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

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

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.
 

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.

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

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)

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!

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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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

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

Ecommerce Site 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".

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

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.

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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