What’s the Right Website for You?

The Internet has been around for ages, but that does not mean that everyone in the world has a presence on it. It is only now that people are waking up to the fact that the web is the best, cheapest and fastest way to grow and promote your business. All a potential customer has to do is Google your company name and see what the Internet throws up – it may take them straight to your website or it may show them random news snippets about you from various sectors of the press and customer musings. In short, the web can make or break you – if there are negative things being said about you, then you can bet that they’ll spread like wildfire on the web; and if your reviews are positive, there’s nothing for you to worry about – you can relax and watch your popularity grow by the day.

Like it or lump it, the Internet is here to stay, so if you’re looking for a presence on the web to boost your image and make yourself more visible, here are a few things you need to keep in mind when trying to find a website design that’s suitable for you:

• Talk to someone who can explain the best kind of site for your company. In general however, if your budget is small and if you’re just starting out, what you need is a basic brochure website that has a few pages, one About page that tells visitors about your company, one or two Product/Service pages, and one Contact Us page that lets people email, mail or call you.
• The Contact Us page sometimes has only a postal address, an email address and a phone number, and at other times, it has a form that allows visitors to mail the company directly from within your site. With the second option, you’re getting your own email option from your host, so if you hope to stay on the web for some time, it’s best to go with web hosts who can offer you email addresses and tools to control them.
• Some designers stick to template sites which are cost-effective, but on the downside, they make your site look like one in a hundred. They are not distinctive and visitors may not be impressed if you’re looking to wow them with your design.
• Brochure websites are a little costlier, but you get your own unique design and have more control over what features to include.
• The product or service you sell plays a large role in the design of your site – if you deal in something glamorous, you need a site that is the perfect showcase for your products. On the other hand, if your corporate image is more staid and reserved, your website should reflect this in its personality.
• If you want to be able to change the content of your websites, it should come enabled with CMS. Some sites are dynamic in that they can be updated automatically through programmed databases. Talk to your web designer about the costs and benefits of each before making your choice.

In general, your website should be determined by your needs and not designed according to the rest of the sites on the Web.

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This guest post is contributed by Barbara Williams, she writes on the topic of Computer Technician Programs . Email her at:  barbara.williams07@gmail.com .

Some Logos & Graphic I Liked

This is a mini-post with a couple of nice looking logos and an image that have been sitting on my desktop that I needed to file somewhere and so I am uploading them here to the blog for later reference.

Nice looking logo from MEDL Mobile, a software company that creates iPhone apps.

BUMP Technologies is another iPhone App company that created the cool BUMP App. I liked their logo too.

A cool looking icon i found inside my GoDaddy account website.

That’s all I got in this one.

~ Valik

Successful Web Design Through Search Engine Friendliness

The internet is a vast relay of connections filled with hundreds of millions worth of data. Search engines play a crucial role in helping users get to the right information at a convenient amount of time. With the use of specific keywords, users find web pages that are filtered by search engines in different terms such as relevance and popularity. This process makes it easy for people to find what they are looking for. Search engines such as Google are one of the most popular in the internet, where billions of search processes are generated every month in the United States alone. Adding to the outstanding amount of search engine usage would be AOL or Yahoo! which contributes to search engines being the largest source of online traffic from any website.

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Spruce up Your Website!

The website has become a mandatory thing for every business and every one wishes to have a website in order to make them popular. The popularity of a website is determined by the number of users visiting the website and hence in order to promote the number of visitors for your website, you will have to design the website well. A good website design would be a great reason for many visitors to visit your website! A bad website design can spoil the entire idea of designing a website. It would irritate visitors, which in turn corrupts your name! Hence it is better to put good efforts in bringing out an excellent website. The following things must be given an attention in order to make your website look attractive!

Your Logo: Your logos would simply describe and make your company famous. Hence it is essential to put your logo in the website in order to make it familiar among the users.

Attractive tagline: Any one would be attracted with a good tagline and hence it is mandatory to add a good tagline to your website that would immediately catch the reader’s attention.

Interesting portfolio: Portfolio is another aspect which would attract visitors! An attractive portfolio would work wonders with the user visits!

Illustrate about yourself: The main purpose of a website is to illustrate who you are. Hence it is essential to put the details about yourself, which you wish to communicate to the public.

Describe your services: In order to make people understand about your company, you must add the services offered by you in order to make your clients understand and this would provide a great business opportunity for you!

Links to your blogs: If you have blogs, then you could provide links for it in the website! This would promote the user visits to those blogs. People generally tend to click link out of curiosity. This is also a great way to promote blogs!

Contact information: Contact information is another mandatory part of your website, which makes potential clients to contact you.

Link to social networking: There are lots of social networking sites which can be used to make the websites popular. Hence it is essential to add links to various social networking sites.

Links to contact you: There must be enough of links which would enable the clients to contact you!

Good content: Last but not the least, the content of the website must be interesting for the readers.

Also read 5 Important Tips for Web Design Success for more understanding on website design structure and important elements that make a big difference in the success of a website.

Until next time.

~ Valik

Orange and Black, The New Red

LOL, maybe orange and black, the new red is a bit pushing it but this orange and black design looks pretty nice. The detail in this website’s design caught my attention right away, I think it was the header background at first, then the nice sliding gizmo below the header, the subtle navigation and finally the little glossy orange icons at the top right.

In the shot above take a look at the nice pattern background and then the navigation area. These 2 parts of the site I really like. The navigation buttons are black on black and yet you see the subtle separation thanks to the shadow effects.

And in this screen shot, at the top right, the nice orange glossy icons… I thought they were really nicely done.

Check out the whole site at http://www.ktcn.it