Every Visitor's Nightmare

There are thousands of websites on the net. Each of them have different designs, different concepts, different contents and different themes. They are trying to be as unique and as attractive as possible. These are the primary attributes to keep visitors coming back. Although these rules of thumb are really common, there are still some to managed to be on a pit despite of numerous tips and resources on the net.

On designing a site, you should put yourself in the visitor's shoes. Think of what you want to see in a website that would make you come back or even just stay for that matter. Here are some reasons why a visitor clicks the exit window button when visiting a site.

• Font Size

It is not like your visitor is reading a newspaper so don't use the same font size. It is hard to read the texts in the computer screen. But don't make your font too big either. It is irritating to see big fonts as if it is meant for people with almost no vision.

• Color

Exotic colors or combination of colors that naturally opposes each other is very hard to look at. It makes a visitor's eyes sore to look at it even just for five minutes. Safe colors that can be used are black, white and red, only as an accent. Combining colors is not a bad idea at all. Just make sure that the colors compliment.

• Content

A website that has a non-sense content is like a website that has no content at all. A visitor goes to a website for information. Your site should be informative enough to stay and come back. It is not enough that you have cute images or a huge list of links.

• Images

Images that takes forever to download is another nightmare for a visitor. This happens even if the picture only serves as a background or an accent to the design. Sometimes, the visitor is already done reading the content, but still half of the image can't be seen.

Remember that a website should be pleasing to the eyes and content-rich at the same time. This serves as the mirror of expertise you have for your products, services or whatever you are featuring about.

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Web Designing Tips

More and more people are getting fond of web design. Whether for work related purposes or for personal-use purposes. Some people get short courses to study web designing and some rely on e-learning and get web designing tutorials on-line. For people who works as a web designer, they know the do's and dont's of web designing, for most of them at least. For those who don't, especially those who are new in the field, here are some basic tips that would help in enhancing your web designing skills.

Keep your index page short

For the convenience of your visitor, don't place all your content on the index page. Remember that you can use several pages on making a web site. Having a single-page site with all the contents there will make a visitor dizzy and confused.

Create a toolbar or menus easy navigation

This will make your visitors stay in your site longer. After reading the content of your page, it is more likely that your visitor will look for other pages on your site that would interest him. Using short, clear and precise words will also help the visitor know the content of the page where your link is going. I suggest to place the navigation menu on top and the other main links on the right hand side menu. You can also use a drop-down menus if you have many links.

Clean layout design

Align the contents of the page properly. You can use as many tables as you need to be able to insert the images or whatever you need for the page. Beginners tend to put as much images as they can, thinking it would be nice to look at, but it is advisable to put minimal photos. For a safer design, you can also use templates.

Use uniform fonts

As much as possible, use only two to three kinds of font face and the suggested sizes are ten to fourteen points. Just use different font styles, italics for instance, to emphasize keywords. Also, use a font that is available on all computers to prevent having a messed up design.

Cross browser compatible

Keep in mind that there are other internet browsers other than what you are using. At least make sure that your codes and design are compatible to the major browsers like Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 7.0 and Netscape Navigator 6+ .

These are just basic tips and suggestions on web designing but are guaranteed useful. These can be used as guide on building your own site but still the overall design is in your hands.

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The Help of Graphics Design

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Graphics design is presenting information visually with images and text. It involves a wide range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts. It is used from the simple traffic road signs to the logos of company we are working or dealing with.

True that graphics design evolves as fast as technology. From the paintings in the caves of Lascaux around 14,000 BC to the numerous use of it not only to attract the eyes of people but also to bring information and to communicate visually. Here are several uses graphics design:

• In Advertising

Graphics design plays a big part in advertising. In order to draw attention from potential customers, they use aesthetic and emotional appeal to their products. This includes the company logo which is considered in corporate identity and branding.

• In Entertainment

From the backdrop, to the posters, to the visual story telling, graphics design is always being used. This helps bring in the interest of viewers or readers to intended mood. For film, it is used in opening and closing credit. For theater plays, it is used props, backdrops and posters. For books, it is used in covers and in the content itself.

• In Journalism

Graphics design helps in presenting the author's opinion or even on giving facts in writing news, articles, blogs and journals. It is not necessary but it will be an improvement on the visual information.

• On our Ancestors

It was used by our ancestors to communicate. It serves as “words” during the prehistoric periods. Anthropologists now studies the signs and symbols painted on the cave and caverns to learn more about them.

• In Education

Graphics are used mostly in education. In science,one example of which is human anatomy. Teachers use a picture of a human to point exactly which part of the human body they are talking about. In geography, it is used in maps and other graphic materials to illustrate or describe the earth. In Math, different kinds of graph are being used to make a presentation of data more understandable.

• On the 3w's

Graphics design is very important in e-Commerce. It should be visually appealing enough to attract visitors to browse the site. But it takes visual communication skills and interactive communication skills to do this. It is a combined work of graphics designers and web developers to create a web site that would be pleasing to the visitor's eyes.

We may not be conscious about it but graphics design plays a big role in our everyday lives. It help us communicate visually. It also helps us on deciding which should be checked on first when we have variants to choose from. And it also helps us understand certain things easier.

IT OUTSOURCING

Outsourcing used to be an option reserved for brave organizations. Some don't want to take the risk of not doing a responsibility hands on, letting another organization do it for them. But in 1980's, companies recognized the benefits of having IT service partners.

Today, IT outsourcing has become an important strategy for global enterprises. It is the new concept in the business world that develops complex systems, elevates the economic growth, increases the competitiveness and enhances performance of the organization. The biggest markets are from the United States and Werstern countries because they have realized the importance of outsourcing in sustaining the growth in the competitive world. Three main reasons why organizations chose to outsource:

• Organizations wants to focus on their core business objectives

Organizations concentrate on their core competencies and turn to third-parties to assume responsibility for other secondary corporate functions. That's the reason why they seek for reliable partners who will take the responsibility of their IT concerns.

• To reduce the cost of the organization

All organizations seeks to lessen their costs. With outsourcing, not only that they reduce their cost out of their IT operations, but also eliminates the cost of hiring and training the resources. Offshore outsourcing in particular, has a twin advantage of cost savings due to wage difference combined with high-quality skills.

• Quality improvement

Another reason is organizations wants quality improvement. With outsourcing, there is a consistent instructional design because a dedicated staff or team is designated to you who also does ongoing content maintenance.

In today's global economy, the perception of outsourcing has been changed from solving problems to transforming the IT functions of the organization. It has influenced the management strategy of the organization. Many companies worldwide are now already outsourcing key portions of their IT infrastructure and some are considering doing so in the near future.

RESOURCE: Methyl Vizcarra writes articles and press releases for WickedInnovation – a website design company that offers web development services, search engine optimization and other advance multimedia services for low prices.