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		<title>Web Designer : Time to get one.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many signs that can tell you that you need a web designer to hire. These symptoms include losing users as quickly as they arrive on your site, users constantly rely on the same page, your site is not &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/web-designer-time-to-get-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many signs that  can tell you that you need a <strong>web designer</strong> to hire. These symptoms include  losing users as quickly as they arrive on your site, users constantly  rely on the same page, your site is not listed on search engines, and  much more.</p>
<p>A <strong>web designer</strong> is the  best person you can rent for your online business if you find something  wrong with your site. Many companies are online  and they do not give their site a chance by having a designer for the  first look. There are ways to tell  why a site is not doing well online. A designer can do  research needed to determine why the company is not going well and what  needs to be done to correct the problem.</p>
<p>If you find that users  never stay on your site for longer than 5 seconds, when they arrive on  the home page then you may need a few simple things to change. A <strong>web designer</strong> can  confirm what problems users have to leave. These problems can easily  if the wrong colors are too light for the users eyes, a page that takes  too long to load, and other things.</p>
<p>If you have many visitors  to your site, but you&#8217;ll find them all leaving the site at the exact  same page than maybe there is something wrong with that page. A <strong>website designer</strong> can  help determine problematic pages and make them perfect, so they keep the  user instead of running away. If you want users to your  site and let them upon arrival you will need to hire a <strong>web designer</strong>.</p>
<p>One of the biggest  problems that cause companies to fail online is they do not appear on  the search results. A successful company  always has a decent grade. A decent grade in at  least the first or second page of the results of the search engines with  keywords about the products and services offered by your company.</p>
<p>There are many signs that  you might be experiencing that would be a red flag that you need a  <strong>website designer</strong> to hire to help you with your online business signal. You will notice from your  site once they arrive or at a specific page. You may not even be able  to find your business on search engines. If your online business  experience those things have to go to a <strong>website designer</strong> to hire for the  company to run.</p>
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		<title>Website Designer: better.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have ideas and they&#8217;re great ideas. The problem is you&#8217;re not a web designer and you have no idea what it takes to make all those great designs you&#8217;ve seen on other websites. Fortunately, youdon&#8217;t have your ideas put &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-designer-better/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have ideas and  they&#8217;re great ideas. The problem is you&#8217;re not  a <strong>web designer</strong> and you have no idea what it takes to make all those great  designs you&#8217;ve seen on other websites. Fortunately, youdon&#8217;t  have your ideas put on ice until you can go back to school and learn how  a <strong>web designer</strong>, because you can hire an expert<strong> web designer</strong> to do the  work for you.</p>
<p>Before you rush to the  search engine and type in <strong>web designer</strong>, there are a number of  considerations. First, you need more than  just a few ideas in mind and you never need a generic search with only a  title like the one just mentioned, or you&#8217;re sure to recover at least  three million hits, most of which will have little or nothing to do with the  type of expert you are looking to rent.</p>
<p>Take the time to your  ideas to give coherence and synergy. Make sure you have a good  idea what you want so you can effectively to convey these thoughts to  the expert if you find them. Be prepared to offer  constructive criticism and positive suggestions for how best to design  your Web presence to accept. You are after all, hiring  an expert and be someone you trust to give you their best to help you  in turn, present your best.</p>
<p>A high quality web  presence is the right color combinations, the correct text, graphics or  photos needed, virtual tours where appropriate and sound to the  professional look that you see on people because your company to show. Skillful <strong>website  designers</strong> understand the importance of all these facets and how they  work for you.</p>
<p>When choosing a person or  company to this kind of work for you, you can expect to make some  realistic costs. Seeking the services of  the best <strong>website designer</strong> is not you, it means that you will have to  spend a small fortune to get the work done. Just be sure that prices  and services are clear for money exchanges hands and the work starts.</p>
<p>The most important factor  when hiring a<strong> web designer</strong> is to communicate. If your deadline is  short, this is very important to a <strong>web designer </strong>who may already be juggling  several projects that have a short schedule. A professional web  presence that load quickly, attracts customers and process the  transactions you need to have done is worth the investment.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that  the Internet is here to stay. Companies that advertise  online to use the opportunity to showcase the goods or services they  offer to people around the world. Your company deserves the  same attention and the services of a smart <strong>web site designer</strong>, you can  continue with your business and leaving all the initiatives of the  design professionals who are skilled at making the best website on the  Internet period! Hire a professional  <strong>website designer</strong> and experience the difference can make your website profit!</p>
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		<title>Website Designer: Choosing the best</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the present times that the Internet has proved an important medium for conducting business are, most people prefer their online business and sell their products to launch under a wider range of audience success and maximum return on their &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-designer-choosing-the-best/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the present times that  the Internet has proved an important medium for conducting business  are, most people prefer their online business and sell their products to  launch under a wider range of audience success and maximum return on  their capital gain. And what people can help  achieve this goal are &#8220;effective&#8221; <strong>web design</strong> and <strong>web development</strong> services. This is because, the fact  is that a simple looking website with simple and outdated functions can  not do wonders for your business. Instead of what can  really help in boosting your sales and your reputation are so creative,  beautiful and functional websites. Hence, in a nutshell it  can be said that web services you can provide a website that is  supported by interesting and informative content, easy navigation and  also to use is what counts the most in online business successful.</p>
<p>The above factors make it  necessary for online business owners of a highly functional and  attractive website that is able to attract potential visitors and thus  maintain their focus on the conversion to the customer / client. This factor has led to  the increasing demand of <strong>web design</strong> services, followed by the emergence  of numerous <strong>web design</strong> and web development services in almost every part  of the world. However, it is true that  the <strong>web design</strong> in Hong Kong but has been successful in gaining the  confidence of the people with useful and creative services. So if you are planning  your online business to start or renew your existing website, you can  find very good quality if you spend time in looking for the web design  and development service provider like http://www.source . com.hk / who can  provide quality services.</p>
<p>Moreover, it is necessary  to mention that since <strong>web design</strong> and web development is perhaps the  most important aspect of a website, it is very necessary for you to use  the services of the service provider are well equipped with the latest  developments and features of advanced applications to  provide you with excellent returns. So with this mind, we  make out certain information which will greatly help you in choosing the  best <strong>web design</strong> company.</p>
<p>Here are the aspects that  you should ensure that the <strong>web design</strong> company you are, is well equipped  with approaching (if you think of the reorganization of your website)</p>
<p>• The <strong>web design</strong> you  choose should be clear and easily understood and used.</p>
<p>• Easy navigation and  layout is a must to provide convenience to visitors.</p>
<p>• color and design you  choose to use should be simple yet attractive and eye-catchy.</p>
<p>• It is also necessary to  mention that no matter what the approach of your service, whether he  wants to use content management system, also known as <strong>Web CMS </strong>or the  manual procedure, the bottom line is that their services should be  capable enough to offer you a beautifully  designed website.</p>
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		<title>Website Designers, Be Great!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is probably safe to say that at least one quarter of the people on the internet have a website of their own, at one point or another. Some are very easy to start, while others are a bit harder &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-designers-be-great/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is probably safe to  say that at least one quarter of the people on the internet have a  website of their own, at one point or another. Some are very easy to  start, while others are a bit harder to get up and moving.</p>
<p>The good news is that  there are many ways to start a website, and you do not take a genius to a  computer to do. You can easily, or you  get something great without a lot about <strong>web design </strong>or computer  programming codes to know. &#8211; Bob</p>
<p>Website designing is a  very competitive field. Today there are many  companies from the website, but only some of them are at the highest  level.</p>
<p>It is not easy to design  your website in the world to improve furthermore <strong>website designing</strong> concepts only understand by some of the people. If you want your <strong>website  design</strong> is the best then you must follow these steps.</p>
<p>Firstly, when you start  designing your website, make sure that what you want your visitor  appeal. Because if you the  fundamental idea that what you do, then it certainly more suitable for  you.</p>
<p>Create a template that  shows how your website will appear. Make sure your site is  actually designed.</p>
<p>Second, make sure your  site is visually according to your need. Try the appropriate level  of creativity to use. It should not be just to  decorate your page. You should use only  appropriate graphics and visual design of your visitors who can be  useful to improve.</p>
<p>Third, you content  interesting and informative. It should also have clear  and good ideas as essential as abstractions that your visitors  entertained. The content may not be  such as bluffing and duplication.</p>
<p>Tip: Make your <strong>web design</strong> flow for good navigation</p>
<p>Fourthly, your whole <strong>website  designs</strong> have a very useful and easy to navigate. Ensure that appropriate  navigation of the site to be. Your website must be user  friendly design that is easily usable by visitors.</p>
<p>Fifthly, during your  <strong>website designs</strong> take into account the principle of search engine  optimization. You need to install it  properly, the right meta tags in your website.</p>
<p>Choose a suitable domain  name for your website.</p>
<p>Try to use your keywords  more in your <strong>website design</strong> will be, because increasing the amount of  traffic on your web page. You must build a solid  technical support system for your customers as a professional <strong>website  designer</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Website Designer Frustrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe some people create and publish websites for the sole purpose of tormenting their visitors. Browsing various websites and navigating the Web can often be like trying to read on an airplane while a kid kicking the back of &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-designer-frustrations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe some people  create and publish websites for the sole purpose of tormenting their  visitors. Browsing various websites  and navigating the Web can often be like trying to read on an airplane  while a kid kicking the back of your seat and the baby next to you  alternates between screaming, crying and drooling on you. There are some excellent  websites for sure, but there are a lot of terrible ones too. The latter are the bane  of so many people there, especially those who use the site regularly.</p>
<p>The Net continues to grow  in popularity and importance as consumers and businesses. Therefore, the quality of  the sites should be continuous. Creating and maintaining  websites of high quality is more important than ever. Higher quality means  higher revenue.</p>
<p>Below are the top ten  ways that a <strong>website designer </strong>misses the boat and contributes to hair loss and  nervous breakdowns. Notice the common thread  that runs throughout each of these. Namely, a bad website  neglects to consider the site visitor experience in some fundamental  ways.</p>
<p>1. Animation<br />
Seven-year-olds like  watching cartoons on Saturday morning, business people, professionals  and most other adults. Sites that flashy Flash  animations as an &#8216;include Intro&#8217;, animated gifs on every page, or flying  words are really annoying. They take away the  content and distract the visitor from achieving their goals. Unless your site is an  entertainment site, try to avoid maddening motion. However, if your product  or service can be better demonstrated using Flash, Quick Time or other  multimedia, which is common, offer your visitors the chance to click a  link to view it. But do not force them.</p>
<p>2. Too much scrolling<br />
Once I scroll down a full  screen&#8217;s worth, my eyes begin to blur, I feel somewhat lost, turning my  head and my interest is decreasing. Computer monitors really  are not the best medium for reading. The Net and many sites  are so large that it is important to always clear reference to your  visitors at all times while on your site. If a page requires two  full screens scrolling or more, simply split into multiple pages.</p>
<p>3. Long, text-heavy and  blocky paragraphs of unbroken text<br />
I must really be a topic  or desperately need the information to find out slogging through large  tracts of unbroken text online. If I&#8217;m just shopping  around for a product or service, you have lost me as I endure such  torture. Again, it is difficult to  read text on the Web than in other media such as books. Moreover, Web users are  notoriously impatient, so make your content easy to read and not  intimidating. Use titles, subtitles,  small paragraphs, bullets and numbering.</p>
<p>4. No obvious ways to  contact the company<br />
If all you offer is an  e-mail on your <strong>website</strong>, your legitimacy may be questioned. Why can not you answer  the phone? Why hide behind an  anonymous email address and cold? Make it easy for your  existing and potential customers to talk with you.</p>
<p>5. Unchanging or outdated  content<br />
If I start reading  content on a site and soon discover that the content was written three  years ago, I split. With so much information  out there, my reasoning is that there really comparable information  online that is more power to be. If you fresh content on  your site will attract repeat visitors. And returning visitors  are more likely to convert into customers.</p>
<p>6. Long page downloads<br />
It is amazing that this  is still a problem. When I click on a site  and have to sit there waiting to appear in my browser, I start sweating,  picking my teeth, tapping my toes, rolling my eyes and soon want to  throw my computer through my office. I&#8217;m obviously a little  impatient, but again, I know there are other sites out there with the  same information faster to download, so why wait? I&#8217;m gone.</p>
<p>7. &#8220;Me, me, me!&#8221; instead of &#8220;You, you, you  &#8216;<br />
In general, nobody cares  about you, your company or your thoughts. What they do is care  about what you can do for them. So sites that show  pictures of the farm building or tout their deep philosophy on the way  business should be conducted really do not bode well for keeping the  interest of visitors of the site. On the other hand, sites  that talk directly with potential customers about how they solve  problems, make their lives easier, safer, richer or more comfortable  have a much better chance of keeping the eyeballs glued.</p>
<p>8. Non-explanatory buttons  or links<br />
Here are some examples of  the buttons let me dazed and confused: A wedding site with a button  called &#8220;Blanco&#8221;, a site with sailing on a button called &#8216;The  Lighthouse&#8217;, a book site with a button called &#8216;The Inside Story&#8217; or a web site with a  button called &#8220;Tea Time&#8221;. They sound like Jeopardy  categories. Imagine trying to find  your way on a highway where the different signs read here, &#8220;&#8221; Moon  beams&#8217; and &#8216;Lollypops&#8217;. Good luck navigating your  way through. It&#8217;s the same with  navigating websites. Button and link names to  the user where the link leads to tell. Make it as easy as  possible for a visitor to know where they&#8217;re going before they click. However, there are times  when naming a link an ambiguous name may pique the curiosity of a user  and get them clicking. But as a general rule,  keep your links and buttons as descriptive as possible.</p>
<p>9. Inconsistent navigation<br />
Imagine sitting in a  restaurant and the waiter comes to you and hands you five different  menus, one for appetizers, one for soups and salads, one for the  starter, one for desserts, and one for drinks. Annoying. Now imagine if each menu  had a different format, layout and method for listing the items. Brutal. I really do not want to  work hard when choosing my food, I&#8217;m hungry and I just want a meal. Keep your visitors work  hard either by expecting them to re-learn your navigation each time they  enter another section of your site. They too are hungry, for  useful information and they are even more impatient.</p>
<p>10. Inconsistent look and  feel<br />
When the look and feel  entirely from one page to another in a website, I think I have another  site, another company, a partner or daughter to visit. I get very confused. This screams poor  planning and often results from tacking on new sections later after the  original site was built. This can lead to design  drift. It may be tempting to  deviate from the original design, you can now have a better design. But wait until you get an  entirely new generation re-design of the entire site before introducing  a new look and feel. If not, then many  visitors scratching their heads with one hand and possibly clicking away  with the other.</p>
<p>Finally, a site that some  of these notorious features is particularly painful to work experience.  When I click on a site  with five different fonts and colors, move to the core of the earth,  takes zinging words and big blocks of text, lists no phone number and  has content written and dated in 1996, I scream and know deep inside that pulling my  fingernails are not as torturous as a minute longer to stay.</p>
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		<title>Website designers know what they&#8217;re doing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As hard as it can, but letting go of your website design ideas and listening to the customer can even benefit in the long term. I know what you&#8217;re saying, you&#8217;re in the web design business long enough to know &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-designers-know-what-theyre-doing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As hard as it can, but  letting go of your <strong>website design</strong> ideas and listening to the customer  can even benefit in the long term.</p>
<p>I know what you&#8217;re  saying, you&#8217;re in the <strong>web design</strong> business long enough to know what works  and just does not know what would be my customer? Well after approaching  <strong>web design</strong> in the same way, I unfortunately had no option but to give my  best laid plans and fulfill the wishes of my clients.</p>
<p>Construction of good  websites usually means that it is too attractive to the eye, but also as  a fully functioning for Search Engine benefits, but must display  professionalism for the industry represented.</p>
<p>Comply with the W3C  standards (W3C Markup Validation Service) for both HTML and CSS  validation is crucial for a good design and programming (but not  necessarily for the good Google PR), so we like to design the basic HTML  and CSS Tahoma 11pt font  formatting such use, to clean easily applied to text and image page  layouts fun to read.</p>
<p>I will list some cases  where the release has benefits for both parties involved and how in some  cases actually resulted in little or no web traffic for the website.</p>
<p>Case Study 1. Architectural flash and  font issues</p>
<p>Our client wanted to use  Flash elements to different architectural display images with a nice  transition between the images and changes in the original CSS Font used  11pt Tahoma font and replaced by Century Gothic 11pt, which is used in  all their logos and the architectural <strong> design</strong> work.</p>
<p>As most would know  embedding Flash files into your website results in W3C Validation  undefined source failure, making the site invalid format. After explaining this,  the customer felt the need for a nice graphical style flash image many  times larger than the importance of quality Transitional valid HTML  markup. For them, the appearance  and perception of their website to their customers was much more  favorable than meets the W3C.</p>
<p>In addition, they wanted  to use the Century Gothic font instead of Tahoma. In designing Century  Gothic has a much higher altitude than Tahoma and when the page is used  increased height is greater than when using Tahoma resulting in the site  are displayed with scroll bars to view under 1024 x 768 resolution,  where previously it fitted across the page  perfectly.</p>
<p>At the end of the  customer&#8217;s desired effect they wanted and ultimately it is the customer  who &#8220;always knows best.</p>
<p>Case Study 2. Box supplier is packaged  in</p>
<p>Our client had started a  new business delivering cardboard boxes for moving and packing. They wanted a simple site  with heavy graphical image elements and little or no text on the home  page.</p>
<p>Explain to customers the  role of text-based search engine results and that having no &#8220;clear text&#8221;  on the home page would reduce their visibility, they choose the design  results.<br />
Why you may ask would a  company limit their ability to be found on search engines? Well the question still  burns in us, but as mentioned earlier the &#8216;customer always knows best  &#8220;and the decision is only to make them.</p>
<p>Their philosophy was  simple, their <strong>website</strong> was purely for use as reference and not the  additional source of business, as their marketing strategies would be  enough to consistently garner business.</p>
<p>To this day I still  wonder why they limited their marketability and especially on their  website always online and can be searched at all times of the day.</p>
<p>So in short the best laid  plans of mice and men (in this case <strong>web designers</strong>) can be a waste of  perfectly good management as what I&#8217;ve said along that the &#8216;customer  always knows best&#8217; and eventually they are the ones paying for your  service so sometimes its best to  determine your guns and recognize defeat.</p>
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		<title>Website Design Maintenance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Internet technology has  advanced by leaps and bounds because of the number of websites are  launched on the Internet. If the site is well  located on the network your success is determined. Regardless of the  objectives of your website should be maintained.</p>
<p>There are many reasons  why the sites should be maintained. Your <strong>website design</strong> is your  company profile on the Internet, which helps in converting your site  visitor into your customer. It is essential to this  profile on the network to maintain.</p>
<p>The websites are subject  to cyber crimes such as phishing, spam, spreading viruses, fooling  around with people&#8217;s personal accounts, etc., which are initiated by  destructive hackers. In order to deal with  this anti-social elements maintain the websites have become a necessity.  Company sites are  generally managed by their own IT department or EDP division. Some times the work is  outsourced to companies specializing in the field of maintaining  websites.</p>
<p>There are several factors  that are considered to maintain the website.</p>
<p>Website traffic:<br />
To understand the  popularity of your website it is necessary to analyze site traffic. Site traffic refers to  the daily hits received by your website from different sources. This report gives a  thorough analysis of the pages on your site more popular, and also tells  you about the sources where it is visited. Based on these reports  provide a site can be renovated apt site promotion.</p>
<p>Link Validation:<br />
Link validation is the  most common part of web maintenance regime. This includes checking  all links on your website to ensure that they are all in working  condition. Having broken links gives  a bad impression on your site.</p>
<p>Review Contents:<br />
Content on a website is  updated on a regular basis, depending on the type of industry and the  diversity of visitors. Details such as new  address, phone number etc are regularly updated regardless of the type  of industry. A company must at this  small but important additions to their existing content. In general, article  publishing sites to add graphics to their websites.</p>
<p>Optimizing the images:<br />
Images make websites more  attractive. But these images take up  much space on the website. To ensure faster  downloads the image on the page visitors maintenance is essential. Optimizing images is very  necessary because the loading speed and performance of the website  affects.</p>
<p>Link Popularity:<br />
This is done by search  engine optimization or SEO. SEO refers to exchanging  links with other sites of related domain. Link popularity is  measured by the incoming and outgoing links on your website. The greater the number of  links on your website, the higher the Page Rank. Maintenance helps make  the site more search engine friendly.</p>
<p>Content Archival:<br />
Newsletter article or a  website rich in content. These sites should be a  mechanism by which old content is archived and is available on request. These websites have a  huge database of content that must be managed accordingly. This is done via the  website site maintenance. But in this case, people  who specialize in maintaining databases required. This is very important  and time-consuming maintenance of the website profile.</p>
<p>Web Server Maintenance:<br />
Server is the home of  your website. Most of the third party  hosting companies have their websites. The hosting company  provides technical maintenance of your company. The routine maintenance  includes monitoring of your server disk space, bandwidth and efficient  performance. This form of maintenance  is a regular affair and very easy to implement.</p>
<p>Layouts change:<br />
Layout change is not a  normal routine maintenance of the website. Layout change includes  changing the whole <strong>website design </strong>and structure of the website of either the  home or specific pages. They may include  additional pictures, flash, graphics, content, etc.</p>
<p>The objective of any  enterprise website maintenance is to keep the site attractive and  up-to-date and to attract and retain visitors. <strong>Website Maintenance</strong> Company is a full-time and very responsible job, especially for websites  that are continuously changing content. Also, a highly technical  job, have a lot of software tools are to automate the process, but the  uniqueness of each web site is not fully help of automation.</p>
<p>The focus of maintaining a  website is to keep fresh, up dated and attractive to visitors. Maintaining a website is a  very serious matter if you are dealing with whole personality of a  business on the net.</p>
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		<title>Website Designer: Choosing the right one!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been several years since you had someone design your company web site and it is now obsolete. You lose business to competitors that quality web sites designed with great layout and navigation. This could be your first company website, &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-designer-choosing-the-right-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been several years  since you had someone design your company web site and it is now  obsolete. You lose business to  competitors that quality <strong>web sites designed</strong> with great layout and  navigation. This could be your first  company website, and you want the best of your time and money.</p>
<p>How to choose a quality  <strong>web design</strong> company that your business&#8217; target for the design and  redesign of this website will understand?</p>
<p>First you have a few  questions.</p>
<p>1. What is your budget and  time frame for completion of the <strong>web design</strong> or redesign project?<br />
2. Are you using original  content and photos for building this web site?<br />
3. If this is a site  redesign, do you plan to update images and content for this new look and  layout of the <strong>web design</strong> company you need to supply to him for you?<br />
4. Does anyone in your  company has a basic writing skills and are able to view the contents of a  website to update or will continuously work for a <strong>web design </strong>company  you hire?<br />
5. Are you looking for a  local <strong>web design</strong> company?<br />
6. Do you have an idea of  your <strong>web design</strong> colors, layout and navigation?</p>
<p>Knowing the answers to  these questions will help you if you have the right web design company  can be found.</p>
<p>Now is the time to the  right web design company available for your needs. Go to Google and search  for local web design companies and you will see how many results to  show. Take &#8220;Orlando web design&#8221;  example: Results 8,860,000. Wow, there are lots of  results for &#8220;<strong>web design</strong> Orlando.</p>
<p>Do not panic, you&#8217;ll  probably a company that the quality of <strong>web design</strong> work you can do in the  first 50 results. Quality <strong>web design</strong> firms  will have a online portfolio of work that an example of their custom web  design work will show. Start with the first <strong>web  design</strong> result on the work your way down.</p>
<p>Examination of the  portfolio to see if there is anything similar to the web design layout  you imagine. You can tell immediately  if this <strong>web design</strong> company is right for your company and its look and  feel. Find out how long they  have been in the <strong>web design</strong> industry and compare that with how many  quality web sites they have designed at that time.<br />
If this is a redesign,  find out how many web site redesigns that have completed the website and  ask to see before and after the redesign.</p>
<p>Find out if they have the  staff available to work on all your web design needs and that they  Programming Necessary to complete the work in a timely way to know. Ask for references, a  top-end <strong>web design</strong> company will be happy to offer references on the web  design work. Most <strong>web design </strong>references will be glad to talk to you about the quality job your  potential <strong>web design</strong> company has on their website.</p>
<p>Depending on your <strong>web  design</strong> budget, it may help to several quality web design companies to  talk. You want to get at least 3  estimates and it does not hurt more.</p>
<p>Remember, when it comes  to your business and your exposure to companies on the Internet, take  your time locating a quality <strong>web design</strong> company. Your future may depend on  it.</p>
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		<title>Website Design : Get it seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Web has become a real jungle, and finding great new sites today is not always the easiest thing in the world. If you have a website yourself, you have to deal with the other side of this issue. How &#8230; <a href="http://stephboreldesign.com/blog/2010/04/03/website-design-get-it-seen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Web has become a real  jungle, and finding great new sites today is not always the easiest  thing in the world. If you have a website  yourself, you have to deal with the other side of this issue. How do you get noticed  online, is there anything you can do to increase your popularity?</p>
<p>There certainly are! Here are the top five  ways to enhance your site and increase your online visibility.<br />
1. Powerful Hosting</p>
<p>This first point is  especially important for those who do not have a website, but would like  one to. After you have selected  your domain name, the next step is choosing a hosting plan. There are many good,  affordable alternatives, but what professionals usually recommend  specialized blog hosting. This form of <strong>Web hosting</strong> you can set up a professional looking site in no time at all. Why is this important to  mention when it comes to making your site more popular? Well, without strong  hosting, you will not be able to handle the traffic to your new website,  so you have no chance at all of the still very popular.</p>
<p>Of course, finding strong  hosting is often easier said than done. The hosting industry has  grown very popular in recent years, and this has led to a large number  of companies offer different hosting services. But do not be fooled by  the tricky way of making it sound like they are the best in the  industry. We recommend that you  work with a company that developed a strong reputation and experience in  the industry. You could start by  searching for <strong>Web Hosting</strong> reviews and other information to help you find  the right fit.</p>
<p>When it comes to hosting,  you should compare the various features of the plan. Make sure you at least  99.9% uptime guarantee and the customer support is easy to get. You never know when you  might need them. Similarly, it is also  good to know exactly what kind of numbers in terms of disk space and  bandwidth you will not use and manage. Some providers also  forbid their clients to the music or video files to upload to their  servers even if it is for personal use. It is important to ask  customer support for these problems before purchasing a plan. Some other things you  might consider asking your domain name or registration information will  be protected and how many email accounts you can use as part of the  hosting agreement.<br />
2. Optimize Your Website</p>
<p>To be truly successful  online, you need a high ranking in search engines to get. To succeed in this, you  should learn as much as you can about search engine optimization (SEO). The topic of <strong>SEO</strong> is  extensive and can be quite daunting at first, but once you have  mastered, you can immediately see the benefits and will probably wonder  why you do not get to work with before. A few things you can do  to get to ensure you get the right keywords to use and require your  visitors and search engines. Writing for search  engines is important because you want to get a high ranking, and writing  for the visitors is essential because you want them to linger and  return to your website.</p>
<p>If you are satisfied with  the keywords and content on your site, it&#8217;s time to start working with  link building. Search engines provide a  large proportion of the value of a particular page / site by looking at  the number of incoming links. Link exchange is one of  the most popular and successful ways to a good position on search  engines to get, and it&#8217;s really easy to do. Just a <strong>Web site</strong> that you  want and ask the webmaster if they are interested in a link exchange &#8211;  it does not need to be more complicated than that.</p>
<p>Having something  interesting and distinctive on your page is a great way to attract  potential partners link. For example, if you have a  <strong>website domain names</strong>, why not a domain name availability checker to  your homepage? It is likely to attract  links from other sites related to the niche, and people will tend to  come back if they want to know if a domain is available or not. Try more creative ways to  distinguish yourself from competitors.<br />
3. Benefit from Social Media  Optimization</p>
<p>Although SEO, much of  your site should be optimized, should not end there. Social Media Optimization  is probably just as important, because it is one of the strongest  marketing tools available today. A social media  optimization campaign, a few different things. First make sure the  content on your site or blog relevant to your subject and not outdated. Visit similar sites and  enter the discussion in responding to messages / articles &#8211; do not be  afraid to say what&#8217;s on your mind. Make yourself visible on  Facebook and MySpace. Three other sites that  might be useful for social media optimization, Twitter, Flickr and  YouTube. The latter two are not  always applicable. Make sure you only take  advantage of them when the time comes &#8211; you might do more harm than good  if you do not.</p>
<p>Of course, do not forget  your outgoing links to your website on a social media site use. Even if your link has a  &#8220;nofollow&#8221; attribute attached to it (such as Facebook) will continue to  attract new visitors and potential customers to your site. Finally, your campaign  must be built on friendly platforms such as CoffeeCup Flash Blogger ™,  which make it easy to create and edit content.<br />
4. Get Involved Your  Visitors</p>
<p>A crucial point to your  site to grow in the number of visitors is concerned by them. Try to write in a  personal style, and do not be afraid to leave an open question. If this should not do,  why not hold a contest? This will most likely get  people talking about your site. The price need not cost a  fortune because people want, no matter what the price is competitive &#8211;  it&#8217;s human nature.</p>
<p>Other easy ways to engage  your visitors by including a forum on your site or the ability to  respond to your posts / articles. Everyone wants to express  their own personal ideas and thoughts on subjects and by doing them,  you can also stimulate the return of visitors to see how their feedback  was appreciated. As an added bonus, if the  topic is more popular, the debate to attract interest from other  websites too!<br />
5. Emphasize usability into  your design</p>
<p>Investing in good design  is more important than some people seem to think. With a beautiful design,  you will grow in confidence for your readers / visitors. An important fact to  remember is not over-design of the website. No matter how many hours  you&#8217;ve put into designing the site if no one understands how to use it. Let a number of  non-Internet-savvy friends to navigate through your site before  launching a full scale. If they find it easy, so  the rest of your visitors.</p>
<p>It is difficult to say  what a beautiful and functional design. What looks good to one  person looks terrible for another. There are fundamental  developments in web design, and if you, you can be sure most of your  visitors please. A few popular web design  trends for 2009 are multi-column layouts, large illustrations, and lots  of white space.</p>
<p>If you wish to remain on  the safe side, it&#8217;s a good conversation to the layout and design  features make the page easily accessible and easy to understand. Try the default encoding  and over-the-top Flash animations to occur. Some people can browser  settings prevent them from viewing Flash, which means you could lose  valuable visitors. Try to think how the  visitor thinks, and your site will grow more popular and respected every  day.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Web Designing</strong> is as easy  as 1-2-3, claiming some of the software tools on the market that  &#8220;generate&#8221; your pages for you. Unfortunately, many <strong>web  designers</strong> today have fallen prey to this marketing gimmick &#8211; and the  results are clear. Now and then one comes to  a website that looks good with a particular browser and a screen, but  look at it with a different browser, and you can not even read the plain  text on the page. Worse, the number of  operating systems that are used by netizens worldwide is given, these  pages are not well seen by more than half the target surfers.</p>
<p>Let us suppose that this  belongs to a web site that sells stuff online. The fact that half the  users can not even see the page, translates into losses worth half the  amount at once (maybe more) I think that makes a good case for the  raison d&#8217;etre of this product! <strong>Web Design </strong>is, in my  opinion, a cocktail of creative skills and technical competence &#8211; and no  less important than the other.</p>
<p>In the following lines, I  wrote down a few points I noticed during my travels online, important  from the perspective of web designers. Some of them may be taken  with a grain of salt because it is impossible to please everyone every  time. But most of them are  simple enough to be used as a rule of thumb.</p>
<p>1. A picture, they say, is  worth a thousand words. A picture file, alas, is  almost as large. Images, no doubt, improve  the appearance of a page, but it is not advisable to go overboard in  your page filled with images of a truck. Net surfers use a dial-up  connection, and the average time to load a page should not exceed 5  seconds. If it is longer, the  surfer will probably click away elsewhere. So, within this period  all images on a page as well be loaded. So, as a rough yardstick,  keep the total page size less than 30k.</p>
<p>Another important point  to note is that each file at a separate HTTP request to the server. So many small images &#8211;  even if they do not add up to much in terms of bytes &#8211; will slow down  loading a lot.</p>
<p>Even if you use images  for navigation, give a second thought to the users not seeing those  jazzy, fantastic &amp; amazing buttons that you spent hours to design. Yes, I&#8217;m talking about  the ALT text attribute of the IMG tag. Do not forget to provide  an alternate text for each image you use for navigation. (It can be left blank for  certain images that are purely for aesthetic reasons, but let that one  exception than the rule.) Although not apparent, ALT text can greatly  help those users.</p>
<p>Modern browsers offer  users the option to disable images. This gives an idea of how  troublesome the unwanted images can be.</p>
<p>A few more attributes  that your pages load faster are the HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes. Without this, your  browser must wait for the image to download because it can not know how  much to leave them!<br />
2.</p>
<p>Navigability &amp;  functionality come before artistic excellence. It is no use making your  site a masterpiece of art and the user can not navigate &#8211; even after  they reach the main page, they have no idea how to go where they want to  go.<br />
3.</p>
<p>Above have in common is a  kind of navigation that some people call Mystery Meat Navigation. This means that unless  your mouse moves over an image, you have no idea where that link can be  found here. Only when the mouse you  see the actual link. This is cumbersome  because users need to move the mouse over the place to find out which  part is a link and what not.<br />
4.</p>
<p>Follow K.I.S.S. principle: Keep It  Simple, Stupid!<br />
5.</p>
<p>Next is a very important  practical suggestion: if your entire page in a table, the page can not  be created (ie, the page will not appear on the screen) unless the  entire table is downloaded. You might have noticed  that on several websites, when there is no activity for a long time, and  suddenly the entire page is visible. Hence suché to avoid a  situation, you have to do is this: Split the table into two tables to  each other, and let the top one be a short table That just the page  header and a few navigation links displays. So now, immediately upon  downloading this part of the page, users can see the header of the page &#8211;  and prepares them for the long wait ahead, evenals she loves leaving  your site to go to other sites, in the case of a slow  connection.<br />
6.</p>
<p>The ongoing browser wars  have only one victim &#8211; the user. As a word of caution,  stay away from all browser-specific functions. Because if a certain  feature is supported by a browser, it will certainly not be supported by  another. What you need these  features, it should not hamper the display of the page in another  browser that does not support such functionality. In other words, your page  must gracefully break.<br />
7.</p>
<p>Creating a new browser  window to the authority of the user alone. Do not try to popup new  windows to clutter the user. All links should open in  the same window. An exception can be made  for pages containing a list of links. It is useful in such  cases, links will open in another window so the user can return to the  links page itself. Even in such cases it is  advisable to provide the user a prior note that links would open in a  new window.<br />
8.</p>
<p>Keep in mind the  fonts-challenged users too. The ultra-jazzy &#8220;Cloister  Black MT Light&#8221; font that looks so great on your machine can also be  degraded in normal old Times New Roman on your user&#8217;s machine. The reason? He / she does not have  the font installed on his / her machine &#8211; and one thing is clear &#8211; there  is nothing you can do about the situation, sitting halfway across the  world from them.<br />
9.</p>
<p>Stay away from  out-of-the-way hard-to-find fonts. Use plain vanilla fonts  like Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Courier. If necessary, make your  jazzy fonts into an image and puts it on the page. (And while you&#8217;re there,  do not forget Tip # 1.)<br />
10.</p>
<p>A new design trick that  is increasingly being used on the web has caught my imagination: It is a  very functional navigation bar that guides you through all possible  paths within the site. It looks something like  this:</p>
<p>Home&gt; Section&gt;  Subsection&gt; Page</p>
<p>What is better than your  users a convenient way of visiting just about every other page on your  site, and inform them where they are!<br />
11.</p>
<p>Another new trend on the  web is not so inviting &#8211; various vendors come up with &#8220;revolutionary  plug-ins&#8221; and undoubtedly the most amateur web designers jump up to  spruce their pages using them. The reality is that most people do not  have installed and would not care. Come  to think of it, have you seen plug-ins on one of the most popular sites,  including Yahoo.com, Amazon.com or Google.com? It&#8217;s just not the best  thing to do . mention should be made  here of Macromedia&#8217;s Shockwave Flash plug-in, which now has made its way  on most computers today, and thus presents no harm in using vector  animation on your site.<br />
12.</p>
<p>Java is an often misused  technology on webpages. Using Java programming  language as a utilitarian, and not as a graphical frontend for your  photos / images. There are several things  you can do with Java, that does not mean you should do them all. Java applets are known to  run slower, so users experience a certain sluggishness in performance. And what is worse is that  Java is known that certain browsers crash. This is not something  that everyone likes, especially when it is done for the sole purpose of  showing a series of images in a slideshow!</p>
<p>The moral: Use it, but  with discretion.<br />
13.</p>
<p>Never underestimate the  importance of the META tags. They can make the  difference between your users coming to your site and go to your  competitor &#8211; just because they could not find yours. Search engines depend  heavily on the Keywords &amp; Description Meta tags to their search  database to fill. And again, the use in the  writing of that discretion. Including a large number  of keywords for the same page can spell trouble. The description should be  a small, meaningful summary of the entire page that way even when  out-of-context of the webpage itself, say will be in a list of search  engine results.<br />
14.</p>
<p>And the last point that  all the points summarized so: Write for all browsers, all resolutions  and all color depths. If you show people pages  that look the best with their browser and their own resolution, which  makes them feel &#8220;at home&#8221;, and you get a better response. Compare this with a  website that proclaims &#8220;best viewed with Browser X at a resolution of  1024&#215;768.&#8221; I&#8217;ll give you a choice  between two options when you see a page like this: download the  suggested browser (which could well be over 50 Megs), then you have a  new monitor that supports high-resolution, and then your screen so you set the perfect  photo. Or simply click away to  another site. What do you prefer?</p>
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