Web Design Michael Jordan – Page 17 – Contains about web design Information

18
Apr
2018

How Metanym Web Design Milton Keynes Leads You To Success

Getting the right website is the core requirement of any business that wishes to have success. If you are a person who deals with online business, then it is crucial that you get a site that portrays your business as it ought to be portrayed, and that also ensures that visitors can understand what your business and site is all about. This is where web design with Metanym Milton Keynes comes into the picture. When you choose a web designer from Metanym Milton Keynes you will find that many concerns are automatically addressed, since these professionals give you uncompromising quality at affordable prices.

When it comes to the actual design of your website, you will find that the web designers at Metanym Milton Keynes will work with you to decide which design will be the right one for you, based upon the type of business you have and the kind of audience you are going to attract. The domain name of the site is also critical, since it defines what sort of business you have. Apart from this, search engines, your biggest source of visitors, pick up details of your site based on the domain name. Therefore, you will get good suggestions on choosing the right domain name. Metanym can buy the domain name on your behalf as well.

Web design at Metanym Milton Keynes is quite affordable. There are a number of packages from which you can choose. Keep in mind that the best websites are not all about stunning graphics. The primary purpose of the site is usability and credibility, and this is what you will get with Metanym Milton Keynes. Apart from this, you can choose to get SEO (Search Engine Optimization) services from Metanym web design Milton Keynes as well. This is important since search engines will bring you the most number of visitors. Therefore, optimizing your website so that it will be better indexed by search engines is vital. This is another job that professional designers help you with, thereby leading you on to success.

Apart from the many web design services at Metanym Milton Keynes, you can also choose our web hosting services. While there are many web hosting providers out in the market, choosing the right ones is essential since you need to keep your site up and running. A good web hosting server will give you 99% up-time, and will also be fast enough to keep your website running smoothly.

If you are looking out for online success, then Metanym Milton Keynes is the best place to get good web design as well as web development. Take your time to do the groundwork needed in order to find the most professional web designer who will give you good quality at prices well within your budget. While it might take a little extra work on your part, the end results and the long-term results are well worth it.

Metanym web design is an experienced, reliable company offering Web design, SEO, Email Marketing and Social Media services to businesses in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bicester, Buckingham and Oxford. We speak geek so you don’t have to.

13
Apr
2018

Why it is vital to get your web design right.

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If you have an on line business or if you are planning to start an on line business then it is crucial to have an impressive yet functional website that is different from the rest of your competitors. Your web site needs to look professional as well as being effortless to use and easy to navigate.

When a visitor lands on your web site you only have one or two seconds to deliver the goods in terms of services or products so it is vitally important to give the purchaser what they want as soon as they click on your link. It is important to deliver what the visitor has searched for so it is significant that your initial landing page displays the product, information and facts or service that has been initially searched for.

For example, if a visitor has searched for web design Manchester then the page that they land on should display a service that provides web design in the Manchester area. If your page displays a web design service that focuses on web design Chester then there is a good possibility that your prospective customer will move on to the next site and you will lose the business.

Navigation is also a critical part of page design, there is nothing worse than a web site that is hard to navigate, it is confusing and frustrating for the visitor and the end result will without doubt be the loss of a sale. Keep your site navigation crystal clear and make sure that all your relevant pages are easy to find.

The actual style and design of the web site is also important, a professional looking web site will work wonders for your business, your web site represents you and your business, it is the first point of contact between you and your potential clients so it is a good idea to have a web site that looks clean and professional, they say first impressions last and the old saying is completely true. If you land on a web site that is visually unattractive you run the risk of losing a potential customer, some people are really funny and are put off by the least thing. Be certain that your web site looks the part; it may be the difference between winning and losing potential customers.

The overall success of any on line business hinges on a number of factors and one of these components is your web site and the way it delivers your product or service. The other major factor is being found by your customers on line, now this is a thoroughly different ball game in relation to the design and set up of your web site. You can spend a good deal of time designing a visually stunning web site that is easy to use and navigate but what is the point when not one person can find it. This is where search engine optimisation plays it part. Search engine optimisation is the art of placing your web site on the first page of Google and without it you will not be found. Your site needs to be on the first page of Google in order for your customers to find your site.

07
Apr
2018

How to Design a professional Web Site ….be simple!

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It’s hard to find information on how to be a designer You can easily find loads of stuff in books or online to inspire you about beautiful graphics, and plenty of technical know-how on CSS, HTML and code. But if you want to find out how to be a web designer, structure a site that succeeds, decide on layout and craft pages that work, there are very few resources available.

Simple solutions are always the best.

The goals of each web design can vary greatly from one project to the next, but we should always strive for efficiency and simplicity. This will deliver a cleaner result that facilitates accurate communication with less margin for error. It also takes less work to make something simple than it does to make something complex. When crafting a web page, We aim to use as few -things- as I need to achieve the purpose. -Things- includes pages, words, pictures, choices, gradients, borders, boxes, graphics, columns etc. etc.. This helps make each step seem more obvious and feel easy.

This approach isn’t new. Economy has always been one of the core disciplines in Art and in Design. The Old Masters were masters of economy. Look at the brush strokes on an old painting, and you’ll see how much people achieved with so few strokes. It’s not that they didn’t have the talent, or the time, to do more strokes, it’s just that they knew that using as few strokes of the brush as possible to create the desired effect produces the best result. Using rougher strokes on areas like backgrounds or material on clothing helped the eye to focus on the finer detail.

The same goes for web design. While your mode of interaction with a web site is very different to a painting, a lot of the principles that artists have used for centuries can apply to any medium. Web designers should follow the same discipline to apply only as much detail as is necessary, putting it where it’s most needed, to manage viewers’ attention.

Our experience, along with a great passion for art and design, are the right and ideal solution to understand and meet your web requirements.

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05
Apr
2018

Website Tenders Information A Client Should Provide For A Web Design Agency

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The golden rule in any tender process is: information plus communication. For clients, this is crucial to selecting the best agency for the job. For designers it helps to ensure the most accurate quote. Even if you’re about to start a project, following this principle could mean the difference between smooth, successful delivery and a headache for client and designer alike.

Given the right information, a web design agency can determine exactly what’s required. Naturally, things may change during a website design project, but the more info given, the more likely an accurate fixed quote can be provided.

Similarly, good communication ensures that both parties understand what the goals are. For example, if you’re a client looking for video capability or a forum, make sure the web design agency knows this. It might take more work than you think.

For clients and designers it helps to have a checklist:

The basics:

A bullet list of required web pages (from home to every product page)
A design brief. Is a new logo required? Do any style templates exist already? Is there a specific requirement for colours/logo/navigation?
How concrete are the ideas/pages? Does the client expect to change the pages required during the project? Are they looking for additional consultancy?
How do the client’s requirements fit with a designer’s current portfolio is there some crossover? Does the client like any particular style? Can the client provide a series of links to sites they like?
Is the domain name already registered? If not, whose responsibility is it, and who is responsible for hosting?
Does the domain need transferred?

Functions, format and content

Who will source the images? A mistake that many clients make is assuming that web designers will always supply images for the site.
What about text and other content?
If the client needs blogs, video functionality, a secure database, a shopping cart or any other special feature, this needs to be noted.
Is any advanced SEO needed? Such as link exchange, content generation etc.

Timeline and changes to plan:

– Work out a series of key delivery dates for draft design ideas, beta website and launch.
– Similarly, the client should provide dates for providing content, confirming designs etc.
– To avoid any bad feelings (or worse) further down the line, it should be made clear what the costs are (whether by hourly rate or similar) for amendments and changes to the brief.

Ongoing:

Does the client need frequent updates?
If so, does the client need training in how to operate the host account/CMS?
What about regular SEO reviews (such as adword campaign monitoring) and website analytics?
Who’s responsible for security updates or updates to the hosting software etc.

A few extra details:

If you’re a client, it’s worth remembering a few additional points:

All browsers display sites differently. There is no site on the web that displays the same in all browsers.
Designs look different on screen than they do on printed paper.
Every site should be accessible this is not only important from a usability and navigation point of view, but it’s a legal requirement to ensure that your site can be used by people with disabilities such as visual impairment.

This list is by no means final, and different sites require different approaches. However, after hundreds of tenders and successful project deliveries over the last fifteen years, OBS-Group has learned that following these steps can result in a far more accurate quote, not to mention a better website in the long run.

30
Mar
2018

Html Email Design Best Practices

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HTML Emails are arguably the most effective of all email marketing designs. Theyre eye catching, engaging and flexible. They provide you with a variety of opportunities to promote your business and achieve email marketing success. However, there are many pitfalls to be aware of when designing HTML Emails. In this article well highlight some of these and give you a few tips to help you design effective email campaigns.

Back to the old school

Theres no point denying it HTML Email design is Old School web design. This means no Stylesheets, JavaScript or Flash, they just wont work consistently across the wide and varied range of email clients.

When it comes to layout its back to a basic table-based structure, which may, to some web designers seem like committing web standards blasphemy. However, when you take into account the number of email clients that either remove or pay no attention to CSS it becomes quite clear going back to basics is the only way to guarantee your email looks the same regardless of which email client is displaying it.
We have found when designing table based layouts using merged cells (indicated by colspan and rowspan in your code), some email clients, especially Lotus Notes will usually distort any layout with merged cells. Instead, using nested tables will work more consistently than merged cells. For example, a two column layout could consist of a base layer of one table with two columns with other tables inserted into each column to give you space to enter your content.
Looking Good

A great deal of formatting can be done using Inline Styles small snippets of CSS code inserted into either a containing table cell (&#60td&#62), in paragraph tags (&#60p&#62) or span tags (&#60span&#62)

Below is an example of an inline style insert into a table cell tag:

&#60td width=”400″ align=”left” valign=”top” style=”color:#000000; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;”&#62

This style would then apply to the text contents of that table cell. Other standard HTML formatting tags such as &#60strong&#62, &#60em&#62, &#60font&#62 etc can be used as well to vary the formatting on top of this base style.
When deciding on a font for your email its always best to stick to a font that most, if not all, of your readers will have. Common fonts such as Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman and Georgia should be fine. If youre willing to take the risk of a slightly lesser-known font its good practice to specify a set of backup font faces in your inline style eg.
&#60td style=” Lucida Console, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; “&#62

If a computer does not have a certain font it will look to the next in the list to see if it has that one.

Time Warp

When we first got our hands on Microsoft Outlook 2007 we were a bit taken aback with what Microsoft had created, not only locking it down to use only the Word HTML rendering engine (Outlook 2003 will let you choose between normal HTML and Word rendering) but also support for background images had been removed, which meant a real step back with what you can and cant do to keep your emails looking good.

To ensure the most consistent display across the majority of email clients, we took the decision to not include background images in our designs (unless otherwise specified by the customer), and weve come up with a few little tricks along the way to help us keep our designs looking top notch. The main thing to remember is HTML text should only appear on a solid background colour (which you can set in a table cell). There should be no gradients or any other fancy effects behind actual text, unless you plan to include that text in an image.

The final few things…

There are hundreds of elements to take into consideration when designing a HTML email. These are just a few of the most important things to consider:

Create a plain text version of your email to send alongside the HTML version for those who prefer it and for mobile devices and email clients that only accept text only email.
Keep the width of your email between 600-650px to ensure readability for the maximum amount of email clients.
Assign an alt tag to each image so if readers have the images turned off they should see some sort of useful information to assure them the email is legitimate.
Always set height and width attributes on images in your HTML design. Some email clients like Outlook 2003 and 2007 will suppress images in the inbox. Failing to put a height and width will result in your deign be distorted by the security message that is inserted by the email client into the image space.
Use images at the size they are meant to be rather than resizing them with HTML some email clients will ignore the HTML resize and just display the image at its original size.

Whatever you choose to do with your email marketing designs, the most important thing is to test, test and test again. You should always proof your email into the major email clients to ensure its rendering correctly and ask a proof group to check for spellings or design issues too. However, just because there are limitations to HTML email design it doesnt mean you cant be creative or push the boundaries to see what impacts on delivery, open and click through rates. Remember the aim of any email is to achieve your goal and sometimes being safe with your design isnt the best option.