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What is the Website Design Process?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:11:20 +0100

by: Maggie Dsilva

Creating a website isn't terribly laborious, particularly with easy platforms created by Blogger, Word Press, or any alternative content or web site creation platforms out there. Most platforms are absolved to download and use, however you would like. But, when it comes to a website design, you are primarily portraying an image to your website's visitors, and professionalism and unity are the foremost necessary aspects of web site design.

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Should you really give away your content?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:13:40 +0100

By: Ron Knowlton

Perhaps you should get someting in return ?
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Hmmmm... Thought provoking stuff!

Think about it for a minute. On the information superhighway you can get almost any kind of information you want for free.

But do you really want to give everything you have (your time, your creations) away for free? Expecting nothing in return.

The answer is probably "no". Afterall, you do want to make money on the internet, don't you?

Or are you there providing your time and your creations as a humanitarian effort to benefit all of mankind, really expecting nothing in return?

So many on the internet are doing just that. But why?

The smart marketers don't.

They expect a little something in return.

Let's take a look at what they're doing and how you can benefit.

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What Buyers Of Websites Are Looking For

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:07:53 +0100

by: Max

I’ve been getting all kinds of comments and questions about WHY we decided to buy BloggingExperiment.com. Some people think we are crazy, claiming the only reason Ben sold it was because “it was falling apart”. Others are excited because they can see our vision of breathing life back into the blog. There are all kinds of questions about how much a blog or website is worth, so in this post I’m going to share the way we look at buying a website (and how everyone I know does it also).

Let me start by going over some basics of buying and selling websites, then I’ll discuss our purchase of this blog.

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Does Your Website Have Calls to Action?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:13:02 +0100

by: Neil Paige

Does your website have `Calls to Action`?

If your answer is “NO” then you have greatly diminished the “Goal Realization Capability” of your website.

Think about an interested visitor to your website and how you have missed a potential conversion opportunity by not presenting him a strong “Call to Action”.

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Password Safety

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:42:15 +0100

by: Richard Lowe, Jr.

If you've been on the internet for any length of time, you've collected about a zillion accounts and their associated passwords. Personally, I have over 500 different active accounts all over the web and probably a thousand more inactive or unused accounts.

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Importance of Website Architecture and Navigation

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:01:32 +0100

Your website’s overall architecture (design) and navigational structure determines the success of your online business. Creating websites that convert visitors to long term customers is the goal of any business website, but unfortunately too many people let their designers create awfully crappy websites with complex designs and navigational structures.

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Searching for a domain to host your website?

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:44:33 +0100

by: Joey Smith

Who is bothering to get a domain for their website by paying a ransom? Who wants to maintain old procedure of owning the domain for their websites? Besides, there is a new way to make the websites accessible through the internet.
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Web Design is 95% Typography

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:08:47 +0100

By: Information architects
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
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The Secrets to Building a Successful Website

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:32:46 +0100

by: Shelley Lowery

If you're doing business on the Internet, one of the most important aspects of your success is your web site. If your web site doesn't look professional, no matter what product you're offering your chances of success are minimal.

Before you begin, if you've never designed a web page, it would be wise to become familiar with HTML. (Hypertext Markup Language.) A great place to start is NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

15 Tips for designing a successful web site:

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Four Critical Web Design Rules

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:19:52 +0100

By: Nicholas LaPolla

Describes in detail four basic but critical website design rules. Following these rules helps webmasters build website content and layout that is effective, functional and loved by search engines.

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Website Design - The First Thing You Should Know

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:23:09 +0100

By: Michael C. Goudelock

Hearing the phrase "custom website design" would almost always automatically send your thoughts soaring into the realm of computer technicalities, codes, complicated procedures, design ideas, and many others; but sometimes, despite all the knowledge you can have about this topic, you may forget the real essence of what you are supposed to be aiming at.

Knowledge of all the technicalities does not necessarily ensure that you will definitely be able to create an effective website of your own. For every goal and aim, one must first make sure that the basics are clear. No, not basic instructions or definitions, but the essential starting points. Imagine that you want to paint the most beautiful portrait of a mountain on the countryside.

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5 Reasons Why Headlines Are Crucial To Your Website's Success

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:58:28 +0200

By: Robert Boduch
With such visual and sequential prominence, it's little wonder why headlines are the number one key to an effective web site.

Without a powerful lead, your message stands little chance of being noticed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. If your headline doesn't capture attention and pull prospects into your sales copy, than your marketing effort is a total waste of energy and resources.

Nothing is more important to getting your message noticed than the first few words on a page. If you're not allocating a sizable percentage of your time and creative effort to the headline used on each page of your website, you could be losing out on a large chunk of business.

Top copywriters understand this concept well. They know how essential it is to capture attention by literally stopping pre-occupied prospects in their tracks. It's the reason why headlines command so much of their collective creative effort.

Here are five good reasons why your site headlines deserve greater emphasis and attention:

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The Low Down on Cascading Style Sheets

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:27:26 +0200

By: Mikhail Tuknov
CSS has been around for more than 10 years already beginning in its development in 1997 but it seems it has been in the public consciousness for only a relatively short time. The reason for this is because it wasn't until the year 2000 that many web browsers began using the capabilities of CSS beyond its more basic color and font characteristics. Of course things are way different now and virtually all modern day browsers feature support for all CSS Level 1 aspects, many aspects of CSS Level 2 and some web browsers have even gone beyond that to support some of the capabilities of CSS Level 3.

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When to let go of your website designing ideas

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:59:22 +0200

By: Craig Bucknall

A handy reference with case studies for newbie web designers on the importance of listening and applying their clients wishes, even though it sometimes goes against some rules of good website design.
As hard as it may be, but letting go of your website designing ideas and listening to the customer may actually be of benefit in the long run.

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Using a robots.txt File

nospam@example.com (Hoogenraad) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:46:00 +0200

by: John Pollock
This is a useful file that keeps search engines from indexing pages you do not want spidered. Why would you not want a page indexed by a search engine? Perhaps you want to display a page that shows an example of spamming the search engines. This type of page might include an example of repeated keywords, hidden tags with keywords, and other things that could get a page or an entire site banned from a search engine.
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