Understanding Graphic Web Design – Purposeful Art for Real Estate Websites

Many real estate website owners whose Internet presence is successfully generating sales leads have found that effective graphic design is more than just good art. As an anonymous real estate web designer recounted, “Art and graphic design differ in that graphic designs demand a viewer’s response and with art, the viewer’s response is optional.” Possibly we can define web graphic design as “functional art that demands a return on investment.”

Real estate agents and small business owners investing in their commercial real estate web design don’t launch websites to be patrons of the arts – having a great looking website for the sake of beauty and esthetics alone. The investment into a web design’s look and feel revolves around creating an atmosphere that invites attention and leads the eye to the informative, call-to-action content.

IMCD Web Design , with our strong background in photography, graphic arts and multimedia presentations, has refined the use of color, shape, search engine optimization features and layout to create graphic designs that not only win awards, but fulfill a web designs’ primary goal of gathering sales leads for our clients.

We regularly see gorgeous websites whose owners invested in art at the expense of the design. Real estate developments showing the model homes and neighborhood layout in vivid colors. The missing part of these websites is the graphic design that takes into account search engine optimization. Unfortunately for the art websites, lack of search engine optimization has relegated them to the realm of invisible rankings – nowhere near the first page of search results. Stunning websites done totally in Flash may fulfill the requirement of moving the viewer to action, but without the SEO (which Flash is inherently not meant for), no one finds the website in order to become a viewer!

For that perfect blend of the artistry you soul longs for and the graphic design your sales leads are attracted to, contact IMC and see how our sales and graphics design teams respond to your professional and real estate web design needs. Small businesses and real estate agents all over the United States and Canada have found the perfect balance in their IMCD-created online marketing websites.