By Von Rod Limpot, Dec. 9, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 0 Comment
“Keep It Simple” is one of the essential standards in achieving an effective website design. It must be applied to all features of your website, from the content to the design, navigation and so on. Here are some guidelines in implementing that simple look of your website and make it stand out among other competing websites.
Always think of your target audience.
Before providing features and services, always consider your target audience. Apply features that are only relevant to the website’s functionality as well as to your target audience. Adding insignificant features to your website only leads to waste of bandwidth and customer’s time.
Avoid features that require higher bandwidth.
Features like audio and video takes a lot of bandwidth. If there is really a need to put these features, just make sure to apply it appropriately for they can take time in loading your web pages. It will cause customers to just close your website and go to the other competing websites.
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By PhilWebServices, Nov. 7, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 0 Comment
Philippine web development companies that offer professional web design services are now bewildering and can be exciting especially when one looks at their portfolio. Portfolio is a gallery of sites created by the web design company that showcases its best work. Close examination of the portfolio gives an impression of the quality, the style and the content of sites made by the web designer including its market potential.
Web design companies should fulfill all the essential elements in making a web site. It should feature good design components, user-friendly navigation, simple and google search engine optimization.
It is a must that you test the sites in its portfolio to thoroughly determine the web designer’s proficiency and to check if the web design company meets your business and marketing needs.
The portfolio must show the standard design of a website which is easier to update and far more likely to work well using any web browser. Your web designer should be consistent all throughout. Scan the portfolio carefully. Bear in mind that un-friendly home page messages create a negative impression of your site. Messages like, “Flash required”, or “best viewed using Netscape” or “best viewed using Internet Explorer”.
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By PhilWebServices, Nov. 6, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 1 Comment
Making a presence in the world wide web has been a necessity to all business sectors. In order to create an effective one, you need to have a good web design to catch visitors’ attention. And the people behind formulating these amazing web designs, are the creative professional web designers.
Now adays, there are plenty of skilled web designers around the globe, free lance designer or a designer agency, which make choosing the best professional designer a challenging task.
In selecting a professional web designer, you have to consider some factors. Decide on what audience you are marketing. It is important to check the designer’s portfolio. How many design concepts they had created. You have to be keen on their recent or past creations. Make sure to check their sites and if they don’t all look the same, check the pages if it loads quickly, and most importantly, check if it’s easy to navigate to know that you will never feel lost in the site.
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By Von Rod Limpot, Oct. 15, 2009 in Web Design And Development | 0 Comment
How you design your web site will affect your browsers’ online experience. Bear in mind that each visitor is a potential customer to your web site. So make sure that your web site is user friendly and the more they enjoy being on it, the higher the stake that they will make an online purchase.
Hence, a well designed website is the key in increasing your sales. How to do that? Here’s some tips.
Colors determined how your web site comes across to your browsers. Dull colors will have a “plain and boring” image on your web site while bright colors have a “chaotic and unprofessional” look. The colors yellow and red draws the eye in. Thus, using these colors for banners and adverts are effective on catching the browsers’ attention. Nevertheless, apply these colors moderately because it causes eye strain meaning visitors woudn’t want to look at your website for long period of time.
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