Archive for November, 2010

CSS Layout For Websites – Why Using CSS in Web Design Layout is Better Than Table-Based Layout

Technology is constantly evolving and advancing and nothing shows this more than the (short) history of the web. Just a few years ago, the internet was full of websites with blinking, animated icons and background midi music and lots of people thought it was really great. Advance a few years forward and, although you still see those things from time to time, the web now contains much more sophisticated elements like video clips, rss feeds, detailed flash animations, and more.

As the ideas about what a website is and what it should, or could, do for a company have also evolved, designers have strived to streamline the process of developing websites and to make them more efficient and predictable. Because different browsers interpret code differently, it hasn’t always been easy to make more complex websites look the same (or even good in some cases) across browsers and systems. What used to work in the early days of the web was no longer working the way web designers wanted or needed it to.

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Choosing a Good Web Designer – What You Should Look Out For

Websites are funny things – to most it appears that the most important aspect of a website is how it looks and whether the menu system is easy to use. This is an incredible state of affairs we’ve gotten ourselves into because loads of people are wasting money on websites that absolutely don’t do anything for their business. Instead they let their own views get in the way of choosing a web design agency and instead of using sensible business reasons for spending their cash, they let emotion get in the way.

You see, the look of a website may not have anything to do with how it performs and whether it will actually make any money, no, the look of a website is secondary to everything – it’s whether that site can convert customers that is absolutely key.

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