eCommerce Website Design
eCommerce 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
Ecommerce
website Owners' Guide to Holiday Sales
If this is the first time you've thought seriously about holiday
sales, you're already late to the game. Bricks-and-mortar stores,
the traditional leaders of retail sales, put months of planning into
their campaigns, all to capture just a few more customers and start
the holiday sales season just a few days earlier. This effort takes
place online as well: Amazon.com, Buy.com and all the other major
dot coms have extensive holiday promotions, run large marketing
campaigns, and have made serious inroads to the gift buying market
10 Easy Steps to a Horrible Ecommerce Site
As a frequent visitor to forums in which people ask for critiques of
their new ecommerce sites, I have seen the best and the worst of
small business Web development. For the first 1000 posts or so, I
was helpful, kind, and supportive when gently pointing out each
developer's site issues and how he or she could make the site "the
best it could be".
Web Design Guidelines
The goal of most web designers is to create an attractive, easily
accessible and functional website that will convince the visitor to
do something. Creating such a website requires good graphic design,
easy and intuitive site navigation, logical site layout and good web
copy. The following suggestions are general web design guidelines.
Web Design Versus Web Development
The terms web designer and web developer are used interchangeably in
the media and advertisements. But, they are not the same thing.
Design involves what the visitor sees on your website, development
involves the site’s functionality. This article explores the
difference between these two disciplines
Is Your Logo Helping or Hurting Your Business?
The main idea behind the concept of separating the content from its
presentation is to allow website developers a useful framework to
develop their website giving them the ability to change the
website’s appearance whenever they like without needing to redo the
content structure. This article will explain the rationale behind
separating content from presentation.
Logo
Design Tips
Logo Design Tips Logos can be described as visual icons that provide
a unique identification element to a business or product. Business
owners and overly enthusiastic artists can often go astray in their
efforts to design the perfect logo. There are too many examples of
logo designs that look uninspired, overtly abstract or seem to be
nothing more than whimsical art. Many of these logos are designed
without forethought into usage, application or even cost impact upon
a business
Logo Design Evaluation
There are six universal attributes of a great Logo Design: Is it
practical?
Can it be printed on scalable sizes without being fuzzy? Will it
work in black and white format as well as in color? Some logos
designs become incomprehensible when reproduced in newspaper ads or
when sent through a fax machine. Try blowing it up and reducing the
logo to determine its readability at different sizes. Also keep in
mind that something like 10 million American men and a few women are
at least partially color blind. Color does make a difference. (View
our Psychology of Color section)
Don't Lose Visitors Because Of Poor Site Design
This article is not about the practical
designing of your site. It will, however, help you avoid many of the
common mistakes that novice (and expert) designers make. Whether you
are going to design the site yourself, or contract out to a design
consultant, there are several key elements to good site design that
you (or your designer) need to work to.
Separating the Content from its Presentation
Have you ever considered that your website may be annoying? When
it’s comes to website design, knowing what visitors hate most is a
must, unless you don’t want them to visit you again. This article
describes what you should exclude from your website. If you know
about an annoying website, feel free to send this article to its
webmaster
Why Good Website Navigation Is Important ?
Web surfers are basically an impatient bunch and if a website is
hard to figure out because the links are not obvious, they will
click away never to return. Website navigation is one of the most
crucial elements in determining the effectiveness of a website. This
article discuses the basic principle of designing website navigation
Making your Web Pages Search Engine-Friendly
Website promotion is one of the most hotly contested topics these
days. There are literally hundreds of companies who are more than
happy to charge you top-dollar to "submit your site" to various
search engines or "guarantee top listings" in search results. And
all of these companies claim that they know the "right" way, they
know the "secrets," and they'll get you more traffic than anyone
else. Don't believe it!
Web Page Optimization
We all want to have the most attractive website that leaves a
visitor wide-eyed and completely dazzled. Usually an extremely
attractive website design involves lots of graphical elements,
increasing the overall page size which causes the page to download
slowly to the browser. This article will provide some useful tips on
how to keep your website design attractive but still downloads
quickly
Website Templates
Website templates are web page designs created by professional web
designers that are sold to others for their use. Templates normally
have dummy content used as a placeholder so you can see what a
finished page will look like. A template is an easy way for a novice
to create a good-looking professional quality websites quickly and
easily.
Photo Optimization
Photo Optimization is necessary to allow a
web page to load in the shortest amount of time possible. Fast
loading time require small files. This article discusses the methods
used for photo optimization. In an ideal world, a web designer could
use the highest quality photos and have the webpage download
lightening fast. Fast loading requires small file sizes for
pictures. Unfortunately, there is a trade off between picture
quality and file size.
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Banner Design Success Techniques
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
W3C and Validation
Who is W3C? W3C stands for the World Wide Web Consortium. The goal
of W3C is to provide a set of web standard and guidelines that will
help alleviate the problem of code incompatibility in the hundreds
of different web browsers in use throughout the world today
Graphic Formats
Although hundreds of graphic file formats
exist web browsers only support a few of them. This article
describes the different graphic file formats that are available to
web designers and when they should be used. The graphic file formats
supported by most popular web browsers are Graphic Interchange
Format (GIF), Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Portable
Network Graphics (PNG) and vector graphics. Some of the properties
of graphic files are
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