Use Photos To Enhance Your Site

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This aphorism refers to the idea that complex stories can be described with just a single still image. But it also characterizes the goal of visualization. In a world where communication travels at light speed, we all need time  a little help where large amounts of data must be absorbed quickly.
Migrate Design has thousands of photos to chose from. We efficiently make use of those photos to share an emotion, set a mood, or emphasize an idea. Photos are effective and artistic; they help guide the visitor through a complicated page, and make the reading experience more pleasant. Contact us to learn more about our services, and how you can benefit from the use of photos in your site, or any other products.

Advertise In Santa Clarita Magazines

So you have a website, perhaps even a blog, and you update your social networking sites on a daily basis… but have you considered advertising in Santa Clarita’s local magazines?

You can choose from a wide variety of local, high quality publications. Some of them have been around for 19 years! Whether seasonal, monthly or biweekly, they will dramatically increase your company’s visibility, and generate a broader outreach to specific markets.

The Magazine Of Santa Clarita
Elite Magazine
Smart Shopper
inside SCV Magazine
The Signal
661 Magazine

Their rates are about 20% cheaper than last year’s. Take advantage of these low rates to get a better return on investment. Plus, Migrate Design‘s professionalism and expertise in graphic design and advertising will elevate your ads to new standards. We will design your ad to promote specific products and/or services, and optimize the rewards by choosing the right magazines for you.

Please contact us for more details and availability and let’s design an ad together.

Create A Blog With WordPress For Your Business

There are many advantages in having your own blog. The competition is fierce but this should not stop you from doing what’s best for your business. Whether standalone or attached to an existing website, a blog can be extremely beneficial to your organization, and useful to your customers. A blog will help you:
Promote your company
Build a new network
Grow your presence on the internet
Increase traffic to your site
… and these are just a few examples of the rewards. Migrate design will optimize your blog for search engines. We will design it from scratch with our own media. We do not use templates, which means each job we create is unique and tailored specifically to your company’s needs and personality.

Contact us to learn more about our availability, and get a better understanding of our strategy and design abilities.

Letterheads And Personalized Notes For Your Business

The letterhead and personalized notes days are not over. In this day and age, we tend to communicate electronically via email, SMS, and even directly from social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter – which by the way, are rapidly becoming indispensable tools for any business. Let’s face it, it is easy, quick, efficient AND… better for the environment. There’s no reason to waste paper when written communication can be handle through cyberspace.

But there are times when a quick personalized written note will make a big difference on your business. Some companies will request correspondences to be done via printed forms, like transactions, notices, certified letters, etc… Other than the official aspect of this tradition, there’s a certain level of nostalgia related to personalized letterheads and the design behind them. Each piece is unique and it is supposed to represent your personality and the character of your business or organization. Personalized letterhead is an important part of branding. Don’t underestimate the power of design.

And if you rightfully feel guilty (like me) about wasting paper, you can always print on recycled paper. It is extremely popular in the business world and it will reflect positively on you and your business. That way, everybody wins.

Contact Migrate Design for your free estimate on designing various personal stationery items. We can help you.

Twitter Background Design

With Twitter rapidly becoming one of the most popular networking site, everybody wants to stand out from the horde. There has already been quite a range of quality designs showcased on various sites, which has shown an emergence of trends such as the ‘sidebar’. The sidebar is an area of screen real estate that is put to use to display additional information about the user or business, such as large profile image, bio and lists of websites and other social networks.

For the most part, there are three main design styles when it comes to creating your Twitter background:
Repeating background pattern
Background graphic fading to color
Extra large background graphic

Twitter will help you expand your professional network, promote your business and see what people are interested in. It is not too late to add Twitter to your marketing strategy. Let us design your very own, personalized Twitter background professionally and effectively. Contact Migrate Design for a thorough explanation of the Twitter community, and to discuss how your business can benefit from it.

“TWIT!”

Women Businesses In California

We are proud to be one of the 1.3 million women owned businesses in California. Renee Fraser, a well renowned and respected business owner in the advertising world (Fraser Communications), recently recorded a short audio podcast on women owned businesses in California. We recommend this insightful and informative audio article.
Content source: courtesy of 2MinutesWith.com

Top 3 Questions to Ask Your Graphic Design Agency

When choosing a graphic design agency for a web design project, here are the top 3 questions you should ask:

1- What is your knowledge on SEO?
ANY good web designer should have basic knowledge of search engine optimization, if they don’t offer optimization services themselves.  If you don’t feel comfortable with the answers you get – walk away as fast as you can!  If a designer doesn’t understand how search engines work, then chances are you won’t get a search engine friendly website and that can hurt you in the long run.

2- What do you know about social networking?
Staying on top of online marketing trends and technologies is their job!  If they can’t offer services or help with this, then you may want to look elsewhere.

3- Do you offer other services other than web design?
If you are happy with your designer, it’s a lot easier to deal with multiple avenues of your marketing journey with one company than trying to create the wheel all over again each time you need a new piece created.

So what are you waiting for? Ask us and we’ll tell you.

Why A Website Or A Logo?

Internet has grown from media-darling to media-monster. Selling online or promoting your business on the Web is a wise and rewarding business move for every business. In today’s internet-savvy world if you own a business, it’s always a win-win strategy to brand (logo) your business and go online (website). If you look around, most of the businesses are already available online and soon every business would go the same way. So be there before your competitors do. Here are the few good reasons to go online with your business:

• Reach to worldwide AND local customers
• Very affordable start-up investment
• Low promotion costs
• Low staffing/operational expenditures
• Simple to automate
• Work at own pace (solo marketers)
• Easy and inexpensive to test, lowering risk
• Quick to generate income.
• Easy to measure customer response and effectiveness of advertising

Migrate Design can help you achieve your goals. Contact our office today for a comprehensive look at your graphic design needs.