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As online trends are always changing, ensuring your website is up to date is crucial for your small business’ success. If it’s been a while since you've given your website a design update, it might be time to make some changes. Keep reading to check out five signs your website is in need of a redesign.

As a small business owner in today’s world, you most likely know the importance of having a well-designed website and keeping an active online presence. However, expanding your small business via e-commerce could be an essential next step, especially in light of COVID-19, with consumers now preferring to complete most of their shopping online. By selling your products online, you’ll be able to target new demographics, reach more potential customers, and increase sales.

When it comes to standing out online, ensuring your small business’ brand is fully established is important. Furthermore, ensuring you maintain consistent branding across your website and the rest of the web is even more crucial to building brand awareness. Consistency is key to a successful online presence for your small business.

Web design is constantly changing to offer consumers experiences on the web that are fast, easy-to-use, and visually appealing. If you're looking to improve your small business website, keep reading to check out six top trends in web design that you may want to consider to attract more potential customers.

E-commerce has changed the way people shop in recent years. According to Statista, e-commerce accounted for $2.8 trillion in sales in 2018 and is predicted to hit $4.8 trillion by 2021. Even if you are a small business owner, implementing an e-commerce platform onto your website can bring about many advantages and opportunities.

Having a 'modern' website can be a daunting concept for a small business. Website trends and technologies continually evolve, making it easy to feel as if you’ve fallen behind as a small business owner. With so many different web design trends out there, it can be difficult to decipher what your small business website truly needs to succeed.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Consider these statistics compiled by the United States Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy:

In a blog post last month, we discussed a few small business cyber security statistics that showed the shocking truth about small business’ vulnerability to cyberattacks. This week, we’ll discuss a couple of specific cyber threats and how you can better protect your small business from future attacks.

Websites are filled with images. Big, small, and some with stunningly high definition. Although website visitors may want to see all those images, they often do not wish to wait long for the images and the remainder of your webpage to load. Conversely, if your small business website only contains tiny, low-resolution images, it might load quickly, but is not nearly as visually appealing and can give the impression that your brand is low-quality. Two important image techniques exist to create fast, visually appealing websites.

The world wide web has brought numerous benefits to the world, including technological advancements and unimaginable global connections. Unfortunately, it has also led to the rise of cybercrimes that can have detrimental effects. Recent Juniper research revealed that in 2019, such cybercrimes resulted in losses of approximately $2 trillion.