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Basics of Web Designing

Posted: Saturday, June 18, 2011

Web Designing
Web designing should be the ultimate combination of Art and literature or in other words graphics and content. The front end deals with the page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio.

Designing Essentials
Balance is essential when designing the site.
Usability - The usability of your site is important to help you achieve the ultimate goal, which is to sell your product or services.
Navigation- A good navigational system is crucial for your web site.

Designing Elements
There are some crucial design elements which determine the success of your web site. Text- It is very important that the correct font size, style and color be used in a web page.
Content- Relevant content in accordance to the users need is an important step in web site planning. Loading full pages with complex graphics and animations can take considerable time and wear on the reader's patience. Graphic Images- graphic displays should be kept small. Tables-Tables can provide an efficient means of organizing and displaying complex information.

A successful web page should have the following elements to ensure its success.
• Attractive design
• Fast loading
• Easy navigation
• user friendly
• Resolution friendly
• Search engine optimized
• Back office support
• Browser compatible
• Relevant content
• Defined protocols for each webpage

Designing Disasters
Just as some designing elements spell success, certain designing errors prove disastrous.
Huge font size - Unless it's a site for the disabled, please refrain from using huge fonts, really most people see quite well.
Small font size - No one has 20-20 vision either, so small font sizes are equally, bad.
Overlapping layers - Layers can be very useful up to the point. Don't try to force your user to read your messages. More flies are caught with honey than vinegar.
Popup windows - this is the ultimate annoyance for visitors.
Broken links- this is the fastest way to drive visitors away. Keep checking links on your site.

A. Web Design And Development Service Providers
If you are looking for Web Designing services, your first step will probably be to search for "Web Designing services" on Google or another search engine. Which one will provide quality services?
• Offer 24 hour availability
• Improve customer Service
• Save time and money

Criteria to select Web Designing and Development service providers

Reliability
Check out whether the company is holding any international certification like ISMS or ISO 9001:14001.To implement these certifications companies have to maintain certain values and standards. Also standard companies will sign agreements like SDA or NDA before starting the work.

Judge the quality of services provided
Check the web sites they have designed and verify the efficiency of their work.

Compare prices
After checking the quality of the services provided by various companies, compares their prices. Then select the company which provides the best combination of outstanding quality plus an affordable price.

Work Capacity
Etc.

B. Combining Web Design Business With Web Hosting Can Generate More Income For Web Designers
Web designers and developers are the foundation of the Internet. If you are skilled in web design or web development you can make a growing income on the Internet. The secret to making money with your web design and development skills is to include web hosting in your web design or web development quotes or standard packages.

You can add $50 a month to your income, hosting your client sites with more ease. Terms with "web designer"get more searches per day than terms with "hosting". People are looking for web designers to get their sites on the Internet.

Web designers and developers can incorporate the sale of hosting into their web development and design projects. As a web designer you can bill your customers for the hosting fees within the design and then host the account for a year or on a month to month basis. You will be surprised at how much extra income you can generate from your web design customers.

Providing hosting for your web design clients will give you greater assurance that your customers will come back to you to make changes or update their site. Let's look at some numbers, and how billing for hosting on top of your web design work can make you some serious money. Let's assume you get paid $500 - $1000+ for a site design. If you charge your client for hosting as well you could generate up to $50 extra per site, per month in hosting fees. With a little effort and focus you could generate a very healthy income in your web design business. Right now there are a myriad of powerful web applications, content management systems and shopping carts you can quickly install in your reseller web hosting account and produce a design for very quickly. The better way to do it and really maximize your profit is to get a reseller hosting account where you can host all your customer sites in the one hosting account. This works out much cheaper than getting a separate account for each customer site. For just a few hundred dollars per year you can host 50 or more sites. In our experience Windows hosting reseller packages are a good idea as a Windows reseller hosting account will give you the freedom and choice to run ASP, ASP.Net as well as PHP sites with MySQL or SQL Server databases. Linux hosting is incredibly efficient and gives you some of the cheap hosting options available but does not support ASP or ASP.Net applications. For an extra few dollars a month you can get Windows hosting and dramatically increase your options for your web design customers from a wider array of available web applications and freely available code in ASP and ASP.Net.

As a reseller looking at Windows hosting accounts make sure the host offers Multiple IIS sites and not just unlimited domains. To properly host multiple sites on Windows each site needs to have it's own entry in IIS (Internet Information Server - the Windows web server). Many hosts say unlimited domains and what they really mean is running unlimited domains on one site. Being able to put your customer sites in separate application pools means that if one of your customer sites get's busy or some crazy bug causes a problem it will isolate it to just that site and you wont end up with all your customers screaming at you that their sites are down.

Through booms, through busts, good times and bad times web designers and developers quietly rule the web. To make money from hosting your client work you really don't need to leap out and set yourself up as a web hosting provider with billing systems, hosting plans and support systems and processes. The best thing of all you can keep your focus on why you became a web designer - designing web sites!



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