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Tips to avoid web designing mistakes

More Tips For How To Avoid Costly Mistakes When Designing Your Website

Keep the search engines in your focus:
All web surfers use search engines. Therefore, make sure your site is duly listed in a couple of popular search engines. It is also important that your site links up well internally, and all important pages open with a simple click of the mouse. Your website must be search-engine-friendly for which you must use keywords clearly not only in your website title but also repeatedly in the first paragraph of your web content and text. Remember your key words are the words that Internet users are expected to type in the search bar while looking out for your type of website.

Give usability top priority:
Make sure that your web design projects your brand very well. Your site’s usability is of vital importance. If it is not very user-friendly then web surfers will go elsewhere. It is the correct use of key words that makes your website user-friendly. Your texts should be clearly visible and site navigation smooth. Your fonts and colors should look pleasing to the eyes. Your link structure should help people find information quickly.

Remember that the usual top-level menu items are: Home, About Us, Products, Services, and Contact Information.

 

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Tips For avoiding costly web designing mistakes

Some More Tips For How To Avoid Costly Mistakes When Designing Your Website

Simple rather than flashy:
The use of multimedia can help you provide all kinds of features making your web pages lifelike and interesting. However, it is advisable to avoid its use if you really want your prospective visitors to gain quick access to your website and obtain the relevant information. It is a good idea to limit flash navigation, which can confuse users if over used. Always make access to your Home page direct from any page.

Focus on speed:
Files with graphic formats should never give users long download times or they will be driven away. Remember search engines find it hard to decipher text embedded in graphics and these features take longer to download. Avoid such things as far as possible. Have a look here for more technical tips on website loading and page design.

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By EarthMovinMedia, ago

Firefox 3 – What a nightmare

When Firefox announced a new version for their excellent web browser a couple of weeks ago – Version 3 – I wasted no time in down loading the latest version. Full of excitement.

I have been a massive Firefox fan (along with every other tech geek around) for a long time now.

What an absolute disappointment.

Along with the fact that half my add-ons were unsupported (such as RoboForm), it has an unbelievable amount of bugs, clashes with Norton 360 – and is just a massive let down.

After using the new version of Firefox for a couple of hours I actually changed my default browser back to IE7 (which I hate with a passion). Not for long however, because when you’re used to using Firefox – IE just doesn’t cut it.

So, IE goes back to being used only as the test browser for new web development – that’s about the extent of it’s use.

Yesterday, I uninstalled it and reinstalled Version 2.0.0.1.6 – and it’s back to it’s brilliant best! I love Firefox again.

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Some technical tips for increasing your website loading time

Some technical tips for increasing your website loading time

Coding should be clean as possible, free of structure and CSS files should be off page where possible.

HTTP compression, otherwise called content encoding using gzip should be considered.

Consider compressing your textual content ie javascript etc with mod gzip or similar products.

CSS alternate style sheets should be referenced in the HTML but are not actually downloaded until they are needed and therefore reduce the total page size.

 

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Windows 7

Windows 7

By Andy Patrizio September 12, 2008

Publicly, Microsoft has said Windows 7, the successor operating system to the firm’s much maligned Windows Vista, will not ship until early 2010, but its internal calendar has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date, InternetNews.com has learned.

Also, Microsoft will use its Professional Developer’s Conference in late October as the launch platform for the first public beta of Windows 7. Microsoft plans to release the first beta on October 27, the first day of the show, when Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie will be the keynote speaker.

More at www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3771391

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Advanced tech tips for web page loading

Advanced tech tips for web page loading

The total size of your images should be under 30K. Consider optimising your images for size, combining them, and replacing graphic rollovers with CSS

The total size of external scripts ideally should not be over 8K. Consider optimising your scripts for size, combining them, and using compression where appropriate for any scripts placed in the HEAD of your documents.

The total size of your external CSS should be under 8K. Optimise your CSS for size by eliminating white space in the code, using shorthand notation, and combining multiple CSS files where appropriate.

 

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Responsive Web Design

Web Design & Usability

When designing your web site, you need to remember that your visitors want to know more about the details of what you do;

1. how you do it
2. how long you’ve been doing it
3. how great you are at doing it
4. the specialized fields in which you do it (vertical)
5. the people that you have on staff doing it
6. and their experience doing it

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Website Usability

Website Usability

When talking about usability, most people will refer to “simple things” like making sure your phone number is in the top right corner of your web pages so the visitor can easily convert for you.

Stuff like that is important (the point of driving people to a web site is to grow your business). However, that’s only one reason to focus on usability.

The goal should always be to improve the user experience.

The more that we, as web designers focus on the user, the better quality service we’ll provide our clients.

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Website design access

Website design access

1. How is your web site constructed?
2. Do you have enough content for users to thoroughly research your company?
3. Do you use words that are commonly used by your target audience within the content of your web site?
4. Do you make this information easily accessible to your users, or do you have a lot of your best content buried and not properly linked from pages?

By EarthMovinMedia, ago
Website Designing Beginner’s Guide

Creating And Designing Your Own Website – A Beginner’s Guide

Designing a website is a crucial business task.

Below are few tips which can help to guide you if you plan to design a website.

Be organized: one of the greatest flaws, which many novice designers are prone to, is organization. Your web site must be well organized and not just for you but for visitors. Make the navigation tools convenient so that the user can search for information easily. Don’t let your visitor get lost under several layers of pages without a clear way out.

Don’t write too much text: don’t over stuff your website with too much text. You can break up the content and put bullets, bold words or make short paragraphs. This will help the reader understand text easily.

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By EarthMovinMedia, ago