I’m excited to announce that we’re ready to hire new interns for the fall. We’ll be hiring both design and programming interns. There will be either 2 or 3 of each, for a combined 40 hours designers and 40 hours programmers.
And these are paid internships, though we’re fine if you get school credit for them as well.
If you’re interested in joining our team here at T&S, just call our intern job hotline at 241-1051. Listen to the entire message, then leave the information that you’ll hear me ask for.
And if you know of anyone who would be a good candidate, be sure to pass this information along to them as well.
A couple years back, Stanford performed a large study to determine how people evaluate a website’s credibility. Take a look below and see different factors influence your website visitors.
Percent
(of 2,440 comments)
Comment Topics
(addressing specific credibility issue)
1.
46.1%
Design Look
2.
28.5%
Information Design/Structure
3.
25.1%
Information Focus
4.
15.5%
Company Motive
5.
14.8%
Information Usefulness
6.
14.3%
Information Accuracy
7.
14.1%
Name Recognition and Reputation
8.
13.8%
Advertising
9.
11.6%
Information Bias
10.
9.0%
Writing Tone
11.
8.8%
Identity of Site Operator
12.
8.6%
Site Functionality
13.
6.4%
Customer Service
14.
4.6%
Past Experience with Site
15.
3.7%
Information Clarity
16.
3.6%
Performance on Test by User
17.
3.6%
Readability
18.
3.4%
Affiliations
(Categories with less than 3% incidence are not in this table.)
Just the look of the site made up 46.1% of the comments! The next closest was over 10% away. This is a dead giveaway that sites like craigslist are the exception to the rule, not the rule.
Your website really does need to show your best side. Not just because a web designer tells you so, but because the research shows that it really does make a difference.
Thanks to Christina Hills for posting the following on her blog. I thought I would share it with my audience as well.
Here is a very short video clip from Seth Godin and Tom Peters (both best selling authors) on why you need to be blogging now. And you’ll be very surprised to hear what they say. It’s not the typical ‘Internet Marketing’ talk. Instead it sums up one of the reason’s why I feel it’s important for you to blog (and to be posting to Twitter)
Dental Depot’s site covers all of their locations in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Their site resembles what the inside of their offices look like, truly a unique dentist office. You can view their website in our portfolio.
Westwind Digital Communications installs business telephone systems, provides computer networking hardware and services, and installs video surveillance equipment. You can view their website and their business cards in our portfolio.
T. S. Dudley Land Company Inc. (TSDI) is an energy service company in the business of providing professional landmen, acquisition agents, and project management to the energy industry.
We always have more websites in development, and we will post them here around the time of launch, so check back often!
Earlier this week I was one of three presenters at an Edmond Chamber of Commerce Lunch and Learn. I talked about the actual tools available on four popular social networking websites: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. I thought I would share my handout, so here it is as a viewable image, and below that as a downloadable PDF.
Also added are links to our websites! Now you can actually view the site instead of just a screenshot (honestly, we really do make websites, now you have proof).
