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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Good and Bad Web Design Features

It is easy to make a dorky web page. It's also easy to make a very nice, clean, professional-looking web page even if you don't have much design experience. Often the difference, even for beginning designers, is simply a matter of eliminating certain features that are guaranteed to make a page look amateurish. Go through the list of things that people--designers and non-designers--from around the country have cited as the things that make the difference between a well-designed and a poorly designed web page.

Keep in mind that the point of eliminating bad features is not just to make the page prettier, but to communicate more effectively.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Navigation Aspect of Web Development

Websites are becoming much important than other business proposal of your business when you are thinking to lunch your business into the internet. Nowadays it is quite a big concern for small business owners, because thousands of business owners make their organizations online due to increasing their profit.

Thus in recent days design a profitable and good looking website is a must need for all of them. In recent survey it is viewed that first impression of viewers for your site will be the last impression. If your designed website is much attractive and worthy than others then you don’t need to worry about the web traffic.

If this is done at your website then you don’t need to convince buyers with your effective packages. They will automatically convinced and request for a query for more information. Some efficient regulations of excellent web design.

Rules of Effective Web Design
  1. well navigated website design can catch maximum web traffic into a site. Navigation is the foremost important thing for any site, if it is done excellently more people going into your required web page and you are able to increase the rate of conversion which will be the leading criteria of your business. This is typically the crucial interests that you can get from a well navigated website design.
  2. You can promote your services and products by adding a mailing list on your website for your viewers. This is a very effective web designing technique and this mailing list will enable your willing viewers to place their e-mail address, their name, as well as their other documents too. Thus you can build your huge list of possible clients.
  3. You can able to receive a superb search engine raking by your creative website designing. In a recent survey it is proved that accessible website design provides you this gigantic advantage. Professional web design can helps you to achieve required successful search ranking within a quick time spend. Your appointed web designer can import search engine user friendly impacts at your website very easily.
  4. An effectual looks can boost your business credibility by your website. In point of business view of your online business your first requirement is to gain visitors attention. A visitor must be automatically provides more concentration to you than your competitors. By a perfect affordable web design you can provide them a proper trustworthiness and this expected trust brings more business to your website.
Importance of Color combination

Color adjustment is known as backbone of a website. It directly deals with viewer’s concentration and in a recent survey it is found that color alteration of a site can catch the emotion of visitors. It generates a wide space of influences for the visitor to making their decisions at your website. By a creative website design with fabulous color contrast you can leave a clear message for you visitor about your business deals. By highlighting important parts of a web page with some florescent colors, you can easily attract your viewers at your business through your proficient website.

Nowadays web 2.0 designing style added a qualitative feature in logo designs. Recently, people are vastly using this designing style to draw their unique logos for easily catching the viewer attentions. Making your website is not dabble work for you; your thought is, the design should be as powerful and attractive as it can. Make sure that no such amateurish thing to be done at your website with some awful feature. Lastly do some researches work before starting the designing work and if you have some more time then expend those time into web designing forums to discuss with others about your hassles

Source : http://www.promotionworld.com/

Monday, April 28, 2008

Best Website Development Tips

You can get high rankings and increase web traffic to your site by doing the following steps. Not following our advice on any tip will result in lower rankings on some search engines. Please contact us if you need to know "the why" to the below statements:
  • Research what keywords people use most often on search engines that pertain to your products or services; use these keywords as text in the design to increase website traffic.
  • "Keep It Simple" - 99% of all web designers use too many graphical images and programs like Java, Flash, etc. which results in lower rankings and less traffic..
  • Web pages, like a spread sheet, are made using cells and tables. Use as few cells and tables in your web design as possible.
  • Create good Meta Tags. Each page should have different keywords in the Title and the Description Meta Tag.
  • Limit the number of times that you repeat words in your Keyword Meta Tag.
  • Place your important keywords at the top of the page as text headers.
  • Your most important page and keywords should be on the first page of a website.
  • Frames based websites should only be used for Intranet (a site only for company employees) and not for Internet.
  • Do NOT include pages that re-direct (a page that automatically sends you to another page) people to other pages.
  • Run an analysis program to count the number of times keywords are used in the first 7500 characters of computer code.
  • Limit your use of services that automatically submits your URL to the top 10 search engines.
  • When finished with a page, run a spell checking program and then compress the html code.
  • Keep track of your search engine rankings and website traffic.
  • Once a website is indexed, a good web designer should go back and improve pages that didn't get high rankings on key words.
  • Every 3 months you should make a small change on each web page. Search engines like to see that changes are being made to a site and that it just isn't sitting there for years with no upgrades.
Why Web Designers Don't Follow The Above Tips
  • Time is money. Most web designers bid on projects and know it takes at least 30% more time to create a site that gets high rankings. Since most companies / people don't know what should be done to get an increase in website traffic, web designers cut corners and only design a website that the customer sees is appealing.
  • Most web designers haven't taken the time to learn how to get high rankings on multiple search engines.
  • Many web designers don't care about getting high rankings, as it's not fun and creative work.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

IBM India'll head mobile web services R & D

Big Blue IBM said its Indian lab will lead research for mobile web services, citing "lucrative growth" opportunity for their businesses in this domain.

The world's largest technology-services company did not divulge financial details. IBM said it is making major investments in mobile software and hardware platforms and opened several solutions labs focused on research and development.

No timeframe for rolling out the services has been finalised. But, IBM said all projects are at the pilot stage..

"In many countries, the mobile phone has become an electronic wallet, the window to the world wide web, an education device. Globally, mobile devices outnumber PCs, credit cards, and TVs," Daniel Dias, director, IBM India Research laboratory said.

The Spoken Web —- voice-enabled mobile commerce, instant translation —- real-time communication, SoulPad-portable device to carry computing application, BuddyComm - social networking on-the-go, and Good Samaritan - mobile healthcare information are the projects on which the IBM labs will work on.

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Friday, April 25, 2008

5 Most Common Web Design Mistakes

As you're designing your new web site, you'll be tempted with web design ideas that could turn into fatal mistakes. This is especially true if your web site represents your business. Below are five of the most common mistakes to avoid at all costs...
  1. Too Many Graphics

    Having too many graphics (particularly large graphics), can cause your site to load entirely too slow. Visitors will get impatient and often times click out of your site -- never to return.

    SOLUTION: When possible save your graphics as GIF files (.gif) rather than JPEG (.jpg). Also, reduce your graphic in actual size as much as you can without distorting the graphic or picture.

  2. Counters

    A visitor counter or hits counter should not be seen on your site unless you have trememdous traffic. The reason for this is visitors really don't want to know which visitor they are, especially if they're visitor number four. There's no benefit to your visitor, nor is there any benefit to you. The only way showing a counter is advantageous is if you've had millions of visitors and wish to display the popularity of your site or would like to attract advertisers with the large numbers. Otherwise,

    you can use this space for a benefit-packed headline that leads your visitor to another part of your site.

    SOLUTION: Most web hosts offer web statistics that reveal daily visitors, hits, referrers, etc. This feature will let you know how many people are visiting your site without the whole world seeing the information. If you're just starting out, make sure your web host offers this free service.

  3. Banners

    Limit your banners to the bare necessities. Why? Because banners are graphics that can slow loading time and are a turn-off for many surfers on the internet. For most, "banner" is just another word for "ad" and they avoid clicking on them.

    SOLUTION: If you do have a banner or two, place the banner at the very top or bottom of your page. Or you could place a small banner in your sidebar. Most people will look at the first picture they see and then start reading below the picture, so any writing or links that are above the banner may remain unnoticed. Also, the banners on your site should be related to your product or service. Remember, everything on your site should work together to benefit your target customer.

  4. Scattered Web Site

    When designing your site, make sure it has a pattern that leads your visitor. Get several people (friends or relatives) to visit your site and watch them as they navigate. Notice the places where they stop (as if they're finished) and also links that they click on. Organizing your site to lead visitors is very important whether you're leading them to buy something or just to click and go to another place in your site. Customers are silently begging to be led.

    SOLUTION: Take a look at the flow of your site. Design it in a fashion that always continues like this...

    Make sure that graphics don't get in the way of your lead. If the visitor stops in the middle of the home page to click on a graphic or banner before getting to your sales page, they may never return. You've got one chance to get the visitor's attention and keep it. Make the most of it.

  5. Generalization

    The most effective way of selling on the internet is to personalize your web site to reach your target audience. Many web sites are general and try to reach everybody. The reality is that you can't be everything to everybody. The business owners who are successful on the web normally have very specific products or services that target a niche market.

    SOLUTION: Make your site as personal as possible. As you're writing, pretend that you are face to face with the customer. Present your web site in such a way that the visitor feels like he just walked into a store in his hometown. Also, stay focused on your target customer (one who would be interested in "your" product.)
These five mistakes should be avoided at all costs if you want to build an effective and successful web business.

Design your site to sell! :)

Source : http://community.zdnet.co.uk/


Thursday, April 24, 2008

Web 2.0…It’s About Process Outsourcing

I'm at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, my 3rd time here. This is a cool show, and the only one I attend where I'm not speaking. Thus, more relaxing and more time to learn from others, rather than teaching.

If there is a clear trend at this show it is that the Web 2.0 is no longer about social networking, SaaS, Web communities, or rich internet applications, it's about moving as many of the core business processes as you can to the platform of the Web. Or, perhaps better put: Web-enabled process outsourcing.

You only need to consider the number of products that are now moving way beyond SaaS, to application development, storage, interface design, and middleware…all delivered as a service over the Web. Indeed, there is not much you can't do with the Web-born tools around today, inclusive of the new Google App Engine on-demand application development platform product just released. So, the trend is re-hosting of core enterprise applications, business processes, information, and much of the enterprise architecture we see today, so they are much more efficient, agile, and cost effective…in essence living up to the core objectives of SOA.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Tips to find great web design, development services

Consumer confusion is the result of many individual problems when it comes to website design and development services, but in a nutshell, it boils down to the rapid growth of the Web and the lack of competitive measure available. Here are ten tips to lay that confusion to rest.

Molly E. Holzschlag

Waking up from a snooze on the way to Australia recently, I chatted a bit with my seatmate over prelanding tea. This well-dressed Englishman's work is to purchase a variety of IT services, and his company has a wide variety of needs and concerns. During our conversation, it became clear that, while he was aware of industry buzz terms such as Ajax and Web 2.0, he admittedly had little idea what they really meant, nor how to find top-quality Web design and development services and solutions for a fair price.

As we chatted, it became crystal clear to me, as a long-time educator and advocate for professional integrity and best practices in Web development and design, that the buyers of services-the consumers, if you will-have been getting short shrift for a very long time. If I had one valid HTML page for every confused client who's told me something akin to "We paid for the most expensive of the three companies, and it turns out the least expensive is cleaning up the mess they made of our site," I could hand you back a very tidy Web.

Consumer confusion is the result of many individual problems when it comes to website design and development services, but in a nutshell, it boils down to the rapid growth of the Web and the lack of competitive measure available. There are few college degrees in the field and there's little to no relevant professional certification. Even fewer people are capable of measuring a company's quality against any professional standards since the entire field lacks that measure, at least for now.

In an effort to assist CIOs and other technology buyers who are required to make seemingly blind decisions as clearly as possible, I offer the following 10 tips. I hope that folks such as my seatmate on that flight will suffer fewer stumbles and greater wins when purchasing Web design services.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Intuit Web development software launches in beta

Intuit Inc. said Thursday it released its new QuickBase Web development program in beta.

Mountain View-based Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) said QuickBase is designed to let developers and independent software vendors "easily design, deploy and market on-demand collaborative and productivity applications to millions of small businesses."

"We are now enlisting the help of an enormous community of talented developers to create innovative, rich Web-based solutions to important business problems," said Bill Lucchini, vice president and general manager of Intuit QuickBase.

There is no cost to join the program during application development. Developers building on the platform will receive the QuickBase Developer SDK, which includes the toolkit for Adobe Flex, a free QuickBase developer account and training resources.

The beta program is intended to gather feedback from developers, Intuit said.

Source : http://www.bizjournals.com/

Monday, April 21, 2008

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website's Legibility

Websites that make their customers work to read them are not the best way to get business. Miniscule fonts, text in colors that make it hard to see against the background color, and lines that are piled on top of each other are problems, but they're easy to correct. Let's jump right in and look at five easy fixes:

  1. Format your text using CSS.
    Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the way to go - use one style sheet and control how text looks on your entire site. Make a change to the style sheet and your whole site is updated. It makes life a lot simpler.

  2. Make the font size big enough to read.
    Consider your target audience. Even if they are a group of teenage girls looking for new shoes, it's never a good idea to use tiny type. It doesn't have to be enormous, but up to a point, larger type is better. 12-pt Verdana is better than 8-pt Verdana.

  3. Make the text contrast with its background.
    The more contrast, the better. Black-on-white or white-on-black are examples of the highest contrast you can get. Use colors if you like, but if you squint at the page and your text basically vanishes, there's not enough contrast.

  4. Give the lines room to breathe.
    Don't stack lines on top of each other. Use the line-spacing directive in CSS and give it some space; I'll often set line-spacing to 140% of the height of a typical line.

  5. Break text up into chunks.
    No matter how good a writer you are, people don't want to read endless pages of text. Break it up by using headlines that reflect the subject of the paragraph(s) to follow so people can scan down to the parts that really interest them, or use bulleted lists to change the pace of the writing and slow down the scanning.
And finally (not one of the 5 Easy Ways to Improve Legibility but still quite important) check your spelling. Nothing irritates me more on a web page than spelling errors - it simply makes you look like you don't care enough to get it right. Use that ubiquitous spellcheck tool.

Making your website's content more legible is easy. It doesn't take a lot of time, mainly common sense. The payoff will be text that's more readable, customers that stick around long enough to get your message, and improved credibility with your visitors.

Debbie Campbell is a web developer of 11 years and the owner of Parallax Web Design (www.parallaxwebdesign.com). Debbie is passionate about CSS, valid coding and web standards. She creates and redesigns websites for small businesses and encourages her clients to get involved with their customers via their site - launch is the beginning, not the end!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Businesses wake up to web 2.0

Web 2.0 is most obviously associated with consumer social networking websites, but businesses are fast waking up to the power of applications based on the platform, experts revealed today.

"Businesses are starting to realise the strengths of web 2.0 in terms of fast deployment of rich internet applications, use of open source technologies, and the communications benefits it can provide to employees and customers," said John Andrews, president and chief executive at Evans Data.

"While developers are the 'early adopters' of the technology, the demand for web 2.0 talent is only getting hotter. It is an indication that the business market will continue to grow quite rapidly."

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

CodeGear offers drag-and-drop web development

CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive web applications.

Formed as an independent brand from the developer tools division of Borland, CodeGear said that Delphi for PHP 2.0 features visual drag-and-drop design capabilities for rapid development. It also has a PHP component framework for the foundation-level building blocks and design structure.

According to CodeGear, the new product's PHP debugging options sit alongside error insight and source-code formatting features to reduce the potential for bug creation in web development. The company says that built-in HTML templates will help PHP developers to work visually with their Web 2.0 development and collaborate with other HTML designers.

"With the initial introduction of Delphi for PHP, we brought together PHP and rapid application development for the first time," said Michael Swindell, vice president of products at CodeGear. "With version 2.0, we are raising the bar with a wide array of new productivity, debugging and performance-tuning features and much broader 'out-of-the-box' support for databases and popular PHP packages and libraries."

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Who's watching you on the Web?

Do you ever watch old spy movies where sleuths in suits sneak around taking pictures with their shoes and wonder what became of the spy of today? Oh, he's still there in North Korea somewhere pretending to work in shipping, but he's only one lens in the scope of modern espionage. What is more common is the guy just down the street, an agent of the office park cul-de-sac. He's watching you now, tracking, logging and analyzing your every move. You've seen him and you know full well what he does. He just looks different in coffee-stained khakis sitting behind a computer monitor.

I'm talking about Internet Service Providers, which control our connection to the World Wide Web and thus all the personal data that's stored on it. Your websites? Cached. Your search engine history? Saved as history. Your downloads? Tagged and bagged. It's all there, from the very first Internet link to what you just now clicked, saved as encoded cookies sitting there as treats for whomever can reach the jar. The question is: Who's allowed in?

It might be speculation, but with enough financial incentive, it's very likely that ISPs will get in on the act and start selling our Internet records to advertising companies producing specialized content. It's probably already happening. I bet some firm, pushing Pepsi or porn or petroleum, is designing ads based off my entire web history.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

How to Build a Web Store

Many people think that it is easy to build a web store and launch their business online.

Many people think that it is easy to build a web store and launch their business online. After all, all there is to it is just getting a good idea, buying a domain name and getting a web designing and hosting firm to do the rest. However, it is much easier said than done and it takes a lot of hard work, time and effort in order to build a web store that proves to be a success. Given below are a few tips that should help you in creating a web store that has a chance at making profit
  1. Create an extensively thought of and detailed business plan.
  2. Once you have decided the product that you want to sell, make sure that you also have more than one supplier who gives you good prices and good delivery times.
  3. Next, choose a good domain name for your site. Try to keep it relevant to what you are selling and as simple and easy to spell as possible.
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Monday, April 14, 2008

What if the World Wide Web was no more?

Imagine that you no longer wanted to surf the World Wide Web because there was something better.

That's the idea from the same people who designed the Web in 1990.

For regular Internet users, it may seem far-fetched. But scientists in Switzerland are about to cut the ribbons on a brand new world wide computing system they claim will be 10,000 times faster than broadband. It'll be called "the Grid."

For the past seven years, physicists at the CERN particle physics laboratory have been developing the new system as an adjunct of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Ultimately, scientists hope that research at the LHC will help them understand the "big bang," the event that led to creation of the universe. In developing the LHC, they found that they would need to process vast amounts of data, more than any existing computer system on earth could handle. Using dedicated fiber optics and new routers that could handle the load, they developed the Grid to handle the trillions of bits of data that will soon be coming in.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Oracle Acquires Web Application Testing Tools

Oracle plans to integrate the Empirix Web application testing suite with its existing Enterprise Manager and Real Application Testing packages.

One day after it reported a 21 percent increase in its fiscal third quarter 2008 software revenues to $4.2 billion, Oracle announced yet another acquisition, albeit a small one.

The company announced March 27 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the e-TEST product suite from Empirix, a company that provides voice and Web application testing and monitoring software.

Oracle plans to integrate the software with its Enterprise Manager and Real Application Testing portfolios. The combination, company officials said, is "expected to result in a comprehensive solution for testing packaged and custom built applications."

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Friday, April 11, 2008

9 Keys to an Effective Logo

Many small companies do not invest in a professional-looking logo. But, the right logo, with the right characteristics, will boost your visibility, credibility and memorability - which means more business for you!

These characteristics include:

Memorability, so that your logo sticks at the forefront of your potential clients' minds. That way, they'll think of you next time they have a need.
  • Uniqueness, which helps you stand out from the crowd. For example, if everyone in your industry uses a particular symbol (i.e., travel agencies often use globes in their logos), try to use something else - that way, your logo doesn't just look like everyone else's.
  • Meaningful logos spread the message about the distinguishing characteristics of your business.
  • Consistency in use of your logo, tagline, materials. Repetition helps people to remember who you are and what you do.
  • Scalability, so that your logo looks equally good on a business card and on a sign for your business (or a billboard!), and at every size in between. A second part of this is legibility of your business's name at different logo sizes, and making sure that your designer chooses a font that is readable.
  • Professional, in the quality of the graphics, the printing and the paper your materials are printed on.
  • Timelessness in your logo will ensure that you don't have to redesign your logo in just a few years, and that your investment and equity in your design will be lasting.
  • Differentiation between the colors in your logo - and not just in terms of hue, but in terms of value as well, so that it translates well to black and white or greyscale, and so that color blind people can read it.
Having a professionally designed logo can really give your business a jump start, and help your business to get the attention - and clients - you need to succeed.

About the Author

Erin Ferree is a logo, print and web designer who has been helping small businesses grow by boosting their visibility, credibility and memorability for 7 years. http://www.elf-design.com

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Tuning Your XML for Clean Web Services

Crap in, crap out -- it’s an axiom that applies to many aspects of enterprise development, but none more so than building reliable and robust web applications and integration projects with Extensible Markup Language (XML). Since its inception, XML has been seen as the cure-all for every problem related to web applications and integration projects. However, “crappy,” poorly written XML can either slow down an integration project, or worse, cause the integration project to collapse.

If it is written and used properly, XML does offer many advantages that can support reliable and robust web applications. The key to successfully using XML in an integration project is to first understand the inefficiencies that may cause poorly written XML, and then apply a rule-based system that establishes policies that can be adhered to.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Google Starts App Engine To Aid Web Development

Washington (dbTechno) - Google has kicked off their App Engine web services for hosting as well as other web applications. The early preview group of 10,000 received a preview build of Google App Engine to try it out first.

Google App Engine launched during a Google coding event, Campfire One.

App Engine is Google’s attempt to try and help web application developers. It is described as “a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.”

The 10,000 who were able to receive Google App Engine were taken on a first come, first serve basis.

Google stated that they will be able to try out many things such as fully-featured local development environments, Google APIs for authenticating users and sending e-mail, automatic scaling and load balancing, dymanic web serving, and persistant storage.

Google stated “During this preview period, applications are limited to 500MB of storage, 200M megacycles of CPU per day, and 10GB bandwith per day. We expect most applications will be able to serve around 5 million pageviews per month.”

Source : http://www.dbtechno.com/

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Are the Job Titles "Web Designer" and "Web Developer" Too General?

The web poses an interesting problem: where for example does slicing, XHTML and CSS come in?

There are a lot of professions that have emerged from the web: designers, developers, strategists, search engine optimists, information architects, usability and accessibility consultants, the list goes on…

Today, I’d like to talk about the first two. I wouldn’t go so far to say that the titles should be considered harmful by any means, rather we have just outgrown our job titles!

In the last three jobs that I have worked, there seems to large differences of opinions in the definitions of the job descriptions of web designers and web developers. As most folks in management see it, the definitions are pretty obvious: designers make the pretty pictures; developers bring them to life with code. However, the web poses an interesting problem: where does slicing, XHTML and CSS come in? Is it something that only developers do because it’s code? Is it something that designers are responsible for because of the constraints the technologies pose on their designs? Is this an opportunity for a third job to be created?

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Redesigning of the web design

The only thing that is constant is change. Keeping pace with this change, web designing has undergone a sea change. Now the content and the nature of work have become secondary and the end user has become the primary concern.

THE CONSUMER demand for a website design has changed. The change in consumer behaviour has fuelled this demand. The website audience, including the visitors and web owners, are not what they were a few years back. Their mental set up, their web requirements and the web behaviour have all undergone a sea change. This probably is one of the main reasons behind the change in the set up of websites and web design services.

Earlier, while creating a website, the content and the nature of the work were primarily taken into account. But today, the end user and the search engines have become the prime considerations in website designing. Though search engines were a point of consideration earlier also, the impact is comparatively much higher today.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Web 2.0 design style: latest accessible professional web designing tendency

Web 2.0 design style: latest accessible professional web designing tendency

Undeniably, Web 2.0 is an honored progress in the arena of web design. I am feeling massive excitement to introduce you people with this modernism of website design. Web 2.0 templates have comfort of numerous designing facilities like as innermost layout, effortlessness, content versatility, intelligibility as well as appealing color contrasts.

These are some mobilized key specifications of web 2.0 design

Artistic attraction

Your wish to do a website design with some astounding effects which makes your site more appealing. A web 2.0 design helps you to draw some artistic designing aspects which will capture audience concentration and helps you to keep them at your site for long time.

Content range

In web 2.0 design style, you are able to use larger fort sized contents for decorating your web page. Here you can focus vital key phrases with a larger font size at your content.

Effortless navigability

Viewers of your site is chasseing for information or produce what they required! Thus web 2.0 design styles suggest you to keep easy navigation system for visitors at your site.

Great logos

The best feature of web 2.0 design is its logo design capability. You can design significant large logos for promoting your brands business. This kind logo can easily capture the eyes of your viewers what exactly required in small business web design.

Innermost position

When you built your website in an innermost manner then it is very easily assumable that your design brings an honest impression of your products. It is also far easier for your budget as you can use minor pixels or texts on your website.

Labeling

You can insert remarkable labels at your design for special offerings of your business. By using this special feature of web 2.0 design style you can directly reflect your selling strategies in front of your business market.

Natural helpful icons

Here you can use impressive icons at the important areas of your site to draw the attention of your viewers. Placing notable icons is a designing credibility apart from using much content. These icons will automatically put visitors at your required area.

Number of columns reduction

The clarity or visibility of your website varies with your used number of columns at your website. As much fewest numbers of columns is used, the simplicity increases simultaneously. Infusing too much columns on your webpage is always a bad deal for web 2.0 style.

Separating segments

In web 2.0 design style, you are able to use fluorescent color segment to separating different important parts of your web page. From visitor’s point of view, it increases easiest readability of different sections of your web page.

Simple Looking

As it has a lot of new features, it can help you to take away from several hazards and put into the innermost purpose of designing. The design looks simple and comfortable for the users. You will achieve your objective using only required features.

At the end, the web designing world marching forward with its own added features. Web 2.0 designs are taking a step ahead with its modernized features by capturing viewer concentration from rest of the world design styles.

Source : http://www.promotionworld.com/

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Web 2.0 Development For The Common Man

Talk about tilting at windmills. WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene is challenging Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Visual Studio while simultaneously pointing out the drawbacks of Java development. Keene may be suffering delusions of grandeur--or perhaps he's onto something.

Keene has been beating the drum of faster, easier Web 2.0 development since joining WaveMaker (then called ActiveGrid) in January 2007. The company's WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio pulls popular open source development tools -- Spring, Hibernate, Dojo, etc. -- into a visual application builder. (InformationWeek featured WaveMaker as our Startup Of The Week earlier this month.)

Not long ago, WaveMaker released the results of a survey on Web 2.0 development that it commissioned from Precision Marketing Group. The key finding: 83% of respondents said their companies wanted to move applications to the Web but lacked the resources and expertise to do it. Keene argues the answer is to empower "nonexpert" developers to do that work using WaveMaker.

By nonexpert developers, Keene's referring to developers whose experience has revolved around client-server software, say Microsoft Access or Lotus Notes, not salespeople or accountants. "Developers with 10+ years of experience with client/server tools have no clear way to 'upskill' to building Web 2.0 apps…" he writes in his blog. "WaveMaker is focusing on the skills migration."

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Wave wins ‘Gold Award’ for website

MUSCAT — The Wave, Muscat has won the ‘Gold Award’ for the best website in the real estate category for the third year running at Oman Web Awards. The Wave, Muscat a co-presenter at the awards ceremony, saw CEO Nick Smith deliver a presentation highlighting the importance of technology, and the role of the internet in getting corporate house’s messages across.

Commenting on the success of The Wave, Muscat at the Oman Web Awards, Nick Smith, said: “These awards highlight the internet’s role in achieving an organisation’s business objectives and recognise the hard work that has gone into creating outstanding websites.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

How to attract viewers through professional creative website design

Websites are becoming much important than other business proposal of your business when you are thinking to lunch your business into the internet. Nowadays it is quite a big concern for small business owners, because thousands of business owners make their organizations online due to increasing their profit.

Thus in recent days design a profitable and good looking website is a must need for all of them. In recent survey it is viewed that first impression of viewers for your site will be the last impression. If your designed website is much attractive and worthy than others then you don’t need to worry about the web traffic.

If this is done at your website then you don’t need to convince buyers with your effective packages. They will automatically convinced and request for a query for more information. Some efficient regulations of excellent web design.

Rules of Effective Web Design
  1. A well navigated website design can catch maximum web traffic into a site. Navigation is the foremost important thing for any site, if it is done excellently more people going into your required web page and you are able to increase the rate of conversion which will be the leading criteria of your business. This is typically the crucial interests that you can get from a well navigated website design.
  2. You can promote your services and products by adding a mailing list on your website for your viewers. This is a very effective web designing technique and this mailing list will enable your willing viewers to place their e-mail address, their name, as well as their other documents too. Thus you can build your huge list of possible clients.
  3. You can able to receive a superb search engine raking by your creative website designing. In a recent survey it is proved that accessible website design provides you this gigantic advantage. Professional web design can helps you to achieve required successful search ranking within a quick time spend. Your appointed web designer can import search engine user friendly impacts at your website very easily.
  4. An effectual looks can boost your business credibility by your website. In point of business view of your online business your first requirement is to gain visitors attention. A visitor must be automatically provides more concentration to you than your competitors. By a perfect affordable web design you can provide them a proper trustworthiness and this expected trust brings more business to your website.
Importance of Color combination

Color adjustment is known as backbone of a website. It directly deals with viewer’s concentration and in a recent survey it is found that color alteration of a site can catch the emotion of visitors. It generates a wide space of influences for the visitor to making their decisions at your website. By a creative website design with fabulous color contrast you can leave a clear message for you visitor about your business deals. By highlighting important parts of a web page with some florescent colors, you can easily attract your viewers at your business through your proficient website.

Nowadays web 2.0 designing style added a qualitative feature in logo designs. Recently, people are vastly using this designing style to draw their unique logos for easily catching the viewer attentions. Making your website is not dabble work for you; your thought is, the design should be as powerful and attractive as it can. Make sure that no such amateurish thing to be done at your website with some awful feature. Lastly do some researches work before starting the designing work and if you have some more time then expend those time into web designing forums to discuss with others about your hassles.

Source : http://www.promotionworld.com/