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Web Header Graphics – How To Make Your Site’s Title Look Nice

Wordpress Doctor2016-12-16T02:42:58+05:30

[ad_1] So you're making your own web site. You've been working on it for a while, you have some good content, but something is still missing... cool graphics! Let's face it: a web site without nice graphics is like a TV show without color. It's boring and drab and won't look very visually appealing. You want your site to catch people's attention and make them say, "Hmm, this looks interesting, I think I'll check it out". One of the best ways to do this is to have a good header graphic at the top of the page.What is this great thing you speak of?It's an image consisting of three parts: a background, a title, and a sub-heading. For example, let's say you are building a...

Automate Online Marketing: The Future of Web Design

Wordpress Doctor2016-12-16T01:39:42+05:30

[ad_1] Ten years from now will online marketers encourage their web designers to still rely on optimizing their websites for that coveted page rank on Google? For that matter will Google still be the place where millions of internet users go to search for their info? Or will Social Media Optimization (SMO) be the main focus of future webmasters? Unfortunately I don't have a crystal ball that tells me what the future holds but based on the current infrastructure of the internet, a website (with the exception of the occasional viral leap) needs several thousand tentacles or connections maintained over time to be successful. These connections need to be relevant and informative for a website to maintain its Google standing. The Google page rank algorithm is a moving target and a...

Your Website and You – Helpful Web Design Tips

Wordpress Doctor2016-12-16T00:38:06+05:30

[ad_1] As a sometime web designer (I prefer the term "web monkey" myself), I'd like to pass these helpful tips on to other sometime (and just getting into the game) web designers everywhere.We get it - you built a website that looks nice on the front-end and that's all the client should really care about. However - this doesn't necessarily translate to "Easy to maintain", especially if you get hit by a bus or your client calls you 6 months later and wants you to add more stuff to their website. This is one case where "vendor lock-in" (as they say in economics) is not likely to work out very well for you - the client probably knows "Some guy who does websites" who can help them out if you're not...

Web Standards – Should My Business Site be Compliant?

Wordpress Doctor2016-12-15T23:36:31+05:30

[ad_1] Web standards is the new buzz phrase on the web. What are web standards? Web standards are basically the use of correct web coding standards as laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The web standards which are of most concern to modern business are XHTML and CSS coding practices. In the words of the W3C, "The XHTML family is the next step in the evolution of the internet."In order to achieve appealing presentation it used to be the case that various HTML hacks would have to be utilised by web designers to make a page look appealing. The most commonly know 'hack' (which is still in use today) is the use of tables to layout page structure. Thankfully these days are coming to an end, as web...

Website Builder Software Versus Web Templates – Which is For You?

Wordpress Doctor2016-12-15T22:35:21+05:30

[ad_1] Websites can be expensive to build and to maintain if you are not an experienced webmaster. Even minor changes or updates can be frustrating if you have to rely on outside programmers.If you only have a limited budget and cannot afford a web designer, you can consider to build your website by using a website builder software, or by download a web template file. Both would cost much less than hiring a web designer, and you can update the website by yourself.There are many website builder software available. Even if you do not know how to use them, you might have already heard of products such as Dream weaver, Flash, GoLive, etcHowever, unless you already have the skill sets and experience, the learning curve of these software might make it...