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How To Save Money on a Website
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| Write down some short term and long term goals. Establishing an Internet presence for your business is an important step – make sure you do it right! You need to have a clear vision before you start. |
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Web Designers Beware
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| As a web designer, I have a personal interest in a new trend which threatens to put me and my kind out of business. That “threat” is Web Design Templates. In short they are ready-made web design products which can be used as a basis for a fast and high-quality website. You usually receive a Photoshop file (.psd), Flash file (.fla), HTML files with your tables and initial scripting already complete, fonts, sounds and anything else which may be part of the website design. |
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About Your Web Design? - Panic No More!
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| The Net is bombarded with different kinds of websites. When you visit from one website to another, you can’t help but compare. In some instances, you do not even have time to compare, involuntarily, you are clicking away from the site. If you wondered what was lacking in those sites that you disregarded, or what was common with those sites you well-liked, well the answer will be just as easy as clicking away. It’s the web design. It catches the initial attention. If it is successful in doing so, then the visitor can prolong the visit. If it doesn’t, in a matter of 5 seconds your prospective client will easily turn away from you. |
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The Contrast And Similarities Between A Web Designer And Web Programmer
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| The concept of web designing based on the nature and rapid growth of the Internet is nothing to boast of any more. This is because of the large number of web sites published to the Internet everyday, so as to showcase one’s presence and dominance on the World Wide Web. You may ask why this is so, well, the so simple answer is the rate at which technology is evolving. |
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Creating A Quality Web Site Design!
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| In this article, I will attempt to cover the basics of creating a great quality web design template for your site. Now it's a known fact that the layout or "eye candy" as I put it will determine whether your visitors will stay more than 15 seconds or they will just become another statistic. |
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The Topic Of Your Website
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| The first thing you will have to deal building your website has nothing to do with the web design itself, it's me related to content writing but it must be defined and will effect the rest of your actions. So first of all you need to decide what the topic of your future website is. Topic is very closely connected to another web design issue: keywords. The keywords you select will depend upon the topic you have chosen. When thinking about website topic ask yourself a few questions: What is the goal of the site you are making? What are you trying to achieve with your site. Specify a goal, preferably in one short sentence. |
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Make Your Own Brand!
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| There are millions and millions of websites on the Internet. You NEED to be different in some way from all of them! If you could get a visitor to your website, that means nothing. Only returning visitors must be counted. When they return the second time, "branding" starts to occur. Huge companies advertise not because they want to provide you with information about their product. They do that because they're trying to "brand" its name and image. Actually, it is the brand you are paying the money for when you buy something from "Adidas”, “Nike” or “Coca-cola”. People will actually be willing to pay for the brand they know, so make it as bright and memorable as possible. However, it is useful to remember that too complex logo will definitely slip out of peoples' minds. |
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Pick Up Your Own Domain Name
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| Think up a name and check if yourname.com is available. Personally, I like to use http://www.whois.com to check if a domain name is available. You may also check the registrant contact information using “whois” service if you want to negotiate about purchasing the domain you like from people who registered it first. |
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The Top 20 Web Mistakes Small Businesses Make
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| My parents made a monster. Little did they know 30 years ago that they would get exactly what they wished for. Like W.W. Jacobs' tale of "The Monkey's Paw", they got what they wanted, for better and maybe even for worse. |
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Keep Your Website Up-To-Date
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| In almost every business publication there are articles telling us how, as a small business, we need to have a website. This is very true! The Internet is where most people go to find a product or service that they are interested in or may have heard about. And, if your business is capable of serving customers throughout the globe, what better way to keep your information available to that huge target audience than an Internet presence? |
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Basic Graphic Design
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| Wether you design your business brochures, flyers, web page, or ads there are some things that you need to know. There are some basic graphic design principles that those of us trained in the commercial art/graphic design field don’t always share. Here’s a short list of elements of graphic design that you can use today. |
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New Web Development Technologies: Beyond HTML
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| After stagnating for quite some time, Web powering technologies are now experiencing rapid development. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is just the first wave, and it's already giving way to more robust technologies like DHTML, LAMP, XML for more information on this technology), and AJAX. Attempting to stay current on these technologies can be both time consuming and expensive, which raises the question: should you stick with what you have, or take the plunge and incorporate these advanced techniques? |
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Should You Build Your Own Business Web Site?
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Once a small business owner decides to build a Web site, he or she is faced with a decision: to build a site in-house, or to outsource it. And the answer, as with many issues in business, is "it depends." It depends on your site requirements, your budget, your skill level, and, perhaps most importantly, whether you have the time.
First you'll need to determine what kind of site your business requires. If you need a high-powered e-commerce solution with complicated database functionality and you're an Internet novice, then building your own site probably isn't an option. But not every business needs all those bells and whistles. If all you need is a basic site to display your product offerings and spread the word about your company, doing it yourself might be the way to go. |
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Selling online: 8 rules to live by
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If you've been waiting for the right time to convert your "brochure" Web site into a dynamic sales tool, or perhaps retool the online store you now have, here's a tidbit that should nudge you into action.
Consumers and business shoppers alike are increasingly turning to the Web to comparison shop, to check prices or availability and to save time. Online retail sales in the United States are expected to top $120 billion in 2005, according to Forrester Research. E-commerce sales are likely to grow to 8% of total retail sales by 2008, up from about 3% in 2004. |
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Is your Web site 'usable'?
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Let's start with this scenario: You need to buy something and you decide to do some advance research online.
You try one company's Web site. It's plain, but it lists pricing information, the models it services, and its contact information. Then you try another company's site. It makes you sit through a three-minute Flash presentation before letting you explore the site. (There's a "skip this intro" button at the top right, but the button is camouflaged.) And, instead of getting pricing information, you have to fill out a form and wait for a salesperson to call. |
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Basics of Web Layout
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| When you create a Web design, one of the more overlooked aspects of the design is the layout. Now, many people think about how to do a layout (CSS, tables, frames, etc.), but the basics of Web layout are often completely ignored. |
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