by Jean Pardue If you’re new to the world of web design, then designing a website for business or personal reasons might seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, there are many resources and tools online today to help you get a website up and running quickly. Outlined below are five steps to creating your own [...]
by Christine Anderssen
Domain name registration is the most important step to take when setting up a website, although not actually the first step. The first step to take is to choose a good domain name!
Your domain name is the name of your online presence. Care must be put into choosing a good domain name, since it will live with you forever (while you are on the Internet!). Remember that a domain name is inextricably linked to your website. You cannot have the one without the other. I once had clients who registered a website in their company name and wanted me to change it after a couple of months to the shorter abbreviation of the company name. This cannot be done without harming your online presence! If you had put any effort at all into building your website and marketing it on the Internet so that it becomes visible; and if you have started to see those efforts pay off in the form of targeted visitors who came to your website looking for the specific products and/or services that you are offering, be prepared to lose some of that if you really want to take the radical step of changing your domain name after your website has already been established……
by Ivy Hastings
The Denver web design company I work for, Fusionbox, almost always has clients who call with rush jobs. Sometimes we miss out on jobs because we insist that the project cannot be done correctly within a certain timeline. What we have found is you can do it quickly, or you can do it right.
Seventy-five percent of a successful project is planning. That means beginning with measurable goals and objectives. Your goals and objectives should always tie back into your company’s mission. So, if your company’s mission is to be the market leader in widgets, your site’s purpose should be to do that. It’s also important to set measurable goals. This will prove that investing in your web site, pays off. Plus, it’ll make you look good to your boss.
Once the goals are set, your planning is still far from done. You’ll want to examine your target audience or audiences and get in their heads. This means finding out who they are and why they are on your site. Then, you’ll need to make sure you are fulfilling their needs. Identify what actions each target audience will take on the site. If it’s someone purchasing a widget, make widgets easily available from the homepage. Research show that people who buy on the web want to see products right away and they want to see images and prices. Put your widgets on your homepage with a small image, title, description, price (users hate to drill down to get pricing), and a “Buy Now” link.———-
Your Complete Guide to Website Redesign There is no doubt that website redesign can be necessary for anyone. Here, we will take a much closer look at some of the things which you should be sure to take into consideration when you decide to have your website redesigned. Read on to learn more about this, as well as why website redesigning may be of importance to your website.
Who is it the Most Suitable For?
There is no doubt that a website redesign can be suitable for just about anybody. It is probably the most suitable for a company or business that is looking to improve their success. It is also suitable for a company that is looking to get the best results out of website promotion or website optimization. Of course, if you just have a website which can use some readjustments, considering a new website design can be a very good choice for you………..
The following is a sponsored review. We recently got a chance to look at the website of CardroomSupply.com. They were founded in 2003 by Lee Weber, CEO. As you might have seen on one of my other blogs, I’m an avid watcher of the World Series of Poker. I love to watch Joseph Hachem and [...]
You have designed, built and launched a web site for a reason. That reason is to persuade site visitors to perform the MDA – the most desired action as you, the site owner, see it.
MDAs can be obvious or very subtle. For example, the MDA on a commercial site is to induce visitors to buy something. That’s obvious. Other MDAs include providing an email address, providing additional personal information, opening an account, signing up for a service, asking for a quote or opting in for the monthly newsletter.
Less obvious MDAs include submitting a blog entry, starting a forum thread, referring new visitors, book marking the site or reading critical sales or informational copy. You could also……
Web design is graphic curriculum subject for customize and analyze a face of web site for straight with follow wanted of online people. The people which enter to training about web design will learn about using more program and learn about computer language and more trick which use in organize working combine to manage more composition is correct and appropriate….
You have a fantastic idea for a business online. You know your industry and your products inside and out. You have a great marketing plan and you even shopped around and got the best rates for your merchant account, your shopping cart program for your website and you even calculated the shipping for your products so you got the best deal possible.
Then, you bought a domain name, web hosting and your brother-in-law offered to do your website for free which saved you thousands of dollars. You held your breath as your site was loaded onto the server and …nobody came…..
You want to make sure your users do not have any trouble finding information. It is a good practice to have a set of your main links at the top of the page as well as the bottom. It is more convenient for your users to click on a link at the bottom of your page than to have to scroll to the top of the page.
Create drop down menus. Your visitor should not have to click on one page in order to find a link to navigator to another page. Users will get frustrated and leave if they can not find what they are looking for……..
The Offficial website of the best Key Lime Pie in the world, the Blond Giraffe is an example of near-perfect webdesign . When you first arrive on the website, it’s almost breathtaking (be sure to have your audio on) – it’s different, fresh and innovative. Having been lucky enough to visit the Keys before (and strongly hoping that same luck strikes again one day), I can say that all of the sights and sounds beautifully capture the region. It sets the stage for the essence of the products, the company, and the slice of Heaven they live on.
The first impression you get is,”This is going to be special.” And it is, the design and effects are off the charts. A company couldn’t ask for much more from it’s website. It’s a lot like a physical store or business – you want people to immediately know that they’re in store for something special. Secondly, you want to back that impression up with all the special your visitor(s) can handle……….
