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	<title>4 Top Benefits Of A Professional Web Design</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[A professional web design is essential to internet success. This is especially true for businesses. While there are many software programs, tutorials, and do-it-yourself websites available across the internet, nothing can compare to a professional web design, for so many different reasons. Here, we are going to show you the top four benefits of a professional web design and why no business should take a chance on anything but professionalism. Benefit #1 &ndash; First Impressions DO Count Surely, you remember your mother telling you, the first impression is all you get in life. This still holds true in life and on the internet. Your website is your access to a world of customers and your customer&rsquo;s access to you. It is a proven fact that you have no more than six seconds, that is right six (6) seconds, to grab a potential customer&rsquo;s attention. If your website is not professional designed in an appealing nature with easy navigation, fresh content, and believability, you will have lost them almost instantly. Benefit #2 &ndash; More Sales = Greater Profit It is yet another proven fact that the right design will increase your sales. If you are new to website design and fail to include the fundamental aspects in your website, there is a great chance that your sales and profit will suffer as a result. With professional web design, the designers, project managers, and any person that works with the company knows just what it takes to create a profitable website, which will increase sales, and ultimately your profit. Benefit #3 &ndash; Product Highlights No matter if you offer 1 product or 5,000 products, a professional web designer will know just what it takes to highlight the right products. They have a good idea of your targeted audience, what they are looking for, and how to properly highlight products for increased sales. The same applies with services as well. It is necessary to show the best of what you have to offer in order to convert visitors to paying customers. Benefit #4 &ndash; Unique Perhaps one of the best things about a professional web design is the fact that your website will be yours and only yours. There will not be another website on the internet that looks like yours. When you use templates found on the internet or WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, there is a good chance that hundreds of other webmasters, just like you, have the same exact template. Potential customers want to see something new, fresh, and unique. They definitely do not want to see the same website over and over again. There you have it the top four benefits of a professional web design. There are so many more benefits, but the above four are the top reasons why you should be choosing a professional design company.]]></description>
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	<title>Bad Web Design</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[If you have looked through some websites there are a few things which may not be liked. For instance the color of the website is Too Gaudy! Or may be the Site is too slow. Let&rsquo;s see a list of features which really annoy the end user and possibly stop them from visiting your site in the future. Should I give you examples, people will be annoyed. But if I do not give, then you will be annoyed. I am in a position where I cannot decide. I will leave the Examples for now, but will add them when I have decided on it. A website could be a real annoyance if it takes ages to load up. A flash website specially will take a load of time to come up on the screen. Seeing the Loading page for more than 10-20 seconds is really annoyance. Get rid of the flash, not many people need to see your Funky animation. They need the data you have to provide, unless of course, if you are portraying your Animation skills. A 3D animation designer or a Graphic designer will be required to do this. But make it load as fast as you can and reduce the file size to the best. The second most annoying thing is the color. Not everyone likes to see a multi colored website. That doesn&rsquo;t mean that you will create a website in black and white. You surely don&rsquo;t want your website visitors to be bored. You want them to be stuck to the website. Keep the design neat and make sure that you don&rsquo;t use more than 3 colors on your website. Make the site lively with a very professional design, Neat colors and quickly loadable pictures and animation. Error Free Web pages are the next annoying thing. Have you noticed error messages which say a &ldquo;Variable X not initialized. Debug. Yes/No/ Cancel&rdquo;? That&rsquo;s really annoying. Make sure that your users don&rsquo;t get to see these error messages. It affects the credibility of your website and its better off to have an error handler in place and get your website tested before it goes online. No errors on your website will make it better on search engines too. Page not found. A link in place but the page cannot be found. This really annoys users. When a person is taking all the time to browse your website and he cannot find the information he requires but finds a Page not found error! It surely doesn&rsquo;t look good to the eyes and surely not on the websites credibility. Check your website before you put them online and make sure there are no errors. I have a few more to add up to the list but you will have to wait and see them in the next website design article. Till then, Take my word and Make sure that you have the guidelines followed. ]]></description>
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	<title>Web Design Trends 2007</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:44:25 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[There is a permanent change in web design especially in times of web 2.0 with a rapid advancement of technologies and opportunities. It was fancy, if websites where animated and flashy some years ago. Nowadays webdesign is turning back to the roots. Static, clearly arranged side lie fully in the trend again. This is on the one hand because of the user-supersaturation by animated sides. On the other hand the accessibility and usability of a website becomes more and more important. The german internet agency TechDivision, located in Rosenheim, supplies state of the art web design since 1997. Thus we concern ourselves also constantly with trends in web design. For the year 2007, we have located some trends, which will be incorporated in our customer projects. Driven by web 2.0 technologies and the corresponding trend of blogging, the blog optics will become more and more important. Some larger companies already took up this trend. This will continue in the coming year. Interaction between white or grey surfaces with specific used colours will play a basic role in modern web layouts. Combinations of pictures, diagrams, colored and white surfaces will be used very often. The mainly used background colour was white. We can recognize a trend in multicoloured or single coloured backgrounds in the year 2007. We also believe that specific textures could become more and more important. E.g. structured surfaces. Special attention will have to be on slim, standard-conformable web pages with clearly structured and easy to read content. The table Design of the past will be replaced by layer-based, table-less XHTML and CSS templates which offers more flexibility in design together with slim and clear source code. Animations will be used only punctually and very specific. In former times the often used intro-site represents an absolute no go. Web design will be influenced by the new operating system from Redmont. The nature had a significant design-impact with wide-screen pictures and natural colours. ]]></description>
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	<title>Web Design Tips For Building A Successful Site</title>
	<link>http://www.Webs4Profit.com/info/Web-Design/Web-Design-Tips-For-Building-A-Successful-Site.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:44:05 -0500</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[You probably already know the key to making any kind of income from the net is a well designed web site. What most people don't realize your site doesn't have to look perfect or be professionally designed to be successful. Not by a long shot! In the final analysis, any site that makes you money is a successful site. From a marketing perspective, any site which brings in an income can be considered a well designed site. Many people can't get their heads around this fact: some of the most basic/ugly sites can be the most profitable. You don't need a perfect site. Believe me, I know from first-hand experience. Your site doesn't have to be a design knock-out to earn you money. My first modest little site which I designed from scratch when I didn't have a clue what a perfect site should be or look like, now brings in over 50,000 visitors a month and Google just upgraded it to a PR6. All that is not really important, what is important my site brings in money each and every day! It is a profitable site, it's not pretty but it works. I earn revenue from Google Adsense, I earn revenue from affiliate sales and I have even formed partnerships with other major sites and businesses on the web. I get more and more companies coming to me each week asking if they can display their products/links on my site. I recently turned down a major fellow Internet marketer who wanted to put a link on the top of my home page and that guy makes millions online each year! Why are they bothering with me and my site? Because my site brings in targeted traffic and visitors who buy products and services which those companies are selling. My site is valuable to them. My site can deliver leads, customers and business to those other third parties. My modest little site is not perfect but it sells. It has value. My Most Important Web Design Tip Here's the main tip or advice I can give anyone starting a new web business: the only reason my site (any site) has value is because I have targeted certain keywords or keyword phrases with my site. Once these keyword phrases rank high in all the search engines you get targeted traffic to your site. Targeted traffic which companies would like to have a piece of to sell their products. Actually if you do this one action right (get high rankings for your site's profitable in-demand keywords) then your site will earn you money. For example, if you get a top 10 ranking for 'Cell Phones' you will make money, regardless of how good or bad your site is designed! Of course, this doesn't mean web design will not play an important role in the success of your site. You should always go for professional graphics, headers and logos if you can afford them, but you must realize other design elements will play a greater role in the success of your site. You want a site that is easy to navigate with all links clearly visible and linking to your home page. You want a site that is easy on the eyes so keep all fonts and colors even and consistent throughout your site. Organize your content and material in a simple and straightforward manner featuring the one thing most surfers are searching for: information. Please your visitors and the search engines by covering or discussing only one topic per page. Place a well defined page title at the top and include your main keyword phrase in your title and description. Feed the spiders but never forget you're writing for real human beings; the majority of whom will actually have a heart and a pulse! Design For The SERPs Keep your web copy and writing short, informative and witty. Some eye candy is dandy as long as you get your point across in the process. If you're selling from your web site, many professional marketers will suggest you start your marketing strategy not on your site but in the search engines' descriptions listing your site or page. Keep this in mind when you're writing your page descriptions, start to pre-sell to your potential customers in the MSN, Yahoo! or Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). These search engines, especially Google, will add creditability to your information or offer. This is one design trick or tactic you should be utilizing on your site to increase conversions if your goal with your site is to sell products or services. Design For The BIG Picture Along those same lines, I believe very few webmasters have a Big Picture when they're creating or designing their sites. You must look far beyond the actual pages you have uploaded to your web host... mainly because you must extend your site well beyond this limited concept. You must fully understand your site's real power exists well beyond your web pages. You must extend the reach of your site to all corners of the web. You must build links, partnerships and content into these countless areas of the web. Use articles, blogs, social networks, viral marketing, directories, related sites and most of all you must pay attention to all your site's content in the major search engines. Grasp the Big Picture of your site's design and keep it in mind at all times as you expand your site and watch it grow. Always have a clear picture of what you want to accomplish with your site's design and point it in that direction. Never forget your site doesn't have to be perfectly designed to be successful; you just have to get your information across in a frank and friendly manner. Just give your visitors what they're looking for and your site will be successful.]]></description>
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