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August 29, 2016

New Responsive Mobile Friendly Website Design

Filed under: Blog Articles,Custom Website,Mobile Friendly Website,Photo Retouching,Responsive Websites,Search Engine Optimization,Social Media — Tags: Custom Website Design, Mobile Friendly, Responsive website design, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Social Media, Website Design, Website Marketing — Jeff Weissberg @ 4:40 pm

Another new responsive mobile friendly website just launched by SoCal WebWorx – a southern California website design and development company.

https://globalcarpetcleaningusa.com is the latest in a series of websites for startup companies and small businesses. SoCal WebWorx likes to partner with these companies and help their businesses grow. The agency level and diversified services offered provide an excellent match for these businesses with fast return on investment.

A highlight of the website is the Services page with roll-over listings of services and photos.

The site also features full integration with social media and key business resources including Home Advisor, the Better Business Bureau. The latter two provide extensive approval rating information and a wealth of referrals from satisfied clients.

As with many similar companies, SCWW provided full turn-key services to bring Global Carpet Care USA into Google mobile device compliance, provide contemporary new branding and offer marketing, copy editing, photo research and enhancement and SEO services along with graphic design and web development.

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August 19, 2016

Photo Retouching for Websites

Filed under: Blog Articles,Photo Retouching,Photography Services — Tags: Photography Services, Website Design — Jeff Weissberg @ 10:48 am

Look your best – the Internet is a visual medium.

As such your graphic designer needs to make your products and photos look as clean and attractive as possible. One key is starting off with high-resolution photos. Another helpful tip is to have your photos professionally retouched and enhanced as needed.

In this example as a first step we took an original photo of a carpet cleaning company vehicle and removed it from its mundane background. We then combined the vehicle image with a stock photo to help communicate a strong visual message describing the client’s carpet cleaning service.

Client Supplied Photo – Retouched, Enhanced and Used In Website Banner

More on product photography and photo retouching…

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August 18, 2016

More Font Fun

Filed under: Blog Articles,Google,Website Design — Tags: Custom Website Design, Graphic designer, Website Design — Jeff Weissberg @ 10:44 am

Typography is still relevant as a key element in website design.

A few more trending fonts in the Google font library. All are open source (free) and well suited for custom contemporary looking responsive website design (mobile friendly).

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August 15, 2016

Using Google Fonts in Website Design

Filed under: Blog Articles,Blog Post,Custom Website,Google,Website Design,WYSIWYG — Tags: Custom Website Design, Google Fonts, graphic design, Website Design, WYSIWYG — Jeff Weissberg @ 11:11 am

Website designers were traditionally limited to a small group of fonts that could be rendered in HTML for Internet viewing. The most commonly used included: Helvetica, Arial, Times, Times New Roman and Verdana.

Thanks to Google, designers and clients can now safely choose from over 800 open source (free) fonts for website designing. The Google font website is extremely easy and intuitive to use. The interface features include a directory of all fonts categorized by Serif, Sans Serif, Display, Handwriting and Monospace. Fonts can be sorted by which are currently Trending, Popular, Date Added and Alphabetical as well as in by language. Sorting can be further refined based on the number of Styles for a particular font family as well as Thickness, Slant and width. These multiple filters allow for quickly zeroing in on available fonts for specific usages.

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August 11, 2016

Tending Website Design Fonts

Filed under: Blog Articles,Website Design — Tags: Website Design — Jeff Weissberg @ 11:25 am

If you are designing a custom website you should be aware of the fonts being used and that thoughtful font selections can help your site stand out from the crowd and establish your unique company brand.

Here are three currently popular fonts. These all work well for current website design trends.
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Some particular strengths of each font family are as follow:
• Arvo: Use for headlines for a fresh different look.
• Raleway: Use for body verbiage. This font family contains 18 different faces ranging from “Thin” to “Black Italic” which offers lots of design flexibility and variations.
• Open Sans: Use for headlines and body verbiage for a clean looking design. This font family contain 12 different faces ranging from “Condensed Light” to “Bold Italic”. (more…)

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May 14, 2016

Responsive Website Design – Static Banner Images vs Rotating Images

Filed under: Blog Articles,Mobile Friendly Website,Responsive Websites,Smart Phone Websites — Tags: Responsive website design, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Smart Phone Website, Website Design — Jeff Weissberg @ 10:33 am

Now that Google has determined that websites will be penalized in search results if they are not mobile friendly, every smart business is rushing re-do their website to meet these requirement.

In the process, many aspects of website design have changed.

Once such often suggested change is to eliminate rotating banner images in favor of just one banner image/photo. The current trend to a single image is fueled by the need for mobile sites to load as quickly as possible. But, you can have the best of both worlds. With a little coding a site can be programmed to have multiple Rotating Images on the desktop view and be limited to a single static image on the mobile view.

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