Showing posts with label website design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website design. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Free CSS template with tabbed navigation bar

free css templates
One more new free css template is available for download. It is 21st free template on my blog since I started blogging.

This is simple two column css template. It has tabbed navigation, orange white and blue color scheme and sidebar on the right.

I think this free css template is very nice and simple. It can be used for various projects.

Template is 100% CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Download this template here.

Monday, September 8, 2008

10 Things That Help Make A Successful Website

Today the Internet is highly competitive, it is not longer good enough to just create a website and watch the money roll in. Modern websites have to go that extra mile if they want to see a good return on their investment.

I will discuss the 10 things that you need to get right to be successful in the world of ecommerce. You could fill several volumes of books describing everything; however, I am going to discuss the more important ones.


1. First things first, you must do your research and make sure what you are planning to sell is actually in demand. If your product is already being sold online try and offer a new spin on products that you know that already sell well.

2. Content is king, you website must have good original content that people will want to read.

3. Your web copywriting must be of a high standard. You must grab the reader’s attention then give them the desire to buy your product. You then must give them a call to action and then you must offer customer satisfaction.

4. Accessibility, you have to make your website as accessible as it can be. The internet should be accessible to everyone regardless of their handicap.

5. Test your website; too many online companies never test their websites to see what works and what doesn’t. I strongly believe that you can’t improve a website if you can’t track it. A good tip here would be to use Google’s website optimiser. This free service lets you test different elements of your website.

6. Keep in contact with your customers, send out a newsletter at least once a month to keep in contact and inform your customers of any special offers.

7. Use Google analytics to track your visitor’s behaviours. This is an excellent tool for tracking what people do on your website and what they don’t. This is invaluable information and it’s free.

8. If your budget permits start a pay per click campaign to sell you products while you’re waiting on your SEO taking effect. More on SEO on a moment.

9. Get some SEO servicesfrom a company that knows what they are doing, this will save time and money in the long term.

10. Hire a website design company to design your website professionally.





Author Jack Mack SEO services | website design Edinburgh

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Website Designing: The Accessibility Factor

Today when there is a sea full of websites all over the web world it becomes extremely difficult to sustain a considerable amount of traffic to the site. This threat appears like a killer for any website owner. In order to overcome this threat what websites really need to do is create super duper web presences for themselves. This web presence can be created right from the website designing process itself.

The question now arises why emphasize on presence when you are already there in the web. Even though your website is there it is important to make it accessible to the users because until your website is accessible no user will spend time on your website. This will appear to be a great loss to your business since websites are the most important tool of communication between you and your users and the accessibility of the website is the most essential factor that can keep them glued to your services.

The accessibility factor of a website depends a lot on the user end also. It is possible that your end user is not being able to view your audio or video content because their system does not support such high end services. It is thus advised that web designers keep this factor in mind while doing website designing for a site. It is true that video and audio inputs make the website more attractive and happening, but what is the use of having attraction when essential content itself is being restricted.

Make sure that your website follows a proper style sheet while drawing the HTML format of the website. Though styling and colouring of the website is important and essential to make it look expressive and attractive it is equally important to make sure that the tags that are used on the HTML are properly closed. Even if a single tag is misplaced, the internet will not be able to read your webpage.

In order to make your webpage accessible, it is important that you use them appropriately. Make use of diagrams and tables too. It is not necessary that the diagrams and tables be for decorative use only, you can also use them as a medium to add additional information which will attract the user’s attention more than otherwise.

When a user comes into your website, the first thing they notice about you is the nature, whether you are welcoming or not. Yes a welcoming website can be distinguished from an unwelcoming website from their navigation. A broadly expanded and open navigation is an ideal situation which is most used by welcoming websites. User friendly navigation is the best technique of retaining your clientele using simple website designing.

Naman Jain is an expert in Internet marketing, presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading internet marketing company, offering online marketing services, SEO services, email marketing and search engine marketing over the globe.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Adsense Web Tool: Increasing Your Adsense Revenues Starting Today!

There was an individual named Joel Comn who once making only $30 daily with Adsense, a program where it allows you to make money when visitors of your site are clicking on the advertising links that are placed in the host’s website. Until one day, he decides to have a try of other ways of increasing his Adsense earning.

After he had used several Adsense tools, Joel doubled his commission from $30 to $60 daily. But would you believe that his commission actually sky-rocketed for more than $500 per day? His earnings climbed up, making it $18,343 last December 2004 and it is quite possibly that his revenues may keep climbing after that period. It sounds impossible, but an individual have done it.

Adsense Basics

Joel Comn is now one of the successful Internet marketers that derive some of their revenues through the Adsense program. But you need to keep in mind that you can not earn as much as $18,000 per month if you will just allow Adsense to place its ads on your website. There are things you need to consider in order to make as much money as Joel did.

You need to apply for an Adsense account. Remember that you must be investing in your own domain so that your application will not be rejected. Make sure that your site’s contents are organized and be viewed as professional.

After your site has been accepted, Adsense will give you a code that you will place on your website, enabling them to start placing ads on your site that are with relevance to its content. For instance, if your site is about air-conditioning, Adsense might place ads that deal with different kinds and models of air-conditioning equipment.

Adsense Web Tool

Part of Adsense program is the use of Adwords, or relevant words that is integrated with Adsense advertisement. In order to attract more visitors that are generating impressions or “clicks” to the ads in your site, you must let Adsense know what Adwords are relevant and related to the contents of your webpage. In this case, the Adsense Web Tool can help you.

Adsense Web Tools provide you with Adsense HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) ad code to place on the web pages which you want to display the ads. The Adwords that will be generated using the Web Tool are based on the keyword analysis, word frequency, and the overall link structure of the web. Adsense will have an idea what your webpage is all about, and it can precisely match the advertisement on each page.

Maybe you will wonder how Adsense know what appropriate Adwords needs to be displayed in your site. If Adsense has spidered your site, it automatically knows what Adwords are to be displayed in your site. However, if your site has not spidered yet, Adsense makes use of your site’s URL first to decide what Adwords are appropriate. This is where your own domain will be important. You must invest on your own domain. Keep in mind that it has a significant impact on your Adsense revenues.

It is important that you make use of Adsense Web Tool so that you can maximize your possible earnings with Adsense. Do not rely alone on the displayed ads. Remember that you need to make it “clickable” to every Internet user that will visit your site. Start right and earn as much as $18,000 a month through Adsense!

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

Why does your Company need to invest in a Website

Small business might ask themselves the questions of why they should invest in a website, especially if business is going well. After all, if your business has been running for a couple of years and hasn’t needed one, what’s the point of investing in one now. Well, the answer is simple, times are changing. More and more people are turning to the internet to search for companies, either as consumers or B2B. If small, medium and large companies decide not to get a website, then they are basically cutting themselves off from a growing demand of potential clients.
There are other advantages of having a website. A site can hold a lot of content about what your business does, the services and products, the history, contacts and other information. It will also give the user a general idea about what you are all about. The amount of information it provides cannot fit on other types of marketing, such as business card.

A website is available 24/7. It is more efficient and less expensive to have a website that clients can go to during non-working hours. It allows users to e-mail you from across the globe, regardless of whether you are at work, home or somewhere in between. They will feel more relaxed that they have e-mailed you and you can answer when you receive it. This is of course if they still feel the need to ask you anything, as chances are most users would have found the answer on your site.

Having a FAQ page will provide users answers to questions that, in the past, clients have asked over and over again. The contact page will give all your details without clients asking for directions or pulling out the phone book.

Having a blog is one of the simplest forms of public relations. They will have a platform to build a relationship with you and give feedback on your services or products. You will be able to liaison with a variety of clients at once through your website.

Of the course the biggest bonus of all is, if you are a small or medium size company, you can finally play with the big boys. There is no limit favouritism or class online. If you have the know how, you can finally get ahead of any of your competition.

You will also be able to see how overseas company’s size up compared to your own region and see how prices compare. Having your own website and using to its advantage opens a whole world of information to your company.

Having a website and marketing around it doesn’t necessary mean you have to give up on traditional types of marketing. It just opens the door for more possibilities to work with and get new clients all over the world. It allows you to air your business on a global scale without the complications or expenses of previous marketing techniques.

Celeste writes for Celestial Online an online company that specialises in inspirational images, words and design for websites.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Handy Tips For Designing A Good Website

Techno geeks would claim that designing a website is as easy as 1-2-3 with all the available software and programs. With just a few clicks on the computer a website will be “born”. And if it is true that the success of an online business largely depends on the design of the website, why then do some online business fail? Something must be amiss with the design of the website.

Practicing good design principles is a must if you want to have a website that will reach out to potential customer as well as yield the desired sales. The web abounds with graphics and a web designer might be tempted to enhance the appearance of the website by using so many graphics and images. However it is not advisable to load the page with so many pictures as this would slow down the loading of the page. Most internet surfers who uses dial up connections would surely leave a slow loading page and click on the next link. If you really think that a picture is essential to the website it is advisable to use image editing programs. Pictures that will be featured should have a relevance to the content of the website. A picture of your favorite pet would be inappropriate for a website dedicated to dental services.

Another important factor to be considered in web design is to know the target audience. The font used as well as the layout should cater to the prospective audience. The design of the site should have a relevance to the purpose of the website. For example, if the website will sell dog food, it wouldn’t do to incorporate flashy model cars. If the target users of the website belong to the senior group, using the smaller fonts favored by the young generation is not advisable since the senior readers would need to make font modification in their own computers just to read the content of the website.

The page layout is equally important in web design. The front page will serve as the “face” of the business and as such should be able to provide the visitors with information regarding the company and the services and products it offers. The page should be clean and uncluttered with many unnecessary images and bouncing animations. The color of the text should be complimentary to the color of the background for easy reading. It is a known fact that glaring and vibrant colors as well as rotating and bouncing animations could distract readers. And readers who leave the site would mean lost sales.

Easy navigation should be a feature of a company website who wants to achieve marketing success. Nothing is more frustrating to a visitor than a site where the navigation bar is hidden by so many other features. It is comparable to finding a sock from a mound of clothes.

Content of a website should be clear and concise. Surfers are “lazy” individuals and they won’t have the patience to read overly long paragraphs especially if it lacks substance. Keeping it sweet and simple is very appropriate for the content of a website who aims to attract loads of traffic in order to generate more revenues.



Dolphin Promotions are a web design and SEO company based in Blackpool in the UK.

Monday, January 14, 2008

AdSense Ready Business Template 017


I have just created another Free Business Website Template for you to download.

It is nice three column CSS website template with tabbed navigation. Template is SEO friendly, very easy to customize and can be used for various projects.

Template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid.

Download this free CSS Template, get some content, insert your AdSense code and start earning money.


This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to download Free Business Website Template

Monday, January 7, 2008

Free Business Website Template 016



Another business website template is available for download on my blog.

Template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid.

This is two column free css template with navigation bar in the right column.

Template can be used for dentist or medical doctor office but can be also used for numbers of different projects. It is simple and very easy to customize.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to download Free Business Website Template

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Web 2.0 Template

Web 2.0 Templates
I recently created Web 2.0 Template for another project but changed my mind and decided to put this template on my blog for free download.

Template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid.

This Web 2.0 Template is very simple and easy to customize and can be used for various projects.

Template has three columns. Navigation bar is positioned on the top and main content is on the left. Right or centre column can be used for placing more links or to insert your Adsense code or some another ads.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to dovnload Free Web 2.0 Template

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

AdSense Ready Website Template 014


I have just created another Adsense Ready Website Template for you to download for free.

Template is SEO Friendly and is very simple to customize.

There is a horizontal navigation bar on the top and vertical navigation bar in the left column. There is also a couple of "placeholders" where you can inseret your Adsense Code.

This AdSense Ready Website Template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid.


This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to download AdSense Ready Website Template.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Real Estate Website Template 013

real estate website template
I have been bussy for quite some time so that's why I didn't made any new template for this blog since October.

This time you can download for free simple two column SEO friendly website template that is suitable for real estate company but can be used for number of other projects.

Template has two columns, two horizontal navigation bars, header and footer. Sidebar is on the right.
This Real Estate Website Template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to download real estate website template.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Design your Website SEO Friendly

Design your Website SEO friendly, Everyone’s waiting to see your Business Website.

More and much folk around the reality are using the Internet, and the numbers are increasing mundane. The Internet has get the main origin of data for many, and because of that, network sites have to perpetually better the substance and picture of their network pages in decree to hold users involved in accessing their sites What are the measures that should be implemented by network designers in decree to have their sites more appealing to users around the reality? Here is a listing of issues that can be encountered in network pattern and the needed activity to be considered.

Availability of basic features

First, the Design pattern of a Website should be compatible to any browser. It should be capable to give HTML and CSS proof tests. Second, network sites should be capable to provide to disable users. This won't be a trouble as long as designers cling to network standards. Third, the procedure of navigating a network place should be easy enough for all users. No user likes to see an original place, and so he or she has to see away how to sail around it. Fourth, position bars should be accessible. It shows the destination of links as the pointer is being moved. The position of the new page is too displayed as it loads.

Appearance of the pages

There are four elements that take upward the show of a Website. They are the fonts, tone, artwork, and writing. Fonts are not just an issue of private orientation of the user and the architect. The main importance of font selection is that it affects how quick the users can learn the data being presented. Arial fonts are normally recommended over the Times New Roman and the Verdana.

When applying tone, it is significant that there is sufficient contrast between backdrop and foreground in decree for the substance to be legible. To attain maximum contrast, dark textbook against a light-colored backdrop should be used. Link colors should be established at basic settings. When it comes to artwork, bear in psyche that some pages go overly overloaded because of the consumption of overly more images.

As often as potential, consumption artwork simply to back the substance being presented to users. A plenty of folk really have the trend to close away the images when browsing for data.

Web designers should remember the distinction between writing for the web and writing for print. Web content should be short and straight to the point.

Site performance

There are three factors that decide the whole operation of a network place. These are velocity, tables, and connections. Since everyone is hankering for much bandwidth, the better that designers can make is to avert the utilization of pattern that will go upward overly often bandwidth, because not every user has approach to tight Internet connections. To avert making the place seem like it takes always to download, avert loading putting an entire page inside a board.

Instead, divide the page into several tables. Web designers should not obscure a page with overly more items for the easy cause that each item requires a distinct browser for the entire page to be downloaded.

The occurrence of bugs

The happening of bugs of class, no one wants to get bugs in his structure. To avert this, system textbook should be establish upward with comparative font sizes. One has to regard that there are users out there who have impoverished eyesight, and they would care to adapt the font sizes through their private settings in decree to learn the textbook more understandably. The comparative value recommended for this would be:

Font-size: -1
or
font-size: 100%

In lawsuit of URLs, it should be easy and brief, containing no punctuation or spaces. Users should be capable to duplicate an URL and glue it into email content without it being wrapped in dual lines. To avert asleep links, redirects should be established, in decree to avert the breaking of bookmarks and links. Web designers should have certain that navigation features will be existing at all times, whatever the size of the window the user is using. Browser windows should be maximized when applying pattern, because not every user will be surfing the Internet in a maximized window.

For More Details visit: http://www.vp-website-design.com

Monday, October 22, 2007

Adsense Ready Template 011

adsense ready template
This morning I have created one more Adsense ready website template for you to download for free.
Template has two columns. One horizontal navigation bar is in the header section. Another vertical navigation bar is in the left column. There are four "placeholders" for your adsens code so you just have to insert it.
Template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid.
This Adsense ready website template is SEO friendly and very easy to customize - just add your text, images and insert your adsense code.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to download Adsense Ready CSS template.

Monday, October 15, 2007

6 Steps to Start your Web Site Project

Regardless of size, building a Web site is similar to building a house. There are many decisions to make along the way, most vendors will try to sell the owners on more than they need, and if one is not careful, the project can end up costing more than anticipated. However, when executed properly, a marketer with little technical knowledge can step away with an effective and appropriate Web site for his/her industry by following a few simple guidelines.

Whether you’ve hired an external marketing firm to assist you with these steps or you’re working directly with a Web design firm, at a minimum the following guidelines should be observed when approaching a Web site project.

Identify Your Target Market

The Internet is so exciting we all want to jump on this gravy train and make things happen, but the cutting edge isn’t for every market, and some technologies may look cool but are useless to your mission. Taking some time to think about who you are targeting with your Web site, and how you would like to steer them towards doing business with you will assist you in identifying your goals and become a reference point for all subsequent decisions.

Examine your target market’s approach to the Web and your content.
The Internet provides a uniquely intimate experience in which the site visitor chooses the direction of the information in a non-linear fashion. The site visitor is not bound by pages in a book. S/he can only make decisions based upon the following:

1. What do I need?
2. What are the choices?
3. What is my past experience?

This means that regardless of how you usually consider your product or service offerings, it’s more important than ever to consider those items from the client perspective. Take time to think about how your various targets will approach your Web site – what information will they seek? Is this an existing client? A prospective client? What keywords will this person look for? What keywords are meaningful to that target group? What is their experience with the Web thus far?

Determine Goals and Strategies

After completing the above steps, then decide on some reasonable goals for your Web site. What tactics and strategies will you implement to meet those goals? For example, a goal might be to provide current departmental information on the Web site to keep prospective students up to date on the latest course offerings and department changes. A college may wish to encourage more teacher participation in updating the Web site, but other than providing them with the technology to do so, how will you inspire them and market to this group to make their involvement in the college feel interesting and not just another task? Some of these questions may get complex, and your project may slow down here because it’s not fun. However, more time in this area will enable you to save money in the long run and increase your satisfaction with the final Web site.

Get Buy-In

Bring all your decision makers together and let them know what you’re planning. Let them give you their input. If they disagree with some of your choices, you can back up your choices with something they don’t have – research. Your ideas are not based on feelings, they’re based on fact, and that’s powerful. However, the other stakeholders in the Web site might have some good ideas. Maybe they want to get increased benefit from the Web site, too, like an intranet, or automated email notification. Listen to these ideas and consider them carefully.

Evaluate Needs

Now that you know what you want your Web site to do, you can figure out what technology is out there to do it with. This will inevitably cause some revisions to the previous step, as creative vendors will inform you of applications and opportunities you may not have thought of before. That’s okay - you will not be led astray by the temptation of the super highway when all you needed was a 2 lane road. But you will be able to appreciate the input and take time to consider if this option fits your target market’s approach to your Web site.

Identify Vendors

If you’ve been diligent about the above process, it’s time to consider your vendors – which will be really easy to do now that you know what you need. Then it becomes a matter of comparing facts in a matrix – does company X provide this feature or not? At what cost? Then the choice is less about having lots of features and more about having the right ones that fit your goals.

Heather Jewell is the Manager of Planning and Administration of NuRelm. NuRelm is a Web software and services firm that focuses on helping non-technical professionals utilize on the Web to build business. For more information, please visit www.NuRelm.com.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Build Websites Easier With Premade Templates

To most people the process of building a web site remains somewhat of a mystery. This confusion probably stems from the fact that there is a cornucopia of web sites on the Internet. Even with wide variety of sites, every single one can be divided into two sections: front-end and back-end.

The front-end is the first thing that it is designed. It encompasses the look and feel of a web site. This is probably the most established part of the web site production process. Design has been around since Gutenberg printed his first bible. Much of what has been used in print media (especially art magazines) has transferred to the web.

Most well thought out web sites start off with sketches on paper. We like using the big huge box of crayons, the one with the crayon sharpener built in. Most of the colors in the "big box" are pleasing to the eye and are web friendly. If you use begin paying attention to sites you'll notice that only a few colors are actually used, 256 to be exact. Only about 100 of those won't give you a headache when you look at them. On request we will give these early designs to a client that wants to control the look and feel of their site. The site, of course, never ends up looking like the early designs. The same idea and concept is there but because of restrictions colors and whole images are lost.

This brings us to the next part of the front-end, the actual site creation. This is what many people view as the most important, which is what separates a professional looking site from an amateur one.

The images are created using products from across the board. Mainly, designers stick to industry standards like Photoshop and Illustrator. After getting the basic image in terms of proportions and size the designer should create the static HTML page.

This is the basic page you would see if you viewed the page source. This is one of the most rewarding, most hated and most tedious part of the web design process. Each browser displays a page differently. Sometimes we build a different site for each, trying to maintain the same layout.

That concludes the front-end section. Personal sites and some small business sites stop here. While this maybe acceptable today, tomorrow any web site hoping to attract and keep visitors is going to have a strong back-end.

There are many sites and website designers that offer premade templates, these have the entire graphical layout that a page needs.

For those with little or no experience with website design software, templates have quickly become a practical solution to professional website design. Most of the top end sites offer a huge selection of very impressive, easy-to-edit website templates. All you have to do is check your email containing the link to download the .zip file. The html in these templates is compatible with Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage. The major advantage is the price, they run anywhere from $20 to $70. Another great advantage is you don't have to hire a web designer, who usually takes 1 to 2 weeks to produce a page of such high quality. Webmasters, either novice or expert, can easily save thousands of dollars on design fees by using website templates.

Author of this article is Alex Marias.

There are also some exception sites, such as http://www.web-site-templates.org that provide packages of templates at one price, instead of providing a different price for each template.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Free Business Website Template 010


One more free CSS template is available for download on this blog.
This template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS Valid. Template has two column with horizontal navigation bar on the top of the right column and vertical navigation bar in the left column. Tableless CSS Contact form is also in the left column.
Template is SEO friendly, simple and easy to customize.
You can download and use this template as you wish only thing I ask is to leave link back to this blog in the footer area of the template intact.

Click here to download this free CSS template.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Working with Web Site Templates

The quickest way to get your own site online is to use a web site template. You will find however that these come in varying qualities.

You basically have a choice of free or premium templates and the difference in quality can be extreme.

Free templates

Carrying out a quick search for 'free web site templates' in Google returns over 129 million results. It is important to realise however, that almost any template you get for free is either going to be very amateurish or there will probably be some annoying conditions of use. These may include having to link back to the designer's web page from your site, adverts that you cannot delete or restrictions such as not being able to use the design commercially.

If you're really set on getting a free template however, a better way of doing it is to use the ones that come free say, from your hosting provider or HTML editing program. Alternatively you could look at the world of blogs. WordPress for instance, has some very good looking, functional templates.

One last point – do not expect to have a unique site if you use free templates. There are likely to be literally hundreds of other sites online that found the same free template that you did.

Premium templates

Things start to look up when you investigate the realm of premium templates. The idea behind these is that a team of professional designers are paid to produce quality templates that are sold many times over thus enabling the supplier to offer them at a low cost. Much like you would buy wallpaper.

This has benefits for both customers and designers alike. Designers can do what they do best – designing good looking web site templates and not have the distraction of dealing directly with customers. Customers on the other hand get a professionally designed site, speedy service, can see the goods straight away and don’t have to pay expensive daily rates for unique designs. In fact most template shops offer instant download following purchase.

The only drawback from the customers point of view is that their particular design will not be unique, although in practice, this isn’t really a problem due to the sheer number of sites on the web.

Exclusive Templates

If you really want exclusivity most resellers will offer you a separate price to purchase the template as a unique design. Once sold to you the template is immediately withdrawn from sale.

The best template shops offer you a bespoke design service. This typically takes the form of buying one of their templates on a regular or exclusive basis following which you can ask their designers to make alterations to the template. This is to tailor it more to your specific needs which also has the desirable effect of achieving exclusivity at the same time. This is a very cost effective method of web site design.

Author of this article is Trevor Sadowski. Trevor has been building web sites for a couple of years now and has tried various methods to speed up the process. In order to help others Trevor has created a site that offers help and advice on how to build a web site as well as offering free and premium templates of the best quality, free graphics, buttons and other web site components.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Do You Need An HTML Form?

If you have an internet business, adding a simple HTML form to your website, such as a feedback form or a contact form, can be a tough task. For those who are new to programming, creating a simple form for your website can be difficult.

If you do not have a contact form and you need to immediately provide a way for your visitors to contact you, then you should simply post your email address on your Contact page. However, if you want to create a sophisticated online form to collect information from your visitors and respond to their questions, you will need some help.

Installing the HTML form on your website is the easy part. If you are not familiar with how to create the code for a form, there are many different online tutorials that can teach you how to create the code. After that, you will need to create a file that will process your form after someone fills it out and send the answers to you via email. The code used to process an HTML form is often referred to as Formmail. Formmail is written in a programming language called PHP, which is more advanced than HTML. There are many websites where you can download the Formmail file for free. Formmail has been used to process and email the results of web forms since 1997.

When you download Formmail, make sure it has code that prevents spam from being sent through your HTML form. There are many different versions of Formmail floating around the internet, and some have built-in spam protection while others do not. Many times, inexperienced programmers will put a form on their website that does not include code to at least try to prevent spammers from utilizing the form to send spam to hundreds or even thousands of people. As a result, those who have been spammed complain to their internet service provider, who then directs the complaint to the hosting company that handles your website. This can be a huge problem.

Another problem with Formmail is sometimes it works with certain web hosting companies and not with others. Formmail is written in the PHP programming language, and sometimes certain web hosting companies have certain versions of PHP running on their servers that are not compatible with certain versions of Formmail. In addition, some web hosting companies do not allow the websites they host to use Formmail to process their forms due to the risk of spam being sent through unprotected Formmail files, which can crash a server if too much spam is sent at once.

If you do not have the patience to create a form yourself, there are more than a few form creation tutorials on the internet that provide a simple way for you to create a form without doing any programming. There are also third-party HTML form services that will help you create the form and process it for you on their own servers.

I hope this information will help you decide how you want to get an HTML form up and running on your website. If you do not have the patience to do the work, use an outside service that creates the form for you. If you want to learn to do it on your own, then try creating your form with the help of some online tutorials. Either way, it is important to have an online form so that people have a way to contact you directly through your website.

Author of this article is Jim Pretin. He is the owner of www.forms4free.com, a service that helps programmers make free HTML forms.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Using Ready-Made Templates To Build Your Websites

This interesting articles explains advantages of using website templates for your online business.

If you’re doing business in China, you will need to learn Chinese. If you’re doing business in Japan, you would need to learn Japanese. If you’re doing business in Italy, you would need to learn Italian.

What language, then, would you need to learn when you’re doing business online?

Why, the language of the Internet of course! HTML, Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is a series of codes and commands that would help you craft an intricate system to convey your business message throughout the entire virtual world. If you want to embellish your forum posts, you would need HTML. If you want to build products that would provide solutions for web users, you would need HTML. If you want to create fantastic innovations that can be carried out through the World Wide Web, you would need HTML.

But HTML is most important in one aspect of the online game, particularly in Internet marketing: website design. You would need some knowledge about HTML if you are to build a website that would attract the attention of online users and project a sense of professionalism and class that would make it easier for them to trust your business.

Seeing as how your website would serve as your online business’ digital store on the Internet, it is very important that you come up with a clean, organized and effective design. Much is at stake at how you will present your website. Hence, a modicum of knowledge about HTML would usually be insufficient in preparing a website built for business.

You could always hire a freelancer to create a website for you, of course. But outsourcing seldom comes cheap. Often, you would have to shell out a lot of cash just to ensure high quality work. And sometimes, what will be delivered would be contrary to your expectations. Also, miscommunication and disagreements with the freelancer should also be factored in. All of these combined would be enough to give anyone some genuine headaches.

So what are you to do if you don’t know jack about HTML and if you’re too hesitant to try outsourcing? Should you settle on doing business without a website?

Fret not, dear friend. There is another option you could take. You could always resort to ready-made website templates.

Ready-made website templates are ready-to-use website designs that usually come in .htm or .html file formats along with the accompanying objects therein. With these templates, all you have to do is to personalize them to suit the identity as well as the needs of your business, upload them on a web server, and they’ll be ready for all the World Wide World to see. Indeed, with website templates, it’s that simple.

There are a lot of website templates available on the Internet. There is always one which would be perfect for your business. And if the choices aren’t amenable for you, you could always mix and match and features and objects of different templates to come up with a design that you would feel would perfectly represent your online enterprise.

Website templates are the easiest ways to come up with your own website. The past two years saw a boom in the number of websites on the Internet. This is because of the effects brought by the Google AdSense program. A lot of people earn their keeps by creating countless mini-sites about different niches. You must bear in mind that it would be physically impossible for one NETrepreneur to create that many websites.

The need for fast, convenient, and highly effective websites has also spiked the demand for website templates. More and more are slowly learning their value in the field of online business.

Internet marketing is all about time, after all. In this industry, time is gold and every second counts. If you feel you don’t have the time to learn the language of the web, then you might as well avail of the many, many benefits of instant website templates.

Author of this article is Bob Bastian. Bob is a successful Internet entrepreneur and a prominent info product creator. His latest website distributes quality private label content for free: http://www.PrivateLabelPublishing.com

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