Today the era of internet, internet plays an important role in world of business. Now internet presence has become an essential for every kind of business. To make business presence online you need to have a professional website and to build that website you need a professional web design company which keeps in mind all the key elements of web designing. A well designed and good looking website is not only attracting the customers but also keeping them interested. There are zillions of websites are available on the internet and thousands of websites are compete the same products or services. You will amazed to know that a well design website can help you to stand out among the competitors and help you with at least 40% more business as compared to an average website. There are many dynamic elements of the web design that helps to make website impressive and you should keep in mind before making the website. These key elements are essential for making the website and help to understand the importance of website in enhancing the business growth

Colors & design: You should always use that kind of colors that matches your website theme. Because color and shape that you uses in website creates the first impression. For professional website you should always choose lights color and for travel and festival website you can use bright color.

Logo: logo is essential part of each website that makes a huge impact on visitors mind and visitors easily remember it. You should always make simple and clean logo to your website. Don’t use too much color on it because that makes confusion when it comes in printing.

Content & Images: Content and image is most important part of your website. You should always put the content and image that reflects your website theme. Always use Truthful information about your company, products, services, etc. The important factor to keep in mind here is to provide information that is going to be useful to your user.

Cross Browser Compatibility: Your website should be display well in as many web browser as possible and also compatible across platforms. Also, the success of your website can be depends on how well it is optimized for search engines. So website should be browser compatible

Finally, a well design website is about getting all of the about elements together in a way that it present impressive looks and also serves the business objectives. Your website should be ease to search with suitable headers and title so that the user can be show interest to visit your website and you can build huge business online with a online web presence.

An effective Website is an inexpensive marketing and advertising tool. Today’s competitive business environment has created opportunities and challenges for many business owners. With a poorly designed website you are missing out on the earning potential of having good online presence. A good Web Design Company can provide a compelling web site which can increase exposure opportunities and expand the business to a variety of market segments.

A Successful website generate sales and create a positive image of company in the virtual world. To make a successful website you must understand your websites purpose. A good web design company can help you to recognize your intended audience and understand what and when they wish to buy. Your website increase visibility for your business and provide massive communication with current and potential customers. Remember that the more professional your website looks, the greater chance of impressing potential clients, and of getting an inquiry. For this reason many small and big business owners are employing an experienced Web design Company. The website design is entirely depends on how you want to promote your business and what type of clients you wish to attract. A Web Design Company have its professional web designers specialize in creating professional web sites that effectively promote your products and services to their target audience.

Web Design Strategy – Maximizing return on your website investment

Website design strategy consists of understanding website’s goals, audience, functionality requirements, usability and advertising mediums. A good Web Design Company is quiet aware of the fact that a website will help your customers to better understand your credentials. Developing a web strategy helps you clarify your reasons for having a website, what you expect to gain from it, how you intend to achieve those gains, and how you will measure the results. Whether it is just promoting your website presence or you want to increase your sale or just providing information on your products , an experienced Web Design Company always deliver a website which will fulfill all requirements.

The most effective websites are the ones which have fast loading and offer a clean, smooth appearance, free of useless information and which are largely uncluttered. The web design chosen must fit the theme of the company and should be unique. A unique website design means standing out from the crowd. .Everything has to fall in place. A Good Web Design Company takes a bird?s eye view of you, your business and your prospects and customers. it working with you to identify your key selling points and delivering product and service benefits your prospects and customers wish to buy.

At Felixlabs.com, we make sure you, your products and services will as captivating as possible from a visual and content perspective. Watch your Business grow, flourish and soar above your competitors, due to your effective and efficient web presence.

A poorly designed website may be doing more harm than good. Great look of a website comes up with Great Ranking. All Major Search engines Yahoo, Google and MSN appreciate well designed and user-friendly sites. A good website design is the most cogent part in helping a site to acquire a good search engine ranking. These days, visitors are lifeblood of any website. A professionally designed website by a good Web Design Company can drag more visitors which results as higher ranking in major search engines. Driving more traffic is very important but more important is a pleasing website design which makes visitors stay for long time. Your website describe your online presence and it says a lot about you and goes a long way to form the essential first impression about you and your business. That is why it is important to get yourself a good website design by hiring a highly professional Web Design Company.

While designing a website the main aim of a professional Web Design company is to get higher ranking. A good website design plays a vital role and also help in optimizing your search engine results. If you own a business then a websites is must for more exposure on web. A Web Design Company can provide a effective website design with all essential elements of visual design like layout, images, typography, color scheme and white spaces. The precise use of appropriate graphics and various web page elements make the website eye catching and fast to load. A quality Web Design Company provide all these services as per your requirements and implement your ideas about how the website should design. Search engines love those sites which have a clean code with good web design and which contain lots of relevant content. Nothing can take the place of powerful content. A web copy that have sufficient amount of well-written content will naturally attract the visitors and get extra advantage of high ranking from search engines.

An experienced Web Design Company will always deliver a search engine compatible Website design which have search engine friendly format and layout. The time and effort spend on designing a good website will result in driving lot of traffic which will convert into more sales.

Having a clear idea of what you want your web site to perform is important in finding the right Web design company. These goals will allow you to better focus on the features and individual qualities that each web design agency is capable of.

Basically, there are four objectives that designing a web site can perform in basic business. The right web design company will help you perform all these objectives by introducing your products to new markets and increasing the awareness of the product. A design agency should also reduce the amount of paperwork and help you gain new customers while retaining the old ones.

It is probable that the web design agency will achieve all of the goals but planning your web site with clear objectives will show you which goal should be of most importance. As this may change, so will your web design.

After decided the main objective of your web site, your goal should be finding the right web design agency that will help you obtain this goal. As time goes on you may or may not choose the same web design agency. Goals will change, as will the design needs of your web sites. It may be beneficial to utilize the web design agencies with the most experience with the certain part of web design that you are trying to obtain.

Whichever web design company you choose, having clear objective and goals will make the web design process go a lot smoother. The exact details of the web design might not be known but that is why you are choosing a design agency to aid you with the task. Take the time to outline your philosophy and goals with the agency. This will ensure that the site reflects your business in the quickest amount of time.

Flash is used to present ideas, concepts, and messages by utilizing the power of multimedia; including sight, sound, motion, and animation. Flash has numerous and diverse implementations. These range from a slow, calming, ambient affect to a fast paced high impact presentation that gets your customer’s heart racing and builds their excitement. Either way, there is a good implementation of Flash for just about every type of website.

Yes I already hear you saying that Flash is not SEO friendly and you are right. But if flash is implemented in the right way and targeted at the right user you will always have the right impact which will be only be beneficial for your business. And these are not just words, visit our website http://www.felixlabs.com. We have been in the industry for over 5 years and since the time the flash version is up our total visits and clientage has doubled. As a company we are also looking to expand our business and are creating a XHTML version which will be optimized and will run parallely to the flash version. And the new version of Felix Labs will also have its share of flash animation.

And ofcourse trends change. Google is already coming up image indexing technology which will be able to recognize images on a website. The web world is evolving at the speed of light and not far is the day when flash will also be a SEO friendly term. It may not be known as flash but may be a different technology but the concept of animation will be there.

If you are looking flash designing then you are at the right website at the right time…..

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In an article on Sitepoint Industry Forum I read that Business Week had compiled as to what is being referred as the Ten Commandments of Web Design. The people who contributed to the article were well known authors and speakers.

Here they are:

“1. Thou shalt not abuse Flash.

2. Thou shalt not hide content.

3. Thou shalt not clutter.

4. Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections.

5. Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 Company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels.

6. Thou shalt worship at the altar of typography.

7. Thou shalt create immersive experiences.

8. Thou shalt be social.

9. Thou shalt embrace proven technologies.

10. Thou shalt make content king. “

After reading this article I went into deep thought pondering to what the world has come to. At the beginning of times there were these ten commandments (I am not a well informed historian and my skills at being a historian went down the drain when I was in the 6th grade when my teacher caught me snoring) which control the life of most believing Christians in the world (this is for reference sakes only and no offence is intended) and here come another Ten Commandments to control the life of us….the small but growing breed of Web Developers (web designers) of today. After being jerked out of my pondering by my colleagues who thought I was asleep again at my desk I started to think about the righteousness of the Ten Commandments specified for web design and soon enough I had enough thoughts to contradict the above said. So here I go…I sit up straight, clench my fists hard so that my sleepy fingers wake up and with a deep breath I begin:

1. Thou shalt not abuse Flash: Yes sir….flash can definitely be abused only in the hands of a person who does not know what to do with it or if the person has no creativity. How else can flash be abused? Of what I think is HTML can be abused too (ever seen how HTML code is messed up by designers who just take up the code from 10 different websites and try to make it work?) and so can CSS. AJAX was developed abused and has more issues than creating a site in pure Flash. How else can you abuse Flash, I do not really understand. Maybe by using Flash in places where it is not required like the footer of the website…..hehehehe…amusing idea…well that’s the end of my pervertness in abusing Flash. But if you use Flash in the correct manner you can not only get a beautiful website but also a very impactful website. The closest example is our website www.felixlabs.com.

2. Thou shalt not hide content: Hide content??? I wonder who would want to do that except for a spy selling secrets on his website…or do you mean pop-ups or those small forms popping up on a website covering up all the content.. Well let’s see this from another point of view. How many people have websites just for the sake of it and not for earning money? If you can put in an advertisement that will generate some income to your website, would you say no? Pop-ups are not necessarily bad and sometimes are a convenient way to have a visitor stay back on your website. Don’t get me wrong — I’m not saying that pop-ups shouldn’t be avoided, or that they aren’t annoying, or that there aren’t usability issues with them. What I’m saying is that it’s not always black and white. Usability is a science with fundamental principles, but it’s not the only influencing factor in the design of a for-profit web site. There are other factors, such as the bottom line — and as long as your site exists to turn a profit, this wrestling match between ideal and profitable will continue to exist. In fact from a accessibility point of view they are far less evil than those JavaScript or Flash based floatovers that cover everything and give no clue on how to close them.

3. Thou shalt not clutter: What are we talking about here?? Too much text or too many boxes or advertisements and less of empty/white space. Any more or less knowledgeable or experienced designer will have the common sense to balance the design and the content on the page. I have thought over this for quite some time and cannot argue much over this point as it does have meaning to it. But it has been put as a rule to be followed religiously ( that’s why they called it the Ten Commandments and not the Ten Not To Do’s of web design) and Commandments should not be ambiguous. Right???!!!

4. Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections: Hmmmm…..why wouldn’t I?? How to give a website the “WOW” effect……ok…there’s nothing much to say here again….overdose of anything and everything is bad…..

5. Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels: Now now…..i thought we were talking about design and design related Commandments…and they are (the widely acclaimed writers and speakers) telling us how to chose the domain name…well well….seems out of place…every business has its own clientage, own products etc and if someone decides to name his company buyabuck.com what’s wrong with that if he is selling bucks. Let’s stick to the topic here…principles of design, colors, textures, different kind of abuses etc and leave the name and domain things to the owners of their respective businesses.

6. Thou shalt worship at the altar of Typography: Please…gods of the web world…please save us from thy whims….we live in a world where not all are equipped with the tools to view thy whims on their screens. Most of them don’t even have decent internet connections to wait until the page downloads not talking about the free availability of fonts and other hurdles and of course the patience. But we are optimistic that one day we all will have a at least 10Mb optical fiber connections and expertise to use the tools and view the altar of typography in all its glory. Until then the truth is “Typography on the web SUCKS” and until we have good tools to overcome these hurdles the truth remains unchanged.

7. Thou shalt create immersive experiences: Wonder what it means?? I am talking about the “immersive experience”. Because what the author describes certainly puzzles me. He has given us Youtube.com as an example and defines ‘immersive experiences” as the ones that “can capture and hold users attention”. Please correct if I am wrong: YouTube has a cluttered design, heavily flash reliant (almost nearing the first Commandment of abuse) and contains 4 vowels (if I am correct there are 7 vowels in English language) in its name. Question: Why do people keep coming back to it? Due to its content or due to its design?

8. Thou shalt be social: Ok I will be…..when I start a social networking site. This point was included in the paragraph starting with “Web 2.0 is everywhere” and “MySpace started it all” common guys….you want to tell us that if the website has the functionality where users are able to interact with each other then, your website will do great otherwise….. Your website may depend on various things for its success on the web and this definitely isn’t one of the requirements only if your website is not a social networking website. So give us a break people…..Jeremy Keith does not allow comments on his blog, would you consider him not to be successful?? I do really wonder sometimes how people come up with such ideas and make millions…maybe I should also join their community and start making some dough…..common sense is not a major necessity.

9. Thou shalt embrace proven technologies: Proven technologies…….yes we do embrace proven technologies like xHTML, CSS, Flex and everything else that has been a industry trend but quote:

“Wikipedia, YouTube, Face book, and their cohorts have become a part of daily life. Sites that can incorporate these elements into their design will connect with users in a meaningful way…”

????!!! What? Since when has Face book become a proven technology and that you are required to integrate it into your website and what elements….where is he coming from? Are they implementing that we do only social websites or if follow the latter then to use the same designs as of the said websites (Copyrights and piracy rulezzzz or are they advertizing the above said). My thought…the author woke up in the morning after a wild night and made this up just when he was asked his opinion….seriously I don’t think that the author did any deep thinking on this part and that is neither researched upon nor refined sufficiently to be a Commandment.

10. Thou shalt make content king: Yes we understand the importance of content not only to the clients but also to search engines like Google which rank your website as per the content…..but again what has this got to do with design?? Most of our clients see their designs finalized with dummy text and they leave the content for the last….and what if we were: Sir we cannot start with the design as long as we do not have the content for your website. I can definitely imagine the clients reaction and the face that he will make when he hears that. Why in god’s name we need design in the first place when we could have just displayed the content and save us so much trouble. No flash, no pop-ups, no designs…we would all have been much much richer than we are just by saving thousands of dollars on those software’s that we have spent.

Way to go….

To end this, all I have to say is that not all is that bad as it looks. I would have done more research on this before putting out the Ten Commandments….they certainly have a place but not as set of orthodox rules on stone but as full research material for PhD’s on white board’s. Some of them are even with a promising future but fail due to incomplete research and ill advice. It’s hardly a set of rules that have been refined enough to warrant printing out and posting in your cubicle, let alone etching in stone.

This has been a tiring one….. I thought this would be a quick one but took me over 3 hours of rigorous thought and typing to get through with this. I hope you like what you read….please leave your comments and feedback as they are really important to us. Please feel free to suggest topics that you would like to read. And of course please subscribe to our RSS Feeds to receive updates on the articles.

When you think about the language your are using to design your website, what do you think of first? What is important about web design language, what is imperative, and what part of web design efforts can you take or leave? You have the final word.
If you’d like to create and publish your own web site on the Internet, your first step should be to decide what type of web site you would like to create and what web design language you would like to use.

Although there are several web design languages to choose from, make sure you take some time to research your options to ensure you’re making the best choice for your project.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

The easiest and most popular web design language is Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML. This language is so simple you can type the syntax into a text editor, such as Notepad, save it with an .html extension and instantly have a web page.

You can learn more about HTML here:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/

Although HTML will enable you to create simple web sites, if you want something more dynamic, you’ll need to look into using other languages:

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a highly popular, server-side scripting language that can be embedded directly into HTML coding. PHP can do anything that CGI (Common Gateway Interface) can do, such as process form data and auto generate dynamic content. However, PHP can do much more. It can be used on all major operating systems and supports most web servers.
PHP’s main focus is development for the web, so it has a quick development time and can solve scenarios much quicker than some of the other web design languages.

You can learn more about PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor here:

http://www.php.net/

ColdFusion

ColdFusion, developed by Macromedia, is used to build and serve web pages. It consists of ColdFusion Studio, which is used to create web pages, and ColdFusion Server, which is used to display the web pages.

One of the best features of ColdFusion is the ability to create web pages ‘on the fly’ from content stored within a database.
For example, a variety of content can be placed within a database as ‘pieces of content.’ When a user types in the web address to retrieve the web page, ColdFusion dynamically develops the pages, from the ‘pieces of content,’ as they are served.

Although it is very reliable, ColdFusion may be better suited for larger companies rather than individuals, as it is fairly expensive.

You can learn more about ColdFusion here:

http://macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/tutorial_index.html

Java Server Pages (JSP)

Java Server Pages, also known as JSP, is a web design language developed by Sun Microsystems. It is used to control web page content via servlets, which are little programs that run on a web server. These servlets modify the web page on the server prior to it being displayed within a web browser.

The JSP technology enables you to combine regular, static HTML with dynamically generated HTML.

You can learn more about Java Server Pages here:

http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/docs.html

Active Server Pages (ASP)

Active Server Pages, also known as ASP, is Microsoft’s solution to dynamic, interactive web pages. Active Server Pages are web pages that contain scripts in addition to the standard HTML tags. These scripts are processed prior to a web page being displayed within a web browser.

Unlike standard HTML pages that have an .html or .htm extension, Active Server Pages have an .asp extension.
An advantage of ASP is that it is language-independent and therefore is easy to use across all platforms and applications. It is very flexible and powerful, yet some people don’t like it merely because it is a Microsoft product.

You can learn more about Active Server Pages here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnasp/html/asptutorial.asp

Conclusion

With so many different web design languages to choose from, which is the best language for your project? That will depend on your web site needs and how much time and/or money you’re willing to invest.

If you want a simple web site with text and images, HTML is definitely the way to go. Not only is it easy to learn, but there are also many HTML editors available online that will write the code for you.

Although HTML is usually the right choice for most, if you’d like your web site to be dynamic, you will need to research some of the other languages until you find the best solution for your project. Take your time and do your homework before you begin. If you don’t feel confident in your ability to create your own web site, hire a professional. It will save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.

FYI: It’s possible that the day will come when you can use something you read about here about Internet languages to have a beneficial impact in the way you approach web design as a beginner. At that point you will the happy you learned more from this report about web design language.

About the Author:

Shelley Lowery is the author of the acclaimed web design series, Web Design Mastery — an in-depth guide to professional web design that is rapidly becoming known as the “Bible” for professional web design. Article presented by Webmaster Course