Posts Tagged ‘design’

Test drive the new Firefox 4 Beta and let the designers know what you think. Giving feedback to software design companies is a great way to offer your input about any bugs or defects in the programs they release.

As a web designer, I test code in many different browsers, and there’s nothing wrong with testing out a beta and replying to them with your opinions. Let them know what games work, how fast pages and videos load, and whether your favorite add-ons are compatible with the new version of Firefox. Let them know what websites have problems and if everything functions normally. My experience indicates no problems with the new Firefox 4.0, and my add-ons, including the webmaster toolbar, all work just fine.

You can even take Firefox 4 with you on your Android phone or Nokia N900 and enjoy all your favorite features such as add-ons, Sync, and the Awesome Bar anywhere you go.

Test drive the new Firefox 4 Beta and let them know what you think. From a web designer’s perspective, Firefox is probably the most useful website browser available. Keep posted on my website and blog for news, tips and advice in website design and other internet related topics.

2010 was a great year as far as custom CMS website design and I’m looking forward to digging into 2011. Holiday greetings from myself to all of you and your families. Thanks to everyone for making it a great year and I’m looking forward to small business website design projects in the near future.

This past year, I’ve completed a few website redesigns, added a lot of content on a handful of websites, wrote a half dozen published articles, converted some blogs to WordPress, produced video, recorded an Audio Report on Custom CMS Web Design and a series of other projects online.

Whether you need a blog or a custom cms web design, CodeRepair can help. Some small business website owners don’t have time to add content to their existing website. Why have a blog without adding content to it? I offer services to ensure your blog grows and attracts traffic from search engines.

Keep posted on my blog for tips and advice on custom website design, and bookmark my website to pass on to your friends. Explore my resources section for a great deal of useful tools online as well. If you or someone you know would like a website and have a domain in mind, contact me today by phone or email. Turning your visitors into return customers is the main objective to bear in mind as you promote your website online. Wishing you and your families warm holidays and a Happy New Year!

When planning to design a website many considerations should be thought about. You get what you pay for, and cutting corners is definitely the wrong way to succeed. There’s no reason to design a website that needs to be scrapped and redesigned 6 months down the road. Your web design plan should be thinking years ahead towards business goals and potential growth.

Even with a small business you want to promote a professional image online, and it’s rare that you’ll find a product or service that doesn’t have competition. Unless you have something that’s absolutely unique, there’s always competition out there, and people tend to pick the top websites that give a great first impression. Do it right the first time instead of pulling your hair out later.

When you’re in a business with little competition, you corner that market, but when there are great numbers of others that do the same thing you do, you may not be in demand. Your website needs to give the first impression that you’re the biggest and best at what you do, helping you obtain credibility. The idea is to compete with all the other businesses that are in your same business niche. It’s not who you are and what you do, but it’s the PERCEPTION of who you are and what you CAN do for someone when your potential customers find your website online.

Online shoppers want to go with the top website for what they need, and these are usually larger companies or corporations. They want to spend their money wisely and already know what the competition offers. Anyone shopping online has done research and gathered information on the product that interests them before they even get to your website.

Marketing sales and strategy is what it’s about. Let’s say your competition has a 500 page website online for the same products or services you offer on a 5 page site. Online visitors would probably find your competition first unless you have a well-developed, growing website. If all your budget can handle for now is a 5 page website, perhaps further development as your business grows could be an option.

Bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice in the world of website design. Contact me today with some ideas for a small business website today. Review some of these Business Marketing Tips and Advice as well.

Utilizing SEO to improve your website’s stickiness could be a great way to gain more traffic from website visitors and possibly increase the income of your business. The more visitors that arrive at your website strengthens any chances to gain more potential customers. The first challenge is to define how stickiness and SEO work.

First to define the difference between stickiness and SEO. SEO is what gets websurfers online to arrive on your website, whereas stickiness is what keeps them there. Of course more information on your website will encourage your website visitors to dig more into your information and resources, but the key is to have what you offer to be easily accessible. Using links that direct your online visitors to what they are looking for is important so navigation is easy for them.

Of course, directing website visitors to your website to just harvest information and leave is worthless unless you can convert some of those visitors into paying customers. The importance lies in defining your business and making it clear what you offer, and what makes your company stand out above the rest. Define your business niche and give examples of why you stand above the rest. Give your website visitors a “call to action” to interest them in what you do and desire to use your services.

In my case, custom CMS website design services, I’ve gotten all my customers to Google page one for key phrases that describe their business niche. Using nondeceitful methods and techniques of SEO in a variety of ways is what separates CodeRepair from a majority of web design services offered today. Promotion is not just about a pretty website or flashy photos and videos, but just like a car, what is under the hood to drive your business to success makes an impact. Learn more about using SEO to promote your business.

Need a website for your small business? Feel free to email me with questions or bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice on custom CMS small business website design.

Proper website design strategies are important to give value to what you have online. Using the appropriate strategies to promote your business website could not only increase your clientele, but also assure that you aren’t penalized for deceitful means of gaining popularity online.

The purpose of a good business website is to get attention from search engines, and in turn receive the traffic you need to turn your visitors into potential customers. Use natural methods of SEO such as having orignial content, adding pages to your website frequently, blogging often to increase SEO, and using valid code to be indexed by search engines. Because there is so much importance in the engine that drives your website, having the best there is to offer would put your business website on the cutting edge of taking on the competition. That’s exactly what CodeRepair offers.

Turn your visitors into customers by offering them a call to action, and give them reasons why your company stands out above the rest. Bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice for your small business to get the boost it needs to be competitive in today’s market, and contact me today by phone or email for more details on how to obtain a website that generates the income you as a business owner desire. For more about ideas to get started promoting online, review my post on small business website home page advice.

CodeRepair’s score is much like today’s date, 10/10/10; a 10 in quality, 10 in search engine optimization, and a 10 in advanced coding. Perhaps in commemoration to binary code, today could be a great day to launch a new custom CMS website design, or even start writing on a new blog.

Learn how to count to 1,023 in binary on your fingers. Hug your computer and digital devices because without binary they wouldn’t exist. Make a note on social media websites that today is 10/10/10 and perhaps a great day to get married because you’ll always remember the anniversary.

Shatter based GreenPois0n jailbreak for fourth generation Apple i-devices such as iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G, and iPad are ready to release at 10:10am GMT today. Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run any code on their devices, as opposed to only that code authorized by Apple. Those not supported include the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 3G.

Greenpois0n is a multi-platform jailbreak for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It uses the SHAtter exploit, and is a very simple and easy to use GUI jailbreak. An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software.

Start a podcast, join a new social media website, or write on a new blog. This day only comes around once every century, so make sure to do something and make it count. Do you have a small business and want a website to promote yourself? Contact me today for some great ideas to get you more customers and sales through traffic online.

Refer to these brainstorming tips and advice when you have a task at hand that requires problem solving techniques. When doing web design projects, I find myself using these techniques whether coming up with website page ideas or blog posts.

No matter what project you’re working on, whether for business or scholastic purposes, brainstorming can be an effective strategy. When you have to come up with something from nothing, it’s helpful to have some resources to refer to. Brainstorming is one way to create your own resources with your own imagination.

Make a file on notepad and title it “thinktank” where you can save your concepts. Begin to brainstorm and jot down any ideas you may come up with, no matter how trivial they may seem. Even the most insignificant thoughts could be the inspiration for the creative process. Visit your thinktank regularly to add or expand on your thoughts and ideas.

The more concepts you come up with and write down, the better chances one of them could turn into a great idea. The effort is about quantity, not quality when brainstorming, so write or type as much as possible during your session. Do this for at least 20 minutes or until you just can’t come up with anything else. Think of it like popping popcorn in a microwave. Once the “pops” occur only every 4 seconds, it’s time to take the bag out of the oven.

Bookmark my blog for tips and advice on topics that could be helpful for you whether you’re in web design or not. Questions? Contact us by phone and ask for Roger or email us with any questions about custom small business web graphic design.

To the left are the before and after photos of a cabinet I considered using for display on a website design. The top photo had flaws I wouldn’t even attempt to display for a blog post. With some quick touch ups, the photo became good enough to post on a cabinet website page.

You’ll notice the “new handle” on the bottom (as well as the reflection) was a simple copy and paste of the drawer below. The lock and hole at the bottom was covered up with a simple copy and paste as well, from a blank portion of the cabinet. Finally the flaws such as the scratch and number “90″ at the top were removed with the same copy and paste method.

When you have photos that aren’t quite the quality that you would want to display online, from a website designer’s point of view, there are many methods to edit the photo. Therefore, you can use photos with imperfections and convert them into a quality image.

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Some sidebar ideas for a main website or blog is one of the first hurdles to get over when deciding on the creation of a new web design. Keep in mind that different sidebars could be applied for each section, tab, or page of your website. Review these ideas that could inspire you to plan out your website design a little easier.

Sidebar Ideas for the Main Website:

• A social networking feed such as Twitter or Facebook
• Provide a search box for easy navigation for your visitors
• Contact information to make it easy for visitors to contact you
• Add your picture to help create a relationship with your readers
• Subscription buttons to provide methods to subscribe to your blog

Sidebar Ideas for Your Blog:

• Provide a search box for easy blog navigation for your visitors
• Links to archives by date to make it easy for readers to locate old content
• Add a popular posts link to redirect your visitors to your readers’ favorites
• Add a list of recent posts on your blog’s sidebar to encourage additional page views
• A categories list should be added to help your blog readers find posts on a particular topic

If you are running your blog on WordPress, there are a variety of add-ons that can make it easy to customize your sidebar any way you choose, and change it as often as you like. A well designed website is about easy navigation by your visitors, so consider these web design sidebar ideas to use in your small business website.

There was a need for a new custom CMS website design template for my site and a cleaner layout for easier navigation.  I decided to do an entirely new design and change a few things around for the desired look.  Compare the old home page at the left of this blog post and the new one to the right.  By moving the sidebar from the left to the right, using a lighter scheme of colors and changing the fonts, button styles and background, this is a look that I can be proud of to represent my business.

In order to solve the situation with having a clean, easy to navigate website, moving the Custom Google Search Box to the top of the sidebar seemed like a good idea.  Also now it’s easy to add different items into the sidebar exclusive to certain sections of my website.  This clean layout with lighter colors gives my website visitors a more pleasant browsing experience.

As a result, by using a new custom CMS design template for my website, navigation is easier and an improved browsing experience is attained.  Customizing the sidebar for each section is the next step, but for now, enjoy exploring my site for more tips and advice on small business website design.