Articles Tagged 'website'
Traits Every Small Business Website Should Have
StephanieThere is always vast room for improvement with any website, and small business websites are no exception. With the phone book a communication tool of the past, establishing a solid online presence is at the forefront of a lot of small businesses. If you’re a small business owner, your website is a pivotal part of your marketing and branding, and shouldn’t be taken lightly. It’s integral to not just focus on appearance – but usability – as this will play a major role in how long your customers stay around. In this article I will address the areas that factor into whether a small business website is ultimately successful or not. Pay careful attention to these areas in your next design for a small business, as they will reap benefits for your clients in the long run.
20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks Part 2
Ruben D'OliveiraIn 20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks part 1, I've started with a short introduction about why clients should be just clients, and why some self-proclaimed web designers shouldn't be "designing" at all. We then explored important concepts which you need to know before you start designing and planning a website. A thorough knowledge of concepts like balance, white-space, and overflow make the difference between a good and a bad design. Like the previous article, we're focusing on another 10 mistakes that can transform your website design into an unpleasant place to be. However, this time I won't show you extremely bad layouts that make you laugh, we are now on the next level and will focus on bigger mistakes that good designers make.
6 Tips For Designing an SEO Friendly Website
It’s not enough these days to design a beautiful, functional website that addresses your clients needs. If you truly want your client to reap the benefits of having an online presence, then SEO is a necessity. Search Engine Optimization is a method of improving the visibility of a website in search engines through organic search results, and is now a viable online marketing tool for a lot of businesses. Through the following design practices you can improve a website’s SEO and ultimately their visibility. With these foundations in place, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing the website you spent hours designing (and developing) is now a top contender for search engine visibility. You may also find some of these tactics also go far in improving user experience as well.
20 Reasons Why Your Website Design Sucks Part 1
We all have or have heard about those clients from hell, those that really love pink pages with red text. Even worse, what about those people who call themselves "web designers" with expensive prices and services listed on their really messy, horrible and amateur portfolios, just because they made their uncle's business page and they liked it. Unfortunately, many people believe that web design is all about personal style and smart IDE's with pre-built buttons. Let me tell you something - they are wrong. I love to play football, but that doesn't make me a professional player, and Dreamweaver does not make you a professional web developer. Web Design and development demands knowledge, practice, daily effort to learn and study, and passion, like professional football players. (Design conventions: Necessary guidelines in order to improve a specific design.) No matter how good or bad personal style is, the truth is that everyone has one. However, when design conventions are left out of a project, the result will be a bad or uninteresting design. That is exactly what happens with those terrible clients, when they try to implement their personal style without knowing anything about design conventions.
Cost Effective Services to Help You Launch Your Own Site
Rean John UeharaCreating a website does not really require you to have all the technical skills to create one. There are various services available, both free and paid, that will be a great help in your website building process. Whether you are a developer, a designer, or neither, you can still have your dream website, all you have to do is read through this guide. This article is primarily for people who have always dreamed about having their own site, but always thought you had to be a tech savvy person to have one. However I will also touch on and explain how to leverage rapid website building possibilities for serious entrepreneurs too! I am sure you've been there - you had an amazing new project idea one that you wanted to realize immediately but the painfully long process of website creation took too much time and you lost your excitement or even worse - never launched your website!
Excellent Ideas to Having a Positive Outcome to Your Website
riza_gamutanA business owner loves to put up a website. In fact, this is the way to reach millions of people in the market to buy your products and services. But the problem you might encounter once you have the website is how people or online visitors will discover it. Whether you have a big or small company, having a website makes a difference. In prominent search engines, so long as your site is ranked on the topmost pages, you have every which way to compete with big online stores like Amazon, Microsoft and eBay.
Capture Visitors’ Attention Through Your Home Page
Charina TorresWhat made me decide to share with you this article is the experience I had when I was working as a part-time freelancer. I remember that whenever I planned the design for websites, I always made it a point that the home page is the most attractive page on the site. I made sure that the home page can capture each viewer that visits the site, not only to scan the home page but to enjoy exploring the whole site. The home page is the page that loads when the Home button is clicked and usually the first page you see when a website loads. Therefore, it is one of the most important pages on your site. Do you agree?
Learn How To build Killer Squidoo Lens For Website Promotion
1STWD EditorialMost of the internet marketers will probably know about Squidoo. If it's the first time you heard of it, then you would likely be new to internet marketing. Squidoo is a fast growing website that allows ordinary people to build their own pages with unique themes. The page is called "lens", and each user is called a "lensmaster." Squidoo is also a community where you can post your ads and can even share your profit to other ads like google ads and amazon ads by posting their ads to your page for related sources. You can custom your post the way you want it to appear on the page by just basic clicks and simple text typing. Squidoo is also known for building link wheels which is a good method of driving traffic to a site.
40 Highly Customizable Commercial Admin Templates And Skins
Daniels MekšsBuilding a CMS from scratch can be hard and exhausting work, plus you need to have a good design stitched to it if you’re creating it for client. Sometimes it’s better to spend little money for a great quality product, these highly customizable admin templates could be a great starting point into new project and now there are really big assortment to choose from by. In this post you’ll find 40 customized, user-friendly and fluid themes to integrate in your CMS. Enjoy!
Customize your WordPress Backend for Personal Branding
Kevin StanleyWith more and more people building custom WordPress themes, it only makes sense to want to create it more personal. I have found a few ways that I will share with you on making your WordPress powered site more personal. This tutorial will show you how to create a custom WordPress login, and explain how to fit it to your needs.
