Apress - Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites

The best business websites serve their readers with strong content, well-architected design, and a focus on usability, readability, and accessibility. This book covers the fundamental aspects of building a website that works for the company, not against it. It covers the essentials of strong copywriting, and then dedicates several chapters to designing user-centric About, Products and Services, and Support sections.

Your visitors come to your site because they are interested in your business and are therefore potential customers. This book covers taking advantage of that traffic by expanding the companys story through a corporate blog and using testimonials, case studies, and other third-party validation to reinforce the marketing message. With this knowledge you will be able to create and maintain a highly professional, polished business site.

While a pleasing website is essential for any modern business, creating it is only a small piece of the online strategy. This book also discusses search engine optimization, using e-mail and RSS to communicate with customers and prospects, and advertising the corporate domain with paid search placement, online banners, text links, and more. The primary theme is using your corporate website to market the business effectively, from designing intelligent product pages to writing compelling e-mail newsletters. This book explores those ideas and offers compelling advice on how to take full advantage of the Web as a marketing medium.

In this book you'll learn how to:
Implement best practices in corporate web design, with a focus on common sections such as About, Products and Services, Customer Support, and more
Use e-mail and RSS marketing to stay in touch with customers and prospects
Apply simple and effective search engine optimization techniques to push your website higher in search engine results
Advertise the site through e-mail, paid search placement, banner ads, and more
Write professional, accessible, and usable pages to make your site available to everyone
Summary of Contents
Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: Content
Chapter 3: Accessibility
Chapter 4: Architecture and Navigation
Chapter 5: The Homepage
Chapter 6: The About Section
Chapter 7: Products and Services
Chapter 8: Independent Validation
Chapter 9: The Corporate Blog
Chapter 10: Customer Support
Chapter 11: Contingency Planning
Chapter 12: Legalese
Chapter 13: Search Engine Optimization
Chapter 14: Outbound Marketing
Chapter 15: Online Advertising
Appendix: Resources


About the Author
Kevin has been working on the web for almost ten years, having started his career designing his first employer\'s website with Netscape and Notepad. He has spent the bulk of his design career working in-house as both a graphic designer and internal web developer. Coupled with years of freelance and agency work, Kevin has created dozens of websites for businesses of all sizes in an array of industries.

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