10 Important Web Design Tips
1. Avoid creating menu on the left-hand side of a website . If unavoidable, an alternative way is to put some text with rich keywords at the top or above the left-hand menu so that this text will be the first thing to read by search engines. 2. Headlines are rated more important than the rest of the web page by search engines . To take advantage of this, you should have your keywords in the page headline. Since the header tag (h1) is quite large, you should format it to make it smaller. 3. ...Read the rest of this entry »
12 Essential Web Site Design Tips
Web site usability and presentation is perhaps the most important factor in any web design. This is the driving factor that gives your visitors a positive, professional impression of your company and keeps them coming back to your website. This issue focuses on the '12 Essential Web Site Design Tips' that anyone wishing to promote their products or services on the Internet should benefit from. 1. What's the purpose? The most fundamental thing to do before designing your web site is to define ...Read the rest of this entry »
Create and deploy a website from start to finish!
Create and deploy a website from start to finish! Need a website for small business, church, sports team, or community but don't know where to start? Don't have the time or maybe even the knowledge on how to build and or publish a website? Well let me say it's really know big deal. I will try to give you the basics to get started. Ok let's get to it. Here are some steps you can follow in no particular order. -Step one, create some pages. You probably have heard of 'HTML', html stands for ...Read the rest of this entry »
Are Web Templates Aimed to Exterminate the `Web Stars'?
Since the arrival of web templates, there has been an unwritten haunch that plagued the Net. Many businesses and companies have turned to these templates to be aided for a less costly web design. Compared to sums which were then paid to web designers, only a diminutive portion of it is spent. Thus, it entails a great amount of savings. Nevertheless, how sure are these venturers that they are getting the precise and effective web design that they can get? First things first, web templates are ...Read the rest of this entry »
6 Fatal Design Flaws "Newbie" Web Designers Make:These Mistakes
Even if you're not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago'you're teaching yourself web design and you're starting to catch on to that HTML stuff. You're so excited about your new bag of tricks'but slow down partner, sometimes less is more. In fact the only time more is more is when it concerns chocolate cheesecake or something like that. (I can never get enough chocolate!) You've worked hard to get the traffic'now don't ...Read the rest of this entry »
Creating Your First Web Site, Part 1
Creating Your First Web Site, Part 1 By Lisa Maliga © 2005 Google boasts more than eight billion web pages. How will yours show up? When will the sales or hits start rolling in? Recently I've come across a few people who are interested in joining the Internet and want some assistance in building their first web site. If you want to be online, start looking for information there, especially at a site such as http://www.webproworld.com as well as in your local bookstore and library. Read as much ...Read the rest of this entry »
7 Web Site Design Mistakes That Will Lose You Clients
In today's world, a web site is virtually mandatory for any successful business. But there are web sites that will win you customers, and there are web sites that will lose you customers. Good design has a lot to do with which category your web site will fall into. But what is it that makes good or bad web site design? In my personal opinion, a good web site is one that's simple, informative and gives me a reason to come back frequently. That's what you should get from a good ...Read the rest of this entry »
Use Server Side Includes To Ease Your Workload
I'm all for making things as easy as possible. The whole idea in business, and life, is to work smarter not harder. When designing websites, I not only want to create them with as little effort as possible, but I also want to make maintaining them easy. One way to do this is with Server Side Includes (SSI). SSI's are an easy way to add or update content to one or more web pages on a site. One way I use SSI's is for the copyright on my pages. By changing the year in one file, it changes the ...Read the rest of this entry »
Website Backgrounds
Most websites feature white backgrounds. Or they sit on a navy or gray background -- but most of the screen is still white, like a page of paper set against the darker background. Occasionally, you might run across more interesting colors - reds and purples and greens and rust ' often looking more gaudy than professional. But every now and then, there is a website with a photo or a drawing or a pattern background. This tutorial will show you not just how to place a background on your website, ...Read the rest of this entry »
Sites That Make Sense
Context is the whole picture of your site: What it's about, how you navigate through the different pages, the information about your business, and of course the graphics. You are creating an environment for the visitor through your choices for these aspects of a website. This environment you create determines the message you are sending and how a visitor might experience and feel about your site. The type of business or site subject in part determines what context is best for you. Context is ...Read the rest of this entry »
