Web Templates & Web Design Blog

Your logo is the visual personality of your business and as a first impression; your logo essentially is your business! A professional logo is one of the fastest way to build credibility. If you sell quality products, your logo should reflect this. Likewise, a poor quality logo suggests inferior products. If you can successfully avoid these common logo blunders and you are well on your way to a great logo:

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The Clipart Logo - Most clipart images are widely distributed. Anyone who is familiar with the software providing the clipart will very likely recognize your ‘borrowed’ logo. This is a poor way to build credibility for your business.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.

And it still is today. With the media changing everyday photography has changed along with it and as a result is still a valuable resource for web business.

1. Photos enhance the look of a website.

2. Communicate so much more than words, they communicate emotions.
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Is your website taking forever to load because of all the heavy graphics you’re using? How long does it takes for a modest DIALUP user to wait patiently for a website to completely load up on his/her browser? 60 seconds? 30 seconds?

While 30 seconds is statistically tolerable, practically every users (especially 56K or slower modem users) don’t have that much patience online and will just click off your website if it does NOT load within 20 seconds or less!

If you’re using a lot of HEFTY web images and flash files on your website (especially on the homepage), you could be in a very disadvantageous and dangerous position! You might risk losing potential customers with slower connection and quite frankly, wouldn’t that spoil the buying mood of your visitors?
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We’ve all seen them. Poorly designed web sites that make you cringe as soon as they load. But how do you keep your website from becoming, well, ugh. You could hire a professional web designer, and that’s expensive, or maybe you already hired a professional, or someone who claims to be professional, and you don’t like what they’re doing with your site. It all comes down to the K.I.S.S. principle; keep it simple stupid. And you’re probably asking well what does this really mean for web design.

Here are some basic graphic design/web design principles that you can use on your site:
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Home page should clearly indicate what the site is about. Provide top level navigation on the first page, your logo, and tell to the visitor what he can found on your web site.

Your home page should be informative, and should call your visitor on action. Home page is the place where the visitor decides what he will do, click on some of your links, or leave the site. If you have a discount, or if you offer some free service in attempt to make a contact with potential customers, make sure to provide link to that service on your home page.

If you decide to implement flash intro on your first page, make sure to give the user possibility to skip the flash intro. The link “skip intro” should be outside of the flash, because you will force the visitor to wait until the Flash movie is loaded.
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What Are ThumbShots?

Thumbshots are screen shot previews of web sites which allow your web site visitors to preview a link before clicking on it.

Who Uses Thumbshots?

Thumbshots can be used by any web site which links to another website in order to enhance the surfer experience. For example, if you operate a directory, you can add a Thumbshot beside each listing.
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Before starting on how to design a website effectively, how about clearing some basic web design concepts?

Designing Effectively

Now that you know what web design and related terms mean, lets get down to the real thing: Designing Effectively How to balance artistic design with practicality and functionality.
Use of graphics and content

Unless your website is all about graphics, how to make them, edit them or just a bunch of links to graphics websites, I suggest you use graphics sparingly, especially the flashing, twirling kind. They not only detract readers from the content, but they also take ages to load. You do not want your readers to leave your website because your graphically attractive page does not seem to load fast enough. Then again, too much text is boring. So mix and match the graphics and text on your page, having enough white space so that the page is not plain annoying.
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Are bloated images slowing down your web site and causing you lost business? Images comprise over 50% of the average web page so putting them on a diet is essential to improving web performance. One of the best ways to optimize GIFs and PNGs is to minimize the “bit-depth” or the number of colors within your images.

For palette-based formats like GIF and PNG, file size is directly related to the size of the color palette, or the number of colors in the image. As the number of colors in an image crosses a power of two, the file size jumps. A 33-color image must use a six-bit palette, while a 32-color image can use a 5-bit palette. Smaller palettes mean smaller codes (representing pixel patterns), which makes for smaller files. So minimizing the number of colors in index-color images like GIFs and PNGs will minimize file size.
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When it comes to websites, the details matter. Although many site owners believe the important thing is merely to get a website up, that’s only a small part of the job. Efffective sites take a lot of planning–and a lot of concentration on the details.Of course, there are some site owners who obsess over details that really aren’t going to matter to visitors–such as crafting the perfect logo, deciding whether Verdana or Arial is the ideal font face, or deciding whether the background of the left column should be navy or burgundy.

In certain cases, each of those issues could be important considerations. But generally speaking, those aren’t the kind of questions to worry about.
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# Loading time:

* try to be below 20kb

* less number of images

* specify height and width of images

* Html with out erros

WYSIWYG editors load up your html code. so try using text editor part of your html editors instead of visual editor
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