Is Your Business Website “Old School”? 5 Reasons To Redesign With CSS Is your business website's potential stunted by its use of outdated coding technology? This article explains how replacing tables-based HTML coding with Cascading Style Sheets can drive search engine traffic, improve the customer experience, save you money on hosting and maintenance and give your website a professional look that makes a lasting impression. by Linda Bustos |
The Well Designed Webpage The well designed webpage has balance, organization and focus. If all the pages of your website follow that type of pattern they will have that clean, uniform appearance that most web designers shoot for. Cluttered and unorganized content turns people off . Don't underestimate the power of your webpage layout it can make or break a website.
by Gene DeFazzio |
Using Bookmarks for Site Navigation Navigation within a large web page can be accomplished by specifying bookmarks on the page. These are locations to which you can link. Some HTML editors have tools that make it simple to set a bookmark.
Let’s say you have a large page and down in the middle of the page, you have a heading called “Infopreneur”. You want to allow your reader to link directly it. You can do so with some simple HTML code shown in the following example. by John V. W. Howe |
The Keys to a Successful Web Site Today Some web designers would have you believe that the most important thing about a web site is that it has the latest Flash animation bells and whistles, i.e. the latest gadgets. In other words, the most important thing is that it be visually impressive. In actual fact nothing could more from the truth. by John Eberhard |
Things to Consider When Hiring a Design Firm With the myriad of chores filling up most entrepreneurs? ?To Do? list, it seems that many side tasks - like getting a logo - get put off until the last minute. That?s when countless business owners realize how important finding the right graphic design firm is to getting their company?s logo. Here are a few questions you should ask yourself when you?re browsing for a graphic design firm, be it traditional or online... by Jonathan Munk |
The Ten Pillars of Excellent Website Design In this article, we would be talking about some basic aspects of web design and some key ground rules we need to know when designing a website. Some of the seasoned web designers reading this might scoff or even just skip this article but many of us are ignoring several key ground rules which although seem very basic can actually make a difference in the website?s ability to pull in visitors. by Arvind Gawade |
Website Building 101 So you want to get your online business up and running but there?s one little problem - you need a website! For any business, big or small, a professional website is important if you want to attract potential clients or customers. by Katerina Mitrou |
Let's not over do graphics or content Mantras that claim to be build on web design wisdom come up every now and then, and people get flamboyant instantly to try their hands. There is plenty of them as of now which have engaged the fascination of webmasters. These mantras are often mutually contradictory, lack pragmatic perspective, and thrive on one extreme or the other. by Deepak Sharma |
Web personalization on your mind??Tread with caution Web personalization, in its all noble intentions, is usually taken recourse to in order to bring focus on the users and deliver an experience that is visitor-oriented, quick to inform, and in line with users? tastes and preferences. by Deepak Sharma |
Visually challenged users and need for a universally accessible website Universally accessible web site sounds a little idealistic or unrealistic, and it may strike your mind whether it is really possible. by Deepak Sharma |
Ignore typography in web design only at your peril! Good typography is crucial enough on a web page as it is in any other medium. Any thing, good or bad, under the sun and even beyond it hmm? that goes into making the web page pleasing to look at and enticing to read boils down to careful typography. by Deepak Sharma |
The why and how of HTML and CSS Validation The HTML and CSS validation, like many other things, have got two folds of people: one fold which realizes the underlying advantages of this proposition and other which does receive the notion but with their set of reservations. by Deepak Sharma |
Is the search tool on your website usable enough? Searching is one of the most frequent activities people do on the web, yet a great many web sites deal with their search engines in a haphazard way. This is a sorry state of affairs that a great deal of people has been... by Deepak Sharma |
Let the surfers navigate with ease It's great that your website is designed in an artistic and splendid manner. But it will fail to attract and sustain visitors if it does not have a neat , consistent, and intuitive navigational interface at its disposal . There can be no denying that those oblivious of this fact are inching toward their doom on the web. This writing seems to be on the walls? by Deepak Sharma |
The long and short of GIF and JPEG Essentially, they are formats in which web images are created in. Any file with a .jpeg or .gif extension is recognized, by a browser, as an image file. by Deepak Sharma |
Do not let Flash take toll of your web site The use of Flash has picked momentum in recent years and web has started to look more visually appealing and trendier than ever before. by Deepak Sharma |
Get going with design grid Design grid can make or mar your site precisely depending upon what you wish it to work for you. by Deepak Sharma |
The psychology of color in web design Color by virtue of its tremendous expressive qualities is one of the most effective tools in advertisements and presentations. by Deepak Sharma |
CSS and Tables: The hype and the trends Before tables came along, the web was a pretty dull place. Using tables for layout opened up new vistas of possibilities of visually ?designing? a page. by Deepak Sharma |
What you need to know about CSS Style sheet is a progressive breakthrough for the advancement of web. Today, more and more browsers are implementing style sheets, opening authors' eyes to unique features that allow influence over presentation while preserving platform independence. by Deepak Sharma |