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Some 'Golden Rules' of logo designWhile the variables are infinite (that's a good thing - it means that every logo can be unique) there are certain benchmarks (I hesitate to call them rules) that if you follow, will pretty well insure that you'll end up with a decent and workable logo. While whether or not a logo is 'good' remains completely subjective, following these pointers will give you a logo that's usable, practical and promising a long shelf life. |
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Standing Above The CrowdHelp your clients achieve their goals. Virtually every business person has specific goals they are striving to achieve. These can include everything from increasing their market share and sales, to reducing operating expenses, to streamlining the business, to incorporating new business practices. Invest time learning the key objectives of each of your customers. Then determine how your products and services can help them achieve their targets. In some cases, you may not be able to help them but recommending someone who can assist them will be recognized and remembered. The more you can help them achieve their goals the more valued you will become. |
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THE FAVICON.ICO TRICK FOR MSIE 5.0A while back I noticed in my error logs a lot of requests for a file called "favicon.ico". I noticed that it only occured with Microsoft IE 5.0. At first glance I thought it might be some strangeness on the part of the browser. So, I made up a little icon with the likeness of our favorite bird, stuck it in my main HTML directory, and got a copy of MSIE 5. When I visited the site, magically the icon appeared in the address line next to the URL- as well as on the bookmarks page. |
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The Importance Of Sound Website Design & Search Spiders to Internet MarketersAmong the specialized bots Google uses include: The web spider Googlebot, the Adsense spider MediaBot, the image spider ImageBot, the AdWords spider AdsBot, the RSS feed spider FeedFetcher-Google, and Googlebot-Mobile spider for mobile devices. MSN & Yahoo, the other two of the 'big three' have their own proprietary versions of spiders. |
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The Surprising Truth About Ugly WebsitesUgliness has nevėr looked better. I have spent the last few days examining a surprising trend in web design that has made ugly websites look absolutely irresistible. No, it's not the bolded, 18 point Times New Roman font shouting at me as I access the page that has me excited, nor is it the harsh colors that have actually managed to make my eyes hurt and distort my vision. In fact, it's not even that logo which is so pixelated from being processed, resized, saved, and edited so many times that it appears to be blurred to protect the identity of the company who owns the website that has me singing the praises of ugly websites. What is it? |
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Web Design - Simple Mistakes and Golden RulesGood web design is something that can be achieved relatively easily by sticking to a small set of guiding principles and avoiding some very common mistakes. |
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Web Design and SEO: The Eternal DebateWeb design focuses on appearance and aesthetics. SEO focuses on text quality and quantity. Web designers don't really like to clutter their designs with text. They prefer to see the images stand out on their own. SEOs on the other hand don't like images that much. Sure, an image can be optimized for the search engines by adding relevant alt attributes and titles, but this is not enough for a site to be properly optimized. Page copy still plays the most important role in website optimization for SEO. |
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Web Page OptimizationWe all want to have the most attractive website that leaves a visitor wide-eyed and completely dazzled. Usually an extremely attractive website design involves lots of graphical elements, increasing the overall page size which causes the page to download slowly to the browser. This article will provide some useful tips on how to keep your website design attractive but still downloads quickly. |
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