Web Design Techniques http://webdesigntechniques.net Your Guide to Effective Web Designing Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SharePoint Visio Services for Schematics and Diagrams http://webdesigntechniques.net/information/sharepoint-visio-services-for-schematics-and-diagrams/ http://webdesigntechniques.net/information/sharepoint-visio-services-for-schematics-and-diagrams/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:44:28 +0000 Harry http://webdesigntechniques.net/?p=249 Some people understand things quicker when it is visually attractive. If your boss also falls into that category then use SharePoint Visio Services to present your complicated data, network diagrams, or process flows, in a visually attractive way! Yes, briefly speaking, Visio Services can complement your existing Business Intelligence tools through visualizing your data processes.

Take advantage of SharePoint Visio Services and other useful features of SharePoint 2010 hosting, SharePoint Foundation hosting or SharePoint Server 2010 – with shared or dedicated hosting by a SharePoint 2010 hosting provider.

Visio Services resolve the problems such as information overload. Visio Services help us by finding ways to share the complicated data with others through business diagramming. Visio Services provide network diagrams to display server farms and individual server health through colors of red when stopped and green when functioning normally. It also presents flow charts to view the representation of process flow as well as the ability to expose deeper information by drilling down into the details. Visio diagrams are connectable to a SharePoint list, Excel spreadsheet, or SQL Server database. Nonetheless, it cannot be used with SQL Server Analysis Services or Microsoft’s new PowerPivot. Visio Services can be used only when much of the data is already available. It only creates a diagram in Visio and connects it with the data. Visio Services allow you to take the data out of the table and create a visual image that has a much quicker and higher impact on the person consuming the information.

Features of Visio Services include the following:

o Ability to create multiple data sources on the same diagram
o Add web part
o Add Ribbon menu
o Shape templates easier to navigate
o Includes new containers to group shapes together
o Automatic refresh capability
o Custom data providers as .NET assemblies

So, for a quicker and higher visual impact, use SharePoint’s Visio Services!

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• Then make your website more interactive so that your visitors can get in touch with you. You can assign those roles, control, or a stake over the material of your site, forum, chat room, newsletter, survey, and online research. This way, you can hold their attention and efficiently strengthen and create visitor relationships and develop the volume of traffic over time. The experts like Bob Proctor or Jay Abrahams follow this principle to win over the visitors.
• Design affiliate software for your products and services to give thrust to affiliates to invite fresh referrals. It will be a wonderful way to attract newcomers into your website.

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You might think that internet marketing is complex, but actually it is really organized in nature. It is definitely a fairly easy trade since the metrics software for performance measurement is already available to all. If you are doing a business in the internet, you can check and re-launch the sales and campaigns for marketing and better profits just by knowing the results.

Here are six points for you to start your online business:
• When you are choosing your website theme, be clear, concise, and specific. For example, you may have a website that talks about dogs and not dog collars – this means that it caters to a smaller and narrower niche. However, you may create a comprehensive layout if you wish, such as dog hygiene, dog habits, dog psychology, dog training, and dog naming.

]]> http://webdesigntechniques.net/internet-marketing/internet-marketing-part-1/feed/ 0 Size Matters http://webdesigntechniques.net/general/size-matters/ http://webdesigntechniques.net/general/size-matters/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:35:06 +0000 Harry http://webdesigntechniques.net/general/size-matters/ post5.JPGThere is a growing trend among Web designers who believe that small text will give a Web page a sleek appearance and provide more space per page for the actual content. This sometimes results in unreasonably small font sizes used in Web pages. This does not sit well with the diverse platforms existing in the market today. Web pages are displayed depending on the browser and the platform the user has. Varying devices such as portable, mobile and projectors make the delivery of Web pages sometimes unpredictable.

Even with Web design targeted for a specific platform, text settings may still vary thereby not producing the desired results. The basic problem is accessibility and usability of the Web page. A good Web design should look good without reducing or enlarging the default text size.

Source: w3.org

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Internet progress is inevitable. That is why design concerns should be given enough considerations. One primary concern is the content. All the information that can be found or available on the site should be of interest to the target audience. The site must be easy, simple and reliable to use. The appearance of the site is important too. The graphics and text used must get the attention of the public taking into considerations the relevance and consistency of the design. And as much as possible, it should be found on the key search engines and advertisement media for easy access.

]]> http://webdesigntechniques.net/general/basic-aspects-of-design/feed/ 0 Steps in Creating a Site http://webdesigntechniques.net/creating-a-site/steps-in-creating-a-site/ http://webdesigntechniques.net/creating-a-site/steps-in-creating-a-site/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:33:40 +0000 Harry http://webdesigntechniques.net/creating-a-site/steps-in-creating-a-site/ post4.JPGPutting up a site on the World Wide Web can be both fun and challenging. The Web creation process needs strategy and careful planning. The concept for the design of the Web site is very important. You do not just want to put up a site but you want to be able to effectively maximize the presence of that site to produce opportunities for you.

Here are some basic steps you can follow in order to effectively create a Web site. To simplify the process, follow these steps:
1. Gather information and analyze it
2. Prepare and plan
3. Design the site
4. Domain name selection and server hosting
5. Promote your site
6. Web design solutions
7. Support

Source: asia.images.search.yahoo.com

]]> http://webdesigntechniques.net/creating-a-site/steps-in-creating-a-site/feed/ 0 Graphics in Web Design http://webdesigntechniques.net/graphics/graphics-in-web-design/ http://webdesigntechniques.net/graphics/graphics-in-web-design/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:32:29 +0000 Harry http://webdesigntechniques.net/graphics/graphics-in-web-design/ post3.JPGThe use of graphics or pictures on Web pages makes them more attractive. Some dynamic Web pages even use graphics as a form of control. For whatever reason you use graphics on your Web pages, there is one thing for sure, it puts a strain on your site and slows down the loading process.

The reduction of the size of Web pages ensures that it will load faster. One sure way to reduce the size is to reduce the file size of images. The first minute will decide whether your users will stay or go to another site. Here are some recommendations on the use of graphics to lessen the downtime of your Web site:
1. Lessen number of colors
2. Crop your images
3. Use Jpeg format
4. Interlace Gif files
5. Slice animated Gifs
6. Cut images to pieces
7. Use thumbnails
8. Scale solid colors
9. Specify height and width
10. Use LOWSRC tags

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The bigger things are the better they should be. That’s not always the case when it comes to web designing. If readers tend to enlarge font or text size just to read your site, then you probably should think twice about it. Still using HTML font tags for your site? Time to dive into CCS as it is more flexible, easier to maintain, and has lesser bandwidth requirements.

Here are just some tips regarding font sizes:

    Size: respect the users’ preferences, avoid small size for content
    Anything less than 1em would make your readers squint or go for the CTRL+Mouse roller. It’s not good.
    Units: avoid absolute length units for screen display
    Rather than use font size in pt, go for the absolute length units
    Legible font-family
    If you really need to make your fonts small then it’s better to go for a font-family with aspect values that are high.

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When you encounter a problem with your Web design, the first thing you should consider or the best way to handle it is to validate you Web design. A lot of problems could have been prevented if the Web design have been validated in the first place. But the sad part of it is that many people are not doing this. People tend to ignore to validate their Web design. For your advantage and benefit, validate your HTML, CSS, and other Web file types with the HTML validators available. You may check the Internet for HTML validator, CSS validator, XHTML validator, RSS and Atom validator and P3P validator . Try visiting the Web Design / HTML site at About.com just to be sure that you will not have errors.

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This same principle applies with services or information offered from your website. You can offer a free trial period and send out free newsletters. One popular thing being given away now are free PC scans or free credit reports. These freebies are called teasers.

After running the PC scan or credit report, you can alert the customer if there is something that is found in their credit record or PC, and then offer to show them what it is or maybe repair their problem for a certain price. This can be an effective way to create sales or just get more information to your potential clients.

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