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6 Benefits of Flash
Using Flash to create a website has become a popular trend in web design. What is it about Flash that is so attractive that even large businesses are using it to build their websites?
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Color Selection
Whether we notice it or not, research shows that colors have an emotional influence on us and impact the way that we judge the reliability, quality and value of websites, products and services.
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Using Animation
Animation can add an exciting jolt of energy to your Flash website. Rotating logos, clip art that moves and items that emit stars can make a website fun and dynamic. But like all good things, less is sometimes more, when it comes to animation.
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Typography 101
Typography is the art of arranging and designing “type”, or letters. Web typography has a significant impact on the readability and visual appeal of a web page. The goal of top-notch typography is to present your content in a highly readable manner.
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User Friendliness
Your website's user friendliness, or level of usability, measures how easy it is for visitors to navigate, and locate information once they are in your site. Make sure your visitors feel welcome, with a Flash website that offers optimal usability.
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Number of Pages
How many pages should your website include? This number depends on the goals of your website. There are a few things to consider when choosing the right number of pages to offer your visitors.
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Ways to Make Your Website Stand Out
Don’t allow competitors in your industry to rain on your parade just because they have been in the game longer. There are different strategies that you can use to make your website a shining star when compared to those of your competitors.
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10 Tips for Website Builders
When you design a website there are a few things you want to make sure you’ve covered, to make the site as successful as possible. Use this quick checklist to double-check you’ve covered all your bases.
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Widgets Galore
Widgets are like mini helping hands that can give a website an extra boost of functionality or visual appeal.
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6 Conventions of Web Design
There are a number of conventions that have developed and become so common on the internet that it is useful to be aware of before starting to make your own website.
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Keeping it Clean: The Importance of White Space in Web Design
In design the impact often comes from what is happening between the elements: in the white, or negative, space. Designers often spend a whole lot of time thinking about fonts, layout and design and don’t spend enough time thinking about what’s going on around them.
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The Key to Successful Web Animation
It is easy to imagine that including animation on your site makes you come off as more high-tech, and will therefore attract more visitors. Yet animation can be wildly distracting, and can reduce loading times. So when should you use it and when should you refrain?
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Bonding with Your Visitors
If you don't service your customers, someone else will. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. Create a website with customer service in mind and keep visitors coming back.
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How to Make a Website that Sells
Selling any product or service online typically involves a strategy or gimmick that will grab a customer and not let go until he or she clicks on the “Buy” button.
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Things to Avoid in Web Design
There are many traps that website builders fall into – both newbies and professionals alike. Avoid these pitfalls and prevent visitors from feeling annoyed and frustrated with your site and you.
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15 Tutorials to Improve your Skills in Adobe Illustrator
Any designer knows that learning is something that takes place throughout their career. With the speed at which software updates come out and at which technology is progressing, we all have to be constantly learning new skills and techniques to stay ahead of the game.
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Why Your Flash Website Needs HTML
After many requests from users, Wix has recently added a HTML widget to its free website builder. Why, you might wonder, if you have decided to build a Flash website, would you now want to deal with HTML?
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Flash vs. HTML: The Big Debate
The Flash vs HTML debate has been around for a long time. It’s a decision that will affect the design and usability of your website so make sure you know what’s at stake.
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10 Great Sites for Design Inspiration
There are bound to be times when you feel uninspired. You know you’ve got to get that website finished but you aren’t quite sure what angle to take or where to go with it. There are hundreds of great websites with web design tips and tutorials that will help to get your creativity flowing. Here are some of the best:
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How to Brush-Up Photos of People to Make Them Flawless
Let’s face it, flip through the pages of a magazine and 99% of the people there will have been digitally enhanced. In order to compete, and to make your own website look professional, you may have decided that it’s time for you to start doing the same.
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The Key to Great Logo Design
Whether you’re a designer or someone using a free website builder like Wix to design and promote your website, here are some tips that’ll help you produce the perfect logo.
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25 Text Effect Tutorials in Photoshop for High-Impact Text
Here are 25 ways you can produce amazing text effects for your free website you may not have even imagined.
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How to Optimize Images for Your Website
The judicious use of images can enhance your website’s appearance and make it more useful to visitors. Use images badly and you could put visitors off and slow down your site. Here are some tips to make sure that you are making the best use of images.
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How to Choose the Right Colors for Your Website
Choosing the colors for your free website is important. The right colors can effectively communicate a message. The wrong colors can be confusing and send out a message that puts your clients and visitors off.
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25 Photoshop Tips to Change Your Life
Before getting around to coding a website, many designers will work with Photoshop to draw layouts and design images. Even if you’re using a free website builder, Photoshop can be quite useful when preparing images for your site content. Photoshop is also useful to touch up images, or optimize them for the web.
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15 Stellar Photoshop Tutorials for Photographers
Before you upload your photographs on to your free website you want to have them looking your best. Here are fifteen Adobe Photoshop tutorials that will help your photos really stand out.
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Tips for Creating Videos for Your Flash Website
When you make your own website, videos can give you a leg up over the competition, giving you a chance to put a face forward and make a stronger connection with your visitors.
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How to Create a Killer Sales Page
Your sales page is where you have to get down to brass tacks. No room for unnecessary content or distracting graphics. Everything on this page has to contribute to closing a sale.
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How Color Impacts Your Site Visitors
The colors you use on your free website can either relax visitors or spur them to action.
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3 Things NOT to Put on Your Website
What you put on your website is important. You can not just slap up any old thing or content and expect that the search engines and people will find it and become regular visitors.
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Why You Should Include Video on Your Free Flash Website
A well-designed website that is proper optimized will help the search rankings for your free Flash website. Another important tool that is often overlooked is video. Adding videos to your free website can help to have your site rank higher in search engine results pages and draw more people to your site
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Free Website Widgets to Enhance Functionality
There has been a shift in the content model on the web. This shift was put into motion by the realization that driving as much traffic as possible to your website is not enough. A free and effective way to ensure that as many people as possible see your content is via the use of widgets. Widgets provide you with the ability to make your content highly transportable.
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Blog Design Elements that Optimize Reader Interaction
Blogs have absolutely exploded in popularity over the last 5 to 10 years. Perhaps it’s because of their ease of use, perhaps it’s because they format seems to suit the web well, perhaps it’s because they seem to inherently perform well in the search engines.
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Balance and Design Basics for Your Flash Website
Hopefully you have discovered how easy it is to use the website builder to make your own website. It is very easy to move components around with the website builder since everything is drag-and-drop.
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Content vs. Graphics: Which Is Most Important?
There are so many considerations that you need to make when you make your own website, but perhaps the biggest one is the direction you want to take the site in, in terms of style
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How to Use Keyword Grouping to Improve Your Flash Website’s SEO
Content is king and that is a given fact of today’s Internet community. How you group your keywords can help to drive traffic to your Flash website by increasing its search engine optimization (SEO).
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How to Optimize Your Photos For the Web
Many people know how to make a website, but when it comes to optimizing your content for browsers and users, it's a whole different ball game.
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Top Ways To Use Colors on Your Website
For many people creating their first website, color is just an extension of branding and a purely aesthetic matter which is secondary to navigation, text content and SEO.
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What Does Your Font Say About Your Business and Your Flash Website?
The font you use on your Flash website should be more than an afterthought. As a matter of fact, it should be one of the first considerations you decide upon when designing your website. Your font sets the mood and can be a deciding factor on whether your visitors stay or leave your website.
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Top Design Trends for your Website
You just used a website creator to make a website and now with the new year just around the corner it's time to do away with the old and bring in the new. It's time to wipe the slate clean and get your website ready for the brave new cyber world of tomorrow.
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How to Make Your Website Design Unique
Once you have decided to make a website the next step is to add content, images, and graphics that will make it stand out from the rest.
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6 Tips and Tactics for Designing Your Own Website
We have compiled a list of tips and tricks that will help you create a professional and effective website.
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Is Your Affiliate Website Compliant With New FTC Regulations?
The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a set of laws meant to prohibit what it deems are deceptive affiliate marketing practices which are rampant on the Internet today. Is your website affected?
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17 Ways to Make Your Website More Trustworthy
If you want to build a loyal subscriber base and generate more revenue from your Flash website, making your site more trustworthy is something you ought to consider.
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Creating a More “Readable” Website
Website readability is one very important aspect of the Internet web browsing experience. It has a direct impact on the effectiveness of your website in attracting visitors and generating revenue
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5 Things You Should Do Every Week to Keep Your Website Hot
Gone are the days when webmasters log into a website builder, chuck up a static website and leave it like that.
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10 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better
You don’t need to throw a whole load of money at your free website to make it better. There are so many tools out there that you can use to make everything from big improvements to little tweaks. If you’re about to make your own website, or use a free website builder, here are ten tools that you should get familiar with.
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10 Ways to Improve Your Website
Whether you have had your free website for a while or you’re just setting out to make your own website, there are always ways that you can improve
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Most Annoying Website Features
Some things just don’t work. And some people just won’t listen! There are website elements that can be incredibly annoying for visitors – but people do still insist upon using them.
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Apps v. Widgets v. Plug-Ins
Learn what the difference between apps, widgets and plug-ins once and for all. You’re probably already using some combination of them in your everyday life whether you realize it or not.
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5 Tools to Make Your Own Animation
Here are some tools that let you make a website with your own, customized animation files.
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How Often Should You Update Your Website?
If you have read anything about Flash website design and implementation, then you have read that your website should be fresh, engaging, and optimized. Okay, so you’ve done that. Now your next question is probably how often should you update your website?
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The Importance of the Page Title and the Meta Description
Your title page is an important component of your free Flash website. It is one of the first things that search engine spiders and bots find when they crawl your website. Spiders and bots crawl and read sites from the top to the bottom and from the first page to the last so having the most important components of your site near the top of your pages is important.
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Does Website Size Matter?
It is no secret that every business needs a website, but how big of a website is a good question. On one hand, you want enough pages to say what you need to and offer your products and services, but you don’t want your Flash website to be so large that people get lost.
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What Can Your Website Statistics Tell You?
Knowing how well your Flash website is performing is important for any website owner. Using a program or service that gives you website statistics can help you analyze your traffic and learn how you need to improve your SEO.
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Tips for Maximizing Outreach with Facebook Likes and Shares
In today's web it sure can be quite a challenge on deciding where and when to stick a “like” or “share” button on your free Flash websiteBut, you shouldn't feel alone. There is no perfect recipe on how to use them alone or together. Described below are some ways you can maximize your efforts using these engagement tools.
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What is a Favicon and Do You Need One?
The world of favicons can be confusing at first glance. Read on to learn about favicons and how they can be used to drive more traffic to your website.
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Images, Video and Text: Where is the Balance?
: Whether you are dealing with content, images or videos, t can be hard to balance different types of content on a website. There are a few strategies that can be used to ensure your website is attractive to your visitors and the search engines.
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How to Design a Business Website
Push your business in front of the competition with a well-designed website. Use these strategies to create a welcoming experience for potential customers.
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Images that Capture Your Visitors and Where to Find Them
Graphics and images are an important part of your free website as they help to add visual appeal and make the site more interesting for your visitors. But where can you find them?
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Redesigning Your Website
Let’s examine a few key elements that you must address when redesigning your website.
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The Importance of Navigation in your Website
Website navigation is one of the most important, yet one of the most often overlooked aspects of site design. Too often when someone sits down to make a website they are fixated on making it look “cool” or “cutting edge.
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Why You Should Add a ‘What’s New’ Section to Your Website
If the internet is about one thing, it’s about whatever is new and shiny at the moment
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Design Your Website to Load Faster
If your Flash website isn’t loading as fast as you would like there are a number of things you can do to speed up the process without losing the look and feel or functionality that you worked so hard to establish.
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When Websites Steal – How To Avoid Identity Theft
There is no single way to be 100% safe from these thieves but there are a number of things you can do to greatly reduce the risk.
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Website Performance and How it Impacts Popularity
The Cadillac Escalade is one of the premiere upscale SUVs but just how popular do you think this luxurious technology laden vehicle would be if it came with tires that wore out after 10,000 miles or batteries that went bust in 6 months? The analogy applies to your incredibly content rich business website which takes 40 seconds to fully load and 10 seconds to click between pages.
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Types of Internet Shoppers and How to Make Them Your Customers
You know your niche audience inside and out and you know what they like and what they don’t. But do you know how they buy?
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Get to Know: Mighty Deals
When you create a free website, design products can often help make the process easier. Get to know Mighty Deals, with its special offers at discounted prices.
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How Web Design is Going Green
The green agenda is transforming websites all over the world. Read on to learn about how green issues are driving change and innovation within web design.
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Top Sources for Logo Design Inspiration
Struggling to get your logo design before you make a website? Take a look inside for some great sources of inspiration to get your creativity kick-started.
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3 Must-Haves in Your Online Shop
It is not difficult to create your own website. There are a plethora of websites available that will teach you to how to create a business website for free. When doing this there are three must-haves in your online shop that you cannot fail to ignore.
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The Best Consulting Websites – Get Inspired!
If you want to more effectively market your Flash website, be sure to check out the best consulting websites for ideas and inspiration. There are many that are taking advantage of their design and content presentation to keep clients coming back for more.
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Why You Need a Support Section on Your Website
A support section is an important design feature when you create a free website. Learn why you need one.
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Is Live Chat Support Worth the Effort?
A free website that offers your customers live chat support can be a great investment for your business. The way Internet companies are conducting business today is very different from how they operated a few years ago. There has been a marked growth in the volume of business conducted. Along with this growth comes the obligation to respond to customer inquiries faster than ever before. This is where live chat support comes into play.
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The FAQ Section Dos and Don’ts
A good FAQ section has been a cornerstone of high-performing websites for over a decade now. Having a section of your free website dedicated to answering Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) you will save yourself a ton of time and energy. Without this section you will constantly have to answer the same questions over and over again from your visitors, responding to countless emails to clarify various points of contention or confusion.
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Let Photoshop Make Your Life Easier
For a lot of people, the idea of making their own graphics is a truly intimidating feat. Of course, for a lot of people the choice to make a website is intimidating as well. But just as a free website builder makes personal website creation a piece of cake, so Photoshop makes digital image creation and editing really simple and easy.
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How to Make an Online Catalog for your E-Commerce
There are a lot of reasons why people make a website, but more and more these days people are doing so because they want to sell products that they either personally make or which they deeply believe in. Of course, then there are plenty of people who are simply looking to sell products to make money. No matter what your motivation is, chances are you’re going to want to add an online shopping catalog in your free website builder.
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Usability Testing for Paupers
If you look around at the list of the top websites on the internet, one thing should become very apparent. The websites that are most popular and most trafficked are not the websites which are the fanciest, the flashiest or the most overtly-cutting edge. While the web’s most popular sites often incorporate lots of truly modern and top-of-the-line technology, none of that seems to go into how the website looks or how it operates. Overall, the top websites are all very simple on the outside. Where they excel is not in their flashiness, it’s in their usability.
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When Is The Right Time to Translate Your Website to a Different Language?
The Internet is already available in multiple languages. If you want to expand the reach of your website to a worldwide audience, then the issue of website translation is something that needs to be given some serious consideration.
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Tips on Website Translation
Website translation requires that you design your website and write your content, keeping certain best practices in mind. This will ensure the translation will be rendered with the greatest degree of accuracy possible.
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Tips for a Good Sign Up Form
Does your website have a sign up form, but your subscription rate is lacking? Here are some tips on how to improve your sign up form and get more people to sign up.
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Link Styles - Text, Image, Button - Which Works Best For Who?
There are several different styles of hyperlinks you can use on your websites. Which styles you use on your website can make a difference to your visitors.
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10 Awesome Tricks to Make Your Fashion Website Look HOT
When you use the website builder, you want to make your fashion website look hot. Fashion is fun, funky, and trendy. Your website design will be dependent upon the type and style of clothing and accessories you plan on selling.The website builder has several templates you can use for your fashion website that offer you many fresh and hot design ideas.
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10 Great Photography Websites for Inspiration
If you love photography or are a professional photographer, you can use the website builder to create a free professional photography website. Photography is an exciting hobby or profession and, with a website, you can create a portfolio and highlight your work. There are many ways to design your photography website and, by checking out the creative ideas that others have used, you can get some inspiration to create your own online piece of art.
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How to Make Your Website Unforgettable
Every website owner wants their website to be unforgettable, to stick in people’s minds and make them want to return time and again. Your free website can be a gem if you follow some easy guidelines. So many websites today are mediocre that, if you pay attention to design and content, your website will stand above the rest. Ease of use and reliability are keys to people remembering and wanting to return to your website. All other factors are unimportant if people find your website hard to use and vacant of any substance.
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10 Beautiful but Unusable Websites You Gotta Learn From
Nothing is more frustrating than landing on the home page of a beautiful website with no idea what is going on or how to navigate it. Don’t let this happen to your free website. Learn from some very creative and beautiful websites that just don’t work. It is a shame because the ideas are there and the creativity is evident but, like most things in life, a tool is no good unless you can figure out how to use it. Here now are 10 beautiful websites that are, in one way or another, unusable.
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Why Product Photos Are Extra Important on Your E-Commerce Website
If you use your free website as an e-commerce page, product photos are an extremely important part of your design. If they aren’t, they should be. Think about it. One of the most important parts of a sale is when you hand the customer the item.
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7 Yummy Ways to Make a Successful Restaurant Website
A restaurant is all about the senses. Customers can taste the flavors of the food, smell the aromas of cooking, see and touch what they are about to eat. A successful restaurant website has to convey all of that but through the medium of a screen. How do you convey the whole range of senses when all you have to rely on is sight? Let’s take a look at 7 ways that you can make your free website as tantalizing and delicious as the food that you serve.
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Is Your Splash Page Drowning Your Website?
A splash page is the front page of a website that doesn’t actually provide any content. They’re a bit like the cover of a book, they give an idea of what the website is going to be about but not much else. There are times when a splash page seems like a really good idea. And there are times when they are more useful than others.
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Site Statistics – Why You Need Them
Site statistics are a key tool for any webmaster. If you don’t have access to them, how are you going to know who has been visiting your website? How will you know who has been linking to you? A website without site statistics is just a free floating entity with no anchor to ground it in the rest of the web. If you’re going to make a website you should start to think about what statistics program you are going to use and think about why you want to use one. Let’s take a look at why you need site statistics.
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Top 10 Websites for Design Inspiration
There are times in every designer’s career when the creativity just isn’t coming together. You know how to make a website and you’ve got to get a site together or meet a deadline but your mind is blank and all you’re doing is staring at a blank screen. To help you out, here are 10 websites that are perfect for design inspiration.
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Top Reasons Why Visitors Leave Websites
There can be all sorts of reasons why someone leaves your website. People can be fickle or might just be hopping from place to place. They might have come across your website using a search engine and discovered that you’re not quite what they are looking for. Or maybe they even clicked on a link to your site by accident. There are some reasons that have visitors fleeing from websites. Let’s take a look at some of the worst offenders.
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Top Interior Design Websites for Inspiration
An interior design website needs to reflect design, quality and style. No one is going to hire an interior designer whose designs look like they’ve been thrown together in a few minutes. A good interior designer will have a good website, and if you are going to create your own website you’ll need to take some time to think about the message that you want to convey through your design. Let’s take a look in detail at three interior design websites that do it really well.
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Top Accountant Websites for Inspiration
Finding a good accountant is so important for any business. And it’s just as important for an accountant to have a great website. If someone is surfing the internet looking for an accountancy firm in your area then your website will be the thing that attracts them to you. An accountancy website needs to be attractive and informative. While you want it to look great you don’t want style over substance – substance is the key in accountancy. Visitors want to find accountants that are solid, that they can trust. Let’s take a look at some examples from the world of accountancy to help you to build your free website.
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Top Architect Websites for Inspiration
There is loads of information across the internet on architecture. Often an architect’s website will be very stylish, showing of the best of their work. If you are an architect about to make a website you might want to be pointed in the right direction to find some inspiration. Let’s take a look at some of the best architecture websites out there that should give you the inspiration that you need.
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Top Design Magazine Websites for Inspiration
Design magazines can be a great place for inspiration. There’s something very satisfying about flicking through a magazine to find ideas for design. However, did you know that it can be just as satisfying browsing the webs to find inspiration and ideas for design? Bookmark a favorite link, take a screenshot of elements that you love – look for things that will inspire you when you create your free website. Below are four great design magazine websites that you can spend hours on, getting inspired.
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Top Wedding Photographer Websites for Inspiration
As a wedding photographer you need to be able to get that sense of perfection across on your free website, demonstrate your attention to detail, be clear about your experience and show off your photography. To get you inspired, let’s take a look at some stunning wedding photography websites that show you how things should be done.
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The Last Thing to do before You Launch a Website
You have created a great, free website and you are now ready to take it live and let the world know – but before you launch make sure you have tested, checked and re-checked your site to make sure there are no glitches.
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Test Your Website: A 10 Point Checklist for Maximum Usability
Ensuring that your free website is easy to use for your visitor should be a priority before you launch your business website. Here is a checklist to help you maximize usability and make your website more user-friendly.
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Adding a Facebook “Like” Button to Your Website
One of the easiest ways to use Facebook to promote your free website is to add a “Like” button to one or more of your website’s pages.
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Minimalism – 7 Websites for Inspiration
You’ve probably heard things like ‘sometimes less is more’ and ‘KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid’ and these sayings can also be applied to web page design. When you create your free website think about whether a minimalist approach best suits your site and take some inspiration from some of these minimalist websites.
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Is a Single Page Website Good or Bad?
Most websites will require more than a single page, but occasionally a free website consisting of one web page will work – how do you know when to stick with one page or when to add more to your business website?
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Teens: How to Make a Website They’ll Love
Every adult can remember a time before the internet, and many people grew up during the exciting time when the Internet was emerging, today’s teens are the first generation of people to have grown up with the internet. This has transformed the way that they engage with both information and the world. If you are designing your free website to target teenagers then you will need to think of ways to keep them engaged.
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Kids! Make Them Love Your Website
If you want to make a website for kids then you’re creating a whole different animal to a website for adults. Think of it as the difference between adults’ and children’s books. An adults’ book may have an elegantly designed cover, but the inside is all pages and words. An adult is happy to be led along by the concepts and ideas. Children’s books, on the other hand, are marked by bright colors, short, simple sentences and bold images. On a children’s website you can flex your creative muscles in a way that is much less restrictive than a website for adults. If you’re going to make a website with Flash then you’re already ahead of the game - using Flash will allow you to create a fun, interactive website that is attractive to kids.
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The About Page: Examples and Trends
The “About” page is an important part of any website. It lets your visitors find out more information about you, about your business, your ethos and any other relevant information. Like anything in web page design, the About page is subject to different trends. Let’s take a look at some trends that are in use now, and see how they can fit into your free website.
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Banner Design - Top Success Techniques
A banner is the most prominent feature in a web page design. It sits at the top of your website and sets the overall tone. They often contain your logo, the name of your website or business and perhaps an image. At other times a banner can be used for advertising. You may have a banner that you use for advertising on other websites. If you are going to make a website with a banner you should think about how you want to design that element carefully. Even if you’re using free business website template or a free wedding website generator there should be space for you to insert your own custom banner. Here are some techniques to help get you on your way.
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Minimalism - Terribly Boring or the way to Scoring?
Designers will know that minimalism can produce beautiful results. The right typography and layout and your free website can look amazing. Websites that opt for minimalism often look stylish, up-market and professional. They’re websites that only have to say a little to say everything, elegantly. But are there times when minimalism can be just plain boring? Or, are there times when minimalist web design gets it wrong. Let’s find out.
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What is a Content Management System?
A content management system in plain and simple terms is the system or process in place to manage the content of the website. In order to make a website that is successful, there must obviously be content. This has to managed in a way that is both cost effective and remain true to the goals and aims of the website providing content that attracts visitors and keeps them returning. This article will break down the whole content management system and provide the tools necessary to ensure the success of your website.
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Five Reasons to Use a Search Engine Friendly Shopping Cart
Search Engine friendly shopping carts are relatively new in the world of the ecommerce website. Many of the shopping carts out there are from a time before search engine friendliness. They are often using already developed software that because of their age and code, are unable to move the focus of the shopping cart to search engine friendliness. With most business websites, the whole site in its entirety is a shopping cart. If search engines are unable to index the site, it suffers a huge penalty on search engine result pages. This article will provide for you five reasons to use a search engine friendly shopping cart.
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8 Steps to Protect Your Reputation Online
There is no escaping the fact that we as a world are living in the digital age. What you do, and what happens online, will have a major impact upon the success of your organization, regardless of size. Using one of the many website creators out there to make a web page, be it an ecommerce website or a personal website, is not the end of the process. Your reputation online is of huge significance and this article will highlight the 8 best steps, out of many, to protect your reputation online.
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10 Design Tips for Increasing Conversions on an eCommerce Website
There are plenty of web page design programs for you to choose from when you decide to make your own website. An ecommerce website is reliant upon converting visitors into sales. Here are 10 design tips for increasing conversions on an ecommerce website.
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3 Most Important Elements For a Fashion Designer’s Website
Don’t even think about creating a website for a fashion designer unless it incorporates these 3 very important design elements.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Model's Website
The success of every model’s career depends on how well their website showcases their modeling talent. Incorporating these 3 important design elements into the website can be pivotal to your success in the modeling industry.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Catering Company Website
What do you need to include on your catering company’s business website? The most important elements should be your menu with some mouth-watering photographs, your contact details and preferably some testimonials from satisfied clients. Create your free website thinking about what your catering customers want to see.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Designer’s Website
As a designer your business website presents your digital portfolio and it is vital that you create a good impression and show people your best work. Your free website should also include information about how people can get hold of you or at least how they can purchase your designs.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Dancer’s Website
As a dancer you want your free website to give information about what you do, where you dance and also have some beautiful pictures of you dancing on different occasions. When you create your web page design take these factors into consideration and think about how you can incorporate them into the design of your choice.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Gallery Website
There are two main types of gallery websites that you could have – a photography website or an art portfolio website. It is important to know what you want your free website to accomplish and then to use the images and information to accomplish this objective.
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Must-Haves in Fashion Websites
A website can translate into big business for a budding fashion designer or retailer. These days, fashionable consumers turn to websites for information and products. But, like style magazines and clothing retail stores, fashion websites are plentiful. Free web templates can assist in building a website with attention-grabbing features without the need to know all of the mechanics behind it. In this article, we’ve listed five key elements every fashion website must have.
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Artistic Elements Your Art Store Website Should Have
If you are an artist you may wonder how to make a website that will showcase your talents. You may want a website that you can use as a portfolio or one where you can sell your works to your fans and followers. As with all websites, the design of your pages is important. Any content you have on your website needs to be well thought out and well written. Access to social media such as your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts should be easy to find, and you may even want to include a Twitter feed to keep your visitors up-to-date on the Tweets you post. You may want to use your personal website as an art store to make some money from your hard work as an artist. It is important to have the art as your focus, and there are artistic elements you can include to help do just that.
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Make Them Shop! The 3 Top Elements Your Clothing Shop Website Needs
Create a website for your online clothing store that makes customers want to shop. Learn how to combine the three must-have elements of an online store.
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What Your Online Food Shop Must Include
You can easily build an online food shop with the free website builder. A general store or a specialty shop is an excellent online business. Online stores have gained popularity and you can tap into this trend by developing a product line or lines that will appeal to shoppers. To draw the most people to your website and encourage them to make a purchase, there are elements that you must include.
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3 Elements Your Electronic Shop Website Must Hav
Electronics are hot ticket items and you can make your own website and make money online. You may want to tailor your website to a specific electronic niche or carry a variety of general items. Take some time to do research and find out what are hot items right now and which ones are waning in popularity. Market research is important for any online store so that you can spend your marketing budget wisely and reach your target audience. Once you know what you want to carry and who you want to target, you’re ready to start building your electronic shop website. Before you do this you need to know what three elements your website must have for it to stand out above the crowd.
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Must-Haves for a Doctor's Clinic Website
You may not think that it is important for a doctor’s clinic to make a website, but it can be a very useful and powerful tool for your clinic. Once you determine that you do indeed need a website, there are some elements that are must-haves for a doctor’s clinic website. These are above and beyond the elements that make your website easy to use and easy to understand such as great content and easy navigation. These must-haves are specific to doctor’s clinics and can make your website stand out.
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Landing Page Makeover- Tips for Success
Your landing page is easily the most important individual page to think about when you make a website. It’s the first thing that your visitors see, and it needs to be optimized if you are going to convert a one-time visitor into a long-time follower.
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Privacy on the Web: Protect Yourself
A website isn’t finished once you let a website builder launch it “live”. Learn strategies that can be implemented to keep your website safe from internet invaders and your personal information private.
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How Successful is Your Landing Page? A Checklist
Are you tired of driving traffic to your websites and having it turn into zero conversions? Use this checklist to make sure your landing page is fully optimized.
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5 Elements Every Chef Needs on His Website
A chef’s website can be a great profile builder, a way to control his/her brand and to show off his/her skills. Get it right and it can do wonders for your business, get it wrong and it could do more damage than it’s worth. To get it right there are some elements that you really should consider within your website. If you’re using a website builder you’re already ahead of the game as many website builders will be set up to help you to incorporate elements such as these.
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3 Elements every Marketing Agency Website Needs
Marketing agencies need to be considered at the very forefront of everything. We live in the age of the digital revolution and for a cutting edge industry such as that of the marketing agencies, it is essential to make a website that adds value to the business combining three important elements;
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3 Things Every Interior Designer Must Have On His Website
With such a vast array of resources available online and for free, there really is no excuse for an interior designer not to use one of the many excellent free web page design programs like that from wix.com to create a website that will add definite value to their business. Here are three simple but crucial items that every interior designer must have on their website.
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5 Elements Every Delivery Service Website Must Have
When seeking to create a website that represents your delivery service businesses there are a number of factors that have to be taken into consideration during the planning stages. Even if your web page is up and running it is good practice to review your existing website and ensure that the five key elements listed below are included.
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5 Elements Every Winery Website Must Have
Every winery needs a website, and in order for your winery website to be successful, there are 5 critical elements you need to incorporate into the site’s design.
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5 Elements Every Bakery Website Must Have
Create a website that effectively promotes your bakery business. Cover these five elements of website design and content, and you’ll be on your way to success.
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Time Savers - 5 Applications That Will Help You Save Time When Building a Website
Creating a free website can be a pretty ambitious feat. There is a lot to take into consideration, there is a lot to plan out, and there is a lot to adjust and perfect to build the website that you always wanted. Thankfully, there are many great applications out there which can help speed up the process when you make Flash sites. While in the early days of the web everything had to be done by hand, these cutting-edge applications all can shave hours, if not days and weeks, off of the design and creation of your new digital home. Here are 5 time saving applications that every aspiring webmaster should utilize.
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Ten Habits of Bad Web Design
One of the best ways to properly design your free website is to avoid the worst design mistakes people make. Here are ten terrible design habits to avoid.
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5 Rules for Effective Web Forms
Forms are a great design element to us in your free website, but too often people create ineffective forms that are hard to read and confusing to fill out. Follow these 5 rules for effective web forms and make things easy on your visitors!
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3 Most Important Elements of a Photographer Website
A photographer’s website is an essential part of their business. It’s a place to sell their images, obtain new clients, and market their skills for hiring. In order to make a website that works for you, it’s important to know the three design elements that should be incorporated into any photographer’s personal website.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Photography Studio Website
All businesses need to cover three basic categories in a website: explaining what their services are, showcasing their product, and providing an easy way for potential customers to contact them. Your photography website is no different. Be sure that, beyond displaying your best work, you also give information on the artistic and practical details that clients will want to know before booking your team. Make a website for your photography studio that covers the three essential elements below and you’ll be in excellent shape for launching a new business or promoting an existing one.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Law Firm Website
Clients looking up a law firm’s website are searching for dependable advice and reliable assistance, so your law firm’s personal website must be geared towards supplying information, providing direction, and confirming trustworthiness. The more clear and consistent information potential clients are given, the more reassured they will be. Make a website for your firm that encompasses the three main categories of services available, firm qualifications, and easy contact, and you will be well on your way to promoting and securing new business.
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3 Most Important Elements for a Photography Magazine Website
Creating a website for any magazine, photography or otherwise, can be a tricky task. With a diverse amount of content, wide array of contributors, slew of graphics, and constant updates, it’s easy to get overwhelmed or allow things to lapse into messiness. Keeping in mind your main priorities is essential, so here are the three most important design elements to include as you create a website for a photography magazine.
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3 Most Important Elements for Your Taxi Service Website
So you’ve taken the first step towards building your first business website. You’ve got yourself set up with a free business website template, or a Flash template, and now you’re not quite sure what to do. Let’s take a look at some essential elements that you need to include on your free website.
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eCommerce is More Than a Shopping Cart
eCommerce entails a lot more than just integrating a shopping cart into your website. If you want to maximize your website’s revenue potential and reduce its shopping cart abandonment rate, then there are several website design concerns you need to take into consideration
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Must Haves for a Wedding Photography Website
Preserving the memories from your wedding requires a great deal of planning. Here are some must haves you should consider when designing your wedding photography website.
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Websites That Have the WOW Effect
Competition is fierce in the Internet marketplace today. So if you want your website to emerge as the clear winner, you will need to generate the “wow effect” with your visitors.
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6 Elements Every Landing Page Must Have
Whatever method you use to create your own website, whether it's a free website builder, a professional development team or a piece of proprietary software, every landing page should have certain elements that make it effective and pull in customers. There are many possible elements that you could have to achieve this purpose, whatever you're designing for, but here are six that every landing page must have to be successful.
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Why Is Flash Actually Good for Your Website
There are a lot of options to select from as you make your own website, and the choice to use Flash is one of the first decisions that must be made. What’s important to realize is that today’s Flash technology has significantly advanced; its sophisticated graphics are now easier to install than ever and upload reliably, giving websites a unique look, as well as greater functional capabilities. In fact, Flash has evolved to the point that it is now considered an essential benefit to websites, one that is necessary for increasing traffic and, as a result, contributing to your business’ success.
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Problems that Make your Visitors Leave Your Website
Getting traffic to your site is only half the battle. Keeping it there is one of the main challenges that website creators face. Yet the question of how to make a website that motivates return hits is not as difficult to solve as you may initially think. The core issues can be divided into four categories of problems, so check to make sure you’re not committing any of these cardinal internet errors before you let your site go live.
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3 Reasons to Use Only Black and White for your Website
As website building technology becomes more and more advanced, and options for designers increase, sometimes the greatest impact can be made instead by going back to the basics. Perhaps this is why the internet is seeing a growing design trend of black-and-white-only websites. Rather than come off as dull options in a Technicolor world, innovative sites that use the two colors wisely are actually some of the strongest around. Read below for three reasons why you might consider using only black and white when you create a website:
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