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Tag Archives: Web Site Design
20 Worst Web Design and Development Trends
Web design trends come and go, some stay around too long and there are a few that probably should have never existed. Many of the trends below could and can still be found on a variety of sites including personal sites, business sites and yes even web designer portfolio sites. Some of the worst trends are graphical ones such as the use of horrible GIF animations, intro pages and under construction graphics. Read more here 20 Worst Web Design and Development Trends.
The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites – Smashing Magazine
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Flash is a proprietary product that sits on top of the browser to extend functionality. While Flash may have provided missing functionality for some time, it brings little value to modern browsers. As more and more designers and developers realize the benefits of Web standards and start using some of the features of HTML5 and CSS3, we’ll see fewer Flash-driven websites.
Read the full article here: The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites – Smashing Magazine.
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Site Builder Upgrade and Feature Enhancements
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:
- 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.