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How To Get A Pay Raise From Your Web Site


How many of the visitors to your web site take the action you want them to take? Whether you want them to buy something from you, sign up for your newsletter, enter your sweepstakes, or give you contact information to follow up on, you want them to do something. The percentage of visitors who actually do that something is called your ?conversion rate.?

Web Designers Beware!


As a web designer, I have a personal interest in a new trend which threatens to put me and my kind out of business. That ?threat? is Web Design Templates. In short they are ready-made web design products which can be used as a basis for a fast and high-quality website. You usually receive a Photoshop file (.psd), Flash file (.fla), HTML files with your tables and initial scripting already complete, fonts, sounds and anything else which may be part of the website design.

Excellently Constructed Websites


Want to see an excellently constructed website? As a writer I found one of my favorite writers: (Paulo Coelho) has a site that could inspire anyone who wants to create a more humanistic presence on the Web.

So You?re Hiring a Web Designer?You Have the Right to Demand these 7 Perks


Whether you?re hiring a designer who has created 10 sites or 1000 sites for other businesses, there are 10 things every website should do for you.

How To Design A Web Site


I'm not a professional web site designer and openly admit there is a lot that I don't know. But if you're a beginner I probably know more than you do, so listen up.

10 seconds is all it takes? (How to grab the attention of your audience with your web site)


FACT: 30 to 60% of visitors tend to drop off and click to another site when they are forced to click their mouse more often than necessary.

A Web Site That Sells Is All One Needs To Have A Successful Online Business!


There are more than billions of Web Sites, running Online Businesses, offering products and services. But only a few Web Sites manage to make any sale.

The Top 8 Website Sins Part One


They say the eyes are the window to the soul. Your website then is the window to your business. What would a passerby think of your "window"? What does your website say about you? About your business?

The Top 8 Website Sins Part Two


Sin #5

Ten Fatal Mistakes That Make Web Sites Stink


Since you?ll spend lots of time and money to create your web site, don?t you want to make sure you?re not making mistakes that at best irritate users, and at worst make you lose customers?

Creating Your First Website


Building your first website can be very frustrating. It looks fairly easy, but almost always turns out to be more complicated than you expected.

Make Artistic Graphic Designs


Are you a student of graphic design? If you have taken time in extra reviews and put ?graphic design? and ?drawing? into any search engines, you?ll get almost the same result = descriptions of graphic design programs at many design schools. Baffled? Well, it?s like this: As a student interested in graphic design, you have to take drawing and not actually a degree in fine art.

Bad Design Characteristics For A Website


Making a poorly designed website is one of the easiest things you can do as a webmaster! You barely need to try! If you want to run a successful high traffic website there are many different elements of design that you need to implement, and ones you need to avoid.

Positive Design Attributes for a Successful Website


Designing a website is hard job, and requires you to think out a plan of action, and put in a lot of work to make it successful. There are many different kinds of websites on the Internet, but if you look at all the top performers with high traffic, you will notice that they all have similar design characteristics which place them as the best in the world.

How To Rescue Your Graphic Design Project When All Else Fails


Whether you're giving a critical sales presentation to a client, producing visuals for a meeting, event, trade show or seminar, or unveiling the new company logo before an audience of shareholders, top-notch graphics will help ensure that you, your products, and your message receive the attention they deserve.

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