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It is an arduous task to design a website. It is never easy. Designers got it all covered – from planning a layout, code and links input, to publishing the site. Without a doubt, designers must also have an artistic side, because they are responsible for creating visually appealing websites. Researchers from Canada claim that first impressions count for internet users. Viewers can have an initial reaction to the visual appeal of the website in barely 50 milliseconds. Our initial reaction is said to be relative to our view of the site’s credibility and functionality. Thus, the visual appeal influences our decision to purchase, if it’s an e-commerce site. Web designers fairly consider this factor in order to create aesthetic friendly sites. A website design gallery is designed to help these designers.

Where do web designers get their inspiration from? Millions of sites make up the World Wide Web. Browsing all of them would take long for the designers. Coming to the aid of the designer is a website design gallery. Different visual friendly and hi-tech web page designs are compiled in a design gallery. Also included are technical reviews by users and other web designers. Some also have a list of steps done in order to create the final product which the designer could follow.

It is useful to have a website design gallery for website builders which offer professional web building services. Galleries showcase what the website builder can do. Advanced designs integrate Web 2.0. Web 2.0 applications enable user interaction through sharing information and virtual communities. The probability of having a Web 3.0 interface soon is predicted by techno geeks. Most galleries have a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) format.

Optimized graphics, thumbnails, good photo editing and gallery, and easy-loading thumbnails and alt tags, are some of the characteristics of an eye-catching website. Optimized graphics also mean easy navigation and easy loading of graphics. A jpeg or png format is required for quality display. To avoid a pixilated display of low quality photos, you can also increase your site’s face value by using a reliable photo editing software and application. When creating a gallery, large photos are always preferred over tiny photos especially in an e-commerce website. A careful examination of the product can be done with large photos.

Hiring a website builder is definitely a top priority if you’re planning to build your own website for your business. Free hosting services and affordable prices are the usual offers of these web builders. Hiring a professional to do the job for you is not recommended, compared to acquire the services of a web builder.

To get inspiration in building your website, try browsing design galleries. Make sure your products are well represented. The website must include those qualities mentioned above. The credibility and image of the company and of the business owner is reflected by the website’s appearance. Categories are made for easy navigation. Other organizations aligned in your field can be your source of inspiration.

For first time designers, creating a website may be much more difficult, considering that professionals also have a hard time creating one. This is because a single website may consist thousands of pages. Each page needs a unique design and layout. A website design gallery helps the designer find inspiration.

- Tem Balanco

Electronic or e-commerce website is a type of website where business transaction takes place online. Users are allowed to shop and pay for products and services online. Ebay and Amazon are both e-commerce websites. Even small businesses brought their endeavor online, seeking for more consumers at present. The internet made it possible for consumers to easily build a site for their own businesses.

Building a website from scratch is not easy, especially when you don’t know anything about basic web designing. A branded line of products or specific services you offer is required to build a site. Highly influenced by the brand name are consumers’ decision to buy a certain product. Make your brand name known by a website which reflects the qualities and nature of the brand. The products must be well presented, and must not be overshadowed by the design. Remember that the products are the core of your website. Even if you have an attractive page design, you still cannot sell your products if they are not quality products.

An effective website must also allow easy navigation. Well designed graphics and applications are needed for easy navigation. Literally functioning as a shopping cart is one of the features of e-commerce sites. The shopping cart functions as the calculator and the collector of items you want to purchase. This is one feature that is evident among online stores. Because it can make shopping much less of a hassle, this feature attracts more consumers.

How to add a shopping cart to your website? A full page and a mini shopping cart are the two forms of shopping carts. While a mini shopping cart is only a small icon on top of the page, a full page cart has its own page. Both kinds of shopping cart are preferred, but it will be an advantage to use mini shopping carts because it will not outshine the layout of your webpage because it occupies only a small space. On the other hand, if you use a full page cart once you build a site, you can provide more information and options for your user.

Another way to design your shopping cart is a step-by-step process. This is the easiest form which can be followed by the customer because it is usually divided into four steps: sign in, billing and shipping, payment, verify and edit. Linking your full page shopping cart to a link in the homepage can also be your option. With this, you can maximize the space in your homepage. Emphasized icons can draw the eyes of the user. To avoid miscommunication with the consumer in terms of prices, use clear font face and size.

Let the consumer confirm the purchase through a verify and edit page. On the part of the consumer, check the items before making the purchase.

Once you plan to build a site of E-commerce, it is important to include a shopping cart in your website. There are different designs of shopping carts. You have to pick the right one depending on your business’ needs.

- Tem Balanco

online marketing is reactive marketing, meaning that to develop a web site is to respond to certainquestions posed online. Therefore you will be restricted to the demands of search-engine indexing criteria when creating a SEO optimized website You have to make your response loud and clear!

In this day and age’s highly competitive online business worldyou can get far with a quite badly designed web site as long as it is optimized according to standards, just as you might fail completely with an amazing looking site because you did not follow the rule book on how search-engine spiders crawl and index sites. Getting your message across is your most important communication strategy, and SEO design is how to do just that!

Web owners and designers that are SEO skilled will have the upper-hand on the competition as they will attract more visitors and generate more business to and at their sites.This article intends to give website owners an insight into crucial SEO design factors as well as providing a checklist for web designers on how to successfully design a well optimized website.

The following is a checklist for creating a SEO optimized website

Start by creating a vertical directory structure that supports the hierarchy of the keywords you want to achieve high ranking for in search:

Develop static pages with unique urls Do not allow duplicate content! Search robots scan this and will devaluate each page on your site that is duplicate. Use a canonical link. This allows you to give the main variant of a URL. If multuple URLs display the same content, the canonical link will tell the search-engines to scan only the “canonical”, thus eliminating the problem! Place the most important content above the fold!People are lazy when assessing online content, most users are not likely to scroll down to read everything you want to communicate. Online we are all scanners not readers. The content will, however, be scanned by seach-engines and contribute to your ranking. Keep in mind, though, that the scanning robots have a limited “patience” as well! There is no need to pack your pages with several hundred sentences Include a site map xml to ease search-engine indexing. Use Meta robots to exclude content you don’t want to have indexed by search-engines. On occasion it is good usability to repeat content to remind visitors what you are about. Search engines don’t need this, and should only “see” your content once! Do not build a site entirely made in Flash, have the content you want indexed in html. Allow easy use of internal links in the copy. The web editor should be able to create a good internal link structure using keywords in anchor texts Do not use images for navigation, use html text. Keywords in links communicate to the search-engines what pages are important for which keywords. Use keywords in navigation elements. Optimize alt-tags, use “important keyword” instead of “picture 1″ . Make sure that the site is visible also with javascript disabled. Avoid (over)use of Ajax. As with Flash content you need to make sure that it is accessible via alternative coding. With altering Ajax content can be made crawlable. Include RSS feed on content that is “newsworthy”. This alerts search engines (when correctly “pinged”) to new content, and allows users to subscribe to your news. Use W3C compliant code, make sure the loading time is fast. Do not use frames for pages that you want to be “seen” by the robots. Build a custom 404 page. Ensure that there are no broken links.Both users and search engines alike will shun a site that is plagued with dead links! When changing urls, always use a 301 redirect to make certain that old URLs keep passing “link juice” to the new ones, and that no duplicate content is indexed. The CMS must handle title-tags, headings, anchor-texts etc. independently. The web-editor should always be allowed to have access to the most important SEO content elements.Being flexible is a key factor in any kind of online development. Take advantage of Firefox for practical SEO tools and plug-ins.

Have a search-engine friendly design solution Website owners should adopt a first-things-first strategy for building a web site. Having a site architecture constructed with thorough keywords research and a clear hierarchy ensures that the result of rigorous planning and clever ideas will, in fact, be visible and well ranked!

Webproffen – webdesign

- Bo Vibe

Corporate websites often reveal the attitude of the company to new media. When a company utilizes the minimum of website design, it indicates a poor understanding of how to use the internet, and a powerful tool for branding is wasted.

When considering website design, don’t create a corporate profile. Your company site is a prime opportunity to raise your company’s profile, and to reach your target audience easily. Online you won’t be finding them; they’re out there finding you. Your job is to make it easier for them to find you and to get them to share your brand name to others.

It all starts with the online interface. At the basic level, you would need to attract their attention to the site and make them want to look around. But you’ll want to maximize their interest by making them want to interact. You can add link buttons to popular social networks, link your site to them, or make a dedicated social network for your company itself.

Your website’s user experience is still dependent on the content you provide. That content also influences the kind of web surfers who do go to your site. For example, you can add a small flash game to appeal to kids. If you’re targeting those kid’s mothers, however, you’ll want a popular blogger to write about you.

You’ll also want that user experience to be real. A lot of what works in traditional branding won’t work online, where disbelief abounds. So use promotions and incentives that people are actually inclined to.

Finally, website design should always be dynamic, matching the changes occurring in the online community, as well as to what your target audience wants to see and experience online. This doesn’t mean you should make your brand name trend 24/7. In fact, that strategy may end up giving you backlash when people get sick of it. It does mean consistently retaining interest in your brand.

Your company site is a prime opportunity to raise your company’s profile, and to reach your target audience easily. This gets triggered with an online interface that makes them want to interact. Your website’s user experience is still based on the content you provide. Website design should always be dynamic, matching the changes occurring in the online community, as well as to what your target audience wants to see and experience online.

- frederick talactac

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