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Back in Sept of 2011 usability expert Jakob Nielson wrote an article entitled “How Long Do Users Stay on Web Pages?” (http://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-long-do-users-stay-on-web-pages). He spoke of research that showed your website has only 10 seconds to get visitors to stay. If you can get visitors to stay 30 seconds the rate of visitor loss flattens out. That means you need to communicate your value proposition within 10 seconds, then get them to stay for 20 seconds more. But what if you are annoying visitors without realizing it? How? Distracting movement on your website. “What?” you ask, “but I love my carousels …

Although we are extremely happy from the many calls we receive from frantic business owners whose web designer has gone out of business, disappeared or plain ignored them, I starting to become disturbed. Bad experiences with web designers give the web design business a bad name. People don’t know who to trust. Please business people of the world listen up. Use a professional web design company that does web design day in, day out. There are too many variables and changes in the website/search engine world to use what I call “a dabbler”. It’s your business and a website is …