Web design articles
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Make it clear what your website is about
- Just about every list of the "Top 10 Web Design Mistakes" includes at least one reference to either1. Not clearly specifying the objectives of your website, or2. Not making it obvious what your web pages are about.Usually both of these things are mentioned. This usually stems from the inability to look at your business or products from the prospective customer's point of view....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Website savvy: 10 key steps to turn your customers on!
- "How to turn "slightly interested" customers into "I've got to have it!" customers!"I am truly amazed as to the lack of information websites contain. You would think that a business would realize that a potential customer would at least like to know how to contact the customer service department. But, you'd be astonished at how many times I've actually come acr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secrets of the shriekers
- I am constantly bombarded with all sorts of advertisements, single-page sites, and sites offering very little real content but some wonderful new "product" or "service" for sale that purports to make its customers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.For the purposes of this article, let's refer to Amazing Formula (http://www.amazingformu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to rescue your graphic design project when all else fails
- Whether you're giving a critical sales presentation to a client, producing visuals for a meeting, event, trade show or seminar, or unveiling the new company logo before an audience of shareholders, top-notch graphics will help ensure that you, your products, and your message receive the attention they deserve.Yet when you decide to do the graphics in-house to reduce turnaround time or cut e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Positive design attributes for a successful website
- Designing a website is hard job, and requires you to think out a plan of action, and put in a lot of work to make it successful. There are many different kinds of websites on the Internet, but if you look at all the top performers with high traffic, you will notice that they all have similar design characteristics which place them as the best in the world.Characteristics for an excellent we...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bad design characteristics for a website
- Making a poorly designed website is one of the easiest things you can do as a webmaster! You barely need to try! If you want to run a successful high traffic website there are many different elements of design that you need to implement, and ones you need to avoid.This article will describe some of the major design flaws in many new websites. Design flaws that will reduce your traffic flow,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Make artistic graphic designs
- Are you a student of graphic design? If you have taken time in extra reviews and put "graphic design" and "drawing" into any search engines, you'll get almost the same result = descriptions of graphic design programs at many design schools. Baffled? Well, it's like this: As a student interested in graphic design, you have to take drawing and not actually a degree in fine art....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating your first website
- Building your first website can be very frustrating. It looks fairly easy, but almost always turns out to be more complicated than you expected.The problem is, building a website requires technical know-how that you have no way of acquiring until somebody explains it to you. And technical people are often pretty bad at explaining things.Everyone who has ever built a website eventuall...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ten fatal mistakes that make web sites stink
- Since you'll spend lots of time and money to create your web site, don't you want to make sure you're not making mistakes that at best irritate users, and at worst make you lose customers?After all, when you alienate users, you lose potential revenue. Who can afford that?Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, says that the top 10 website mistakes include:1. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The top 8 website sins part two
- Sin #5Poor Spelling And GrammarWe all make mistakes when we write things down or type things out. Nobody is 100% perfect but a huge number of website owners completely ignore the basics of spelling and grammar.If you're selling a product or service online and your website is littered with spelling and grammar mistakes you're losing sales. Plain and simple. You don't need a mas...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The top 8 website sins part one
- They say the eyes are the window to the soul. Your website then is the window to your business. What would a passerby think of your "window"? What does your website say about you? About your business?Does your website entice the visitor to pause and take a few moments to look around or does it confuse them so much they click past it without ever looking back.The goal of your website ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A web site that sells is all one needs to have a successful online business!
- There are more than billions of Web Sites, running Online Businesses, offering products and services. But only a few Web Sites manage to make any sale.Only a few Web Sites are capable of pulling in visitors and turn them into customers. Only a few are able to get profitable returns for their investments.Then what's wrong with the rest of the Web Sites that are unable to get the re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 seconds is all it takes? (how to grab the attention of your audience with your web site)
- FACT: 30 to 60% of visitors tend to drop off and click to another site when they are forced to click their mouse more often than necessary.FACT: People who use the internet are usually those who are always on-the-go and don't want to spend time figuring out how to navigate any web site.FACT: It takes all of ten seconds for most first-time visitors to spend time on any web site before...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to design a web site
- I'm not a professional web site designer and openly admit there is a lot that I don't know. But if you're a beginner I probably know more than you do, so listen up.Rather than give a lengthy dissertation on web design I have broken it down into the following points:Keep your navigation bars either at the top or left of the page (a recent tip I heard is: by putting the nav bar on the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - So you?re hiring a web designer?you have the right to demand these 7 perks
- Whether you're hiring a designer who has created 10 sites or 1000 sites for other businesses, there are 10 things every website should do for you.1. Be wary of companies who charge by the hour and don't put on a cap! There isn't a regulated industry standard in fees. So websites can easily end up costing you a small fortune. Ask for a flat fee if possible-you'll know exactly what you're pay...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Excellently constructed websites
- Want to see an excellently constructed website? As a writer I found one of my favorite writers: (Paulo Coelho) has a site that could inspire anyone who wants to create a more humanistic presence on the Web.Being a writer, when I was asked to do some research into what makes a good website, of course I straightaway went to check out all of my favorite authors. After sifting through a few sta...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web designers beware!
- 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 alread...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to get a pay raise from your web site
- How many of the visitors to your web site take the action you want them to take? Whether you want them to buy something from you, sign up for your newsletter, enter your sweepstakes, or give you contact information to follow up on, you want them to do something. The percentage of visitors who actually do that something is called your "conversion rate."Many web site owners are grea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 12 essential web site design tips
- 1. What's the purpose?The most fundamental thing to do before designing your web site is to define its purpose. Do you want to sell products directly to your customer through your web site, or collect contact details to develop future relationships? A lot of this will depend on the products or services you sell, those with a larger price tag will require more relationship building than thos...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Its no good having a killer product if you dont have a killer website
- Read the title of this article over a couple of times in your head so it really starts to sink in.So what does this title really mean. Well, there's no beating around the bush with this one... it means exactly what it says.If your site is NOT an order-pulling, money-sucking mean machine then it's not really worth promoting your product, whether it's a killer product or not.It ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do-it-yourself web design for home-based businesses
- Home-based businesses need a strong web presence to combat the inflated advertising and marketing budgets of their larger competitors, but establishing that presence through a professionally designed and developed web site may not be an affordable option. In many cases, the only cost-effective way to get the web site you want for your business is to do it yourself.Even if you are not experi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating personal web sites (part 2)
- This is the second part of a two-part article about creating a web site on the Internet and the tools that you will need to do it.Some basic terminology that you should take a look at before proceeding further:Web Page: A document that contains information created with the help of HTML.Web Site: A collection of web pages on a particular subject.HTML: Also known as Hyper...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating personal web sites
- This is a two-part article about creating a web site on the web and the tools that you need to do that.During the last decade we have truly entered the information age. More and more people are becoming a part of the ever growing and wondrous community called the Internet. It was just over a decade ago that 'Internet' was just another new concept that a lot of people were skeptical about. T...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your website visitors - will they stay?
- I'm sure you've all heard the saying 'Build it and they will come'. Although that may have been true a few years ago, now we must work, and work hard, to get visitors to our websites.You can't always control who visits, however, you can have some control over who stays.Here are a few website no-no's that I have come accross that made me leave without even clicking past the first page...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Three things you must do when designing and building your small business website
- If you are going to have a web presence for your small business, it only makes sense that it should actually help you get more business. In order to do so, your website design should focus on performing only one function ? and that's to convey your sales message to your site visitors in an effective and efficient manner.No matter what your web designer tells you, simplicity is best when bui...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Congratulations! you?ve gotten visitors to your site! now, can they find what theyre looking for?
- As search engine marketers, we spend an enormous amount of time trying to get targeted traffic to our site. But, once those visitors get to our site, can they find what they're looking for? If not, guess what? We've lost a customer.Think about it this way. How many times have you found a site through a major search engine or directory, only to visit the site and not be able to find what you...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Recipe for a good looking web site
- We've all surfed the web and seen some awful web sites. Sites that never completely loaded. Sites with too many photos. Sites with no easy way to find what you wanted. Another way a site looks bad is when each page looks different. You're not even sure you're at the same site. It doesn't have to be that way. Templates are the solution.A template is a web page showing the basic elements of h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Keep them coming back - update your site
- If you are anything like me, your website is a reflection of yourself. It contains your thoughts and communications, exposed to the entire world at all times. Look at virtually any non-commercial web site and you will get a glimpse at the person behind the monitor.I look at web sites all day long, and I am constantly amazed by the things that people reveal about themselves without saying an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Transforming a site from good to excellent
- One of the challenges of moving a web site up from good to excellent is transforming it from just a bunch of web pages and graphics to an interactive experience. Another term for this is community - a place where people can come to communicate with others. The very best web sites have mastered this transformation, thus attracting return visitors again and again.The whole point of a web site...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bad web design: activex
- ActiveX uses an interesting method for enforcing security ... it doesn't. Well, that's not exactly true. What happens is when a web page requests an ActiveX control the browser determines if that control is already loaded onto your system. If it is the ActiveX control is executed. If not, the user is asked if it is okay to install the control. Additional information about where the control came fr...