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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Boost Your Business: Choose affordable web Packages suiting your need

When thinking about having a website for your business, choosing a website package is one of the most important factors. As there are various kinds of website packages and offers available by web development and designing firms, opting for the most suitable and affordable website packages may be the key for success of your business – remember that you need to look at the web companies portfolio to ensure that even though affordable, you are not compromising on quality. Here are some types of website packages which may help you.

E-commerce websites:

Fully functional affordable E-commerce websites Packages are available. If you would like to take your business to the next level and sell your products via the internet, you can go for setup your entire online shop, with shopping basket and secure purchasing. The world is a big place and there is no reason not to appeal to customers outside your area. Take advantage of this “Multi-Million Pound Market” - Online Shopping

Affordable Dynamic Websites:

Affordable complex websites, which have an administration area where the website “owner” can manage the website them self. These websites can be designed to take online bookings, view availability, list events etc….

Content Management Systems:

Affordable Content Management System (CMS) which can be incorporated into your website once the design has been completed. You can log into the Content Management System (CMS) and update your website. The Content Management System (CMS) will allow you to add or remove pictures, change text, change text colours and sizes.

Business Packages:

whether you are a new business looking to have a new image designed, or a large company that feels like they need a new look, making sure that your website, logos and stationery all compliment each other.

Brochure Website:

Brochure Website is a 3 Page web site designed for the smaller businesses or perhaps businesses that do not have a shop window like Tradesman and Mobile Hairdressers for example. Your website can consist of Home Page, Contact Page and a Products or Services page.

Friday, January 2, 2009

75% of Local web design companies ignore disabled people

Simpleweb a Bristol(UK) based web design and development specialist, recently discovered that over 75% of local web design companies have websites that are not accessible to the visually impaired or people with disabilities.

Mark Panay, MD of Simpleweb Ltd, revealed how he and colleagues tested hundreds of websites from web design companies offering website solutions that should be accessible to people with disabilities, but the majority of the time were found to be severely lacking.

“Out of the 200 websites that we checked we found that more than 75% didn’t validate with W3C compliance (correctly made websites), with approximately the same percentage again not passing any of the current web based accessibility tests. We find this very disheartening for the current wave of websites being built for small businesses and their potential users.”

Accessibility has now become an intrinsic part of building a website. While accessibility as defined by the RNIB and UK government has become a standard requirement for public sector websites; the private sector, especially small to medium sized businesses, are being left in the dark by website design companies that are not practicing what they preach. The web designers and agencies used in the test were picked out at random from local web design directories in the South West of England, with many having beautifully designed pages but with no thought for the visually impaired or handicapped.

The UK’s Disability Discrimination Act 1995 states that it is the duty of a company providing services to the public to make reasonable changes to “practice, policy or procedure” if a service is unreasonably difficult for disabled persons to make use of. The findings from Simpleweb show that the majority of web companies essentially violate this act with their own website, which in turn puts businesses getting online for the first time in a precarious position.

There are over nine million disabled people in the UK, two million of which have sight related problems, with an estimated £50 billion worth of disposable income. With just a basic understanding of the current web standards from online agencies, every new website could offer a decent experience for all visitors, the economic benefits alone should encourage any website designer or agency to learn the new skills necessary.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Opt Quality web design for a Global presence

Web design is the First impression of your business and your credibility, for millions of web surfers out there at Internet. The single most important objective of any website is making their visitor found required information/services/products on just a single click away at any part of the world.

The passion of World Wide Web keep growing and growing these days. Business realizes the benefits of being on the web in the present time. If we want to build and expand our business in world wide then its essential for us to make a good web site, so that people can easily visits our website and came to know about our business and our product and our services.

Well-conceived and planned web sites are an integral part of every organization’s communication needs. One must should Offering an affordable web design and business packages , with a logical and easy to use navigation layout which will make the difference between a happy visitor/potential client and a frustrated web surfer at your website.

Your website is an integral part of your image, identification and communication strategy. So be sure to opting an essential blend of expertise including creative conception, brand sensitivity, and technological and interactive design skill and design implementation. Combined with services, which include strategy, marketing, technology tools and data integration; choose effective, cost-efficient and powerful interactive solutions for your clients. be insure that new innovative features are implemented from time to time.

Opt to choose organizations featuring fully custom web development services which are immensely helpful to solve the unique problems of the organization.

Way to make an interesting Website

Website is an important tool that provide help in growing your business. For many businesses a successful website is one that generates qualified sales leads. Following are some ideas to consider to help make your website interesting.

Provide core “customer support” content - You will find the following core “customer support” content pages on most websites: home, contact and about services pages. Other core content includes office hours, details about how to get to your office location and user guides/reference materials.

Regular update of content: - Make sure that you keep your website up to date. If you provide a Q&A then ensure that details are relevant. If you provide costs then keep them current.

Provide Latest and useful information - Ask the question… “What useful information can I provide my customers on my website that will help them do business with me? Consider presenting your customers with content that shows the difference between what you have to offer and what others in your industry offer. Ideas include… table of features/benefits, client testimonials and customer feedback. In a nutshell show your customers how you can help with their needs. If you offer incentives or a special reward program then let people visiting your website know what they are. Remember your website is always open for business 24/7 and your customers are using it to make informed decisions about your business.

Credibility content - Write and reprint articles (with permission) from others. Also consider incorporating RSS feeds into your website. For more information on website design,website Packages,Business Packages please visit the web link: http://design4web.wordpress.com

Client feedback - We all enjoy a little bit of “reality TV”. Consider including content that makes your website a little bit more real. Feedback provides your customers with the opportunity to talk about their experiences (and is a great resource for a newsletter). Examples include a “client feedback web page” where customers tell their story by emailing you details or “blog style comments” at the bottom of selected pages. Providing feedback forums on your website is a great way to build relationships. It also helps to encourage information exchange.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Common Mistakes in Web Designing

Here are some Mistakes which commonly take place when designing the web.

1. Font Size :CSS style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser’s “change font size” button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40.

2. Non-Standard Links :Not Changing the Color of Visited Links. A good grasp of past navigation helps you understand your current location, since it’s the culmination of your journey. Knowing your past and present locations in turn makes it easier to decide where to go next. Links are a key factor in this navigation process. Users can exclude links that proved fruitless in their earlier visits. Conversely, they might revisit links they found helpful in the past.

3. Bad Search :Everything else on this list is pretty easy to get right, but unfortunately fixing search requires considerable work and an investment in better software. It’s worth doing, though, because search is a fundamental component of the Web user experience and is getting more important every year.

4. No Contact Information :Even though phone numbers and email addresses are the most requested forms of contact info, having a physical mailing address on the site might be more important because it’s one of the key credibility markers. A company with no address is not one you want to give money to.

5 . Bad Content : Writing for the Web means making content

  • short,
  • scannable, and
  • to the point

Web content should also

  • answer users’ questions and
  • use common language rather than made-up terms

6. Form Issues : People complained about numerous form-related problems. The basic issue? Forms are used too often on the Web and tend to be too big, featuring too many unnecessary questions and options. In the long run, we need more of an applications metaphor for Internet interaction design. For now, users are confronted by numerous forms and we must make each encounter as smooth as possible.

These are some mistakes commonly occurs during web design & hence should be remove carefully.

Web Designing - An innovative way to represent your thinking

The Web designing can be best explained as “Theoretical layout of graphics, text, and images which will eventually be developed into a Web site.” It’s one thing to create a set of web pages, it’s another thing entirely to make a good looking, cohesive and well-designed set of web pages. Just as other media needs thoughtful consideration into layout, format, white-space balance, so too the web.

Here are the few tips which are very help-full to designing a good site.

1. Make sure your links work.
This will prevent disappointed readers. The best way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to test the pages several times - from different domains if possible, at minimum from different machines. Then check the error logs on a regular basis to make sure others aren’t finding bad links on your pages that you missed.

2. Page content should be limited.
The axiom less is more holds particularly true for the web. The nature of browsing has allowed us to break information into suitably digestible pieces, with a quick link to the next piece in the flow. This also gives the reader a chance to change their mind before going on without the necessity of loading a very long document to decide. Exceptions to the rule exist - if the sole reason a document exists on the web is to have someone print it out, then the content being on a single page is quite handy. On the other hand if you’re just doing that so you don’t have to produce a real html version of the document you’re being lazy.

3. Consider white-space balance
As in art, balance between objects, between dark and light, is necessary. Look at the page from a moderate distance - do you mostly see dark or light? If the former, consider modifying the page to lighten it up. Information is easier to absorb if it doesn’t saturate the page.

4. Maintain stylistic coherence with graphics
This is just a common sense design approach - continuity of design elements. Carry it throughout your pages. Another way to say this is that buttons and icons should look like they were created by the same artist.

5. Avoid dead-end links
Give your readers a “way out” of your pages that is to your advantage. Don’t make them dependent on the back button to see more. Perhaps after reading one section of your information the next logical place to go would be to another section, and not necessarily back to the top. Give them a choice to take either path.

6. Place important information at or near the top of the page
It should be visible when the page first appears. If someone needs to scroll to see it they may miss it. This is particularly true with What’s New links and chronological listings - the latest information should be first.

7. Indicate size on large files that will be downloaded
This is a courtesy to modem users in particular!

8.Place links on the word that describes where the link goes - never on the word “here”
Need any more be said?

9. Avoid “generic web information”
Don’t waste your own space helping users get to NCSA or CERN - they came to your pages to read about you (exception - if you’re providing an web indexing service you will certainly include those types of links!)

10. Make titles very descriptive
Titles show up at the top of browsers, get saved on bookmark lists and hotlists - they need to say more than “stuff” for them to be a good reference back to your pages.

By integrating accessibility into your web design and development process you can efficiently create web sites and web applications that work effectively for more people in more situations.

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