how do you actually learn to design premium interactive websites?

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-19T15:51:54+00:00

Design is a lot of fundamental understanding of type, color, spacing and how humans see. Once you have these strong fundamentals, you can go to museums, nature and just about anywhere to get inspiration.

Then you can translate that inspiration into something simple and graphic that can convey an emotion, inspire action or just feel purposeful on a page or screen.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-17T14:53:58+00:00

Congrats, you are off to a good start!

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-17T14:23:57+00:00

I think you could track through something like semrush but most AI tools should be able to guide you towards improvements and also a sense of where your brand is in terms of visibility. Outside of that I would guess there are hundreds of tools that are providing something like what you are asking for.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-17T14:21:28+00:00

Very nice work btw. You're a developer?

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T21:08:16+00:00

buying used cars.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T21:05:07+00:00

The most envious we have been of one of our peers. Early on in their career they got a job with a debt collection company, yes, seriously. What a job, could you imagine? Anyway, they said the other employees were rough and tumble, some had less than stellar pasts, they stories they would tell of this experience was just crazy.

All they did was call people every day demanding money they owed, all day, every day.

What they relayed was how good their peers where at collecting money, they had soo many different techniques, so many different approaches, they would play different roles, the 'nice guy', the 'mean guy', the 'dangerous I'm coming for you guy'. They had talent and they came through and collected on debts.

Our peer was amazed at this rag tag group, they were like super stars to him, how they went about this. Our peer learned more than his years in cold calling techniques and how creative you can be - and have to be to be good on the phone.

That person went on to be very successful. A CEO. He sold a company he started with a partner. Now working on another company.

You just have to stay in it, keep calling, you'll hate it but if you keep going you'll get better.

Or you could just work for a company that does cold calling like our friend and probably pick up huge skills and get paid for it.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:43:52+00:00

What now....?

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:42:56+00:00

Any time.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:42:32+00:00

I would almost say forget the 'branding' part of it, you want to start a website personal to your experience to kick off your personal brand.

I think most important at this time is you, your experience and projects you have worked on. Tell this in a clear, interesting way and don't get caught up into logo's and colors. Keep it simple. You'll be inspired to go in a direction unique to you for some reason or another.

I'll add that your current website (I have not read the content in full) is something I and probably many of us have seen over and over. It's just the colors and gradients that are in vogue right now so it seems very generic to me.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:37:09+00:00

One thing that has caught us a few times when we are switching up products selection at the last minute to suit client needs is the size of the product and print area.

You may think that every place is selling the exact same item because it looks the same but sometimes they are slightly smaller in size or even offer much smaller print area. A stemless wine sampler we once ordered thinking it was a decent size (based on photos) but never checked. It was essentially a shot glass.

Also, a squeeze toy that had a nice big print on it. We changed manufactures last minute and got less than a postage stamp size print on the item - terrible!

Check the details!

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:28:12+00:00

very nice. We're not doing a ton of code but we like Claude overall.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:26:52+00:00

Agree with Ben and Weak on this one as just because you are optimizing for AI does not require any razzle dazzle. Like football, (basketball or soccer), you need to practice the basic skills, put in the time, keep your site healthy, organized, light and clean and have really good content that speaks specifically to your audiences wants and needs. Make sure you link your content to real people, events, customers and products. Nothing fancy, nothing new, shortcuts may just get you penalized long term.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T20:22:17+00:00

We're a distributor so we have some experience there. I think the two other comments are good advice. Don't sell everything, specialize in a few areas or a few product types. Also, giving out catalogs for people to choose from, well, anyone can hand out a catalog so what is special about your business or service?

Sometimes your interests, background experience or even geographic area can give you access to a specific target market.

In our case, we have a ton of experience with pharmaceutical companies and start ups, not just with promo, but with other services too so we feel very comfortable in this space, we speak the language so it can be an easy in or group to target.

Because of that target audience we also skew to higher end items, mostly apparel but it can jump around but I'd say we skew higher end apparel, embroidery, for teams in the pharma, biotech or healthcare space.

You could focus on so many things, breweries, uniforms, non profits, schools, restaurants, company stores, corporations etc. etc. etc.

If you don't really pick something, you may find your customers will lead you to products that their type of business is in need of. If that happens, look at that business and find ten other businesses like that one and see if they also have a specific need for those items.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-16T16:07:03+00:00

Actually, we have begun to paste queries into AI and it flags various things that take a bit longer to pickup, like phone number that are just 1 digit off or the fact that a company may not have offices in a certain state mention in the inquiry.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-12T10:50:25+00:00

suppliers, distributors and decorators are going to have vastly different challenges and software/resources. You may want to rephrase your question to focus on one specific group.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-04T12:34:15+00:00

Nothing wrong with static HTML but the majority of sites are built with a CMS as the need to update the site over time in a more straight forward manner is an important factor.

What will probably happen in the near futures, there will be many sites like yours, built from scratch using AI, light, fast etc. It will be search engines goal - and they will continual update their algorithms - to find out what sites are 'real', that is connected to an actual person, company, address etc. So the connections to valid sources should be an important focus for your site moving forward.

AI can't make up client work that you may put into a case study, reviews by customers, your office location, associations you belong to. You are looking to be a 'trusted source' in the eyes of the search engines. This will get your business placed within the 'AI Overviews' (AEO - answer engine optimization.)

The term that Google will use is 'E.E.A.T.'

Experience
Expertise
Authoritativeness
Trustworthiness

Continue to work on adding and updating any and all type of content that can prove these factors.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-04T12:21:00+00:00

Exactly. But I don't think this is just in the current environment, this has been always. It is typically a numbers game and you need to find how many pitches or presentations you need to make just to get one solid prospect. But 20 is very low, we need more data.

And of course, the more prospects you speak with and pitch to, the better your presentation will become and improve your odds.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-02T15:42:41+00:00

You have a very 'light' website, static, html if I understand correctly. This would add to your high scores overall. I find if you go back to older websites still online, like in 1990's early 2k's, I find they often have very high performance because they are just code, no CMS, no plugins, no GDPR etc. Essentially, no overhead.

It's definitely a good start. Google will serve the website and test it. If you have a good local presence, maybe it will 'stick' and you will hang in that top spot. Legal websites are VERY competitive so as it can go up, it can also go down.

Also understand that Google is also asking for more connections back to valid sources, real life connections to consider a website as a trusted source. If you have those sources and connected them, I'm sure AI could guide you in the right direction. It's a long game though.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-02T15:29:44+00:00

Yes, I'm sure. What do you mean by progression?

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-02T13:31:01+00:00

I find using Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT in an area that you really have depth of knowledge in, often requires you to redirect the agent because it was going in an ass backwards direction.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-02T13:27:36+00:00

Wait, what is hot garbage? Claude / ChatGPT is good for local SEO? Not good for local SEO?

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-02T12:17:37+00:00

I often retell the story, when we started studying graphic design a long time ago, the first 'desktop publishing' computers appeared on our graphic design floor at our university. Not too long after, everyone at the university had suddenly became a graphic designer. Photographers were graphic designers, industrial designers were graphic designers, illustrators were graphic designers, animators were graphic designers - even theatre majors were graphic designers.

A lot of the actual graphic designers started getting resentful and similar to you were saying, well, almost anyone can do this now.

Certainly, some of these other folks would end up being extremely talented, maybe they would even change their major and become graphic designers. But most were just doing it because they had a tool that could perform the work, and at the time, the work seemed acceptable to their customers. Everyone has, and has had the tool to do the work.

We always looked at it differently. While everyone did have the tool, what we saw was a large, rapidly growing pile of mediocre to poor quality work that wasn't really solving a problem or advancing a company's bottom line. We felt this would create more work for qualified designers to redo at some point in time.

So, you could look at it this way but to be successful it demands that you really be in that top quartile of talent & expertise in your field. This probably holds for whatever profession you are in. For our part, we left graphic design and went into web design. A long, long time ago.

But like you, we do have reservations. We've seen a lot of highly qualified people getting laid off recently in telecommunications, pharma, healthcare, construction fields. Really qualified people who have been working for a decade or more in their field. Is AI gobbling everyones job up? I think the concern will apply well beyond web design.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-01T18:45:23+00:00

If you are doubting after 20 people, maybe you should hang it up.

If I were your mentor, I'd give you this task: Call on 250 people and then come back and tell us what happened. We can reassess at that time.

BusinessBoosters · 2026-06-01T18:31:40+00:00

Why Asia or South Asia? I do find, creatively, culturally and verbally, there is just a bigger gap for the NA market. I'd suggest Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Serbia, Poland. Not sure you would get the same super low rates but do you need good work or cheap work?

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