Showing posts with label Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Development. Show all posts

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, 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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