Category: Web Design

Web Design

Your Website…Is YOU!

You are out shopping for healthy, designer food. You visit two health food stores. The first one is bright and cheerful: Its products are displayed pleasingly and its staff, with crisp, starched aprons on, are slim, friendly and helpful with smiles that twinkle. There is another health food store just across the road: Similar products. [...]

Seven Steps for Designing New Webpages

Are you getting ready to start a new web project? Or are you planning to create new pages for your current website? If so this article is for you. Here are seven quick steps to help you get started on the right foot.
The first thing you will want to do if you are starting a [...]

Starting A Web Design Business

The world wide web just keeps growing. Business realize the benefits of being on the web, but don’t always know how to design a good site. If you have some creativity and know basics about web design, you might be interested in starting a web design business.
Starting a web design business is not much different [...]

2 Keys To Writing A Winning Web Site

As a web writer, it’s a “must” to write each web page with the entire architecture of your web site in mind. Think about navigation and web design as you write. Text, design, and format are interwoven on a web page. To the creator of a web site, these are separate pieces of the project. [...]

The Top 20 Things You Can Do to Make Your Website Accessible

In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed by Congress. The law was designed to protect people with disabilities from being discriminated against, because of a physical or mental disability. The act was put into place to help guarantee equal opportunity for people with disabilities in any public area – and it covers regulations [...]

Make the Move to Virtual Dedicated Web Hosting

Most webmasters on the net today are familiar with what the industry calls “shared” web hosting accounts. A shared hosting account is where you rent a small amount of space on a server which is shared among many other users.
This is a cheap way to get started online but it has many disadvantages - you [...]

Making Sense of Web Colors

In 1994, Netscape defined 216 colors that have priority in browsers based on the 256 colors displayed by an 8-bit system. 40 colors display differently between PCs and MACs and are therefore eliminated.
These 216 fixed colors, known as web safe colors are universally recognized by all browsers and operating systems. This means that web pages [...]