Value of a Custom Website Design

A custom website design is always worthy and its importance shall never be underrated. Web design is defined as a process of perception, preparation, and execution, and it is important that this process is carried out effectively. Creating a custom website design requires skill that can take several years to master. An amateur without sufficient knowledge and experience cannot execute the task properly and hence only a skilled professional who has acquired abundant proficiency in this field is the right person who not only can give your website the required artistic appeal in its look and feel but along with it will ensure that your website has a professional look too.

Most importantly you need to remember the fact that your website primarily targets your visitors, who come seeking some kind of information. Your website will manipulate the user's preliminary insight of the website’s implication and convince them to survey deeper into your website.

Your website is the representative on your behalf and so it must expose your business and the products or services you provide positively facilitating the very purpose it is intended to accomplish. A custom web design should therefore should lay its optimal stress on the requirement of your customer both in terms of accessibility and information, thus providing immense help in effective decision-making.

Therefore, it is very much important that a custom website design is laid out in such a manner that the visitor can locate his required information easily and quickly, and need not look around for too long or may get lost in the website. Lack of a proper structure and information can put the visitor in a dilemma resulting him to leave your website within a few seconds not bothering to explore further into your website. Therefore the outcome being that you can loose a visitor, who could have possibly been your customer.

The fundamentals of custom web site design is not simply a combination of magnificent graphics and use of superb colors on the website, but alongside its grand appearance there are subtle factors that make your website proportionate thus carrying out the message for your business effectively and without a glitch. Few such helpful suggestions that should be considered in order to label a website as ‘good’ are listed below:

• A clean and easy to use navigation is an essential criterion for a website. This is one of the most vital point to be taken into account while designing your website. The Homepage of the website should have a Top and a Left Navigation to provide the visitor a quick glance at the contents of your website.
  
  
• The Homepage of a custom website design is linked from all the inner pages of your website via a ‘home’ link on the website navigation menu, which ideally comprises of ‘home’, ‘about us’, ‘site map’ and ‘contact us’. But this can be different for different cases. Also the Logo of the website should ideally bear a link to the Homepage of the website.
  
  
• ’Site Map’ is one more very important aspect of a good custom website design. It gives a distinct perceptive to the visitor about the structure of your website like what are the major menus and what are the sub-menus located under those main menus etc. The visitor can simply select the page that he needs and can be there with a mere click of his mouse button.

In a nutshell, a custom website design associate the real worth of a website thus enormously affecting its performance.

And what if you are not serious about your website’s design and do not concentrate on it?

A flamboyantly designed website is sure to dissuade users from even entering your website. Also a design that is that has got nothing to do with the theme of the website can cause much harm. Endowing your visitors with poor quality design you can, be rest assured that you will in no way have visitors coming back to your website.

So, why not give your site a custom website design with that ‘professional’ element thus carrying out a sturdy message to your visitors about your sincerity and that they can trust you with their money for guaranteed quality results and absolute contentment.

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Monalisa Boral Maitra is the Business Development Manager of Designarcade, an India based Website Design and Development Company, providing professional and affordable custom website design solutions. Visit them at www.designarcade.com or you can reach her at sales@designarcade.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Web Development Projects - E-commerce Portal Development.

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Type : Project

Id :79214809

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : E-commerce Portal Development.

Description :

We are India based and looking to outsource our requirement of Ongoing Website designing. We are looking for professional and committed individual/organization to develop our e-commerce portal. The service providers should have good track record in PHP/MySQL along with Smarty Template Design and customizing ready made e-commerce products like shop script etc as these are imperative requirement for this project. The budget for this project is around USD 1000 per month and payment will be done every 15days. Interested service providers are requested to send us the details about the websites they have built with their quotations and proposals.

Budget Estimate :USD 1000 Per Month.

Country :India

Status: Closed

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Software Projects - Web base and Windows base's Touch Screen Software

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Id : 11424945

Category : Software & Technology,Web Design and Development

Title: Web base and Windows base's Touch Screen Software

Description:

We are based in Malaysia and looking to outsource our requirement of software development. We are looking for the designers to design a Web base and Windows base's Touch Screen Software for a multiple Booking systems especially for Tourism Business. It should contain following features,

1. Payment by Cash/CC in POS (Point of Sales) systems and CC from the website.
   
2. Bookings can be made through the Web base and POS which would link to the booking systems, payment systems and accounting systems.
   
3. A reminder service through phone and email need to be added in as well.

We are looking for the service provider to advice us with what would be the best technology to develop this application. We want this application to be developed in 1 month time and payment will be done after the project is completed. Interested service provider is requested to contact us with their proposal and quotations as soon as possible.

Budget Estimate : Looking for best proposal

Country : Malaysia

Status : Closed

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Local software development poised for global take-off

Mentioning computer software in Jamaica, we probably mean market-leading Microsoft and not those developed by local companies.

But that shouldn't be the case, maintains Glen Gill, head of local company Info Group, which has sold its software abroad and is part of a local community of developers sponsored by Microsoft.

Info Group is one of several Information Communication Technology (ICT) companies based at the University of Technology (UTech) Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) business incubator. TIC this year awarded Info Group its annual Innovation Award for software providing a range of solutions from organising bauxite production to tracking the treatment of sickle cell patients.

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Web Development Projects - Auction PHP v2.0 popscript correction

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Id : 20955473

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Auction PHP v2.0 popscript correction.

Description :

We are Canada based and looking to outsource our work of fixing popscript. We purchased Auction PHP v2.0 from one of the sites but it contains some errors in the script. Most of the script is written and we are looking for someone who can install and fix all the errors for us. If provider is interested we will give a copy of the auction Script that we purchased and provider can install it to see where the errors are. We don't mind if provider keep a copy for themselves but we are just looking for it to get fixed. We would also like some new fields added and current fields removed when adding a new auction. The work will not take more than some hours and our budget is not more than 100 CAD (Canadian Dollars), but we are looking for some really competitive quotations. Interested service providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with their quotes and proposals.

Budget Estimate : Looking for best proposals.

Country : Canada

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Software Projects - Develop Web application & Desktop application

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Id : 29127787

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Title : Develop Web application & Desktop application

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We are South Africa based company looking for service providers (From India only) for our requirement of Web application to manage a distribution centre for clothing chain and Desktop application for Point Of Sales system for individual stores. The system will use SQL Server 2005 at head office with a web-application interface. Stores will use a MySQL database with a desktop application written in .Net but compiled using Mono for distribution on Linux machines. Instructions will be sent on a "cloth factory" basis. The application consists of many business objects each of which implements its own set of business rules. Accompanying documentation will be sent for each business object outlining the rules it should implement. These rules are what will be tested to establish whether or not the object has been developed to specifications. Service provider can expect to get a set of instructions (i.e. business objects and accompanying documentation) which they need to complete in a relatively short space of time. Once completed, they will be sent a new set of instructions. We will expect a reasonable turn-around time for completion of each instruction. There are approximately 400 business objects and screen designs to be completed, each of which should take roughly 3 hours of development time. We will send these instructions in batches of between 10 & 20 per instruction. This is on going work for six months and payout would be above 1000 USD per month. Interested service providers are requested to contact us by mail first with their profile as soon as possible.

Budget Estimate : 1000 USD per month

Country : South Africa

Status: Closed

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20 Tips for Creating a Customer-Friendly Web Site

What annoys an Internet user the most? A quick unscientific survey of a local Internet café suggests the top three turn-offs are:

• Sites that are very slow to download;
• Ones that are confusing to use;
• Sites that do not contain the promised information;

The single most common reaction to sites like these is that the visitor very quickly moves on to another web site. Clearly, if you get things wrong there is usually no second chance.

How can you avoid this happening to your business? Well, here are twenty tips to help you when designing or redesigning your company’s web site.

Start with a clear understanding of the purpose of your site.

Is the aim of your site to sell, entertain, or inform? The design of your site should be consistent with its purpose. The requirements for a site selling software online will be very different from say the web site of a local community newspaper.

Plan the site with the customer in mind.

Imagine how your customers (existing and prospects) will use your site. Consider their reasons for visiting and their needs. Something that looks logical to you may not appear so to a first-time visitor.

Design for cross-browser compatibility.

Although Internet Explorer dominates, do not overlook those people who use alternatives such as Mozilla, Opera and Netscape. Make sure your site can be viewed in other browsers; that way you will not unintentionally reduce the number of visitors to your site.

Choose simplicity over complexity.

Unless you are a design company showcasing its skills, keep things simple. Visitors (especially frequent ones) may not be impressed by your complex animated graphics especially if they serve no apparent useful purpose. Make it simple for visitors to get to the content – that is what most of them are coming to your site for anyway.

Make the navigation intuitive and easy to use.

This is probably one of the two most important aspects of designing a web site, the other being content. Make your site’s navigation logical and clear. Ensure the most important and most often-accessed information is easy to find. Link names should be concise and self-explanatory. Test navigational links to make sure they work and keep them up-to-date.

Your site should be as visually appealing as possible.

Visual appeal is subjective but the design of your site will undoubtedly influence customers’ perceptions of your business as a whole. An uncluttered layout, careful choice of font size and colors and appropriate use of graphics and images should go a long way to ensuring your site creates a good impression of your business.

Apply a consistent design or ’look and feel’ to your site.

Keep design consistent across your site unless you want your visitors to ask themselves whether they have wandered into another company’s site by accident.

Integrate your web site design with your offline branding.

For many, the Internet is still an alien environment so reassure your customers by applying the same branding online as you do offline. After all, if you have spent a lot of money building your brand why spend more appearing to build an entirely different online brand (unless, of course, this is your intention).

Keep page size manageable to ensure speedy downloads.

Online visitors’ patience is measured in milliseconds and not everyone has hi-speed or broadband Internet connections. So, keep page sizes within reasonable limits to ensure that they download quickly. Optimize graphic size and avoid putting an image on a page unless it adds something for the visitor.

Ensure your site’s content reflects its purpose.

If yours is a sales site for example, ensure that your content concentrates on selling. Stay focused and avoid the temptation to upload content that is not relevant to your web site’s purpose.

Enable quick and easy location of information.

Quite simply, most customers will quickly leave your site if they cannot locate the information they are seeking. Internet users increasingly require information to be instantly available and there is no shortage of other sites eager to take business from you. Think what information customers are likely to want and do not hide it away.

Make sure content is relevant, accurate and up-to-date.

Provide accurate and relevant content and keep it up-to-date. Failure to do this will make your company look inefficient and reflects badly on your customer service levels. Search engines also appreciate content that is updated regularly.

Encourage interaction.

Get visitors to interact with your site and spend more time on it. Make a visit an interesting experience for them by including useful online tools, etc. Just make sure they are relevant to your site.

Personalize your site.

Depending on the technology you have available to you, it may be possible to greet visitors to your site by name and serve up content tailored specifically to their needs. If you can do it then do so.

Invite dialogue.

Give your customers the opportunity to contact you via email, online forms, a call-back/call-me facility, web chat, etc. Ask for their feedback via online surveys and feedback forms. Invite them to subscribe to a customer newsletter.

Acknowledge customer contact.

It is common courtesy to say ‘thank you’. Very little effort is required to set up an email auto-responder. When requiring customers to complete and submit a form, make sure there is a ‘thank you’ page or pop-up. It reassures the customer that you have received their communication and does not leave them wondering whether or not your site is working properly.

Make it a ‘seamless’ experience.

Aim to give customers the same level of service online as you give them offline. Your goal should be to facilitate the customer’s interaction with your company and allow them to choose how to do business with you. You know that customers are your most valuable asset and that retaining them is vitally important.

Give your customers support.

Reassure visitors to your site by providing elements such as help pages, FAQ’s, a site map, terms of use and a privacy policy. They will appreciate it.

Inspire confidence.

Ensure that your site works properly and its content is up-to-date. Check error messages make sense and forms and data entry fields are logical. Get someone to proofread your site and spot any grammatical and spelling mistakes. The quality of your site tells customers a lot about the quality of service they can expect from you.

Get to know your customers.

Learn as much as you can about your customers and the way they use your site (and, if you can, find out how they use your competitors’ sites). Then use this learning to improve your site and increase your return on investment.

The number of web sites is growing every day and now just about anyone can create one. If you want your site to stand out from the rest, plan it carefully and design it with your customers in mind. Far too many web site owners just do not bother.

About The Author

Christopher Smith is owner of YourSiteAssessed.com (http://www.yoursiteassessed.com/) and President of eNewsWriters, Inc. – a company which writes customer newsletters for businesses (http://www.enewswriters.com).

Web Development Projects - Freelance PHP web developer

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Type : Project

Id : 19115864

Category : Web Design and Development

Title :Freelance PHP web developer

Total Requirement : On Going Work.

Description :

We are UAE based and looking for freelancer for our requirement of Web Designing and Development. We are looking for the Freelance PHP programmer with good knowledge of Joomla. We need anything from 2-3 projects done a month.We are looking mostly for an individual rather than a company and preference is developers from bombay.Developer also needs to have knowledge of DHTML, JavaScript and some knowledge of making web page design in HTML/ PHP from Sliced up Photoshop files given by us. We have bunch of projects with us and the budget is around USD 600 to USD 750 per month. Interested providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with their profiles and proposals.

Budget Estimate : USD 600 to USD 750 per month.

Country :United Arab Emirates

Status : Closed

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Software Projects - Port "C" Application to PHP

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Id : 13097246

Category : Software & Technology

Title: Port "C" Application to PHP

Total Requirement : Will depend on the quality of work

Description:

We are Germany based looking for a freelancer who can Port "C" Application to PHP. I got a "C"-application. Since I can "program" in PHP only, I would like to get this application ported. It is compiled in GCC (using MinGW), but I only get errors. The only problem is: The comments and variables are in German language. I could translate them into English for you before deal. I need is to be done urgently. So interested freelancers are requested to contact us as soon as possible.

Country :India

Status: Closed

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Newsmaker: Debating the morality behind software development

Newsmaker In the long history of software development--let's loosely mark the starting point around the time of the ENIAC--code writers have dealt with a myriad of technical and business challenges. It's fair to say they've also not had to confront questions of morality or ethics about how governments later deploy their finished work.

Until now.

Grady Booch, the inventor of the Unified Modeling Language, says those days of splendid isolation are--and should be--coming to an end.

Booch was the first chief scientist at Rational Software when it began in 1981. He kept the job after IBM bought the company in 2003 when he was also elevated to the rank of IBM fellow.

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Web Design Projects - Page Ranking and Google PageRank Checker

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Id : 81238275

Category : Web Design and Development,Internet Marketing

Title : Page Ranking and Google PageRank Checker

Description :

We are Switzerland based and looking for service providers for our below requirements

1. Implementing a Google Page Rank checker

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Examples:

Http //www checkpagerank com

Http //googlerankings com/prindex.php

2. Implementing a web page ranking checker

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• Page ranking/position checker for Google, Yahoo! and MSN
• Option to limit site depth (e.g. top 10, 40, etc.) for the check
• Options to choose one or more search engines for the query
• Queries limit per day (applies only for Google): The checker will monitor the queries' count per day and will show the "Unavailable" message after exceeding the predefined day quota (config parameter). After reaching maximum allowed queries quota (per day), the tool will offer the user to provide own API key with option to save the Key (in a cookie).
  Example: www googlerankings com

Further Requirements for 1 + 2:
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• Show Query time in seconds
• Simple way to place the rank checker on other websites (as a free service)
• Simple log file per day last 1000 queries' data accessible only for admin (1 static login)
• Localizable: Messages and labels should be read from one XML file
• Based on ASP.NET or PHP, and Ajax
• Google specific Checkers should be based on Google Developer API
• Written instructions on how to use the tools
• Simple Developer Remade/Documentation
• Layout: Only CSS (no tables)
• Daily update on work progress and mailing of new/updated files during the implementation phase
• Preferably less than 15 Days

Please notice that Google Page Rank checker (#1) checks for the Page Rank and shows the results (e.g. 2/10 current Page Rank in Google). The web page ranking checker (#2) is performed against provided URL and keywords, and must show the page ranking (position), title and description of the web page. Example:

Position: 1

Your Page Title

Your page Meta description

Note: 1 Google Developer API key is available.

Payout would be between 100 USD to 300 USD and 20 % payment will be made in advance and rest 80 % after completion of work. Interested service providers are requested to contact us as with their profile as soon as possible.

Budget Estimate :100 USD to 300 USD

Country :Switzerland

Status : Closed

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Software Project - Simple ERP Application

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Id : 29613925

Category : Software & Technology

Title: Simple ERP Application.

Description:

We are India based and looking to develop simple ERP (enterprise resource planning) Application. We are looking for application to be developed in Visual Basics and back end as Ms SQL, it should be compatible with MS Windows. The project involves following modules,

1. Material Master
2. Customer Master
3. Suppliers Master
4. Sales
5. Receivable
6. Payables
7. Purchase
8. Inventory
9. General Ledger
10. Customer complaint register
11. Project execution register

Our budget around USD 300. Interested service providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with their quotes and proposals.

Budget Estimate :Looking for best proposal

Country :India

Status : Closed

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Local Web Design Company Offers Solutions to Creating First Website

If you're thinking about creating your own website -- but don't really know where to start -- you may want to check this out.

There is a local web designing company that can give you a complete solution to designing your first site.

As the internet continues to grow, getting your business or yourself more exposure is easier than you think.

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Web Design Projects - Clone of web site with tracking page.

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Id : 93517294

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Clone of web site with tracking page

Description :
We are India based company looking for service provider for our requirement of web design and development. We need a clone of a web site (URL is available in attachment) with tracking page and which will open via click on banner. We want that when someone will click on the banner then that will be redirected to main site and all activities are tracked on our control panel. We have admin demo with us which we will show to the service provider selected by us. We need the trail demo of this site in 14 days and want to complete this work in a month’s time. Payout would be 5000 USD, we will pay 1000 USD afterchecking the trail demo and rest of the payment would be made after completion of project. Interested service providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with their profile.

Budget Estimate :5000 USD

Country :India

Status : Closed

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International Software Quality Conference Comes to Denver

Meeting of the Minds Revolves Around Excellence, Agility, New Technologies

Lakewood, just outside Denver, is hosting the International Conference on Software Quality this month, a gathering of professionals who not only need to understand the software development process, but also how to keep it on track and improving, so that the end product is not only innovative and useful, but reliable and effective.

In a field where innovation is highly competitive, software quality sometimes doesn't receive the emphasis that software development does. Most of us are familiar with the consequences, from nationwide outages on the Blackberry service, to problems with software on our desktops or at the companies that provide services to us. While it's popular to "blame the computer," sometimes it's also accurate.

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Web Design Projects - Flash Expert

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Id : 60478101

Category : Animation & Multimedia,Web Design and Development,DTP, Typesetting

Title : Flash Expert

Description :

We are Romania based and looking to outsource our requirement of Flash. We require a flash header 800x600 with some simple and professional animation. We are looking to hire expert who can also work with us for our future needs. The approximate budget for the project is approximately USD 30 to USD 100. Interested service providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with their quotes and proposal.

Budget Estimate : USD 30 to USD 100

Country : Romania

Status: Closed

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Software Projects - To develop Wirless or Mobile Solution using Java or .NET

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Category : Software & Technology

Title: To develop Wirless or Mobile Solution using Java or .NET

Description:

We are US based need some innovative project ideas for our personal project which we are involved in. We are looking for someone to develop wireless or mobile (PDA's & Handheld devices) solutions for different functionalities such as B2B, B2C which is highly secured using Java or .NET. Also, we are interested in any distributed applications using web services. We are willing to receive the best proposal for this custom built application. Interested Service providers are requested to contact us with their profile as soon as possible.

Budget Estimate : USD 600 to USD 1000

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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5 Basic Rules of web page design and layout

Your web site should be easy to read

The most important rule in web design is that your web site should be easy to read. What does this mean? You should choose your text and background colors very carefully. You don't want to use backgrounds that obscure your text or use colors that are hard to read. Dark-colored text on a light-colored background is easier to read than light-colored text on a dark-colored background.

You also don't want to set your text size too small (hard to read) or too large (it will appear to shout at your visitors). All capitalized letters give the appearance of shouting at your visitors.

Keep the alignment of your main text to the left, not centered. Center-aligned text is best used in headlines. You want your visitors to be comfortable with what they are reading, and most text (in the West) is left aligned.

our web site should be easy to navigate

All of your hyperlinks should be clear to your visitors. Graphic images, such as buttons or tabs, should be clearly labeled and easy to read. Your web graphic designer should select the colors, backgrounds, textures, and special effects on your web graphics very carefully. It is more important that your navigational buttons and tabs be easy to read and understand than to have "flashy" effects.

Link colors in your text should be familiar to your visitor (blue text usually indicates an unvisited link and purple or maroon text usually indicates a visited link), if possible. If you elect not to use the default colors, your text links should be emphasized in some other way (boldfaced, a larger font size, set between small vertical lines, or a combination of these). Text links should be unique -- they should not look the same as any other text in your web pages. You do not want people clicking on your headings because they think the headings are links.

Your visitors should be able to find what they are looking for in your site within three clicks. If not, they are very likely to click off your site as quickly as they clicked on.

Your web site should be easy to find

How are your visitors finding you online? The myth, "If I build a web site, they will come," is still a commonly held belief among companies and organizations new to the Internet. People will not come to your web site unless you promote your site both online and offline.

Web sites are promoted online via search engines, directories, award sites, banner advertising, electronic magazines (e-zines) and links from other web sites. If you are not familiar with any of these online terms, then it is best that you have your site promoted by an online marketing professional.

Web sites are promoted offline via the conventional advertising methods: print ads, radio, television, brochures, word-of-mouth, etc. Once you have created a web site, all of your company's printed materials including business cards, letterhead, envelopes, invoices, etc. should have your URL printed on them.

Not only should your web site be easy to find, but your contact information should be easy to find. People like to know that there is a person at the other end of a web site who can help them in the event that:

they need answers to questions which are not readily available on your web site;

some element on your site is not working and end users need to be able to tell you about it, and

directory editors need you to modify parts of your site to be sure that your site is placed in the most relevant category.
By giving all relevant contact information (physical address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and email address), you are also creating a sense of security for your end users. They can contact you in the way that makes them feel the most comfortable.

Your web page layout and design should be consistent throughout the site

Just as in any document formatted on a word processor or as in any brochure, newsletter, or newspaper formatted in a desktop publishing program, all graphic images and elements, typefaces, headings, and footers should remain consistent throughout your web site. Consistency and coherence in any document, whether it be a report or a set of web pages, project a professional image.

For example, if you use a drop shadow as a special effect in your bullet points, you should use drop shadows in all of your bullets. Link-colors should be consistent throughout your web pages. Typefaces and background colors, too, should remain the same throughout your site.

Color-coded web pages, in particular, need this consistency. Typefaces, alignment in the main text and the headings, background effects, and the special effects on graphics should remain the same. Only the colors should change.

Your web site should be quick to download

Studies have indicated that visitors will quickly lose interest in your web site if the majority of a page does not download within 15 seconds. (Artists' pages should have a warning at the top of their pages.) Even web sites that are marketed to high-end users need to consider download times. Sometimes, getting to web site such as Microsoft or Sun Microsystems is so difficult and time consuming that visitors will often try to access the sites during non-working hours from their homes. If your business does not have good brand name recognition, it is best to keep your download time as short as possible.

A good application of this rule is adding animation to your site. Sure, animation looks "cool" and does initially catch your eye, but animation graphics tend to be large files. Test the download time of your pages first. If the download time of your page is relatively short and the addition of animation does not unreasonably increase the download time of your page, then and ONLY then should animation be a consideration.

Finally, before you consider the personal preferences of your web page design, you should consider all of the above rules FIRST and adapt your personal preferences accordingly. The attitude "I don't like how it looks" should always be secondary to your web site's function. Which is more important: creative expression/corporate image or running a successful business?

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Web Development Projects - Development of WIKI website

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Id : 10477992

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Development of WIKI website.

Total Requirement :

Description :

We are USA based company and looking for service providers for our requirement of Web designing and development. We need an experienced expert service provider who can work on WIKI platforms for our website. We are looking for a help in selecting the best WIKI platform for our site's needs and then customization of the WIKI in accordance with our site’s requirements. Front end would need to be WYSIWYG for two different permission levels of users and Back end in MYSQL. We only want page templates and functions that the users can use to add the content. We need a best quote from the service providers for our work. Interested service providers are requested to contact us with their profile and quote as soon as possible.
otes and proposal.

Budget Estimate :Need best quote from service providers

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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Software Projects - Developing Information Worker Application

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Type : Project

Id : 19057408

Category : Software & Technology

Title: Developing Information Worker Application.

Description:

We are Sweden based looking to outsource our requirement of application development. We would like to develop an information worker application for our consultants. Below given are the technology requirements:

1. It shall be based on MS Exchange server.
2. It shall be based on MS Share point.
3. It shall be based on MS Dynamics.
4. It shall be based on MS Projects.
5. It shall be based on MS Outlook 2007 user interface.
6. It shall be based on MS SQL Server.

The turn around time for this project is around 1 month and budget is approximately USD 1000. Interested providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with your quotes and company profile.

Budget Estimate : USD 1000

Country : Sweden

Status : Closed

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Adobe releases new Flash software for cell phones

Adobe Systems Inc released new software for its popular Flash Player on Sunday that promises to bring the quality of live video on cellular phones closer to that of video on computers.

Adobe, whose software made possible the rapid rise of pioneering online video site YouTube, said Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) and NTT DoCoMo Inc (9437.T: Quote, Profile, Research) would use its new Flash Lite 3 in their new cell phones.

Adobe said more than 300 million mobile devices equipped with previous versions of Flash had already been shipped and it expected more than a billion Flash-enabled devices to be available by 2010.

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Web Design and Development Projects - Fix Broken Links And Codes On Site Including Wordpress Blog Error

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Type : Project

Id : 90754206

Category : Web Design and Development

Title : Fix Broken Links And Codes On Site Including Wordpress Blog Error

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Description :

We are US based and looking to outsource our requirement of wordpressblog. We have just moved our site to host monster from yahoo. We need someone with wordpress expertise to find out what is causing the error that keeps coming up with the blog. And we want to upgrade to the wordpress 2.3 and to migrate all the information from the old blog to the new one. Apart from this project we also have some more requirements coming up. Please check the link in the attachment for details of this project. Interested providers are requested to contact us as soon as possible with their quotes and proposal.

Budget Estimate : USD 100- USD 1500

Country : United States

Status : Closed

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Software Projects - Software Development of routines for automatically drawing of CAD diagram

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Id: 44517198

Category: Software & Technology

Title: Software Development of routines for automatically drawing of CAD diagram

Description:

We are India based company looking for service provider from Chennai for our requirement of software development. We want to develop software of routines for automatically drawing of CAD diagram using CAD software. The parameters for various dimensions shall be provided in a text file or any other format as required. This feature is already available with us in AutoCAD 2004 and has been developed using LISP but now we want same features for AutoCAD 2008. We need service provider to understand the existing system and develop a new routine in AutoCAD 2008 to match the existing feature. Assistance and guidance on the user requirement and basic design parameters will be provided by us but we cannot give assistance or guidance in AutoCAD. Approx budget for this project would be 30,000 INR. Interested service providers are requested to contact us during 10 am. to 5 pm IST with their profile as soon as possible.

Budget Estimate: Approx 30,000 INR

Country: India

Status : Closed

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Why Use a Professional Web Designer to Make a Website?

In todays fast developing world, the Internet is a hugely popular medium which helps in connecting different places within seconds. The Internet industry has given a tremendous boost to business organizations who work through online transactions. If the net is such an important medium to share views about different products and services, then the website which is used as a medium has to be competent enough to provide all the knowledge about the product in a prompt manner so that the consumer who is sitting on the other side of the net is fully assured with the credentials of the company and is ready to invest in it.

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In order to make an effective and popular website which can promote the company and its product efficiently, a professional web designer should be appointed by the company who has in-depth knowledge about the Internet industry and the search engine optimization techniques (SEO). The professional web designer will be competent enough to design a site according to the requirements of the company in a customized way.

It should be remembered that a well-made web site will invite more search enquiries. The website should be made appealing and catchy with various templates which will provide with all the useful information. The website should use contrasting background, colors, fonts and various styles in order to make the website attractive.

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Apart from these basic objectives, the web designer should remember that web designing is an expert job which if carried properly, can create wonders for the company. A good website will make the company and its product popular among masses.

It is necessary that the product policies in terms and condition should be mentioned with the product so that the liability of the company is mentioned beforehand. It is necessary to make the website free from any digression so that there is no unnecessary matter regarding the company. Web designing is an art which requites tremendous skill to handle all the information in a systematic manner.

A professional web designer will avoid the usage of presentations by the use of Flash and animated information as it is not a good option in the web sites. It is also important to remember that all the screen resolution of every individual will be different therefore the designer should make use of basic technology in order to make a good website which is creative and full of relevant information.

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Offshoring hits demand for UK software developers

The jobs market for software development in the UK is shrinking, according to research by IT staffing firm ReThink Recruitment.

It said that the proportion of new IT jobs created in software development had fallen to 28.5% from 34.3% a year ago.

And it said the proportion of new jobs being created in IT support roles had shrunk from 24% to 21.9% over the same period.

ReThink said the drop-off indicated that offshoring was affecting the IT market in the UK, since software development and IT support are both functions that are commonly offshored.

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