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  1. Fast Web Design For The Skint Webmaster By T. O' Donnell
    About two years ago, I had a go at commercial web site design. I put a medium-sized ad in a London classified ad paper. Nothing fancy: "Web designer seeks work ..." etc. This was expensive, about £500 for a month's run.Got a few replies. Lesson number one: advertise where clients of the calibre you want will see it. The clients I got thought £300 was a lot for a web site. They didn't want to pay web hosting. They wanted a lot of bang for their buck. 'Mission creep' was a term I grew to know an…


  2. Does Your Website Induce Seizures? By Tim Knox
    QUESTION: We promote our web site in all our ad campaigns, but according to my website statistics program, we are getting very few visitors who click past the first page. The site has a cool Flash introduction page that the designer said would impress visitors, but it doesn’t seem to be working. What can we do to get people to spend more time on the site? -- Christopher O.ANSWER: The first thing you should do, Christopher, is find that designer and beat the living Flash out of him. It w…


  3. Web Site Navigation By Halstatt Pires
    Once a visitor gets to your web site, you want to make sure they can find what they are looking for quickly and easily, or they will just go elsewhere. If a web site is easy to use and understand, visitors will come back time and time again.Using intuitive navigation techniques will greatly improve the usability of your web site, and therefore user satisfaction and return rates. By intuitive navigation, I mean some sort of menu, map or list that is instantly understandable to most visitors to …


  4. Making the most of your webserver
    When a company has a site they wish to host somewhere, especially small businesses with limited funds, they normally take advantage of special rates available from a hosting provider. There is nothing wrong with that, but it can cause some problems later due to the 'budget' nature of the servers used.What happens when your site has a sudden increase in traffic? Great for your business but not for your webserver. A high amount of traffic on a site increases the workload on the server, which mean…


  5. Choosing the right Inkjet printers
    Digital printing on the hype has brought a remarkable progress for the past few years. Multiple prints can be accomplished without missing the deadline and can even be finished ahead of it. No need to worry too much because with inkjet printers, printing can be finished easily. No wonder why businesses and companies have relied and switched to going digitally. Since digital printing has been in demand, the need for digital inkjet printers is indeed vital and imperative. The more printers get in …


  6. Digitalize It! : (Modification of images with tools such as Adobe CS and Corel) By Carmelo John Diaz
    Then it was a choice among crayons, paints and palettes for an artist and designer to create art. It was a box of crayons that make one happy designer during his early years of formation.Nowadays, designing has gone to the new age of advanced technology that utilizes computers and programming. As a designer used to handling tangible products such as the ever reliable crayons, computer technology is oftentimes scary and heart palpitating. With all that computer code and HTML tags and styles, it…


  7. Color printing is advantageous
    Color Printing has played a very vital role in the modern business world. It has given impact to the dull images we have been practicing for years. Color is important because it makes printed works look excellent and pleasurable. Many business establishments and organizations have applied this enormous breakthrough in printing and they are continuously dedicating to the use of it. Color printing’s major role is to attract users and persons who are involved in it. Of course everyone wishes to see…


  8. Mini Site or Content-based Web Site? By Herman Drost
    Are you in a dilemma whether to create a mini site or a content-based web site for your new product or service? The purpose of creating a web site should be to attract visitors and convert them to paying customers. Is a mini site with a few pages enough to do this or should you spend more time and create a content-based web site which contains many pages?Let's look at some of the Pros and Cons:Mini SitesPros1. Easy to set up - you don't have to be a programmer these days to create a mini si…


  9. 8 Must Know To Buy and Sell Reprint and Resell Right-able Products
    Probably many of you have come across sites that provoke orcite phrases like Reprint Right, Resell Right, Royalty FreeReprint Right, Sell at what ever price you like and keep allthe profits, the like…..etc.There are many commonly asked questions about these marketingbusinesses! Below are the main and important ones thatfrequently asked and basically a must know for anyone whowould like to buy or sell these products.What you don't know when buying and reselling Reprint andResell Right-able Produc…


  10. 5 good reasons to use web site templates
    Professionally designed site First appearances are everything, this is especially so on the internet. If your site looks amateurish then it is more than likely that someone will press the back button on their browser before they even read your home page, let alone buy anything from you. Web site templates get round this problem as they are designed by professionals who are creating web sites every day. This means that graphics will be well designed and load quickly when people visit your site. T…


  11. Optimizing Your Internet Sales By Daniel Katz
    It's a fact, we all need visitors to achieve certain success parameters for our business. So let's take a look at two important elements.Landing PageA crucial factor in the conversion process is the landing page selection. When searching for a service or product, customers will want to land on the page that will give them precise information about what they are looking for.It doesn't matter if visitors are coming from organic search or paid advertising, landing pages must contain rich content …


  12. Web Design:10 Magnificent Millionaire Dollars Ad Copy Secrets To Empower Your Website.. By I-key Benney
    Hello, how is your website doing?Are sales flowing in?If you answer no, may I offer you 10 eye-popping web design secrets to make your website sell!1. Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. Adding a personal touch will always increase your sales.2. Publish a list of famous and respected customers who have bought from you on your a copy. People will think that if these people bought from you, t…


  13. Customer Care - Do You Really Care? By Julia Ramyalg
    Though web design business sells inanimate products and services, there is always a real person behind each web site order and personal relations between customer and web designer guide web design process. That’s why in this article I want to talk about business philosophy rather than certain marketing strategies and rules.First impressionNo matter how you get orders – from your web site, from paper and Internet ads, by email, by phone, or by personal visit. Always remember that the first impr…


  14. How To Build A Website
    That is a good question. How do you build a website? Where does one start that has no clue about web page design? First we assume that you have access to a computer and to the internet. Once that goal is accomplished. You have open reign. There are literally thousands of ways to create a website. You can hand code (manually entering all of your html) or use tools to do it for you. Since you are new to web page design I would suggest using a tool to help build your pages. Tools like: Macromedia D…


  15. How To Choose The Right Web Design Company By Tayo Solagbade
    1. Size does not equate to competencePeople sometimes assume a company with more money, employees, office space etc will be more capable than one with less. This is not necessarily correct. In fact much smaller businesses (or individuals) if they apply themselves intelligently/effectively, are often likely to be able to deliver better quality-and more personalized-services than bigger ones. My advice it that you get authentic proof of competence in form of past web design projects (website add…


  16. Scope Creep and your Website
    'Scope creep' may not be a common term among us. However, if you are a website designer or enthusiast, this is definitely a term worth learning. In simple words, 'scope creep' happens when the scope or focus of a site changes due to improvements. When it expands, it is said to creep. That is where the coined term 'scope creep' came from. 'Scope creep' may be drastic or may be not. However, in times of 'creeping' your website may need a change in the content or design of the site so as to accomm…


  17. Offshore Web Design and Development - Use Great Opportunities By Julia Ramyalg
    Sooner or later every small or medium business owner realizes that he needs a web site for his business. And almost everybody wants to have great web site for affordable price because usually web site design budget is quite limited.There are few ways to find the best solution. Somebody prefers to design the site by himself - but it takes much time and labor, distracts from the general business, and let be frank - you have seen many of such "DIY" - web sites -they lack professional touch and l…


  18. Things a web site Newbie should know to save money.
    Don't subscribe to get rich quick schemes. There are thousands of sites out there trying to get you to part with your money, and inferring that you will immediately start reaping the rewards. Don't be fooled by compelling one page sales letters, often with copies of bank statements, and invariably concluding with free gifts worth hundreds of dollars. Often the letters are sprinkled with testimonials and attempt to close the sale by offering only a limited number left remaining for sale, or you a…


  19. The Contrast And Similarities Between A Web Designer And Web Programmer By Onaefe Edebi
    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.An example is illustrated with the popular Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia’s Flash. They are two different web designing softw…


  20. Dos and Don'ts in Web Design - part 1 (design) By Max Paul
    Do use a consistent look and feel Your site should stand out as a whole. Use the same look and feel for all the pages at your site. This way your visitors have a sense of recognition when they visit various pages. Using stylesheets makes it much easier to maintain the look and feel of numerous pages.Do use recurring visual elements Repeat visual elements (images, colors, fonts etc.) on several pages. This will add to a consistent look and feel.Don't use dark backgrounds Dark backgrounds tend …


  21. Can Your Visitors Contact You From Your Website By Dave Tan
    Argh, where's the contact button?! Believe it or not, some websites just DON'T WANT any visitors (even customers) to CONTACT them. There's no email address, no contact form, no NOTHING!What if a potential customer wants to BUY something from your website but have a few questions or doubts that he/she needs to ask you first? If you have a FAQ page, that's the first place he/she will definitely seek answers...but what if your FAQ page still can't provide the answers he/she seeks?Don't care?! Not…


  22. Review: Implementing the Google Search Appliance in an Intranet environment
    Our corporate intranet is a non-framed environment with both Lotus Domino and IIS (.Net and classic ASP) applications and content. We have between 300,000-500,000 pages of web content and documents across more than 1200 “sites” on approximately 30 unique domains. We used to have Inktomi’s UltraSeek Server 3.0 as our intranet search engine which was beginning to look like its age (purchased in 1998). The Inktomi product did not handle attachments well (DOC, PPT, PDF, etc.), would not crawl our s…


  23. Ten Tips for Building an Ecom Web Site
    You've implemented online sales, now how to convince the customer to buy?Here are nine tips for building a site that encourages rather thandiscourages online shopping.10.Design for your target market. Find out who your potential customers areand why they come to your site. Use surveys, focus groups or usabilitystudies to discover their preferences, patterns and requirements.9. Identify your goals for the site and introduce content accordingly. OneInternet marketer tells the story of erroneously …


  24. Make Your Site Look Like Champagne But With A Ginger Ale Budget...
    Here's a big step that people really over complicate. They are trying to do a Spielberg production because they feel that the glossier the better. Well you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. This is where KISS (Keep it simple Stupid) comes into play. Graphic design and Look & Feel are not as important as most people think. It's amazing to think how much money people spend on graphics and how little they spend on the words (content). If you happen to be one of those folks who think that a Holly…


  25. E-commerce Web Site Design - How to Make a Killer E-commerce Site By Clinton Porter
    The question is where do you start with the bewildering range of ecommerce shopping carts and ecommerce solutions available? Whether you are looking for corporate website design and ecommerce, business to business ecommerce build and development, or more modest affordable e-commerce web site solutions, you still need to apply the ecommerce golden rules. A good web development company (link to home page) will be able to help with these questions and more. But first what do you need to know in o…



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