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  1. How to design a website as per SEO requirements

    Kabila on September 15th, 2009

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    SEoAnyone starting a website to promote their products or services online should optimize it for search engines in order to be listed in their results pages (SERPs) and reach the intended audience. Instead of optimizing a site after launching it, it is better to design a website as per SEO needs.

    While crawling, web spiders will look for text on the site that is related to the search query. Hence, provide text relevant to products or services offered. The title tags, meta descriptions and keywords per page have to be unique and relevant. Provide keyword rich site content on relevant topics, as spiders judge your site based on these things.

    Specify the site URL ( http://www.example.com/) that you prefer for your site and redirect the rest of relevant website URLs like www.example.com/index.html, http://example.com, example.com/home.asp etc to the preferred site URL by adding the 301 redirect (permanent) to the preferred URL, so that user entering relevant website URLs will be directed to your main site page.

    Provide breadcrumb trail which is a navigation aid that shows both search engines and humans where their current location is and how far they are from the destination page.

    Use limited number of graphics, and if possible, avoid them. Provide relevant anchor text to the image links, as spiders can crawl only anchor text and not images. Also the site uploading time is directly proportional to number of graphics on site.

    A website designed by calling JavaScript and CSS code externally is a good one. Stay away from frames as search engine avoids them, and restrict the usage of flash, QuickTime or other plug-ins on HTML Pages.

    On the whole, it is necessary to prepare a site with simple navigation and architecture for assisting search engines to easily find information on your site.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 2:52 am and is filed under SEO Game, web design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Some things you need to keep in mind when designing your site

    Kabila on September 7th, 2009

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    WrodpressthemeThe Web is a foam of ever-popping bubbles, ever-changing shopwindows, a fascinating world where reality is compressed and presented in a browser – basically a window for looking sequentially at a very large parallel structure. It is therefore very important how content is put forward to the user. We get better design when we understand our medium. Yet even at this late cultural hour, many people don’t understand web design.

    Web design is not book design, it is not poster design, it is not illustration, and the highest achievements of those disciplines are not what web design aims for.
    So what is web design?

    Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Great web designs are like great buildings. All office buildings, however distinctive, have lobbies and bathrooms and staircases. Websites too share commonalities.

    Although a great site design is completely individual, it is also a great deal like other site designs that perform similar functions. The same is true of great magazine and newspaper layouts. Understanding this, and yet making your website stand out amongst the million similar pages is our objective.

    One of the first things that one needs to decide, long before the analysis, design and implementation, is the target audience. With whom are you trying to communicate? It is important define the audience before you even get into any details about what the web site is to do – the “to do” will actually be made a lot clearer once you understand your audience.

    The next phase involves figuring out what you are trying to communicate. This is probably one of the most important parts of the design process, and is often compromised on when more focus is on how it’s being communicated; the visual appeal of the website. If done right at the beginning, you will find the website coming together by itself, and the design will not require endless changes and maintenance.

    The final phase involves the overall design on the page. Most times, an effort is made to provide as much information as possible, which is good. But at times, this leads to a very cluttered web page that will not be able to hold a viewer’s attention. Keep it simple. Providing links could be a solution to the problem of having to display lots of content. Making navigation within the site easy and distributing content over the entire window also adds to the appeal of a webpage.

    A balanced approach that takes into account the content and the need for an aesthetic visual appeal will give you a great way to express yourself and make your content reach a wider audience.

    Ocarda is a digital marketplace where you can get everything from website templates to WordPress themes and plugins to design your dream site.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 4:24 am and is filed under web design, Webmaster Articles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Effects of web templates in a web site

    Kabila on June 5th, 2009

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    page_11Web templates are a life saver for people starting a business or wanting to interact with others in the virtual world. It helps them to start a website through which they can interact with the world. The web site design plays a major role in attracting customers and making them interested.

    Web templates are a boon for web developers. One can make use of it as a layout to build a site. Templates with schematic layouts are used to generating massive numbers of web pages. An effective web template provides a user the capability to start the design process quickly, thereby helping him save time and cost in building a web site.

    It is best to go for optimized and nicely designed templates for developing sites with lots of pages and navigation links. If your site needs frequent updates, using a web template is the ideal choice. While building a site using a template, a web developer can prepare a basic template by editing it according to the requirement.

    If site templates are optimized properly, then the sites developed will be search engine friendly. While selecting a template, make sure that the template design is appropriate for your business. Use web site design software like Dream Weaver to customize your website. While selecting colors, fonts and sizes, keep in mind that your site should be visually appealing.

    While designing your site, use images only when they are needed and limit the usage of flash animations as images and flash animations will raise your site loading time. Your site should load within 10 to 15 seconds, or the viewer is likely to go to other sites.

    Using a text menu with necessary navigation links is the best practice, as pull down, graphics or pop-ups will confuse users and are invisible to search engine bots.

    Templates are perfect for both beginners and professionals to build a site. www.ocarda.com is a good place to get high quality templates at reasonable costs.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 5th, 2009 at 3:53 am and is filed under web design, Webmaster Articles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Some Suggestions to Consider While Picking a Web Design Template

    isaivani on May 7th, 2009

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    The first impression is the best impression. So if you’re going to start a website that talks about your products or services, the first thing is to impress viewers. When people visit your site, they make judgments based on look and feel of it. Using a good template will provide an effective web design and give it a professional look.

    Using a template with stunning website designs is one of the easiest ways to draw viewers. Here are some tips to select a template for your website.

    Select a high quality template that offers effective design at reasonable costs and make sure it is reusable.

    If your site includes graphics or animations on your web page, use Flash HTML template. This will help you display graphics or animation easily.

    Ensure that the template you select works in different browsers and in different versions of browsers, because some features in the templates might not support some versions.

    It must contain cascading style sheet (CSS) because it controls how a site looks if the site is using a table-less XHTML structure.

    The template should be easy to access, specific in width, with the adjustment option for image, links, banners, header, and footer as well as the navigation structure.

    Make sure your website template allows you to put new features onto your website.

    Unique purchase is best while selecting a template for your website because exclusive purchase guarantees that you are the last person to buy this template. After exclusive purchasing your selected template is being permanently removed from the sales directories and will never be available to other customers. Due to this, your website will be unique to your customers when compared to others.

    Templates are perfect for complete beginners as well as professionals who don’t want to spend much time on designing their sites themselves, Ocarda is the best place to get high quality and attractive templates at lowest prices.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 5:06 am and is filed under web design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Choosing the right template for your webpage

    Peter on July 28th, 2008

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    A website template is the best option to give your webpage an attractive professional look. Take a look at some suggestions to choose the appropriate template.

    Images are the most powerful tools to attract visitors. Too many cooks spoil the broth, and so, too many images may spoil the webpage, by increasing its download time and therefore annoying the customers. So select a template with limited number of images that are just about right for the site.

    When you buy a template, make sure you test them in different browsers as well as in various versions because there are chances that some versions might not display certain features. Also check whether the template is free of error because simple errors may also hide your content from search engine spiders. Using a template that has an HTML tool box is best to scan the template for coding errors.

    Some templates use too many tables at different levels for designing the layout. Many levels make it harder for a search engine spider to index your page because it buries the content inside a bunch of tables. And as usual usage of table layouts could have downloading problems too. If the template takes 30 seconds or more to load before you add content, you can be sure there’s a problem, so get down to setting it right.

    Apart from using a template as a design tool, it can also give you ideas related to design with regard to color combination, new ways to use icons and place navigation bar etc.

    Use templates with CSS format to give your structured content a style quotient.

    Choose the right template to design your website, attract more visitors and improve your business.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 11:02 pm and is filed under web design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Design your website well and boost up the number of visitors to it!

    Peter on July 7th, 2008

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    In web marketing, a lot of tactics are employed to attract online visitors. One of the main strategies is web designing. An effective web design will catch the attention of the visitors.

    Most visitors enter your website through search engines. Websites are searched for through keywords. Keywords should hence be present in your web pages. While designing your web page, add all the important keywords in title tags, meta tags and alt tags.

    Some information to be kept in mind while designing your website:

    · Simplicity with regard to number of features about products and services is the main resource for any powerful website.

    · A simple navigation system is enough and should be very clear to the visitor.

    · Try to reduce the page weight of all your web pages, especially your index page, as a result of which uploading time will be minimized.

    · Present the links of important pages in the home page, to guide the visitors to the important pages easily.

    · Link colors should be synchronized with page colors; underline links so they instantly catch the viewer’s attention.

    · Choosing appropriate background colors, images, and setting different font sizes for text, headers, footers etc… is another way to attract the visitors.

    · Centrally position your website design to ensure proper display of your site in different kind of monitors.

    · Use good visual elements because aspects like drop shadows, reflections etc can really attract more visitors.

    · Use innovative icons which explain the concept better than plain text.

    · If you want to offer any promotional discounts, use labels.

    · Use attractive logos.

    · Make sure columns of your text are narrow because it makes reading easier on the screen.

    · Highlight important elements by setting a larger font size but be sure not to make it too large.

    · Use traditional design because it makes visitors comfortable.

    · Design your web considering the nature of visitors you want to attract.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 6:32 am and is filed under web design, Webmaster Articles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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