Of course my main concern is in the promotion of science and all of its benefits to society. However, if you make a website that is slow, how should people believe that you get your stuff together in the lab if you cannot even get a nice little webserver working for you? Luckily, this blog is hosted on wordpress and so all of these technical things are taken care of in a very nice manner. The reason is simply that the server is optimized for the special task to support a lot of wordpress blogs.

Nevertheless, if you are on shared hosting, you will not have such a lucky situation. Basically, the php and database calls will kill you and you can speak of a good day if your website is only a little laggy. Then, static caching is a very decent alternative because any webserver, even ten year old celeron will blast out pages with an extremely low latency.

Of course, such a scheme as described in the link does only work if you have access to the server using ftp or ssh. It gets really bad if you are on a kind of blogging platform as hubmesh since there you don’t have any control over anything and the site might just lag badly, as Wyatt told me some time ago.

In the end I am very proud to be here on WordPress since I have all the positive effects of a fast server-side delivery and a great user-friendly content management system in the back – I don’t have to go the static route!

All the best

Cécile

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Today, i came up with a chance to create a WordPress theme for a client from US. This is the layout idea i came up with. It’s just a prototype for now. The real site will be online soon.

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Keep it Simple and Stupid (KISS)

It just took $2 per hour for Steve to create the designs as shown in the image above. Just spend two minutes to know a bit about us

Hardy EM is a Engineering and Manufacturing company from NE Auburn, USA. We have been asked to create a new design for the company website that includes the products information.

There is a great chance of contacting plenty of customers or fans with a nice looking website. With few good products and a suitable interface is far more effective than so many other traditional methods. There are great advantages you can get from a website when comparing with other media

Accessibility

If you use an advertisement on a newspaper or a magazine, access to the information of your product is limited to the users who buy the newspaper or that magazine and will it last long? I don’t think so, newspapers change every day and people are not bothered about missed articles or advertisements. What you need is an information place that will last long and can be accessible by anyone at anytime. What is more suitable than internet for this purpose? A well designed website will add extra credibility and accessibility.

Cost

Spending hundreds of dollars when you can do better for a very low price is wastage. Creating a webpage with your own requirement can be done with $5 per page (average) where an advertisement in a magazine can cost over $100

Well How to make a website?

• First you would have to decide what information you’re going to display in your website. This can be a one page describing “who you are?” , “what you do?” and “where are you from?” or it can be slightly big containing more information about your products or services.
• Second you need someone to design and develop the pages for you. This is where we can help. We take your information, brochures, etc and create you a professional website.
• Finally you’ll need a place your pages where  24 hour access is possible. This is called a web-host. theartInspitations also provides several hosting solutions that can meet needs of the website.

Make your website famous

Now you have a website. Now it’s time to make your website famous. You just have to add the URL (ex: www.yoursite.com) in your business card, invoices, checks, etc. Your website is listed in major search engines like Google, now you’re ready to go.

Getting creative with CSS3

CSS3 is used in organizing the style and layout of Web pages. It is the latest standard in the CSS series. CSS3 offers a wide variety of new trends to make an impact with your web designs. With many exciting new functions and features, CSS can be used as a powerful tool in website designing and development. A CSS3 refers to the technical stipulation of a layout.

It ensures that a web page will appear precisely the way the website developer has specified.

As a website designer we have to look into the capabilities of CSS3 and need to make the most of it. The basic approach of CSS3 in web designing is to make the web page user friendly by removing loads of complications from it. The changes that CSS3 has brought into the website development market are quite amazing. Using CSS3 can speed up the process of website design and development and also speed up your web site.

Using CSS3 to your Advantage

Keep all the things side apart, here are some advantages of CSS3 for you:

1. Better search engine results:

With CSS3, you can keep your HTML code much cleaner which in turn helps search engine crawler in getting the real content from your site very easily. You can also put any content anywhere in your web page and no longer each individual page have to be simplified to replicate the new style. By using this website design technique you will make much greater consistency throughout the site easily.

2. Lightweight coding:

In the field of website development, no one likes to wait for anything to come. This condition also applies in loading of web pages. When a website page takes a lot of time to load, generally users leave that page. By using CSS3, web pages can be made lighter which will allow the site to load faster. As table layout format is not used in CSS3, the sites acquire less memory and load faster.

3. Accessibility and usability:

In website designing you have to make it understandable that the content of the site must be validated in all formats of the browsers. A web designer has better control over a website by using CSS3. CSS3 allows for more compatible style elements, including font size and line heights through which web pages can be used more easily by people with disabilities. Website developers can craft specific CSS files especially for printing, or mobile devices, as well as the customary computer screen and in doing so making websites fully multimedia applications.

4. Isolation and Differentiation:

With the introduction of the CSS3 format, website designers have a lot to offer in development of a web page. CSS3 allows changes and modifications to be made in individual modules. CSS3 format helps users in separating presentation from structures. In this technique, style sheets defined presentational characteristics whereas the document structures were defined in separate heading. This eases the maintenance of the web page in efficient and comfortable manner.

When you start styling your content with CSS3 modules, you will probably never want to go back to using the old tags for styling.

You must use CSS3 to determine its full potential. Flexibility is the most useful features of using Cascading Style Sheets. One of the important things you require to gaze at before using this technique is what browsers the greater part of your users uses to visit your website. The reason behind this question is that it sometimes may be very difficult to make your CSS sprites friendly with many of the browsers depending on the techniques you use.

In the next post we will post some design samples of Websites in which CSS3 has used and this CSS3  have attracted a lot of companies.

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The truth is, they are getting the job done. I discussed some of the things you will need to think about in regards to your new website last week. The designer is going to help you with this process. They will ask the questions that will help focus your thoughts.

The first step is always an analysis what you want/need from your website. Are there specific things you need it to do for you? What functionality is required? Do you need a “shopping cart” or other ways to sell your product? Do you want to collect customer information and feedback? Do you want customers to be able to print off a coupon or a form of some sort? Do you need an activity calendar? Is your website simply to be an information source for prospective customers? Are you going to need regular weekly or monthly updates or will an annual maintenance contract sufficient? I could go on for this entire blog asking more questions! Questions need to be asked and answered before anything else can be done.

The second step in the process is gathering content materials. These may be provided by you or developed from scratch. If you have existing marketing materials you may wish to use them on your website as well. Even if you are not comfortable writing the actual copy you have to tell the copy writer what you want to be said. Graphics are a big part of modern websites so what those are and who provides them will be have to be considered.

Remember – you are not in this alone. Your web designer/developer will guide you through all this.

The third step will be fun. The designer will provide you with a couple “sketches” of what your website may look like and you get to pick which one you prefer.

The fourth step is actually building the website. Hopefully the designer will have all the information he/she needs at this point but there are always a few things that pop up in the design process that they may need to ask you about. At the end of all this you will have something that is unique to your business and that belongs to you.

The fifth step is your approval. The designer will show you the completed site and you will have the opportunity to make corrections and changes. Once you are happy with everything you will give your OK to go ahead and launch.

Step six is “GO LIVE!” Your web designer will launch your beautiful new website on the World Wide Web for all to see! It is time to celebrate!

Getting Started

Ok. So you have chosen and registered a Domain Name (or placed a “hold” on that name) . You are going to need a Hosting Company soon but it might be better to wait for that decision until you have decided exactly what services you need from them before signing a contract. Not all Hosting companies are equal! Cheaper is not always better. Expensive is not always better either.

Whether  you design your new website yourself or you hire professional,  the first thing you have to consider when planning your website is your GOAL!.

What is it that you want to accomplish with this website?

•  Do you simply want to let people know that you exist and how to get in touch with you?
• Do you need a map?
• What services you offer?
• Do you want to sell products online? Will this will require a shopping cart?
• Do you want to have a forum where people can discuss various topics, give feedback or opt-in to a newsletter or special promotions?
• Will you need constant updates, or will it remain more or less the same over time?
• Who is your target market?
• Will you need a gallery or portfolio?
• Will you need a calendar?

These are some of the questions you must ask yourself. The answers will determine  if you need a static or a dynamic website, what services you need from your Host and whether or not you will be able to build it yourself.

If you want a dynamic site you will need a hosting company that can provide the security you need and a reliable interface with both the programming language you use and the type of database you use. For online sales you will need a merchant account and either a gateway for credit card transactions or a payment processor like Paypal to accept payments. It can get a little tricky so if you need a dynamic site perhaps your best choice would be to hire a professional although there may be hosting companies that will walk you through it. Either way, make sure they have excellent customer service!

I would say that at least half of the total time spent on a project like this is spent on the planning. That is not unusual. The better you plan, the easier the execution of the final project.

You have to decide what you want your website to look like. Is it modern or classic? formal or familiar?  Do you want to project a professional  image? or do you want a smoky, artsy, and moody site? or maybe you want it bright and happy. These are very important things to consider.  One way to focus your thoughts is to find samples of sites that you like and make a note of them.

It is also important to give some thought to the copy. What you say will have a huge impact on your potential customers. If you can’t write it yourself you may consider hiring a professional copywriter. A successful online store has copy that makes the product leap off the page. Your customers can’t pick something up and hold it in their hands so the words must make it seem real to them and help them decide this is the item they want to purchase. Similarly, they can’t walk into your office and meet you face to face so the copy on your webpage must convince them that you are trustworthy, knowledgeable and the kind of person they want to do business with. Do you plan to educate? Who will write the articles you want posted? Most likely you will have to do that yourself but if you use someone else’s you must have permission.

Another factor is the graphics. Do you have an existing Logo? Do you want photographs or other images ? Do you have your own pictures or do you need a photographer to take them for you?

The layout of your website also needs to be thought through. You need a clear and logical layout so visitors can find what they want easily. You will quickly lose them if they have to hunt all over for what they are looking for. Don’t bury your contact info and hours of operation 3 layers down. Make it easy for them to get in touch with you if they have any questions or concerns. Assure them of your security and privacy policy and find a place to introduce yourself and your company to them.

I hope this is not overwhelming. As I said, the planning if half the effort. If you have someone designing and building your website for you, they will ask the questions and propose solutions and all you have to do is give them your answers. This website will represent you to the world! isn’t that worth the effort?

I have used a lot of question marks this week. Sorry about that, but you must do the same in the planning stage of developing your new website. You are welcome to contact me directly if you have any questions you want to ask me. (olwen@sandstoneweb.ca)

Next time I will talk about templates vs unique design. See you then!

Olwen

Sandstone Studios Web Solutions

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When you make your mind up to purchase the works you may perhaps do so and you could print the artwork files and observe this phenomenon for on your own and gradually make it a decoration get the job done or you may possibly print several copies and give to your pals as a gift of adore or to market your internet site.

Picture manipulation is a interesting bonus for the digital photographer and the moment you explore this fascinating topic it is all also effortless to get hooked. Even so, please notice this phrase of caution previous to you try any picture manipulation

Under no circumstances preserve manipulated pictures about your original images

After you have a outcome you want to hold, it is all as well effortless to click that tiny “save” icon – but do not do this. You will promptly overwrite (exchange) your unique picture with the new one particular. You will under no circumstances be able to get your original image back.

So make it a golden rule to depart the unique image untouched and click the “conserve as” button each time you want to preserve any pleasing manipulated images you have reached.

Getting been caught by this myself, I now conserve all my authentic images on a separate very difficult drive or DVD and when ever I want to try manipulating an image, I duplicate it to my computer system initially to be positive of not through creating the unique image. I lost some really saleable pictures by falling foul of this predicament – so be warned!

Alright. So exactly where do we get started when we want to look at some image manipulation. Perfectly, to begin with you will require to select some photographs. I would recommend you start off with simple “chocolate box” views, like those talked about over or anything you may well see on a landscape or seascape calendar. These can easily be transformed into a dreamy, timeless watercolour or oil painting.

Feel me, the effects can be very breathtaking but you will have to have to have a suitable picture editing or manipulation programme initial like Adobe Photoshop Things for close to &pound60 or so but I have seen it advertised at close to &pound20 or so from time to time. digital art, digital art, digital art

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Flash websites – an awesome experience

• Great user experience

The best thing about Flash websites is that it provides a great user experience. Flash websites are beautiful to navigate and it seems as if the website is serving you the information and you don’t have to run for it. The effects really make the user stick to the website and navigate through the entire system.

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Web Page Designing

Web page designing is the most essential part because only a good and user friendly web page can attract visitors to the website. The main intent of web design is to create a website, which can include documents, PDF’s, graphics, applications, animations, videos, or anything compatible with the World Wide Web. The main motive behind having a website is to convey information and/or to communicate with the end-users in an appealing way using various multimedia elements. It is always good to have professional people to design your website as it is not the job of a single brain, but you need experts to do it. The content of the website should be high on quality and very well placed.

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When you decide to host your website, the most important decision that you need to take is about the kind of website hosting service you should opt for. There are many types of services available for you to use, but your choice should primarily be based on your budget and requirements. 

First and foremost, you should undertake extensive research to find out as much as you can about the different kinds of web hosting services on offer today. Secondly, you should analyze the cost that each service would entail, in terms of the main package, monthly/yearly charges as well as additional costs, if any. In general, website hosts offer the following three kinds of hosting services:

Shared Hosting
Commonly referred to as ‘Basic Hosting’, it is the kind of server that most customers end up with. A simple, non-complicated and highly economical choice (a package costs as low as $3-10 per month), shared hosting is ideal for small-time businesses that have basic, static websites, or individuals who simply want to host their blog or have their own ‘space’ in the online zone. In shared hosting, multiple single websites are shared on a single server and user has limited control over the server’s functioning.

VPS Hosting
Under VPS hosting, multiple websites can run on a single web server. However, the biggest difference it has from a shared hosting package is that a VPS Client can run his own operating system on the server. To cite an example, say both Website A and B are hosted on the same server. VPS gives A the flexibility to run on a Unix platform, even as B runs on a Windows platform. A VPS web hosting package generally costs somewhere between $20-75$ per month or more.

Dedicated Hosting
Dedicated hosting is the most advanced and expensive (it generally costs between $50-500 per month or even more than that) type of website hosting service available. A dedicated hosting service is when a client leases an entire server which is not shared with anyone. A single website is run on a single server, giving the webmaster complete control of the site’s administration and functioning. Highly flexible and better than shared hosting in terms of control, dedicated servers give users the choice of operating system, hardware, etc. Whatever option you choose for your web hosting, make sure you hire the services of a company that is reliable and offers you great deals on its hosting packages. Linux Web Hosting is one of the most trusted names in web hosting in Australia. The company gives its clients some amazing offers and packages for website hosting. 

So why wouldn’t you want a dynamic site?

Some organizations still insist on a static site. While it is cheap and quick to produce, how often does that combination of time and money saving tricks actually give you the greatest product possible? Rarely.

While dynamic sites cost a bit more, they return on investment is sky-high. The sites are easy to update and personalize to your company. Even better? You can do it yourself! You don’t need to ask your web designer and programmer to make every little change that comes to mind saving you countless e-mails and phone calls laced with frustration.

Search engines love dynamic sites too, with the changing continuously, search engines such as Google and Bing will pick up your site faster and rank it higher than a site with stale content.

Still hesitant about dynamic sites? A blog would be boring if the only posts you can see are the posts from when it was first developed, a kite sitting on the ground isn’t very interesting, if the ocean didn’t have its rhythmic waves who would write poems about it? Things are more interesting when they fluctuate and change with the times as needed.

Seems pretty common sense to me.

For more information on the static versus dynamic battle, check out these links from Mashable and EdInteractive.

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We offer high-end flash based multimedia CD presentations. We make corporate presentations keeping both the presenter and the target audience in mind, whereas we categorically understand that each corporate presentation and its attached objective is unique, thus demands comprehensive exercise on planning prior to production.

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• Traffic – How many visits your site gets per day.
• Referring Sites – Where the traffic is coming from.
• Incoming Links – Specific links within the referring sites that send people to your site.
• Keywords – Every key word that is used to find your site in a search engine such as google.

There is a lot more than the above information in Google Analytics reports, but I find these four things to be highly useful and easy to check at a glance.

By now you are probably getting  excited and can’t wait to get some tracking reports for your website. Although this will be very easy for anyone with basic web development knowledge to install, it can be a little confusing for someone who has no background in web dev. The good news is that it is as easy as cut and paste. The tricky part is knowing where to paste the info.

Google Analytics uses Javascript code to track the stats of a website. When you sign up for an account with Google Analytics at googleanalytics.com (if you already have a gmail account then it will just link to that) you first add an account that can hold multiple websites. For your purpose, you will probably only need one account, but for someone like me who tracks the success of multiple sites for different clients I separate the sites into different accounts. Once you create an account (Don’t worry it only askes about 8 questions and 3 of then will auto-populate) google will automatically set up your first profile and after accepting their user-agreement it will allow provide you with a list of code such as this:

 <script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5678910-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>

All you need to know about this code is how to highlight it and right click to copy it. Then we get to the tricky part – adding to the appropriate page in the appropriate place.

**At this point, if you are not familiar with the term hosting server and index page, you should scroll down and read my previous post: Demystifying the Web Vol 1. That will give you a better understanding of how to go about editing your actual website files.**

Here are the instructions to add a the google tracking code to your website

1. Access your hosting server through an FTP connection – to do this you will need the username and password for your account.
2. Save all the web pages that you would like to track onto your local computer (to just track the entry point or home page – you will probably be looking for a page named index.)
3. Open the web page(s) in a text editor such as notepad – do not use a complex editor such as Microsoft word because it will add coding and format information that should not be included in the document.
4. Look for the closing body tag – It looks like this </body>. It should appear a few lines from the end of the page.
5. Paste the code from google right before the </body> tag.
6. Save the document and transfer it onto the hosting server – making sure to save over the previous file.

Note that it takes about a day to receive your first tracking information so don’t be concerned if you follow these steps and nothing happens right away. Also, it is important to ALWAYS take a quick look at the page on the internet after you make an alteration. If you accidentally copied only part of the code, you may end up with the google analytics code displaying on your website as text for all to see. Nobody will be able to get your tracking reports with this info since they don’t have access to your hosting account, but it looks very sloppy.

If you have trouble with the instructions above, just leave a comment or contact me through this blog. I’ll be happy to help you get going on this and update my post if there are any missing steps. Also, I plan to come back and update this post to add some screen shots for better understanding so make sure to check back soon.

Stay tuned for my next posting on important things every entrepreneur should know about their site.