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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? By Niall Roche

Components of a Great Web Site
So you've finally decided it's time to create your own web site. After all, your friends and business associates have one and you don't want to be left behind on the Information Super Highway. Great web sites all have a few common elements about them, and that's what I'll be discussing here. By David Bell

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. By Granny's Mettle

Designing your Web Site for ALL Browsers
Let's face it. Building a web site that browses consistently on multiple platforms and multiple browsers is not always as easy as we would like. It is safe to say that most designers spend most of their time building their sites on a given platform. By David Bell

To Flash, or Not to Flash
When considering whether or not to incorporate Flash into your website, you must also consider the target market you are trying to reach. By Sherry Holub

6 Fatal Design Flaws “Newbie” Web Designers Make:These Mistakes Will Kill Your First Website Baby
Even if you’re not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago—you’re teaching yourself web design and you’re starting to catch on to that HTML stuff. By Mitone Griffith

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. By Mitone Griffith

The One Thing
Did you know that in advertising, every ad--and yes, a website is an ad--should contain the following elements? These elements are remembered through the acronym AIDA. By Mitone Griffith/24HourWebsiteWizard.com

10 Ways to Achieve Superior Web Site Design
In order to achieve online success, one must have effective and reliable products and services and great web design as well. Many people are judging the book by its cover this is the reason why your website should also be superior. By Maricon Williams

10 Prominent Website Mistakes
Nowadays, sites are getting better. With minimal design and highly maintained archives they continue to offer comprehensive services. However, prominent mistakes on several websites are still apparent. By Maricon Williams

Breathtaking Color Power!
Colors convey character, emotion and intention. You are what colors you choose. Thus, your choice of colors should reflect the message or feeling you to hope to convey to the viewer. By Maricon Williams

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I will build you a website,designed totap into 5 streams of income from thetop affiliates on the internet today.Hand held step by step instructions. By Bobby C. Moore

Know-How in Microsoft Publisher
For those who still don’t know, Microsoft Publisher helps computer users to easily create, customize and publish materials such as flyers, brochures, catalogs, newsletters and websites. By Mart Gil Abareta

Examining the Substance of Studio MX
To all web designers out there, this article is for you! I guess you already heard about Studio MX (I think so!) – the ideal bundle for professional web designers, bringing together Dreamweaver MX for page design, Flash MX for animation and interactivity, and Fireworks MX for editing and optimizing By Mart Gil Abareta

Review on QuarkXpress 6.0
After almost two decades of existence, Quark has become the basic building block of any print designer’s toolkit. It has deservedly gained a reputation for reliable printing, offering consistent and dependable output that prevents costly mistakes. By Mart Gil Abareta

QuarkXpress Tips: How to Move Content Between Print and Web Layouts
Since its release in 1987, QuarkXpress had made an immediate impact to computer enthusiasts. QuarkXPress introduced precision typography, layout and color control to the desktop computer, and delivered those features to designers at a fraction of the cost of proprietary typesetting systems. By Mart Gil Abareta

Creating Personal Web Sites
This is a two-part article about creating a web site on the web and the tools that you need to do that. By Ashish Jain

Creating Personal Web Sites (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part article about creating a web site on the Internet and the tools that you will need to do it. By Ashish Jain

Basic Rules on Page Layout and Color
For one to be able to stand out from the rest, one needs to go out of the box, break the rules, and some other clichés that apply to breaking out from the traditional. But before breaking any rule, you have to understand first the basic and foundation of the rule itself. By Granny's Mettle

Basic Rules on Web Design
In every design there are basic rules to consider. For a web design, here are a few of the rules which you can take or break for your projects. By Granny's Mettle

Your Website Visitors - Will They Stay?
I'm sure you've all heard the saying 'Build it and they will come'. Although that may have been true a few years ago, now we must work, and work hard, to get visitors to our websites. By Randy Justason

The Simple 3-Step Promotion Program
One of the biggest problems faced by website owners today is promoting their sites. More and more people can build them (and build them well) but most people (web designers included) get stumped when it comes to promoting. By Robin Eldred

Your Website Hurts My Eyes: 7 Reasons to Tone Down Your Advertising
So you're on the computer, as usual. Your eyes are smarting. Your back hurts. You want to jump in the car and sail down the highway with all the windows down and your hair flapping in the wind. But before you call it quits for the day, you have to look up just one more thing. By Dina Giolitto, Wordfeeder.com

Stepping Into Your Client’s Shoes
Have you ever sat down and really spent some time surfing through your own company website? Are there any broken links? Are you happy with the functionality and the graphical interface? Is it easy to navigate and find the services that you are looking for? Well, if you haven’t done this, we By http://www.earthquakestudios.com

Web Site Optimization: How to Optimize PDF Files for Web Sites
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web. While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web. By Andy King

Xml2PDF formatter version 2.2 is released
Xml2PDF formatter version 2.2March 30, 2005Altsoft N.V. By Altsoft Xml2PDF

Catalog Printing Methods
We cannot deny the fact that catalog printing is now a soaring industry. Nowadays, catalogs are considered one of the useful tools in advertising and marketing. It can be used to give information to customers and to show pictures of products that can be purchased. By Maricon Williams

Valuable Tips for Catalog Printing
Basic knowledge is a vital factor to save you money and avoid delays in your printing needs. So to give you this familiarity with basic information and to keep you away from printing dilemmas, here are some valuable tips that you should consider. By Maricon Williams

A Crash Course on Graphic Philosophy 101
Novice and professional graphic designers, we are aware that you know the basic principles of graphic philosophy. By Lala C. Ballatan

Producing a Catalog
Before you can produce a catalog, you must undergo first the planning stage. In the planning stage, you envision your objective. What do you want to communicate? What tone or ambiance is necessary to make the objective apparent? Another thing that you should consider is the audience. By Maricon Williams

You, too can Have Fun with Sepia Images!
If you are one of those who wonder how people come up with the cool looking sepia tone prints that you admire so much. If you are doubling up with jealousy over a sepia tone, here, we will give you tips on how you could achieve this sepia tone, too. By Lala C. Ballatan

The Catalog Production
After the completion of the planning process, catalog production starts. These are the steps when producing a catalog: By Maricon Williams

When to Break Creative Rules
Before we go unusual or unconventional and take the creative approach to break the rules, it is vital to know what the rules are. There are eight generally accepted rules that generate decent if not impressive results. Nonetheless, no matter how stable the rules are, we can always experiment. By Maricon Williams

Accessibility... The Basics
An accessible website is one that allows as many people as possible to access the infomation contained within it. By Alan Cole

A great banner only needs simple things…
To create your own great banner, you only need five (5) simple things: By Granny's Mettle

When your graphic designer costs you money…
So how do you know when your graphic designer costs you financially and emotionally? By Granny's Mettle

Clever Web Designing hints
Some software tools are claiming that designing is easy as 123 and that they will ‘produce’ the pages for you. Unfortunately, a number of web designers are victimized by this marketing gimmick. The results are obvious. By Maricon Williams

Business Opportunity for Graphic Designers
Business Opportunity for Graphic Designersby Mohd Fairuz By Mohd Fairuz

Content Management Systems (CMS): What They Are And Why We Love Them…
There is a buzz in the online community about a technology that empowers the average computer user with the ability to create and maintain their very own web presence. By Maarten Van Ruitenburg

The Psychology of Color in Web Design
Persons engaged in website design, here’s a scoop for you! Would you just like to know that by understanding the basics of cognitive psychology around color and patterns, we could further improve our Web design! By Lala C. Ballatan

Understand Your Color
Any design on a web application involves the effective input of color scheme in order to impress web surfers, instill a certain image or identity associated with the kind of web site it represents, and add impact to the web pages. By Lala C. Ballatan

How to Create an Enjoyable Web Page Design
Novice and professional designers alike – you may probably be skilled enough of any one or all of the techniques in creating a Web page and designing them. However, not all designs, even those made by authorities in the field, prove to be enjoyable and entertaining enough for the users. By Lala C. Ballatan

On Copying and Stealing Designs
The notion on the great artist, Pablo Picasso’s quote, "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal" is lost on many. And revolving around the graphic designer circles is the quote “Good artists copy, great artists steal” known as Picasso’s quote, still. By Lala C. Ballatan

Simple lines and shapes for your logo design
Geometric designs come in all shapes and sizes… and lines. You can create your logo design or customize your illustration by using simple lines and shapes to create your very own unique image. By Granny's Mettle

If Content is King who is Queen?
It's been said again and again, when it comes to getting people to visit your site (and stay there for more than 5 seconds), the quality of your content rules supreme. By Trevor Lewis

10 Things Every Business Web site Should Have
Business web sites are not just like any other sites. Companies make them to reach a lot of prospective customers around the world.Some times people forgot a lot of good things their business web sites should have. By Abdillahi Abdillahi

About PDF Forms
What is a PDF form?Most people are aware of PDF files, but did you know that you can also turn a PDF file into a form that can be filled-in online? A PDF form could work the same way as any form that you may have filled-in on the web - just click, type in your info into the fields, and submit. By Dominic Lachance

About Web Applications
Web-based Applications are web sites that offer more to the user than normal, static web sites. The difference is the way the information is provided to you. The site actually responds to the user, changing to provide the information the user wants to see. By Dominic Lachance

Set up Your Online Portfolio
Planning to set up your very own online portfolio? Very well, then you have to know first what’s an online portfolio and its uses. Of course, you also have to know how to take lay out you portfolio online in order to take advantage of it more. By Lala C. Ballatan

What’s a Design Dinosaur
Are you fond of applying and scrambling old and new design clichés in one helpless web page? Are you one of the thousands not yet enlightened that ‘too much of a good thing is bad’? Are you too engrossed in improvising other designs and not coming up with your own? By Lala C. Ballatan

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