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Effective Tips For Designing Your Website

Posted on April 23, 2011 by John Kisha
Effective Communication Tips for Web Designers
Because we are first and foremost designers (rather than consumers), our communication must cater to two types of individuals: our visitors (or customers) are the ones whose attention we have to get, while our clients are the ones whose goals we are serving. Be under no illusion: the visitors should always come first (because without them, a website is pointless). But as designers, we have a duty to those we design for! Visitors and clients are different beasts, and we’re responsible for connecting them to each other. Communication between visitors and clients comes with different variables to consider. When we build a website for a client, our focus is often on their business objectives (things like cost, scope, etc.). Ensuring that both the client and visitors end up with something that encourages the client to retain our services is a bit of a balancing act. If you want to be a web designer, you must be able to communicate through your portfolio and other direct methods. Below are some tips and tricks for working with clients, bosses and other third parties:...
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Site Builder Upgrade and Feature Enhancements

Posted on February 3, 2009 by John Kisha

Site Builder is an easy to use on-line design tool that enables anyone to design their own web site quickly and easily. Inland Pacific Consulting has offered Site Builder as an option available with our web site hosting packages for many years. We are pleased to announce the following improvements and additions to Site Builder design tool:  Read more... (626 words, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)

  • Analyze traffic with Google Analytics – users can now see how visitors interact using Google Analytics.
  • New web site design templates have been added that provide more functionality and a new modern design theme.
  • A new Image Replacement Wizard now allows you to automatically apply a range of image effects to any image that you upload and helps you pick the most suitable image effect option for your web site. All you have to do is to upload any image of your choice, choose an area of the image that you like and then pick from the available image effect options generated by the wizard.
  • A new and improved Form Wizard helps you create simple or fully customized forms for your web site with an editable “mailto:” email address option as well as a provision for adding descriptive text above and below the form page.
  • A series of improvements have been made to allow you to do things like add metatag information, edit page names, and create a site map to improve Search Engine Optimization. Additionally, to make it more search engine friendly, web sites will be published as pure HTML without JavaScript.
  • You can now choose to align your web site to the left or the center of the browser window.
  • A new Flash Wizard allows you to select from a wide range of flash intro movie templates for your web site. You can customize the color, image, sound, text and the messages that appear as part of the animation.
  • A revamped WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor helps you create rich standards compliant HTML content without having to know HTML. You can add text, images, links etc. in a word processor-like mode. The feature rich editor includes a spell check, style sheet (CSS) support, HTML & XHTML editing modes, and more.
  • You can now add stand-alone pages to your web site. Stand-alone pages are not listed as part of the regular site navigation links and can be accessed only through a direct link you provided to your site users.
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