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Create Your Own Business Cards, Part 1

Posted on Jul.16, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

In this lesson, we will create a business card, using Microsoft Word. I created a new template for my business card. It can be viewed at: http://janes-place.com/bus_card.htm
Choose the information you want to place on your card before beginning.
Here’s how I did it:
Go to ’start’ –’Microsoft Word’ — ‘file menu’ — ‘page setup’. Choose the ‘Margins Tab’. Type in 1.25 for the Left and Right margins. That way, two cards will fit on a 8 1/2 x 11in. sheet, side by [...]


Web Designing Tips

Posted on Apr.22, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Easy Thats how youd like life to be, right? Especially when youre creating a website on your own. But that doesnt mean you want the site to look severe and just functional. you want it to be pretty , smart and also respond and move when you interact with it, while saying all that you want to say to its visitors . There are little tips and Features incorporated into software just for people like you.
Love what Flash can [...]


Hints All the Way

Posted on Apr.20, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

One of the best ways to make your site easier to use is to
provide hints to your visitors everywhere you can. You might
think that sounds simple enough, but the amount of time required
to do it and the number of things to consider puts a lot of web
designers off.
Visitors Don’t Know Your Site
You have to consider that the overwhelming majority of your
site’s visitors are likely to be visiting for the first time -
some of them may be loyal visitors, coming back [...]


Good Links: 7 guidelines how to improve usability

Posted on Apr.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

How you write and design your links is crucial to your visitors clicking them or not. Write them badly and they leave, write them well and they stay. Who knows, they might even do exactly that what you created your site for. Following are 7 guidelines how links should be written to improve the usability of your site.
Do it consistently
Visitors learn for example how a website marks the links or where the “related-content box” can be found. Consistently adhering [...]


Web Design The 10 Biggest Mistakes

Posted on Apr.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

There are plenty of mistakes in the world of web design. Let’s look at what I believe to be the 10 biggest.
1. Too Many Ads.
When you’re trying to make money from your website, it’s all too easy to overwhelm your site with ads. Put yourself in your user’s place and take a good hard look at your site and ask yourself if the ads feel intrusive. Does the site look like an information source or does it feel [...]


The Top 10 Biggest Web Design Mistakes

Posted on Apr.12, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

In the world of web design, there are plenty of mistakes you can
make, and in this article, I’m going to look at what I believe
to be the top 10 biggest. You need to check your site for these
mistakes right now, and fix them if they’re there – otherwise
you’re going to be annoying your visitors and driving them away
from your site.
1. Too Many Ads. When you’re trying to make money from your
website, it’s all too easy to try to fit in [...]


Poisoned Arrows

Posted on Mar.03, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

You’ve probably heard the talks about dressing your website for success. You should find all possible ways to attract visitors and more then that to offer a lot of additional information to make them pay another visit again and again.
It seems rather unusual for me, to dedicate 90% of your time and resources searching and gathering complementary info and to update the website very often. For selling a 20 dollars worth product you should spend the main part of energy [...]


Web Design: The 10 Biggest Mistakes

Posted on Feb.17, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

There are plenty of mistakes in the world of web design. Let’s look at what I believe to be the 10 biggest.
1. Too Many Ads.
When you’re trying to make money from your website, it’s all too easy to overwhelm your site with ads. Put yourself in your user’s place and take a good hard look at your site and ask yourself if the ads feel intrusive. Does the site look like an information source or does it feel [...]


Some Flash Tips

Posted on Feb.01, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Here are some tips on Macromedia Flash, note the version I’m using is Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. The one major thing you need to remember about Flash is that it has a timeline, so everything is done over time. The two main components in Flash are the work area, which is known as the Stage, and the Timeline, where all the work is set up. I’m going to start with Keyframing.
Keyframing
Place an object on the stage, go to the [...]


CSS Cursors – How To Use Them

Posted on Jan.30, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

One thing that CSS allows us to use for screen presentation are alternate cursors. This is not the idea of downloading or forcing a download of a cursor, as was done in the past (though that is possible as well), but instead, we use several built in concept cursors.
Each of these cursors you can use to enhance useability of your website. For instance, if you want to define that something has context help, you could use the help cursor.
The CSS2 [...]