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Being “social” is a big thing on the web and these days you need to be posting things on your wall and tweeting regularly, or the whole world will stop and life as we know it will end.

One of the supposed big things for this year (2011) is social networking.  The main driving force behind this is that the more ‘friends’ your site has the more popular you are and the higher you’ll appear in the search engines.

If you build up a list of friends and get posting away the idea is that perhaps they will be interested in what you are doing and will either buy something from you or will tell a colleague or friend all about you and what you do and then they may use your services or buy something from you.

This seems to work well with physical items, but things like websites for example are quite hard to sell in this manner as it’s a fairly specific requirement.

However this post is just a quick reminder for you that if you are website owner you need to keep on with your social networking activities as they will eventually may dividends…..And of course if you are not a website owner and want one, then you know who to call (erm, us of course).

In case you don’t know how to add a Facebook like button to your website, it’s quite easy and there is some simple code below that you can copy and paste onto your web page.

<script src=”http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″></script>
<fb:like></fb:like>

Enjoy

Website designers will always ask you for a brief or an overview of your proposed website project to gain an understanding of what it is you want and how the website will work.

As website designers ourselves, we receive all manner of project briefs from one line emails to large complex documents, some good, some bad, but the important thing is to supply one.

So why bother writing a brief for a website project?

Without one you could end up with a delayed project, extended timescales, something that is coded differently to how you expected it to be, or perhaps a website that bears no resemblence to what you wanted.

At the outset it seems like a bit of a bind or a hassle writing up a document and explaining what you want in detail, but it does enable a website designer to quote you accurately and it will enable your website designer or web developer to code the site quickly and accurately.

At the end of the day you are paying for the website and whether it is a large project or a small site of a few pages a good project brief is crucial for your website designer.

We have some design brief templates and information available for anyone wishing to obtain a quote from Sims Designs, so if you are looking for some website designers for your project, please contact us and we can help you with your project brief and also provide you with an affordable quotation.

We have just completed a new ecommerce website for a client supplying school assembly packs for Primary Schools.

The website has been developed from scratch, like all of our ecommerce websites and it is now online and trading. The site features a members signup system and the assembly downloads are only available to registered members of the site.

We had to move the domain over from an existing web host and also set up some new hosting as part of the project.

Take a look at the AssemblyBox website, or please feel free to contact us if you would like a quote for some website development work for your online business…