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How To Spice Up The Dullest Website With Creative Web Design Elements

Posted on August 10, 2010 by arra| Leave a comment

Creative web design should be a fundamental part of any business website to make its presence felt on the net. Do you know that your site visitors can only allow you less than five seconds before deciding your site isn’t worth their while? Armed with this information, you should check whether your website is effectively grabbing your customers’ attention or not.

Just because you’re making money on your online business right now doesn’t mean your customers don’t need any special attention. As any good online entrepreneur knows, the customer is always the most vital aspect in every business.

Owing to this, it is essential to study who your visitors and customers are so you can generate a site that appeals to them. Creating a website designed for your customers’ convenience can ensure your business’s growth due to increased traffic, sales profit and repeat customers.

Work with creative elements

Great-looking web pages are built using the creative elements of web design. If you are working with a professional web designer who is familiar with this concept, they can express your desired message through a creative layout that blends the right elements fonts, colors, shading, graphics, and the required spacing.

If the right elements are mixed together, your visitors will have a more pleasant browsing experience without even noticing that everything has been put together by innovative web design. Put up a hastily done job and your visitors are out of your website before it can even fully load.

Match the text size with your audience

You should also consider the size of your text’s font. Visitors won’t stick around long enough in your site to figure out what is written just because your font size is too small to be read comfortably. If your website is specifically for elderly people, it’s safe to assume that most of them have eye problems and you must use a larger font size (12 or higher), with black text over a light background.

A website that causes eyestrain

Also check that your website is not too outdated with too much of everything crammed on a single page:

• Thousands of words per page

• Animated icons and buttons

• Flashing ad banners and a frenzy of colors

All of these can create a lot of distraction and may cause quite a confusion as to where the visitor should start reading or searching. While a lot of useful information can be found on your website, visitors will be too mixed-up to notice it. If you were the visitor, you’d probably head out fast and find a website that wouldn’t make you dizzy.

Pay attention to time and budget

Before starting a design project, be sure to inform your web designer of the type and appearance of the website you want to create. Letting them know of the things you want to include and things you want to omit will move your project faster and within its budget. Making an example of other websites can help your web designer understand the type of look you plan for your website.

It pays to know that the creative elements of an outstanding website are put together with your customers in mind. Visit your competition’s website and find out what your visitors can see in them. Ask your designer to come up with a much better site than your rivals by using creative design elements and watch your customers come in.

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How To Make A Successful Blog Website

Posted on August 10, 2010 by arra| Leave a comment

Making a blog is one of the more common website types; it can be very personal and very impersonal, making blogs very versatile. However, one thing is very clear; blogs can still be extremely profitable, with moderate amounts of work. Blogs can take anywhere from three months to three years to get a great profit going. Let me show you how!

Step 1: Get a Domain, Script, and Website Hosting.

I have decided to combine these three, technically four steps (script installing would be step 4), but in order to save time I have combined them. So, down to business, get a domain, but first choose a topic for your blog, for example, InternetIncomeTeacher.com is a blog that teaches people how to make money online, you can also do a blog about your personal life, your hobbies, or another topic such as search engine optimization! After you have chosen your topic, choose a domain name you like, from a registrar you like (such as MadDogDomains.com), make sure to choose a domain with a few keywords about your blog topic. Next, buy or download a script you like. I highly recommend WordPress, this script is fantastic for blogs and it is very search engine friendly with a few add-ons. For InternetIncomeTeacher.com we use a couple add-ons, such as the All-In-One SEO pack, and the XML sitemap-generator. This makes our website very search engine friendly and very easy for Google to index! Here are some templates to customize your new blog with, and here is the plugins directory. Now, you will need great website hosting, and as I have always suggested, use hostmonster.com. Yes they make you pay for a year in advance, but trust me, it is worth it! You don’t want your website being taken offline because your billing information was denied by a hosting company that does month to month billing. Lastly, script installation, and as always I offer a service to all my readers, $5 is full script installation! Email me at gschneider@internetincometeacher.com for an installation request!

Step 2: Write Content to Your Heart’s Desire!

Some people don’t like to write, I am one of those people. But when you find a topic you love to talk about, well, talk about it! Only to a sheet of paper, seriously! I find that writing your ideas down on paper and acting like you’re talking to someone next to you will really help you expand on that specific article and make it interesting to your readers. When I write these articles I am excited to write, and I normally hate writing! So give it a try! And also email me and tell me what helps you write!

Step 3: Promote Your Blog!

Most people have a difficult time with this step, because it is the hardest and most time consuming. However, promoting your website doesn’t really have to be all that hard and time consuming. Most bloggers only promote their websites through two sources: webmaster forums, and article directories.

First, webmaster forums, if you are already active in a webmaster forum, for example I am active in the webmaster forum DigitalPoint, I simply add a catchy title and URL to my blog on my signature and go about posting normally, if you make an average of one post a day on a webmaster forum, that can lead hundreds of interested and targeted readers to your blog every few days! Imagine now if you post actively, like 10 posts a day! That could mean thousands of visitors every month! Another great way is to actually post an article or two of yours in these webmaster forums, this will help increase exposure to your website as well as get readers interested in you and your content faster, because more people will read it, and if they like it and you put a URL at the bottom with a title that says something to the effect of “for more great articles, click here!” They will hopefully subscribe to your websites RSS feed, or bookmark your website!

Next, article directories, this is the best place for bloggers to get their articles read and their blogs promoted. Millions of people use article directories every month in search of something to read or learn about, and if your content just happens to be what they are looking for, then you might have yourself another subscriber to your blog! I have heard several bloggers tell me that the only article directory that they use is ezinearticles.com; this is contrary to what I will tell you. I will tell you that while ezinearticles.com is a fantastic article directory, arguably one of the best; it is not the only place you should submit your articles to. I have provided a link to a list of over 200 article directories, at the top of this paragraph, and I will suggest that you submit your articles to as many of those as you have time for. The more you submit to, the faster your blog will climb to the top!

Step 4: How To Make Money Off Your Hard Work $$!

The final step, how to make money off your hard work. This has been a controversial step between me and a few of my fellow blogging buddies, some say that it is better to not have any ads on your website to start out, they say that the ads will kill your reader base and will drive more readers away. While I say that if you don’t use too many annoying pop-ups or ads that have sound files, you will be fine. I highly recommend using Google Adsense; they have high quality ads that will not get in your way, not to mention that they pay very well. However, don’t blow off what they say just because I tell you to ignore them. Too much of any kind of ad will be annoying. I recommend extreme moderation for your first few months, no more than two ads, one on bottom of every article (428×60), and maybe one skyscraper on the side (120×600 pixels).

When you get big… I, as well as most bloggers, will recommend that you sell your own ads. This is the most profitable part of blogging. While your income from Google will be nice, I recommend investing in an ad banner manager script so that you can sell ads yourself. I can’t give any good recommendations because I haven’t found a good ad managing script. I just do it the old fashion way. Using a combination of Microsoft Office: Excel and a calendar with alerts, customer buys a monthly ad, I note it on Excel and put it on a calendar and a month from the date the ad goes up, the ad will come down, this is simple and effective and requires little work; and one week till the ad expires I send an email telling the advertiser to renew or else the ad comes down.

And that’s how you start a successful blog, a bit of elbow grease and due diligence and you will be off to a fantastic start. I used to be a subscriber of a blog that made over $20,000 every month, and this article is a tribute to that blog.

Thank you very much! And I hope you read some of my other articles on various types of websites!

Sincerely Your

Internet Income Teacher

-Galen Schneider

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Get You Community Website Designed From a Web Designing Company

Posted on August 7, 2010 by arra| Leave a comment

Some 10-15 years ago, we were contended to see advertisements on the billboards and in newspapers and magazines, but today with online advertising, we hardly feel the need to watch the billboards or screen newspapers for advertisements. Similarly, it was much of a pleasure to see ads and browse through different websites a few years ago, but now, people who have been around in the Internet for couple of years, do not really pay attention to these banner ads. They prefer joining a community to get the answer to their online business queries.


The latest trend amongst users of the web these days is to join communities in order to belong somewhere. Hence, web masters these days are paying more attention towards the creation of such website. Community websites are definitely more profitable but it is not possible to create a good profitable website without the support of an expert. Hence it is suggested that such websites be designed only with assistance from a trained professional web designing company.


When a professional website designing company undertake your project of introducing a community within your website they ensure the following beneficial factors for your website business.


1) It keeps visitors coming back to your site, ensuring a smooth flow of traffic every time.

2) It helps keep your advertising budget low, as community websites do not require aggressive marketing like other sale pitching sites.

3) It provides the users with more than just a business websites, users have the opportunity to do more than just business in these websites.


Once you have a community website ready it is important to understand that it needs to be made popular so that people are willing to join your website community. Ideas to attract traffic into your website should also be coming from the web designing company. Small features like introduction of Blogs, forums, live chats etc are some of the features which will attract traffic into your website.


Website designing is a never ending process. One time creation of websites is a story of the past. Web designing companies these days do not incorporate every activity and feature in the site at once. They tend to follow a process where little things are added into the site gradually in order to make it appear new and fresh.


This is a good way to keep your community website active and bustling with users every now and then.

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Basic Web Design: Why You Should Avoid WYSIWYG Website Builders

Posted on August 5, 2010 by arra| Leave a comment

Basic Web design is easy to learn and you will always get the best results using real code. WYSIWYG “wizard” software that promises to do all the work for you typically causes more problems than it solves.

There are numerous software applications that allow you to drag, drop, point, and click your way to a Web template without ever typing the first line of code. These tools are often called WYSIWYG, meaning What You See Is What You Get. Most such devices are junk and should be avoided at all cost.

Due to the heavily promoted simplicity of WYSIWYG tools, many people use them for their basic Web design needs. But the bottom line is these tools limit your flexibility, create sloppy code, and in many cases simply do not work the way you want them to.

Learning the basics of Web design is easier than you might think. And in the long run you’ll save time and money, plus end up with a much better site, when you create your own code in lieu of using a WYSIWYG.

Let’s look more closely at the primary drawbacks of this type of software.

Limited Flexibility

No matter how slick, expensive, and high-tech a WYSIWYG editor, it’s not as robust and expansive as the human mind. There’s simply no way one of these utilities can be programmed for every possible parameter.

And frankly in most cases point and click Website builders are seriously flawed in terms of what they allow you to do.

As long as you stick with the basics of putting a table here, dropping an image there, and so forth you’ll be fine. But when you decide you want to align a block of text outside and to the right of an existing table, suddenly the software stops responding and you are unable to make the seemingly simple change you want.

WYSIWYG software is not intuitive in many scenarios. And there are a variety of design tactics and format changes you simply cannot do without going directly into the raw code.

Sloppy Code

Neat, properly formatted HTML (and other code) is critical for the success of your site. And it’s totally impossible to duplicate this level of quality when using a WYSIWYG.

When your HTML code is entered incorrectly your site obviously will not display properly. WYSIWYG software generally enters the basic structure correctly, but numerous small errors appear throughout a document created with these tools, and this will cause your pages to look different from one browser to another.

Also, the structure of your code is an important part of onsite search engine optimization. The kind of jumbled slop produced by a WYSIWYG tool can actually harm your search engine rankings, whereas proper hand coding can greatly enhance your position within the results listings.

Just Won’t do What You Want

Even at the level of basic Web design there are times when the developer wants to do something a little outside of the ordinary. And few things are more frustrating in a Website development scenario than wanting to create a specific effect and not being able to do so.

When using WYSIWYG technology you will often discover there is simply no way to create the format or effect you’d like to see on the screen in front of you. The “wizard” must adhere strictly to the rules it was programmed with, and even if the change you want to make is very minor, it just isn’t possible if the WYSIWYG doesn’t understand how to do it.

On the other hand, once you have even a preliminary grasp of basic Web design code, you’ll be able to make any changes you like in a matter of seconds. There are very few limitations when handling raw code, whereas a WYSIWYG will allow you to perform only a pre-determined range of commands.

With the right educational material, the average Internet user can become proficient in the art of basic Web design in 30 days or less. With only a small amount of practice you’ll be cranking out Web pages that are ten times better than those produced by the most expensive WYSIWYG on the market.

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Web Design is to Create a Website Having Interactive Features!

Posted on August 1, 2010 by arra| Leave a comment

Web designing is not a simple HTML (Hypertext Markup language) or CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); it is much more than it. Basically it is a conceptual process in which research, discussion, planning, implementation, and finally, evaluation of electronic media is done via various technologies such as markup languages like HTML which are interpreted and displayed by a web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs) or any other web browser.

The main purpose of web design is to create a website having interactive features and interfaces known as content that is presented to the end user as web pages when requested. For more details go to: www.google-friendly-page.com Elements such as images (GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs), text, colors, tables and forms can be placed on the page using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) usually requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc.

Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.

• Static pages are those which do not change structure, content and layout with every request unless a web master or a programmer manually updates the page.

• Dynamic pages are those which change their content and appearance depending on the end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) We can even change contents on the client side or on end-user’s computer by using client-side scripting languages like JavaScript, and Script, etc. Dynamic content is often compiled and executed on the server through server-side scripting languages like ASP, PHP, Perl, JSP, Python, etc.

Basic Aspects of Design

Depending on the goals of the website and the audience, the website’s requirements and aspects of design changes. For typical commercial websites, the four main basic aspects of design are:

-What kind of content will be required to meet our goals?
The content: The substance and information on the website should be relevant to the website and should target the section of the public that the website is concerned with.

-What kind of look should the website have?
The appearance: the graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, to show consistency. The style should be professional, appealing and relevant.

-What kind of visibility should the website have?
The visibility: the website must be easy to find via most of the major search engines and advertisement media. For can visit to: www.15-ways-to-boost-website-response.com
What kind of usability should the website have?
-The usability: the website should be user-friendly, with the interface and navigation simple and reliable.

For accessible web design, web pages and websites must follow certain accessibility principles like:

• Use sitemaps for proper navigation through the website.
• Use semantic markup that provides a significant structure to the web page.
• Provide suitable hierarchy among different web pages.
• Use a valid markup language like HTML that is supported by all the browsers.
• Provide text alternates for any non-text components like images, multimedia etc.
• Use hyperlinks that make sense when read out of context.
• Use CSS file rather than HTML tags for design and layout.

The website is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. Front-end is the observable content e.g. page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio while the back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components process output from the front-end.

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