How to Learn the A to Z of Web Design
Most people just buy a WYSIWYG web page design tool like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage so they don't need to learn anything. I recommend that you do NOT use a WYSIWYG web page design tool, but instead start out by hand coding web pages and web sites in a basic text editor. More ...
How to Help Your Customers Speak
Strange as it may sound being a web designer does not only mean spending hours in front of the computer. Once you receive an order, you have to create a bond with your customer to be able to understand completely his vision of the web site. More ...
Proposals, Contracts, and Getting Paid
Your time is money. The reality of any design business, or service business in general, is that you must pay as much attention to the business end of your efforts as you do to the service end. More ...
Are You Familiar with Trademark Law?
You've been using your company name for a while now and, as things get more crowded, you're beginning to wonder if anyone else uses it, what the law is, and what you should do, if anything to protect it. More ...
DHTML or Flash?
An important facet of flash / shockwave glossed over by most people is that these technologies are a packaged scripting environment: In other words - most of what you can do in flash, you can do in DHTML with a little effort. More ...
How to Run User Testing Fast and Cheap
Teams don't often have enough time and resources for a proper user testing or replace it with customer feedback. That's why it is better to run even the simplest form of user testing to validate your product functionality before moving to the next development stage. More ...
Choosing the Right Colors for Your Web Site
Researchers agree that colors greatly influence the human psychic. Consequently, the color scheme that you use on your web site can entice the visitor to engage in the goal of your site (i.e. make a purchase or request your services) or leave it after the first few seconds. 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 ...
Creating an Effective Web Site
There's more to creating a great web site than taking your paper documents and throwing them on-line. Working in hypertext takes a little more thought and planning. By its very nature, hypertext works differently from paper documents; it's more of an active media. More ...
Create a Google Sitemap for your Web Site
Google Sitemaps is a simple and fast way for your site to be constantly indexed and updated by Google. This article will discuss the benefits of implementing this new technology, who should use it, how it works and how to create a Google Sitemap for your web site. More ...
Ten Important Points to Consider to Launch Your First Ecommerce Website
You have to consider several factors to make the web store keep visitors engaged and seduce them to buy the products and services. In addition focusing the look, feel, features, and functionality of the website, you also need to explore ways to optimize its user experience. 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 ...
