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Author Archive: Mudassir Hosein

Muddassir Hosein is a market researcher and an analyst with ever-growing passion and interests for the web development and design industry. He also writes for many online web design blogs and, you may not believe, he loves to make friends; say "Hi"to him at muddassir.hosein@gmail.com.

You Only Have 8 Seconds

Published July 20th, 2012 in Design, Design Process - 5 Comments

It’s important to realize that web design is not just about making a site look good. Just focusing on the visual appeal will not enable your site or business to achieve the goals that you have set.

Do you know that an average website visitor takes just 6-8 secs to decide whether to stay on your site? Most of the visitors are not ready to grant you more time. So, what can you do in these 6-8 seconds to convey your real message, when you already know that other websites are just a click away? If you don’t really understand how they think, behave, what influences them, how to persuade them and how they finally make their decision then you have a problem. We will take a quick tour of few important things that matter in the very first seconds.

Principal Content Strategies for Top E-Commerce Sites

Published July 6th, 2012 in Marketing - 3 Comments

There are many techniques to transform your business site’s success. A simplest strategy is to create a schedule for news releases and adding new and fresh material to a site. Updated content encourages interaction between a company and the customer. A website can refresh its content by launching enticing strategies for users to interact with each other from the site. Here, we will go through some of the most effective strategies (acknowledged by almost all top business sites), which any business site must have, to keep it fresh and add more value.

Learn to be Persistent

It is better to own no website than to own a website with no fresh content. A high-traffic website, which gets around a million page views/week, needs many changes on its front page each week.

Principal Content Strategies for Top E-Commerce Sites

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