Online Business Adviser

The Forum For Online Business Success

Last week I looked at 4 things that every online business site  should have to help customers interact with your site.

I didn’t want to discount aesthetics, as they play an equally important part. I’m a big fan of WordPress as a platform to build on, as most of the templates make it easy to create a good looking site. However if you plan on building from scratch or on a different CMS, there are a number of great resources available that can help you along that I wanted to share. Whatever design software you choose to work with, these resources will help your design be eye catching.

Kuler – this is a free tool from Adobe that is great for working out colour palettes. Let’s face it, we’ve all seen sites that hurt out eyes. Making sure your colours work together between backgrounds, links, headings etc is vital. This site gives you over 12,000 matched colour palettes that you can use, all of which have colour values attached, making it easy to find the right combination for your site.  Read more...

I’m very excited to be announcing some changes to Online Business Adviser .

I am now offering a range of services designed to help small business get started online and test the market.

These will include:

• Web design and build
• Consulting services
• Web Copywriting

For more detail on these, you can visit the services page here.

I will still be blogging about online business and best practice, and the resources section has also been revamped. There is also a new look newsletter in the works which will be ready shortly.

Lastly, the site is now also available in an iPhone friendly interface. Just visit http://onlinebizadviser.com in your Safari browser and you will be able to read all the content including the blog.