Transcript of this week's video on eCommerce website options: Bonjour. I am Virginie Dorn, the CEO of Business Website Center. We are a website design company located in California. Today, we're going to be taking about e-commerce options for your shopping cart. Not all shopping carts are created equal. They come in different shapes and forms. Some of them are tied in with the third party software, which you have to continua...

Sometimes, especially with companies that have been around a long time, when we have businesses come to us for web design, it is good to be open to the idea of reexamining your logo, branding, and color schemes. We often times see logos that were made with bad design choices, or that use colors that are not complimentary to each other, or to the business that they’re supposed to represent. We often make recommendations on the color scheme that your website should have, not just based off of...

Hi! I am Virginie Dorn from Business Website Center. We are located in California and we specialize in custom website design, search engine optimization, and online marketing strategies. Today's video blog is about database. We often get those questions from our clients, "Do I need a database? What does it mean for my budget? Is it going to cost me more? Truly, what is a database? Why can't I just have simple website?" A database is a way to store data and information. A standar...

Search Engine Optimization is ever changing, and often is the continuing thorn in the side of small businesses trying to get their websites to rank well. It’s not something that you want to have to spend time on, but you know that if you don’t you might as well not even have a website. And if you don’t have a website, how is your business going to succeed? We’ve seen a lot of web publications claiming that SEO is dead, but they couldn’t be more wrong. SEO, in terms of stuffing your we...

Transcript: Meet Virginie Dorn, CEO of Business Website Center discussing the four pillars of quality web design for all size-businesses. Today, she is discussing the four most important elements to consider whether you are redesigning your website or creating a brand new one. There are four elements which you should really spend time considering. The most important factor is this: Does your website look good? That's it.

Coding websites has gone a long way since the days when every page was a single html file. Now there are all sorts of different coding languages at work on modern websites. When we code sites for our clients, we use the newest techniques in html, css, and php, to give you the most state of the art website possible. We also build you a fully customized content management system so that you can update your site yourself if you want to, without having to know anything about coding. But for those wi...

Hi, my name is Virginie Dorn, the CEO of Business Website Center located in California. Today we are going to be discussing online branding. The term 'branding' has been around for many, many years. You're absolutely familiar with it. It is how people perceive you. With the internet having taken over the world, the online branding can be slightly different from your face-to-face branding, especially if you have a brick and mortar in a small town and now you are selling online. Your online brandi...

One of the hardest parts of building a new website, is being able to visualize the end product when it’s in early stages of development. It’s understandable that a lot of our clients may have some anxiety about signing off on a design before they see their own pictures and text in place, which is why it’s good for us to have our client’s content as early as possible. But there is a very good reason why we need to nail down the design structure of a site very early in the process. Not ha...

Today what I want to discuss with you is the importance of first impression online. The truth of the matter is your visitors, within three seconds, will make a judgment call on the quality of your product or services. Three seconds, this is how quickly they will come to a decision. When the visitor first arrive to your website, they're going to judge if they are at the right place. Are you the company for them? Do you provide the quality of service or products they are looking for? Three seconds...