As business people we have all seen them, or at least heard from them - the dreaded telemarketers who call in "on behalf of XYZ company" to try and sell us a website. This call, outside of being a waste of valuable company time, is puzzling to most business owners and controllers as there is mostly no visible need for the service. The thought process, usually, goes something like this - we already have a website, we've had it for a while now and it works just fine. The last thing we need today is some yokel telling us that they can give us a new and improved version of what we already have. After all, if there was a need we would have already realized it and called someone ourselves.

Choosing between a full-service Web development company and a freelancer ultimately depends on the needs of your project. Budget is an important consideration, but remember to look at value as well as cost.

Couple of month ago we asked ourselves what we’d like to see in websites in the near future, what features, components, interesting design solutions. Considering the fact that new technologies such as jQuery, MooTools, Ajax, widgets, get more and more popular among web designers providing whole new level of interactivity, it was interesting to find out how it will affect approach to web design along with fresh graphical solutions. So we’ve done our research and discuss the topic with our associates, colleagues and other professionals and here is the summary of what we’ve found out.

Sometimes Google's search results seem a little random...

One of many things that we discuss with our clients is rebuilding their websites to reflect the new image of their company. Normally, these design and content changes are accompanied by a domain name change. Obviously, no one wants to lose the traffic that comes from the search engine high rankings and to start doing the SEO work from scratch neglecting the effort that was invested in ranking the original website.