A good webpage should allow an average member of the public to understand what the page is about or the services provided almost instantly.

When people visit your webpage, they will want to be entertained or informed, to join a community or to purchase goods or services.  If you have a good web design, you will easily demonstrate to people how you can meet their needs. Visitors will not stay on your site for any length of time if they do not instantly feel that it will do this. Manchester web design can help in creating websites that capture your visitor’s attention quickly.

This is why there should be a clear navigation scheme and layout on a company's website. If people feel that they can instantly understand your website, they are likely to view your business favourably and have a better chance of buying products from you.

People generally go online to succeed in fulfilling a goal. You should aim to provide the information visitors to your website are looking for as simply as possible. If you do not give them the specifics they are after in a concise and easy-to-understand way, they will assume you cannot help them and your website will have failed in its purpose.

It is also essential for a web design to be visually appealing to casual browsers. There are countless poorly-made webpages, with garish or jarring colour schemes and a failure to appreciate the browsing experience common features of these.

Many web designers do not appreciate the importance of contrast when creating sites. It is very difficult for people to read lightly-toned text against a pale or white background, so your company might not be viewed professionally if the content on your pages is hard to read and visitors will be turned away from your products.

The page layout should be clearly organised and the colour scheme and content should blend together seamlessly, rather than seem disjointed and confused. Web users almost intrinsically avoid areas that look like advertisements, so blinking or animated images, flashing text and other attention-grabbing features can be counterproductive.

Content should be well-spaced and easy to scan, with short paragraphs, simple languages and common fonts particularly effective.

Consistency throughout every area of a company's online presence is also highly recommended. If users have already experienced your website design on your page, they will know what to expect when visiting other parts of the site. If the appearance of the pages constantly changes, users will begin to dislike browsing it and might visit a competitor instead.

Call Sizzle Media web design Manchester today on 0161 820 8577 to find out more.

Sizzle Media have been selected by LeaderGen, one of the region’s leading consultancies which actively works on  local, national and international basis with established and emerging leaders, developing innovative training and pragmatic solutions to aid organisations to invest their resources and knowledge, back in to local, regional and national communities.

Sizzle Media have been tasked to develop a web based solution that captures the essence of the LeaderGen ethos, and enables them to deliver their services fully utilising web technology.

Having already created the site for LeaderGen CEO Marilyn Comrie OBE earlier this year www.marilyncomrie.com, Marilyn said “Sizzle Media continue to demonstrate their ability to not only deliver a technical solution, but to also help in the development of the business concept”

Aftab Ali, Sizzles Creative Director said “As with all our clients, we like to share our experience and pass on our knowledge to help businesses thrive in these challenging times. This is a concept that both Sizzle Media and LeagerGen feel very passionate about and we are looking forward to delivering a strong solution.”

This month saw the arrival of a new package at Sizzle Media web design Manchester. After much deliberation as to who had the privilege of opening the surprise package; we resorted to give it a good booting around the office. That was before we saw the FRAGILE stamp across the side.

Imagine our shock when after a few more targeted wellies the strange brown box marked FRAGILE began to twitch and a muffled voice could be heard. Stefan who’s easily shaken was ready to take an old web designers keyboard to the now squealing box; when all of sudden the whole box structure failed and out fell our new designer coughing out a mouthful of Styrofoam.

Fresh from Manchester heavyweights PH Media; Tom Harding joins our design team  bringing with him 3 years of creative experience to help support the Sizzle Media Manchester web design team in delivering awesome websites to businesses across the North West of the creative universe.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester have seen steady growth through the recession and continue to expand their team to cope with increasing demands for their web design and corporate web design services. With three members of staff joining the Sizzle Media ranks this year, there are plans to expand the Manchester web design sales team to solidify their position as one of Manchester top web design teams.

Born out of the recession and credit crunch, whilst people were shutting their doors and going out of business, Sizzle Media web design Manchester invested in growth and stability, and now employ an industry leading team of business advisers, website designers and web developers at our North Manchester offices.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester deliver strong online websites, critical for any business to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace. Sizzle Media Web design Manchester helps any business make strong gains on the web by creating a complete corporate identity, online advertising campaigns and designing stunning websites that deliver results.

If your one of the brave business people who are setting up a new business in the Manchester area and need a website, or are looking to revise, expand or re-develop your existing website, Sizzle Media web design Manchester can give you a 'Stand out' online presence that is now so vital to online success. If your business hasn't yet seen the excellent results achievable from the internet, then contact Sizzle Media web design Manchester today on 01706 759 344 for a free 1 hour consultation with our experienced advisors.

Sizzle Media Web design Manchester would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

It's been a tough year for most of us and Sizzle Media have been no exception. Although we are an established agency, many web design agencies became victims of the credit crunch as advertising budgets were held back and projects paused.

That said, we have much to be grateful for. With a loyal team and an excellent customer base we managed to not only remain strong as business, we also continued to expand our web design team and continue to offer our trademark customer service.

January 2010 will see 2 new members of staff join our web design team in Manchester, and a further 2 starting in March. We have also been very successful in providing NESTA selected businesses our services, and continue to be one the leaders in providing web design services to businesses awarded Creative Credits in the Greater Manchester area.

All in all 2010 looks to be a very positive year for Sizzle Media web design Manchester and we would like to again wish you all the very best for 2010.. See you on the side!

Quite possibly the most competitive keyword for any Manchester based web design studio, or any business in the city of Manchester for that matter is....drum roll...  'web design Manchester'.

There are currently over 1000,000 pages indexed for the keyword web design Manchester, which is actually very high as there are certainly nowhere near that many studios in the region. The truth of the matter is that probably 900,000 of those pages are related to businesses not even in the Manchester area. They are simply creating town name based page farms trying to secure a high traffic position. Although this 'grey hat' tactic may have worked 24 months ago, Google has cottoned on to this approach and has been steadily penalising these 'auto generated' pages.

Effective search engine optimisation is not about spammy pages of content or volume traffic anymore, it's about targeted traffic and converting those quality visits in to quality sales enquiries.

That is why Sizzle Media web design Manchester are so successful as a commercially minded web design agency. We offer web design services in and around the Manchester area, and are based in the Manchester area, and Google likes this level of  'content honesty' which is easy to decipher and highly relevant to the visitor.

2010 should see Sizzle Media web design Manchester also lead the way for the keywords  'web design Bury' and 'web design Oldham' as we continue to expand and win business nearby towns.

Creative Director Aftab Ali (Middle) pictured with Fayaz Aslam (right) from the Indian Ocean and Ben from Taylor and Shroff wines (left)

Our super yummy curry client the Indian Ocean Restaurant have done it again. For the third year in a row they have won the very prestigious ‘Best Indian Restaurant in the North West’ at the 2009 British Curry Awards. The Indian Ocean were praised at the event for their high standards of cuisine, service and ever popular brand - thanks to Sizzle Media web design Manchester!

The British Curry Awards created by Enam Ali MBE, is the highest honor available in the spice industry, often referred to as the Oscars of Asian cuisine. The night itself is a collection of the who’s who of the Indian restaurant scene and this year was no exception. The glittering ceremony was held at the Battersea Evolution Centre in London on Tuesday 3rd November and was attended by top industry figures and celebrities including host and main man Sir Trevor McDonald, Conservative party leader David Cameron and TV celebrity Chris Tarrant. David Cameron highlighted the importance of the curry industry in Britain, which is worth £3.5 billion per year.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester have been working alongside the Indian Ocean for several years, developing their brand, sampling their fantastic food and creating highly targeted products and campaigns, such as the award winning Curry and Cobra website which won the eTamside ICT award in 2007. Sizzle Media also developed their current web 2.0 site www.indianoceanonline.co.uk which again won the eTamside award in 2009 after only 3 days of going live.

Fayaz Aslam Indian Ocean's Sales and Marketing Director said this about us. “Working with Sizzle Media has been an excellent experience. Finding someone who understands your vision is difficult enough, but to find an organisation who can translate that vision in a reality over a sustained period of time demonstrates the high caliber of our friends at Sizzle Media. Our many successes simply reflect the joint efforts of our partners and the dedication they have shown in helping us to achieve our objectives.”

As one of Greater Manchester’s leading web design agencies, we would love to help your business achieve success. Call freephone 0808 14 333 00 today.

Web design is an interesting industry, not only must we demonstrate our web design skills and demonstrate an uncanny ability to predict market trends, but we must also demonstrate tangible ability in the form of visible results. Just like any other business fighting for Google's attentions to generate new business – we must also do some pretty intense flag waving. However our challenge is constant as we are competing with the Manchester, Oldham and Bury’s finest web designers and search engine optimisation companies, whilst trying to maintain a vibrant web presence.

It's no surprise then that Sizzle Media's strategy has begun to show the fruits of our labour. We now regularly feature amongst the top 5 in Google for the search term ‘web design Manchester’, which may not sound like much but when you look at some of the stats, you will see that this is a very credible position to be in. Only other Manchester, Oldham or Bury based web design studios can express the importance such keywords.

However web design Manchester is just one of many search terms we focus our attention on, other search terms are web design Bury, web design Oldham, web design Bolton and a clutch of non location terms. These are the locations we cover on a daily basis and in particular, we are now seeing an increasing number of clients finding us for the search terms web design bury which is fantastic news.

If you require help formulating and executing an effective online marketing and web design strategy then call today on 0808 1433300 or email info@sizzlemedia.co.uk