Lure Your Visitors to Buy Your Products

One of the main reasons why a website has driving good traffic and gains high Page Rank, it’s because not just only having a good content but also the quality of your website’s home page.

I have some important thing to do to make a good impression from your visitors and make them as your customers.

1. Flash intros- avoid flash intros to your site because it will take time to load and time to play, because most of the visitors nowadays are not in awe anymore but in a hurry. Don’t make your visitors wait, so that they will not be tired waiting of something. If you love putting flash intros, integrate it into your home page, but add a call to action at the end.

2. Broken links and pages-

There are more broken links on the net.

Do yourself a favor and download Xenu’s Link Sleuth (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) – this will run a check on your website because I really tried it, and among some pretty good information tell you where your broken links are.

3. Design- There is some obvious designs slips you need to avoid.

• Hard to read type – Way too many sites use fonts smaller than 10 point – it just won’t get read, simple.
• Logo / Branding – In days gone by you’d have to employ a big agency to get your image / logo / and branding done. There are some great guys on who can take care of this for you. Remember when people are searching for your product or service they will be comparing you with the competition. You have less than 8 seconds before the average visitor leaves your site
• Too many small business owners or one man bands selling a “product” (not service) and put their mug shot on there – why? They’re not buying you they’re buying your “product”. Think about the images and elements you use on your page. They must have a function and not because I think it looks nice – no. Get a blog if you want to showcase yourself.
• Color – No one does black backgrounds anymore – get with it. Neither do they do visitor counters. Corny clip art found in Microsoft Word is a no. There are loads of free stock image sites out there.

The True Meaning of Graphic Designs

What is a graphic design? There are a lots of definitions for graphic design but there’s a one definition that quite uncommon. According to Dino Dini, a computer game developer, graphic design is “The management of constraint”.

He also identifies two kinds of constraint; these are negotiable and non-negotiable constraints. The first step in the designing process is the identification, classification, and selection of constraints. He also stated that the process of design then proceeds from here to manipulating design variables so as to satisfy the non-negotiable constraints and optimizing those which are negotiable.

It is possible for a set of non-negotiable constraints to be in conflict resulting in a design with no solution. In this case, the non-negotiable constraints must be revised.

It also stated that poor designs occur as a result of mismanaged constraints. Something he claims can be seen in the way the video game industry makes “Must be Fun” a negotiable constraint where he believes it should be non-negotiable

Dino Dini’s perception about design is very broad that I can’t really imagine how knowledgeable and how good he is in designing. The design process may include a sequence of steps followed by designers, depending on the product or service, some of these stages may be irrelevant, ignored in real-world situations in order to save time, reduce cost, or because they may be redundant in the situation.

In addition, being a designer is not simply designing, more importantly; it is the broadness of your creativity, and understanding in graphics design.

Top 10 list of Web Hosting Sites

First, let’s discuss what web hosting is. Web hosting is a service which assigns space for customers to showcase their websites on computer servers that are connected to the Internet 24/7.Servers are powerful computers that have extremely huge hard drives, or an array of hard drives. Space is then rented to those who want an “online presence”.

Every server on the Internet has a unique numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address. You can think of servers as apartment buildings with unique addresses. Each apartment unit within each building is vague to space rented out for individual websites. And like real apartment buildings, each unit also has an address based on “the building” in which it is located. When you rent a space on a server, you’re setting up house on the Internet. You can be reached by a unique address (the website address), which is based on the server’s address.

Tips for Web Hosting

Disk Space – The amount of hard drive space on the host server, this space is used to store all codes, files, databases, images, and videos for your site. You generally want to future-proof your site by getting a plan with larger amounts of disk space than you need.

Bandwidth – The amount of data that can be sent to or from the host’s server measured in bytes. This term is often used interchangeably with data transfer. Data, whether it is text, image, audio, or video, is requested by visitors of your site and then transferred from the server your site is on. Many hosts have a limit in place for bandwidth, which is called ‘monthly data transfer’.

RAM – Random Access Memory, commonly known as RAM, is the amount of memory on the server that your site can use. If your site or service is very resource intensive, say a video site, you are going to want a large amount of RAM. A smaller site, say a personal blog, can get by on smaller amounts of RAM.

Here are the top ten lists of web hosting sites:

The following web hosting sites are ranked according to price, popularity, reliability, control panel, features, overall usability, and tech support.

1. www.hostmonster.com
2. www.starlogic.com
3. www.webhostingpad.com
4. www.hostgator.com
5. www.inmotionhosting.com
6. www.bluehost.com
7. www.ixwebhosting.com
8. www.1and1.com
9. www.godaddy.com
10. www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com

Workers Don’t Want US Jobs?

Is it true that Indians don’t want US jobs anymore? According to a recent survey of Indian high-tech graduates, the vast majority of them would rather remain in India than relocate to the United States or other foreign countries to pursue career opportunities.

The survey stated of 677 graduates of Indian Institute of Technology showed a major drop in the percentage of Indian citizens who chose to leave the country for higher education or seek employment.

The research and analytics firm that conducted the survey says, among those high-tech workers that graduated between 1964 and 2001, 35% moved to countries other than India. Among those graduated in 2002 and 2007, 84% remained in India and 16% decided to pursue interests somewhere else.

It also showed that, fewer Indian graduates believe that other countries such as the USA would provide more opportunities than their nation of origin. Sixty percent of those graduating between 1964 and 2001 said they thought the United States and other developed countries provided better education and career opportunities.

That number dropped among more recent graduates to 51% believing they would have a better chance landing a job if located outside of India.

In conclusion, other Indian professionals or workers realized that they should not always depend on companies who outsource in their country; especially US- based companies because they know that they can gain more knowledge and more benefits if they land a job outside the country.

But the majority of Indians who choose to stay believe they can succeed best in their own country.

I guess deciding to stay and work for your own country is the best choice, right? Why decide to work abroad if there are a lot of good opportunities for you?

Working abroad is not an easy way to fulfill what’s the best for you, and you have no assurance if you can get a better job. We should be wise in making our decisions, and that’s the best thing to do because its so hard to find a better job these days.

Positive Outlook of Multimedia

Multimedia is defined as a combination of sound, animation, graphic, and video. It is also known as a subset of hypermedia in the world of computers that combines the elements of multimedia with hypertext, with which it links the information.

A multimedia application is one that uses a collection of media sources. Better known for this applications are PowerPoint, a Microsoft presentation package, and Acrobat, an Adobe document presentation product.

Multimedia nowadays is commonplace because of its speed and efficiency. It gives the user a “richer” and more interesting experience. A lot of people using multimedia for business reports, school reports, and business promotions would agree to this.

In order for a computer to cope with multimedia, it needs to fulfill certain requirements such as, needs to be powerful enough to display the presentation. Example of that is a palmtop which utilizes a powerful processor to display pictures on its screen and be able to play good quality sound. A pc needs a reasonable graphics (video) card, and a considerable amount of memory on both RAM and hard drive space.

A method of producing reasonable sound (sound card plus speakers on a pc) is needed. It is also needs an output interface if motion is to be used for example, force feedback motion on joysticks to make them shake in games. Appropriate software to run the presentation is needed. An example of that is software that will display the video and sound file properly.

In accessing multimedia files through the Internet, the computer to be used has to be fast, with enough memory space available.

If the internet connection is slow, the files may need to be downloaded onto the computer directly and then played at a later date. And if the connection is fast enough, a broadband connection for example, then the files can be run directly as they are received, and it is known as ‘streaming media’.

In order to have a multimedia presentation, a computer needs to be able to output its sound, video, motion etc. to external devices such as speaker, monitors, and joystick and of course keyboard.

Even though multimedia has a lot of use in our industry, there are still disadvantages of using it. Because it is quite expensive for the following reasons: Acquisition or rental of equipment to produce multimedia can be costly, multimedia in Web Base Training (WBT) may require a high learning curve for designers since the use of multimedia in WBT is fairly new to most trainers and instructional designers. Development may require contracting out for specialized skills.

In conclusion, we should always put in our minds that the purpose of multimedia is to provide communications or virtual communications using text, graphics, animation, and video.

The Advantages of Web Designs

Before we go on to our topic let me give you a brief definition of web design.

Reference from wikipedia:

Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies (such as markup languages) suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or other web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

As we know, web designers are people who specialize in template designing, graphic designing and animations for web sites. Web and graphic designers are related to each other based on their profession which is very creative in all aspects.

These people have a huge contribution to our society when it comes to creativity and hard work. People admire them for there great creations, and patience to there work as web designers.

People should look up to them, for their great creations. Being a web designer is not easy, especially in areas of conceptual creativity or artistry which makes designs superior. These people make us happy every time we visit or surf the internet.

If a web site has a great idea or a unique combination of colors and designs, you feel admiration for the people responsible in creating and expressing these ideas.

To be a good web designer, one should be broad minded with a great attitude, passionate, and stylish. Without these people we don’t have logos, symbols, illustrations, animation and other great designs that make websites more beautiful and interesting.

Creativity of Graphic Designers

As we know, graphic designers are people who specialize in graphic design, such as creating symbols, icons, logos, illustrations, and other multi-media designs.

Qualities of a good graphic designer:

Graphic designers should have a great attitude because it plays a key role on how your business is perceived by the world. Good graphic designers have great attitudes. They immerse themselves in the products they are working on, based on the clients’ business goals. Companies do not hire a graphic designer who cannot take criticisms from customers and employers as well.

Graphic designers should have an endless amount of creativity. Employers and customers should look for graphic designers who have great creative ideas. You will know if they have this kind of quality because they usually give you a little bit more than what you asked for. These graphic designers come back to you with four fully fleshed out design concepts even if you asked for only two. They always have a solution in finding a way for some of your suggestions. In addition, they love their work .

Graphic designers should have a range distinct style and a wide variety of mediums for many different audiences. Graphic designers who are as comfortable designing killer branded ads as they are doing corporate-looking annual reports. If you are a graphic designer with a great attitude, you will be assigned for a wide variety of projects in the future.

Graphic designers should know their responsibilities as a professional worker. Employers do not want designers who miss deadlines and needs prodding to get the job done. Professionalism is necessary for all workers who are dedicated to their work.