Web Design Blog Canberra

Let's face it: running a small business is a full-time job in itself, and trying to master the 'technical' side of your website can feel like adding another full-time job on top of it. You deserve a website that works as hard as you do - without the headache. Here, I break down the complexities of web design, SEO, and site maintenance into bite-sized, actionable advice so you can stop wrestling with your backend and start focusing on what you do best: running your business.

Web Design

Choosing Web Fonts for Your Website

Website typography is an important aspect of small business web design but one that is sometimes overlooked. Whether you have decided to make some updates to your existing website to keep up with trends or have made the decision start a new website for your business in order to better your online presence you’re making a good decision. As advances in web design increase, it’s important to keep up to date. Your website’s visitors will expect your page to load and run smoothly without frustrations and hindrance’s. One of the best ways to make sure…

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Web Design

What you need to tell your Canberra Web Designer

A Local Canberra Web Designer that listens An experienced Canberra web designer will know that your website is a tool through which you can reach your target demographic & customers, but will need some important information to help them deliver an effective website and devise a solid strategy. Whether you’re a long established small business or a start-up, you’re probably aware of the power of digital marketing as part of your business plan. You might be new to the realm of web design, or perhaps you’ve decided it’s time to give your current website a…

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Web Design

Why WordPress is a bad choice for your small Canberra business

WordPress is for web designers that can’t design, can’t code and don’t care. I can certainly understand the appeal that Wordpress presents and for most this would seem like it is the popular choice when considering a CMS (content management system) for your website. However while Wordpress may appear shiny on the outside its internal code and plugins have a history of causing so many issues for small business website owners I’m surprised that more businesses have not gone broke overnight because of this atrocious platform. Having read horror stories about Wordpress developers that work…

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Web Design

5 Reasons why your Canberra Business Website needs a Blog

If you run a small Canberra business and have a website, chances are the thought may have crossed your mind if it’s worthwhile having a blog on your website? The short answer is absolutely! Writing blog posts on a regular basis is quiet an easy and inexpensive way to enhance your marketing efforts, help drive traffic to your site, and attract more prospective customers. You may think that there are so many other more important things you need to do in order to keep your business running so quiet often writing blog posts is overlooked or not considered…

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Web Design

Essential Elements of a Small Business Website

What should a small business website look like?  Once you know what the important elements of a small business website should be, this will make it easier to work out how your website should look and what pages you need to include. Below is a list of elements and features that most small Canberra business websites should be integrating into their design. At Neondragonfly Web Design I offer Canberra Web Design services that are inclusive of most of these website features. 1. Navigation bar arrangement Without a well-designed and organised navigation bar your website visitors will find it…

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SEO & Marketing

Why you should use social meta tags

Your website visitors are guided visually.  When they see the great content, services, video or other cool things they find on your website or blog, they will share it. Now wouldn’t it be great if that wasn’t just a plain link in the post, tweet or Facebook share but a quick image sample or preview of your awesome content? What are Meta Tags Meta tags make it possible for search engines and social media networks to get the required information from your website and display it in a visual way instead of just a plain old…

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