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Ways Of Speeding Up Your Website

Posted by weblinkindia on August 5, 2010

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Today, Internet is the most important source of gathering and providing information to us as users of this technology. Internet includes websites, which further includes useful webpages embedded in those websites. Millions of users worldwide are using the internet and millions of servers are being accessed making the speed of websites sluggish and thus reducing its performance scale. There are various different means and ways in which you can increase the speed of your websites. You want to know how?…Keep reading then….

Tips that will help enhance the loading speed of your website:

  • Most of our time is spent in the loading of components in webpages like different images, style sheets, script and flash. If these components are reduced, then the speed of the websites become faster as the number of HTTP requests required to render the pages is reduced.
  • Simplifying the page design also helps in speeding up of the website but simplifying the page may reduce its appeal. A way to combat this problem would be to make combined files like combining all the scripts into a single script and combining all the Cascading Style Sheets into a single style sheet. Combining multiple images into a single image also helps.
  • Using a content delivery network, which is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content more proficiently to the users, will help in the speeding up of the websites. In CDN, the server which is used to distribute content to the users is based on the degree of network proximity. In CDN, when a user wants to access some content, the server with few network stages or the quickest response time is chosen. There are various CDN provider companies, which offer services to Internet Companies.
  • Always put the style sheets at the top or at the HEAD of the document as it speeds up the websites.
  • Scripts in websites sometimes block parallel downloads. It is always advisable to put the scripts at the bottom of a document though it is not an easy task. An alternative option is to use deferred scripts. The deferred attribute specifies that the script does not contain document and it helps the browsers to continue rendering information.
  • Containing Java Scripts and Cascading Style Sheets in the external files also help in the speeding up of the websites. If Java Script and Cascading Style Sheets are embedded in the HTML document, they get downloaded every time, the HTML document is requested.
  • Minifying the Java Scripts and Cascading Style Sheets also aids in the speeding up of the websites. Minifying basically means removing unnecessary characters from the code to reduce its size which helps in load times.
  • It reduces the performance of the website if duplicate Java Scripts are embedded in a page. Duplicate Java Scripts reduce performance of the pages by creating unnecessary HTTP requests.

Though there are many other ways to speed up the performance of websites, the above mentioned are some of the most vital ones. It is very important to deliver the information to the users efficiently and quickly to improve the credibility of the website.

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Get your website designed in 5 easy steps

Posted by weblinkindia on July 21, 2010

Wish to have a successful business and do not have an online presence…..then this wish tends to remain more or less unfulfilled. In the current scenario, business having its online facet has become a mandatory deal. Having a website online is a key to success but usually people think that getting a website will ask for a lot of money and efforts. However, it is not as people think, contacting a web design company will make the website development process simple and easy for you. Web designing companies have web experts who assist you until your website goes online.

Here in this write up you will see how you can have your own website designed in 5 very simple steps.

Step 1.  Discussion about your requirements and estimated budget

What you need to provide is simply few details like :

  • Your business details
  • Objective behind having a website

That web expert will provide you the quote along with the deliverables based on the requirements and business objectives you have provided.

Step 2. Booking of domain and space

Domain name, the address to your website and the server space are the two important things that need to be booked prior to the designing of the website. The web expert will suggest you the domain name example www.yourcompany-name.com. This domain name will be suggested in accordance with your business objectives and the SEO perspective. You have the complete liberty to choose the domain name and only after your approval, domain will be booked along with the web space for the hosting of your website.

Step 3.  Collection of Basic Data

For designing an effective website, company’s details are required like :

  • Establishment year
  • Details about infrastructure
  • Details about the company’s offerings
  • Images of the products and the company premises
  • Contact details

The web expert will help you to gather the details required on (hyperlinks) different pages of your website. Any assistance needed in this regard is readily offered by the web expert. Ensure that you provide only authentic data that is supported with proofs.

Step 4. Promotional Measures

After the collection of data, the information is handed over to the SEO Experts who analyse and reframe the data as per the web promotional norms. This is an integral step as it helps a website achieve higher rankings on various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL etc.

Step 5. Designing and development phase

The final and the most crucial step is the designing phase. All the reframed and edited data is handed over to Web Designers and Developers who prepare the website for hosting. Before the actual hosting, the site will be shown to you on hidden URL. Any changes for the improvement of the website can be suggested by you at this very stage.

Once you are satisfied with all the aspects of your website i.e. its appearance, content, loading time, etc. the site would then be launched on the domain booked for you i.e. yourcompany-name.com.

Following these 5 simple steps, you get your well-designed website that is ready to earn you more and more web traffic and thus business. ALWAYS remember to choose a renowned and trusted web development company in order to have a well-promoted website.

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How to make a Web Design Project Successful

Posted by weblinkindia on July 1, 2010

There is much more to a website development than merely its attractive designs and multimedia features. Besides designing and technical skills, there are many factors that determine success of a Website Design project. Here is a write-up that throws light on the 7 essential keys useful both for the clients as well as designers, which can result in success of the web project, consequently leading the business on the path of glory.

  1. Practical Timeline/Deadlines
    It is famously said that the biggest roadblocks in the way of success are lack of time and resources. And when it comes to designing and developing a website, drawing realistic timeliness can surely make the project work. Sometimes, clients draw unrealistic deadlines for the project, which is nearly impossible for the designers to attain. This leads to chaos amongst the designers as well as developers, finally leading to an ordinary website or a one with many loopholes.So, the designers should promise only that time limit in which they can easily complete the project. On the other hand, clients should understand that they ought to give considerable time to the designers as it is the matter of their money and business.
  2. Understanding the clients psyche
    The website being designed is nothing else but the unique identity of the business of the client. So, websites that are designed should address the specific requirement of the clients. For this, clients should sit with the designers and make them understand their needs and what they actually want as an outcome on the website. While, the designers should try to gather as much information as they can and entail it in the designed website. Therefore, it is mandatory that client gets involved with the project and gives timely feedback to the designers.
  3. User friendly website
    A website is created with a purpose of making more business, which is only possible if it is able to draw quality web traffic towards itself. And for this, it is important to design a website that is user friendly and efficient to meet the needs of the users.Designers should make it a point to understand what the clients target segment is. This will help them figure out the elements, which they can include in the website. Like if the client deals in fashion accessories, then the designers can use attractive graphics as well as images to appeal to the users; whereas if the client provides freight forwarding services, then the designers are ought to give a simple and less glam look to the website.
  4. Implementation of the feedback from client
    The main step that can surely make the website project successful is getting feedbacks from the clients. Sometimes, clients don’t usually give feedbacks themselves. So, at that time designers should take the initiative and ask questions from the clients like ‘What they like about the website?’ ‘Is the website designed as per their choice?’ and many more. By this, designers can get an idea of the flaws and minute mistakes that need to be corrected. This step can finally bring in improvement in the end-product of the client.
  5. Testing
    A website should be effectively tested and clear the browser testing and usability testing before its launch. This can help designers in figuring out last minute errors or flaws left in the website designing.

Thus, by following the above mentioned steps, both designers as well as clients can have a successful web designing project and thus garner maximum profits out of it.

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Essential Things to Consider Before Starting a Design

Posted by weblinkindia on June 21, 2010

What are the most important things that should be considered before starting a website design?  The answer to this question can actually be very elaborative if we see from a web developer’s point of view.  But, there are certain basic things that should be kept in mind for designing an informative, attractive and user friendly website, which can have good ranking on the search engines.

Here, we are mentioning the 3 most important things that should always be considered before starting Website Designing Company India.

Audience

Targeting the audience plays a key role, so it should be given the utmost importance while building a website. The other aspects of this are easy accessibility, usability and progressive enhancement. The more user friendly and accessible your website is the more traffic it will generate, which eventually results in the success of your online venture.

Content

Content posted on your website helps visitor in making decision that whether they should come back to your website or not. Attractive structure and easy navigation are also essential parts that attract visitors to a website. If the visitor finds the content and structure of your website informative and engaging then only he will get back to it for more updates.

Conversions

The third most important thing to consider while designing a website is Conversion, which combines visual hierarchy and call-to-action. Visual hierarchy is a crucial element of page design as it helps the viewer in processing of information. Well maintained and structured visual hierarchy will assist viewers in finding the objects they are looking for. The call-to action will solicit the action from the user and grab their attention, which will result in more traffic.

Keeping these 3 simple things in mind will surely help you in developing a website that will generate a lot of visitors’ traffic and gain high ranking on the search engines.

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2010, what is in trend for web designs ?

Posted by weblinkindia on June 14, 2010

With the beginning of New Year 2010, your web designing
approaches should be reincarnated, in spite of the fact that the changes do not hold great significance as in 2009 or little earlier. The ideological changes in designers’ approaches and techniques are sure fetch better results and cater exactly to the people’s demands, who require something new in the New Year.

In this blog we are going to talk about the hottest trends in 2010, which if followed subtly, could turn your imagination into highly profitable business.

  1. Replace splash page with oversized headers or logos
    This is the newest trend to be followed in 2010. An oversized header or logo takes the entire page & captivates visitors, though care has been taken over the “Clicking Links” as web users have a clicking phobia (because of conventional poor navigation).
  2. Incorporate sketch or hand drawing in design style
    A hand drawn design always attracts visitors with maximum appeal. Further, a hand drawn web design is also almost impossible to be followed as it reflects the personalized design style of a designer. With sketches or hand-drawings, the clarity of your thoughts gets distinction from the cold web designs, which is a favorable aspect in 2010.
  3. Emphasize Slab Typefaces
    The growing demand of users has given balanced impetus to the use of slab typefaces. They supplement larger headers of the web pages and easily catch the attention of readers. Earlier, a number of designer used to avoid slab typefaces as they were smaller and understated.
  4. Consider Technological Change in OSs and Graphic Software
    Always keep yourself updated of the changes that are being made or under process that will affect the desktop viewing experience of a user. Almost every operating system development company and software development company keep on updating their products, hence it’s imperative to keep your web design style updated with the 2010’s operating systems as well as graphic software.
  5. Make your design more interactive
    To bolster your web design style, a host of elements of Flash should be exploited cleverly. In 2010, the average web user will be more tech savvy than ever. Therefore, your design should aptly cater their needs, especially in context of graphics.
  6. Bring in oversized footer in website
    In 2010, you should replace the rickety footers with the oversized ones, as they will overemphasize the design appeal. As a part of the newest trend, you should include some information on the footer that would appear randomly during web page browsing.

Replace your web design strategy and tune it up to cater the emerging trends of 2010 after following the above-mentioned facts. These points shall definitely help you refurbish the web design aspects in your website.

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Custom Web Design Versus Web Template

Posted by weblinkindia on May 8, 2010

Are you confused of whether to choose Custom Web Design or Web Template for promotion of your business? Don’t know which website will efficiently make your business stand apart from other competitors?  Here is a write-up that will provide an answer to all your queries.

Custom Web Design: For distinctive presentation of a website, custom designs are used as they incorporate unique features and presentation styles. It reflects the strategy and background of a company and its services.

Benefits of a custom web design:

  • Exclusive design: The custom based website is designed with an intention to make a company stand among other competitors. This website is an important business asset and reflects your company’s policies and the services you offer. It is an extension of your company’s image and is designed around the branding strategy of your company only. No one else can have a same website as yours.
  • Flexibility: You may incorporate other features to your website in future, which you could not have added due to budget constrains etc. It is easy to integrate new features to your site and this flexibility allows you to make continual improvements in the website.
  • Scalability: Where do you see your business in future? The web designer will take into consideration your future plans: about what you want from your website. Selection of the technologies for designing the website will be based on the same.
  • Search engine friendly: Search engine optimization is a must. A professional web designer will look after your website and will try to improve the ranking of your site on the search engine.

Drawbacks:

  • Cost: It is usually higher as the web designer creates a website in a unique way. Sometimes same geometry is kept throughout the pages but sometimes each page is customized in a unique distinctive manner.
  • Time: It takes longer development time as many things have to be kept in mind like the company’s policies, services, background etc. Customization takes time.

Web Template: Web template offers a good value, if your content fits adequately in it. Templates are considered as quick fix when you want to develop a website for an event or a small business promotion. It saves upon your money and cost.

Benefits of a Web template:

  • Cost: When launching a website especially for a new business, web templates are quite economical and convenient. You can avoid the expense of custom graphic design. These websites are very affordable.
  • Options: As per your requirement, you can choose from a wide range of templates. It saves your precious time and gives you a choice to select from different templates.
  • Time: It takes shorter development time. The template is ready, just the graphics and content has to be placed.
  • Inspiration: It means not necessarily using the same template, but using the color, design, feel and look of the template for developing your own website.

Drawbacks:

  • Exclusivity: You are not the only one using that design. There can be many other rivals using the same web template.
  • Antiquated coding: Many templates don’t undergo testing across different browsers. This limits your web audience.
  • Customization: There is a limited scope for customization. Sometimes templates break down, if you incorporate your own graphics and content.

If confusion arises from choosing between customized website and template based, go for a fusion of both template and custom website. Choose a template and then customize it.

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Web Design for Global Market

Posted by weblinkindia on May 5, 2010

Web Design is more than just the feel and look of your website. Web designing for global markets encompasses many other essential features like functionality of the website, the audience it caters to and engineering of your sites framework.

It is requisite to know about your key audience and their statistics such as:

  • Age demographics
  • Kinds of media they like or enjoy
  • Type of web browsers used
  • Other sites visited

While designing the website for the global market, a website is ought to be versatile and visible on other platforms and all browsers. Also, a website should be multilingual, which is an art in itself. Like if you are creating a website with an objective of just operating a nonprofit blog then you should preferably use English as a mode of communication because 1.5 million people speak English. Adapting your website according to different cultures and languages will require a translation at some point of time. There are three easy steps by which you can create your website as per global standards:

Smart navigation:

Keep navigation and common links in repetitive locations. A smart navigation is keystone of a well designed website. For an effective website presentation, signposting is a crucial part that should be clearly and smartly done.

While designing a website as per the global standards, a web designer must keep in mind that not all the languages are read from left to right. Many languages are read from right to left such as Arabic. So, having a menu on the left side of the site can become a trouble for your website. One solution for this can be switching the menu on the other side of the page for RTL languages. And for ease, you can opt for a horizontal menu bar across the top.

Script compatibility:

There is an industry standard called Unicode that allows computers to display text in most of the world’s writing system. Being supported by many other common operating systems and web browsers, it has been adopted by many IT and technology industries such as Apple and Microsoft.
As Unicode is compatible with over 90 scripts, it incorporates over a hundred thousand characters.

Presentation:

An effective presentation is a must for any website to appeal globally. Presentation is inclusive of the format, color of the website, background etc.

  • Color: It is very important for a web designer to get the color scheme of the website right. Your color scheme should also be decided taking into account for which country or culture, the website is targeted. Like for western cultures where red can denote danger, the same color in India is an indication of purity and good luck in China.
  • Background: It would be very difficult for a reader to read if the color of the text will be too close to that of the background. Also, avoid using flashy background colors.

Therefore, to avoid redesigning of your website, be clear about the presentation in which you want your website to appear.

So, while designing a website for global market, keep into consideration the above mentioned points. These simple features can surely help you to effectively cater the diverse markets.

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Top Web Design Trends For Small Business In 2010

Posted by weblinkindia on May 1, 2010

These days, website has become a great marketing and branding tool for every business. For the perpetual growth of a business, it is necessary that it has good listing on search engines. Previous year, various web design trends came into being that became popular and grabbed the attention of small business for developing a website.

2010 will be the year of success for both website owners as well as the website visitors. The market power of the websites will be rediscovered and users will have extensive choice to gather information from the Internet. Sites will be endowed with the frequent updates and high ranking on search engines. Click paths, entry pages and bounce rates will become easy lingo for business purposes.

Following are the website designing for small business in 2010 that if used will make your online business grow at rapid pace.

Establish your business online in the year of web presence

In 2010 online presence has emerged as an essential component of small businesses. In today’s highly competitive market use of technology like website, online marketing, ecommerce etc. has become imperative for achieving success in business.

Low cost to no cost ways for getting a website

With the emergence of enormous variety of web tools for small business, it has become easier to have web presence at no cost. Free tools available on the Internet can be used by a small business in the beginning for experiment purpose, which can later be transformed into customized hosted options. Having a website with your own domain is more reliable and brand friendly.

Flashy out; practical in

This year will promote simplicity on the internet because there is already a plenty of information available for the users. Websites providing quick information with less flashy promotions will attract more traffic. The only exception for this is if you are engaged in the entertainment business.

Personalized experience

Prospects or customers visiting your website will expect a welcome note from you in 2010. Providing them your personalized experience based on their preferences will make them trust your business.

Are you credible?

Establishing credibility among the visitors and assuring security of the information they provide is increasingly becoming a crucial factor. These days, visitors often look for security seals, SSL certificates, secure forms etc. while visiting any personalized website. This becomes even more essential if you are indulged in online selling of products. Security of your website from hackers and malware is also important. For preventing any such situation keep your website software updated.

Increasing use of multimedia on websites

Videos and photo galleries will become an essential part of a website. Cheaper and convenient options are also available for small businesses for telling the stories behind their products and services. Uploading videos on video sites and embedding them with your website will give an added advantage to your business.

If we sum up the whole thing, the essence that comes out is that small businesses should prepare themselves for showcasing the personality of their business using various multimedia tools in 2010. Efforts invested in 2010 for exposure of your online business will definitely set a highway to get more traffic to your website. Without a doubt 2010 is the year of success for small business websites.

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10 Ways to Save Time While Building a Website

Posted by weblinkindia on March 3, 2010

For a website developer time is money, but they should not rush to complete a website because money is time. The more you work, the better will be your income, but the question is how to increase your productivity without hampering the quality of your work. Here, we are making an attempt to provide you some tips that will not only reduce the time you spend on developing an attractive website but also yield fruitful financial outcomes.

1) Drop Down Menus - Adding a drop down menu in a website is a complicated task as it takes lot of time in typing a text. For designing a detailed menus in less time you can directly search the internet for various programs and websites that designs complex multi level drop down menus in a rather less time. This not only saves time but also gives you an idea about new styles of drop down menus.

2) Firebug -  Add-on offered by Fbrowser.irefox containing various improved functions, Firebug. This utility comes with an inspect element function that allows you to remind the names of particular CSS class or IDs. You can also test changes made in CSS/HTML in a

3) Templating Engines - It’s better to start working on a website with a standard base that already has preconfigured header and footer. A lot of time can be saved if you add links, meta data, robots.txt etc to your CSS file. A good templating engine can be easily searched on net for reference.

4) MeasureIt -  MeasureIt is another Firefox add-on that helps in measuring pixels on the screen, especially when you want to develop an image at a specific point. The task is as simple as dragging and clicking but make sure that the size of the web page, padding and margins are correct.

5) Reusing your CSS - Create a base CSS document with margins, body tags; IE6/7 hacks etc. because the basic content remains the same for every website. Having some preconfigured CSS base documents as a sample saves time of rewriting the basic things while you design a website.

6 ) Color Scheme Tools - A number of color scheme tools are available on the Internet, which can be used for creating a color scheme or picking colors for your website. Getting a HEX or RGB value for any color on the web page is just a click away with the help of color scheme tools.

7) PHP Include - Use of ‘PHP includes’ for header and footer will automatically show the changes while designing a site. The time saved by following this tip can be huge, but it largely depends on the size of the website you are designing.

8) Make Optimum Use of Open Source - While working on a rather complicated form or function, it is always better to sample some pre-developed forms. Many web developers make their work available on internet as a sample, which can be referred for help. There are various secure PHP forms available on the internet that will help you in designing a secure contact form, supported with image attachments.

9) Work on SEO from the Beginning - Working for SEO on your completed website is actually more tedious then doing it while designing. It is better to follow basic SEO strategy right from the beginning. Basic SEO guidelines or factors can be searched on internet as they didn’t take much of your valuable time.

10) Multiple Browser Testing -  There are certain websites that allow you to see how your website will look on different browsers. What you need to do is to just find your preferred choice and paste the URL of your website and choose the browser on which you want to test your web page. You can also take a screen shot of your website on different web browsers and show them to your clients.

Even though, there is no alternative to good web designing skills but these tips can make your work easy and will also save a lot of time. If you want to prove your caliber and stand as a successful website developer follow these simple steps and make your life smooth as a professional web developer.

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Create an organic web design

Posted by weblinkindia on January 22, 2010

What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘Organic’? In most of the minds picture of trees and plants is created. Organic is something that we obtain from the living organisms be it fruits, manure, compost, etc. Organic designs are a part of almost all art forms: painting, building architecture, etc. The most recent use of organic design is in the field of web.

Web designing has emerged as the most dynamic field and is known to frequently incorporate new forms. Various companies and professional web designers have started using a natural approach in the making of their logos and websites. In the era when everywhere green revolution is promoted even the web field is including it in its graphics and layouts. The technological shine that has ruled the web designing is now overshadowed by the new organic web design concept.

Not everyone knows that what organic web design is? And designers must be keen to know how they can create it? Organic web design is basically bringing in the natural elements into a hi-tech environment. Elements such as earthy textures, wood grains, natural fabrics, plants, etc. and also the colors or materials that provides an essence of nature. Here are the 4 categories of web design that will help you to make an organic web design:

Materials, fabrics and textures that suggest presence of organic elements are used:
As mentioned before that a web design is made by fitting in natural elements. The objects that are used are papyrus, tape, muslin, paper, wood and muslin. As these items are obtained from the natural things, they give a natural appeal to the layout.

Abstract or Conceptual essences of nature can be used:
If not natural products then what ? You can also make use of shapes, materials, colors and brushes that imitates the nature and its elements. These are meant to provide an essence of organic environment. Most of the websites designed on these lines have streamlined graphics.

Alternate “organic” web design elements:
Organic web design doesn’t always mean something that is extracted or obtained directly from nature. Things that were once created by humans and then neglected are also regarded as organic.
For example: deserted piece of wood that was once a part of a building or stained materials that once graced the décor of the house. Torn clothes, old photographs, etc. can also be considered organic.

Try to use a whole image than its parts:
Rather than using either graphics or brushes in creating an image we should use both in one image. More is obtained from the whole image than from its integrated parts. This technique is commonly used in the making of typographies.

Thus proper usage of these categories shall let you design an attractive and effectual organic web design. This natural idea can help your website to attain an all new and rare look. Addition of your novel and innovative ideas to it like use of vibrant and earthy colors, etc. could raise the scale of your designed organic website.

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