Goal of Your Site

Whether you looking to create website for presence of your business online or looking to sell products through it. All you need to have a goal for your website; otherwise you risk getting the message lost, confusing visitors and losing business. Are you going to be selling a product online? Do you want to get data from your customers in the form of a newsletter sign up? Do you just want people to get in touch? If you don’t have a purpose for your website, there is no point in having one.

Content Management System (CMS)

CMS platforms have made it easy for small businesses to build a website in quick time which is easy to manage and faster to load. Go with open sources if your website is static and do not have much data to lock online. Many platforms such as Drupal and WordPress make it very easy for clients to have a Content Management System – meaning that you can easily edit the text, pictures and pages on your website. It also means that you don’t need to pay a web developer every time that you want to make a tiny change.

Content on Website

It is vitally important to think about the words on your website. If this is your first introduction to the world of online, make it memorable! Does some competitor research to see what they say about themselves? Note down anything you like and anything that you really don’t. It might be a good idea to get someone else to write the copy. Sometimes when it’s your business you’re writing about, it can be all too easy to get too caught up in it without stepping back and writing objectively. Always, always ask someone to proofread it!

Clear Pictures

please invest in some high quality pictures for your site. iStock or pixelated images are a poor reflection of your company. It is well worth paying a photographer $100 or so for some nice pictures that you can use for all of your branded materials.

Clean Design

Design clean website pages; use a quality font so that it is clearly readable to all. If you are looking to sell through your website make sure to segregate products “It’s better to have a showroom rather than a store room”. Each important page should be linked from home page, so that visitors find it easy to navigate and buy through your website.

How will people find you?

Before finalizing the website and making it live, take time to do some testing on your website. Install all important search engine friendly factors that help your website to rank on search engines pages. Once you’re website’s up and running, how are people going to find it? If you’re a local business, do some research into Google Local Places and set up a page. Get going with social media as well as it is fairly easy to build up a steady following. There is a wide range of information on the internet about search engine optimization. Be careful if you’re hiring a consultation make sure the company/person is expert in this field.

For Search engine optimization services contact expert: webmastergrant@gmail.com

“I am not a Day Dreamer but I am working to make my Dreams come true”

“I need a website design that will absolutely perfect in everything” this question might buzz in your mind thousands of time and it’s in your hands you can make it perfect that exceed your expectations.

Tips for Perfect Web Designing

1. Create a perfect logo for your business.
2. Use a low size images or you can also use small size flash near header
3. Website codes should be clean and follow the standards of W3C XHTML standards.  The CMS should include XHTML / W3C / CSS Web Standard Compliant. Avoid using dynamic systems that assign session variables to the users.
4. Use Header tags (H1 to H5) for every page this will improve the presentation of your text and page also will helpful in search engine point of view.
5. People are habitual to browse website through header, footer and sidebars use navigation to link each important inner pages of your website every important page should be accessible from home page
6. Keep all CSS and Java Script in external files this will help you to reduce size of your webpage
7. Navigation of the website should be clean and clearly available to the new users visiting the website. It is must to use Headers and footers in the website to navigate between the pages; we can also interlink the pages in the content to make website more users friendly.

There are hundreds of points we need to include in future posts.

Here is example of Visitors friendly website: http://www.bruceclay.com/

There are as many different online forums and networking sites in the online marketing arena as there are bees in a hive. For the purpose of clarity, consider Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Biznik as prime examples. In fact, these five steps to creating a consistent brand in social media marketing will apply the same way to every online promotional opportunity from electronic article publication to blogging.

As you often hear saying, social media is about engagement.

Are you already connecting with your customers online?
Do you offer them a link to your social profiles in external networks?
Are you letting them know about this initiatives on your store?

If your answer is “NO” why don’t just start doing this..

1. Decide on a Niche Market
2. Get Connected to the communities and People with related interest and with those who can search for your business
3. Promote New Feeds every day.
4. Draft emails and respond ASAP be engaged
5. Start blogging

As people are showing more interest in social networks and blogs so it will prove a great idea to start with social media marketing.

In my next posts I am too going to discuss about web 2.0 and similar

Follow some modern web design techniques to design impressive designs.

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I have researched some of the following techniques can implement while designing a website.

1.    ANALYSIS OF OTHER GOOD DESIGNS
2.    STICKY WEBSITE DESIGN BY IMPROVING THE CONTENT AND FONT QUALITY
3.    BRANDING YOUR BUSINESS IN A RIGHT WAY
4.    KEEPING HOME PAGE CONTENT SHORT AND SOBER
5.    IDLE TEXT SIZE SO THAT EVERY VISITOR CAN READ YOUR CONTENT EASILY.
6.    NAVIGATION FLOW OF THE WEBSITE SHOULD BE EASY.
7.    PICTURES TELL A THOUSAND WORDS USING A RIGHT PICTURE IN EACH SERVICES PAGE
8.    GIVE TO RECEIVE LIKE FREEBIES
9.    LEARN FROM YOUR PEERS AND COMPETITORS

You need to follow some of the following steps.

1)      Design website home page as attractive as visitors want. Clearly mention all your services you are offering your visitors.

2)      Make a separate page for each services mentioning about the services and what different or special you are offering analyzing current competitive market.

3)      Avoid frames and heavy flash in websites

4)      Add images that says the exact message (Image optimization is also a part of Search Engine Optimization

5)      Place a complete website sitemap in the footer of your website. So that the user can reach all the major pages of your website.

6)      Use unique title and description for each page. (That will help your website to rank better in search engine result pages)

7)      Avoid use of too complex tables

      Use External Scripts such as (Java Script, CSS) to reduce the page size

9)      Headlines in your webpage are rated more important than the rest of the web page by search engines. To take advantage of this, you should have your keywords in the page headline.

10)   Use keywords in your website inner pages urls

11)   Offer some free services that visitors are looking for in specific industry.

And last but not least place quick contact us form in main services page, so that the visitor can contact you directly from the services page which he is looking from.

There are lot more points to add, but starting with these major points will help you to attract visitors 

This class could have several applications but it may be useful for other sites: The system will use customizable themes, and you can easily change the CSS of all issues on the fly. For example, if I want to change the background color of all blogs and add an element because I added a module, I can do a script that will look for the CSS files of all themes, change the background color ( Property “background-color” of the “body”), and add an element (such as “foo (border: 1px solid dark;)”)

It does just what said earlier and well it manages the lists of items (eg input, textarea: hover, select “)