The Workhorse for Your Brand
Building Your Interactive Brand with us

Pepsi Cola. Everyone knows the name.

They have a global presence, and over the years have used their success dollars to reinforce that brand presence. But what do you do when you are a start-up with close to no budget or you are an entrepreneur working out of your garage or your living room?

That's where Brandhorse comes in to play, below we have outlined a short list of brand building ideas, strategies and resources that we'll incorporate in conjunction with building your brand online.

  1. Owning your Keywords


    Smart keyword building and deep linking, The trick is not to be too generic, otherwise you will always be competing with everyone else who targets those generic keyword. We conduct keyword research and use that to better understand your placement possibilities. We make sure all of the code on the pages we built are written to best optimized for search engines (SEO) when building your site architecture.
  2. Telling a consistent story
    Everything you do on your site must tell a consistent story. Everything you do is your brand. Great design serves null purpose if the copy on your site is sub-standard, and vice-versa.
  3. User experience is your brand
    Site structure and usability are as much part of branding as site design. Brand recognition is vastly created by the accumulation of experiences and associations the user makes with your company. We pay special attention to this at Brandhorse to ensure the best possible user experience.
  4. Clarity
    Why is your product better? Answer that, and you have yourself a brand.
  5. Viral Viral Viral Baby
    Look at Yahoo. YouTube. Flickr. They all started from very humble beginnings, then exploded very fast. Why is that? There are many reasons, but one thing in common they have in common is that they've all built a viral aspect into they're brand.

 
When flow is graceful

It's how your users navigate/flow through your site.

a design principle which advocates that a user's experience in interacting with a computer should involve a smooth and graceful dialog. In terms of the user's task, this means that response time should be rapid and user errors and error recovery should be rare. The "flow" refers to the movement through a user's task, and needs to proceed from one step to another without confusion and with minimal need for difficult planning of the following steps.

When "graceful flow" refers to the text in the interface, it suggests that readers should be able to read from one item to another without boredom and without pausing to try to make sense of the text or of an unusual transition.

Your website has to provide information that fulfills the immediate needs of your site visitors.

This is the fundamental principle behind usable website design, so let's repeat it one more time: Your website has to provide information that fulfills the immediate needs of your site visitors.

The immediate needs of the site visitors' are probably to answer questions like:

  • Can I trust them?
  • Are they any good at what they do?
  • Will they get the job done?
Read more... [When flow is graceful]
 
Web Standards Compliant coding

What difference does it make?

The way your web site is coded will absolutely affect how it is presented in the web browser your visitor uses. There is an organization named The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) who creates standards for technologies that are used on the web, primarily to ensure uniformity in what is being displayed across all web platforms.

The benefits of having a standards compliant web site in plentiful, it leaves you with a light weight infrastructure and at the same time it helps you retain better placement in searches and your pages will:

  • Load faster
  • Be cheaper to maintain
  • Display in any browser
  • Easily upgrade to new web technologies

 
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