WebProWorld
Question: How can I make my home page (www.gendertraining.com) more inviting to have visitors look at more content?
Answer: Overall, your site has a very nice, professional design. I like it! Here are two quick tips on making the main page more compelling:
One of the biggest challenges an organization faces is to stop thinking it’s the center of the universe. Customers think that they are the center of the universe. Customers come to your website to get their needs fulfilled. They will only think you are great if you meet their needs in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
“Stuckitis,” for those unfamiliar with the term, refers to the condition of being “stuck.” That’s the condition that results when visitors encounter difficulties on your site or lack enough information to move ahead with their purchase.
Whether you’re starting a new business or developing an existing one, if you want to build it up, first you need to design it. This design should not only attract success but ‘fit’ for you personally. Instead of moulding yourself to fit your business and conform to a particular way of doing business, you can design your business so that it is unique to you.
Sheets for Prototyping is an essential tool for designers. The ability to take a vision, quickly mock it up, and present it for critique and evaluation is critical to developing quality, usable designs.
Prototypes are most valuable when teams can iterate quickly. Taking an idea, trying it out, discovering flaws, modifying the design, and trying it out again is the essence of an iterative approach to design.
The key to creating graphical images for the World Wide Web and software applications is keeping the image file size relatively low and creating images that are optimized and display correctly in the browser window. By obtaining the knowledge of when to apply the proper image format to a given situation and how to properly optimization images to decrease download times, developers can assure themselves that graphics used in their projects will be optimized for success.
When your organization’s web site or intranet has hundreds of contributors, how do you ensure that every page is high quality and extremely usable? Especially, if these contributors have never designed a web page before?
A well-designed website has many facets: gorgeous graphics, cool animations, drop-down menus, and of course, relevant content. Another important feature, often overlooked, is a good, solid navigation scheme.
Design projects can sometimes be pretty intimidating especially if you are new at it. It seems that today anyone can aspire to be a designer armed with a fast computer and the right software. But design is not simply coming up with a few clever ideas on the screen and handing the finished word to the client expecting hugs and tears of gratitude. There are many traps that can catch unknowing designers and in this articles we will outline a few of these.
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When designing a logo an important consideration is how you plan to use it. A logo created for a website or full color stationery printing will be designed completely different than one designed for faxing and imprinting on coffee mugs.
