by Andy Cleary | Jan 21, 2012 | Putting Your Web to Work
Is WordPress™ the Answer? WordPress™ is a “free” blogging platform that can take your old website and turn it into a “fully-functional website on steroids.” Orbit Design recommends that most of the web sites that we design be hosted as a WordPress™ site, which can be...
by Andy Cleary | Dec 22, 2011 | Putting Your Web to Work
What is website usability? As a design firm, we spend a lot of time designing websites that are, first and foremost, apathy killers, in order to interrupt the set thought patterns of customers. If we can’t get and keep their attention, all the website usability in the...
by Andy Cleary | Dec 8, 2011 | Putting Your Web to Work
How to Win Trust on the Web Trust is perhaps the most critical issue in internet marketing. As previously discussed, the three types of consumer trust are: Ability Trust – Does your customer trust that your firm is capable of getting the job done? Benevolence Trust –...
by Andy Cleary | Apr 21, 2010 | Putting Your Web to Work
Do you always want people to find what they want on your site? The answer is YES if you are Wikipedia or a large knowledge base, because you are in the business of providing answers and relevant information. If you are selling a service, a product or intellectual...
by John Stavola | Jun 5, 2009 | Putting Your Web to Work
I’m reading the book Inside Steve’s Brain and it was a surprising look into the mind of Steve Jobs – the man behind most, if not all of Apple Computers success. I didn’t know much about the man behind the company and was intrigued at his...