Not all links are created equal. While all of your links may be important, you must sort and prioritize to come up with an effective navigation scheme. Here's what you should keep in mind: 1. Sort your links Your links should be organized according to their relationship to each other. Any time you can find a way to divide your links into two or more categories, do so. If you have more than 5 or 6 links, categorizing becomes very important. Try to find some natural groups. For example, suppose you sell widgets, and your site has this set of links: Mini widgets Multi-colored widgets Discounted widgets Contact us About the company News Your major categories are: Products Company info When you separate the two sets of links according to those major categories, it becomes much easier to sort the available information....

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As part of your event planning you should seriously consider registering a special event domain. That should in fact be the first step for your planning of any event. Whatever it is: - your big wedding event - any other big family event - a festival - a course / training event - a celebration event in your local community - an international seminar or conference event - a campaign event / promotion event - a school class event. It is much easier to find a proper domain name for an event website than for a permanent website....

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Just because you are a small business with an even smaller website design budget, does not mean that you cannot have a professional looking website and presence on the web. All it means is you will have to do some of the work yourself instead of paying some design firm to do it for you. Amazingly enough, self designed pages from small business owners who did their research frequently end up being better and more focused than professionally designed pages. Consider the following suggestions when designing your own website....

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One product, one long web page: this kind of web site is sometimes called a sales letter site or mini-site, and it focuses on one and only one goal, as many sales of that oneproduct as possible. With a one-product sales site, no distractions, no subsidiary goals, such as newsletter signups, are allowed to interfere with that goal. So let'slook at some common mistakes and omissions for a sales letter site. Your headline serves as the key point of orientation forthe reader and should be as strongly worded and pointedly targeted as you can manage....

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Designing your website can be a difficult task especially if you decide to do it on your own and you have no experience. There are many websites and web hosts that provide tools to allow you to build your website, but if you have no knowledge of what works and what does not work in web design, you could be setting yourself up for a big fall. Review the following suggestions, implement them into your web design, and forget about being the guy with a badly designed web page. Suggestion #1 - Not Providing Information One of the biggest design flaws of many different websites is the lack of information....

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Your web site should be- visitor friendly to navigate search engine friendly for the crawlers Automated with ecommerce and subscription forms... Your visitor should get the feeling that you know your 'stuff'. Here are few tips to show your web site professionalism: 1. Uniform Layout and colors: 2. Links: Check links for 404 page not found errors. When your visitor clicks on order link and found 'page not found error' and come again after two days to see the same error... Means you noway care about your web site....

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We've all surfed the web and seen some awful web sites. Sites that never completely loaded. Sites with too many photos. Sites with no easy way to find what you wanted. Another way asite looks bad is when each page looks different. You're noteven sure you're at the same site. It doesn't have to be thatway. Templates are the solution. A template is a web page showing the basic elements of how youwant the site to look. The navigation bar, title, banner, andcopyright information are all there on each page....

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Never put form over function. Why? Because it's crucial that visitors actually be able to USE your site. Everything you do must be designed to be as easy for the visitor to understand as possible. Everything should be functional first. If you put form before function, you sacrifice your visitor's best interest for your own preferences. By definition, putting form over function means you sacrifice function--you make it harder to perform whatever task is supposed to be performed. You give up ease of use or simplicity in order to make it look nicer....

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Now that you have decided that it is time to create a website for your business there are many questions you must answer. One of the most important questions is "Who should create my website?" I like to use the analogy of playing music; in as little as a few hours, some people can strum a few chords on the guitar and play a song. But to really play the instrument and make your instrument sing requires experience and understanding. Likewise, although there are tools which are readily available to assist in the process, effective website design requires experience and understanding of many diverse areas including: marketing, Internet graphics options and limitations, effectively creating a site from the perspective of search engines, the differences and limitations of different browsers and computer platforms as well as knowledge of the software and coding required to move beyond simple static html pages....

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What is a Website Template? Many smart and savvy businesses are choosing to use a website template, and avoiding employing a professional designer. Why? Well, there are clear benefits: saving on cost, saving on time, and ensuring quality. Web templates close the gap between the amateur website owner learning to create his/her own website, and a one-off custom design. What is a website template? A web template is a ready-made design for your website, including images, some navigation, preferably several sample pages and in some cases Flash animation....

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This is my second article on maximising web site viewability. Analysing screen resolution data. With so many different configurations internet users have their computers set up with, it can be difficult to decide how web sites should be configured so that it is viewable in as many configurations as possible. So in the last 6 months i have been logging the statistics from my web design site to achieve as accurate a result as possible to answer this question. The results are interesting reading and in my next few articles i will be analysing this data....

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There is a widespread confusion among lots of new website designer concerning the home page. If you get any book, any course, or ask most web page designer how to build a website, they will advise you to build your home page first. It is a good idea, and most website designers start with creating a home page first. The problem is, some web designer think if they deleted the home page, the whole website is gone. So, what they do is deleting all directories and sub-directories and the files within, and they start building the website from the ground up....

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