You can either create your own web site or take professional help, and this choice would be dictated by your taste and the amount of money at your disposal. You need not worry too much even if you want to develop your own website but do not know how to go about it. You can lot of help from the internet. Easy to use websites will help you to develop your own website by providing rudimentary instructions. For creating the advanced features of the website, you can consult the internet again. You can follow the elementary web designing tips described below to develop an eye catching website.
1. Use of graphic template – It is better to avoid downloading the graphic designs from the internet although they are freely available. It is better to take professional help and design an inimitable design. At the end it is up to you whether to download the graphic designs or to take the help of a professional to develop your own graphic design.
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Make the website more user-friendly – It is not a simple task to influence a client into buying your products. But you can lose the sale and the good will forever if the customer is ready to buy, but the buying process is complicated or simply takes too much time. It is therefore advisable to design your website in such a way that the buying process is kept simple and quick so that customers do not have to face any hassle
You can either create your own web site or take professional help, and this choice would be dictated by your taste and the amount of money at your disposal. You need not worry too much even if you want to develop your own website but do not know how to go about it. You can lot of help from the internet.
Easy to use websites will help you to develop your own website by providing rudimentary instructions. For creating the advanced features of the website, you can consult the internet again. You can follow the elementary web designing tips described below to develop an eye catching website.
1. Use of graphic template – It is better to avoid downloading the graphic designs from the internet although they are freely available. It is better to take professional help and design an inimitable design. At the end it is up to you whether to download the graphic designs or to take the help of a professional to develop your own graphic design.
2. Make the website more user-friendly – It is not a simple task to influence a client into buying your products. But you can lose the sale and the good will forever if the customer is ready to buy, but the buying process is complicated or simply takes too much time. It is therefore advisable to design your website in such a way that the buying process is kept simple and quick so that customers do not have to face ;
3. Maintain up to date content developing – In today’s busy world a prospective client does not have the time to go through an attractive but time consuming website. Your website should therefore be fast enough to ensure that the customers time is not wasted in just browsing through your website’s contents.
4. Streamline the navigation – A good business is streamlined to increase the productivity. A website therefore forms a crucial part of your business. It functions in a manner similar to the head office of your brick and mortar company. Make all efforts to ensure that the website should be sleek and effective while also easy to access. These are only some of the web designing tips you should keep in mind while designing a website for your products and services. For a successful and ever growing business on your website, follow the above web design instructions.
How to manage your web design business – first part
In the previous posts we have discussed if being a Web Designer is more than just “doing PSD” and I said that nowadays a Web Designer should know a bit of SEO, understand how to influence the conversion rates of a site and have at least a basic idea about what coding a site means. I’m going a bit further today and will be discussing about Web Designers that don’t want to be working for The Man and start their own small business. Having your own “internet” business gives you a large number of opportunities and options, some sort of a “freedom” that you can’t get as a simple employee.
Learning how to manage your online business can be a difficult task, especially if you start like most small creative business out there, without an entrepreneurial background and only based on your “productive” profession. The time, the effort and the way you understand how a business works are very critical for your success because running a business requires a different set of skills; and while you might be very good at what you do as a web designer, the competition, market and customers are the toughest “boss” you will ever have.
Without going into details probably the most challenging things when running a small business are:
finding customers;
cash in enough money to pay the bills;
be efficient enough to make a profit;
hire staff to grow your business.
For each of the points above you could probably write a book or more without covering the subject entirely. So I’m only going to make a separate post for each of them and only mention what most people fail at.
Finding customers
Finding customers is probably the most obvious thing entrepreneur wanna-be are afraid off and yes, finding them is the most important thing for every business owner. Customers are not something that can find on a local super market, but there are a few keys for success:
Word of mouth is the most powerful tools a small business could have to get customers.
Probably you don’t have a lot of money to do advertising, go to trade shows and other “high end” strategies, but word of mouth works all the time and even if you don’t have a site, fancy office and business cards. It’s free as it doesn’t cost you money, but to get it you usually have to overdeliver, which as we will discuss later it costs time (and therefore money). Get referrals from other businesses or from your existing customers.
Finding people that sell different products or services but are still on the same market can be very helpful to your business because their customers might need your services. So placing a banner on their website can attract some new clients for you. But being a “good guy in the industry” might get you friendly help from other small businesses just like yours. And previous customers for which you overdelivered are your best sales force even if you don’t know it yet, because they are genuine in recommending your business. Create a strategy and plan. Go niche.
I’m not sure if you ever watched a sales guy working, but they are quite organized: they think of where the needs of the customer meet with what you deliver then they are trying to identify where these potential customers are. You might hate doing sales, but being an entrepreneur is being the jack of all trades so you need to think what would be your ideal customer, how you might get that customer on your website and convert him into a buyer. Think about the circles they travel in, who are they likely to listen to or where do they look when trying to buy a product or a service like yours. But most importantly, don’t try to target all the potential customers in the World. I know it sounds like a good way to have lots and lots of potential customers but it really doesn’t. You should focus on a niche and become the best on it. Keep an eye on (your potential customers) industry events.
If you focus on a niche is far easier to find customers and target them with specific solutions to their needs. Let’s say you are good at creating web sites for restaurants. Then the food and dining industry is your niche market. Now, where would be a good chance to meet more food and dining potential customers? You guessed it: at a food/catering industry event. Study the competition.
This one is quite obvious but I mention it because I hope you won’t go to that food and catering even without checking on the competition first. You might not run into them there, but chances are the first way of dealing with sales rejection is to know what the other solutions are and where you can come up with a better solution. Checking on the competition is a good way of checking on your business, because knowing their strong and weak points can help improve your business and find unfulfilled needs in the market. Learn from their experience, how they promote their products and services. Realize there is no quick way.
Studies say that most businesses close their doors in the first 5 years. If you are afraid of failing, that’s ok. Most entrepreneurs are afraid of failing and in fact if you don’t, then this is a warning sign you’re being un-realistic for some reason. But you know when most of these businesses fail? Not when they don’t have enough sales. They fail when the entrepreneur stops trying.
Next time we will talk about cashing in enough money to pay the bills.
All the famous SNSD have released their first Photobook the collection of 354 pages filled with amazing photos with the nine beautiful girls. For a SONE, they can be a must have. The girls travelled to Tokyo to shoot this Photobook and now have released it worldwide on 31st May 2010. One other attraction is a truly special 69 minute DVD of this girls enjoying Tokyo which even has Language subtitles.
Girls’ Generation, the top female pop group from Korea can be described as very popular all girl band. They are better known as SNSD which is an acronym for their own Korean name: So Nyeo Shi Dae. The group is known for a solid fan following throughout Asia and their Fan club is known as SONE. This group hit the audience in relation to their very first debut in 2007 with their single “Into the new world”. Ever since then, the girls from Girl’s Generation have been very prevalent with young teenagers throughout Asia. So popular are they that there was a reality show filmed with their debut number named “Girls go to school”.
The group includes 9 girls, all of which have been seen on TV or magazines before people made their debut with SNSD. For many girls throughout Asia, Girls Generation is a symbol of woman power and their fans look forward with great enthusiasm to the singles, albums or even this Photobook. Many fans have been awaiting this Photobook filmed in Tokyo for many years. The fact that millions of copies were booked even before it had become released speaks for how popular this all girl pop band is really. The nine beautiful members featured in the Photobook are Hyoyeon, Seohyun, Jessica, Sunny, Sooyoung, Yoona, Tiffany, Taeyeon in addition to Yuri. These girls did not become a moment success with their very first single. Keep in mind, it was appreciated by many but the software received more “mixed reviews” than all superior ones. With their second single “Kissing you” they won for a million hearts and increased their fan pursuing. For the Korean market, their albums sell at the surprisingly fast pace. By early 2008 we were holding a sensation and millions of young girls looked up to the Girls’ Generation.
By 2009 they experienced their mini-album which sold overnight. In 2009, they attempted their first solo concert at Seoul and won most awards in the music awards ceremony. So famous are these girls actually also ambassadors promoting many products ranging from chicken to mobile phones. In 2010, the girls have officially entered the japanese market with full force. And to top it, they shot the fabulous Photobook in Tokyo, representing the beautiful beached along with the lovely rains. The Photobook was received with great enthusiasm and the SONE’s are thrilled to be able to own a piece of the girls’ excursions in Tokyo.
The SNSD Photobook is wonderful; it is priced at $ 65, slightly high priced, but totally worth the money. For the actual Korean pop scene, this marks a new beginning as it’s really a new way to reach out to their fans who have made the group what they are nowadays. It’s more stylish, more sophisticated and definitely a tremendous amount for all the SONEs as it comes together with a DVD that every fan can enjoy for years to come.
Abdul loves kpop and how they came up with snsd members which was a very smart move
As in getting married in the real life, the first cool thing is the honeymoon period. When you launch a new website and it’s being indexed by Google, your website has a “honeymoon period”. Accordingly to Google that means a new site will appear in the first results pages for a limited period of time. Google offers new websites more exposure to visitors this way, but in the following period of time that website will decline to its natural position on the search results. The good part is that you don’t have to do anything else than get indexed by Google when you launch a new website. The bad part is not to act during this period and after your website reaches its natural position. I told you, just like in the real life.
So why should you care about SEO, you’re just the web designer right?
I’ll answer that by telling you what the customer will ask as soon as the site is online and past the honeymoon period: “why isn’t my site appearing on the first page of Google where all the competition is?” Well, it needs some SEO, and for that there are companies that provide consultancy and services.
the first thing will happen when the customer will go to a SEO company is that he’s going to receive a report how bad the site is. Which basically means that the customer “finds out that his brand new site is bad and to blame is the … Web designer that built it in the first place”. And that’s unlikely to help you get good references from that customer later.there might be some changes that the SEO company would like to do on its own (yes, overwriting your code and work). And that means the future work on the site might go directly to the SEO company instead of going your way.customers don’t just need a web page, they need a marketing tool. If the tool “doesn’t work” as expected, attract visitors and convert them into buyers it doesn’t serve its purpose. And that’s unlikely to get you more design work from the customer.
So when you create a new website for your customer you’ll need to rank it good in Google; there are a bunch of factors that determine the position in Google searches. You’re not and shouldn’t be a SEO expert but let me explain the very basic things every web designer should know.
Basic SEO techniques the Web designers should implement in their work1. Implement Google analytics
The first step to any serious SEO activity is to evaluate the position of the website in the search results. And in order to do so you need specific software like Google Analytics. You can get insights of your traffic and analyze the data, learn how to target and convert more visitors. It’s very easy to install – more information can be found at theGoogle Analytics website.
2. Use a real time tracker (optional)
One of the downsides of using Google Analytics is that it does not provide real time feedback. A live tracker could help you keep an eye on your visitors and what they are doing almost live: how they interact with your website, what they click, why they left.Statcounterfor example is an invisible real time tracker for websites that has powerful tools like “visitors path” that shows on which links a visitor clicked during a visit, “magnify user” which offers a detailed report about the selected user like the country of the user, their PC system info and the referral link from which they landed into your website. Another cool feature is Keyword Analysis which allows you to identify which keywords are working for your website and which are the ones that don’t. Installation is very easy – just need to copy a JS script in the of the site.
3. Take advantage of the Google Webmasters tools
Google Webmasters tools offer an insight of your indexing status. You can check why your website is not indexed and if there are any errors you should fix. You can view your website ranking for the keywords you selected. One of the features lets you view the incoming links to your website and also check if your website has any dead links. Another feature is that you can check if your website was infected by malware and see the crawler stats. One cool feature is the HTML suggestion which helps you with the meta and title tags. . You can find more at theofficial website.
4. Implement basic SEO in the website
Every day there are new websites launched and every day websites with better SEO rank higher. So what are the minimum SEO techniques every Web designer should know and easily implement in their work?
The basics of SEO:
Choose a title that is relevant to the page’s content. Avoid using “Untitled” or duplicate title tags for your pages. And make sure your title doesn’t have too many unnecessary keywords. The limit in character number for a title tag is 60 characters. Try to use an accurate title tag for every page.
Create a good description meta tag for your pages because Google might use it for snippets. You can read more about snippetshere. Avoid using generic description for your pages, or keyword stuffing. Even duplicate content from your page inside the description tag is not recommended.
You’re probably not creating the texts for the sites, but if you do, try to have unique and relevant content for the targeted readers; it would be a very good practice to advice the customer on how to write content. You can useGoogle keyword toolto find variations for the keywords and the latest trends in searches for specific keywords. By offering unique content to the readers, the site will achieve higher positions in Google search results.
Use a correct HTML tagUse proper HTML description meta tagContent makes the difference5. The non-SEO way of appearing on the first page of Google
Another way to appear on the first page is to pay for it. By usingGoogle Adwordsyou can have the first position on search results for different regions. Still, the cost of adWords is directly linked to the quality score of your site. So to optimize the paid positioning you’re getting back to using proper SEO techniques. Keep in mind this is a paid solution, so every month you have to pay, or you will be charged by every click.
No-no in SEO that every Web designer should know1. Duplicate content
If your website has the same content as other websites that are older, then your website will be penalized by Google for having duplicate content. Not to mention the legal copyright issues that might arrive. Having duplicate content between your own pages is bad as well and you might not even know it. This can easily be checked with Google Webmasters Tools.
2. Spam behavior
Your website might be penalized by Google for a spam like behavior, meaning that you used too much keywords in your pages or you didn’t use unique and relevant content inside the pages. Your website can be penalized by linking to malware sites or containing too many links, in this case your website will be considered a link farm and it will be penalized. Your website can be penalized by having a javascript code that Google considers to be harmful to the user. If you find yourself in one of this situations you must knowwhat to do. Accordingly to Google, Sandbox is a filter to block spam website or MFA websites (made for Adsense) to appear in the first results page. Meaning that your website is considered a spam website so any boost in performance, optimization or SEO will be blocked until your website is out of the sandbox period. Keep in mind this can be from 3 months up to 12 months. So be careful when playing with SEO and keywords, or else you might be penalized for it. Here is asandbox-checkerfor your website.
3. Using black hat SEO techniques
Using black hat techniques might improve the positioning of the site on the short term, but it might get the site banned completely. If you are not sure what is accepted and what is not, check theGoogle Webmaster guidelines.
4. Building the website only for SEO purposes and not for the user experience
Creating code that is only visible to search engines and don’t improve the user experience is a no-no. Avoidhidden text or hidden links. Don’t usecloaking or sneaky redirects.
Further readingSo,does it make sense to learn CSSif you only do small websites?17 website optimization tipsfor Web Developers
www.authorityseo.com shows how to check to see what search engines like Google are indexing on your home page and secondary pages to support your SEO web design.
Everyone says that you must have your own list to make it big in Internet marketing. But, where do you start? How, precisely, do you build a list? To build a list you must have the following resources: The first resource is an autoresponder. Your autoresponder will handle your list and send your emails to your opt in list. What precisely does an autoresponder do to handle your list
making money : Many people go online in search of easy money, but they come out thinking the idea of quit-your-job online income is just a scam. The basic problem is that most people do not know what to look for when trying to find the “right” opportunity for them – most people see an add on television or online, but do not do the proper research to see if the program meets their needs or not. As a result, they end up spending valuable time and money on home business scams that end up going nowhere, and they fail to take any action. Those who are just starting out looking at online business opportunities can benefit from a list of a few simple “tests” that often separate legitimate systems from scams and time-wasters. First, how expensive is the program? In any business, you are trying to make a profit. Always be realistic about how much you can afford to spend, and if the pricetag is more than you make in two months, it is probably a good idea to walk away.
by Andrew Jacobsen If you are an SEO specialist working with small businesses, or you own a small business, then you know how important having high ranking in Google can be. If it is a competitive industry like plumbing then it can be absolutely critical to rank high in the local listings. Most of the time the local results take up the entire first half of the page requiring the searcher to scroll to see the first organic ranking. As a search engine optimization specialist I know that the majority of the clicks are going to these local listings
So you want to increase targeted web traffic by writing and submitting articles. Well I must say that the best way to unique is through article submission. I have found that in the long run, this process of article submission brings the highest ROI(return on investment) as well as the best unique website traffic. Your new visitors are already interested in what you have to say because they have already read your article. When this visitor clicks your link they have a lot of interest in your product and want to read your offer on more detail
Wellington, situated on the southern tip of New Zealand’s Northern Island is the southernmost capital city in the world. The gusty winds that blow non-stop off Cook Straight have earned it the epithet “Windy City”. Wedged between steep hills, Wellington’s limited space for expansion has forced the city to build high in order to accommodate increased demand for commercial and residential building. Victorian structures fell victim to new construction and modernization, giving Wellington the most modern skyline in the country. The Maori people called the area around Wellington “the Head of Maui’s fish”, a reference to an incident in the Polynesian Maui Cycle when the hero, Maui, fought his siblings over a huge fish, leading to the land being cut up both by the fish’s thrashing tail and by their knives. When James Cook made a side trip here in 1773, the rough landscape of the bay was densely settled. Maori tribes fought one another constantly for the best coastal locations. This, along with the strong, unfavourable winds, may explain why Cook did not drop anchor and go ashore.
Any business today can benefit from been online especially during the downturn, but many are deterred from getting online by the cost of professional help or the time needed for self-build tutorials. Now, with the UK launch of 90 Second Website Builder, individuals and small companies can create a complete,create a complete, custom designed website in no time at all. This smart software allows you to drag and drop and so takes the complexity out of creating and uploading sites, so that even the most non technical of us can get online in no time, for a credit-crunching cost of just £47. MD Ken Smaile says: “Unlike most website packages, you don’t need to know anything about network protocols, programming language or imaging software to produce a professional looking site. Even if you’re an absolute beginner, with 90 Second Website Builder you can create a website that will promote your company – without taking costly time out from your core business. Simply add your text, logo and images before publishing to the internet takes just one click.” Traditional HTML editors use dynamic page layout, which means that the first object placed on the page will then determine the position of all subsequent items
