Posts Tagged ‘web design’

Hire a Professional Web Developer!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Many web owners started their sites without money. They must do everything themselves – the preparation of a product, developing a marketing strategy and building a website to meet their marketing needs of the product. As their business prospers over time, they find that their simple site may not be enough to include everything they offer, and they will take a day or two to dedicate simply on website expansion.

Chances are, you are somebody who started without too much money, so you are hesitant to let someone continue with the job when you know you could have done it by yourself. However,when your site already brings you enough money for expansion, don’t be too stingy or greedy to seek help from a professional web development individual/company. After all your site will continuously bring in more income if it’s something that looks so professional and not sloppy.

When you hire a professional web developer to do your work for you,you don’t only surrender the “dirty work” to someone else but you let him take care of the headaches and worries involved in the web design. By paying a little money,a professional web development company can provide you with the best choice of web design, themes, graphics, applications and other online services included in their offers or packages.Since these people are directly involve in web creation, they are knowledgeable in web software development, and can suggest web softwares or applications that you can use for your system or site.

Aside from these,a professional web development company have online consultations to help you decide before you actually sign any contract with them.

Just remember, the designers you hire are professionals. They are good at what they do. By outsourcing your web design jobs for them, you will not have to worry when problems that may surface because the professional web development company can always correct them for you. Once again, they will be able to identify the problem and fix it probably faster than you’ll be able to.

Also, the work you paid for will be more professional than what you can do. After all, they do it for a living,so they must be really good!

Easy Website Designing Tips

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Designing a website seems difficult. If you’re a web creator or a webmaster, these simple website designs can help improve your SEO.

What to include:

  • Headlines. Web headlines, similar to newspaper headlines, carry the most important but brief information about the site. Make sure that your keywords are included in the page headline. reduce the size of the headline or the header tag.
  • Title and description tags. If your site has several pages, include the title and description tags using keywords describing your page content. The allowable number of word limit for titles is nine and descriptions must not be more than 20 words.The number of words for the title should not exceed 9 and description should not be more than 20 words.
  • Use relevant graphics. Search engines are unable to read graphics. If you’ll be using graphics, they must be related to the content. An alt tag can be used together with the keywords so that search engines can read them, thus increase your visitors, too.
  • Cascading Style Sheets and Java Script. These files are used to minimize the page size and facilitate downloading. large page size can take more time to download. If visitors can’t see your sites in a few seconds, they’ll leave your site. Also, your web page will be indexed faster by search engines if you use these files.
  • Standard HTML . Scripting codes that are heavy and that make your page large will slow down the crawl to your site. This means that your site won’t be easily indexed by search engines. This means that it won’t get good page ranking, too. If the spider cannot crawl it, then it can not be indexed. Thus, avoid using softwares like Dreamweaver, FrontPage or WYSIWYG editor. Instead use simple HTML scripting codes.

What to avoid:

  • No left-hand menu. Never create a menu on the left side of your website.However, if inevitable, then put keywords atop the left-hand menu. This will be the first thing that the search engines can read.
  • Avoid using Flash . Slow page loading speed is caused by Flash.Besides, search engines cannot decipher Flash. Again, if you really need to include Flash, minimize the size and allocate more spaces for rich keywords and relevant contents.
  • No images to link. As much as possible, use text links to link to contents on your website. Though image links can be read by the search engines,it is slower. So better use text links.
  • Avoid using frames . Frame make it harder for search engines to spider.Just like graphics and scripting codes, its useless to include them in your web design. After all, SEO is your goal, isn’t it?
  • Not too complex tables. The lay out of your designs must be made simple for the spiders.Search engines may find it hard to search through your pages. The tip is: simplify your navigation bar.

Designing Your Web Page

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

If you’re thinking of starting a web page or of hiring a professional to do it, do a little researching about basic web page designing. If you’ll do it yourself then these tips can help you; if a webpage designer will do it for you, you still need some knowledge before you approve the webpage.

Color is the most important feature of your design. The choice of color affects people mentally. Different colors are associated with different psychological connotations. They even have positive and negative meanings. Some people respond in different ways to colors. Choose the right color depending on your target audience. It is safe to use colors that are not loud and striking. Treat your visitors to some visually relaxing trip through your web pages.

Organization. If you want to have more visitors coming back to your website, make sure that your information are properly organized. Put yourself in others’ shoes and how you will feel if you have to go through many links and irrelevant information. You can visit other bigger sites and learn from them how they organize the information in their webs.

Not Too Much Text. Web visitors are like window shoppers; they don’t stay too long. Too much text can discourage your visitors to stay and read what information your website has. Longer texts can be broken up into shorter texts to make it readable. Or you can use bullet points, bold words, and huge text block on your webpage. Let your readers get all information they need without causing them headaches!

Minimize the Graphics. Too much graphics can affect how your site will rank in search results.  Although graphics can be very useful, you’ll definitely lose your chance of being ranked high by the search engines.

Clear Focus. This can be achieved if you have a clear plan or outline before you start designing your  website. Web designs that appear to be incoherent, mixed-up and ambiguous are a total turn-offs!

How to Create a Website

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Most people have no satisfaction. They always want to follow the latest thing. This is the same with websites. Websites have already become a necessity. Almost everyone, institution, company, business, and government has a website of their own. Even the young adults have created websites for their personal purposes.

Before creating a website, consider two important points.

1. Find an affordable host.
Do not spend too much, nor too little to start your own website. There are many cases of web hosts which do not provide the services they promised their users. Unfortunately, there have been web hosts that shut down and nowhere to be seen. A cheap host surely will never pass to have credible reliability rating.

2. Hire a professional at an affordable cost.
For simple websites, we could always pick up the coding or even the programs which are also simple. But, in a more complex coding, when you want to do more than just providing information like ad inclusion, hire a professional to take care not only of design but security as well. If your website also acts as a portal for business, security is needed.

If you want to succeed in the internet marketing business, the key is planning. Before creating your website, consider these two factors and promote positive implication to your site.

5 Things to Avoid in Website Design

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Designing your website needs extra attention to minute detail. This is to ensure that it will perform best as expected to serve its purpose. Here are seven rules to avoid when designing your website.

1. Splash pages
These are the first pages you see in a website. They are beautiful image with texts like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. They actually don’t have any purpose for being there. Oftentimes, your visitors immediately click on the “back” button when they see splash pages. Remember, the moment your visitors click on your website, present to them up front what you have to offer them minus the splash page.

2. Excessive banner advertisements
Banner advertisements do not really add value to your websites. These ads are usually just ignored. What you can do is to include more valuable content and have relevant affiliate links into your content. Your visitors should feel the desire to buy and not be pushed to buy.

3. Complicated navigation menus
Simple and clear navigation menu is imperative. Don’t be amazed by flash based menus or multi-tiered drop down menus.If they don’t know how to navigate, you yourself push them to leave your site.

4. Confusion on where the user is navigating
Make sure that while your visitors are so engrossed in browsing through your site, they must know which part of the site they are navigating at the moment. Your website must be designed in such a way that they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site so easily. Never confuse your visitors so they won’t leave your site immediately.

5. Audio on your site
Visitor stay at your site reading your content. They might be annoyed by some audio on your website. However if you really want to add audio, make sure your visitors have some control over it such as volume or muting controls.