Welcome to the 562 Graphix Affordable Web Design Blog. Our web design blog is filled with helpful tips to maximize the effectiveness of your business website.

Tips for Choosing a Good Domain Name

Your domain name is the center of your Internet identity. So what type of things should you take into consideration when choosing the name that will represent you on the Web? 562 Graphix Affordable Web Design offers these 8 handy tips.

1. Keep it short

Although some places allow you to register a name with up to 63 characters, you have to keep in mind that people need to be able to remember it, and easily type it into their browser. Try to register the shortest name that your customers and visitors will associate with your Website. The general rule of thumb is, keep it under seven characters if possible. (Not including the suffix.)

2. Dot What?

There are many different extensions available right now. For businesses, we recommend a .com suffix. It is the first extension that most people try when searching for a Website. Also, since it is one of the oldest extensions, .com shows that your business has been around for a while and that you have a well-established presence on the Web.

The benefits of having live chat on your website or blog

Live Chat Software iPhone

Live Chat Benefits – Never miss out on another potential customer again!


Create a more personal connection with your website visitors before your competition does. 562 Graphix prefers BoldChat Basic as the perfect, scalable live chat solution for small business deployments. With an easy to use interface, invitation capability, and unlimited chats, BoldChat Basic provides immediate results to help grow your business.

Live Chat Anywhere

With the BoldChat iPhone App from Bold Software, website owners can chat with visitors anytime, anywhere. You’ll see a complete and real-time list of visitors currently on site, be able to proactively invite visitors, drill down into visit details to see referring information, and more. The BoldChat iPhone App means that you’ll never have to miss an opportunity for live engagement.

Features

  • See visitors in real-time
  • Be notified of incoming chats
  • Sort visitors by time on site, website, or country
  • Investigate visit history including referrer URL, keywords, and more
  • Proactively invite visitors
  • Chat live with visitors
  • Easy access to canned messages
  • Predictive logic offers suggested canned messages
  • Manage multiple chats
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Get Click to Call Feature & Call Tracking on Your Website

Grow your business.  Try RingCentral

562 Graphix uses RingCentral Mobile as a all in one solution for our toll free number and call tracking stats for our website. Ring Central is a Web-based telephone and fax service for professionals and small businesses. It provides a toll free or local phone number and advanced features not found in traditional phone systems all at an affordable price.

RingCentral Mobile Sign Up Bonus: FREE rollover minutes

For all 562 Graphix Full Service clients we will add this click to call feature on your website at no additional charge when you sign up for Ring Central!

  • 800 and 8**
  • Numbers Local
  • NumbersVoicemail Fax
  • Send and ReceiveCall
  • ForwardingVirtual PBX
  • Answering Rules
  • Click-to-Call from the Web
  • Dial-by-Name Directory
  • Real Time Call Control
  • Call logs
  • Music On Hold
  • Outlook Integration
  • and much more
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Why You Don’t Want a Flash Only Website

You’ve seen the sites. They start with loader and launch you into a complete sensory experience. Immersive sounds, fancy effects, dazzling animation. You think to yourself, “I wish I had a site like that!”. I’m gonna tell you why you don’t.

The “WOW” Factor

For most people the main reason to go with a Flash website is the WOW factor. You want to show them how fantastic you are by doing all this crazy stuff with your website. The problem is most visitors don’t want to be “wowed”. They’re usually coming to your site with a purpose. Most of the time that’s to find information about a product or service, or to purchase a product. 95% of the time, the wow factor just gets in the way. Think to yourself how many times you searched for the skip intro link at the bottom of the website or when you couldn’t find the skip intro link and left the website because the flash intro was too long and annoying.

Technology Differences

One of the main flaws with building a website in Flash is that you’re relying on a non-standard plug-in. With traditional web design, there’s a very low technical barrier. HTML & CSS is very well understood and widely supported.