{"id":13,"date":"2007-10-24T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/professionally-designed-websites-matter\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:28:50","slug":"professionally-designed-websites-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/professionally-designed-websites-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Professionally Designed Websites Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself searching for something online and came across a site that just didn&#8217;t leave you with a good impression? You know the kind, hard navigate, not very visually pleasing, maybe be a bit shady looking. If you&#8217;ve ever found yourself in this situation did you stay on the site or leave only to continue your search?<\/p>\n<p>More than likely you left and kept searching. A 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcredibility.org\/guidelines\/\">Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility<\/a> study shows that people quickly evaluate a site by visual design alone.<\/p>\n<p>Having a website is a reflection on your company. If your site looks horrible this will reflect onto your products and\/or services, in turn visitors will assume that your products and\/or services are horrible.<\/p>\n<p>As the old adage goes, &#8220;You may never get a second chance to make a good first impression.&#8221; This is even more important with your website. The impression made on your visitors will greatly determine whether or not that visitor becomes a customer.  Having a professionally designed website might mean the difference between just another visitor and a qualified lead.<\/p>\n<p>Any designer can design a website. Finding a designer that understands how to align your business goals with usability best practices and design theory is where the true talent comes in. <\/p>\n<p>Having a professionally designed website really does matter and is well worth the investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever found yourself searching for something online and came across a site that just didn&#8217;t leave you with a good impression? You know the kind, hard navigate, not very visually pleasing, maybe be a bit shady looking. If you&#8217;ve ever found yourself in this situation did you stay on the site or leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business","category-website-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}