Website design guidelines and tips – just common sense By Mary Magdalene Chia Here are some design guidelines and tips to help you build a user friendly websites. 1. First, figure out what you want to do and make a plan for it. This may involves some brain storming. Then, translate your ideas and plans [...]
Do you often wonder how to develop your site so it doesn’t scream “small business amateur”. Business owners, not just sole-proprietors, are notorious for skimping on professional web site development. Often the result is that their site is cheap looking and compels visitors to run or in this case, click in the opposite direction. Shouldn’t [...]
Its a fact that one website will pull many times the leads or sales as a competing website. What causes this large variance in results? Its the copywriting on the website. Heres what weve learned works best from actual results and testing on dozens of websites weve done the copywriting for. 1. Make your website [...]
How to analyze a website is the first, and most important step, in the website design process. It requires answering several questions about this website you’re going to create. Now’s the time to start a journal. Write down the following questions and give some serious thought to your answers. Why are you creating this website? [...]
When editing an HTML document or graphic image for the Internet, you may encounter a color code similar to #FFFFFF. You can easily manipulate a sequence like this with a web palette or image-editing software. But by examining it more closely, you can gain valuable insight into the displays generated by electronic media such as [...]
Does My Web Site Require A Web Database? If your web site require constant updates and feeding of information, a web database is the solution. In short, this applies to web sites that handle online products, news feed, members- based subscription and other functions as well. Not only can a database provide easier access to [...]
Many websites I come across don’t have a single link to another website. Ask the webmaster why not, and the answer you get is simple enough: “If I link to other websites people might leave my site.” At this point I break the news that site visitors will leave your site. And there’s nothing you [...]
Web site design, like any creative service varies considerably from company to company. You can find a web site designer that charges $50 for a site and then a few minutes later find one that charges several thousands of dollars. Web site owners who allow themselves to be swayed by price alone could find themselves [...]
If you had to choose, would you want a site that looks pretty, or one that makes you lots of money? Of course you want a nice looking website, but isnt money the real motivator here? I mean you are running a business, right? Flashy graphics and top-notch sound effects make for an awesome video [...]
Functions and Subroutines in ASP If you read our Tutorial on Include Files (SSI) then you learned how to encapsulate ASP code within include files and the benefits it brings us. As developers, we should endeavour to make our lives easier wherever possible… no one wants to re-invent the wheel after all. Functions and Subroutines [...]
