Being a Website Designer in 2010 is quite different than being a website designer of later years. Competent website designers own a great deal more skill sets other than being a whiz at graphics. Graphics are becoming secondary in relationship to other skill sets that enable a designer to be at the top of their industry.
Business website owners are becoming increasingly more aware of internet marketing and how it can influence their bottom line. In years past a business website was used mainly as an online business card. Today a business owner’s company website is a viable marketing tool.
Furthermore business owners are searching out designers with search engine optimization skills and background. A design firm without a SEO expert is playing second fiddle to design firms with an internet marketing team working in unison with the designers and business owner.
Business websites need to be engineered from square one with SEO in mind. Content organizing and navigation needs to be SEO friendly. The content needs to be written with keyword and keyword phrases targeting the search engines for the market that the website is targeting.
The day of using H-tags for styling are over! Effective business websites need to be designed by a developer that is well versed in correctly semantically coding in content. Designers need to take advantage of the tags and other elements of webpage code.
Effective page titles need to be written. Using the company name is no longer accepted! Engaging titles that utilize keywords and phrases are paramount.
Meta descriptions need to well written as well utilizing keywords and phrases. Meta tags are very important as it describes the web page to the organic search engines.
Being a competent Website Designer today is a great deal more than displaying pop and fizz. A website designer that engages SEO and Internet Marketing will not only make them a more viable designer but will be doing their clients justice. It costs a great deal more to design a website and then hire a SEO professional to redesign the business website to be a effective marketing tool and rank well in the organic search engines.
Great.. An article right to the point.
Being an owner of a website show off him / her as a GEEK. But no more these days 🙂 its a very common on where any one can have one with their favorite name and as quoted SEO becomes the real challenge in this growing trend. 🙂
Great article by the way.
Great article jacob thanks for sharing..!
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Well Optimized Article Jacob, good job 🙂
Web designing. I’m interetred as well.
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Web designing is getting very popular by the day.
It takes time for any one to make a mark in this field. One needs to be patient for this purpose.
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The web-designing was exposed to several rapid changes during last couple of years. There are a lot of talented web designers now, i think most of them have the strong ‘Professional’ background so that they can easily overcome these challanges. But these could be some great challenge for newbie designers
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ya i really accept this my friend 🙂
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Website design business is gaining more popularity now with the rise and increase of bloggers. However, since there is also a lot of people who know how to design a website using PHP, CSS and HTML programming, this business is seen to be very competitive nowadays.
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Cool Thinking!
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Both the search engines and the net savvy guys are turning wiser.
Looks can never deceive either of them.
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Ya u r really rite..
World is always developing and everyone needs to pull up there skilss and designers are no exception !!!
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Every web designer must learn marketing strategies and seo to succeed. Many business are more interested on google ranks instead designs.
Web Designing has always been considered as a third world mediocre job (which isn’t very true) and the recent recession has made it even more challenging for the people in the profession.
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It's the biggest challenge in the coming years.
Technology is changing and improving day by and it's big challenge to the web designers and developers to keep new languages and technology up to date.
New technology is emerging very fast.
Thanks to aware us !
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The article doesn’t meet my expectation. It could have been better with a tweet to be honest.
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