Regardless of whether you are running an online business, or simply a blog, it is important to know how to design a great website. Web design is one of the key factors that determine how appealing your website is to visitors, and how likely they are to trust your content.

I had a chat recently with the lead designer from Move Interactive Media, an up-and-coming graphics and web design company in Toronto, and he helped me compile in this entry the best professional advice that can help you design a successful website:

Genesis Framework v1.8.2- Studiopress

The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.

Mashable calls Genesis the “best of the best” among premium frameworks. It’s no wonder over 52,000 online publishers trust Genesis to provide a solid foundation for their sites.

Welcome back to another website review.  Only a few weeks ago we went over another business site and got some interesting feedback from the company that owns it – basically, their main question was “Is it that bad?” – so I will use this opportunity to reiterate what we are doing here: checking random sites that we happen to come across in our daily activities, with a focus on usability, conversion effectiveness and SEO. These are personal reviews and not meant as exclusive checklists that webmasters should waste sleep over trying to fix. I simply happen to have an opinion about their sites, like it or not. So, without delay, today we look at

Online Exotic Rentals in Miami

The topic in itself makes one think of the latest and flashiest web technologies running behind the Prestige Luxury Rentals (Miami) website. But we would be wrong – site’s a static collection of pages put together with ’90s dust bunnies collecting in the corners, with a WordPress-based blog in a subfolder but looking more like an afterthought.

WordPress Theme – uses only HTML and CSS

A Photo Pica is a premium WordPress theme developed by Apptha. These theme look is very pretty and eye-catching. It’s one the best Photo gallery and album sharing website. You can create your own photo album within minutes.

The approaching weekend is always good reason to start trawling my friends’ sites offering the proverbial 2c on usability, features and design. Today I thought about spending some time on http://www.fashbo.com, a community of fashionistas and designer professionals.

Fashbo picked my interest mainly because it is not your usual WP- or Drupal-based platform – the site is custom-coded in PHP using the popular CakePHP framework, while running a WordPress subdomain as well to host the company blog under the same roof.