Building a Website that SELLS
As a Singapore business owner, you have 2 options when building a website. Are you looking for a “Pretty Picture” website, or a “Selling Machine”? The first option is a visually attractive site that provides information to the end-user. This type of website often includes lots of flash animations, a contemporary layout, and offers an aesthetically pleasing vibe. The second option …
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Web Design Case Study In Singapore
It is well known that the internet has changed the way many Singapore company compete and operate. While most media attention is directed at either new industries and the most popular eCommerce websites, the World Wide Web has also impacted many smaller and lesser known companies, many which do not make the news headlines. However, since the vast majority of …
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Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Design
This article uses that site as a starting point for discussing some of the issues that a web designer needs to consider when that must exist and compete in the real world (as opposed to a site that is created merely to fulfill the course requirements of a school or university). Appearance is Not the Most Important Issue Over the …
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11 Ways Print Design Trumps Web Design
The reports of the death of print have been greatly exaggerated. Although web design has advanced by leaps and bounds over the years, there are still some things that flyers, presentation folders and brochures can do that technology has yet to properly replicate for the Web. Just because print design has the leg up on web design (in a few …
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Is WordPress the New Frontpage?
In the “Web 1.0” era of the mid-1990s to early 2000s, Microsoft Frontpage lowered the barriers to web publishing. It was easy to use (especially with MS Office familiarity), it was collaborative—enabling multiple authors to contribute to a single website—and it enabled otherwise non-tech-savvy users to add a variety of dynamic elements, such as forms, polls, discussion boards, and guestbooks. …
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5 Latest Web Development Tools You Should Know
If you have been following our monthly post series on Fresh Resources for Designers and Developers, you can see that every month there are plenty of new tools introduced; the list is likely infinite. Back in 2008, when I was just beginning to learn HTML and CSS, most of these tools had not existed yet. Today, the Web is exponentially …
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