One of the worst habits of Web designers is to "prettify" sites with digital animations created by Flash software. Think of how many times you've logged off Web sites because you've been locked into a seemingly endless (and irritating) animation. That's Flash. It was fashionable in the late 1990s, but now simplicity is in favor.
When did you last see a well-designed Web site? One that wasn't just great to look at, but so easy to use that you found what you wanted effortlessly? And when did you last grumble about a badly designed site having spent far too long trying -- and failing -- to find something?
I'd love to think that there'd be more enthusiastic answers to the first question, than grouchy responses to the second. But sadly for the millions of us who waste so much time struggling to extract information from the Web, it's bound to be the other way around. The blunt truth is that far from being visually pleasing, intelligently organized and simple to use, too many Web sites are ugly, cluttered, sluggish and brain-fuddlingly difficult to navigate.
There's no logical explanation for this. Lots of smart design graduates go into Web design, and it's at the forefront of technological innovation. Even corporate dinosaurs now recognize the value of a well-designed Web site, and design budgets have risen accordingly. Why then are so many sites so poorly designed?
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Why the Web Fails To Please the Eye and Brain
Monday, September 29, 2008
Web sites, awful and not
When did you last see a well-designed Web site? One that wasn't just great to look at, but so easy to use that you found what you wanted effortlessly? And when did you last grumble about a badly designed site having spent far too long trying - and failing - to find something?
I'd love to think that there'd be more enthusiastic answers to the first question, than grouchy responses to the second. But sadly for the millions of us who waste so much time struggling to extract information from the Web, it's bound to be the other way around. The blunt truth is that far from being visually pleasing, intelligently organized and simple to use, too many Web sites are ugly, cluttered, sluggish and brain-fuddlingly difficult to navigate.
There's no logical explanation for this. Lots of smart design graduates go into Web design, and it's at the forefront of technological innovation. Even corporate dinosaurs now recognize the value of a well-designed Web site, and design budgets have risen accordingly. Why then are so many sites so poorly designed?
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Web design Project - Forum Installation in website
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Project Details:
Type :Project
Id : 43791029
Category : Web Design and Development
Title : Forum Installation in website
Estimated Budget : Need Best Praposal
Description :
- User can create his account
- Forgot password option, in case user forget password they can enter email ID and get password in email ID.
- Accessibility for Admin user to delete unwanted members.
- Forum must be like a part of website, following the same layout and menu bar
- We do not need any third part to start their forum.
Country : United States
Status : Closed
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Friday, September 26, 2008
10 Tips for Investing in Domain Names
1. Attempt to Predict the Future
You may not have the genius of renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil who has been hired by Bill Gates on numerous occasions just to talk, but you can still predict the future of the domain industry. By the time a child born today graduates from college, Kurzweil believes that poverty, disease, and reliance on fossil fuels will be a thing of the past. Ray bases his predictions on the exponential growth in the power of technology, or as he calls it–the Law of Accelerating Returns. We can apply futuristic predictions to valuable domain name investments. Think outside of the box; education & technology, information syndication, social networking, robotics, alternative energy…you get the picture.
2. Stick With the “Dot Com”
This suggestion could be argued, but generally successful investors and domaining old schoolers will tell you that they will put their money on “.com” remaining at the top of the food chain for quite awhile. If you get in the market early for a popular ccTLD (country code top level domain) like .us, .tv, etc.; you may be able to snag a great name. The risk factor for “.com” is significantly less than the other extensions. Maybe we should ask Kurzweil what he thinks.
3. Keep it Short and Sweet
In the world of domains, generally speaking; 2 letter names are a fool’s dream; 3 letter names are king; 4 letter non-sense names are an easy sale; 5 letter names bank a small fortune. You would, however, be hard pressed to find any of those to add to your portfolio. My best suggestion to you is not to stray past two words within a domain name. Memorability, ease of typing and visual aesthetics play a big part in a domain’s value.
4. Keep it Brandable
Make sure the words you choose in your domain flow well together; repeat your name aloud several times to see how it sounds spoken. Ask your friends and family what their first impression of your name choices are. Does your name relate well to the industry or audience the website would be targeting?
5. Keep it Real
We have all seen them, invented names or characters mashed together that form pronounceable syllables–Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Tumblr. While many popular websites today have done well with these odd brand names it would be hard to market a cheaper version of these names to anyone, which brings me to my next point…
6. Have a Buyer in Mind
Before investing your money into a domain name, ask yourself a few questions about your future buyer. Would anyone want to buy this domain name today? What niche industry or population could I market this name to? Is this domain relevant to a small business industry, a single person or a large movement? The more potential buyers the better.
7. Don’t Spend More than Current Value
Do your homework. Research aftermarket domain sales portals such as Sedo, TDNAM, Afternic as well as domain forums for current sales prices of similar names. You can get a good idea of the value of your domain and some insight into how its value may mature in the future. I suppose there can be some exceptions to this tip if you’re Mr. Moneybags and find a name you are just sure is going to be a hit.
8. Don’t Sell Until it’s Ripe
Imagine you’re at the 1923 World Series and Babe Ruth tosses your baseball back to ya with his name jotted down in fresh black ink. A friend of a friend of your second cousin offers you $50 bucks for the ball a week later… you simply don’t sell your green bananas! The amount of people logging on to the internet and developing their own websites increases tremendously each year. If you think you’ve got a keeper, do just that.
9. Develop Relevant Content
Search Engines today are a key element to driving traffic to our names and essentially allow certain websites to be discovered. There are vast amounts of information and domain names that are essentially hidden to the world simply because webmasters do not take the steps to publish and promote quality information. If nothing else, setup a Wordpress blog script on your domain name and regularly publish relevant content to your domains.
10. Nurture Your Name
Incoming unique visitors, Google’s PageRank, backlinks and web reputability can add significant value to any domain. While publishing current events and related content to your domain name, manually submit your site to quality web directories. Social networks such as MyBlogLog, StumbleUpon and Bumpzee can also add reputation and send visitors to your name.
Source : http://www.dotsauce.com/
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Web design Tender - New Website Designing
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Project Details:
Type :Tender
Id : 78880057
Category : Web Design and Development
Title : New Website Designing
Estimated Budget : Request for Proposal
Description :
Scope of services:
- Provide design and programming services for new website.
- The new site and design should be tested and compatible for primary browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.
- The new site should be designed for 1024 X 768 display.
- The home page should include links to dashboards or other navigation serving four primary audiences: employees, parents, students, community.
- The home page should include a rotating news feature. The feature should offer up to six items with photos and headline which rotate and can be selected for viewing by the user.
- The home page should include “quick-links” to frequently visited sites, to be managed by the webmaster.
- The separate dashboards (or other structure) will include a list of popular topics germane to each respective audience.
- The site must support characters for non-English languages; especially Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and others.
- Provide a content management system.
- Provide a district events calendar feature.
- Some pages of the current website may be blank or contain outdated or unusable content. The company should consult with us to determine which web pages should be discarded.
Country : United States
Status : Closed
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Choosing the Right Web Hosting
Tips for Getting a Web Hosting Account
With the market being unbelievably saturated when it comes to Web hosting companies, how do you know which one to choose? Before you even start looking for a hosting company, you need to determine your needs and decide exactly what you are going to need now, and for future developments for your Website. Here is a list of items you may want to consider:
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Graphical Updates of Web Designs
Web design is creation of designs in the web pages of the web site. Web design constitutes more innovated and technical aspects with huge information. Web designs are the process of modeling, designing, structuring and executing the aspects which are suitable for the web site. Web designs may comes up with collections of more designs as per the ideas and plans to make the web site with more new web designs. Web designs include contents, files, tags, update pages, graphics and so on. Generally web designs comprises of innovated and graphical techniques as well as they are created to become easy approachable to the web searchers and it is done using wide understandable techniques.
Generally, web site comprises of web designs and web designs forms major part of the web site. Today, in this competitive world web design fetches more demand and it comes through all over the world. Nowadays, most of the people started knowing the need of the web design and started utilizing it. Hardly web designs become more important and essential for every web masters who handles web sites. Web designs provides well designed and graphical web site to the web searchers and also for the web masters. Web designs are done by the web designers and if they design the web completely, then it can be said that the web site fetches more offers from the customers as well as more response among the web searchers.
Nowadays, most of the web designers are capable of offering efficient technical and graphical web designs to the web sites. To make the web design effective and efficient, then the web master should provide and use some techniques and tips for it. Generally an efficient web design comes up with good presentation of graphics and designs. To make it efficient, professional web site designer’s help can be taken and they are the one who can provides efficient web designs to the users. Generally, web designs constitute text, graphics, designs and images. Web masters designs web sites to increase the traffic, rankings and links in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Msn.
Web designs can be made using efficient web designers and he may use more application such as CSS, HTML and many other kinds of languages. Every web designs made by the web designer should be compact and the web design created should be structured has it is easy approachable and easily understandable to the web searchers. When proper web designing is done for the web site, then the particular web site fetches more demand among the web searchers as well as the web designers come up with more popularity among the people.
About the Author:
Alberdecruz is a Copywriter of Houston seo services. He written many articles in various topics.For more information visit:Best web design. contact his at alberdecruzseo@gmail.com.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Design a Logo - The Ultimate Guide
Logo design is arguably one of the most important and valued areas of design. A quality logo design combined with the branding of an organization or company can become one of the most powerful forces in today’s society. If you love logo design as much as I do, then I am sure you will enjoy these logo design tips and resources.
LOGO DESIGN TIPS
Concepts, Concepts, Concepts!
I like to believe there’s a perfect concept out there for every project, but the hard part is finding it - or at least something close to it. The only way to do this is to brainstorm like crazy. Start looking up competitors, do Google image searches, write down keywords, do some mind mapping, and make sure you put everything down on paper! You don’t want to come up with a great idea only to forget it the next morning.
Nothing like Sketching
A lot of designers like to go straight to the computer, but the power of sketching is often underestimated. You can quickly sketch out multiple concepts and create variations to see what works and what doesn’t - in a matter of minutes. The computer will slow you down so be sure to break out the sketch pad, colored pencils, markers or whatever you prefer - and start sketching away.
Did you know? Large design companies will often sketch out dozens of pages of logo concepts before they even touch a computer mouse. Take a tip from the pros and focus on your sketches first.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Web design Project - WIKI Database Project
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Project Details:
Type :Project
Id : 10483491
Category : Web Design and Development,Database Development Services
Title : WIKI Database Project
Estimated Budget : Upto 250 USD
Description :
Country : Thailand
Status : Closed
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Friday, September 19, 2008
The Costs Of Good Web Hosting
Generally you will find five web hosts pricing styles. First you have the free Web Hosting,then the low budget Web Hosting,the low cost Web Hosting,the semi-pricey Web Hosting, and the high end Web Hosting.Each web hosting style has it's advantages and disadvantages,as well as different price structures. Let's start with the "Free Web Hosting" now this might sound inviting, after all it is free. But having a free web host comes at a price, the web host usually offer a smaller amount of web space, and are good for only "simple needs" customers,(no databases, media, email, etc.) Then they need to support themselves to supply free web hosting so, they charge for other services, such as: email, domain name registration, banner removal or service upgrades. Extra costs from free hosts for, yearly domain name registration fee, one-time set-up fee, fee to remove ad banners. You can expect no customer support, if you have a problem with your website. And in most cases you have to put" there" banners on your site, that will make your site look tacky and unprofessional.
The "Low Budget" web hosting, are similar to free hosts in features offered, and reliability and support. These web hosts also charge a smell fee, from $1-$15 dollars per month. The good thing is they usually don’t require users to place banner ads on their sites. These sites upholstery cleaning orlando usually called “basic plan” or “starter plan”, and are made for a beginning web user who isn’t worried about site support or reliability.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Web design Tender - Ongoing Web Development & Maintenance of Websites
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Project Details:
Type :Tender
Id : 78561020
Category : Web Design and Development
Title : Ongoing Web Development & Maintenance of Websites
Estimated Budget :Request for Proposal
Description :
Scope of services:
- Develop a new “Student Area” to provide interesting and highly visual/interactive introduction to our technology.
- Develop a new “Teachers Area” to include Professional Development resources, curriculum materials, downloads and research documents and references to Irish and International best practice.
- Integrate online registration forms with the existing CRM database.
- Extend ability to upload photographs, video and text notes from mobile phones.
- Provide facilities to incorporate other Web2.0 and collaboration tools to be incorporated within the platform.
- Update design of frontend website.
- The majority of Discover Science & Engineering websites are hosted within a consolidated contract with an external hosting service provider.
- There will be provision for backup and recovery.
- Test all new web features including logins, administration level access and content upload facilities.
- As part of the development and/or maintenance of the website, the chosen provider may be given access to personal data collected through the websites such as website log files, email addresses (for newsletter subscriber lists) and contact details (from online forms).
Country : Ireland
Status : Closed
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Planning, user-friendliness keys to successful Web sites
In today's world, a Web site is a must-have for any successful business. But if it's not meeting the customers' needs, it can also be the kiss of death.
"The immediacy of the Web can be both good and bad," said Chris Edwards, chief operations officer with Creata Vivendi, a marketing, public-relations and consulting company in Conewago Township, York County.
If it's up to date, easy to navigate, interactive and visually appealing, a Web site can be a valuable tool in providing customer service, he said. If not, it could lead to the loss of business.
In creating a customer-friendly Web site, each of the following businesses incorporated two simple strategies: plan carefully and design with the user in mind. The result, they said, was a valuable business tool that serves the clients' needs and, in turn, the company's needs, as well.
Virtual interaction
For Kathy Jordan, a gymnastic coach in Connecticut, the ability to custom design her teams' uniforms online was the main reason she chose Alpha Factor, a division of gymnastic-apparel maker Perform Group (formerly Tighe Industries) in York County.
"Their Web site blows the competition away," Jordan said. "It just makes ordering so much easier."
That's exactly the type of response the company was looking for with the launch of its new Web site - www.alphafactor.com - which features a virtual design studio where coaches from anywhere in the world can customize leotards with their choice of colors, fabrics and rhinestones.
"In designing the site, we put our customers' needs first," said Wendy Martin, Alpha Factor's business manager.
Enabling users to virtually serve themselves with interactive tools is one way a Web site can enhance customer service, said Denny Miller, president of Pipeline Interactive, the Lebanon-based company that designed the Alpha Factor site.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Importance of Uptime in a Web Hosting Server
Hosting a website and making it appearing on the internet is a skill that we need to know if we want to do an online business or share our blog with others. Therefore, there are countless web hosting company out there that provides services to handle your website needs. However, if we have the knowledge, we can basically do it ourselves. This however is not a simple task. To host our own website, we will have complete control of the website but there are also disadvantages that we will have to face. If we host our own website, we will have trouble with the security to prevent hackers that can break into our system. We also have to install our own firewall to try to prevent this. All this work could often take a lot of time and we will eventually neglect the website or business that we are doing.
Therefore, most people today would choose a web hosting company to host their website. To choose the best one in the market, web hosting reviews could help a lot because web reviews analyzes web hosting companies and compare them head to head. However, to choose a web hosting, you should determine your budget first. Set the budget on how much you are willing to pay for your website. Then you should determine the need of you website. What kind of website you have in mind and what will be stored in your website. Have everything pictured in your mind, for instance, how many pages are there in your website? Will there be any products for sale? After you thought all of that, you will have a clearer picture on what to expect from your web hosting company.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Web Shop Design: Using Flash Effectively
The question as to what and how much animation is appropriate for a Web site has plagued Web developers ever since the early days of the Internet. While tools such as Flash now include smart features that overcome some of their early limitations, this doesn't mean that every site needs Flash content. In this article, I'll explain some of the benefits and disadvantages of Flash and tell you what you need to do to make sure Flash works for you and not against you.
Flash: The Good and Bad
Flash is a common plug-in with Adobe research showing that 99 percent of Web users have Flash available. So, it is fair to assume that anyone visiting your site can probably view Flash content. If you choose to use Flash, one thing you'll like about it is that it is pretty much browser independent so you can expect your Flash movie to look the same in all browsers, which is not the case with HTML or CSS.
On the downside, Flash movies, particularly those that have not been designed correctly, can be slow to download and display leaving a delay between when the visitor gets to your site and when the content starts to play. This can be particularly annoying when a Web site is created entirely in Flash — a visitor won't see anything until the site has loaded. This experience is bad enough when using a DSL or broadband connection, and for dial-up users it's even worse.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Web design Project - Development of Vehicle Listing Website
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Project Details:
Type :Project
Id : 99699687
Category : Web Design and Development
Title : Development of Vehicle Listing Website
Estimated Budget : 10000 USD
Description :
- Sustainable education by bringing consumer, the highest quality of information regarding Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles.
- We need information is to be beneficial to make a decision for purchase of an Alternative Fuel or Hybrid Vehicle.
- This online platform and marketplace is focused on consumers who are interested in learning more about Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Vehicles.
- Become leader of reselling motorized travel and automotive recycling and the owner can develop a disassembly process for salvaged automobiles in order to reclaim reusable parts and components, and, thus, establish an efficient automotive recycling system.
Country : Netherlands
Status : Closed
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Essential Web2.0 Designing Trends
Web 2.0, as described by many, is often used to describe a resurgence in the web economy, a new level of technological interactivity or a social phenomena deriving from new types of online communities and social networks. In whatever ways they might be described, the new web 2.0 sites show a remarkable change in the patterns of design. Certain common styles and trends can be observed in most of these sites, that has probably included designing too as a part of web 2.0 definitions.
The basic patterns that most of the web 2.0 sites follow are:
a. Simple Layout: The layouts generally stick to 1-2 column formats. This provides a cluster free navigation and easy sorting of the contents. These pages read in a straightforward way from top to bottom, and you don't find your eye skipping around trying to work out what to look at. It's a much calmer and more solid browsing experience than in times gone by.
b. Centered Orientation: In comparison to the liquid layout or left-aligned fixed-width layout of yesteryears, the new designs call for a center-orientated layout.
c. Content Designing: It is often said, that the mantra of web 2.0 designing is "Design the Content, Not the Page"! Well, this can also be observed in quite a lot of cases. It is no longer designing a blank page to be filled with content later. Rather it's about designing the content, to make the site look more in sync with its theme.
d. 3D Effects: This is another of the very commonly found designing component for all web 2.0 sites. Glossy effects, reflections, bright colors and drop-shadows, are the latest designing trends.
e. Background Colors: As already mentioned, the page backgrounds are not the main aspects of designing any longer. Rather, they are generally filled with soft natural colors, gradients or simple diagonal or horizontal stripes. These simple backgrounds help to further enhance and highlight the importance of the already designed content.
f. Cute Icons: As with strong color and 3D effects, appealing icons and buttons can add that bit of polish to help give a page a high-quality feel. But used too much, they'll have the counter effect, cluttering the page and confusing the user.
g. Big Text: Important sections of the site are generally written using bigger texts. This is surely to attract the user's attention. However, not all the text should be using the same bigger fonts, simply because then none of them would be bigger than the other.
h. Big Input Fields: Bigger input fields are seen in the recent web 2.0 sites. This probably helps to validate the content design and the bigger text part of layout. Moreover, it somehow emphasizes the user interactivity of the web 2.0 sites.
i. Stars and Badges: Last but not the least, comes the bright stars and badges that have almost created a revolution in the web 2.0 designing. Almost all the sites that claim to be web 2.0 essentially include a bright star or a badge somewhere on their site. Mostly seen in their declaration of a beta release, the stars and badges can also be found in buttons and contents.
In addition to the orthodox definitions, these new, classy and smart web-designing trends also help to define a new breed of websites, the ones known to us now as the web 2.0 sites.
About the Author
Judy Hunter is a technology and internet freak, an avid blogger and trend analyst who writes for 123Greetings.com and quite a few other websites. She also specializes on relationship management.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Some Simple Ideas When Designing Your Website
Who are you designing your website for? What should your main thrust be? You must know that people who visit your website are not going to be too concerned about your graphics and logo nor are they going to be interested in what color your background is. Your visitors are going to be interested in two main things: your page structure and the kind of content you have.
First of all, you must not give in to the temptation of laying out your page in new and uncharted ways. You want your page to be abundantly clear to the search engine just where the content is, where the navigation is and where the headings are. As a rule of thumb, you should sofa cleaners the navigation page first in your website. You should familiarize yourself with heading tags so that they can be used for headings and sub-headings.
Be consistent with keywords
You do not want to get into the habit of saturating your website content with keywords just to try to gain a higher search engine ranking. Search engines are much wiser than this! You should make your keywords appear in your content where they would naturally occur.
HTML and Javascript
You will find that, when designing your own website, search engines do read HTML, but they do not read Javascript. If you want the search engines to see your text, then you had better stick with HTML. However, feel free to use a mix of HTML and Javascript when designing your website. You may put the text in HTML and can use Javascript upholstery fabric other parts of the page. Your page will appear to be more focused. If you want the search engines to follow your navigation links then you definitely want to use HTML.
Use Meta Tags
Although meta tags seem to be outdated and out of fashion, they can be useful in one way. The description tag is commonly used to decide exactly what test the search engines' users see when your site is found in their results. Remember, you are trying to convince people to click on your website.
Include Alt Tags
If you wish to use a graphic when designing your website, choose the alt text for it. Graphics are pretty standard when it comes to designing a websites. cleaners for upholstery a good practice to use Alt tags on all your images as your customer will see the text associated with the image when they hover with their mouse.
Write Great Content
Again, content is the key in designing your own website. It is your job to make people interested enough to want to link their page to yours.
Your content must be interesting and should be blogger friendly. One of the best ways to design your website for search engines is to see that your content really stands out.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Designing A Web Crawler Friendly Web Site
The most successful online businesses all have one thing in common. They all knew how to make search engine optimization work for them.
Search engine optimization is the art and science of making websites attractive to the internet's search engines. The first step in successfully achieving stellar search engine optimization is to lure search engine's web crawlers to your website. Web crawlers are computer programs that the search engines use gather data and index information from the websites. The information the web crawlers gather is used to determine the ranking of a webpage.
One of the fastest ways to hamper a web crawler is to construct a website that has frames. Most search engines have crawlers that can't penetrate the frames, if they can't get into a webpage to read it then that webpage remains unindexed and unranked. Two search engines, Google and Inktome, have web crawlers that are capable of penetrating frames. Before submitting your website to a search engine do some research and find out if they have a crawler that is incapable of penetrating any frames.
If you have written frames into your URL it will probably be worth your effort to go back and rewrite your URL's. Once you have rewritten your URLs you might be surprised to find that the new addresses are easier on humans as well as web crawlers, the frameless URLs are easier to type in documents as links and references.
Once you have rewritten your URL's it is time to start submitting your website to search engines. Some webmasters like to use an automated search engine submission service. If you decide to go with the submission service you should be aware that there will be a fee involved, the minimum fee is typically fifty-nine US dollars. This price should keep a few URLs on the search engines for a year. Other webmasters like to avoid big fees by submitting their website to individual search engine on their own.
Once your webpage is submitted to a search engine you need to sit down and design a crawler page. A crawler page is a webpage that contains nothing else expect links to every single page of your website, Use the title of each page as the as the link text. This will also give you some extra keywords that will help improve the ranking the crawlers assign to your website. Think of the crawler page as a site map to the rest of your website.
Typically, the crawler page won't appear in the search results. This happens because the page doesn't have enough text for the crawlers to give that individual page a high ranking, after all its nothing more then a portal to the rest of your site and your human users won't need to use it. Don't panic if it crawlers don't instantly appear to index your website. There are a lot of websites available on the internet that need to be crawled, indexed, and then ranked. It can sometimes take up to three months for a web crawler to get to yours.
Source : http://www.giftsfreedirectory.com/
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Web design Tender - Web Development Services
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Project Details:
Type : Tender
Id : 58524663
Category : Web Design and Development
Title : Web Development Services
Estimated Budget : Need Best Proposals
Description :
The update shall accomplish the following objectives:
- The site will have a design that is professional, attractive, engaging, accessible, and in keeping with our mission and graphic identity.
- The site’s information architecture will ensure that our mission, programs, and resources are accessible and comprehensible to our constituents.
- The site will include several new features that allow constituents to learn about our service.
- The site will integrate data contained within our in-house Filemaker Pro Server database and will interact with that database as a persistent data store. It will also leverage our e-newsletter system.
- In cooperation with those systems, the site will allow our constituents to complete a range of transactions online (e.g., apply for grants; rent and pay for exhibits; complete and submit award nominations; apply to attend our programs; donate to our programs; buy our books, posters, and other related items; and sign up for the e-newsletter).
- The site will support the easy incorporation of multimedia elements, such as photographs, videos, and audio of our supported programs.
- The site can be managed and updated by non-technical personnel, as well as expanded without needing to change the platform and architecture developed within this phase of the project.
- All technologies, software, etc., used for the creation of the new site shall be hosted on shared, third-party servers and will interface remotely with our legacy database hosted in-house. (The website is currently hosted by GoDaddy).
Country : United States
Status : Closed
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How the web can help small, local communities
CREATIVE online business Plus Two Design has, over the last two years, helped promote the Bourne and Holbeach communities by designing and developing two websites for their benefit.
The company, based in Frognall, near Market Deeping, identified that self-promotion was slightly lacking and needed a boost.
The world wide web gives us all an opportunity to reach a bigger audience, a worldwide audience. But it is a vast place; a survey in 2008 found there to be more than 100 million websites currently on the web, 74 per cent of them commercial.
It is proven that the web is a wonderful way to market large businesses that can afford the luxury of pay-per-click marketing and search engine optimisation, but what about small businesses and local communities that also need coverage and promotion?
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Google Chrome: A developer's perspective
Google's new Chrome browser sets a new standard for the Web as an application platform
I was as blindsided by Google Chrome as everyone else, but there's no denying that its release was a momentous occasion. Chrome is more than just a browser; it represents Google's latest entry in the ongoing discussion of standards and best practices for the Web as an application platform. As such, it may be the company's most important offering since Gears.
"From my perspective, Google Chrome and Gears are entering the Web from two directions," says Google's Adam Goodman in Scott McCloud's comic-strip introduction to Chrome. "The [Chrome] browser project is an effort to make the Web better for users. The Gears team wants to make the Web better for developers."
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Simple Tips To Improve Your Website Design
First, your web pages should load fast. Keep in mind that not everyone uses a fast internet connection. A great number of Internet users still surf the Internet via dial-up modems. Do not load your site with slow loading banners and images. Use interlaced low-res images that have been optimized for the web. If your website is not done loading in less than 15 seconds, most people will leave it.
Providing quick-loading web pages show that you value your visitors’ time. If you really cannot do without music or sounds, turn it off by default and ask visitors to start it themselves. Doing this will prevent your web pages from upholstery cleaning milwaukee In addition, many people do not like to be forced to listen to music or sounds while exploring a website because they are already listening to their favorite music.
Besides having to prevent visitors from frustration of waiting for the pages to load, you also need to pay attention to the text size. Be sure the text is big enough to make it easy to read. In addition, the background should not obscure your text. Choose colors very carefully. upholstery cleaning portland want to be safe, use black text on a white background. This way, someone with a color deficit or using a black and white screen can still read your text clearly.
Each link should also be clearly identified. Avoid relying on applet or plug-in for navigating around your Webpages. Neatly organized hyperlinks to different pages in your website from home page or any other page will help your visitors to move quickly to their destination.
Some webmasters use Flash to create cool drop-down menus. With Flash, together with Macromedia Fireworks and Dreamweaver, it takes less than a day for an upholstery cleaning products coder to create professional looking web pages. However, if you take the same route, make sure people can figure out how your Flash menu works.
Cross-browser compatibility is another important factor that may affect the usability of a web site. Not everyone uses Internet Explorer on Windows. Unfortunately there are code that will be displayed differently cheap upholstery cleaning Explorer, Firefox and Opera. That means it is wise to prepare your site so it will be viewable in those popular browsers.
Evaluating screen resolutions should also be done with care. A site that looks perfect in high resolution may turn out to be impossible to view correctly in other resolutions. For instance, serif fonts is more comfortable to read on paper, because serifs upholstery cleaning orlando individualize each letter. However, this advantage can be rendered useless when the fonts are viewed on computer screens, since factors such as screen resolution can affect the clarity of texts.
There are many factors that affect the usability and accessibility of a web site. Tools such as WebXACT or Bobby can help you find upholstery cleaning milwaukee how accessible your Website is. If you have a doubt, ask your family and friends for help. Being less familiar with the website, they can help find a lot of things you overlooked.
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Friday, September 5, 2008
Web 2.0 Conference offers collaboration lessons
Sept. 3 marked the kick-off of the third annual Office 2.0 conference at San Francisco's St. Regis hotel. The event focused heavily on using collaborative Web technologies to increase productivity gains and business agility. While many talks were broad overviews, some highlights included a spirited discussion of UI design and the business lessons learned by GE as it built an internal social network.
The first day of Office 2.0 was an un-conference with dynamically designed sessions focused on audience participation. Steve Bristol, co-founder of lesseverything.com, lead a talk on UI design that discussed everything from Apple to speech-based operating interfaces. Lesseverything.com is a Ruby on Rails consulting firm, but Bristol is likely better known for his accounting program, Less Accounting. He said that developing that application showed him just how much more complex the back end of software can become when the user interface is simplified heavily.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Web design Tender - Designing of XML-Driven Flash Survey Website
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Web Design : Tips on Using Color
Of all the choices you make when designing a Web site, one of the most important is the colors you use. Without reading anything on a Web site, simply seeing the colors it uses can tell you a lot about its products and the company behind it.
That is, of course, provided the designers chose colors that would deliver the right message to the site's visitors. In this article I'll talk about color, how to use the color wheel to find color combinations, and I'll introduce you to some tools that can help you choose colors for your Web site.
Back to Grade School
When you were at school you learned that the three primary colors were red, blue and yellow. When you mix these primary colors together, you get what are called secondary colors — mix red and yellow to make orange, mix red and blue to make purple and mix blue and yellow to make green.
Mixing the secondary colors gives you tertiary colors which are yellow-orange, yellow-green, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet and blue-green. The name of each tertiary color is derived from the colors that are mixed to make it, with the primary color first.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Flash designs to bring your website to life
The internet is now a domain full of intense competition. An individual or an organization looking to establish their web presence needs to put in a lot of effort into various promotion techniques on the internet. But all these efforts will be in vain if you don’t have an attractive website in the first place. One way of making sure you attract the attention of the public on the internet is to incorporate flash design into your web pages.
Flash is a multimedia tool belonging to the Macromedia family. Web designers can make use of this software to develop interactive movies, innovative innovations and different kinds of artistic images. These clips are designed in such a manner that they can be embedded on to the web page along with the other content.
It is but obvious that flash design can be used to enhance the impact of your website which is the dire need of the hour. Flash Web Design is extremely useful because of its amazing features. This is the reason why people are finding it the only logical means of creating a website that captures the imagination and attention of the visitors.
Flash can be used in a variety of different ways on a web page. You can make a flash animation presentation to display your company profile or product ranges on your webpage in a 30 second series. Another good thing about flash movies is that they do not have a compatibility issue with different web browsers. So you do not run the risk of not having your video played on a different website. Hence working with flash doesn’t mean you will have to get tangled up in XHTMAL and other programming languages.
Flash can be used for a variety of other purposes on your website. You can use the program to create innovative ads that will be sure to capture the attention of your visitors. The program can also be used to create animated games that can be played on your website or downloaded.
The use of flash has now become a common practice amongst web designers due to the impact that it generates. The difference between websites that make use of flash techniques and those that don’t comes out quite obviously. The plain old and simple websites that do not make use of the innovative techniques of flash do not stand in any comparison with the websites that have been enhanced with the use of flash.
Creating flash animations, ads and presentations is however a technical job that requires highly trained individuals. Most of the good web design agencies now have a full time dedicated team of flash animators who provide invaluable services to clients looking for something out of the box when it comes to website design.
It is however advised to take a look at the flash animation portfolio and the previous work of the agency that you will be choosing for your website designing. A good idea is to read customer review in order to get an idea of the level of satisfaction they are able to deliver.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Web design Tender - Web Site Maintenance, Design & Hosting Services
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- The website must provide for high-speed upload/download response times for both low and high speed computers that are used by the average citizen.
- All documents, including maps and tables, should be in Portable Document Format (PDF), HTML, or in a format approved by us to provide ease of viewing, printing, and downloading, and in alternate ADA acceptable download formats.
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Choosing a Web Hosting Provider
Need help picking a web hosting provider? These tips provide questions you should ask before choosing a web host.
#1: Server Reliability
Ensure your web hosting provider runs reliable servers.
#2: Are Backups Performed?
Ensure your website data is archived in case of an emergency.
#3: Check Bandwidth Charges
Ensure your web hosting provider doesn't surprise you with excess fees for extra bandwidth.
#4: Is there Someone to Call?
Technical support may cost, but it may be helpful if you're in a crunch.
#5: Log File Access
Why accessing your website log files is essential. Ensure your web hosting provider offers them.
#6: Ensure SFTP and SSH Are Supported
Your web hosting provider should support SFTP and SSH for added security.
#7: Is Virtual Hosting Supported?
Virtual hosting lets you put many web domains on one machine - does your web hosting provider offer this?
#8: CGI Support?
Check your web hosting provider's level of support for CGI scripts.
#9: How Much Storage is Needed?
A few things to consider when planning how much web space you need on your web host.
#10: Check the Email Policy
Sending e-mail from a web host? What is your web provider's policy on e-mail?
#11: Development Help Available?
Is there someone to turn to for Perl, C++, or Java questions?
#12: Is There an Uptime Guarantee?
Will your web hosting provider guarantee a maximum amount of downtime?
#13: Are Website Statistics Available?
Web visitor statistics are vital in your marketing efforts. Does your web hosting provider allow you access to server logs or statistical tools?
#14: How Many Mailboxes Do You Get?
Do you get only one e-mail address with your web hosting provider or multiple?
#15: What Operating System is the Server Running?
Your web hosting provider's operating system may determine the types of scripts you can run and databases you can access.
#16: Is Search Engine Marketing Included?
Some web hosting providers perform basic SEM (search engine marketing) as part of their packages.
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Monday, September 1, 2008
The 10 Commandments of Web Design
The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008
Since the Internet emerged as a major force, altering everything from the way people work to the way they date, it has been a roller-coaster ride that made the world giddy. Microsoft (MSFT), Netscape, et al. fought the browser wars, Web standards were championed, and the Web became community-minded and social, ushering in the reign of Facebook, Flickr (YHOO), and YouTube. From boom to bust and back again, with staggering amounts of money changing hands at every point, the online industry rides on with no end in sight.
The Net has also attracted prophets, gurus, theorists, and evangelists of every stripe. Many of their promised game-changing technologies—Jini, DHTML, and countless others—never panned out, while seemingly simple innovations—metadata, XML, and CSS—have led to major breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Web design vogues from the effervescent jumble of HotWired to the stark utility of Google (GOOG) have continued to evolve and become more contradictory—and entrenched.
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