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If you are a start up or small business, one of your most valuable marketing tools will be your business website. Using a web studio like Hopping Mad to design and build your website is a great first step to your small business successful online marketing strategy. We have the web design expertise and know-how to make your website stand out and be competitive. By using an all-round Sydney based web company you can rest easy that all your design, programming, copy writing and marketing (including SEO) will be handled by one company; all in-house, by senior design professionals and be 100% Australian made.

A Creative Digital Design Studio is the modern marketer’s best friend. But what is a Creative Digital Design Studio (or Creative Digital Design Agency, as they’re sometimes referred to), you may ask? A Creative Digital Design Studio is a place where digital strategy meets creative design, to create powerful and effective online campaigns. It’s an integrated graphic design, web design and digital strategy agency, where you can have your visual presence both created and guided in its use online. It’s, well, the best means of promoting yourself in the digital world.

As the director of a web design studio, I have realised the vital significance of clear communication channels between the allocated web design team and the client. Being a Web Designer, I have noticed quite clearly that each website design and graphic design assignment has its own particular brief/instructions but that on the whole the main proposition that exists between designer/client communication is still the same. Although the various web projects and briefs might vary in size, scope and complexity, there is one thing that does remain vital to the overall success of any web project and that is the relationship between the designer and the client. It is actually quite amazing to see this friendship ( if you can call it that) blossom over the life of the project. Between all the phone calls and emails, getting some large websites across the line through to finishing stage can be quite an arduous task and this leads to a strong bond between the two. In fact, its not uncommon for gifts or flowers to be given once the site has been uploaded. Following are a few of my insights and tips on how to establish and keep up a great client/designer relationship

If you are wanting to have your website well ranked on Google (a process known as search engine optimisation or SEO), you need a web design company that knows all the Google ‘must-haves’. Going it alone, or using a cheap, package-style web company might seem like a great idea at the time, but will only end up in issues later on when your site doesn’t work and it does not rank.

All those lovely testimonials, that are splashed across websites are designed to give the buyer more confidence in the company that they are going to be working with. They are either in a specific testimonials area or are in some cases animating on the home page.

If you are a business owner or involved in a marketing role within a company you should by know by now the importance of the role that social media and search engine optimisation or SEO plays in the marketing mix. It is also vital to know how the combination of these two marketing strategies can combine to form a very powerful digital strategy. Having a web design or website designed by a studio is one thing, what one needs to do is utilise this we site to make it a powerful marketing and sales tool for your business. Social media is the perfect platform for this to make it work.

There are just a small amount of time that a user or potential client will stay on your site before they press the delete button. It is in those vital first few seconds that you must grab their attention with strong visual graphics as well as punchy sales driven and very well worded relevant content.

Are you a business in Darwin or the Northern Territory looking for a new website or a total web design overhaul?

Has your Google ranking suddenly dropped or disappeared? Are you completely stressing out cause you can’t find your website on Google? Have all your rankings just disappeared? Has your SEO company gone missing and is not answering your desperate phone calls and emails? Has the phone stopped ringing? Well then it is more than likely that your website has been subjected to a Google penalty or rank suppression. Don’t stress out too much as following are some points worth reading about how this could happen to your website and what steps you should take to get out of this penalty. Trick is, don’t panic. If your website ranking has fallen call us here at Hopping Mad Designs on 02 9360 8514 and we will help you fix this situation FAST! We have been helping businesses get out of those nasty Google penalties for years.

Are you unclear about SEO and want to learn the truth regarding Search Engine Optimisation? This is a typical phone conversation that I often get from clients that are SEP newbies that I think you will find very interesting!

If your business has a digital strategy it means that you are doing everything possible to maximise your companies exposure across many platforms; including web, social media, search engine optimisation as well as mobile. Hopping Mad Designs specialises in creating a digital strategy that will see your business gain more traction across all these marketing channels. We have been at the forefront of website design, web development, graphic design for well over sixteen years and have helped many businesses and companies through out Sydney achieve an enormous amount of exposure for their products and services through maximisation of all their digital assets. Its not just about your web design, now there are so many other digital avenues that need exploring which can enhance your online and digital footprint.

Unsure who to use for your next website design project? Confused and don’t know what to do? Following are some helpful hints that should point you in the right direction in finding and choosing the best website design company in Sydney.

Are you looking for a creative web design agency in Sydney or Melbourne for your next web site design project? Hopping Mad Designs has been designing and developing websites since 1997. Our client’s love us because we deliver for them on all levels; strategically, creatively and commercially. We are their online digital partners.

One of the best ways to help your website climb the rankings ladder is to have your web design team design and build a website

If you are part of an educational or university marketing team and are looking to build a new website then the following are some helpful tips to get you started.

As an industry veteran with over 16 years in the web design industry, I have seen prices fluctuate wildly when it comes to determining how much a website design should cost. There has been an explosion of web companies offering cheap web design packages, whilst there still remains those mid to top tier web firms that offer quality website design as well as premium customer service. As a business owner you must try to work out for yourself which type of web design company you are going to want to give your business to. Many clients that I meet are utterly confused about web prices and associated costs because there is such a variation in quotes and it is my job when we meet to try to explain all the reasons and variables behind these costs.