"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."David Letterman
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Amazing new webdesign company sets up show in Toronto Canada
http://www.antifreezedesign.ca/Antifreeze.Design.co - Toronto, Ontario - Web SpecialistsAntifreeze.Design.co is a professional web consulting and design company. We specialize in best-in-class website design, web application development (using ASP.NET, ...
Easy Web Design Tips
Pick an easy layout; easy to design and easy to maintain. I have wasted many hours trying to design a site that was easily three steps above my skill level. This was a complete waste of time and I promised myself that I won't make the same mistake again. ...
Free web design tips for small business people
You have identified that to have an internet prescence would be of benefit to your small business, however are not sure how to proceed. This article gives free tips on web design services and practices and on how to keep your web designer happy and on ...
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Your audience is the main reason for building a website. Without someone to view the pictures, graphics, words and hundreds of pages of information, you might as well spend your time playing golf. With this in mind, your audience, customer base, targetted traffic, whatever you want to acknowledge them as, request you follow three simple rules when they visit your site. The designers three responsibilities are simplicity, speed and security.
Simplicity
In terms of navigation and style of the site, simplicity is the best way to go. If the information a visitor needs can only be found by clicking on three seperate links, then 9 out of 10 times they will go to a site that they can get the information by just one click. Navigation is extremely important because 1) everyone is not an expert internet user, 2) people want what they are looking for, five minutes ago and 3) everyone is not using DSL or cable.
In regards to simplicity, keep these tips in mind: - Make sure there is a link back to the homepage on virtually every page of the site.
- Menus are highly useful in navigating a site with different sections. You will find menus to the top and bottom of most pages of a website.
- When dealing with forms, it is best to have all the fields on one page, but in some cases, this is not possible. Viewers don't want to have to fill in three fields on three different pages.
- A link to your most visited pages should be found on the index page. Trust me, your visitors will thank you for it.
- Remember, not everyone is a genius so make sure links and buttons are not misleading and pretty much self explanatory.
Speed
Now, I love flash intros just as much as the next guy, but most internet users are still using a 56k modem so this means higher load times. Your index page should be designed with the idea of making a great first impression, but not so impressive that it takes three minutes to load over the phone line. Keep only the pictures and graphics that are most important to allow users to get there foot in the door. Remember this holds for all of the pages found on the site as well.
Security
Most of the internet websites designed today are built with the idea of selling a product or service. A customer will shop online with someone they feel safe with. This is how Amazon.com and the like have lasted so long. Their customers are confident that when they make a purchase, that there credit card information is safe. Therefore, they keep going back for more purchases.
If the url for the webpage where purchases are made does not contain "https:" or the link to verfiy that they are a secure site, then the customers who do the most online shopping will recognize the fact that the webpage is not secure and move on to a website that gives them the security they need. My advice is if you wish to sell products but don't want to spend a lot of money to set up a merchant account, then try vendors like Paypal or BidPay. If you do not wish to deal with a third party, then contact Verisign or Authorize.net.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Junior is a freelance writer and web programmer for www.jccorner.com.
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 Cygnus Custom Marketing Honored by Custom Publishing Council with Pearl Award for Best Overall Web Design (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Cygnus Business Media, a leading diversified business-to-business media company, announced today that its Cygnus Custom Marketing division garnered a first place Gold Award at the Custom Publishing Council's fifth annual Pearl Awards for Best Overall Web Design for its portal CygnusCustomMarketing.com.
News buys Web design firm (Hutchinson News)
The Hutchinson News has acquired LogicMaze, a Hutchinson-based Web design and small business marketi ...
Web Site Scripps.org, Designed by PINT, Inc, Garners Awards for Best Site, Best Newsroom. (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
A World of Healing" site takes top honors in prestigious program. The newly-redesigned web site for Scripps Health received a Gold award in the Best Site Design category of the 2008 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. The site also received a distinction in the Best Newsroom category. San Diego-based Web design firm PINT, Inc. updated the site.
Web design firm's span reaches from Dnieper to Danbury (The News-Times)
DANBURY -- Ukraine natives Alexander Oleshko and Stanislav Ptushkin grew up on opposite sides of their home country before moving to the United States with their families to the same Danbury apartment complex.After meeting, the two soon found they had more in common than just the eastern European country of their births -- principally, a knack with computers and developing Web sites.
Design Agency Launches Obama Poster Contest (WMUR New Hampshire)
A New Hampshire graphic design agency has launched a contest to design a poster commemorating the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama.
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