Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

Who Is Your Audience?

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Understanding the type of people who visit your site is a very important task because you can use that information to enhance your site to suit them. As a result, you will gain more loyal returning visitors that come back again and again for more.

What is the age level and what kind of knowledge does your audience have? A layman might linger around a general site on gardening, but a professional botanist might turn his nose at the very same site. Similarly, a regular person will leave a site filled with astronomy abstracts but a well educated university graduate will find that site interesting.

Take your audience’s emotional state into consideration when building your site. If a very irritated visitor searches for a solution and comes across your site, you will want to make sure you offer the solution right up front and sell or promote your product to him second. In this way, the visitor will put his trust in you for offering the solution to his problems and is more likely to buy your product when you offer it to him after that.
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5 Important Rules in Website Design

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.
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Pros and Cons of Flash-based Sites

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Flash-based sites have been a craze since the past few years, and as Adobe compiles more and more great features into Flash, we can only predict there will be more and more flash sites around the Internet. However, Flash based sites have been disputed to be bloated and unnecessary. Where exactly do we draw the line? Here’s a simple breakdown.

The good:

Interactivity

Flash’s Actionscript opens up a vast field of possibilities. Programmers and designers have used Flash to create interactive features ranging from very lively feedback forms to attractive Flash-based games. This whole new level of interactivity will always leave visitors coming back for more.

A standardized site

With Flash, you do not have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. No more woes over how a certain css code displays differently in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. When you position your site elements in Flash, they will always appear as they are as long as the user has Flash Player installed.
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Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online

Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost Instantly – Using Only E-Mail!

Friday, February 26th, 2010
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Internet Marketing: How to Get a Website That Works for Your Business

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Search Engine Optimization for Dummies

Sunday, February 21st, 2010
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Web Design All-in-one for Dummies

Friday, February 19th, 2010
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Web/Business Planing

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Sometimes people get stuck when they want to get started in setting up a website or expanding further. We understand this so have put together some questions you can go through to get a better understanding to help you with your web project.

Summary

* What is the initial concept?
* What is your current situation?
* What will your key success factors be?
* What are your longer-term vision and goals?

Market analysis

* What does the current market look like?
* What is your target market?
* What are the characteristics of your perfect client?
* What do your target clients require?

Competitive overview

* What does your industry look like?
* Are there many competitors?
* Who are your 5-10 closest competitors?
* What products or services do they offer?
* What opportunities do you have to be unique? (Can you fill a niche or be different from your competitors in some way?)
* What are is the SWOT > Strength, weakness, opportunities and treats ?

Sales and marketing

* How will you attract clients?
* How can potential clients find you?
* What marketing activities would you consider?

Plan of action

* What do you need to do in order to kick things off?
* What should you do in the medium term?
* What are some longer-term plans?

Have you got a website or registered your domain name?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I was searching the net the other day for a new domain name, but I was not having any luck. The domains names I was looking for where all gone. I tried and tried different variations but no luck. It was mad. I had the same response from a friend who was also looking for a domain name, but the domain he wanted was already taken and the owner wanted 2k for it.  He must have initially brought it for dollars/pounds,  2k he wanted how mad/great is that??

It makes you think right? domain names are becoming rare and you are getting situations where you start selling or exchanging domain names. Some will have more value then others and people are buying them up, with the aim of future potentials buying them off them.

A recent report said that in about 2010 the number of online purchases will rise from about 20% to about 30%… is that it??? We are only making 20% worth of purchase online at the moment???…. 20%!!! that’s nothing!. The web has huge potential.

My Advice is , get domain names while you can and get a website for sure. Imagine having a “.com” domain that everybody wants and people are willing to pay thousands for it…. You never know right! And setting up a simple blog may drive thousands and thousands of traffic to your site.

Get domain names for your name, your business, your ideas or even for fun. Setting up something simple on them is relatively easy these days.

Have a look at http://www.webbuilderbig.com for free or paid web builder tools.