It is at times a common mistake for web designers, especially beginners, to create a website which is not optimised for various screen resolutions. With over 40 different screen resolutions, it is extremely important to optimise your web pages for the most popular screen resolutions so that your web pages can be viewed by a [...]
When I first meet with a client, one of the things we do is attempt to determine the purpose of their website. On a website planning worksheet we use, there is a list of purposes many websites have in common. The client goes through the list and ranks the items in order of importance. So [...]
In brief, this is how to make a website: 1) Select a domain name. Visit http://www.nameboy.com/ to find out if your name is available, and what other options exist. 2) You need to purchase the domain name. Probably the easiest way to do this is to go to a web host like http://www.ipowerweb.com/ or http://www.hostrocket.com/ [...]
Now that you have decided that it is time to create a website for your business there are many questions you must answer. One of the most important questions is “Who should create my website?” I like to use the analogy of playing music; in as little as a few hours, some people can strum [...]
Creating a website is not as hard as you think it is. In fact you can do it in 6 easy steps. How? Here it is… 1. Conceptualize an idea. Think what you like your future website to be. What audience will you cater? Everything you do must redound to their fulfillment. They will be [...]
Although there are many experts who claim to know what makes a website successful, upon researching one would find that almost every expert would agree that navigation has a large part in the formula. Easy website navigation is the key to repeat business. There are thousands of websites out there floating around. Not every one [...]
Everyone wants one. Everyone wishes they knew how to make one. SOME have them but don’t know what to do with them. The very few know *what* to do and *how * to do it … and have success! What am I talking about? ************************* Setting up a Website ************************* Some of you might have [...]
Why should you care about your website strategy? Wouldn’t it be easier just to put up a website and hope you hit on something that makes you money? If you’re like hundreds of thousands of other online business owners, that’s probably what you did. But now it’s time to re-assess the results and develop a [...]
Before you jump into spending coutnless hours on designing and publishing your website, or spending hundreds on having it done by anyone else you should plan out your full design (or structure). This is very important so that when it comes time to do this long-lasting project you will be well prepared. Layout the Structure [...]
Website outline A website outline is just what the name implies…a written outline of the content of your website. Even though you feel as if know every title and sentence on the website you are creating, once a site is online it is very difficult to remember the actual order of things. Having a website [...]
