When deciding on the best way to present an idea to a client, partner, or potential investor, remember that staying visual is always best. More than 80% of comprehension happens by a visual stimulus, according to the US Department of Labor. And the chances of someone retaining information is 6.5 times more likely to happen when a visual aid is used with a verbal presentation.
Think about that… 80% of comprehension happens by a visual stimulus. So if you have a business presentation and aren’t sure what to do to ensure that your audience is grasping the idea that you are delivering, throw in a poster, brochure, PowerPoint slideshow, graphs, whatever visual aid that relates back to the topic of discussion.
Whatever you decide to use, make sure it is colorful and eye catching. Yes they say that just having something visual is a great advantage, but don’t you want to better you chances with making it attractive. If one person presented an idea with a black and white graph for their project and another person presented a project with a multi-colored graph, which do you think the viewers are going to remember more?
So remember, get your audiences’ attention with some visual aids, but keep their attention with some color and flair.
This was taken from my blog on Examiner.com - April 9, 2010
So I have clients ask from time to time, when should I change my website from static to dynamic and why? And my answer to them is that it really all depends on what you want out of your site. Some companies could be perfectly happy staying with a static website. All they need is to provide information about their company like, contact information, maybe prices, store hours, and a history of the company.
I say if you don’t need to update your site regularly then stick to a static site. If you want to have your site change daily, weekly, monthly… hourly, then you would need to get a dynamic website. A dynamic website is a site that is constantly changing. People put announcements on their site, write a blog about their company, and sell products or services. If you fall into a category where your information is never going to be the same, then you would need to go with a dynamic site to keep up. Otherwise you could pay a web designer to update your site for you, but that tends to get expense.
So when deciding, weigh the pros and cons and really decide what will be the best and most cost effective way to go for your site.
We have just designed the logo for the only gastroenterologist at the beach. Check it out!
Gastroenterology, Ltd.
So we are a few weeks into the new year, and I am contemplating the resolutions I made for myself and my business. I think it is important to continually look back and reflect on the decisions we make. Are we keeping up with them? Are they as important as they were at the beginning of the year? If not, why not? What is now important to you and your business now? Revise your resolutions constantly throughout the year… you can make a resolution any time of the year!
PinBoy’s at the Beach hired JR Designs to design them a logo. They liked our designs so much they took 2!!
Pinboy’s on Facebook
Here is one of our latest blogs we worked on for the Environmental Dummy. www.theenvironmentaldummy.com
We have a great deal going on for blog design now. Call us to get more information.
Well the holiday season is here! And everyone now is rushing around trying to get everything done before the big day. JR Designs is here for you, to help you with your holiday greeting cards. We offer custom design, printing, and mailing of the cards to your business colleagues or family members. Please contact us for more information! Phone: 757.965.9069 or Email: info@jrdesignsbyjoy.com
For those of you out there, that don’t know what a CMS is, it is a Content Management System. It is software that takes care of all the content on certain websites. Not all sites have them, but more and more people are getting them. There are several different ones out there, but I am going to talk on a couple of the open-source ones, Joomla and Drupal. As I get more and more clients looking to manage their own content of their site, I ask, what CMS should I use?
Joomla has such a huge following and it is hard not to be attracted to the ’shininess’ of it. Joomla is easy to use for the non-technical and provides lots of extensions.
Drupal on the other hand also has a pretty large group of supporters, but is not as user-friendly. You really need to be able to move some code around if you are going to use it. Don’t let that scare you though, it is something that can be learned. The question is, do you want to learn it? And for most of my clients the answer to that question is no.
So for my second question I ask, who will be using the CMS to manage the site… me or a client? As long as my client isn’t going to want to use 100 different modules and plugins in Joomla, we should be good to go with Joomla for them. Many different modules and plugins in Joomla can break your whole site when combined, if not recorded and used properly. Doesn’t mean you are totally safe in Drupal, but it is less likely to happen there.
If the clients wants some spectacular social networking site or a CMS that works with the security of their shopping cart better, then we would want to go with Drupal. Drupal has better support for those types of sites.
But these are just a few of the features of these extremely powerful content management systems. You really should do your research and ask yourself the right questions. Who will be using it? For what? How often? Will they want to add anything in the future?
If you know the answers to those questions, then you probably know which CMS to use!
As I get more and more focused on keeping up with blogs and other social media forums, I find myself asking, ‘what should I write about?’ And after racking my brain over and over again, I thought who better to ask than my peers and the people that will be reading it.
So here is my question: What type of information would you most want to hear about?
1. Help with DIY design projects - resources and tips on how to get the job done
2. The latest trends in the design world
3. JR Design’s trials and tribulations
4. Other - any suggestions are helpful, so if you can think of something I may have missed let me know!
Thanks!
Joy Rogers
One of our latest projects was designing the La Tea Da site for Nina Hatstat. She is a Chesapeake local that is opening a Tea Room and Gift Shop in the Edinborough Shops in Chesapeake. Her grand opening date has not been released yet, but check back soon for that. In the mean time check out the site and figure out what you are going to order first!
La Tea Da
