In a recent study by the Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis School of Informatics, Wellmont Health System’s website was recognized as the “best hospital system website in the United States”.

I speak with many marketing professionals every week, and the discussion inevitably revolves around how we're spending our time and budget to market and promote our companies.   Almost everyone has taken a step back to re-examine priorities for the remainder of the year in a down economy. 

As a small agency with limited internal promotional budgets, we have to be extra clever and precise with our marketing endeavors. Every word, website, image, tweet, ad, blog post, status update and presentation is complicated by the extra pressure on the cobbler to be wearing awesome shoes while designing equally cool kicks for clients.

Any agency that lists 'viral videos' in its offerings is nuts. You see, you can't create a viral video - it's not a thing, it's a social phenomenon that follows some unknown complex formula of success factors. Everyone's trying to crack the code.

In a May 2009 Report titled: Where To Find Help For Web Design Projects, 2009, Forrester Research surveyed 41 web design firms (including n-tara interactive). Vidya Drego from Forrester has created an excellent reference for anyone seeking outside web design help. This report led me to think about some additional criteria we recommend you consider when selecting a web design agency: