Three Areas to Pay Attention to For a Successful Website or Blog

There are approximately 340 million blog sites in the world today and one new blog is designed and created every minute. The content on a blog is as varied as the individuals and companies behind those sites. Yet, there are three areas where all business websites or weblogs must pay attention if they (or their business venture) intend to be successful:

The Site is Pleasing to the Eye
Attention to detail, a theme that works well with the content or product and “freshness” in the design is something that is essential if you want to keep the reader on your site for more than a few seconds. A majority of bloggers update their complete look on a yearly basis and change headers and format even more frequently. Don’t let your audience get bored with a familiar look.

The Site is Easy to Navigate
Most people have precious little time and will appreciate when they come to your website or blog and can quickly and easily find what they are looking for. Research shows that if a person cannot locate what they are looking for in seven seconds, they move on to another site. Make sure you test your site and the time it takes to move from one section to the next.

The Site Can be Found Easily
Much has been written about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The Web is a huge place and a website or blog can be lost without the prominent search engine such a Google and Yahoo being able to find it. Think of it as the catalog in a library. Imagine looking for a book without some sort of systematic way to categorize and find its location.

Gettingraphic is particularly strong in integrating all three of these important aspects so that you can maximize your marketing dollars, and ultimately, your success. These days the competition is far too great to allow your design to be too stale, too slow in navigation or too hard to find for your potential clients or followers. Contact Gettingraphic at 480.585.2196 today to schedule an appointment. You’ll be glad you did!

Repowering America

We are members of the WE Campaign, which is a movement to help this planet survive. In order to do this, things need to change. Help us, log onto http://www.wecansolveit.com and become part of the movement that will ensure a great life for our children.

Al Gore will be testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about repowering America and the need for us to resume global leadership on the climate crisis. As you know, it's a critical time in our country and we all have a role to play. Watch the video.



In Congress, our leaders are debating an economic recovery package. It includes unprecedented support for putting Americans back to work building a clean energy economy.

But entrenched interests in Washington will be working hard to weaken the legislation -- opposing funding for clean energy programs that support things like wind, solar, energy efficiency and a new national electric grid.

As members of Congress work out the details of a bill that can pass both the House and the Senate, it's important that you let each of your elected representatives know that you want the recovery to be about repowering America.

You and I know that continuing with the status quo will not revitalize the U.S. economy. Please make sure your elected officials know, too.

Watch the video and send a quick note to Congress:

http://www.RepowerAmerica.org/RecoveryVideo

Today, we can start to get America back on track.

Getting fit for the new year - Business / websites

Most people make the new years resolution to get fit, lose weight or just get a little healthier. As a Phoenix Website Design Company, we recommend doing the same thing to your website.

Get Fit:

• Clean up the look of your website.
• Change the design, follow some of the new trends so your website design does not look out dated.

Lose Weight:

• Replace the pages on your website that do not pertain to your business anymore.
• Eliminate products and services that you do not sell any more.
• Delete images that re outdated and make your site look old.
• Cut the dead weight that gives your reader the wrong idea about your business.

Get Healthier:

• Hire a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firm (like Gettingraphic) to help streamline your content
• Pick new keywords
• Build links
• Get your site more traffic.

Contact Gettingraphic Design for a free website evaluation today, 480.585.2196.

Gettingraphic - Giving Back

Gettingraphic is giving back. We focus on giving back all year round, but we try to do a little more during the holidays. This year we partnered with AASK, a foster care mentoring program to start a toy drive to help give a toy to the children that have been forgotten. Also, instead of giving holiday gifts to all of our clients, we took that money and put it to a better use, buying toys for children that do not receive toys for the holidays. As for gifts to our families, we were creative this year and gave the gift of bees using through the Heifer Foundation, these bees will generate income for an impoverished community.

Other ways we give back through the year:

Donate your time.
We belong to AASK, where we mentor a foster child to give them someone to talk to and spend time with outside of the foster care system. This is very beneficial to the child, and to us. You see how they grow, and you learn so much about them, and at the same time you give them so much, just by caring, and wanting to spend time with them.

Plant a tree.
With every new contract Gettingraphic receives, we donate a percentage of our profit to planting trees in different parts of the American Forests to help save our planet. The forests are a very important thing in our lives, and is something that we should not forget about when donating money to Charities.

Animals in Arizona.
Gettingraphic also donates money to the Humane Society, and other non-profit animal shelters to help fight against puppy mills, and to try and give a life to dogs and cats that have been given up either because someone did not care enough, or just could not afford them.

These are just a few ideas on giving back, anything you do can help so please think of someone that does not have anything this year.