Finding a Professional Web Designer or Web Design Company

June 27, 2008 at 4:12 am · Filed under Web_Design

Your web site is your storefront window on the World Wide Web. It must grab the viewer’s attention and be clear, all in a matter of seconds. Otherwise, it’s onto the next site listed on the search engine.

Choosing the best person to create your new web site is one of the most important tasks a business must undertake. It is also one of the most difficult because of the amount of freelance designers, advertising agencies, public relation firms and web development consultants flooding the market. Following are a few helpful hints to make sure you select the right web designer.

Why Hire a Professional Web Designer?

Let me phrase the question another way, ‘Why post your billboard in woods’? Most reputable web designers know a thing or two about search engines but that’s not enough to put your business on the map when it comes to search engine results. What you want is a professional designer who knows how to build a ’search engine friendly’ web site.

The key between the two professionals is one will build you a web site with pretty pictures, text links and a welcome page that leaves you invisible to search engines, while the other will do the same thing but with the coding and programming that makes your web site irresistible to search engines. The difference between selling and not selling on the web, and being found or buried on page 15 of the search engine results, is knowledge in building a search engine friendly site.

Create a Web Site Requirements List

If you’re looking for a ‘one-stop-shop-solution’ you should have a solid project plan in place. This will save you money, time and effort in the long run. Browse the Internet and create a list of web sites that have the general look and feel of how you envision your own web site. Note the things you like about each of the sites. You are essentially compiling a list of the ‘best of the best’ features you want to incorporate into your new web site.
If you are shopping for web design quotes, don’t forget to ask the web design vendor some basic questions:

* Do you provide client references?
* Will I be able to edit my own web pages?
* Are the web sites you design search engine friendly?
* Is logo design included in the web quote?
* How many design concepts and revisions will you provide?

Avoid the Template Trap

The problem with Web templates is that they are “closed systems.” Usually navigation placement is hard coded so that custom programming or effects are not allowed or easily configured. Every month someone will call us to complain that their ‘template based web site’ looks horrible, or the web template system is too hard to use or understand. A great example of cookie-cutter, web template web sites abound in the field of real estate. All these sites look the same. Why on earth would a real estate agent not want to stand out from the crowd in such a highly competitive online field? The bottom line is, stay away from templates. They’re cheap in cost and cheap in delivery.

Establish a Web Production Budget

The web design process ranges from the novice who spends a few hours putting together sites of amateur quality, to high-end quality web projects that result in a world-class web presence. If you plan on spending $400 on your web site, don’t waste your time or money. Your site will most likely look cheap, be an embarrassment and actually hurt your business and image. Better off to stay as you were.

However, when you’re serious about launching a Web site to grow your business, you can do it without mortgaging your house. Here are some facts and figures from across the U.S. to consider when putting together the budget for your web site.

Small business Web sites - $2800 to $3900
Small business e-commerce Web sites - $3600 to $4200

Medium business Web sites - $3800 to $5200
Medium business e-commerce Web sites - $4200 to $7200

Large business Web sites - $7200 to $10,000
Large business e-commerce Web sites - $9200 to $15,000

A well-crafted web site can bring you new or additional online traffic resulting in new clients and customers. First impressions matter, so work with your web designer to capture the image or branding that you want to convey to your Internet visitors.

Now that you understand the basic principles of finding a professional web site design company, submit your request for design quotes online and compare what you are getting for the cost.

If you are looking for a design company close to you, check
out Xemion.com. Xemion is an easy-to-use web designer and web design company directory with listings by state and city.

About the Author
http://www.visionefx.net - Visionefx President Ricardo Vidallon has been in the creative business of advertising, cable broadcast, animation and the World Wide Web for more than two decades. His work has been featured on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., Fox News and NBC Entertainment. His career track in Web consultancy includes the global companies of Reynolds and Reynolds, CMGI Solutions, and Automark, Inc.

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Web Designing (Imagination at work)

June 26, 2008 at 7:06 pm · Filed under Web_Design

Quality isn’t something you apply to a finished web site like wood sealer on a new deck: a good site has quality designed in and built in.

Web designing is the design of a web page, website or web application. Basically it focuses on building the front-end of a web page. There are two basic aspects to any web page found on the Internet. The first is a presentation that the user interacts with and the second is the back-end that includes information for non-human browsers.

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the basic markup language which tells a browser how to present information. A stricter version of HTML is also widely known as eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML). A web designer is able to tell a browser how a web page should appear by using HTML or XHTML. It is gaining popularity in both short and long term as time progresses.

The act of web design can be quite difficult from the technical point of view as it has a number of variable factors. All browsers do not interpret HTML according to the standards created by the standard-setting body, which is known as the World Wide Web Consortium or WWW. It means that the same piece of web design may appear completely different in different browsers. So numerous fixes and workarounds has to be done to avoid browser-specific bugs.

Another problem which may arise in the web design is the abundance or plethora of formats in which a sight might be viewed in. In this regard a web designer must account for different monitor sizes, displaying different settings. So a web designer needs to work really hard in order to make a web page attractive. They should also create a layout static enough to allow for the use of images and other necessarily fixed-size components.

In addition there are some popular languages which are used for dynamic web design which includes ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion. Mention should also be made of Macromedia’s Flash which is popular amongst many web designers.

The scope for web designer is virtually limitless. With the arrival and pliable of Flash and other embedded technologies, it is allowing for a versatility and dynamism amongst the web designer in challenging their imagination.

Author is an experinced web designer.

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Revolutionary Guide to Web Designs

June 25, 2008 at 6:11 pm · Filed under Web_Design

The Big Idea

There are a thousands of people and companies who would want to advertise their services for web designs. The question here is, are you sure if the services that you have bought would be the one that you really like or the best deal in town? Think twice.

In this article, I would like to share tips and advice to Web designs. Yes, your own creation. But before we begin, we have to make sure of 2 important things. First, analyze your goals and needs then make a plan. Second, create a site specification on what you intend to do, what trend and technology (including how much you are going to spend) and the most important, the content you’ll need. If you are able to decide on this part, then you are ready to begin. Here’s the step by step process.

First and foremost, create a site definition. This is the initial stage where in you have to define your specification and objectives for the website you are going to make. Analyze the goals you have in mind and justify the budget and things required. In this stage, you also need to define the site content, the information resources that you will need to meet your prospects’ needs.

Second, website architecture. Programming, database design, search engine design, and data entry is performed in this stage.

Third, site design. This is the stage wherein you have to obtain its appearance as that of the page grid and overall graphic design. You have to visualize the content for the site that needs to be created. Plan, research, write, organize and edit the text content is done in this stage.

Fourth, website construction. This is the stage wherein all pages are completed and programming components linked. This is the time we could possibly say that it is now ready for beta testing.

Fifth, marketing of website. This is where optimization of site is done. Basically, this is the time that you need the expertise of a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Specialist to promote your site in many ways. Your website must be part of all marketing campaigns and corporate communication programs. Article submission, Link popularity, press releases, etc., is performed during this stage.

Sixth, keep track of your progress thru evaluation. By analyzing the server logs for your website, you can develop a quantitative data on the success of your site. There are a number of popular software packages wherein you can track down your visitor including their locations (state, city and country) and time, the keywords that they have used to find your site, the referrer sites, etc..

Now that you are done with it, after making all the links “live,” please do not abandon your site. It doesn’t end there. You have to maintain your site. You need constant attention and constant development changes in order to make it more and more capable. You must also need to check periodically if the links are intact and functional.

In website designing, you need not to set a budget that is too high. You need not to get an expensive service. You just need appropriate research and familiarity to make your own. Careful planning of an objective and clear purpose are the main keys to success in building websites.You can create the most unique or simplest design. What’s important is that you have done what you have always want it to be.

By: Marithe Milano, Search Engine Marketing Specialist for MegaWebDesigns
MegaWeb Designs offers a wide variety of website services and solutions like website designs, layouts and website development in different packages and affordable rates.

MegaWeb Designs: Web Design and Development Services
http://www.megawebdesigns.com
info@megawebdesigns.com

Mail to: info@megawebdesigns.com; marketing@megawebdesigns.com

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