Top Tips for Web Design
You need to consider the consequences of your design decisions and how it will effect the users of your site. The following tips should help you have a positive effect on your site and its users. More ...
Preplanning Your Website, The Secret To Success
I've known several people who put together a website, and within a month or two had to do major redesigns and rewriting of the copy. They wound up spending twice as much time as was necessary just because they didn't preplan. More ...
10 Phenomenal Resources for Open Data
Open data is data that has been made publicly available and is permitted to be used, reused, built on, and shared with others, the only restriction is that the source of the work must be identified. More ...
Basics Of Ecommerce Web Design
Which do you think is more likely to succeed? A website with a clear, simple and professional design, or a website with flashy animation, graphics or audio that detracts from its primary purpose - to convert visitors to customers? More ...
Reciprocal Linking Overload - Any old link back will do?
At one time it was extremely important to get as many sites linking to you as possible, so the Google bots see all of these sites linking to you, and think that your site must be of some importance because so many others are linking to it. More ...
How To Build A Web Site That Sells
Without a clear purpose for your site, you will not know where you are heading. For example, the purpose of my design site, is to help small business owners attain a presence on the web to sell their product or service. Now, write down the statement of purpose for your web site. More ...
Mini Site or Content-based Web Site?
The purpose of creating a web site should be to attract visitors and convert them to paying customers. Is a mini site with a few pages enough to do this or should you spend more time and create a content-based web site which contains many pages? More ...
How to Transfer Your Web Site to Another Host Without Losing It
You want to change web hosts because you not happy with the services your host is providing. The response time for technical support is too slow. You make the decision to change web hosts. Now you are faced with the daunting task of switching web hosts without losing the files and beautiful design of your web site. How do you achieve this? Here are the steps you need to take: More ...
What is a Captive Portal?
A portal is a website that serves as an entry point or gateway to a specific area of interest. A captive portal is a webpage that is the only one on a website that a visitor is allowed to view until they meet the requirements of the webpage. More ...
A Random Walk Down Web Street - Litter Revolution
The best way to learn how to start a business and design a Web site is to study how other people do it and see what works and what doesn't work. In this series of articles, I randomly choose a Web site to review. Today's Web site is litterrevolution.com. More ...
How to Build an Ecommerce Web Site
You've got a brilliant idea for selling products online that's been festering in your mind for a long time. This means you need to build an ecommerce web site or online store as others would call it, but have no idea what is involved and how much it is going to cost you. More ...
Keys to Real Estate Sites - Ten "Must Haves" of Real Estate Sites
Web sites in real estate come in every shape and color. Some are very good at achieving the intended goals and some aren't. Some of the best designed sites are not the best sites either. Why? Because they don't result in the achievement of the intended goal and that is sales. More ...
