When you’re just getting started, cheap hosting is totally fine and will cost you less than $6 per month.
PitchBox
Building up relations with the media is a must. This is where PitchBox comes into play. PitchBoz automates and focus on the following:
Build up connections among persons.
Also helps in scaling your efforts.
Handle all aspects such as tracking of emails, managing workflow and more.
Choosing CMS
WordPress is the software that stores all the data such as text, photos, videos, music, documents, and many more. It can easily be presented on-site. This is known as a Content Management System (CMS).
This theme is also flexible in editing, publishing, and modifying the content of the website. WordPress helps to manage the user information e.g. change the role of the user, create or delete the user, changing the password or user information, etc.
Including a standard or custom CMS into your web design package is available with an average price of $2000 to $25,000. If you are interested in investing in a free CMS, such as Magento, your freelance design or web design agency will charge a fee for adding a CMS.
eCommerce Development Services
Ecommerce development services are the services that are designed to implement complex solutions to make booking and ticketing activities. And, on the other hand Custom eCommerce development delivers a great store to help clients to develop a customized solution. Let’s talk about one of the reputed companies, JanBask Digital Design. They are specialized in graphic designing, web designing, website development and many more.
Email Marketing Service
Email plays a very important role in the channels of marketing. Emails can easily be done, easy to automate, allows direct communication with a potential customer, cost-friendly and can reach customers in a huge amount.
Addressing customers with interesting, helpful and appropriate content; creates a push to open up the mail instead of immediately deleting or sending it to the spam box. The main aim is to get maximum people on your website and make them buy your product. An email has got the maximum conversion rate.
Focus Your Efforts on Engagement
To connect with customers, you have to consider what they say. Social media strategies engagement works in two ways, so always keep a check on building customer’s trust and loyalty.
Social media continues to grow as the No. 1 resource for customer care. In fact, our research has found that the most popular avenue people take for customer care is social media (34.5%). What happened to 1-800 numbers? It turns out only 16.1% of people prefer 1-800 numbers as the main source for customer care help.
Basically, this shows that your brand gets more messages than earlier. To supervise your social media reputation, it’s significant to respond to everyone reaching out. Customers expect a reply within a few hours, but the average takes more than 10 hours on social media to reply.
Conclusion
The Internet is a fantastic place to sell your products and turn out to have a well-established business. Building up brand strategies and constantly following them is very important to have a successful business. Averagely, a website cost is around $12,000 to $1, 50,000. Cost of the website totally depends on the website’s size, features and build.
Looking forward to paying $300 to make a website with the help of a website planner; freelancers normally cost $500 to $5000 and a web design agency normally charges $3000 to $100,000. You can also opt for $400 to $60,000 for annual maintenance. If you always want to set up a website business, then don’t waste your time and get started!
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Design trends are regularly impacted by social changes that occur throughout the planet. This year, we encountered astoundingly emotional changes in the digital design circle. Coronavirus has placed us isolated, driving us to dive further into the digital world and changing the way we carry on with our lives. The far-off, stay-at-home reality we've been confronted with has moved designers to reproduce genuine encounters and make them accessible digitally.
Web makers have met people's high expectations by investigating numerous roads of visual correspondence that can produce expanded degrees of commitment. This incorporates curiosity typography craftsmanship, strange shading plans, 3D product recreations for online customers, to give some examples.
In these 13 models, you will discover singular trends that each oblige separate businesses and client personas. It's critical to recollect that executing these styles isn't just a tasteful choice. It is a difficult exercise of quality and amount. This implies that applying whatever number trends as could be allowed to one website won't accomplish our web creation objectives. Choosing which explicit pattern suits our business objectives, be that as it may, is the thing that will decidedly affect our crowds and their game-plan.
1. Exquisite Serif Fonts:
The old conviction of utilizing sans serif text styles as the go-to textual style for website architecture has been changing with the occasions. Undoubtedly, sans serif textual styles have consistently been adored by website specialists for their smooth neatness and straightforward construction.
2. Quick forward to 2021:
Screen sizes and goals are bigger and more clear than they used to be. In opposition to their "obsolete" archetypes, for example, CRT screens of the 1980s, the screens we presently design for are more welcoming to enhanced, heavier serif text styles. Bigger screens, for instance, empower serif textual styles to show up not so much jumbled but rather more coherent — on account of expanded space around the words. Similarly, the higher goal makes the heavier or more distinguished letters look more clear.
3. Lively Typography Effects and Animations:
Protein bar organization Lupii highlights vivified typographic components that utilization a sentence or assortment of words for ornamental purposes. This imaginative design pattern contrasts to type-related procedures we're accustomed to seeing, for example, making a custom textual style or utilizing smart text style matching.
An enlivened series of words will frequently be organized as a specific shape, despite the standard flat, left-to-right sentence design. Eventually, the component's job will consistently be for enhancing purposes and not exclusively as a book to be perused. Designers will ordinarily utilize this procedure to pass on a marking or promoting objective, making an ideal vibe or visual subject.
4. Utilization of Emojis:
Another August 2020 grandstand victor, Diangelo Santos is a Brazilian marking and digital designer who works both as a consultant and at GeekHunter, a task commercial center for software engineers and designers.
It's no information to us that overall correspondence has accepted digital association. Regardless of whether 5,000 miles separated or 5 meters separated inside one house, individuals are continually associating through their consoles. This incorporates messages, informing applications, bunch gatherings, etc. Things have become a long way stunning — alphanumeric characters joined by lively emoticons in composing content components are currently a fundamental piece of our digital vocabulary.
5. Light Colors:
Utilizing light tones in web and interface design addresses probably the greatest contrast between print and website architecture. The quality and permeability of light tones regularly get bargained when utilized on paper design — losing their wealth and showing up as more hazy and turbid.
Light tones have the contrary impact on-screen, and may even be liked over dull, bolder tones. The screen's sharpness and lucidity can make such tones domineering and surprisingly upsetting for the natural eye to take a gander at. Designers have now accepted the upside of utilizing light tones to dodge the last mentioned. Indeed, the additional benefit of utilizing light tones in website architecture stretches out past the guest's visual experience — light tones are likewise helpful for client commitment.
6. Negative Colors:
At the opposite finish of the shading range — lies a shading pattern of an altogether unique nature. An ever-increasing number of designers have been floating towards utilizing extremely striking tones, with a coordinated accentuation on essential tones: red, blue, and yellow. This frequently includes different profoundly differentiating essential shading blends, likened to funnies like subjects and 90's-style themes. It's implied that these kinds of shading ranges frequently target more youthful crowds, emphasizing an energetic, energizing vibe.
The shading plan we see on Goliath Entertainment's site strongly addresses their design content — old-school PCs from the 90s, revolving phones, boomboxes, and other notable things that the 90s age will relate to on the spot.
7. Dark and White Illustrations With Textures:
Quite a long time ago in the news coverage industry, imprinting in shading was impossible. To add imaginative impacts to their substance, papers would include high contrast, hand-drawn designs made via sketch artists. This special, animation-motivated style made up for the absence of hued visuals and symbolism.
Likewise, visual artists started utilizing dark, surface-based representations to enhance the enormous measure of text that a paper or comparable distribution will undoubtedly incorporate. The virtuosity of these graphical components is the way they balance out text-based articles by lightening the peruser's intellectual burden with straightforward, drawing in symbolism.
8. Dark Outline:
The theme of dark representations that website specialists have come to adore (referenced above), has likewise gotten mainstream in different configurations: dark frameworks around various components all through their website. These dark lines and lines can change in thicknesses — frequently utilized as page dividers, explicitly as network boxes of various sizes.
We also love this cutting-edge design pattern because its design components frequently consolidate these dark lines and representations with genuine shot pictures, as seen in Roze Bunker's design conspire. These pictures will in general be a whole photo or a pattern. In any case, the dark boundaries and accents intensely affect client commitment. On account of this spellbinding sort of visual, website guests quite often notice these pictures promptly — dedicating their complete consideration to the informing and encounters that the designer tries to transfer.
9. Basic Shapes:
The imaginative style of the 90s time has likewise made its rebound in website architecture trends — this time as basic shape themes coordinated all through design plans. These oversimplified, two-dimensional shape representations gloat one shade of shading and no profundity or surface. You can see instances of these shape styles on the Happy Socks website, which utilizes two-dimensional design on their product bundling and all through the genuine webpage.
10. Inventive and Atypical Product Photos:
To those less alright with internet shopping, this next pattern is for you. The greatest test in purchasing products online isn't understanding what they resemble, in actuality. Numerous internet business stores have begun utilizing 3D recreations to give a visual answer for this very proviso. What we hope to see in 2021 is much further-improved 3D perception strategies, with itemized complexities and incredibly high goals.
These 3D recreated visuals made by Adidas portray two of the greatest restrictions of just seeing a thing of apparel on the web designing. Their symbolism permits online customers to improve comprehension of the coat's texture surface, and what it resembles from all points. These are the specific kinds of subtleties online customers are searching for.
11. Composition Art:
The idea of a collection in the human expressions industry starts back to 1914, fundamentally in France — during a period where cubism, a mid-twentieth century craftsmanship development, was broadly famous. Collection workmanship ideas regular various media types, like paper, magazine, banners, yet are uncommon to drop by in digital media.
Collection craftsmanship manifestations have as of late made their rebound through web-based media. A go-to arrange for Stories and news channel content, collections have likewise advanced into the field of website composition. A website's arrangement will regularly epitomize a full-width visual, an exact cut-out of a picture (generally a photo) — all incorporated with a blend of strong shading designs and designed delineations.
12. Consistent Surrealism:
Numerous designers have taken the collection workmanship pattern much further, designing their websites in a surrealist style. This strategy is portrayed by how it positions components upon strange, unordinary foundations. Gucci's model places every satchel on an interesting, picture-based foundation. Customers would then be able to see everything in an altogether extraordinary light. Unexpectedly, there's an additional layer of every purse's look and belief and its chic vibe.
An oddity in website architecture additionally includes flashy tones and surfaces that present the theoretical, imaginative psyche of the designer. Over the long haul, increasingly more online business websites are utilizing this pattern to introduce their products in a novel, enthusiastic way.
13 Float Gallery Menu:
To wrap things up, website menus, one of the interface's most crucial components — have been the focal point of a few design trends. Taking a twist on the customary menu structure, this is the thing that we call a "half float exhibition, half route menu". It would seem that a customary, standard menu at face esteem, however then once floated upon, pictures show up, uncovering a sneak look of the substance we'll find in the subsequent stage.
This drawing inexperience can go considerably further (as you'll see with CHIVICHIVI): each different menu thing you float over (quite often) shows an alternate picture, demonstrating the rich, fluctuated encounters that anticipate on each page we experience.
We should Be Trendsetters
The new year carries new freedoms to accept these web design company trends and draw in guests by standing apart among our serious scene. We should cautiously consider how to coordinate these individual trends with their significant use-case — as per our image's design language and crowd interests. Remember that the trends we've recorded here are just a sample of what lies ahead. There is a lot more to see and do.
On the off chance that you notice extraordinary instances of the trends we've recorded above, or if you have another pattern you propose we pay special attention to, if it's not too much trouble, share in the remarks!
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Website design is considered to be an important component of the web development and web design process.
With the availability of various options on the internet today, creating a website has become easier than before. Now even a non-tech savvy person can build their website within 60 minutes. Building a website on your own allows you to expand your reach to a wider audience.
Using the right strategies, your website can help you have a steady stream of new customers and online income. Website design is considered to be an important component of the web development process. And if you want to make your website from scratch, you should have a high creativity level.
There are two ways to make a website from scratch i.e. with a website builder or with WordPress. This article will walk you through building a website from scratch step-by-step. Also, you can learn how to build your own website from scratch.
Building a Website is all about creating a craft, So think creative!
Few questions to keep in mind while building a website from scratch:
1. What is your website's goal?
2. What will be your brand name?
3. What will be its theme?
What are the Steps to Build a Website from Scratch?
There are multiple steps to be followed to build a website from scratch. Let us have a look at all of these steps, one by one:
Step 1 - Create an Architecture - If you want to know how to make a website from scratch, you should work on its architecture first, such as:
You should create a sitemap for all the pages you desire to include on your website
Ensure your website is well-organized so that the user has no hassle while moving from one page to another
You should include various web pages like About us, testimonial page, Services page, Website Menu, Contact menu, Informative FAQ page, etc.
Including all these points will help you answer the question: “How to build a website from Scratch?”
Step 2 - Choose a domain name - To build a website from scratch you are required to create a domain name that is simply your website's unique online address. A domain name is created with the combination of your website’s name and the extension.
Having a domain name for your website will help you improve your website’s visibility, credibility, and make your brand trustworthy for the customers.
Step 3 - Choose a theme for your website - Having a responsive website design for your business will be beneficial, as it can easily fit into the users’ screen.
While building a website from scratch, you should understand few things such as:
61% of users prefer mobile-friendly websites
Mobile-Friendly website designs help you generate more traffic
95% of people build your brand image after going through your website
Over 50% of traffic comes from a responsive website
Step 4 - Design the website layout - Website design plays an important role while you build a website from scratch as attractive website design grabs more attention from the users.
However, while deciding your website design, you should keep a few points in mind, which can be:
Think simple and be unique
Does the website layout matches your brand theme
Ensure that your layout includes About us, Contact us, FAQ and Services
Create an actionable Call-to-Action
Choose vibrant colors, if you are creating a website from scratch
Go through your competitor’s website to decide the best website layout design for you
Keep Social Proof elements
Step 5 - Pick the right fonts - You should choose your fonts wisely while building a website from scratch. Font should be clear, simple, readable, and bold such that they are impactful.
Step 6 - Add plugins to give additional functionality - Plugin is a software component that adds functionality to your website.
There are many options available in the market and you can use multiple tools for plugins. Some of them are:
All-in-one SEO
OptinMonster
SeedProd and many more.
Step 7 - Implement Content Hierarchies - “Content Rules”, Content has the power to grab visitors' attention. Informative content provides details related to your brand as well as your services/ products.
With the help of informative and unique content, you get the opportunity to perform internal linking, which in turn is helpful for your business.
Step 8 - Start Marketing your website - You should think of building a website that works efficiently and that looks decent.
Marketing Strategies depends on your project or business and you can try to do the below-mentioned things further:
Decide a LOGO - LOGO is the main face of your brand that is why you need to select it wisely. To get an interesting logo for your website you can also hire professionals from JanBask Digital Design.
Write an attractive web copy - After deciding your logo design, you should focus on preparing the basic web pages of your website like the About us, services page, Blog section, Testimonials, etc.
Register Google Analytics - Google Analytics helps you track the number of visitors that have visited your website.
You should register on Google Analytics instantly after you build a website from scratch to keep a track of such numbers and statistics.
Marketing strategy - Now that you have a website, and know what to do with it, you should start planning - “How to drive traffic to your website”.
Online Marketing helps you spread awareness about your website or product with the help of web-based channels.
What are the challenges a person faces while creating a website from scratch?
There are multiple challenges a person faces while making a website from scratch such as:
Integration
Responsive
Accessibility
Security
Website speed
User experience
Conclusion:
Hope the article helped in learning “how to build a website from scratch?” However, before following the above-mentioned steps, it is advisable that you “Be Patient” and go creative as much as you can.
Initially, everyone struggles in building a website from scratch i.e. if you are getting frustrated at any step then take a breath, and Google your problem to get the best solution. You can even consider hiring some professionals.
More than that, you can also take help from JanBask Digital Design professionals to get the perfect web design services or redesign for your website.
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We’ve designed and built a lot of websites over the past decade for the largest and smallest nonprofits. Website trends faded in and out, and some came back in style again, and we’ve learned a lot of lessons about how to design websites that mobilize people to take action, boost donations, and advocate conversions through optimized landing pages.
How can nonprofits supercharge their websites in 2019? Here are eight of the best website trends that you can immediately explore on your own nonprofit’s website.
1. Go Bold
There’s a big debate in the web design community about whether softer and more muted color palettes vs bolder colors will dominate design in 2019. If you are an advocacy nonprofit, go bolder. Given the political climate and upcoming 2020 elections, it’s imperative that you get and hold visitors’ attention. This does not mean every page of your website should be shocking color palettes with no white or lightly colored backgrounds. Instead, use bold colors and graphics that pop to highlight critical content you want users to prioritize or take action on. There are a few ways to do this well, with some of the most effective methods being. Check the below image.
FUNDRAISING CALLS-TO-ACTION
To draw more visibility to Defenders of Wildlife’s legal defense fund and raise more money to fund their lawsuits against the Trump Administration for failing to protect wildlife, Rad Campaign designed a large and “in your face” call to donate on a black background with bright yellow text using 6 different gift strings. It was placed on every page of the site to reach donor prospects no matter what page of the website they were on. To avoid being too intrusive, the call to action disappeared as users either scrolled down the page or clicked the “X” to close it. The fundraising call to action resulted in a significant increase in donations compared to just promoting fundraising ask in the homepage hero area.
2. Incorporating Micro-interactions
One of the big design elements that keep people addicted to platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and dating apps are micro-interactions to entice the user. These micro-interactions are where the user takes some sort of action and the website or app reacts to trigger a user response that’s often emotional. For example, every time you are on Facebook and someone comments on your Facebook post, you’re alerted via a beeping sound to prompt you to go and read it. Or, when you check Facebook, you may see a “thumbs up” on your latest post or a red icon showing how many notifications you’ve received. This is done intentionally to trigger a response and, in turn, additional action from the user.
3. The BIGGER the Text, the Better
Do you remember when large hero areas started to dominate nonprofit websites? While they are still widely used, large text on hero images and headlines with creative fonts are also now dominating websites beyond just the homepage hero area. Over the years, designers have felt pigeon-holed by the web, but with advances in web development, it’s easier for creative designs to scale across devices and screen sizes. Designers are taking creative freedoms to go bigger and bolder with typography to draw users into key content across website pages.
4. Massive Calls to Actions
On average, you have 5 seconds to engage someone visiting your nonprofit’s site and in that time, you have to tell them your mission, why they should care, and what they can do to get involved. One key method to hook people quickly is to push them to a prominent call to action that’s timely, deeply connected to your mission and provides target audiences with something they find very valuable. Many advocacy organizations already use homepage hijacks during year-end fundraising and rapid response campaigns, but they can do a lot more with calls to action throughout the year focused on the different ways their constituency can make an impact.
5. Chatbots
Most nonprofits aren’t using chatbots as part of their arsenal of communications tools yet, but it’s something nonprofits should consider to test if it’s a good fit.
For example, chatbots could be helpful if your organization has a dedicated customer support staff for an eCommerce store, program, or service people use or pay for. In these cases, chatbots can automate customer support functions for most FAQs or queries. For more complicated queries, the chatbot could direct these questions to the appropriate customer support team for follow-up.
6. Personalization
You don’t have to be Amazon to take advantage of website personalization. Nonprofits can also tailor their website to deliver personalized content to their donors, advocates, volunteers, and the media. Personalization can lead to the increased time spent on websites and, ultimately, more donation and advocacy conversions.
7. Video and Podcast Content Rules
In addition to providing another way for constituents and the media to consume your content, depending on their viewing preferences, Google is now featuring search page results with video content higher than standard web pages that don’t integrate video. Nonprofits have access to some of the most incredible and impactful stories on some of the toughest issues facing this world. Staff should be empowered to tell these stories through multiple mediums, including podcasts and videos.
8. Social Proof
Airbnb, Amazon, and Yelp all rely on social proof to help their audiences make decisions based on the experiences other users have shared. To put this in marketing terms, social proof is a tactic to optimize conversion rates.
There are a variety of ways nonprofits can use social proof on their websites to build more trust with their audiences, such as:
The Customers - Integrate ratings and reviews into your eCommerce store to encourage people to make that purchase and seal the deal. Studies have shown that nearly 70% of American shoppers sought out reviews before making a purchase online.
The Community - Highlight the number of advocates, donors, and volunteers who have joined your nonprofit to support your mission.
The Impact - Illustrate how your nonprofit has made an impact on the community you serve. For example, charity: water has been consistently transparent about sharing their data and their mission to bring clean, safe drinking water to every person on the planet.
Conclusion
An effective nonprofit website is consistently probably the greatest device in your promoting store for creating brand mindfulness and building a local area for giving guidance.
To make a nonprofit website design that addresses the issues of your intended interest group, first comprehend who precisely that client persona is.
Then, consider including the following must-haves as your nonprofit website best practices:
== Engaging images, graphics, and video
== Effective use of white space
== A prominent, global Donate button
== Responsive design for desktop and mobile devices
== Strategic search engine optimization
== Consistent blog content publishing
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Do you know why you should get your websites redesigned or revamped?
When you are running your business, you forget or ignore redesigning your website. Your website might be running well for the last many years, but the question is the website doing well?
Let’s rethink one more time!
Have you ever gone through your competitor’s website and you simply got blown away?
When well designed, these sites will offer perfect synergy between their design and the message that the company is trying to communicate – making you more likely to be interested in making a purchase or at least visiting the site again.
Why redesign a website?
Redesigning a website is done because of many reasons; it can vary depending on the marketing goals you want to achieve for your business. The main elements that are helped with redesigning a website are to rebrand your site, increase your traffic, generate more leads, and add functionality to improve the user experience.
A good website needs a purpose for it to be of any use, both to its owner and its visitors. That's why having a clear, solid strategy in place for it. Developers need to know:
=Who is the target audience?
=What pages are necessary and what value will they provide?
=What makes the business, and therefore the website, different from competitors?
=How do they want to be perceived?
=What are the company's goals and how will the website contribute to reaching them?
Why is website redesigning important?
Let’s have a look at the importance of website redesigning along with some techniques for better understanding for your businesses:
1. Always Updated and trendy:
To stay or set a trend in the market, you should search for algorithm updates, new tactics, and strategies for website marketing; as it always keeps on changing. Also, there are many digital features of digital marketing such as social media, email marketing, SEO, videos, advertisements, and so on; you can’t get updated all at once.
2. Reliability & Accountability:
In terms of reliability, it means you can ask your strategist about your numbers or update your current strategy. Strategies should be such that they can trust and know the best use of strategy. In terms of accountability, you will be having the one who will be accountable for your digital marketing strategy.
3. The main focus stays on growth :
Websites mean where you can focus on many aspects of growing your business. Comprising a good website redesigning , you can think of a team of good reliable members and responsible experts stating what needs to be done.
4. Understanding your Visitor’s Journey:
Understanding the buyer journey is crucial and applies to all of your websites. It’s similar to the
sales funnel, in which the process begins with more customers. Here’s the typical visitor’s journey process:
=To boost conversions, it is very important to establish the current conversion rate and come across an approach that would help to make the best moves to increase sales.
=Excellent tools are there that make it possible for you to understand the user's thoughts of interactions with your site. These tools make it possible for you to record, tag, and track the moves of visitors that comprise heat maps.
=Heat maps help you to get an idea of where visitors are clicking and scrolling the most.
=Think about an approach that would help you to point you in the right direction for the biggest growth opportunities. This approach helps to understand the products and information which is more helpful and important for customers.
5. Produce good quality content regularly:
It’s well said that content is the king, without content you have got nothing to get ranked. You must be thinking about how frequently you should redesign your content that has got sky-high SEO results? If you keep on publishing your SEO content on your site, this would result in more pages presented to get on to the top of Google search results for various keywords. Make sure, your content is to the point, presentable, and supportive.
Try to set up a detailed content calendar to put up at your readership and keep them complete with attractive and interesting content. You can do it on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Your audience will take you as a trustworthy source that would produce traffic.
6. Focus Your Efforts on Engagement:
While redesigning you need to connect with customers, you have to consider what they say. Website engagement works in two ways that are building customer’s trust and loyalty.
Your website will continue to grow as the No. 1 resource for customer care. In fact, our research has found that the most popular avenue people take for customer care is through websites (34.5%). What happened to 1-800 numbers? It turns out only 16.1% of people prefer 1-800 numbers as the main source for customer care help.
Conclusion
Hope this blog was helpful in making you understand what is website redesigning? You now know the redesigning definition, its types importance, and techniques. Websites that need to be redesigned are a smart investment that could increase your bottom line— only if you do it right.
=A good website has a strong and well-built digital presence to be found.
=You might have a very long road ahead to launch your online presence, but effective and well-planned steps can make a huge impact on your business.
=A few things help such as blogging; it might take a few months to get started with the traffic.
Website revamping plays a very efficient role to get immediate effects and especially when you want to retarget the audience.
Reference
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Did you know how low conversion rates can have a major impact on your eCommerce website?
Has it been happening to you that you are getting sufficient web traffic but not enough conversions? There might be a reason behind it, but first, let us understand what we really mean by conversion rates.
Conversion is a term used for the moment when a visitor takes an action on a website and 'converts' them into a customer. This implies that the conversion rate is the number of visitors to the website that turns into a customer. In the internet world, actions like purchasing an item are undeniably the most significant eCommerce conversion rates.
When you increase the eCommerce conversion rate, it automatically means that you are going to generate more revenue for the same amount of traffic. This also means increasing the effectiveness of the marketing budget. We have rounded up some of the top techniques that would help you quickly boost up your eCommerce conversion rates.
1. Make it easier for visitors to navigate through your website- A simple, efficient way to assess your site's navigation is to first visit a competitor's site. Write down any issues you're going through, as well as something that stands out as being extraordinary. Then, try to provide your customers with a similar experience by incorporating better features on your website.
An even easier way to measure is to make use of analytics to see how people access your site. Make improvements accordingly, run A/B or multivariate tests to ensure that you benefit from these changes rather than harming your site's performance. Continue testing and tweaking to ensure that your visitors get the best experience so that you achieve the desired outcome.
2. Post personalized content as much as possible- All the written content is equally important as the visual graphics to increase your customer engagement. Online shoppers don't like to be deceived by clicking on the many advertisements, so it's important that your e-commerce website has properly added information in alignment with what they're searching for.
Even the tiny details of your e-commerce site are essential. A strategically placed CTA button or success or error message should be to the point yet personal to keep the potential customer interested. Try changing the text of your CTA buttons and revamping your e-commerce content to fit your associated PPC advertising.
The written text on your e-commerce site should sound as though it were tailored to each individual customer. Your product details should be interesting, persuasive, and great to read while also being authentic to your business.
3. Expand your presence on social media platforms- Another perfect way to improve your brand image while using consumer feedback is to leverage the power of social media. Did you know that 61% of consumers rely on online reviews before making a purchasing decision? And these reviews could be testimonials, comments on social media, feedback on your product, etc.
You can use social media to your advantage in so many ways. Run efficient campaigns, indulge in influencer marketing, offer discounts and giveaways, and ask for customer reviews time and again. Social media platforms allow people to know more about your products and also enable them to relate it to their particular interests and needs.
4. Offer various discount coupons and vouchers- Maybe the only thing better than a discount for a customer would be the opportunity to tailor the discount they are about to get. Whereas, it is also very upsetting for a customer to receive a voucher or a deal in their mailbox, put their products in the basket, and then discover that the deal does not extend to their orders.
That said, it might be helpful to give your customers at least some discretion over how and when they use particular special discounts. Not only will this add a bit more personalized experience but it also allows them to do a little experimentation—possibly driving them to raise bigger purchases that they had not originally expected. Make these discount offers or coupons as enticing as possible to attract a customer's attention.
5. Give a guest checkout option to your visitors- Preferably, you may want that any person who made a purchase on your website may maintain a good relationship with your business in the future, this can't be the case always. Some will only want to make a particular purchase and might not even return; others may be buying a gift for someone and they might have little to no interest in your product lines and so on and so forth.
But whatever the case might be, encouraging people who wish to check out as a guest will prove to be beneficial for you and your website's conversion rates. However, you can try to make them register themselves on your website in numerous ways but keep both the options open and feasible. When you give them these opportunities, make sure you're straightforward on what's in it for them.
What is a good eCommerce conversion rate?
This is a question that is being often asked by a lot of people. Now, let’s try to keep things simple so that you understand.
If your online website receives 1,000 visitors and 10 conversions over a certain period of time, that means your eCommerce website's conversion rate is 1%.
Divide the conversion by the number of visitors and multiply it with 100, you have got the conversion rate.
The average eCommerce conversion rate for e-commerce is 1% – 2%.
So, even if you are taking all the necessary steps, you can only expect to win sales of about 2%. However, your baseline eCommerce conversion goal must be 2%+. Now that you have an idea about the eCommerce conversion rate average, you will be easily able to figure out what kind of conversion rates you are receiving.
Bottom Line
All the content on your e-commerce website should truly depict the essence of your business and ensure that consumers are engaged all of the time that they are on your website. From clicking on a PPC Google ad to making a purchase, the process should be simple, simple to follow as well as provide a user-friendly experience.
To increase your conversion rates, keeping an active customer feedback section can help you build a relationship with potential customers, as being able to see what satisfied customers are saying about your service or product can have a huge effect on their opinion of your brand. Whether it's a separate page on your website or created by posts on social media, feedback creates a space for authentic interaction with your e-commerce site and its products.
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Have you ever doubted whether the business of yours has made enough money as you wanted? As we all are well-versed with the crucial role of the well designed and well-executed website that runs especially for your business.
Thus having a beautiful, efficient, and user-friendly website could spark the difference between taking their business to the next level or at the level of stagnation.
The types of factors that are involved in it are many and outlined strongly based on their presence.
Moreover, even the success of any business depends upon how one can become the business owner or can even decide the course of business which is meant to approach or create strategies that are much easier for their business.
If a web-developer did not design the website professionally then their business revenue can be affected seriously.
It is known to all of us that the major goal of a successful presence on the web server is to allow one to increase their business revenue. It can also be achieved through mobile apps, a mobile-friendly site as well as other strategies that allow a website to play a major role.
7 Factors that increase the company revenue of your website are here-
Control the interactivity of your website
It is usually said that the well-designed UI (User Interface) is used to determine the exact way a customer can interact with their website.It also allows one to strategically place the marketing tool option like CTA (call to actions) and further helps in guiding the visitors towards the desired outcome that occurs through the sale. If a web-developer thinks of applying an effective UI design then they might smoothen the interaction and make it more seamless.
2. Campaigns and promotion
There is a saying that if a product is marketed well in the industry then its credit goes to the promotional activities. By referring to this platform, one can effectively use SEO, social media marketing as well as blogging to create engaging promotions.Often referred to as the promotional tools that attract people and also serve the interest in their company, campaign execution has become the most to-do task and is even much more helpful in controlling the message.
3. Testimonials
Reviews Reflect Reputation of the Organization-Isn't it true that reviews and testimonials are the real founding stones of the digital business in today’ s world? Of course, it is true after all before buying services and products from companies customers usually review the reputation of the company and even prefer to read testimonials. Provides Right Set of Information-Suppose, if you are looking for a real estate property over the Internet and you may come across thousands of real estate agents who will knock at everything to make you convert as one of their leads and the chances are there that you might get fooled because the presence of fraudulency is more on the social media.Brand’s Recognition works as a founding stone-You as a consumer may not read every testimonial but would prefer to buy the product whose name is known to all.Transparent Review Prevail More-The major problem faced by the web-developer is that the review-based platforms aren't usually under their control.
But if you are a business owner then you may easily showcase your brand to the whole by using this technique.
Adds more trust-Moreover, it is referred to as the legitimate and honest review tool option that one should use. On the other side, it portrays the sense of trustworthiness and peace of mind to actual clients whenever they wish to buy your products or services.
4. Be reachable to everyone
More Mobile Internet Users-From a recent survey, it has been found that nearly 71% of the American prefer to use the internet via a mobile device. Seamless Connectivity to Web Servers-One could easily imagine the possibilities of reaching out to more and more people if the connectivity of the webserver works effectively and there is no disruption of the internet. Efficient use of web technology-Thus, in other words, one can efficiently use web technology and cater to the needs of customers by ensuring that no disruption in the connectivity of the internet occurred.Authentication of the website-It is damn true that if your website is authenticated one then it may even reach the masses by stepping in the conventional marketing approach too.Enhances the Visibility of Web Page-Even the onset of incoming traffic on your website will improve its visibility on Google's page and redefine the awareness of the brands.
On the other end, if a marketer wishes to penetrate a new market then he will definitely require more leads that are considered to be enough in converting into the new revenues.
5. Creation of a website is next to investment, read to know-how
Higher Investment, Better Returns-Every moment you think of spending heavy bucks on your website then does think of how much will be the rate of return when profits will be reaped from it. In a layman's language, even a small business heavily relies upon investment although the amount of money put in may be less.Creation of Professional Templates-Template your website professionally so that it speaks volume about the prolific work your organization has done so far and constitute the core factors that have strengthened the roots of your organization in the industry. Increases the Traffic-Trust us, it will create an impact and let the audience revisit your site and a very percentage of the people from that audience might be the first time customers of yours. Who knows what would come next after all it is a digital world where ups and downs of the product depend upon the search of the user, not on the points of SENSEX. Enables one to use Cloud Computing Software-Re-learn about new tools that are constantly coming up in the market and try to grasp the practical usage of it. Ten years before, you may not have even wondered if cloud computing and AI (artificial intelligence) are the next big things waiting for you.
Running even a small start-up of merely four people is not at all easy as all four of them need to be prepared to face psychological changes that might face owing to the fact the more milestones they would cross, the stronger their will power to outdo things will become rigid.
6. Add the touch of creative visualization
Whether you're marketing a car model or your targeted audience is the high school students for whom you're planning to penetrate the ed-tech field then you are in the need of hunting down different ways that will let you capture leads without relying upon cold-calling.
Germinate Creative Designs- As they say, a brand that appeals is the one that sells like a hot cake but how can the website become the hottest selling stuff overnight, this must have been your doubt, aren't we right? Yes, after all, your website is the lifeblood of your business without you may not sail easily.Understand the needs and demands of buyers-Connecting the dots backward is the only way one can move forward, a quote by Steve Jobs even holds a deeper understanding even today. Because if you aim to attract visitors then it is only possible when you know the needs and demands of them and fully understand their buying capacity. Use Creative Graphics-Adding creative graphics especially the ones that are designed on graphic designing software like Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Illustrator, and even the latest one Doodly do not only enhance the appealing magnitude of a website but also make it worthy to be used on the web-server. The websites' themes emerging from the grounds of creative thinking not only drives the traffic but marks a seamless horizon allowing the websites to sustain for more period.
7. Computational and rotational graphics
Prefer UI and UX Designs- UI and UX designs are the two wheels through which a website runs on better speed than from its competitors but ever thought what more could you have done to add-life long mileage and create your brand as the leading pioneer of success in the market. If we are not wrong then you must have thought about it and most of the time you might not have easily figured out beyond computer graphics.Enhance Interactivity of website-Wait for a second, what if we tell you that you can use graphics that will move? In other words the design images embedded on your website do not necessarily mean to remain static; they can surely move just like the message-pop comes with help of CTAs and landing pages.Thorough understanding of programming languages-But before dwelling into this, a web-developer strongly needs to feed the code like HTML, JAVA script that will run smoothly in running your website.Add Motion Graphics on the Webpage-If you have searched the websites of foreign organizations most probably of German tech-companies then you could easily get the feedback that how creativity in graphic designs along with the stroke of motion graphics can do wonders because it all surely attracts you first that too for more than a minute.
Conclusion
Nothing in the field of digital marketing is surprisingly easy as it was earlier known to you and it is not at all similar to traditional marketing. What one would require is to analyze the web designing of established giants in the IT industry and deep-dive about how they can mint high revenues and find out the reason behind them becoming the master leader. We are 100% sure, you will be amazed to see how factually they have represented their company’s information as well as services and designed links in such a way that ads of other brands do appear on it stating that the website is ready to be used for another 12 months.