Thaidoweb 2008

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 greater number of online visitors.
Here are some basic facts to consider when designing for screen
resolutions:
- 800×600 is the minimum resolution offered on most PCs and
notebooks. 800×600 is also the preferred [...]

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 the most important
item will be 1, and there will only be one item labelled with a
1.
Here are the items in that list:
- To gain a favorable impression of the [...]

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/ or
http://www.hostsave.com/ where you can purchase the domain name
and web hosting space bundled together as a package.
3) When your domain name and hosting account are setup, create
your website. There are many [...]

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 a few chords on the guitar and play a song. But to really play the instrument and make your instrument sing requires experience and understanding. Likewise, [...]

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 visiting to get
what they need. Be sure that their needs are answered. That way
they will be satisfied and will keep coming for more. Not only
that, they can recommend your [...]

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 of these websites is successful and that is mainly due to the website structure itself. If you want to create a website that is structurally [...]

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?
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Setting up a Website
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Some of you might have no idea of all the things you need to think about before you ever put a website online.
Remember the Kevin Costner movie where it was said, “Build it and they will come!”? [...]

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 strategy that will increase revenue consistently.
Decide what Business you are in NOW
When you put up your first website, it was a snapshot [...]

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 of your website. The basics to getting your website going is to know what type of pages your going to have on your [...]

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 outline helps provide a mental picture of the site, the sections, subsections and content pages. This will also serve as a valuable guide when you setup your [...]