Website Design

It’s easy for everyone to get caught up in obsessing about how to optimise your site & build links for Google, when trying to market through search. That’s certainly a wise thing to do, considering Google totally dominates the search market. But, there are still other search engines that some people are using, so it is wise to make sure your site is performing to the best of its ability in those too!Obviously the other two engines are Yahoo and Bing and whilst Yahoo is seemingly declining fast, Bing is actually gaining a market share. Furthermore, if the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo goes through, Bing search will be talking over Yahoo anyway. With the muscle of Microsoft behind Bing, ...

Banners have been a major part of the World Wide Web world since its early days. Copywriters burn the midnight oil looking for new designs that will grab the visitor’s attention and compel him to click on their banner. This article discusses some of the most successful banner designs.Teasing your curiosity“Do Not Click Here”. How many of you have seen this slogan in a banner? What did you do when you first saw it? If you are like most people, when you first saw it, you clicked on it. What makes this simple sentence so powerful that it compels the visitor to click on it? The answer is curiosity !!!Copywriters and web designers are always looking for ways to arouse the website visitor’s curiosity. ...

250 Free Business CardseCommerce websites have their own unique character that is designed to lead the visitor to one simple task – make an online purchase. A web designer needs to consider a variety of online selling principles while designing an eCommerce website. In this article we will try to take a look at some of the major design aspects that you must have in an eCommerce website.Many of you are probably already asking why eCommerce website design is different from any other website design. They all need to be attractive, well organized and use the right colors that fits the website spirit and so on. Your instincts are good. However a close look at some successful eCommerce websites will ...

Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Designby Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.comI was recently asked by a visitor to thesitewizard.com to take a look at her company's website, designed by a university student. I will not give the URL for that site, partly to protect the innocent, and partly because by the time you read this, it'll probably have been modified.The site was heavy in its use of graphics with images adorning most parts of the page layout, to provide curved borders (to replace the sharp corners in enclosing boxes), different background images for different parts of the page, etc. It had a top navigation bar, driven entirely using JavaScript. The navigation bar ...

Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Designby Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.comI was recently asked by a visitor to thesitewizard.com to take a look at her company's website, designed by a university student. I will not give the URL for that site, partly to protect the innocent, and partly because by the time you read this, it'll probably have been modified.The site was heavy in its use of graphics with images adorning most parts of the page layout, to provide curved borders (to replace the sharp corners in enclosing boxes), different background images for different parts of the page, etc. It had a top navigation bar, driven entirely using JavaScript. The navigation bar ...

Following my article on Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Friendliness in Web Design where I discussed the importance of looking at the usability and search engine visibility of a website, I have received countless messages from visitors to thesitewizard.com asking me to review their website. While I do not have time to answer such requests individually, I decided that an article outlining some glaring usability flaws that I have found in a number of websites in general would be helpful. This article thus deals with the myths and fallacies commonly believed when designing a website to sell a product or a service.Make It Easy for Visitor to Check Your Price ListSome websites try to hide ...

1. Place some (or all of) your content in a small frame and force your visitors to read the content through that window. Don't worry about what constitutes "small" here, since most of the time, even if you create a big frame, it'll be considered too small by most visitors. This trick has a high annoyance value since your visitors have to view the information through that small little box and scroll continuously to see the text while the rest of the browser window is filled with information they don't really want to read at the moment. With this strategy, visitors cannot resize or maximize the window to make their reading more efficient or pleasurable. This method will allow you to frustrate ...

In an ideal world, you only need one set of CSS style sheets for your website, and those styles will work with every browser currently being used. This, as every webmaster soon finds out when he/she uses CSS, is a pipe dream. The modern browsers all have uneven levels of implementation of the CSS standards. As though this isn't bad enough, their implementations are often buggy - and they don't share the same bugs! And when you have solved that tricky bit, you find that your site has certain visitors (often your best customers) who, for various reasons, are using older browsers that have only rudimentary support for CSS.What most (if not all) CSS-using webmasters want is a way to specify that ...

E commerce websites have come of age. As customers realize the ease and benefits of online shopping, the popularity of e-commerce websites have soared like anything else. However, with the increase in the number of Ecommerce websites vying for attention, it has become important for them to devise strategies to be better than the competition and attract more traffic. Here are some new trends and techniques that can help your Ecommerce processes.Focus on User ExperiencesOften we concentrate so much on improving the usability of the website that we completely forget about the user experience. The way users feel on the website goes a long way in influencing their purchase options as well as their ...

The homepage of your website is the face of your online presence. It is what makes the first impression on online audiences about your company and business. When people type in the URL of your website, they reach your homepage. The homepage, should therefore present a brief introduction about the website and lure visitors to browse further within. The homepage is perhaps the most important page of the website and thus you need to take adequate measures to enhance its usability. Here are some tips to ensure the same.Include a Crisp and Catchy TaglineDraft a tagline for your website homepage that informs about the company and business in a simple sentence. When visitors enter the homepage, they ...

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A web site is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that ishosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet.A Web page is a document, typically written in (X)HTML, that is almost alwaysaccessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server todisplay in the user's Web browser.All publicly accessible websites are seen collectively as constituting the "World WideWeb".The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a common root URL called thehomepage, and usually reside on the same physical server. The URLs of the pagesorganize them into a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how thereader perceives ...

The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinkedhypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can viewWeb pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigatebetween them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, theWorld Wide Web was begun in 1989 by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee, working atthe European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. In1990, he proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by"browsers" on a network,[1] and released that web in 1992. Connected by the existingInternet, other websites were created, around the world, ...

1. HTTP: every web server program operates by accepting HTTP requests from theclient, and providing an HTTP response to the client. The HTTP response usuallyconsists of an HTML document, but can also be a raw file, an image, or some othertype of document (defined by MIME-types). If some error is found in client request orwhile trying to serve it, a web server has to send an error response which may includesome custom HTML or text messages to better explain the problem to end users. 2. Logging: usually web servers have also the capability of logging some detailedinformation, about client requests and server responses, to log files; this allows thewebmaster to collect statistics by running log ...

Quality requirementsWhatever the approach to software development may be, the final program mustsatisfy some fundamental properties. The following five properties are among the mostrelevant: * Efficiency/Performance: the amount of system resources a program consumes(processor time, memory space, slow devices, network bandwidth and to some extenteven user interaction), the less the better. * Reliability: how often the results of a program are correct. This depends onprevention of error propagation resulting from data conversion and prevention of errorsresulting from buffer overflows, underflows and zero division. * Robustness: how well a program anticipates situations of data type conflict ...