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Key elements for a great website

Sheuli — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:55:08 +0000

Many business’s and people believe creating a basic website for their business is all that is necessary for viewers and other traffic. This is actually not the case, because websites needs to have key elements in maintaining a successful, but also a website that will give all of the visitors and traffics what they are searching for.

Key elements for a great website

Website structure is very important, because the structure is the foundation for the website. In order to get the best structure for your website, it is imperative an experienced website is hired. From their your webmaster will be able to tell you the best coding that is necessary.
Usability is also another very important factor in creating a website in which all of your users are going to be able to navigate your site. Navigating through a site can be very tough if the site is not constructed correctly. It is always a good idea to take some time and navigate through your site to be sure you feel as though other people won’t have any problems.
Readability is much more important that it sounds. You want all of the viewers to have a pleasant time looking at the site. Always aim for colors easy to read. Dark text on a light background is recommended.
Website functionality is another major element. Most of us have been on a website where a link doesn’t work or a blog might not load properly. Our first instinct is to try again, then leave. That is where websites loose major traffic and in some cases money. Always be sure your website operates the way you would want it to, and immediately correct any issues.

Building a website takes time and dedication. However, once your website is well put together and all of the functions needed have been added on, then you will be able to rest assured your site is going to be a success.

Web Designer’s Journal: Simplicity in Web Design

Sheuli — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:51:28 +0000

Recently, Google decided to show on its homepage colorful pictures as a background. Just like Bing does. A negative respond of the Internet was on an enormous scale. I was browsing many sites and I didn’t find any positive comment about a new (stolen from Bing) Google’s idea. What people love about Google is simplicity and clean design.

Clean Web Design We go to Google to find quickly information, not to have fun. That trend is seen also among all websites for any size of business. Nowadays, not too many clients ask for flash and colorful images on their website. Delivering clear message and valuable information on a website for your business is possible only if design is clean and simple. This way you can easily and effectively deliver a message to your customers. Then, with a little bit of bright color focus their attention on elements which make money for you – I am talking about calling to action buttons such as “contact us”, “buy now” etc.

White or very light background with a black font always will look gorgeous. This is also the greatest combination of colors to deliver the best experience with reading on the screen.

You can also take a look at our Web Design portfolio, to see that majority of our work contains simple, clean and light design.

Testing website on various browsers

Sheuli — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:55:51 +0000

Cross-browser testing is one of the most important part of modern website development. Instead of having many browsers installed on a computer, website designers use available cross-browser testing applications and services. Most of them are expensive, however there is at least one free alternative.

Browser Compatibility

First, let me list paid services:

BrowserCam – $1,000/year
BrowserLab – so far free, but it will be paid since 2011
SuperPreview – $150/year
Browsera – $600/year
Multi Browser Viewer – $130/year
Litmus – $600/year
BrowserSeal – $50/year

Free browser testing

There is one free browser testing website browsershots.org. It can be slow and not user friendly, however it provides enough options for most of web developers. The most important fact is, the services supports all browsers you need to test: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Netscape , Dilo, SeaMonkey, Minefield, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, Konqueror, K-Meleon, Avant, Shireteko, Kazehakase, Iceweasel. Indeed you do not even need test your website with all of those options. You can visit our monthly updated browser market share carts to see that it is enough to make your website look good with the newest versions of IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Website loading time

Sheuli — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:47:01 +0000

According to a new study from Gomez (the company which provides the industry’s leading platform of Web application experience management solutions) customers don’t have a patience for Internet stores, ebanks and travel sites that loads slow, act unsteadily or crash during transaction seasons. The survey shows that 78 percent of consumers go to a competitor’s site after disappointing experience with slow-loading pages, errors or transaction problems. 88 percent do not return to a website which performance disappointed them. “People are pretty impatient nowadays and they don’t want to wait, they have other choices,” said Jeff Loeb, vice president of products and solutions marketing at Gomez, a division of Compuware. Below advice from Royal Deer Design, how to keep your website in good shape and how to make it load faster.

Make Your Website Load Faster

-Do you really need this heavy flash animation on your homepage? People with iPhone and blackberry don?t see it anyway, MACs like to crash during displaying flash animations. Consider JavaScript as a platform for a simple animations
– Clean your html/css code
– Decrees an amount of images on your website
– Reduce the size of the images
– Remove Unnecessary Widgets/Scripts/Statistics

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Entrepreneur.com writes about a website from our portfolio!

Sheuli — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:09:18 +0000

Royal Deer Design is working with MV Sport on the innovative project Vote For Art. Vortforart.com was created to organize graphic design competitions in partnership with major universities across the USA. Entrepreneur.com published few days ago an article about this project. Also, recently the founder of Vote For Art, Mr. Jeremy Parker, was named “New Jersey Person of the Week” by New York’s NY1 Cable TV station. Congratulations!

The project Vortforart.com is still in a public beta version, however the success came already within six days of launching the project. Only this amount of days was needed to make over 200 designers submit their art.

Opera – there are browsers worse than IE

Sheuli — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:00:54 +0000

Few reasons:
– problem with displaying images, in some cases images change positions on the website during uploading the content. Finally images go to the proper place but there is some delay in interpretation of css
– some input forms with option “upload file” doesn’t work with Opera, I don’t want to go into technical details, but it is serious technical problem :)
– what I found today: just wanted to log in to Google AdWords (software to advertise in Internet, known as Google Pay Per Click): We’re sorry, the AdWords interface does not work with Opera. We recommend using Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 8, Safari, or Chrome to manage your AdWords campaigns. Learn more.