Thaidoweb 2008

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:
1. Has the size of the site grown substantially?
If your site continues to grow and change like most business sites, you need to evaluate whether [...]

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 attitude. Lets say youre a mechanic. People want to trust their mechanics. They want to know their vehicles will be well-cared for, and repaired by a [...]

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 flashy banners. In my opinion, one animation is one too many. There was a time when we were testing the waters and everyone loved animation — it [...]

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 personal website that only your friends and family will see. Since your target from a business website is customers who are going to pay you money, [...]

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 own website. Using a good web site builder can make your life much easier.
How can you find a web site builder that meets your needs? [...]

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 they are also very frustrating for your potential visitors.
When your visitors mistype your web address or click on an outdated link and receive the dreaded error [...]

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 a wise
decision if you are currently 1) new to internet business and
looking for that first web host, or 2) up and running but
thinking the time has come to upgrade [...]

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 you been in business?”
Very important, as Web hosting is a business that requires a lot
of technical experience. It is very high tech, and a new company
might not have had the time [...]

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 anything. There seems to be just one condition. You need to be passionate about whatever it is your website is about.
Jeff Bezos had a passion for [...]

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 pop-ups.
It is always advisable to make enquiries before entrusting your valuable individual or corporate data in exchange for tardy transfer of your files. The first [...]