Stop me if you've heard this one before. With any large-scale project, whether it be building a website or building a house, there's three things that everybody wants: 1. Make it Cheap! Nobody wants to spend a lot of money. This is the #1 request of clients who want website, but it holds true of just about everything. Why do people shop at Wal-Mart? Probably not because of the Quality! 2. Make it Quick! For most website projects, clients want the thing to be done "yesterday." Now, I'm going to give folks the benefit of the doubt here. I'm sure they realize that a website can't magically materialize out of nothing. Right? Please? Tell me they don't think this stuff is easy. Right? 3. Make it High Quality! Everybody wants their website to be the best. Everybody wants their project to be the best thing since sliced Spam (you can get it sliced?!). Better than FaceBook! Bigger than eBay! More profitable than [insert billion dollar company here]! Are you ready for some tough love? Are you ready for some common sense wisdom? No. You can't have all that. » Read the rest of the entry..

As web designers, we see it all the time. The “I want to be unique and different, but I want my site to look JUST LIKE that site I just saw that is selling the same things and has the same concept as I do…” (Did that sentence even remotely make sense?) A cynical person would say that there is no individuality left in the world, “you can’t reinvent the wheel, you can only improve it; yadda yadda yadda.” While that is true, you can appreciate other websites and take artistic pointers, you don’t have to copy. Ask yourself how the designer or owner of that website would feel if they were to come across your website and see that you had copied their vision right down to the logo, color scheme and tag-lines. » Read the rest of the entry..

It's no secret, a shopping cart site takes a lot of planning. Before you even think of hiring a web designer, make sure that you have all of your ducks in a row. Where do I begin? 1. Website Name & Domain Registration. Everybody uses GoDaddy. You should, too. 2. Web Host which supports PHP and MYSQL. We recommend Blue Host. 3. Company logo 4. Color scheme. If you just want a template site, check out Template Monster. » Read the rest of the entry..