<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154</id><updated>2011-07-29T00:48:40.528-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Web Design</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-1274136190842714053</id><published>2010-02-27T07:29:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T07:29:33.963-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Website Design - 7 Steps For Choosing the Best Web Designer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you choose the best web designer when you know almost nothing about website design, what you need and how to build it? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This article will help you make an informed decision instead of just selecting the first web designer you find.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7 steps for choosing the best web designer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Know the purpose of your website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before searching for a web designer it's a good idea to know what you want your website to do for your business. It will help the designer to know your needs. These are some questions to ask yourself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you want to generate leads?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you want to an online presence for your offline store?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you wish to sell products and/or services?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you want to interact with your customers?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do you want to build long term relationships?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Experienced professional&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many amateur designers who want to become professional. The problem is they don't have many years of experience. For example they may create a pretty design but don't know how to create search engine friendly pages. Look for a designer that has several years of experience, the more the better. Visit their website to see the portfolio of websites they have already designed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Qualifications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By viewing their portfolio you have a good idea of the types of websites they have built, however some amateur designers will simply get a template, modify it a little then charge you for a complete design. A professional web designer should at least have these skill requirements:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;html/xhtml&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;cascading style sheets (CSS)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;javascript&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;graphic design&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ecommerce design&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;php script installation and customization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;search engine optimization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;email marketing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;FTP &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other design qualifications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;CIW (Certified Internet Web Professional) is the world's leading Web technology certification and curriculum program. The Master CIW Designer Certification shows the designer has taken the time and made the investment to become a Master Designer. You can't go wrong if you find a designer that has been awarded this certification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Testimonials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reading the recommendations from clients shows these clients trust in the designer's services. Visit the designer's website to read the testimonials. Ask for them if you don't see them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Pricing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is going to be all over the map because it depends on the complexity of the work involved and who is doing it. An online store is containing 100s of products is going to cost more than a 5 page html website. A corporate design firm with many employees is going to charge more than a freelance web designer because they have to pay out salaries. Ask for a preliminary proposal from the designer before hiring him or her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. Ask for a contract&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The contract should clearly state what's involved in the design of the website, prices, maintenance and hosting fees. It should also include who owns the website and the timetable for completion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your web designer fulfills all these requirements, is friendly, helpful, polite and easy to work then go for it. You have made an informed decision that you will be happy with.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Hire a professional web designer to build your website by visiting &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.isitebuild.com/portfolio.htm"&gt;Professional Web Designer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Herman Drost is a Master CIW Designer,&lt;br /&gt;owner and author of: &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.isitebuild.com/"&gt;http://www.isitebuild.com/portfolio.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Herman_Drost"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Herman_Drost       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-1274136190842714053?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/1274136190842714053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/website-design-7-steps-for-choosing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/1274136190842714053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/1274136190842714053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/website-design-7-steps-for-choosing.html' title='Website Design - 7 Steps For Choosing the Best Web Designer'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-5694344353280212420</id><published>2010-02-27T07:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T07:29:05.357-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Web Design Vs Flash Design</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Let's find out the pros and cons for both web design and flash design, then decide which is the preferred or 'our recommended' choice of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First let's set a case study. We're looking to build a website for an artist and he has outlined a few goals for us to keep in mind. He wants his to be...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Very attractively designed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both web and flash design can easily achieve this. We often use a combination of the two to create maximum appeal for our clients websites. Ultimately we would suggest that Flash is much easier to use when designing a creative structure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Search engine friendly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately Flash has zero scope for search engine optimisation. Flash is inserted as a.swf file and any text contained within the flash file cannot be read by search engines. Website design uses html which is perfect for optimising a website. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo! can read all of your html which will contain your content rich text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Easily editable for frequent updates&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again you are very limited with Flash, if you would like to update your website regularly. You would require flash knowledge and access to a Flash program, as well as the Flash files. If your website was built using standard web design then your website designer could easily include editable sections and set up a special program so that you can edit and change your website without worrying about breaking it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Interactive for the user&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is where Flash can really shine! User interaction can be taken to the maximum from use of simple web forms to full on games. Website design can also offer ample user interaction functionality but not quite to the standard of Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;So Web Design or Flash Design?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well from the case study above we would recommend using web/html design as it offers everything Flash has to give plus much more. Search engine optimisation is very important for the long run so its not a good idea to neglect it. Web design also provides control for the client so that they can make their own updates without having to go back to the website design company.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;You can find out more about &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.cheapwebdesign.co.uk/"&gt;web design&lt;/a&gt; online or on our website. If you're looking for &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.cheapwebdesign.co.uk/"&gt;cheap web design&lt;/a&gt; services then you should visit us to speak to one of our designers.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Christopher_J_Hart"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Christopher_J_Hart       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-5694344353280212420?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/5694344353280212420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/web-design-vs-flash-design.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/5694344353280212420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/5694344353280212420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/web-design-vs-flash-design.html' title='Web Design Vs Flash Design'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-4078875511531239753</id><published>2010-02-17T11:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T11:05:21.950-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Web Design on a Budget - 5 Things to Help You Achieve Success</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;All businesses today need a website, whether you want to gain more customers via search engines and advertising like AdWords or you just want to add substance to your business for your existing clients, websites are a very important element in your business' success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However many small businesses never seem to allow budget or enough budget to build their websites, often deciding to build it themselves, to get someone in the office to build it or to get a friend who's 'good with computers' to build one for them. - This is generally false economy and can often do more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Professionally built websites can now be bought for as little as a couple of hundred pounds and involve a lot of additional 'behind the scenes' work done by the web designer, however, if you do decide to follow the DIY route, here are 5 things that can help you to gain success:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;b&gt;Make it look right&lt;/b&gt; - Many people think that design is just a case of choosing some nice colours and adding loads of different typestyles. In fact, they couldn't be further from the truth - professional design and web design in particular is a very in-depth subject - from colour palettes through to usability, companies spend millions of pounds every year on web design and corporate identity - Learn from the big boys, take a look at the leaders in your field, what are they doing?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't copy their sites, but just take a look and see what is commonly done - a lot can be learnt from studying your opposition - and always remember, when it comes to design - KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!!) - Less really is more, don't go building your site with 20 different typestyles - stick to one or two, it really will look better and plain fonts such as Arial look more modern than fonts with serifs such as Times - Take a look at Apple's website, it really couldn't be any simpler in design - but it looks and works great.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;b&gt;Let Google read your text&lt;/b&gt; - Whether your building your site with a program such as FrontPage, Mr Site, Dreamweaver or having a go at programming raw HTML with a text editor, don't be tempted to take the easy route, especially when it comes to putting your text in - years ago it was quite common for sites (even professionally built ones) to be completely built in programs such as Flash or to be built using pages of graphics, sliced up and positioned on screen in tables.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason people did this? - One reason was for ease, design the pages in a graphics program such as Photoshop then just cut and paste the images into a webpage. Another reason was for consistency - put your text content in your webpage as graphics and hey presto, everyone will see the same layout, same font style etc..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why should you not do this? - Well for a start, slower loading pages (because of all the graphics) but more importantly, Search Engines such as Google need text on web pages to index from - put it all in as graphics and your site is pretty much invisible to Google.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;b&gt;Content is King&lt;/b&gt; - Google, Google, Google - I hear it all day long, but people are right, Google can make or break businesses - Get a site working well with Google and this time next year you could be a Millionaire...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joking aside, Google is very important, getting your pages nearer the top for prime searches can make a difference of hundreds of website hits per month (or even in a day!!), but a great looking site doesn't mean a great ranking site - The saying "Content is King" is smack on, Google loves content - a good trick for building a site on a real budget, that can be ranked well is to just set up a free blog on a system such as Blogger, buy a cheap domain name, point it to your blog home page, then fill your blog with relevant content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Test and Measure&lt;/b&gt; - Several years ago I worked with a business consultant who analysed everything and I mean everything within businesses and then he helped to make improvements - all he ever said was "Test and Measure, Test and Measure" - "how can you improve something if you don't know how it performs already?".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have a lot of people who come to me and want to improve hits and traffic on their website, when I ask them how many hits do you currently receive a month?, I generally just get blank looks back, then most of them reply - "we don't know".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From day one of your site going live, add an analytics system to your website - some hosting companies will include this in their hosting package - to use these systems just log into your hosting control panel and look for analytics or statistics, if you do not have this you can use a system such as Google Analytics (Which I personally prefer) - just type Google Analytics into Google, click the link and follow the instructions - once signed up you will need to paste a bit of HTML code into all of the web pages you want to track, you can do this by opening the pages in a text editor such as Notepad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once installed you will be able to view a multitude of data - such as how many people are visiting your site every day, where they are coming from, what pages they are looking at etc, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the most important elements of a website - if something you are doing on a certain page is attracting more attention, then do more of it, if something on a page seems to be turning your customers away, then change it and quick.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Website Hosting and Free Hosting -&lt;/b&gt; Another website element is hosting, web hosting is the location your website sits on the internet - like a hard drive that everybody can see. This is an annual charge and although generally it isn't that expensive, it is still another cost when setting up on a budget.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now I would always recommend purchasing a proper hosting package from a reputable company, but if you're on a real budget many companies offer free hosting - The downside of this is they generally want you to add their advertisements to your site, but if you're starting out, it is a great way to get going - just type 'free web hosting' into Google and take your pick, however, as soon as your budget allows I would recommend switching to your own purchased package.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The downsides of free hosting are that they generally are not as reliable as purchased packages and the added advertisements will cheapen the look of your site and branding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I suggested at the start of this article, Doing It Yourself can often do more harm than good - Many people can be reluctant to contact a web design company in fear of huge prices and constant pestering once the initial contact is made - However professional web design packages can start from as little as two hundred pounds, and many web design companies such as Pinkmango are happy to provide free estimates and advice with no pestering or hassle.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Simon O'Carroll has over 10 years experience in &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.pinkmango.co.uk/"&gt;web design&lt;/a&gt; and 20 years experience in marketing and branding for many blue chip clients such as BMW, Land Rover and Jaguar. He owns Pinkmango a Web Design Agency based in Poole, Dorset and Redditch, Birmingham offering Web Design Services to businesses from Start-Ups to Blue Chip. If you require web design in Poole, Dorset, web design in Redditch Birmingham or UK then visit Pinkmango online at &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.pinkmango.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.pinkmango.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Simon_O%27Carroll"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Simon_O'Carroll       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-4078875511531239753?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/4078875511531239753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/web-design-on-budget-5-things-to-help.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/4078875511531239753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/4078875511531239753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/web-design-on-budget-5-things-to-help.html' title='Web Design on a Budget - 5 Things to Help You Achieve Success'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-2760795419421145153</id><published>2010-02-17T11:04:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T11:04:34.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Web Design The Easy Way - Some Quick Tips To Get Started</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Web design can be quite a daunting prospect if you are new to the Internet. You would like to create your own site but have no idea where to start. Html? Photoshop? Fireworks? FrontPage? Dreamweaver?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This article will give you some tips and hints on how to get started with web design - and which shortcuts to take!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tip 1: Learn HTML&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can hear you groan. I said I was going to give you some shortcuts, now I suggest you learn HTML! Unfortunately there is no way around it. Even if you make use to the shortcuts to web design that I am going to suggest, learning HTML will still be the best investment that you can make. It is really not that difficult and it will greatly aid in your understanding of web design.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A really good place for online tutorials on HTML can be found here: &lt;a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/"&gt;http://www.w3schools.com/html/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depending on your enthusiasm and level of technical skill I would also suggest that you learn a bit about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Cascading style sheets can assist you tremendously with controlling the layout, colors and images on your web page. You can also find good CSS tutorials on the w3schools website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tip 2: Use a web template for web design&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now this is really a shortcut to web design! I suggest that you create your first website by making use of a web template. There are lots of commercial templates available, and frankly, they are beautiful, but I am going to give you some hints on where to find free web templates. Most people would think that searching for 'free web templates' in Google would be the most obvious way of doing it - but I suggest that you rather search for 'open source web templates'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some sources with open source (basically - free to use) web templates. The advantage of these templates is that they are normally well designed and will also teach you good web design principles (as opposed to most of the commercial templates which, while they are undeniably beautiful to look at, they are normally not built making use of good web design principles).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My favorite Open Source web design site is &lt;a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.oswd.org/"&gt;http://www.oswd.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This site has over a 1600 free designs to choose from. Download any design and build your site! Most of these designs make use of CSS as well which is why it is a good idea to learn CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another site with lots of free template designs is &lt;a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/"&gt;http://www.daydreamgraphics.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suggest that if you are just starting out you stick with the designs made with tables. These are the easiest to manipulate and use. The templates on Daydreamgraphics are not for everyone - they are mostly geared towards a young funky look, so if you are looking for a design that you can use for your business or company, you might do better to rather select a design from OSWD, but if you are looking at setting up a personal website, a hobby site or a site related to music or entertainment, these designs will work very well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tip 3: Use Wordpress or Joomla to create your site&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This option is really by far the best way to create your website in the long term. Theoretically you do not need to know HTML and CSS to create and modify your site but in practice it pays off to learn these skills since it will help you master these tools just so much faster.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The steps to creating your website using these tools are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Log into your CPanel control panel (if you are not using a host that provides you with a CPanel control panel and Fantastico scripts - frankly, my only advice is to change to one that does!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Select Fantastico from the control panel&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. Select either Wordpress or Joomla from the menu on the left.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. Install Wordpress or Joomla in the root folder. You will have to select an administrator username and password to access the admin side of your site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Log into the admin backend (normally /wp-admin for Wordpress and /administrator for Joomla). There are lots of free Wordpress tutorials available - just do a Google search for 'free Wordpress tutorials' and to get started in Joomla, do a search for 'how to use Joomla'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To change the look and feel of your Wordpress or Joomla website is really easy! You simply install a new template. Wordpress and Joomla templates are specific to these tools (you cannot use any templates). For a guide to where to find the best free Wordpress and Joomla templates you can take a look at these resources:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tm4y.co.za/joomla-tips/best-joomla-templates.html"&gt;http://www.tm4y.co.za/joomla-tips/best-joomla-templates.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_new" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tm4y.co.za/wordpress-tips/wordpress-templates.html"&gt;http://www.tm4y.co.za/wordpress-tips/wordpress-templates.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope that these tips will help you on your way to creating your own website - web design the easy way!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Christine Anderssen is the owner of &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.tm4y.co.za/"&gt;Tailormade4you Web Design&lt;/a&gt; where she makes use of Joomla and Wordpress to build websites. While making extensive use of of templates to shortcut the design process she also designs websites from scratch. Visit her site for tutorials, tips and tricks on how to use Joomla and Wordpress for Web Design&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Christine_Anderssen"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Christine_Anderssen       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-2760795419421145153?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/2760795419421145153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/web-design-easy-way-some-quick-tips-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/2760795419421145153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/2760795419421145153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/web-design-easy-way-some-quick-tips-to.html' title='Web Design The Easy Way - Some Quick Tips To Get Started'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-1288519077983324117</id><published>2010-02-17T11:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T11:02:29.034-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Basic Tips For Web Design</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Normally user's habit over the net is just same as the costumer's habit in the stores. Visitors just glance at each and every new webpage; they normally scan some text and just get on to the first link that takes their attention or interest. So, here comes the importance of interactive web design in the picture. A professional website design agency should think from the point of view of end user of website ie visitors. In reality, there are many parts of the page which they don't prefer to even look at.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do not make visitors think&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The web page should be explanatory and obvious. So when you are making a new website, your work is to get free from all the questions, therefore the users require to make deliberately, considering the pros and cons and other alternatives. If the number of questions grows in users mind, then it would become difficult for the user to understand the complete system and the visitor would not be able to move from one point to another point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do not test the patience of visitors&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let the user discover your website and explore your services. Also it is not recommendable to actually force user to enter the email address just to test different features. For the first time user, they would prefer to play with services rather than completing long forms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Focus on the visitor's attention&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Focusing on the visitor's attention on certain areas would actually help the visitors to move from one point to the other point. The less questions visitors would find more trust they would be able to find in your company. Basically the more they will think they will get more confused.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Construct effective writing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As we know that the Web is entirely different from the print, therefore it is essential to alter the writing style. Promotional writing would not be read at all. All the long text without the images and the keywords marked in italics or bold would be skipped. Also the exaggeration in the language needs to be ignored. Use concise and short phrases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Try for simplicity&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main motive of the site is to keep it simple; visitors do not go on the site to enjoy the design. Therefore try for simplicity rather than going into the complexity.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Author has vast experience in the &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.ideazlab.com/services/web-design-a-development.html"&gt;professional website design&lt;/a&gt;. He is currently associated with the Ideaz Inc - A premier full service &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.ideazincdesign.com/"&gt;Interactive web design&lt;/a&gt; agency in India.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Surinder_Sharma"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Surinder_Sharma       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-1288519077983324117?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/1288519077983324117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/basic-tips-for-web-design.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/1288519077983324117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/1288519077983324117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/02/basic-tips-for-web-design.html' title='Basic Tips For Web Design'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-4713010162101309482</id><published>2010-01-29T04:44:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T04:45:25.281-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Web Designing Skills You Must Have!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Web designers and web developers often work closely with each other. In order to pursue a career in web designing or as a web developer, you need to possess a large number of skills. After all, you must have an edge over the rest of the crowd who also want to become a part of the booming web design industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Skills Required&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before we get into the technical side of things, let's start with the basic skills you must posses in order to be a web designer. You need to be extremely observant and should have an eye for detail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a web designer, you must pay close attention to the nitty-gritty of your job. Moreover, you need to know what goes where and how things should be arranged so as to most appeal to the browsers and the customer base your client is targeting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A strong aesthetic sense is also called for. Let's face it, a web designer's job is to efficiently design a web site so that it conveys all the information that it is required to, while at the same time being attractive and eye-catching.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No one wants to read pages and pages of information! If they needed to, they could just go to Wikipedia! You need to make your web page look good and for that you need to have a strong aesthetic sense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, moving on to the more pressing, technical aspect of things as a web designer! You need to posses a thorough knowledge of XHTML and HTML technology. This is the basic language of the internet and if you don't know the basic language, how will you manage to converse? Though this consists of the basics of web designing, it is the most invaluable aspect of it. Just knowing this language itself enables you to develop simple websites!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;CSS is the next step. This is a more advanced program than HTML but it is an amazing tool. CSS is an abbreviation for cascading style sheets. With thorough knowledge of this language, you can give your web page makeovers any time! If you design a web page to look a certain way and with the simple operation required to change a style sheet, you can make it look totally different!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Javascript and Ajax is something that web designers need to get comfortable with. Javascript is the basic interactive element of a web site so, quite obviously, as a good web developer, you need to master it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you understand the relation between javascript and the website you're working on, your task becomes much easier. Other languages and platforms you need to get comfortable with include C++, PERL, ASP etc. For animation and graphics, learning Flash is also quite helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An essential part of the job description is learning and maintaining a proper database, therefore, a complete course in MySQL is highly recommended. SQL is another database which you can learn along with MS Access.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search Engine optimization is also part of the job description of a web designer. In today's competitive market, where would we be without Search Engine optimization? Web designers require a variety of skills; these are just a few of them! The sky is the limit when it comes to web designing!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;EZA - Susan Bean&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get all the facts about the typical &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.webdesignersalarydata.com/web-design-salary.html"&gt;web design salary&lt;/a&gt;. Find out what it takes to become a web designer from:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.webdesignersalarydata.com/"&gt;http://www.webdesignersalarydata.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Susan_Bean"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Susan_Bean       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-4713010162101309482?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/4713010162101309482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/01/web-designing-skills-you-must-have.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/4713010162101309482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/4713010162101309482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/01/web-designing-skills-you-must-have.html' title='Web Designing Skills You Must Have!'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-7756065267725283823</id><published>2010-01-29T04:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T04:44:35.978-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How to Start Your Web Design and Development Outsourcing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;If you have a lot of computer knowledge and know how, but you are not sure what to do with yourself, maybe you should look into working for a web design and development outsourcing company. You could pretty much be your own boss, set your schedule to work around the rest of your day. There is very good money in the field of web designing if you know what you are doing. You just need to take the first step and take the plunge. You need to interview of course do some coding work on the side as part of a portfolio to show the owner of the company that you have what it takes to work for him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One you have taken that first step its uphill from there. As you acquire more projects, you will gain in experience as well as in money. The more you do the more that you can add to your portfolio, so that one day you may even be able to start your own web design and development outsourcing company. Then you can truly be the boss, it will be you calling all the shots. It will be you that can sit back and watch the money come in and enjoy the benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However just like everyone else you can think big but you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. If you are a newcomer to the field of web design most employers are not going to start you out on something big right away, it will take time for you to prove to them that you can handle the big jobs. If you truly have the desire and know how to make it big in web designing then web design and development outsourcing is defiantly where you want to start.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some web design and development outsourcing companies are even willing to take on people that know little to nothing at all about web designing, they are willing to take the time to train them and mold them into great designers. It is sometimes best to go this way because then they can be taught the way they want them rather than hiring someone with knowledge but the desire to do things their own way. People like this tend to make mistakes and can be very sloppy with their work, when it comes to this type of work you cannot afford to be sloppy. It takes a lot of time and effort to do the coding that it takes to put these pages together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So if you are looking for work in computers, take a minute and check out some web design and development outsourcing companies. You are sure to find work in this field and you will also make good money in the process as well as learn a lot of new things to go along with the knowledge that you already posses. You are one step closer to making it to the top just take the plunge and sink your teeth into the exciting world of wed design.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;James is the CEO of &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.royalatlantisgroup.com/"&gt;Royal Atlantis Group&lt;/a&gt;, a wholesale private label website design and development company operating in Europe, Austraila and the United States. Royal Atlantis Group cater for website design &amp;amp; development companies who wish to oursource their web development to increase capacity, value &amp;amp; productivity in order to better serve their customers. Contact Royal for a &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.royalatlantisgroup.com/free-quote.php"&gt;Website Quote&lt;/a&gt; today&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=James_Anthony_Cannon"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=James_Anthony_Cannon       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-7756065267725283823?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/7756065267725283823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-start-your-web-design-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/7756065267725283823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/7756065267725283823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-start-your-web-design-and.html' title='How to Start Your Web Design and Development Outsourcing'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-4300002850719894172</id><published>2010-01-29T04:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T04:44:06.417-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is the Difference Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Web 2.0 is a buzzword commonly used to embrace diverse and novel processes on the World Wide Web. Even though predominately a marketing term, some of the key imputes colligated with Web 2.0 include the emergence of social networks, two-way communication, various 'glue' techniques and substantial multifariousness in content types. Although most of Web 2.0 runs on the same platform as 1.0, there are some key divergences. Our aim is to key out the elementary differences leading to the properties of interest in 2.0 to be characterized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Web 2.0 enamours a combination of conceptions on the Web in recent years. The accurate definition is subtle and it is hard to categorize with the binary label "Web 1.0" or "Web 2.0". But there is an uncluttered separation between a set of extremely popular Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and YouTube, and the old Web. These separations are seeable when contrived onto a variety of axes, such as technological structural and sociological.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the major differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that the content creators were very few in Web 1.0 with the sheer majority of users merely served as consumers of content, while any user can be a content generator in Web 2.0 and various technological assistances have been added to increase the potential for content generation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another difference between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 can be based on time. The term "Web 2.0" was coined around 2004 and many of the first genuine Web 2.0 sites started egressing in late 2003 and early 2004. The websites which have modified a little in structure since the early 2000's and before may be counted as Web 1.0 (such as IMDB).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A key feature in Web 2.0 is that these sites boost users to expend as much time as possible on their site. They offer strong inducements for increasing stickiness on the site. In Web 1.0 most websites have links to external sites and users can easily follow those links to other sites. The primary reason for this is that most of the Web 1.0 sites incline to cover a single topic and do not necessitate users to log in to access them. On the other hand, Web 2.0 sites encourage intra-site activities, usually requiring users to log in and build links to others on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Web 1.0 sites were for one-way communication while Web 2.0 sites build two-way communication medium. Web 1.0 was autocratic and top-down. On the other hand, Web 2.0 is democratic and bottom-up. Rather than the New York Times 1.0 website stating you what the significant stories of the day were, Digg.com, Buzz and Yahoo.com depicts the stories users have voted the most crucial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Web 1.0 sites were plainly to be read passively. Web 2.0 sites tempt participation, voting for the content up or down, grading it, remarking on it, and submitting new posts. By 2000, Amazon.com was allowing users to review books but nowadays users can take part in many different ways like create lists of products, write product guides and edit wiki articles (Amapedia). In 2000, Amazon was utilizing its sites to sell products it bought in. With Web 2.0, Amazon now lets you list and sell your own new and old books and products through their website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Web 1.0 sites were static and seldom gets changed where Web 2.0 sites are dynamic and change hourly or even more frequently, pondering all of those user shares. Web 1.0 sites were closed up sites while Web 2.0 sites are collaborative sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Below table highlights the distinguishing features between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 and compares how things have changed since the web culture has overturned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web 1.0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about reading&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about companies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about client-server&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about HTML&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about home pages&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about portals&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about taxonomy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about wires&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about owning&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about IPO's&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about Netscape&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about screen scraping&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about web forms&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about hardware costs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about dialup&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was top-down&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was edited and produced&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was about banner ads&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web 2.0 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about writing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about communities&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about peer to peer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about XML&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about blogs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about RSS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about tags&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about wireless&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about sharing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about trade sales&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about Google&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about APIs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about web applications&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about bandwidth costs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about broadband&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is bottom-up&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is raw&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is about AdSense&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;The author of this article represents a renowned &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.vinfotech.com/index.html"&gt;website design company&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is a decade young web 2.0 design and &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.vinfotech.com/web_2.0/web_20_development.htm"&gt;web 2.0 development&lt;/a&gt; company offering consistent web development practices and website design services and is known for building strong relationships with its clients and community.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;Article Source:        &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Adam_Ada"&gt;         http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Adam_Ada       &lt;/a&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4909745340056598154-4300002850719894172?l=webdesignnn.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/feeds/4300002850719894172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-difference-between-web-10-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/4300002850719894172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4909745340056598154/posts/default/4300002850719894172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://webdesignnn.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-difference-between-web-10-and.html' title='What is the Difference Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?'/><author><name>rrubher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16206354991929663001</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909745340056598154.post-2394514674504352290</id><published>2010-01-29T04:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T04:43:23.794-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How Web 2.0 Has Begun to Reshape The IT Industry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="body"&gt;   &lt;p&gt;In erstwhile, the major trends in the IT industry were conducted and contributed by a small number of big players - like IBM or Microsoft. With the advent of Web 2.0, this linear perspective has completely changed. Web 2.0 took long to be there and acquired dozens of parallel technology and solution developments like XML, SOAP, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over the past three years, we have tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the ways organizations are using them. This year, we sought to get a clear idea of whether companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the Web or not. Our findings indicate that they are.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The IT industry suddenly appears to be deluged with Web 2.0 technologies. It all set out in 2004 with a Web 2.0 conference coordinated by O'Reilly Media and CMP. Since then, vendors, analysts and conference organizers have climbed up to the Web 2.0 vogue in almost every area of IT from enterprise systems to business intelligence (BI). Web 2.0 has become a key enabler for IT industries that wants more growth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the definitions and elements of these Web 2.0 technologies are somewhat undefined, the conceptions behind them are nonetheless useful because they describes the set of technologies and approaches that offer various ways of building, positioning and using IT applications - the focal point is being on easiness and user self-reliance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Web 2.0 has the gauge to completely alter and overhaul the way organizations react to their environment. Web 2.0 is a combination of technologies as well as a novel set of user's behaviors. The compounding of these two factors has created the tremendous opportunities for IT industry. Nowadays, in the lobbies of IT departments there is an uprising realization that the wave of web 2.0 is going to change the trajectory of the current IT industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Web 2.0 technologies can have more powerful enticement for the IT organizations. Their interactivity promises to bring more growth at lower cost. If used effectively, they may boost participation in more projects and idea communion, thus deepening a company's pool of knowledge. Web 2.0 also may bring better scope and scale to organizations as well as fortifying the bonds with clients and meliorating communications with suppliers and outside partners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The IT industries that made the greater use of the Web 2.0 technologies, have incurred even greater benefits. Despite the present recession, IT respondents irresistibly say that they will continue to invest in Web 2.0.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id="sig" class="sig"&gt;       &lt;p&gt;The author of this article represents a leading &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.vinfotech.com/web_2.0/web_20_design.htm"&gt;Web 2.0 Design&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a target="_new" href="http://www.vinfotech.com/web_2.0/web_20_development.htm"&gt;Web 2.0 Development&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; website design company offering premium services to its clients across industries. 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