FACT: 30 to 60% of visitors tend to drop off and click to another site when they are forced to click their mouse more often than necessary. FACT: People who use the internet are usually those who are always on-the-go and don't want to spend time figuring out how to navigate any web site. FACT: It takes all of ten seconds for most first-time visitors to spend time on any web site before deciding if it's worth any attention. Yes, it only takes ten seconds for viewers to get interested and stay More..

A Web Site That Sells Is All One Needs To Have A Successful Online Business!

There are more than billions of Web Sites, running Online Businesses, offering products and services. But only a few Web Sites manage to make any sale. Only a few Web Sites are capable of pulling in visitors and turn them into customers. Only a few are able to get profitable returns for their investments. Then what's wrong with the rest of the Web Sites that are unable to get the required returns of their investments or do not make any sale at all? Even if they recieve huge traffics, they don More..

The Top 8 Website Sins Part One

They say the eyes are the window to the soul. Your website then is the window to your business. What would a passerby think of your "window"? What does your website say about you? About your business? Does your website entice the visitor to pause and take a few moments to look around or does it confuse them so much they click past it without ever looking back. The goal of your website is to make the visitor stay until the desired visitor response has been achieved. That might be that they sign More..

The Top 8 Website Sins Part Two

Sin #5 Poor Spelling And Grammar We all make mistakes when we write things down or type things out. Nobody is 100% perfect but a huge number of website owners completely ignore the basics of spelling and grammar. If you're selling a product or service online and your website is littered with spelling and grammar mistakes you're losing sales. Plain and simple. You don't need a masters degree in English but poor spelling puts people off. From a visitors point of view if you couldn't be bothered More..

Ten Fatal Mistakes That Make Web Sites Stink

Since you'll spend lots of time and money to create your web site, don't you want to make sure you're not making mistakes that at best irritate users, and at worst make you lose customers? After all, when you alienate users, you lose potential revenue. Who can afford that? Dr. Jakob Nielsen, Principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, says that the top 10 website mistakes include: 1. Not listing prices. Pricing in the most specific piece of information users need to understand the nature of offers More..

Creating Your First Website

Building your first website can be very frustrating. It looks fairly easy, but almost always turns out to be more complicated than you expected. The problem is, building a website requires technical know-how that you have no way of acquiring until somebody explains it to you. And technical people are often pretty bad at explaining things. Everyone who has ever built a website eventually discovers that you cannot possibly do it right until you sift through all the techno-jargon and start to und More..

Make Artistic Graphic Designs

Are you a student of graphic design? If you have taken time in extra reviews and put "graphic design" and "drawing" into any search engines, you'll get almost the same result = descriptions of graphic design programs at many design schools. Baffled? Well, it's like this: As a student interested in graphic design, you have to take drawing and not actually a degree in fine art. The truth is, you don't need to be able to draw sensationally, but your skills as a graphic designer would edge out if y More..

Bad Design Characteristics For A Website

Making a poorly designed website is one of the easiest things you can do as a webmaster! You barely need to try! If you want to run a successful high traffic website there are many different elements of design that you need to implement, and ones you need to avoid. This article will describe some of the major design flaws in many new websites. Design flaws that will reduce your traffic flow, reduce your amount of loyal viewers, and generally annoy people. It is my hopes that be identifying thes More..

Positive Design Attributes for a Successful Website

Designing a website is hard job, and requires you to think out a plan of action, and put in a lot of work to make it successful. There are many different kinds of websites on the Internet, but if you look at all the top performers with high traffic, you will notice that they all have similar design characteristics which place them as the best in the world. Characteristics for an excellent website design: Attractive Layout It's important to design a website that looks attractive and is easy on More..

How To Rescue Your Graphic Design Project When All Else Fails

Whether you're giving a critical sales presentation to a client, producing visuals for a meeting, event, trade show or seminar, or unveiling the new company logo before an audience of shareholders, top-notch graphics will help ensure that you, your products, and your message receive the attention they deserve. Yet when you decide to do the graphics in-house to reduce turnaround time or cut expenses, those logos, photos, charts, graphs, pictures, timelines, illustrations, etc. can be a source of More..

Make it Clear What Your Website is About

I am constantly bombarded with all sorts of advertisements, single-page sites, and sites offering very little real content but some wonderful new "product" or "service" for sale that purports to make its customers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. For the purposes of this article, let's refer to Amazing Formula (http://www.amazingformula.com) as an example of such a site. (Note: I have never purchased this product and can make no claim, verification or guarantee one way or the other as to it More..

Website Savvy: 10 Key Steps to Turn Your Customers ON!

"How to turn "slightly interested" customers into "I've got to have it!" customers!" I am truly amazed as to the lack of information websites contain. You would think that a business would realize that a potential customer would at least like to know how to contact the customer service department. But, you'd be astonished at how many times I've actually come across NO information on the business except "place your order here". That truly leaves the customer with a feeling of abandonment. Since More..

Make it Clear What Your Website is About

Just about every list of the "Top 10 Web Design Mistakes" includes at least one reference to either 1. Not clearly specifying the objectives of your website, or 2. Not making it obvious what your web pages are about. Usually both of these things are mentioned. This usually stems from the inability to look at your business or products from the prospective customer's point of view. Many marketing people confuse their own concerns with those of their potential customers. For instance they think More..

Build Web Pages from the Top Left Corner Down

There are two important reasons to build your website from the top left hand corner down. The first one is that this is the way people (at least in the western world) read pages. They tend to begin at the top and read towards the bottom. And they tend to look at the left column before they look at the right. This is why your web pages should contain the most important headlines and descriptive information near the top. Some designers fall into the habit of creating a standard "image oriented" More..

Using Server Side Includes to Simplify Your Web Design

An "include" file is a piece of code that can be put into a seperate file -- for example -- your navigation bar -- and then "included" in a number of other pages. This has the very useful advantage of allowing you to retain consistency over a very large number of pages, and then make changes to all of those pages by just changing the include file. For instance, say you want each page in your site to include a short paragraph that uniquely identifies your site. I normally call this a "site-id". More..

Creating a Basic Web Design Template

A "template" is simply a design format which you can apply to all (or most) of the pages in your web site. The first advantage of using a "template" system is that it allows you to make your most important design decisions at the beginning, and then just focus on content. The second advantage is that it allows you to quickly create new pages based on your standard design. The disadvantage is that many template-based websites look homogenized and seem to lack a unique character. Designers who se More..

Website Conversion Secrets Revealed

In my last article entitled, Maximizing The True Value Of Your Traffic (found at http://tinyurl.com/2cf84), you discovered the importance of generating positive responses from all your visitors. The crux of this strategy resides in the concept known as website conversion, and how it can make you tons more p.rofits with much lesser work. In essence, you can squeeze more value from the same traffic, simply by converting a higher percentage of visitors into paying customers... and the best way to More..

Colorblind People, Can They Really Read Your Web Site?

I once created a notepad-like editor. It is possible with this editor to write Russian text on a western Windows without using a Cyrillic keyboard in front of your computer. This software is equipped with an on screen Russian keyboard which is situated under the text field of the notepad like editor. The keys on the screen based keyboard is displayed with both Latin and Cyrillic characters. The Cyrillic characters are displayed in red and the Latin are displayed in Black. http://www.russianedi More..

Build A Successful Website For Dummies

So you want to build a website here I will explain some simple but also keyaspects that are commonly taken in to consideration when a website developercreates a website. 1) Website Design - The website design must be neat meaning that everythinglooks like where it is meant to be (nothing out of place or out of proportion).Also your sites design is related to the topic of your website e.g. your site isabout flowers then your design must have flowers. 2) Site Navigation - Visitors must be able t More..

Increase Your Website Sales Instantly

If there's one thing that I've learnt so far, it's that nothing beats good copy. You may have found a way to bring in 10,000 visitors a day to your site, but if your copy is lousy, you're just wasting your effort. Web sites are only as good as their copy, so if you want to run a successful website, check and double-check your copy! Listed below are thirteen tips to better your copy and increase your sales: 1. Use short benefit-focused headlines. Grab your readers attention from the very first More..

Designing Beautiful Artist Websites - 12 Tips To Showcase Your Art

1. Who needs an artists website? Not everyone! If you are currently exhibiting in multiple high-end galleries andmaking a handsome income, a website may not be for you. In fact, it might actuallywork against you - some galleries may not like the perceived threat of you showingyour work independently on the internet. Better to make use of your gallery'swebsites. On the other hand, any artist who can classify themselves as either "emerging" or"mid-career" will probably benefit from having their More..

Caveat Scriptor: Use the Advice of Those Who Know Before You Build a Site

A man [woman] is a success if he [she] gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he [she] does what he [she] wants to do. Bob Dylan~ I'm smart. Wicked smart. Too smart for my own good. At the same time (as they said when I was as kid and as it still applies), I'm too big for my own britches. So I put those prissy pantalones to some good effort and I teach others how to write. I win a few awards, send a few hopefuls off to higher learning institutions where they in turn wi More..

Web Design: Use it to Showcase the Message

If you are designing a web site for which the achievement of high conversion rates is a priority, focus your design efforts on showcasing and highlighting the content and copy. For sites where conversion rates are a priority, the primary purpose of design should be to present the message in such a way that it delivers the maximum impact. >> So "good" design doesn't matter? That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that design serves a function. For an entertainment or arts site that primary func More..

Size Does Matter!

In this article we will be looking at why you should keep your web page size small. As any good webmaster knows you should keep the web page size small, but why? It's really simple, both spiders and visitors hate web pages that take forever to load because it's harder to spider the web page or for the visitor they just don't have time to wait for your web page to come up, after all most web sites are not that great, so why wait if your the visitor? You should keep images down in size, the best More..

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