Web design blog

Keeping your website up to date shouldn't be a time consuming or laborious process. With the right content management system you should be able to make changes to your website quickly and easily from wherever you are, whenever you want to as often as you want to. Creating new pages should be as simple as clicking a button and there need not be any restriction around the number of pages you can create. 

Great websites are a carefully balanced combination of the website design, the ease of usability, the ability to find the content your audience is looking for and that meets the business goals of the website owner. First impressions count more in the online world than they do in the offline world. If a visitor to your website leaves having had a bad experience it's likely that they wont come back for a second visit. If your analytics indicate a high bounce rate or that your users are spending very little time on your website you would do well to look at the usability of your website and if you're driving your visitors into the arms of your competition.

£1 in every £10 is now spent online and the number of people purchasing online is increasing. Now more than ever before it’s important for retailers business to set up eCommerce sites that stand out from their competitors and engage their customers. Many businesses forget that the web can be a scary place for consumers and most people will only use sites they trust.

Total UK online sales will have reached £69bn by the end of 2011 (Source: Marketingmagazine.co.uk), and online sales are growing at 6 times the rate of high street sales! These figures demonstrate that this is still an area of massive growth in the UK, so if your business does not already have a revenue stream from online sales, it is time to sell your products and services online with an ecommerce website. It’s not just business to consumer sellers who are seeing an increase in sales, ecommerce is as well suited to business to business sales.

Facebook marketing provides you with a means to engage with your target market, drive traffic to your website and increase your visibility in the search engines.

82% of the UK Population now use the internet (Source Internetworldstats.com) so it stands to reason that each and every business should have an online presence, so that they can be found, as the first thing most people do now when looking for something is “Google it”.

Getting found in search engines (Search engine optimisation or SEO) is one of the best ways to attract traffic to your website, but do you know what words your site is currently being found for, and are those words/phrases creating leads for you?

The latest statistics available prove that website design should be optimised for mobile browsing. If you are not sure how your website performs on a smart phone or mobile device, it really is worth testing it as soon as possible as the statistics below reflect:

From 1st March 2011, the UK code of Non-broadcasting advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing has applied to marketing messages on the internet.

Each day 30 million adults in the UK use the internet; that 65% represents a huge populace that you could be reaching online.  We can help you target the right potential customers, with the right messages, to grow your business. Sound advice from Covenant Solutions means getting your first website built (or an existing website redesigned) is easier than you think.