From the monthly archives:

May 2009

User friendly web design

by Terry Dunn

in Web Design Tips

When you know what your website visitors want, designing your site is so much easier. Ask yourself what they have they come for. To buy something, to search for information, to read articles, product support or to solve a problem. Consider google’s page design. It’s designed for one purpose only – to enter a word [...]

Simple web site design tips

by Terry Dunn

in Web Design Tips

When designing a website, your choice of colours, fonts, graphics and page layout should present a visual theme that matches your content. Ask yourself what kind of impression you want to give to your readers when they arrive at your home page. Hosting company, joyent has a strong visual theme. Here are three ways to [...]

Designing for usability

by Terry Dunn

in Web Design Tips

When designing your website, don’t forget you are designing for the computer screen, which has drawbacks. Problems you need to think about that don’t occur in the print world. Your design must be portable, usable with low bandwidth, present easy information access and provide clear presentation. Portability – visitors use different browsers, different operating systems [...]

The benefits of podcasting

by Terry Dunn

in Podcasting

Podcasts can be used, very effectively, as a marketing channel for webmasters and web site owners. They are not just for bloggers. Infact, most webmasters probably don’t realise just how much they could benefit. Podcasts are unique and often entertaining. They allow you to share your knowledge and places you as the subject matter expert. [...]

HTML coding made easy

by Terry Dunn

in Website Building

There’s a simple, easy way to write better HTML code. Just remember to use HTML to structure your content and CSS to present it. Don’t use HTML display tags, but instead create a separate CSS stylesheet to format your webpage. Writing this way is easier because CSS gives you all the design and display features [...]