Web designers in Newcastle must start embracing new design philosophies

A quick look around the sites produced by leading Newcastle web designers reveals fairly standard formats that deliver the old-fashioned “brochure-style” efforts we were all discovering a decade ago. Web design in Newcastle seems to be stuck in the Web 1.0 era.

Some of Newcastle’s agencies are designing extremely attractive Flash websites that look great and do almost nothing for the businesses they serve. This is a big concern and means that many businesses in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley are missing out on the benefits of modern web strategy and social media concepts.

The world is spending more and more time online and Newcastle’s web design community must ensure that their customers are going to be competing on an even playing field.

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