What Your Small Business Needs

Graphic design , web site design and consulting, logo design, marketing materials. They're what you're small business needs to stay afloat. And nothing makes you look more professional than when all of the pieces you present to the world look like they belong together. When you're stuff looks put together, so do you. Noodle Design is based out of Seattle, WA (Washington) and serves the world wide.

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Simple Rules of Web Design

1. Never design for wider than 800 pixels. There are still people who view their monitors at a low resolution of 800x600.
2. Never create a design that requires scrolling from side to side. While people are okay with scrolling vertically now, they find side scrolling to be annoying
3. Stick with variations on one color or 2 colors. We don’t want to distract people from the information with rainbow colors
4. Avoid busy backgrounds. They make things EXTREMELY hard to read.
5. Stay away from splash pages (also known as “intro page” with a “skip intro” button). People want their information now and asking them to do any extra clicks is simply annoying.
6. Use frames sparingly. Visit http://www.noodledesign.com to find out more.
7. Keep animation to a minimum. I’m of the opinion that there should never be animation unless you’re in the electronic card or entertainment business. It’s almost never necessary. Spend your energies on features that enhance your web site.
8. Keep the number of fonts to one or 2. One for the graphics on the site, and the other for the plain text on your site. Any more makes your site look too thrown together
9. Speaking of plain text, never put your entire site together in graphics. Search engines NEED content but they can’t read graphics so you’ll want plain text (and lots of it) on your site.

 

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About Noodle Design

Noodle Design is me, Carrielyn Louie (formerly Carrielyn Sperry). I have a degree in Visual Communications and have done graphic design for both large corporations as well as small business. Many people see print design and web design as being two separate things, but when you’re talking small business this is a big mistake. I use my knowledge of print design and marketing and mix it with my real-world knowledge of web design to help small business go from a simple idea to a marketed business.

I was born and raised in the Seattle, Washington area where I still reside.

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