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Author :: Maricon Williams  |
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| Article Title :: Make Sure Your Site Loads Fast |
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| Patience and time are two of the precious attributes why you have to make your site easy to load. Patience because visitors do not have patience to stick with your site until your site has fully loaded. Visitors can change their mind in just a flick of a finger thus your site must load as fast as a flick of a finger to keep them from running away. Remember that they have lots of alternative sites to choose from so give them reason to consider your site? Time, on the other hand, is an essential element to everyone. Who would want delay when you can have prompt results with other websites?
What therefore, are the things to be considered? First, we have to bear in mind that not ev (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: Maricon Williams |
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| Article Title :: Scope Creep and your Website |
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| In simple words, ‘scope creep’ happens when the scope or focus of a site changes due to improvements. When it expands, it is said to creep. That is where the coined term ‘scope creep’ came from.
‘Scope creep’ may be drastic or may be not. However, in times of ‘creeping’ your website may need a change in the content or design of the site so as to accommodate the improvements. Every web design must be flexible thus, it continues to change with time so as to cater to the needs of visitors. Change is inevitable hence, scope creep is also inevitable. If you care about your site, you have to tweak and improve your site regularly.
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: Maricon Williams |
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| Article Title :: How to Persuade Website Visitors |
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| One of the most common problems of websites is how to persuade their viewers to do the ‘call for action’. Really, it can be hard to make them click that purchase or subscribe button. First, you have to give them the details. These details include their needs, wants and benefits that will accrue them. But how do they should end their visit? Is the decision a sure GO or an awful NO?
To lead visitors to take your ‘call for action’ often means that your homepage can be used to channel visitors to a route of rich information and good choices. Websites are all about products and services. They revolve around these stuffs to direct viewers to their primary goal. It is (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: Alicia Smith |
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| Article Title :: Web Site Turn Ons |
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| When you develop a sales brochure, you have a mental checklist of what needs to be in it. You probably look at brochures from other vendors. You get advice from friends and colleagues. You probably also notice the sales flyers you get in the mail. What do you notice? What gets your attention?
A web site for your business has many of the same purposes as a sales brochure. At the same time, it is more “delicate” and requires more attention. It is technically more advanced and therefore more challenging to design as well as to keep up to date.
Below are 10 things you should consider when developing a web site. These will give you a good start. After reading the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: netgeek06 |
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| Article Title :: How to Create a Splash Page for Your Website? |
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| These splash designs prove to be quite popular, especially among the designers as they allow the designer to show their skills in flash and any other technology on a single page. The splash page design involved in the splash page will be one that is very attractive to the eye of the viewer. Its main intention lies in captivating the viewer the moment he looks at it. It can be a stationary design or an animated design, which in turn makes it more interesting to look at!
There are quite a few advantages and disadvantages to a splash page. The main advantage of a splash page is that through a splash page, one can get all the information required on the first page of the website wit (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: netgeek06 |
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| Article Title :: Tips on Starting a Powerpoint Presentation |
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| When making your powerpoint presentation, plan it in such a way that the vital information can be put on the slides, in printed form as a handout and is explainable to the viewers. This is because a person tends to store information for a longer time if they hear it three or more times. Be as clear and concise as possible in your presentation. Work on your points until you get exactly what you want the audience to get from your presentation.
Now, to start on the making of the powerpoint presentation. To quickly start a powerpoint presentation, you have to click any powerpoint presentation file (.ppt) and select the Show icon from the shortcut menu it displays. Another alternativ (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: netgeek06 |
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| Article Title :: Make Your Website Stand Out With an Icon Design |
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| There are many web design icon sites that, with a price, help you design your own icon. These icon design sites have icon design groups that work from the look and feel of your web site or with any images; you give them, to design an icon compliant with multiple browsers. The icon design is available in different sizes like 256 color, 32x32 and 16x16 pixel designs.
Delivery of the custom made icon graphic design takes about three to four days. If there are any changes, you can make one set of revisions to the icon design at no additional cost. If at all you wish to design your own icon, all you have to do is to use any free design icon web site. Here you have to open the program (read full article) |
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Author :: netgeek06 |
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| Article Title :: The Characteristics of Flash Professional 8 |
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| The filters help in creating more compelling designs with the help of built-in filter effects like drop shadow, blur, gradient level, glow, level and color adjust. Filters are actually visual effects that are applied in MovieClips and in text fields, being at the same time natively supported and rendered in real time by Flash Player. The FlashType is a revolutionary new font rendering engine that provides clear, highest-quality font rendering. It helps in making small fonts look very clear, and at the same time, greatly improves the readability of the font. There are various options available here for choosing the font rendering, with each options being optimized for different case uses. The (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: Matthew C. Keegan |
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| Article Title :: A Little Something Extra For Your Clients |
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| As a writer, editor, web designer, forum maven, etc. [boy, I sound multi-talented!] I try to give my clients a/k/a customers a little something extra whenever or wherever possible. No, not so that they take advantage of my kindness, rather to show that I go the extra mile for them. Hey, it is a competitive market out there and I don't want to grow complacent!
So, exactly what am I talking about? Blogs. That's right, I enjoy blogging so much that I have decided to include a "blog option" as part of my web package for clients [new and existing] who want one during 2006. It doesn't cost me any money for the software, but it will cost me approximately one hour's time to set up each (read full article) |
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| Category :: Web Design Articles |
Author :: netgeek06 |
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| Article Title :: How to Hire a Web Designer/Programmer for Your Website |
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| Why hire a designer or a programmer?
You might ask this question yourself when there are 100Â’s of easy to build software on the internet. But building a website yourself and a professional designer makes a lot of difference. The designer put in years of expertise in building your website. He knows all the web standards as well as a professional look after it is done. Apart from that business owners donÂ’t find time and patience in maintaining and promoting the site. Since the business person is occupied with this own business needs. What are the important aspects while choosing a website designer/programmer?
1) Check the credentials of the designer, is he rel (read full article) |
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