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Web Design, Online Branding, Graphic Design and Logo Design
Deconstruct
and Rebuild Your Website
Redesigning of your website is all
about understanding your audience and your medium in order
to improve your Internet presence..
Designing
Websites Using Web Safe Colors, Safe Hexadecimal Color
Codes
When designing or redesigning a web
site, it's best to choose colors from the color palette
sets below known as a web-safe palette.
Guidelines
for Web Credibility
Stanford has compiled 10 guidelines
for building the credibility of a web site. These guidelines
are based on three years of research that included over
4,500 people.
Why
You Should Leave Editing and Design to the Professionals
Design is advertising and advertising is design. Design is not simply graphics, shapes, and pretty colors. Think text, layout and typeface. It's all part of the design package.
Accentuate the Positive.
Forget the negative
I have noticed that there has been
a new crop of broadcast media ads that do a miserable
job in hawking the clients’ products and services.
Let’s take a look at a few of these.
The Website WOW Factor
The measure of success – the
difference between a killer website design and a standard,
ho-hum website design, is the WOW factor.;
What Separates Visionefx from other web design companies?
Every so often I am asked the following questions by prospective new clients; What makes our web design services different from other companies? What sets us apart?
Cool
Menus Not Working - Browser Check Script for Cool Menus 3, Cool
Menus 4
With the release of IE 7 (Internet Explorer 7) many web masters were pulling their hair out trying to figure out why their Cool Menus 3 and 4 navigation scripts were not working.
Building an Online Business with a Shoestring Budget
You have a great idea, service or product. Now it's time to build a website and realize your dream.
Freelance Web Designer vs Web Design Company
A fair amount of our clients find Visionefx after wasting a few thousand dollars or a few months (whichever comes first) with a web designer that has left them angry and frustrated.
Trends in browser resolutions and usage statistics
Staying on top of the ever-changing browser world is not easy, but it's key to outstanding web site design.
Viral Marketing and New Business
If you're depending on a sole source, such as search engines, to generate new leads and new business, you're on dangerous ground.
How To Know When It's Time To Redesign Your Logo
Logos are like any other form of advertising. They have a shelf life. All major companies have changed their logo to some degree over the years,
i.e., Proctor and Gamble, Westinghouse, General Motors, Ford, Coke, McDonalds and many others.
Finding a Professional Web Designer or Web Design Company
Your web site is your storefront window on the World Wide Web. It must grab the viewer's attention and be clear, all in a matter of seconds. Otherwise,
it's onto the next site listed on the search engine.
Are Inexpensive Web Site Templates Worth The Cost?
So you took the bait and signed up for your first hosting plan that includes a Web site. Your newly acquired hosting plan probably has a programmed plug-and-play template system.
Understanding Search and Design
If you are entertaining the idea of launching a new Web site or having one redesigned, you need to understand the balance between 'search and design' and how this affects your website.
Great Design Elevates Web Sites Above The Rest
This rule applies to everyone -- from the lofty creative director to the junior designer to the boss who employs them.
Validation Isn't Everything
Like it or not, industry jargon often coughs up terms that
become buzzwords.
How To Choose Your Website Colors
Color is often overlooked in the business of optimizing websites for better returns on investments. Website sales can be greatly affected by simply changing its colors.
Web Site Accessibility and Web Standards
Most website commissioners are not interested in Web Standards or Web accessibility - that is clear from the results of DRC Research carried out in the UK in 2004.
Some ways to make or break your website
Professional appearance. Most sites do not really need flashes or amazing visuals just for the sake of using them like all the others are doing.
Site Planning is Crucial!
If you are thinking about, or you are in the process of creating a new site, you will most definitely find this article interesting and maybe even inspiring.
Why Every Small Business Owner Needs Two Websites
Every small business owner knows that they need a website, right? Well the truth is what they really need is at least two websites.
Acrobat PDF and Web-based Forms Becoming More Popular
There's bad news for Parker, Cross and Bic. More and more computer users are typing directly onto electronic forms and foregoing the pen or pencil.
Email Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Online Marketing
Check
and Double Check Your Website Functionality
We live in a world of
ever changing technology and some of these changes can
adversely impact your website.
How to deal
with email spam
Dealing with email spam is like putting
up with house flies and picnic ants -- it comes with the
territory. And if you have a wide web presence, the spam
will come in droves.
Visual
On-Page Branding
Here are a few simple things you
can do to help call attention to your listings on search
engine pages. In this short article we are going to take
a close look at the web page 'title-tag' and 'description
tag'.
Be
A Proactive Webmaster, Work Your Website
Every day, hundreds of thousands
of business owners ask themselves, "Why is my website
not on page one of Google?, Why am I not getting more
email inquiries? and Why am I not getting more traffic?"
Optimizing
PDFs for Search Engines, Optimize PDF Documents
Leverage PDFs For Better Web Results
There's
Marketing Gold All Around Your Business
Leverage Seminars, Videos, Commercials
For Better Web Results
Defending Against Damaging Blogs Targeting You
The blogoshere is reshaping thousands of communications departments around the world because of its power to help or harm businesses and individuals.
Local 'Business Online Listings' Can Increase Your Traffic
Sales on the Internet are projected to reach $116 billion in 2007. If you have a business and a Web site, you need to grab a piece of that pie, or a bigger share than you're getting.
Using RSS in Your Web Pages
Wikipedia defines RSS as Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a family of web feed
formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs,
news feeds or podcasts.
Problems With Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Have People Seeing Red
Clients calling me to ask if they should install the new Internet Explorer 7; and clients calling me screaming for help because they downloaded it and are not happy with the results.
Spam Wars: Fighting Email Spam with Spam Filters
Have you ever wondered how those odd-ball emails make their way into your in-box?
Understanding Web Statistics Can Increase The Bottom Line
One of the most important Web site statistics is often the one most frequently misread by Web site owners and unwary webmasters.
Free 'Business Web Listings' Can Increase Your Visibility 10-Fold
You can skip this article if you're profit margins are sky high and your new customer pipeline is so packed you're turning people down.
10 Ways to Promote Your Business Using Mass Media
Never rely on search engine traffic to support the bulk of your marketing efforts. The risk of doing this a greater than you think.
Branding, Concept, Communication and Focus Testing
I've seen it all. The good, the bad and the ugly of Web site design. And the more I analyze what's on the Web, the sadder I get, because the Web
has become open game for Web site designers with bad taste and no plan.
Get Your Emails Delivered
Deliverability is today's biggest issue for every email marketer. Email marketers face deliverability problems because of email over load...
Brand your business
Branding is more than just product recognition inherent in the printed materials that they may be using. It is actually the overall impression, both intellectual
and emotional, that people will have about your company, products and services.
Creating Extreme Loyalty: Speaking of Long-Term Motivation
Stockbrokers base their success on making their clients money. Or maybe not. The following story is one of many similar tales I've heard from brokers over the years.
What Does Your Image Communicate?
You have two seconds to convey one of your most important messages -- your image. According to a recent Harvard study, that's how long it takes most people to
form a strong opinion about someone they've just met.
Web Marketing and Traditional Advertising are more Effective with Proper Branding
Which is better? Direct mail campaigns versus Email campaigns, Print/billboard ads versus Web banner ads? Broadcast/radio commercials versus Podcasts/Webcasts? Newspaper/magazine ads versus electronic newsletters/Blogs?
Competing Against Big Budget Web Sites Is Easier Than You Think?
Millions of Web sites are elbowing each other every day for search engine position. Many of them belong to big businesses with big marketing budgets.
Marketing an Online Business
Marketing an online business is quite different to offline marketing. Once you know what some of the differences are you can figure out more effective ways and means of marketing your business online.
Google Yahoo MSN and Search Engine Optimization
Using
the New Local Google Dashboard to Drive Business to Your
Website
Your account now has a new interface designed to show
you more about how customers interact with your verified
business listing.
Publishing
Articles for Search Engine Optimization Purposes
As a member of EzineArticles.com I recently I received
a monthly performance summary of my article activity.
Building
High Quality Web Pages, News from Google's Matt Cutts
"Inside of Google, at least inside the search ranking
team, we don't really think about brands. We think about
words like 'trust' 'authority' 'reputation' 'PageRank'
'high quality'.
Optimizing
Video for Google
In a few months, we will discontinue
support for uploads to Google Video. Don't worry, we're
not removing any content hosted on Google Video - this
just means you will no longer be able to upload new content
to the service.
How
Can We Get Our Website to Come Up More to the Front of
Google?
This question is always asked by
people having existing website or when launching a new
website.
How-To
Google Videos
Watch great Google How-To-Videos
presented by Google's brain-trust. These videos offer
instruction for helping you obtain better ranking and
position for your website.
How
to Optimize Your Website for Local Searches
Get your website listed on Microsoft
LIVE SEARCH for Enhanced Local Results
Ramp-Up Your Google Local Business Listing
Optimize so your local business
listing on Google Local Business to stay on top for local
search.
Really
Cool Search Engine Analysis Tools
Compare your web results across Google's
World Wide data centers!
Compare your website page position across Google, Yahoo
and MSN
Visually see how Google and Yahoo references your website's
listing across other links and it's page/position placement.
Google GEO
Targeting Tools
Learn how Google geo-targets web
sites in their search results locally, regionally, nationally
and internationally - how it can help your website.
1-800-GOOG-411: Connect with Local Businesses
for Free from your Phone
Explore neighborhoods
at street level - virtually
Google
leads the pack with more innovations
Explore neighborhoods at street level - virtually
Google Introduces Major Interface and Algorithm Update
With Google's universal search, every time you conduct a search, Google checks across all of its search properties - web, image, video, news etc - and presents a single unified results page, that incorporates the most relevant content.
Stick To Fundamentals For Outstanding Search Engine Optimization
How do search engines find your website, and how does your website find its way into search engines?
Search
Engine Optimization Services in Virginia
I do not provide prospective clients recommendations on how we'll help raise their search engine presence; rather I show them the results of our work.
Google's New Patent Translated
There is always great interest within the search engine marketing community whenever a search engine files for a patent. This is especially true for Google, which
just recently released a new
patent application - System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results.
How Google Determines the Importance of a Web Site
"Every time you create a * ," Google founder Larry Page told the hushed audience, and#8220;you've
created a citation. But if you just try to count citations on the Web, which is what a lot of search engines do, you run into problems. "
The important of a web site, particularly a web page, is based on the sum of all pages *linking to it. That if Yahoo linked from their homepage to your homepage
that's a big deal."
Search Engine Optimization Resources
A great list of search engine tools for the savvy webmaster or the search engine optimization newbie.
Understanding
Search Engines Generates Higher Web Rankings
As people continue to do more business and research over the Internet, search engine optimization (SEO) firms are scratching their heads wondering how to achieve
great rankings for their Web clients.
Rant and Rave About Google
I recently purchased a book called "The Search" by John Battelle that explores how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture.
Who's Googling you now?
If you own an online business or have a business web site, did you know it's easy to find out who's Googling you or your site in real-time.
Researching Your Web Site Popularity
How does your web site traffic compare to your competitors? How does your site stack up against your competitors in terms of popularity and number of pages
indexed? It's easy to find this out.
Customize Your Google News to Stay Ahead of the Competition
I recently read an interesting article on Matt Cutts' Blog.
Matt is an engineer at Google and is known as The GoogleGuy.
Google and the Orion Algorithm
Google Inc. has acquired "Orion" search engine technology from an Australian university that last year described the product as potentially revolutionary.
Truths and Myths to Google PageRank Tool Bar
Search engines assign a value to your web site based on the hyperlinks pointing to it. The most popular term for this kind of ranking is called "PageRank".
Google Jagger Update
There has been a major update of Google's ranking algorithm, changing the way the search engine orders search results. Atul Gupta of RedAlkemi discusses the
consequences for webmasters...
SEO For Dummies; How to Choose the right Firm for You
Ok, so you've finished your web site. Now you just submit your web site to a couple of search engines, sit back, relax and wait to see your bank account
grow.
Why Do The Search Engines Change Their Minds?
One of the common questions that come up time after time on forums is , "why do the search engines keep changing their minds about what they want".
The Insanity of Page
Rank
There are two primary factors that
determine the success of a website today -- content and
traffic.
TCC
Search Engine Analysis
A current review and evaluation of Tidewater Community
College’s online presence in Google’s search
engine reveals less than a 22% penetration for popular
and common search phrases relating to TCC classes, courses
and services.
Hyperlink Formatting
A Few Smart Moves to Increase Traffic on your Website
How would you establish a shopping store's popularity? Simply by the number of footfalls .i.e. the number of people visiting it.
Broken Hyperlinks Will Hurt Your Search Engine Results
Search engine results are becoming more important every day as more people use the World Wide Web to find goods, services and information.
So You Want to Trade Website Hyperlink Information. Why?
We see them everyday in our in box."
The Art and Science
of HyperLinks
Ever wonder how to build incoming hyperlink information
to
your
website?
6 Simple Ways Writing
Articles Will Improve Your Popularity and Increase Visitors to Your Web Site
for Free
- Article writing and distribution creates free one way incoming back to your web site.
Get Blogging with WordPress and HostMySite
Many Visionefx web site clients have chosen HostMySite as their preferred web hosting provider. If HostMySite is your provider take a few minutes to setup your free web site blog!
ECPI Web Design Internships
Tomorrow's outstanding web designers are in college today. And that's where you'll find Virginia web design company Visionefx, hosting talented collegiate interns.
Web Hosting Website Hosting and Ecommerce Hosting Plans
Primer
for Online Ecommerce Shopping Carts
Supplement to 'Understanding Ecommerce
Shopping Carts'.
Understanding
Online Shopping Carts
If you are planning to open an online
ecommerce store it is important to understanding the basic
differences in ‘custom shopping carts’, ‘pre-packaged
carts’ and ‘template system shopping cart’
applications in regards to your budget and business plan.
Selecting
a Quality Domain Name
When you're ready to launch your web site and you're trying to select a good domain name, there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration.
How to Find a Great Web Hosting Company
There are thousands of Web hosting companies that claim to be the best deal on the Net or the cheapest deal for the money.
Longer Domain Registration Can Increase Search Engine Listings
Google recently filed United States Patent Application 20050071741. As part of that patent application, Google made apparent its efforts to wipe out search
engine spam.
Guard Your Domain Name, Hosting and Web site
I have had web clients ask me to sign them up for hosting and register their domain name. This is all fine, but what happens if I get hit
by a freight train?
How Website Monitoring Saved an Online Auto Parts Retailer
Customers complaining about site outages and slow site response times. Hosting company claiming that the problems had been resolved. Customers remaining dissatisfied.
Monitor Your Website
Web sites are a primary communications tool. They are 24-hour commercials, and businesses must treat them as such.
Web Directories Website Directories Blogs and Niche Directories
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce and its Invisible Members Directory
The local Chamber has lost site of the most powerful advertising medium today. The Internet.
Provide a Value-Added Service to Appease the Google Gods
If you are interested in improving your google search engine rankings and your page rank you must make sure that you are doing exactly what Google wants you
to do.
Why Directories Are Important
Directories should play a major role in your SEO efforts, well, at least the big and important ones, for the following reasons:
What is Google Base?
Got something you want the world to see? Google Base is Google's database into which you can easily submit all types of content.
Blogs Are A Great Tool For Influencing The Search Engines
Blogs are becoming a widely used
devices for publishing information on the web.
Useful Webmaster
TOOLS and Webmaster Information
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