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In January of each year, we flip over the hourglass and, once again, we have everything in front of us. The new year gives us a clean slate, a chance for change and encouragement to evolve the way we do things. In the past, we’ve yielded to client and user requests to pack our website designs full of unrelated features and countless pages of duplicate information. The change we have been waiting for has come – our users have matured. 2010 is the year of Design Simplicity.

Clean and Simple

There are many design trends this year, however, I feel it is important to focus specifically on the movement of Design Simplicity. In fact, as the web evolves, it is our responsibility as designers to keep the order of things. This means fewer pages, less clicks, less clutter and more whitespace. In 2010, clean is King and our users are asking for it. I don’t blame them. With access to an increasing amount of information on the web everyday, our attention span is naturally diminishing. Now, more than ever, design needs to engage the user, provide succinct information and allow them to go on their merry way. Who knows, maybe airlines and banks will even clean up their 1990s design.

Now Design Simplicity does not mean removing functionality or access to information. This trend of simplicity is not as easy as reducing the elements and content in your user interface. To achieve the less is more effect, you have to develop a valuable user experience by utilizing a creative toolset. Think of the iPhone – the greatest innovation in modern mobile phones has only one button.

Single Page Websites

Each time a visitor clicks deeper into your site, a fraction of their interest dies. With the evolution of users, you can get to the point quickly. So in order to keep visitors’ attention, many designers are providing access to the core items needed to make an impression front and center. Think of the homepage as the main interface to all of the website’s content.When you start to layer some of the below items on the list including sliders, modal boxes and toolbars, you can provide pages of information without clicking off the page. iPhone App websites are a great example of single page websites in action.

Sliders

Sliders are a great way to provide indirect and precise content through a simple and visual interface. Instead of giving users heavy navigational options and a smorgasbord of direct content, I expect to see more content available indirectly with the use of slider and decision tree logic on the homepage or main pages of the site. This provides a more distinct website path and an appropriate experience for each user type.

Modal boxes

Modal boxes, inherited from the dying desktop software standard, allow users to interact with the site without interrupting the flow of their experience. Why take the user to a separate page to login or watch a video when you can pop it up instantly on the current layout? Modal boxes will continue to spread in usage and functionality. Expect to see modal boxes used for data input forms, lead generation, account settings and more.

Smart Navigation and Taskbars

Continuing on the path of desktop/web app convergence, smart navigation and taskbars will dynamically shape the user experience. Smart navigation consolidates large categories of content and displays meta data to help determine the best path of navigation. Taskbars allow you to seamlessly interact with web content and enable websites to learn your preferences.

Reuters utilizes both to maintain a simple but powerful interface. Mouse over one of the four navigational items and get live market info or news before choosing your next page. The taskbar allows you to save, watch or read specific content or topics like a feedreader.

Text Is The New Image

Clever use of typography will continue to gain momentum this year thanks to the original influence of designers like 37signals. The proper use of large and bold typography provides a clean and clear message and can, at times, be more compelling than imagery. In some cases, design will see subtle imagery supporting the typography. When you really need to get your point across, you can’t beat words.

Larger Page Layouts

As monitor size and screen resolution increases so does the real estate for page layout design. This doesn’t mean that we should be laying claim to every available pixel out there. Instead it gives more room for whitespace so designs can present a clear message.

My Trend Wish List

Here are a few items I see when I look into my crystal ball. That doesn’t mean they will happen, but here’s to hoping.

Mobile Version Of Every Website

It’s great that today’s smartphones can view webpages in their standard web format, however, it’s just not an optimal experience for most websites due to screen size. I think all websites should auto-format based on the viewing device. Gmail, Facebook and Amazon have already taken on this standard. There are great tools out there such as Mobify that enable easy and inexpensive ways to achieve this. I believe that this will lead to more design agencies specializing in only the mobile format.

eCommerce Tweaker Shopping

Live search and filtering powered by AJAX have been present for some time in websites like kayak.com or Google Suggest. However, there are still many verticals that have not yet adapted this intuitive selection process. eCommerce websites should give users control of their shopping experience by allowing them to tweak their search results based on their preferences – color, price, social graph, size, features…etc. Right now, sites like Amazon force users to browse all results based on category or search term and then sort.They give users static results that equire additional searching or copious browsing to refine. The browsing aspect of an online store can be changed to a tweak by implementing AJAX sliders, checkboxes and other filtering inputs that enable the user to narrow down the results that suit them best. Users would spend their time tweaking a large pool of products to find the one that fits all their criteria instead of having to examine each product individually or use product comparison engines.

Smart Forms

Other than eCommerce sales, forms are the number one source of user action on the web. The more intelligent and user-friendly forms become, the better results of their conversions. Forms will continue to be more customized to user input. Forms already feature a lot of on the fly validation to correct errors such as improperly formatted email addresses before submittal. I believe that forms should continue to evolve and adapt to user input. Expect to see forms add, change or remove fields based on certain types of input such as gender, age or preference. This allows the website to better cater to the needs and experience of the user and gather more appropriate information. It should also reduce form bounce rates as they are more customized to the user type.

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Excerption: http://www.articlezones.com/internet/web-design/role-of-web-design.html

Designing for the web involves multitude skilled disciplines from layout to type & colour. Colour is especially significant as it provides the user’s first impression. the right colours can create a good user experience, whilst inappropriate colours can have a bad impact.

A good website designers needs to increase his skills and abilities to identify what the visitors want at a rapid pace. There are several vocational training programs for the web designers and these courses are generally tailored to provide a clear insight on the latest tools and technologies that are used in the market.

Choosing the right web design service is a challenge. More and more people are claiming to be web designers, but do they have the experience and expertise to transform your blank canvas into a work of art that will attract visitors, rank well on search engines, and give you a positive return on your investment?

The essential qualities to look for in an efficient webmaster are intelligence, enthusiasm for web technology, exceptionally good communication skills, thoroughness and an eye for detail, integrity, ability to be an efficient team player, courtesy, professionalism, experience in web development and finally knowledge of Perl, UNIX, HTML, CGI and JavaScript.

The first task is the web site design. As stated above, it involves designing the site pages. The designer here deals mainly with the HTML code. This language is used to build the web pages and it is the primary language of course. The responsibly of the web site designer is to design a layout for each page of the site.

Nobody wants to browse a web page full of text, because let’s face it, it’s outright boring. When creating a web site, the developer has to implement in the web site components which will make the visitor come back and visit the page again. The perfect way to do this is by using web design thus making the site attractive and eventually, popular.

Colour psychology can play a huge role in making a successful site. to create a subliminal expectation among the end user can be an effective sales tool. choosing colours thoughtlessly can accidentally put users off the site. creating combinations of colour that direct users to an end goal can generate sales and remove stress from the user experience.

Online business provides the opportunity to present your business globally. The successful development of your ideas is key to the success and growth of your business. Website can help to establish a web presence globally and fulfill company’s visions and goals.

Hello again readers we found this article which we hope you will enjoy as much as we did, if you would like more information on the topics discussed in the article do not hesitate to contact Cre8 and we will be happy to discuss how the subject might be applied to your business.

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If you have decided to make a website by yourself, you must stay clear of newbie errors that could cost the success of your site. Professional web designers don’t make these common mistakes. You shouldn’t either. These errors are what separate the amateurs from the experts. If you would like to think of yourself as a seasoned designer or at least you would like to be one, you should avoid these mistakes at all costs.

Mistake #1: Using eye-straining colors on the website

Don’t make your text unreadable because of the inappropriate color combination that you’re using for your site. It is okay to experiment. But be sure that you stick to the color scheme that won’t push your visitors away.

Mistake #2: Using unreadable fonts

Not all of your visitors are young and vibrant. Others are old people sitting in front of their computers all day trying to while away time. Simple fonts are always the better option than the fancy ones.

Mistake #3: Controlling your user’s web browser.

You might stumble upon a cool program that could resize your visitor’s web browser, make them open different windows at a time, or redirect your visitors without their intervention. While such software is a great find indeed, not all visitors like it. Some find it impulsive that they would never want to visit your site again. They may also think that you’ve got some bad ware on your website, which makes their browsers act like possessed.

Mistake #4: Flash and multimedia overkill.

Sure you want your website to be more interactive. But don’t over do it. Multimedia elements would do nothing but slow down the loading of your web pages. You don’t want to make your impatient visitors wait for your site to load up simply because there is music playing automatically in the background. Limit the use of flash animations, audio files, and videos. If you must use them, never go for the auto play option.

Mistake #5: Using design that fails to attract your customer’s attention.

Keep in mind that you only have a split second to captivate the interest of your visitors. There must be something in your site that your visitor would like so much that he prefers to stay a little longer and browse more of your site’s pages. Try to put images, graphics, banners, and headers in the right places for best results.

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Excerption:  http://www.cyberdesignz.com/blog/website-design/8-web-design-trends-2010/

With the New Year rolling in, the old trends of web design are pretty much rolling out. The entire web community has become vigorous to bring up something unique and make a name in this wild and ever changing world of the three W’s. To keep your users interested in your business (whatever it is), you’ve got to integrate new elements to your existing website, or completely give it a drastic makeover to suit the upcoming trends in the year 2010. For a start, here are the things you can imply.

Gigantic Logos and Headers

This is probably the best alternative to all the flashy flash you want to use on your website. Make note and remember it, “flash is outdated” so better not use it in your 2010 website design. You can use a huge banner instead. This way, the first page of your website will give a one-image impression like that of flash, but instead of the annoying clicking your user will simply have to scroll down to get the information.

Magazine Layout

Since the internet users are inclined more towards entertainment and interesting short articles, web designers can profit this interest factor by creating magazine type layout, where all information is displayed attractively and briefly like that in a glossy magazine.

Hand Drawn Sketches

This is a big break to the traditional graphics and illustrations you find on the web everywhere. It gives simple, unique and personalized look to your website visitors. Similar to hand drawn images, handwriting style is also gaining much popularity.

Typography

This aspect is increasingly gaining popularity and is highly recommended for your 2010 web design. Instead of using the regular fonts, it’s always better to try some larger, more happening fonts to make yourself stand out.

One Page Designs

Giving your website a “business card” look is another web design trend for future. This will eliminate the nasty experience of navigation and will give the user all info at one place. This kind of design will also help eliminate the needles material from your website.

Application of Large Images and Pictures

Large images and illustrations will be used as an invitation for the visitors. Exciting images have played a contemporary role in attracting website visitors and keeping their interest build up, this process will continue more comfortably by designers in 2010.

Replacing Icons For Text

A small icon representing the whole section instead of using words is also quite appealing and recognizable for users. This also increases the chance of people to spot that specific section easily.

Enough White Space

White backgrounds are the best choice for your website and perhaps a safer choice too. To make anything prominent and make your website a less hurtful setting for the users eyes, always prefer white or nude background colors.

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Web content is the reason that people come to your Web pages. But many Web designers and Web developers forget this in their rush to create the prettiest page or the most interesting architecture or the best interaction. When it comes right down to it, customers are not interested in whether your design has a 3-pixel or a 5-pixel bevel. They don’t care that you’ve built it in Drupal. And they just want the interactivity to work and not get in the way.

What your customers are coming to your Web page for is the content. And if your designs, architectures, and interactivity don’t provide that content they will leave. At the end of the day content is still king, and designers who forget that won’t remain in business long.

What is Web Content?

There are, essentially, two types of Web content:

• Text
• Multimedia

Text as Web Content

Text is easy, it’s the written content that’s on the page, both inside images and in text blocks. The best textual Web content is that text that has been written for the Web, rather than simply copy-and-pasted from a print source. Textual Web content will also have good internal links to help readers get more information and aid in scanning the text. Finally, Web text will be written for a global audience as even local pages can be read by anyone around the world.

Multimedia Web Content

The other type of Web content is multimedia. To put it simply, multimedia is any content that isn’t text, but this includes a lot of different things:

• Animation
• Images
• Sound
• Video

Animation can be created using GIF images or using Flash, Ajax, or other animation tools.

The best animations for websites are done in moderation. The exception to this rule would be if your website is to showcase a Web cartoon or animated movies.

Images are the most common way to add multimedia to websites. You can use photos or clip art or even drawings you’ve created yourself using a graphics editor or scanner.

Images on Web pages should be optimized, so that they download fast. They are a great way to add interest to your pages, and many designers use them to decorate every article they write.

Sound is embedded in a Web page so that readers hear it when they enter the site or when they click a link to turn it on. Keep in mind that sound on Web pages can be controversial, especially if you turn it on automatically and don’t provide a way to turn it off easily.

Video is getting more and more popular on Web pages. But it can be challenging to add a video so that it works reliably across different browsers.

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There are a number of benefits to building a website for your business. A simple website can tell people about your company, provide them with directions to your location and give them your contact information. Most of all, it’s the best way to create a good impression for your customers and clients

Branding Your Business
Your business will also benefit when you use your website to help brand your company. Branding, marketing and PR efforts become easier tasks when you do them online. You can make your press releases available to reporters outside of your region, you can also make sure your customers, prospective customers and clients understand your company’s mission, vision and goals. Your online marketing efforts definitely do not need to “match” your other collateral materials, but there should be some cohesive messages in all of your marketing materials about your brand.

Online Reputation Management
If you’ve had “issues” with complaints about your small business online, you can use your website, a powerful reputation management tool, to fight back. In addition to posting information that helps clear your good name, online reputation management has other benefits, too. Used as part of a smart organic SEO campaign, the information you provide will quickly begin showing up in first page Google results. And online reputation management will take the negative online posts about you, your team or your company and push them back, to the pages in Google that aren’t as well-traveled.

Unlocking Organic SEO
Organic search engine optimization (SEO) is the number one benefit of using a website to promote your small business. When utilized properly, a small business website can help improve your company’s search engine results. With the right mix of organic SEO techniques, like embedding keywords and tags within your content, there’s no reason why your website can’t get into first page Google results within a month or two of optimization. With organic SEO that focuses on conversions, you can also target specific groups of customers and increase sales through your small business website.

Money-Saving Opportunities
There are some important ways to save money with your small business website. You can cut back on inbound customer service calls by providing a list of frequently asked questions about your business online. You can reduce mail processing and inbound calls when you accept payments online. Providing information on your website that you used to have to print and mail to clients and customers can also save you money. And, providing employees with information about benefits online can help ease the phone calls into your already overtaxed Human Resources area.

There are a number of other ways you can use a website to benefit your small business.

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Web design is the process of visualizing, planning and designing up of electronic media content by using Markup language and graphics on internet. Built with the purpose to market the goods and services, web site designs have become a modern day symbol to attract internet users to come and avail the services. This whole marketing process includes building concepts keeping goals in the mind, inspection of corporate image keeping in mind the brand promotion of the services being offered and providing the relevant content to give important market ruling information for users.

Web designing also includes many technical factors as to give a shape to your concept. It is a kind of an advertisement that needs to be effective and attract a large number of people to increase the sales aspiration of the website owner.

Benefits of a Web Site

Web design services are the ultimate solution for advertising on the internet. A web site is the perfect way to attract users who are beyond the geographical boundary. It reflects all the necessary and vital information about the company and reflects the aims and aspiration of the company in effective manner. Having a good web site also gives you benefit to increase your web presence and help you to enhance business profitability. One of the major benefits of making a web site is conveying of goals of the business.

For availing the right kind of web site design services, certain considerations should be made seriously. One of the importance points to keep in mind is the choice of information and layout. Layout is important as it gives the first positive impression on the onlookers. It is our tendency that if we like the outer part, chances are that the inner pages will be seen too. Therefore, it is necessary to make the home page really attractive and interesting to catch eyes.

Content is also a very important part of a web site. Infusing interesting and usable information will help in holding on users as the main purpose of internet surfing is seeking information and increasing knowledge.

A web site must be properly placed. It simply means that information must be given according to its relevancy. Unnecessary information must not be included and proper spacing must be maintained to balance the page.

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Excerption:  http://webdesign.about.com/od/seo/bb/choosing-an-seo-marketing-firm.htm

SEO is a lot of work to do well, and it takes constant monitoring and updating to keep your site well indexed. Because of this many website owners are starting to hand that task off to companies dedicated to the job search engine optimization. But before you choose a company to do your SEO for you there are a few things you should be aware of:

Look at the Timeline for the Proposal

SEO takes a long time to really take affect. If a company is saying they’ll have results in a few weeks or months, then you should avoid them. Also, you should find a company that will stick with the job until 3-6 months have passed so that you can see that there have been results. Plus, the best SEO work is ongoing, so a proposal that includes regular maintenance is better than one that doesn’t

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RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” (definition of RSS). But many people don’t seem to understand what this actually means. While you probably have no trouble understanding “really simple”, the word syndication seems to be misunderstood. According to dictionary.com, it means:

“8. to publish simultaneously, or supply for simultaneous publication, in a number of newspapers or other periodicals in different places: Her column is syndicated in 120 papers.”

While there are other meanings, for the purposes of Web content, that’s the definition.

Many Web content developers use RSS feeds to syndicate their content. They put either excerpts or entire articles into the feed through their blog, and this content is then fed out to the internet via RSS. Just like in newspaper syndication, RSS provides a broader potential audience for the content than might have been found on their website alone. Most content authors who put their content into RSS feeds appreciate this fact, and enjoy seeing their content in RSS aggregators and feed readers. They know that their audience is larger because of the RSS.

So What is the Problem with RSS, Then?

The problem is when other website owners use those RSS feeds to syndicate the content onto their website. Rather than writing their own articles, they use feeds to provide constantly changing content on their site. I provide a tutorial for how to use RSS in exactly this way (How to Add an RSS Feed to a Web Page).

Many bloggers post their entire website into the RSS feed. When they find another website that has apparently taken all their content and republished it without permission, they are understanably upset. It doesn’t matter that they posted it in RSS, all they are seeing is that their content is being displayed somewhere else without permission.

RSS scraping is the practice of some websites of taking RSS content, placing it on their site and implying that they wrote the content. Some RSS scrapers take advantage of bloggers who post entire articles into their RSS feed and remove credit, links, and sometimes change the content in other ways.

Is Using RSS Feeds on a Website Plagiarism or Even a Violation of Copyright?

The real answer is “it depends”. Most Web content developers welcome syndication through RSS, even and including using the entire article as is sent via the feed. But there are a few exceptions that you should be aware of if you decide to use feeds in this way:

1. Be aware of any specific terms and conditions that may apply to your use of the RSS feeds. For example, The New York Times Company has the following Terms and Conditions listed at the bottom of their RSS feeds page:
   

   We encourage the use of NYTimes.com RSS feeds for personal use in a news reader or as part of a non- commercial blog. We require proper format and attribution whenever New York Times content is posted on your web site, and we reserve the right to require that you cease distributing NYTimes.com content. Please read the Terms and Conditions for complete instructions.

2. Always provide full and correct attribution. On the Web that means you should never remove links back to the originating content. And you should make it as clear as possible who did write the content.
3. Don’t change the content in any way. The minute you change it, you are no longer in the syndication realm, you are in the copyright violation realm.
4. Don’t add advertising to the pages with the syndicated feeds. Many content authors are fine with having their content displayed on other websites, as long as you are doing so for free. If you add advertising (especially the noxious inline, double-underlined text ads), you are profiting off their work without permission.
5. Remove the pages you have syndicated feeds on from search. Use a robots.txt file to tell search engine spiders not to index the pages that have syndicated feeds on them. You should do this because duplicated content can cause the original content owner problems with search engines.
6. If the owner asks you to remove the feed, you should do so immediately and without complaint. Ultimately it is their content and if they don’t want you to use it, you should respect that. If you don’t, you could be looking at a lawsuit.

Remember too, that “fair use” is not generally a valid explanation. For one thing, fair use states that you are only using an excerpt, and that you are using that excerpt to explain, review, or otherwise illuminate your own text. If you are simply feeding an RSS feed into your site, especially if you do so without attribution and add advertising, that is not “fair use”.

How Can Content Developers Protect Their Content and Still Use RSS?

As I’ve mentioned, there are a lot of benefits to using RSS to promote your website content. But if you do use it, you should use your head and be smart about how you do so. Here are some guidelines you should consider:

• Use a Creative Commons License on your feed, and be sure to display it prominently. In fact, if you send large excerpts or your entire content via RSS, you should include the license information inside every post.
• Use your blog tools to limit what you send out. WordPress has a “more” button on the editing page that pushes content after onto a separate page. And in the default configuration only sends out via RSS the content that displays before the more tag. Other blogging tools have similar features.
• Don’t be afraid to contact sites that you feel are using your content inappropriately.
• And, be aware of your feelings in the matter. If you don’t like it when people syndicate your blog posts, then you should consider not using RSS. There will always be people who will ignore terms and conditions and claim that the second S in RSS means they can use your content however they like

Hello again readers we found this article which we hope you will enjoy as much as we did, if you would like more information on the topics discussed in the article do not hesitate to contact Cre8 and we will be happy to discuss how the subject might be applied to your business.

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It’s been several years since you had someone design your company web site and now it’s outdated. You are losing business to competitors that have quality designed web sites with great layout and navigation. This may be your first company web site and you want to make the most of your money and time.

How do you choose a quality web design company that will understand your companies’ objective for designing or redesigning this web site?

First, you need to answer a few questions.

1. What is your budget and time frame for completing the web design or redesign project?
2. Are you going to be using original content and pictures for building this web site?
3. If this is a website redesign, are you planning on getting updated images and content for this new look and layout or will you need the web design company to supply them for you?
4. Does any one at your company have basic editing skills and will they be able to update the website content or will this be an ongoing job for the web design company you hire?
5. Are you looking for a local web design company?
6. Do you already have an idea of your web design colors, layout, and navigation?

Knowing the answers to these questions, will help you when you locate the right web design company.

Now it’s time to find the right web design company for your needs. Go to Google and search for local web design firms and you will see how many results show. Take “web design orlando” for example: Results 8,860,000. Wow, there are a lot of results for “web design orlando”.

Don’t panic, you will probably find a company that can do the quality web design work you need in the first 50 results. Quality web design firms will have a portfolio of work online that will show an example of their custom web design work. Start at the first web design result on work your way down.

Examine the portfolio to see if there is anything equivalent to the web design layout you are imagining. You will be able to tell immediately if this web design firm is right for your company and its look and feel. Find out how long they have been in the web design industry and compare that to how many quality web sites they have designed in that time.
If this is a redesign, find out how many web site redesigns that have completed and ask to see the web site before and after the redesign.

Find out if they have the staff available to work on your entire web design needs and that they know the programming necessary to complete the job in a timely manner. Ask for references, a top end web design firm will be glad to offer up references on the web design work performed. Most web design references will be glad to talk to you about the quality job your potential web design company did on their web site.

Depending on your web design budget, it may help to several quality web design companies to talk to. You will want to get at least 3 estimates and it never hurts to have more.

Remember, when it comes to your business and your companies exposure on internet, take you time locating a quality web design company. Your future may depend on it.