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We're here to make you money the best way we know how. By making it easy for your clients to find what they're looking for.

With over seven years in the web design business, we know what questions to ask in order to get your web-site working for you. From timber mills to skin care, accounting tools to suit hire. We're never going to know as much about your business as you do, but we know the questions to ask so that your clients can get to the info you want them to see.

It's easy to get distracted with animation and music. When you're excited about what you can do it's easy to get distracted from what you should do. Here at Civicnet we understand that there is time and place for expensive flash animation and that place is never directly between your client and the information you want them to see. We focus on making sure that,..

  1. The content on your site is what your customers are looking for.
  2. Your content is easy to reach from inside your site.
  3. Your content is easy to find using major search engines.

We work with you from start to finish to make these points a reality.

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Ways of Seeing.
written by Dan

I was often surprised to hear how many people wanted a site that was ’Different’. I’d often have people request a site that ’really stands out’ or is ’unlike anything anyone has ever seen’. I’ve never heard of a magazine editor being told they want the magazine dimensions to be ’totally different’.

I’d also often have clients provide examples of sites that I felt were counter productive to an effective web presence or who wanted music or animation as the front page. I could certainly see that the web-site examples I was being shown looked great, but at the same time they made it hard for the user to get where they were going.

It finally clicked why this was happening.

When you’re in the market for a web page, you’re using a different set of judgments to when you are a user. You analyse the site as a work of art or entertainment.

When a user comes to a web-site they almost always have a specific piece of content that they are after and the faster you can serve that to them the more effective your site will be. If there’s a grandiose piece of artistry between the user and the content they’re after, then it will only ever be,.. ’in the way’.

posted at 8:47 am Thursday June 26 2008
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