Small business owners need to monitor whether their investment in a website is providing a good return. Are your products and services easy to buy? If they aren’t, you are wasting time and money and probably doing more harm than good. Ask yourself the following five questions to see whether it’s time for a redesign: [...]
When you start a business, the logo should be the least of your worries. A Professional Logo is important, but you should first focus on offering a valuable product or service. Once thats taken care of, you can then start to think about getting a professional logo. A well-designed logo establishes your companys identity and [...]
In this article I investigate some of the nitty gritty about using graphics, some lessons I have learned the hard way and other topics and opinions (and, I will warn you, I have strong opinions). Choose your graphics carefully. Always keep in mind your sites purpose and the reaction of visitors. Avoid animated GIFs and [...]
Web design for an online business is serious business. No matter how important and unique your product or service is, what keeps a customer on a website is the web design, what makes customers buy is the ease of the process. Probably you already know that designing a business website is not like designing a [...]
Web site builders are a relatively new addition to the web hosting company’s mix of products and services. Website builders have been introduced mainly to service the majority who don’t know how to program in HTML or any other programming knowledge but still want to control and flexibility that comes from creating and maintain your [...]
If you spend any time surfing the Internet, you’ve probably encountered a few error messages. Error messages have numerous causes, such as misspellings, outdated links or internal server errors. When an error is encountered, your server will display specific generic error pages according to the error. These error pages are not only dead ends, but [...]
A paddle boat is great for fun on a day off! But would you consider taking it to the open sea? A cruise ship on the other hand is ideally suited for pampering its guests with every facility imaginable for the vacation of your dreams! Applying this analogy to web hosting can help you make [...]
Ask any Internet entrepreneur what the most important decision they had to make for their Web site was, and chances are pretty good they’ll say: “choosing my Web host”. Here are the most important things you need to ask your potential Web host before you part with your hard earned cash. 1. “How long have [...]
When you study the really successful websites, you will quickly notice that many are based on seemingly strange subjects, many of which may not easily pass for a serious business. This clearly underlines the fact that when it comes to online enterprises and ecommerce, the possibilities are endless and you can actually succeed at virtually [...]
The word free has a very powerful appeal. Various advertisements for free FTP hosting also cast a powerful spell on the web surfers searching for a solution to their file transfer problems, and they therefore are easily taken in, only to realize later on that they had been trapped into reading unwanted advertisements or irritating [...]
