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Articles in Home | Internet | Web Design articles Title|Newest|Oldest Why I Switched to A Tableless Design  By : Karen Blundell Since I made the switch 6 months ago to a tableless design on my main site, I’ve noticed some interesting things. Designing A Website That Sells  By : Ramesh Patel Your site is a direct reflection of your product and that is why that having a well designed website can make or break your sales. Has your Design Firm Run Amuck with your Web Site?  By : Lee Traupel What’s happening to good web site design? Somehow we creative types at interactive and traditional ad agencies have run amuck – we’re building web sites that may dazzle the senses, but don’t really communicate much about our client’s business or products and services! Ten Basic Steps for Building a Web Site that Works  By : Lee Traupel Assemble a Web site development plan that is integrated with your overall marketing processes. The content should be consistent with offline materials; the graphics/images don’t have to be identical with traditional media, but should be consistent with your overall branding, style guide, usage of colors, etc. The Power of Web Forms  By : Halstatt Pires Web forms allow site owners to gather information about their site visitors. Web forms can be as simple as an email newsletter subscription box, or as complex as an advanced ecommerce checkout page. Here are some tips on making the most of your web forms. The Site Map - Important or Not?  By : Halstatt Pires Have you ever visited a web site and noticed the "Site Map" button jammed somewhere near the bottom of the page? Ever click on it? Probably not. So, why do sites have site maps? Web Site Design Mistakes  By : Halstatt Pires Some wise human once said "Learn from the mistakes of others. There isn't nearly enough time to make them all yourself." Hence this article. Here are five of the most annoying and common web design mistakes. Web Site Design Mistakes - Database Parameters In URLs  By : Halstatt Pires Creating a web site takes thought, planning and execution. Unfortunately, many designs are dead in the water before they are even published as far as search engine optimization is concerned. Whatever you do, avoid these critical mistakes. Web Site Design - Focus, Focus, Focus  By : Halstatt Pires When creating a web site design, it is easy to fall into the trap of trying to be all things to all people. In reality, the key to a good web site design is focus, focus, focus. 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. Love at First Site: Giving Your Website Visitors the right Impression  By : Sam Serio Think of the people who visit your site as blind dates. When you open the door, your blind date usually knows whether they are attracted to you within the first minute. How do they know? Easy. By how you look, what you say, and how you treat them. If you open the door wearing the same clothes you wore in 1987, say, "Wow, from my friend's description, I thought you would be a lot better looking," and sneeze in your dates face, not only will you never get a second date, your date will run for his/her life. The Big Website Question: If You Build It, They Will Come  By : Tim Knox Assuming that a website will automatically attract customers is the single biggest mistake that many business owners make. It is this mistake that eventually leads them to dismiss their website as a failure and abandon their online sales efforts. Website Design Considerations  By : Tim Knox If you want to be a web designer, be a web designer. However, if the key focus of your business is building widgets, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that your time would be better spent building widgets, not Web sites. Does Your Website Induce Seizures?  By : Tim Knox If visitor's are not clicking past your fancy Flash intro page, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that therein lies your problem. Remove the Flash intro page for a few weeks to see if your website's click-through rate improves and the number of page views increase. "Click-through rate" refers to the number of visitors who click links on your homepage to go deeper into your site. "Page views" refers to the overall number of web pages that were viewed by visitors. If click-through and page view rates improve, you'll know that the Flash intro was your problem. The 8 Things You Must Know To Build A Great Website  By : Tim Knox Last week we talked about how a bad website can do your business more harm than good. That column brought several emails asking what is the key to building an effective business website. I replied with the same answer I always give: building an effective business website is a simple matter of definition. Getting A Website: How To Get A Better Price From Your Web Designer  By : Robin Porter So you have decided you need a website. What next? Before you contact some web designers to get a quote, you will save yourself time, money and trouble by first sitting down and thinking about what you actually need. The more you can “nail down” your requirements, the more likely you are to get a better price, and not be surprised by getting a bill for extras at the end of the project. First, think about what you want from your website: Do you want to sell product... Do It Yourself Website  By : David Andrew Smith If you are just starting out in your new business and you decide that a website could be a valuable addition to this business how do you go about getting one up and running? You have two basic options really. Do it yourself or employ an individual or company to do it for you. Which option you take depends upon your own confidence in acquiring the skills necessary and the amount of funds you can divert to hiring in a company. If you have sufficient funds then hire in a company as this will enable you to devout all your time to developing your core business. Web Site Design By Using A Template.  By : Colin Visser If you are like may others on the internet, then you would like to have a web site of your own. The problem is, you don't know how to design a web site, and you can't afford to pay a web site designer to design a new site for you. So how do you get around this problem? Actually it is very easy - and as always there are options! There are many talented web designers on the internet, and they will allow you to purchase a web site design from them for a very reasonable price. Th... Give a Professional Polish to Your Website  By : Alicia Forest . If you want to be taken seriously, particularly in the online arena, your website must have a professional look and feel. A professional-looking website will lend you credibility and legitimacy, and it will make your visitor feel more confident in you, your products and your services. Designing Websites with Sales In Mind  By : Stephen Wright Web designers (and software apps) can do some amazing things with graphics and colors for websites these days. Search Engine Secrets - Get Top Listings On Google & Yahoo!  By : Robert Boilard Let me show you How to Get Top Listings for every page of your site and Rank #1 for all of your Keywords in the Search Engines - Guaranteed. Did you believe this? If your like me you've probably seen a million pages and emails like this that claim they can work miracles for you in all the search engines. They claim everything from having inside information or special relationships with Google and all the search engines. The simple Truth is this: No one can guarantee to... Discover How Your Voice Can Increase Your Website Profits 500%  By : John Macko Information on adding audio content to your website for increased conversion rates and profits. Don't Start a Diet site if Your Hobby is Cakemaking !  By : mark brading Thinking about starting your own website but worried that You don't really exactly how to go about it and how to present your topic You're not sure how to choose and register a domain name You don't know how to build a site or how to get it on the internet The Webdesign Business - 5 Surefire Ways To Fail  By : John Pierce Several years ago, I launched a small web design company in a rural area of California. Market conditions couldn't have been better, my skill level was above average, and I had a large pool of aquaintences to which I could market. Within 12 months I went broke... Small Business Website Design Do's And Don'ts  By : Charles Preston For a small business a website can have a massive impact on whether that small business thrives or dies out. There are several very important differences between a website built for a large business and a website built for a small business How To Find The Perfect Images Online  By : Jim Edwards Previously, in order to buy photos online, you either joined a membership site, which charges a monthly fee, or you bought by the photo from sites charging $100 or more for one photo. Personally, my shelves hold over 2,000,000 photo and clipart images on over 100 CD-ROMs, most of which rate quite useless to me. The solution to this dilemma lies in the fact that you can now buy photos online at bargain-basement prices. Small Business Ecommerce Web Design  By : Joel Walsh If your small business is venturing into ecommerce, you may be daunted by the technical wizardry you think is involved. But fear not: complete web store software packages will keep all the technical wizardry safely behind the screen, so you don't have to worry about it. All you have to do is choose a design, stock your store, and promote it. Here's how to do that. Designing Your Online Store: Choosing a Template When starting a brand-new online store for a small busin... Simple Webpage Design Using Website Templates  By : W Wagner Designing websites using website templates is catching on as webmasters discover that templates give a website a professional appearance and are easy to implement while saving time and money. Newbies' Guide to Web Content Development  By : James Monahan Many have jumped into the bandwagon of online stores and started to create their websites because they know that the internet have many users around the world and the number of buyers using the internet is increasing. Don't Just Guess Know Your Code is Right  By : mark brading If your code validates, then it's correct, and therefore very likely to work as intended on every web browser, and there are more each day, out there. If you don't validate your pages, then you might find that people who visit your site with less forgiving browsers see nothing at all. These are customers lost. Web Design Not Book Design  By : mark brading Paper and the web aren't adversaries by any means; the web is highly unlikely to destroy paper layouts, as we know them, no matter how many 'technologists' might predict it. The important thing though, is that paper and the web are different, and you need to realize that their differences are something to be celebrated, not worked around. Is Your Website a Warty Toad?  By : Wendy Maynard Many business owners do not harness the full power of their website. Find out if it's time for a website overhaul. Author Wendy Maynard offers some tips for evaluating your website. Web Design Tips  By : Halstatt Pires Web Design is an art, yet following basic steps can help lead even a non-artist to a good design. For the novice or the expert, there is always more to learn with these web design tips. Do-it-Yourself Online Logo Creation  By : Jeremy Wycherly Anyone who owns a business or who is starting a new business can attest to the value of owning a powerful and effective logo. Logos communicate who you are and allow you to connect with your customers with an easily recognizable symbol that is truly yours. But for most people, turning design ideas into a reality can be both difficult and expensive. The Importance of a Well-Designed Logo  By : Liz Jackson You have one chance to make a first impression. Potential customers will form an opinion of a business within seconds. A company’s logo is therefore extremely influential, as it is almost always the first thing a customer will see. In addition, once a customer becomes familiar with a business, the company’s logo will always be associated with that company name, and in turn, the company name will be associated with the logo. For these reasons, a considerable amount of thought should go into choosing a logo. What Does Your Logo Say About You?  By : Noelle Bates In the marketing world, a lot of attention is given to the concept of “image”, both on an individual product level and for a corporation as a whole. Researchers know the perception of a product or service can be vastly different from actuality. Business owners are faced with the difficult task of communicating to their consumers exactly what benefits they will derive from using their product or service vs. the competition’s offering. Things to Consider When Hiring a Design Firm  By : Jonathan Munk With the myriad of chores filling up most entrepreneurs’ “To Do” list, it seems that many side tasks - like getting a logo - get put off until the last minute. That’s when countless business owners realize how important finding the right graphic design firm is to getting their company’s logo. Own a Color  By : Jonathan Munk In creating your logo and brand identity, never overlook the importance of choosing the right color. When a customer looks at a logo, his/her mind goes through a sequence of visual perception. The brain first reads shape, then color, then content. So theoretically, the color in your logo is more recognized and potentially more powerful than the company name or tagline. Making Sense of Web Colors  By : Ricardy Banks In 1994, Netscape defined 216 colors that have priority in browsers based on the 256 colors displayed by an 8-bit system. 40 colors display differently between PCs and MACs and are therefore eliminated. Doing Business from the Heart - or - What Connects an Old Box with Web Site Design  By : Annett Tate Some web businesses fail because they can't attract visitors. Others fail because they can't open up to new ideas. Working from the heart is all about finding solutions to both problems. Site Making Using Google  By : Jeremiah Patton Businesses that want to sell something in the market need 2 things. The first is the product to be sold which has to be made then distributed to places like the grocery, the mall or the supermarket. The second is marketing which is the vehicle to carry that message across to the consumer so that people are aware of its existence then it is purchased. The age of the internet has given people the opportunity to make money via the web. There are a lot of websites that offer a person the chance to be seen easily and quickly and one of the best right now is using site maps created by Google. Tips for Using and Personalizing Templates  By : James Monahan Remember that your creativity is not stifled by templates. Choose & Use the Best Colors, The Psychology of Color  By : Andrew Eaton Are you using the best colors for your web site? Many web designers often overlook the issues of color in web design. When choosing colors for your web site there are three main areas that should be addressed. Sitemap Taxonomy - To Classify Web Content  By : Jeremiah Patton Sitemap taxonomy is a way to classify the tremendous amount of information available on the World Wide Web. Organizing web content is a lot of work that requires manpower and money. But creating sitemap taxonomy is a process that must be done in order to make information readily available to users. Frames and Search Engines  By : Sumantra Roy When it comes to framed sites and the effect that the use of frames by a site has on its search engine ranking, there are two schools of thought. Some people say that framed sites, if done properly, have no problems in getting good rankings in the search engines. Others claim that if search engine optimization is important to you, never use frames. Need To Design A Website That Sells?  By : Raymond Heye Would you buy meat from a grocery store that left the bad meat in with the good meat or wasn’t clean? Would you buy a car from a sales lot that had totaled automobiles on the front lot? I wouldn’t and neither would you. Your website is your grocery store; your car lot. You must have an atmosphere that is pleasing to buyers. One that tells that buyer that you are not an amateur, but instead a trained, seasoned professional. Web Site Copywriting - The Headline Said What?  By : George Dodge One of the most important aspects of web site copywriting is learning to write good headlines. But what, exactly, is a good headline? Building Your First Web Site?  By : Tim Querrey Before doing anything on the technical side, you need some kind of basic idea to work with. I suggest first getting some paper and a pencil. Start by sketching a layout of how you would like your web page to appear. For example, a simple title at the top, the area in which you would like any content, pictures and so on. Now its time to do some programing! Don't let the word programing scare you. Anyone can learn and there are several sites that offer free tutorials. One s... Researching Information To Find Unique Content  By : Dan Farrell Researching for unique content is just...well boring and tedious. This article will give you the easiest and fastest way to provide your visitors and readers with fresh, unique content. Color Theory - Choosing Your Website Colors  By : Angela Nielsen Is the choice of colors for your website and print materials more than just a matter of personal preference? Does it really matter what color choices you make? Will your audience really feel differently because of the color combinations? The answer to all these questions is Yes, Yes, and Yes! Color is considered emotional, because variations evoke different emotions in people. We all know that green is the color of money, but did you also know that green can symbolize gre... 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