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		<title>Top 10 ways to tell if your company web site stinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can imagine, we see a lot of web sites in our web design and marketing business.  Today I thought I&#8217;d share a humorous look at what&#8217;s wrong with many of them. And so, this is our &#8216;top 10 ways to tell if your company web site stinks&#8217;: 10. You have an animated cartoon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you can imagine, we see a lot of web sites in our web design and marketing business.  Today I thought I&#8217;d share a humorous look at what&#8217;s wrong with many of them.</p>
<p><strong>And so, this is our &#8216;top 10 ways to tell if your company web site stinks&#8217;:</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-13" title="top-ten" src="http://thethirdriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/top-ten-300x299.jpg" alt="top-ten" width="300" height="299" />10. You have an animated cartoon character that you grabbed off of freespinningicons4you.com. Ummm, I&#8217;m not even gonna go there.</p>
<p>9. You haven&#8217;t updated your site since 2004&#8230; and you&#8217;re proud of it (<em>ie. you display &#8216;last updated October 2004&#8242;</em>)</p>
<p>8. Nobody has a clue what your site is all about and what your company does &#8230; except your cousin Benny who designed the site for $50 and a 6-pack</p>
<p>7. There is no contact form or any way to get a hold of you &#8230;(c&#8217;mon people, don&#8217;t you want people to contact you? It&#8217;s not a bad thing &#8230; really!)</p>
<p>6. Poor and inconsistent navigation &#8230; dude, don&#8217;t you think people are having are hard enough day already?</p>
<p>5. Your still measuring &#8220;hits&#8221; to your web site and even have a &#8220;counter&#8221; to tell the world (ugh!)</p>
<p>4. Your music audio or video starts playing automatically. STOP! First of all it scares the %^%&amp;^&amp;% out of people. Then they&#8217;re scrambling to turn it off!</p>
<p>3. It&#8217;s sooooooo pretty &#8230; with all kinds of Flash and incredible graphics &#8230; but it doesn&#8217;t DO anything to support your business goals and make a connection with your visitors.</p>
<p>2. Your site has 15 automatic pop-up windows that annoy the heck out of your visitors and distract them from the actual site &#8230; trust me &#8211; they are not gonna come back!</p>
<p><strong>And the number one reason why your web site stinks is &#8230;</strong></p>
<p>1. Oh yeah, you don&#8217;t have one.  Smile</p>
<p>Seriously, there&#8217;s a lot more too it than this humorous list &#8230; but if your web site has &#8220;issues&#8221; &#8230; or you don&#8217;t have a web site for your business &#8230; take action today. Give us a call at 503.581.4554 and I&#8217;d be happy to sit down over a cup of coffee or hot chocolate and talk about how to take your web marketing to the next level.</p>

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