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		<description><![CDATA[Web Design Delhi Website designing is defined as the arrangement and the creativity of the web pages. A web designing page is consists of the images and the text and we can say that the web page has the information or the data part. The original web page designers in the early 1990s.every page of &#8230; <a href="http://lancashirewebdesigns.com/web-design-services-india/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Web Design Delhi Website designing is defined as the arrangement and the creativity of the web pages. A web designing page is consists of the images and the text and we can say that the web page has the information or the data part. The original web page designers in the early 1990s.every page of the website are the HTML page and have its own address.</p>
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<p>In Macromedia Flash there a proprietary, full-bodied graphics animation and the application development program which are used to create and deliver dynamic content like as the sound and video and interactive applications over the web via the browser. Web Design Delhi gives lots of format for develop the website. Lots of graphic artists use Flash presentation because it gives them exact control over every part of the design, and anything can be animated and generally. Some application designers enjoy flash because it lets them create web based applications that don&#8217;t have to be refreshed or go to a new web page every time an action occurs. Flash detractors maintain that Flash websites tend to be poorly designed, and often use confusing and non-standard user-interfaces.</p>
<p>It is possible to specify alternate content to be displayed for browsers that do not support Flash. Using alternate content also helps search engines to understand the page, and can result in much better visibility for the page. The designers who are used to table-based layouts, they developed Web sites in CSS f replicating what can be done with tables, leading some to find CSS design rather awkward. For example, it is rather difficult to produce certain design elements, such as vertical positioning, and full-length footers in a design using absolute positions.</p>
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		<title>website templates make being a Webmaster more efficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[website templates make being a Webmaster more efficient The acceptance of website templates as an alternative to website designing can be attributed to the ability of templates in improving the work efficiency of the webmaster. Of course, they also reduce the costs involved in setting up a website. Website templates have evolved over the years &#8230; <a href="http://lancashirewebdesigns.com/website-templates-make-being-a-webmaster-more-efficient/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>website templates make being a Webmaster more efficient</strong></p>
<p>The acceptance of website templates as an alternative to website designing can be attributed to the ability of templates in improving the work efficiency of the webmaster. Of course, they also reduce the costs involved in <a href="http://pariwes.ctrtheme.hop.clickbank.net">setting up a website</a>.</p>
<p>Website templates have evolved over the years from simple HTML web page templates to the Flash template designs that allow for dynamic and customized websites. Getting a website designed from scratch is an expensive and time-consuming process. Moreover, it is not easy to get the right web designer, very often projects get delayed because of difference in opinion between the web designer and the webmaster and delay usually implies escalating costs. Website templates help to solve this problem by offering a selection of web page designs at a fraction of the cost of a professionally designed web page.</p>
<p>Multimedia Flash and other professionally designed templates enable webmasters to select from millions of permutations and combinations without having to approach a web designer. Inexperienced webmasters benefit more from using website templates as it frees their time and allows them to concentrate on other issues regarding the development of their website. There are many websites that offer templates that can easily be customized to a webmaster’s requirements.</p>
<p>Arriving at the right website design can speed up the website development process as after freezing the design, adding content to the website is not very time consuming and can be accomplished relatively easily. Website templates allow webmasters to pay more attention to this critical aspect of website development, and thus are more likely to receive traffic from search engines.</p>
<p>As website templates provide a readymade and consistent design for each page; they help in binding a website together, giving it uniformity and coherence, and in facilitating smooth browsing. Templates are available with editable and uneditable regions so chances of content getting erased are reduced. An important advantage that website templates offer is the ease with which they can be modified, the HTML and CSS components are not very difficult to master and once the basic website is in place and online, a webmaster can crystallize his concepts and customize the website to suit his business needs by fine tuning the content or adding JavaScript, if required.</p>
<p>Thus, website templates, that cost round $50 &#8211; $200, are of great help to webmasters in running the website more efficiently. They also allow the <a href="http://pariwes.ctrtheme.hop.clickbank.net">site to generate revenue quickly</a> by allowing the webmaster to sooner focus on producing content, and implementing marketing activities such as web page optimization and competitor analysis.</p>
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		<title>Important Website Writing &amp; Design Conventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article outlines the five most important conventions for writing and designing your webpages. Your presentation is every bit as important as your content. The best content in the world won&#8217;t ever be read if the presentation is so bad that nobody stays long enough to read it. If you maximize your website usability, your &#8230; <a href="http://lancashirewebdesigns.com/important-website-writing-design-conventions/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>This article outlines the five most important conventions for writing and designing your webpages.</strong></p>
<p>Your presentation is every bit as important as your content. The best content in the world won&#8217;t ever be read if the presentation is so bad that nobody stays long enough to read it. If you maximize your website usability, your visitors stay longer, read more, and you make more sales.</p>
<p>If the purpose of your web site is to educate your readers and/or lead them to a specific action, (like buying something) then you should seriously consider following these design and writing conventions&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Start Each Page With Your Most Important Content.<br />
2. Use Meaningful Link Text to Provide Information.<br />
3. Write Scannable Pages.<br />
4. Use Simple Website Designs.<br />
5. Use Clear, Consistent Website Navigation.</p>
<p><strong>1. Start Each Page With Your Most Important Content.</strong><br />
People are impatient; they will scan your page quickly and leave as soon as they get bored. Put your best, most important content near the top of the page.</p>
<p><a href="http://emarketteam.com/rep170">Design your layout</a> so that nothing pushes your most important content down past the &#8220;page fold&#8221;. That is your &#8220;Prime Real Estate&#8221; &#8212; don&#8217;t waste it. Large logos, unnecessary graphics, ambiguous headlines&#8230;. all these things are a waste of your must valuable space.</p>
<p>Begin each page with a summary or a short list of page contents. Be specific, and place the newest items at the top of the list or in a &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; section.</p>
<p><strong>2. Use Meaningful Link Text to Provide Information.</strong><br />
Web surfers decide in seconds whether or not your page is worth reading. When you use bland, content-neutral words for your link text, you miss an important opportunity to provide information. (Also &#8211; visually impaired web users often instruct their computer to read the link text aloud, &#8220;Click here&#8221; won&#8217;t help them.)</p>
<p>The words used in your anchor text should suggest what the reader will find when they click on the link, and help them decide to click or not.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>* Bad:</strong> To learn about icebergs,<br />
<strong>* Better:</strong> <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Icebergs</span><br />
<strong>* Best:</strong> <span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Where icebergs come from.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>You can make your links even more informative by following them with a blurb:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Blurbs: Short Previews of Web Pages</strong><br />
A &#8220;Blurb&#8221; is a short paragraph that gives a preview of the page at the other end of a link. You are reading a blurb now. If a blurb <a href="http://emarketteam.com/rep170">helps a reader decide to click the link</a>, then it works.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>3. Write Scannable Pages.</strong><br />
Offline, books and magazine articles are designed for sequential reading: You start at the beginning and read to the end.</p>
<p>Online text is not necessarily sequential &#8211; it relies upon smaller chunks of text, which the reader often does not read in order. So each page of your website must make sense to a visitor who did not see the preceding page, or just arrived from a search engine.</p>
<p>Meaningful, informative headers &amp; subheadings, bulleted lists, and bold keywords all help readers scan the page quickly and easily.</p>
<p><strong>4. Use Simple Website Designs.</strong><br />
Your visitors didn&#8217;t come to see your fancy graphics. They came to find information about prices or availability, they&#8217;re looking for contact information or directions, or maybe they just want some technical details&#8230;</p>
<p>Unless your website is <em>about</em> cool graphic effects, I can guarantee that your visitors don&#8217;t really care about your spinning logo or dancing unicorns, or even whether or not your menu buttons blink or change background images on a mouse-over.</p>
<p><strong>Web-savvy visitors have &#8216;trained&#8217; themselves to ignore ads. Anything that flashes, shimmers, blinks or dances around will not get the attention that it deserves.</strong></p>
<p>The more such things you put on your page, the harder your reader will have to work in order to find what they want. Too much of that and they are gone, never to return. Use images wisely. Every image on your page slows it down, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot&#8230;.<br />
* Use smaller images whenever possible.<br />
* For large collections of images, use an index with thumbnails that they can click if they want to see the image full-size.<br />
* Use an image editor to reduce the file size of your images</p>
<p>See our &#8220;Using images in your webpages&#8221; section for more about all that ~ http://blt-web.com/web_design/using_images.html</p>
<p><strong>5. Use clear, Consistent Website Navigation.</strong><br />
Next to pages that take forever to load (and pop-ups), the biggest complaint that surfers have is difficult to <a href="http://emarketteam.com/rep170">understand and/or inconsistent website</a> navigation&#8230;<br />
* Use the same menu on all your pages.<br />
* Use a logical link hierarchy, with related items together.<br />
* Be perfectly clear with your link titles &amp; descriptions.<br />
* Use text links whenever possible.<br />
* If you must use image links, use the <em>alt=&#8221;link destination&#8221;</em> element.</p>
<p>A website with more than ten or fifteen pages may not need a link from every page to every other page&#8230; you can link to each section from each page, but give each section its own &#8220;Table Of Contents&#8221;.</p>
<p>Every page should have a link to the home page and to the site map. (If you have less than ten pages, you may omit a site map, but your home page should have a text link to every page for search engines.)</p>
<p>See our &#8220;Menu Design Tips&#8221; page for more information ~ http://blt-web.com/web_design/menu_design.html</p>
<p><strong>Following these 5 simple guidelines will help your website be a success.</strong> With faster-loading pages and easier-to-find information, people will read more of your content and are more likely to take the action that you want them to.</p>
<p>To Your Success!<br />
Tim</p>
<p>Additional Reading:<br />
http://www.smbtn.com/books/gb57.pdf ~ Writing and Editing Like a Pro Entrepreneurs Guidebook #57, from Small Business Town</p>
<p>http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ ~ Writing for the Web, Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages.</p>
<p>http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/ ~ Writing for the Web, by Jakob Nielsen, distinguished engineer; PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[5 Important Rules in Website Design When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well. 1) Do not use splash pages Splash pages &#8230; <a href="http://lancashirewebdesigns.com/important-rules-in-website-design/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
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<p>When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.</p>
<p><strong>1) Do not use splash pages</strong></p>
<p>Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like &#8220;welcome&#8221; or &#8220;click here to enter&#8221;. In fact, they are just that &#8212; pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the &#8220;back&#8221; button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.</p>
<p><strong>2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements</strong></p>
<p>Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.</p>
<p><strong>3) Have a simple and clear navigation</strong></p>
<p>You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don&#8217;t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.</p>
<p><strong>4) Have a clear indication of where the user is</strong></p>
<p>When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don&#8217;t confuse your visitors because confusion means &#8220;abandon ship&#8221;!</p>
<p><strong>5) Avoid using audio on your site</strong></p>
<p>If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they&#8217;re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it &#8212; volume or muting controls would work fine.</p>
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		<title>Low Cost Web Design In Birmingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many companies who build websites, all of which who want your business. This puts you in a very strong position when trying to obtain a good deal, a professional looking website at a low affordable price. The world wide web is an excellent way of advertising your product or business and is a &#8230; <a href="http://lancashirewebdesigns.com/low-cost-web-design-in-birmingham/">Continue reading</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>There are many companies who build websites, all of which who want your business. This puts you in a very strong position when trying to obtain a good deal, a professional looking website at a low affordable price.</p>
<p>The world wide web is an excellent way of advertising your product or business and is a must nowadays for any business.</p>
<p>First you need to find somebody or a company to build and design your website. Some web designers charge a huge amount of money so it is quite difficult to make the right choice.</p>
<p>One area you could try first is online auction websites such as ebay. There may well be a new company who is just starting out and who are looking at building up a portfolio. They may well at this early stage be offering their services quite cheaply. This method also applys to web promotion and optimisation/optimization.</p>
<p>Alternativerly I advise people to look into the yellow pages, look on the internet or ask family and friends if they know of anybody.</p>
<p>If you are willing to be patient and make lots of enquiries you should be able to find yourself a good deal. If you provide all of the content via a word document you should be able to have your website built for around £100.</p>
<p>Always look at the portfolio page and have a look at the websites they have already built. It might be worth seeing what the page rank of these websites are like and you are also looking to see if you like the style.</p>
<p>Once the web designer has built your website ask them if they would add a link from their homepage to your new website. Also ask them if they would submit the site to all of the search engines.</p>
<p>Always remember to add your website address to any advertisements you have and on any correspondance you send.</p>
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