Cool Business Card Designs

I’ve got to get some business cards made up for my business; however before I do that I want to create a really cool logo. While waiting to do that I decided to go in search of some cool business card designs.

After all, if I am going to have a cutting edge web design company I’ve got to have a cutting edge business card to go along with it.

To make the most out of a unique website design, you have to provide your designers with the information that they will need to understand your business. Thus armed, they can begin work on your new site with an eye to not only making it stand out, but also emphasizing your strongest suits and making those stick in your customers’ minds. But what are you supposed to look for in a unique website? What features and functions will serve best to not only enhance your site, but also build your brand?

The site’s appearance is going to be important, in large part because this will begin to establish the appearance of your brand. A logo might be the most important detail, but consider other images and colors that represent your business. Remember, you’re going to want to use these things for more than just your website, so the better they look and the more cohesively they fit together, the better. Consider asking for vector images, as these can be easily resized to fit anything from a business card to a website to a billboard. And while your graphics and colors should represent your business, they should also communicate its value. Remember that images and colors are often interpreted symbolically, perhaps on a subconscious level. So you want your designer to provide you with symbols of those things that your business provides: quality, service, affordability, or whatever other edge you have over your competitors.

The layout, navigation, and functionality of the site can also have an impact. Areas of your site that draw the most attention are going to be the most likely visited. A potential customer is not going to read through your entire website, thoughtfully digest the information, compare it with the next ten sites on whatever search engine it is using, and then make a fully informed, perfectly rational decision about which company to choose. If you’re lucky, it might skim the text on your home page, and quickly look around for key features or advantages that it feels are most useful or important. Your web designer should set up your layout and navigation scheme so that a customer can quickly determine the key reasons for choosing you.

But this does not mean you should ignore text entirely. A website is a repository of information, and unique websites are no exception. Not only is text content important to the search engines, but an interested visitor is likely to read (or at least skim) information you provide on whichever product, service, or feature attracted its attention in the first place. Even if you have a title and header and big flashy banner saying that you offer excellent customer service, for example, you need to provide a bit of information (policies, testimonials, etc) to back it up.

Creating a unique website design requires input from the business owner as well as creativity on the part of the designers. Once you have provided the information, you should expect results that not only make your website stand out visually, but that also emphasize the greatest advantages of choosing your business over your competitors. If you provide your designers with the information they need, and the freedom to mold that into the perfect website for your business, a unique website design will be what you get.

Copyright © 2008 Dustin Schwerman.

Dustin Schwerman is the primary web designer at Truly Unique – Small Business Website Design. Truly Unique specializes in impressive, custom sites designed to capture the essence of the businesses they represent, as well as creating useful web-based programs to improve and simplify some of the tasks of running a business. Their goal is to provide these services at affordable, pragmatic rates based on effort involved, rather than arbitrary costs based on number of pages or hours. Truly Unique works on sites of all varieties, from office supply to awards and trophies.

Custom Website Designs

I spend a lot of time online working, looking and reading and I’ve seen some pretty amazing things. Who would have ever thought all the things we’re able to do now would have ever been possible.

We’ve got tools that’ll do just about anything you can dream up. But that’s the catch; we have to be able to dream. It takes a really talented person to sit down and come up with the ideas that at the end of the day become your custom website design, poster, business card and so much more. And too those people I take my hat off.

I see people everyday looking for a job that have the skills but lack the talent. The ability to look at a blank page and create a website that then creates a desire inside a person that causes that person to react is a truly amazing thing.

As I get ready to call it a day and head to the house I want to leave you with a look inside the minds of a truly good graphic designer.

Wojciech Pijecki is a digital artist and illustrator from Poland.