The Importance Of Web Design For Small Businesses

In the modern world, firms and individuals are increasingly using the internet to enhance their businesses. Website design/development is one of the most essential services required on the internet by both individuals and firms. Web design and development requires special skills because potential customers can be disappointed by the layout and design of the website. There are several firms offering website design in Toronto and in other parts of the country. However, not all the firms provide quality and professional website development.

A good working website should not only have an incredible layout and design but also provide the relevant information about the services and products your business offers so that it can attract more traffic and potential customers. Business owners and individuals should hire website designers who will create user-friendly websites that are easy to navigate. While hiring website designers, it is important that you see their portfolio and you should determine whether they have experience in website design.

Website design is a process that involves strategic planning, meeting customer needs and demands, actual site designing and development, testing, publishing and re-evaluation. Designers should involve customers at each phase of the process so that they can provide their input or suggestions. Website design is a vast field made up of services such as search engine optimization, graphic and logo design, website development and maintenance, web applications, internet marketing and custom software development.

Website Development
Website design requires dedication, a sense of purpose, creativity and professionalism. Experience is also very essential in web development. The process of web development entails designing a website, creating web content, liaising with the client and scripting. Web development may also include a non-design element known as coding. The input for website designing should come from a team of experts like an interface designer, an online marketing strategist, an information architect and a creative strategist. The team is responsible for developing a great website that will improve your business.

Website design may fail for several reasons such as lack of trust-building elements, message mismatching and website design shortcomings. If website visitors do not trust your capability, then they will not transact with you. Some examples of trust-building elements include use of original images, professional-looking design and third party validation. Online marketers and interface designers are responsible for determining what works or fails when it comes to trust-building components. Web designers can create a site that does not provide the relevant information to customers. If the information does not meet the expectations of customers, then the website will not achieve the business objectives.

Website development has its shortcomings especially if the designers take shortcuts. Some of the shortcomings may make the website to be incompatible with some browsers or mobile phones or web pages may take a lot of time to load and some links may be broken. Such websites may require redesigning which is expensive. Website designers should create fast, amazing and interactive websites. The designers should also create perfect websites on budget and time.

Graphic and Logo Design
First impressions mean a lot to business owners. A website may require illustration, animation, freehand drawing and photography. These forms of graphic designs will determine whether your business flourishes or sinks. Logos and graphics speak directly to potential clients about the brand you are selling. They also inspire trust, familiarity and reliability. Logo design is the foundation of branding because logos capture the essence of the firm and its core values. In today’s competitive business environment, firms must have logos and graphics on their websites and other products.

Internet Marketing
Having a running business website is just half the battle. A website should have ample traffic. To achieve this, a business may consider hiring internet marketing services. Internet marketing can take the form of search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click or link building. SEO improves the ranking of your website on search engine results thereby increasing traffic to your website. Pay per click (PPC) is highly efficient in increasing traffic to a website although it comes at a cost. Internet marketing requires creativity and dedication. The marketing team should be able to mix aspects of web design/development with advertisement, for better results.

Each and every strategy used should not only increase traffic to a particular website but also increase business sales. By hiring a full set of web solutions and services, a firm or individual will have a web presence and better platform for marketing their brands.

This post is written by Larry Smith, the Director of Marketing at Cloud SEO, who is an expert in Online Advertising and SEO and a specialist in the management of Google AdWords Advertising Campaigns.

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How To Make A Port Scanner in PHP

Port scanners are created to find opened/closed ports in a host, you can get the same results in this Port Scanner coded in php by the way I wouldn't take all the credits to this because i am a php beginner so I had to make this from scratch also there are many more open source advanced Port Scanners. You can also easily add Ports if you need to.

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Widget to share photos,text & page

The best way to get traffic for your blog is from search engines and social media. Today I found a social media sharing service very impressive and attractive. Let me introduce to the service, there's a website called markely.com that promotes your blog visitors to share your blog articles in three ways.




1 : Page Sharing

2 : Image Sharing

3 : Text Sharing

To install this service on your blog go to http://www.markerly.com/onboarding

Choose Social Media services + Sharing Types + Icon Color

Sign up

Get your code

Put the code at </body> or somewhere in your template

Verify your installation

They have a dashboard where you can see the sharing stats & etc, I hope this is helpful. Have a great day.

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How To Make A Random Text Generator In PHP

I don't do php at all but this is something I had to learn so to begin our Text Generator open your favorite Text Editor, I have Sublime Text 3 beta. First add the usual html>head>body tags and close the tags, after that let's add our css after body tag add these codes.

<style type="text/css">
.refresh {
    -moz-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #caefab;
    -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #caefab;
    box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #caefab;
    background-color:#77d42a;
    -moz-border-radius:6px;
    -webkit-border-radius:6px;
    border-radius:6px;
    border:1px solid #268a16;
    display:inline-block;
    color:#306108;
    font-family:arial;
    font-size:15px;
    font-weight:bold;
    padding:6px 24px;
    text-decoration:none;
    text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #aade7c;
}.refresh:hover {
    background-color:#5cb811;
}.refresh:active {
    position:relative;
    top:1px;
}
h1 {
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000; font-size:33pt
}
</style>

After that we have a PHP function, add these codes after your css codes

<?php
function Generate() {
                    $var = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
                    srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
                    $i = 0;
                    $code = '' ;
                    while ($i <= 6) {
                        $num = rand() % 35;
                        $tmp = substr($var, $num, 1);
                        $code = $code . $tmp;
                        $i++;
                    }
                    return $code;
                }           
?>

Now finally let's call the function with these codes, just add these codes after the function(php)

<center>
<h1>
<?php
echo Generate();
?>
</h1>
<a href="index.php" class="refresh">Refresh</a>
</center>

NOTE: Replace index.php with your PHP file name.

Now run the PHP, here is image of what we've made

I hope this php tutorial was interesting,Thank you for reading & do share if you thing the article deserves.

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Infographic : Brief History About Programming

Here is a Brief History About Programming in a form an infographic which i found while surfing over the web pages :)

Click here to view the image

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How To Make A Contact Form In PHP

this is a simple contact form that many websites use in their website for a contact for , we can make this with html and php , html is form and php is to send the email.

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