Website Design is very important, it not only has to show off your brand and products, be informative where necessary, but it must allow for the user to easily navigate to the product or service your selling.   Website Design is the first impression you make and must command a focus or direction to your clients or visitors when entering your realm.  Good website design as we do in Jared's Direct will entice your visitors or clients to delve further into the site, amongst its many layers, allowing you the opportunity to show off your goods and services.  At Jared's Direct we take a very careful approach to websites design, by providing more than one access point to any given page, providing easy access to finding exactly what the client or visitor wants, providing information neccessary for the completion of a sale, directing a client through an easy way to purchase a service or good. 

Website design when done correctly and following guidlines such as w3c and though not included as of yet in any algorithm many have proven that it does help in your ranking on many search engines such as Yahoo. Google, and Bing.  Website design though overlaps in many situation with website development they should not be confused as being the same or synonymous with one another.  In the best way to define one from the other for the novice is Website Design is everything you see and Website Development is everything you don't; however, where they overlap is where Website Design can't be seen such as a css file or when Website Development can be seen when directly affects Website Design such as changing form questions when particular questions are answered in a particular order.

Website Design helps in attracting people to your site, keeping them there, focusing thier needs, directing them quickly to your product or service they were looking for, being informative and keep your clients focused and making it easy to purchase your good or service.  Website Design must be done carefully to make sure your seo efforts are at there peek allowing spiders to crawl your site affectively and efficiently to lead toward a good ranking amongst search engines.