Tag: Bread And Butter

Having A User Friendly Website

Posted on Apr.13, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Let’s look at what your user wants to see at your website.
1. No Flash
For many who visit your website time is money for you and for them. The last thing people need to see is a slow loading flash front page. Unless your flash page is very unique and interesting enough that it will hold their attention I suggest you loose it. For people on dialup, and yes there are many around the world, a flash page is a download [...]


The bread and butter of website accessibility

Posted on Mar.06, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

The main reason webmasters fail to make their websites
accessible is because they don’t understand the concept of an
“accessible website” in the first place.
Lets admit it, when the buzzword accessibility flies about over
the web most of us think “I know what accessibility is, its
making my website usable by anyone with a disability” if that’s
you, I have bad news, you’ve fell at the first hurdle. Yes I’ll
put my hand up and say this is part of accessibility but at most
it only amounts [...]


Should you Purchase a Turnkey Site or Build Your Own?

Posted on Dec.13, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

You see them all the time, pre-packaged websites selling
everything from acorns to zinc. Most of them have a nice
professional look about them, with good pictures and graphics.
Of course, the sales literature with the offer telling you how
you’re going to make a gazillion dollars!
Most of them are one page mini-sites devoted only to selling
their particular product and that’s where the problems begin;
since it’s only a sales “landing page,” it will not be enough to
sustain an ongoing relationship with your visitors [...]


Dedicated Server: Smart Web Hosting Choice

Posted on Nov.22, 2008, under Web Hosting No Comments

Hosting your personal or business web sites on your own
dedicated server may seems expensive choice in comparison to
shared web hosting, but at the end, it proves a smart choice.
Shared web hosting, no matter how well managed, cannot be 100%
reliable and stable. However if you have your own dedicated
server you can manage to avoid most of the variables affecting
the reliability and stability of a server, commonly experienced
by shared hosting accounts; variables such as: overload, bad
codes and scripts from other users (especially [...]


Should you Purchase a Turnkey Site or Build Your Own?

Posted on Nov.13, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

You see them all the time, pre-packaged websites selling
everything from acorns to zinc. Most of them have a nice
professional look about them, with good pictures and graphics.
Of course, the sales literature with the offer telling you how
you’re going to make a gazillion dollars!
Most of them are one page mini-sites devoted only to selling
their particular product and that’s where the problems begin;
since it’s only a sales “landing page,” it will not be enough to
sustain an ongoing relationship with your visitors [...]


Web Hosting Strategy for Managing Multiple Websites

Posted on Nov.02, 2008, under Web Hosting No Comments

If you are making a comfortable living from the Internet and the
Web or have a plan to achieve that goal, it’s likely that you
are running more than ten websites. The websites are your
virtual offices. You want to your sites to be up and running 365
days, 7 days a week and 24 hours a day. Managing multiple
websites is a daunting task if running one website is a hobby.
Proposed Hosting Strategy for Managing Multiple Websites
The hosting strategy we propose is to [...]