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Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009 Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have a growing need to be educated in this area and ready to design websites that accommodate this audience. Because designing websites for mobile devices brings some unique situations and challenges into play, the subject requires a strategic approach from the designer and developer. In this article, we’ll look at the subject as a whole, including current trends, challenges, tips and a showcase of mobile websites. Plenty of helpful resources and articles are also linked to throughout the post, so if you’re interested in learning more about designing for mobiles, you should have plenty of information at your fingertips. 1....

Are you looking for logo designers who will design logos for your business or website? People do a lot of logo design jobs as freelancers. There are many websites offering opportunities for people to work online. If you visit a company website, what will you look at first, or what comes in your sight? When I visit some site, I sure will see the top header, the design and the layout of the website and where is the company logo? Many people look for ease of use, many look for the design, many people look for the functionality of the website and many people almost all of them do get their eyes on the company's logo on the website. It will help the visitors remember your website. So it is important to develop and design some of the most stunning logos for your website, for that you might need some tips, I hope these are helpful. Well some people think that logo design is just an art work, well they need to correct their views about logo design. It is not just a design; it is the repres...

There are important reasons why a company changes its website's design. It is not just about redesigning because you just feel there is a need to do so. It should be a result of careful site assessment and planning. Any unplanned site fixing could result to not so good most especially when it comes to SEO. Here are some factors why redesign websites: When it does not deliver its purpose. When you have an e-commerce website your main goal is to sell products. Your desire is to generate more sales with your website. If your website does not anymore make sales, a redesign could be a big help. Check your website ROI and assess whether there's a need for website upgrade. When your company changes business theme There may be times that your company has to change its business theme. A business theme pertains to an idea in which a company wants to be recognized. A company distributing wheelchairs may wish to sell more products related to health. Thus, a change in business theme is most...

More than 25% of mobile phone owners around the world have browsed the Internet via a mobile handset. Market research agencies are speculating that mobile web browsing might become the next dominant Internet platform. For many consumer-driven companies this means that having a WAP friendly website will be a necessity rather than a nice-to-have. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have recognised the potential of this market and are making great efforts to promote mobile commerce to users and advertisers. Most famous brands like Coca-Cola, MTV and Nike now have a mobile portal featuring content designed specifically for handheld devices. Most importantly, though, operators have reduced tariffs and introduced flat-rate plans. This means that an increasing number of your potential customers are using their mobiles to find local businesses, content providers, games and more! WAP Friendly Mobile Websites Over 80% of adults and 60% of teens in the UK own mobile phones, and at least 28% of these use...

You need to collect much information about the Dreamweaver learning methods to help you finding the best way, so you will understand it quickly. The most common way to find the methods is through the online tutorials. There are many websites offer a tutorial about the Dreamweaver learning process, include the tips and online consultation. Besides the online tutorials, you should have a book, especially if you are really a beginner. Depend on the version of Dreamweaver you want to learn, you are strongly to choose the appropriate book, so it will not give any difficult. If you choose a different version book with your program, you will find any differences between the book and the software. Usually, there are some terms could be different to use and the function of a certain button. For some tips of the methods, you can use the built-in tutorials as well as you can explore your own skill. Everyone has own methods on learning process, especially to the Dreamweaver learning. However, this...

A good web site design gives an array of benefits for your business. It is not just about all the graphics and content; colors and functions. More than that, good design web sites work so that your company is well-presented in the corporate environment. A good web site serves as your business alter ego. Your website serves as a mirror for your business. Therefore, it is really important to have a good web site design. So what are the elements of a well-designed websites? A website ideal for business, according to experts, should possess both appearance and functionality. Appearance helps create good impression even at a first glance. Functionality helps deliver what users want. When it comes to 'website look' and 'functionality' you should look at the following areas: Graphics - see to it that graphics appropriately represents your business. For instance, when it comes to color, blue is said to be a corporate color, green is for environment advocacy. Images - studies ...

I often overhear programmers and computer nerds (term of endearment) debating about which content management system (CMS) is best for an ecommerce project. So, I decided to talk to each of the programmers in our office to get to the bottom of the debate and declare a winner based on my research. So, here is what we uncovered. Drupal Drupal lovers love Drupal... it's really as simple as that. It seems they have so much love for it, that they just can't bring themselves to like anything else. They love the way it supports SSL, multimedia, document management, user management, permission features and much more. The documentation is second-to-none and the add-ons make using it a no-brainer. Possibly the most important aspect - according to one programmer - is that the product manager is easy to use and update. I am not sure if I agree with that, however. Magento The newest CMS among the big boys is Magento. It is one of most search engine friendly ecommerce systems and is very robu...

Most Web page designers use a table-based layout to achieve a coherent and consistent look. There's a different way to achieve the same look. Using CSS and DIV tags reduces markup code, speeds up page downloads, separates content from its visual presentation, and brings your code closer to Web standards compliance--all while making your website more appealing to search engine spiders. Alejandro Gervasio explains how it's done, with copious examples. Introduction We see it every day. As we surf the huge network of the Web, we are able to appreciate several page layouts through different websites. They run the gamut from classical but highly effective two and three-column designs, to those exotic and certainly uncommon designs which seem not to fall into a specific category. For many years, Web designers have been sticking firmly to table-based layouts, achieving coherent and consistent looks by the use of complex table nesting techniques, gif spacers and other well-known design ...

There are two tags for adding sound to your document, Internet Explorer 3.0's <BGSOUND> tag and Netscape's <EMBED> tag. The <BGSOUND> play the background sound from your page. That is when visitor visit your page, the sound will automatically play. Netscape's <EMBED> tag is slightly different, you can use its attribute to select playing sound when the page is loaded or give the users an option to click whether they would like to hear the sound. HERE IS HOW TO USE AN <EMBED> TAG: <EMBED SRC=your_file.mid AUTOSTART=true WIDTH=144 HEIGHT=60 LOOP=1> AUTOSTART=true means automatically play sound when document is loaded. This way, the sound will play as a background sound. You can also set the value to false. The sound will play when the "play" button is clicked. LOOP=n This tells browser how many times to play sound. n could be an integer, true, or false. Setting LOOP=true, browser will continue playing your sound until the stop bu...

There are a lot of ways on how to make money online especially if you are knowledgeable in building web pages. Web developers and designers are making a fortune building websites for people and companies. If you happen to know how to program HTML, CSS and other web designing platforms, then a web designing career is what you need to have a profitable online business. Being a web designer can be profitable in two ways. You can either apply for a traditional corporate job as a web developer or you can do it on your own online business as a freelancer. A web designing career in a corporate level is a high paying job but like traditional job, you have a superior that commands you ridiculous things and you have to stay at office for longer hours. Although you are compensated properly, you don't have control of your time which is the most important thing when looking for the most ideal opportunity to earn a living. While if you base yourself at home working as a freelance web developer, ...

Running a website is can be a seemingly pointless and unfulfilling venture if you don’t take the proper steps to ensure advancement. Today we’ll take a brutally honest look at how you should measure success and develop goals that actually lead to productivity. Like the article? Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to stay up on recent content. Great Ideas Pale in Comparison to Execution Too many entrepreneurs lack even a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of business theory. While there is no recipe that guarantees success, there is a large body of research noting trends of successful businesses. There are many businesses such as Twitter that explode seemingly overnight without even so much as a profit plan in place, but remember that these are the exceptions and are far from the norm. If you’re starting a website or online business, you can much more realistically expect to have to fight your way up with more than a good idea. Measuring Success One of the key...

So, you want a website that will capture and express everything to all target visitors and various clients? Do you currently have a website that you think of modifying it this time? Or are you planning to have your ideal website that's pretty unique but will drive endless traffic and generate income through years of great success? The Website Industry Over the years, the website industry has fully developed its wide arrays of services and marketing strategies for every business success. What seemed to be a very broad and widely categorized market becomes a single-focused niche these days. Basically, the field of website design has been divided before into 3 main categories. These are the website promotion and marketing category, the field of graphic design and creative studios for animated presentations and the area of web programming which merely focuses in developing databases for both small and even larger client groups. However, these three categories have now been fused into ...

A website as defined by some popular dictionaries is a page or a collection of various information, videos and images which are all present at one place. Every website has a particular domain name by which it is recognised and a website is always located on some server and always has some internet protocol address. It is the way you design your website and use various services available to you that people will get attracted to it and will thus visit it more thereby increasing the traffic of your site. Thus if the people stay on your website for a longer period of time, it will definitely meet your objective which is to let more and more people know about you and your brand at the end of the day. It is your duty to make your website in such a way that people are allured towards it and they want to immediately buy the product which is mentioned there on your website. There are some steps which you should follow if you want to increase the traffic of your website and make the best website...

Working with CSS can be a daunting task. It is a powerful language and once you have considerable expertise of the same, you can craft some great websites. Here are some CSS tips to help you employ its features well. Browser Compatibility Issues Browser compatibility is a crucial concern in the field of website development . In order to make sure your website performs well on all browsers and carters equally to all the website visitors, you need to ensure that the layout of the website looks the same across multiple browsers. Different web browsers render web pages in different ways. And that is why your website can look something on one and something different on another. Though the layout is not completely revamped, the placements of certain elements can be altered. This in tuns impacts the layout and causes inconsistencies. When you design your website on a browser and tweak it to perfection, you should note that it may look a little different on other browsers. Therefore make sure ...