June 12th, 2009
Designing a website is not easy as some may think it involves more than just picking appropriate colors, putting in heavy-loaded contents and embed state-of-the-art flashy plug-ins. Adding in a little of that and a little of these, putting in a swirl of a magic wand that provides great color and lots of animated graphic doesn’t make your website standout. In designing a website there are things that we have to do and to avoid as well. On this article I will share to you the things you must avoid in designing a website.
1. Using Cutting-edge Technology. Sure, the latest and the most advance thing are cool to see but you but always remember that some (or maybe most) your visitors do not have the latest version of browsers or plug-ins installed in their system to view your site. Always make sure that your site would run and viewed on a minimal system.
2. Anything That Looks Like Advertising. Since the World Wide Web is a jungle full of advertisement, Web users are becoming annoyed and wary advertising. According to research on Web traffic, Web users have learned to stop paying attention to Web advertisement. Make sure to avoid designing any legitimate information in a manner that looks like advertising such as banner, animation, and pop-ups.
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Tags: Building a Site, Designing
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May 16th, 2009
In previous topic I have discussed the tips on how to build trust and loyalty to your customers. In this topic we will discuss another topic that could build your customer’s trust and loyalty. Another way to increase loyalty and to convey trustworthiness to your customers is to provide a personalized content on your website. Personalization means that the content of your site is based upon the personal preferences of your customer. To site an example, when you register and made purchased on Amazon.com they made a record of your activity in their site, and each time you visit the site you are presented with a customized page based upon your prior purchases.
A personalized site “knows” your customer every time they visit to your site they are presented with new personalized content without having to enter any additional information from them. With this your customers could develop a personal attachment toward the site. This method of personalizing website content is a success because users do not have to anything to set it up, and customer would feel comfortable on this site that “knows” them.
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Tags: Customization, Personalization
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May 13th, 2009
Maybe you thought that your website is a statement of your personality or a canvass that should be filled with your artistic inspiration, and maybe you are correct on that assumption. A good website must reflect the spirit of a person or a business that it represents. A good website must also be artistic enough to appeal to the visitors, but not too much. Most of the web designs nowadays favored the fresh, elegant but with less combination of colors. But no matter what you choose on your web design, always remember that site consistency matters.
Website consistency refers to the reasonable or logical harmony between each part and each pages of your website. A consistent “look and feel” on your website conveys the image of professionalism, proficiency and reliability. Nobody would take your website seriously if you have different background color and different font in every page. A site with high consistency is also much easier for the users to navigate and it is much more natural for the website user to expect the meaning of links.
From a practical point of view, it is unwise not enforce a standard look and feel on the entire website. Inconsistent web design is a nightmare in terms of maintenance. Try to imagine reconstructing or maintaining a website that has different colors, fonts, plug-ins and other web elements across the numerous of Web pages within the site. It is a total disaster!
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Tags: web design
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May 11th, 2009
Trust and loyalty is two most important characteristic that online business should seriously build unto its customers. Trust and loyalty is the lifeline of any online business, without it your business would vanish before you could even renew your hosting account. Building trust and loyalty is like building an indispensable portfolio.
In order for your site to become the “preferred site” for your clients, they must feel the site and their data is secure. There are many ways that the design of the site can convey the sense of trustworthiness to its customers. Just like a saying goes “Trust is earned not bought,” customers trust is built from the positive and pleasant experiences interacting with the site.
According to Jakob Nielsen, a web design guru, web designers can convey trustworthiness in a Website in the following ways:
- Quality Design: A Website that has a professional appearance and comprehensible navigation conveys respect for customers and implied a promise of good service.
- Correct, Reliable and Up-to-Date Content: Having up-to-data content conveys a commitment to provide users with the most up-to-date information. Information posted must be correct and reliable, otherwise it could promote distrust.
- Up-front disclosure: Disclose all necessary fees, warranties and policies in clear and concise manner. This could help to convey an open and honest relationship.
- Be connected to the rest of the Web: Having linkage to other websites is a sign of confidence and credibility. A site that is isolated would feel like it may have something to hide.
In addition to what is mentioned above, protecting the customers’ entrusted data will be a significant factor for promoting a trustworthy image. A site that is trusted by its customers is a site that is worth all the loyalty the customer has to give. Trust and loyalty always goes hand in hand. Loyalty is a product of trust, with trust there loyalty. Failure to consider the issue of trust is a big indicator that web design is doomed to fail too.
Tags: Customers
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May 3rd, 2009
The following are the winners for the SEO Contest 2009:
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Winston (www.batangyagit.com/tips/tnomeralc-web-design-toys.htm)
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Axiale (www.paradisephilippines.biz/2009/03/01/tnomeralc-web-design-toys/)
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Ron (caviteniofilipino.blogspot.com/2009/02/tnomeralc-web-design-toys.html)
Congratulations guys! I will email you later for the instruction on getting your prizes. Thank you for joining and hope to see you on the next round.
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March 24th, 2009
The search index already reach at almost 100,000 of pages and 46 entrants with 52 blog entries already registered for the Claremont Design’s $500 contest. We decided to put a deadline on submission of blog entries so that we could finalize the entries. Remember if your entry or entries are not registered (not found on the table of valid entries) and in case it wins the first position or any winning position on the specific DC of the search engine mentioned on the contest rule then you will not be qualified to win any prizes. As the rule says only registered participants are qualified for any prizes.
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Tags: SEO Contest, SEO Deadline
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February 20th, 2009
Claremont Design, provider of high quality web designs, ecommerce and SEO services with LA Toy Store, leading distributor of different kinds of toys ( wooden toys, autism toys, therapy toys and other special toys for children) would like to announce today the $500.00 search engine optimization competition for 2009.
Here are the rules / mechanics of this search engine optimization challenge:
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Tags: SEO
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February 5th, 2009
Claremont Design has been providing web design consulting / services for several years. We have programmers, designers and search engine optimizers with years of experience in developing custom websites, CMS (Content Management System), blog templates, Ecommerce sites and many more. Check out our free templates. We have full dynamic flash web templates, static websites that uses CSS/HTML/PHP combination, Word press themes, Blogger theme and even themes for different forum platforms.
We can customize any templates to suit your needs. Just fill up the form on the contact us page and provide us with the item number or link of the template you would like to use and we will contact
Tags: blogger, consulting, SEO, themes, web design, wordpress
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January 25th, 2009
Do you know why our services are far better compared to other web design company existing today? It is because we build websites that possessed the quality it needs to become very competitive online. We believe that your success is our success. We will guide you in every step of the way to achieve your goals. Our talented people behind Claremont Design are highly competent and skilled. They are carefully chosen so that we only provide the best talents to touch every single element of your web ventures. We always make sure that life will be easy for you so that you could concentrate on things that you really do best, which is doing business.
Our highly customizable content management systems (CMS) allow you to manage it easily without our aid. We can also provide a marketing campaign for your websites to boost traffic – SEO services.
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Tags: SEO services, web design services
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January 20th, 2009
As part of the continous service of Claremont Design to companies to bring their business online, SEO or search engine optimization is part of the services that the company can provide to your organization. We can design your website and e-commerce then promote it through the use of search engines. We believe that content, quality services and design is not enough to make a successful online presence. It requires web promotions and proper marketing online to make it more visible compared to your competitors. That is why we always recommend to our clients that after the design and deployment of their websites, we include SEO packages to cater to their online presence needs.
With this in mind, clients and our company are working hand in hand to reach to goal to a successful online entrepreneur. For more information about our services, just leave your feedback or comments on the Contact Us page of Claremont Design.
Tags: SEO
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