Bad Web Design (Fri Sep 22nd, 2006, by Richard Lowe)
Confusing navigation is another way to keep your visitors from
coming back or even staying very long on their first visit. You
must provide a way for your visitors to find out what you've got
- it's of no use if no one sees it.
Link Every Page To The...
Simple steps to increase traffic to your website (Thu Sep 21st, 2006, by Sara Tompson)
Every website owner wants their website to be popular; some just
might not admit to it! To increase traffic to your website, I
suggest the following to start with:
Unique content
Visitors and Search engines love unique content - nobody likes
to read ...
Web Source Web Design Tips - Don't Forget Your META tags (Thu Sep 21st, 2006, by Shelley Lowery)
When designing a website, make sure you include proper META tags
in the HTML of each page. META tags are HTML code that enable
the search engines to determine what keywords are relevant to a
specific site.
About 80 percent of all web site traffic or...
How do you Choose a Web Designer? (Thu Sep 21st, 2006, by John Sheridan)
In recent years, the web design industry has experienced a
growth rate of huge proportions, due entirely to the numerous
companies that have appeared as a result of continued Internet
expansion. The business world's appetite for websites and
ecommerc...
How to customize web templates on your own to create unique (Thu Sep 21st, 2006, by Mark P)
How to customize web templates on your own to create unique
websites
Web templates are raw materials that need to be
refurnished/edited to be published online. Editing web-templates
could include content insertion, graphic insertion/modification,
in...
On Copying and Stealing Designs (Wed Sep 20th, 2006, by Lala C. Ballatan)
The notion on the great artist, Pablo Picasso’s quote, "Bad
artists copy. Good artists steal" is lost on many. And revolving
around the graphic designer circles is the quote “Good artists
copy, great artists steal” known as Picasso’s quote, still.
An...
What Business Card best suits you? (Wed Sep 20th, 2006, by Karen Nodalo)
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Indeed, business cards add sense to every business marketing and
campaign. If it adds a lot of impact an attention to your
company, then business cards should never be forsaken. It should
capture and invite the customers and in order to achieve t...
How To Look At Your Site With Buyer's Eyes (Wed Sep 20th, 2006, by Martin Avis)
You slave away for hours, days and weeks building the best web
site the world has ever seen. You master the art of HTML, learn
how to upload it to your server, promote like crazy. You're
going to make a fortune.
Then you wait for the orders to roll i...
"Just Because Your Dog Loves You, Doesn't Mean You're A Nice (Tue Sep 19th, 2006, by Bob Osgoodby)
Just Because Your Dog Likes You, Doesn't Mean You're A Nice Guy.
Many people in business really are "nice guys", but some aren't.
How can someone tell which group you're in? The web is a cold,
seemingly uncaring place, and many people will not respon...
A Revealing Interview with A Design & Marketing Expert (Tue Sep 19th, 2006, by Cris Anderson)
This week we asked one of Worldprofit.com's senior designers,
Cris Anderson, to comment on some of the key elements of
effective design. Here is the interview in it's entirety.
Q: Why should a business hire a professional designer and
marketer?
A: A ...
When brochures make good presentators (Tue Sep 19th, 2006, by Florie Lyn Masarate)
When people want to get an overview of what the business,
company or product is about, they tend to get the brochures. In
them, they are given background information on things that they
need to know. If companies were the books, then the brochures
a...
You Have A Beautiful Body - Don't Hold It Against Me (Mon Sep 18th, 2006, by Martin Avis)
You have built a great fast-loading web site. Your gifs and jpgs
are optimized to their tiniest proportions. Your initial
headline is perfect and all navigation bars and buttons are
clear and accessible. So what else can go wrong?
Your visitors start...
.Htaccess (Mon Sep 18th, 2006, by Justin Robinson)
A .htaccess file is a file that works on Apache and other
NCSA-compliant webservers. The name is actually a bit of a
misnomer due to the fact that hyper-text access is only a small
function of what it's capabilities are.
The .htaccess file affects t...
Printing Your Website the Right Way (Mon Sep 18th, 2006, by Maricon Almonte)
There are so many techniques and methods available to create a
user friendly website. The first one is by using a server side
routine or print stylesheets. The print version may strip out
images and navigation that lose their meaning on the printed
p...
The Importance of Web Standards (Mon Sep 18th, 2006, by Ryan Jones)
blockquote>Welcome to our website; unless of course you’re
blind, dyslexic, using a screen reader, magnification software,
text-based browser, webTV, cell phone, or PDA, running Linux,
Unix, BEos, Solaris, OS2 or FreeBSD, or haven’t updated your
brow...