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Effective Website Taglines: Getting the Message Across

A tagline is very often overlooked and omitted from website design and branding, but taglines can make an impact and can help your site and brand with first impressions. It is not by accident that some of the biggest companies in the world have catchy, memorable taglines such as 'Just do it', 'Have it your way', 'The real thing', and 'I'm lovin' it'. I'm sure you know which company owns each of those taglines, if not they are (in the same order): Nike, Burger King, Coca Cola, MacDonalds.

Effective Website Taglines: Getting the Message Across

When creating a tagline, you have to decide what it is that you want the phrase to refer to – your products, your style or any other aspect of your business, like your friendly approach, etc. Then you should 'brainstorm' – write down every word you can think of that is relevant to the message you want your tagline to impart, then start rearranging them until you have something you like.

Of course there is much more to creating a tagline, and it can take time and patience to fall upon the perfect phrase for your site or business.

Effective Website Taglines: Getting the Message Across

The following selection of website taglines are a great source of inspiration and can give you some great ideas for creating your own tagline.

Creative Taglines

Creative Pundits

We create dreams, one pixel at a time

Creative Pundits

Coloud Headphones

Engineered to play

Coloud Headphones

Color

Stories are better in Color

Color

Creations Uncorked

Where wine meets design

Creations Uncorked

Bridgewater State University

A guide for prospective students and lifelong learners

Bridgewater State University

Studio Airport

Creative explorers

Studio Airport

Dice Media

Delivering quality oohs and aaahs since 2000

Dice Media

Southtree

Yesterday will be here before you know it

Southtree

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation

Brighten your corner of the world

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation

SquatDesign

A Human Experience Agency

SquatDesign

Keynes for Kids

Demonstrable analytical modeling of the general theory of fun!

Keynes for Kids

Echurrasco

From zero to hero in 15 minutes

Echurrasco

TechCult

Technology. Twisted.

TechCult

Successful Blog

You're only a stranger once

Successful Blog

Geeksugar

Geek is chic

Geeksugar

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Carol is a blogger and Photoshop enthusiast. She enjoys surfing the net in search of outstanding art, design and photography, and enjoys nothing better than sharing her discoveries through article writing.

  • http://fourtopper.com Michael

    Wow - these are great - not your typical "awesome websites" post. The headlines are not only catchy, but they're presented well in all of the designs.

  • http://howtostartablog101.net Alex

    Awesome post, some of the tag lines are really good but the ones that stand out for me are the ones with great design, as I was scrolling through I was stopping at the sites that had a great header design, goes to show how much design can effect the user experience.

  • http://www.navigatormm.com Sarah Bauer

    Based on these examples, shaping the tag line into part of an inclusive experience with the brand or business seems to be an effective strategy. Examples like "You're only a stranger once" and "Brighten the corner of your world" and "Yesterday will be here before you know it" come to mind.

    Definitely a round up to mull over!

    Cheers,
    Sarah Bauer
    Navigator Multimedia

  • http://www.ielectrify.com Sherice Jacob

    I always tell people that a good tagline can really make or break your branding, and the first impression that people have of you and your company. Too often, taglines are thought of as a last-minute thing to throw in rather than something that should be given more thought. I'm glad you spotlighted these websites and their taglines!

    Sherice Jacob
    iElectrify: The Business of Better Websites

  • Sarah Aley

    These are awesome :)