Jul 28 2008

Web Design: Planning

The planning stage of web design is very important. Many people regard it as unecessary paperwork and ignore it. However it can save you a lot of time to have a clear purpose when designing your website, and it can save you a lot of time.
Structure
Unless you are building a site using a software or [...]

Jul 26 2008

Web Design: Pages for the Footer

There are alot of pages that you don’t want to waste your valuable navigation space for, yet you still need to include on your website somewhere. These pages include: a privacy page, a disclosure page, a disclaimer page, an about page and a contact page.
Although the About and the Contact pages should be included in [...]

Jul 25 2008

Web Design: Foveal Vision in Relation to Creating Banners and Logos

Foveal vision is the sharp central vision necessary for humans to read books, watch TV, drive, or browse websites. To optimize creatives such as banners and logos, a quick web related understanding of foveal vision is very useful.
Foveal Vision on the Web
The width of most peoples foveal vision is the width of about five words. [...]

Jul 24 2008

Web Design: Navigation Menus

Generally, in web design, there are three main types of navigation menus. Theres the type that goes across the top of the content, the type that goes down the left side of the page, and the type that goes down the right side of the page. Generally, in good web design, you don’t want to [...]

Jul 21 2008

Image Usage: 2 Ways to stay Big and Beautiful

Many people showcase beautiful images on their websites (maybe you do too). Be it big wallpapers or high resolution photos, the viewer is taken aback by its beauty AND its loading time.
There are many ways for webmasters to deal with this issue and several are listed here, excluding image compression. After all, it’s big and [...]

Jul 20 2008

SEO Basics: Permanent URLs

Permanent URLs are an important part of SEO. With permanent URLs, you can convert your file type in the future and it won’t affect the ranking and traffic of your pages.
The premise of Permanent URLs is that if you change an about.html page to an about.php page, all those backlinks you have generated through your [...]

Jul 16 2008

SEO Basics: Understanding Spider Vision

Spiderman loves to swing around cities. But his brethren actually travel through websites! Spiders, also known as web bots, web robots or web crawlers, are what various search engines use to index your pages, which helps determine your website’s importance and relevance to search terms. However, as important as these programmed entities are, many people design websites that spiders can’t read.

Jul 10 2008

Image Usage: Traffic Building

Images tend to spice up your websites and add vibrancy to them. In Layouts, images create buttons, highlight important features, create nice category headers, serve as logos, and generate traffic. In this first article about Image Usage, I’ll focus on Image usage to generate traffic.
Building Traffic with Images: Photo Traffic

Gimmick Images inserted in your content [...]

Jul 9 2008

7 Web Design Mistakes to Avoid

Although there are many things that should not be included into websites for the sake of the best user-end experience, there are several commonly recurring annoying design problems amateurs make.
1. Embedded Sound Files
-Have you ever gone to a site, and then some random songs start playing and your hand flashes over to the mute button [...]

Jul 7 2008

Website Design: Resolution Issues

Especially for new webmasters, the size of your layout simply matches your computer’s resolution. However, this isn’t a good practice as is is possible that the majority of your site’s visitor’s use a different screen resolution.
When I first started, 800*600 (pixels) was the standard size for website layouts. However, the standard resolution nowadays is 1024*768, [...]

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