Sunday, January 13, 2008

It Looks Like It Was Designed by a Twelve-Year-Old! The Importance of Effective Web Site Design

Putting up a Web site for your business, whether just to direct people to your store or office location or as an entire online mail-order store, is essential for any business that hopes to succeed. The Pew Internet & American Life Project (www.pewinternet.org) studied online use in America and estimates that 70 million Americans log on to the Internet each and every day.

Pew states that 81% of those users researched a product or service while online. What if they were looking for the product or service your business sells and they don’t find a Web site for your company? Or possibly worse, what if they did find a Web site for your company and were put off by the amateur Web design?

The Executive Business Center at www.theebc.com is one Web site design, hosting, and ecommerce company that will help you avoid potential Internet business disaster. Hire a professional Web site design company to ensure that your Web site not only keeps customers from turning tail with one look at your site, but that it also drives more and more customers to keep coming back.

TheEBC.com has five great Web hosting packages all designed with a different kind of business Web site in mind. TheEBC.com’s Basic Starter Web design package might be just what you need. Are you on a budget and you just want a simple Web site design that highlights your company’s products or services, customer service success, history, and contact information?

For $299, TheEBC.com’s Basic Starter Web design package will get you one year of free Internet hosting and a free domain name, three pre-designed (but original) Web site pages, and free updates for thirty days. Additional Web site pages are $50 each. If you’re part of a company that performs most of its business transactions offline, this small, concise Web site design will effectively represent you on cyber-space and draw customers to your front door.

For $399 you can go one step up with TheEBC.com’s Custom Starter Web site design package. The Custom Starter package includes all of the Basic Starter package’s amenities except that it includes a completely custom design that reflects your company’s business ventures instead of the pre-designed pages.

Do you already have a Web site design that hasn’t really helped draw in the clientele you had hoped? You can transfer your Web site domain and all of its contents and leave it in the capable hands of TheEBC.com with the Existing Plan Web site design package ($599). Get a complete, original revamp of your Web site design with one-year free hosting and a domain name, free content updates as needed for an entire year, unlimited pages, free search engine optimization, and free search engine submission for six months.

If you’ve yet to make your mark on the Internet, you can get all of the benefits of TheEBC.com’s Existing Plan package in the New Plan Web site design package ($799), except that TheEBC.com staff will work with you to design your Web site from the ground up.

Many successful businesses are conducted entirely online. You could sell wholesale or handmade products and work out of kitchen in your home! Even if you do have a store, you can augment your income exponentially by opening an online version of your store. If you plan to open an online business and all or much of your business transactions will be conducted over the Internet, TheEBC.com’s e-Shop Web design package could be perfect for you!

For $999 the first year, the e-Shop Web design package offers you all of the Existing or New Plan benefits as well as an extensive shopping cart and checkout program to make online shopping easier for your customers. You’re also welcome to list unlimited products for sale for a year, so your online business possibilities are endless!

A Web site design company like TheEBC.com can give you the tools you need to succeed. “Reel” in all of those eyes online with a professional, easy-to-use business Web site design!


About the Author: Amy McNulty is a freelance writer and editor.

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