Site Development Category Archive
Choosing the Right Web Site Designer
You've made up your mind. You want to have a website to represent your business. The next decision to be made . . . who should you hire to develop your site? There are many people capable of building their own personal sites. They can put cute little comments and pictures of their pets or kids up for you to enjoy. But, when it comes to having a website that will be a form of marketing for your business, you want someone with experience. Someone who has an understanding of the Internet and what is the best way to boost the exposure of a website.
Make your site's navigation options highly visible
Effective navigation stands out. It's clear, obvious, and highly visible. You'll need to have a clear section of the page designated for navigation--one that a visitor will immediately recognize as the navigation area when he arrives at the site. Navigation should not necessarily be the prime focus, but it must be highly visible.
Sell Your Freelance Web Services to Businesses That Don't Have a Web Site
As you are probably already aware - there are many more freelancers out on the net than there are employers. Consequently, freelancers often find that they are bidding for a job along with hundreds of other web professionals. For this reason alone, some freelancers are finding that they have to bid so low that they cannot make a reasonable living. Why not take your business into your own hands? After reading this article you will have a sure fire way of attracting clients to you, so read on.
The Secrets to Building a Successful Web Site
If you're doing business on the Internet, one of the most important aspects of your success is your web site. If your web site doesn't look professional, no matter what product you're offering, your chance of success will be minimal.
Web Design Mistakes - Graphics
Good design involves a good balance of text and graphic design. How many graphics you choose to use on your web page, if any, depends on what your site is about. A sales letter page about a virtual downloadable product doesn't need a lot of graphics. For example, an e-book page may contain graphics of a book cover (for example of a book cover graphic, see http://www.brealweb.com/writing/freebook.asp), bullets, a header and navigational links which are all small, fast loading graphics files. However, an art gallery will have a lot of graphics, and a visitor to that site will be expecting a lot of images.
10 Shocking Secrets Nobody Will Ever Tell You About Having a Successful Business Web Site
There are many web designers who are honest and will tell you exactly what you need to do to have a successful web site. Yet, there are others who want to create some fancy gadgets on your site, charge you a fortune, and completely rip you off... while you are watching your money go down the drain.
Keeping Your Pop-Ups - and Your Audience
In "Why Pop-Ups are Pop-Bad", we looked at the pitfalls of pop-up advertising, the most significant of them being the way Internet surfers feel about pop-ups. As I mentioned in that previous article, when you use pop-ups, you take the risk of your visitor count suffering and the reputation of your site being damaged. Despite that, many use pop-ups on their sites for a variety of reasons and are reluctant to cease using an advertising method they feel to be effective.
Web Site Checklist For Low Sales
What good is your Web site if you want to sell something and your aren't? If your Web sales are down, check your copy. You need Web site copy with marketing pizzazz.
4 Tips to a More Visitor-Friendly Website
I remember my very first website. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever created; it had Flash, Javascript, an animated graphic I designed all on my own, plus various bits of 'artwork' placed at strategic locations throughout the site. Plus it used frames, something I thought would ease navigation for my visitors. What an astonishing display of talent!
How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 2
Searching for information on the Web has recently become like a mine field. You find the site you want, only to be greeted by pop-ups when you enter, pop-ups when you are on the site and pop-ups when you leave. Other sites use a flash introduction, make you wait several minutes (which feels like hours), until the page finishes loading. Heck, you just want to find the information as swiftly as possible without having to watch out for these mine fields.
How To Use Viral "Refer-A-Friend" Promotions To Increase Traffic And Sales
"Viral Publicity" and "Viral Marketing" are really just new buzz words for the oldest form of publicity in the world...
Where Exactly Is This Business Coming From?
Have you ever tried to complete an online order form only to find there just aren't enough boxes for your address. Or that there are too many and the form will not submit until all boxes are completed? Have you ever filled them with gibberish? Ever received one filled with gibberish?
Webjunxsion is Foraging It's Way Through the Muddle
Webjunxsion has come a long way since September of 2003. There webpage was VERY unprofessional in the beginning as you can see at http://www.webjunxsion.com/home. Things seem to be changing for them though and there looks are improving somewhat as you can see here: http://www.webjunxsion.com/MDsp. However I think that they may be a little confused on there company logo. When you go to http://www.webjunxsion.com everything seems to be in a nice maroon color. Then when you visit there page at http://www.webjunxsion.com/MDsp there logo and color have changed to a baby blue. I understand that they are just beginning and starting out in this muddle of an internet business but they need to get there logo's and colors straight. They need to adapt uniformity. Come on guys let's get it together ok? When they accomplish this I believe that they will have leaped over a major hurdle.
Interactive Features
If you really want people to be attracted to your web site time after time, you need to add interactivity. This can be as simple or as complicated as you want. It does not matter whether you are a beginner, an intermediate webmaster or the most advanced web designer around, you can add interactive elements to your web site.
Independent Consultants Take Over Web Design
Whether you are a web designer, or have worked with web design vendors, the web design business has changed greatly over the last few years. While there has been great change in this marketplace, there are a few main streams which are developing, most of which are positive trends for the independent web consultant.
SEE IT! LIKE IT! BUY IT!Flash Animation 101: A behind the scenes look at what's involved in creating an effective web site animation
Animation is more involved than what appears in the final product.There are many aspects of animation that go unnoticed, such as paying attention to, and complimenting the message, legibility and limiting motion and breaking up the monotony.
Product Review: FrontPage 2000
Several years ago (way back in 1994) I had to put together a heck of a lot of documentation to help me get my job done. I started with Microsoft Word, writing over a thousand pages in a couple of months. This was all documentation about how to manage our mainframe computer system and it's associated application programs.
Four Easy Steps to Establishing a Website
Are you ready to establish a web presence for your organization or business, but overwhelmed by what appears to be a process that is complex and expensive? Unfortunately, this process does indeed seem confusing, given the variety of companies selling their services and the inconsistency of pricing from vendor to vendor. But establishing a web presence can be simplified if you follow these four steps.
I Wouldn't Start From Here!
In the old joke, a man goes up to an old-timer and asks how to get to the local library. The old man thinks for a minute and then says "It's quite simple really, but I wouldn't start from here!"