Webpage backgrounds may be divided into two broad categories:

•Plain colored

- These are achieved through the use of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) tags within your webpage coding. •Graphic. These are graphics which are designed to seamlessly “tile” into the background of a web page. They can be anything from a simple texture, too much more complex designs.

Music, like animated things on websites, will immediately catch a web visitor’s attention.

Things to CONSIDER:

•think about the primary function of your website •use a short selection and let it loop only once •choose a selection that will not blast the listener out of his/her seat when it comes on their computer speaker.

Music, like animated things on websites, will immediately catch a web visitor’s attention.

•Graphic

 These are graphics which are designed to seamlessly “tile” into the background of a web page. They can be anything from a simple texture, too much more complex designs.

Things to Consider:

•Color of text – Text can be very difficult to read if the colors are too close to each other. You may use different colors of text to help make it more readable. This was covered in the previous section on Text on The Web.
•Size of text. Small text can be very difficult to read on a contrast or “busy” background.
•The way that graphic buttons or banners tend to stand out from the background, or recede into it.
•The overall feeling that a particular background contributes to the page and it’s contents.

Too much design can also cause irritation to surfers.

Links Should Look Like Links

What are LINKS?

Use to navigate to another page, window, or Help topic; display a definition; initiate a command; or choose an option. A link is text or a graphic that indicates that it can be clicked, typically by being displayed using the visited or unvisited link color system.

Standard LINK colors:
> Underline Blue  - unvisited
> Red – active or hover
> Purple –  visited

Color Scheme

Different colors have different meaning and connotations. Choosing a good color scheme can make your websites more visually appealing. It should utilize just the right amount and variation of color to clearly express the purpose,the personality, and the meaning of your site.

White space

 Is the invisible glue that holds a communication piece together. A design element that allows other objects to exist.

Page Width

Having to scroll right to see all the text on the page is a symptoms of poor design, or lack of knowledge of standard display sizes.

Using Pop-ups

Pop-up ads or pop-ups are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to attract web traffic or capture email addresses. It works when certain web sites open a new web browser window to display advertisements.

Music/Noise

Music, like animated things on websites, will immediately catch a web visitor’s attention.

Things to CONSIDER:

•think about the primary function of your website

•use a short selection and let it loop only once

 •choose a selection that will not blast the listener out of his/her seat when it comes on their computer speaker. 

THings to Consider:

think about the primary function of your website

•use a short selection and let it loop only once •choose a selection that will not blast the listener out of his/her seat when it comes on their computer speaker.

 Frames

Advantages

•keep one part of the page static while changing another part

Disadvantages

•search engines don’t go past the first frame

 •viewers won’t be able to see the rest of your site

LOGO

 You need a unique business logo.

IMPORTANCE:

•  help aid in branding a product, service, and company. It does its part to help market a website, to make an impression on consumers, and to give visitors the sense that they are working with a truly professional company.
• it set your site apart and make it memorable
•  creates visitor loyalty as a result of the good impression received from excellent branding.

It is highly recommended that if you own your own website that proper branding be done through logos as your success could depend on it.

TAG Line/ Slogan

Develop a tagline or slogan for your site to place directly beneath your sire’s logo name. It’s another way to make your site more memorable.

The  slogan or tagline , is an essential part of your image. A good catch phrase, slogan or tagline attracts attention, makes a strong impression. This short, powerful statement can in fact be a powerful first impression a potential costumer may have or develop of your business.

Privacy Statement

To gain trust, reduce liability and good web site reputation you should give a space for a PRIVATE STATEMENT. It should explain what information is being collected by your site, how it’s being collected and safeguarded, how it will be use.

It is a legal binding document, an  explicit statement made on behalf of th  site owner to the site user.

Contact Information

If you want to look like a legitimate business don’t forget this link.

Make your underlying business address, phone number and email addresses readily accessible for your site visitors. Don’t hide this information, else you’ll stand a good chance to make visitors feel insecure.

About Us’ Page

People trust to someone they know that’s it is important introduce your company by providing a ABOUT US’ PAGE.

Graphic software a subclass of application software used for graphic design, multimedia development, specialized image development, general image editing, or simply to access graphic files. Art software uses either raster or vector graphic reading and editing methods to create, edit, and view art.

Pros and Cons:

It is easy to use at low-cost and easy to improve and to program. But the big disadvantages with this type of software is being free comes with hidden cost. In similar fashion, functionalities bring about bugs and usability issues.

 HTML Editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality.

Good thing with it:

• it is less costly
• you can avail it 30 day free trial without giving your contact info
• it gives guided tour every steps

HTML/ Graphic Combination Software

FEATURES:

• dreamweaver MX page design
• flash MX for animation and attractiveness
• fireworks MX for editing and optimizing graphics
• FreeHand 10
• full-feature vector image editor
• ColdFusion MX

Honesty is the best POLICY! right? But still there are few doing such thing even in online business. It is not 100 % guarantee that all websites in the internet are trustworthy there are some can lie for money. Not all says good things are good there are some just pretending.

Ways to know how reputable is a company:

Have a background investigation about the company

- The more knowledge you have the more easy for you to judge.

Learn To listen to feedbacks

- you can get true scenario about the company if the person you ask have no connection with the company at all. Because reputation is the opinion of the public toward a person, a group of people, or an organization.

See if the company is a member of any programs or organization you trust.

- You can easily trust to something if someone you know trusted it too. Search for sites that recommended by someone you know well.

Here some element you should consider in site planning:

Theme- state the purpose of your site at what field do it belong . Determine what it is that you wish to accomplish with the website.Taking the time to clearly define the purpose of the website will affect how successfully you reach the goals you set for the project.

Brainstoming- list all the ideas you want to include in your site, this are possible topics you may cover in your site.

Organize-  group related ideas together

Order- categories all related ideas in one main topic.

Label-  give a name for the certain main topic which best describe all the sub topics it has.

But you can also you choose from iPowerWeb, Host Rocket,and  Host4profit.

iPowerWeb  is a  eBusiness Website Hosting provider. Before it has a regular pay of  $ 7.95 now %5.95/month. It  also have some key features that give convenient to their costumers like you. Some of their feature you can avail with are unlimited disk space and bandwidth, host Unlimited Domains, offer  2500 e-mail accounts  Flexible site and store builders  FTP, FrontPage extensions, CGI, PHP, MySQL and more.

 You can visit their website at http://ipower.com.

HostRocket also a web hosting company that offer you a hosting cost of $5.99 per month with a 6 months free trial. It has also 4 billing plans that you can choose from. It also offer many features like:

Host4profit another web hosting site with a $24.95/month hosting price  quite expensive compare to $9.00 0r $5.00 of others but it do not offer you expensive upgrades later it gives you the full 800 MB package.

They offer you numerous features like:

As we see now a days, there are lots of web hosting service provider. Thats why choosing a good web hosting company  for  your website became so difficult today.

Here are some Key Feature you should consider.

•  storage – the space provided to store your web pages, any graphic or audiovisual content you may use on those pages, any files that are available for downloading by visitors and also any space that you may use for emails.  In other word you should consider the amount of  DISK SPACE the web hosting company can give you.  Now there’re many hosting providers announce to offer unlimited disk space, before you select web hosting, you should check whether it’s true.
• Transfer – consider the amount of data transfer allowed  in the web hosting company. It should have sufficient amount for the possible data transfer you well have in the future.
• WebStat- Choose a web hosting company that offer you an access to your web site statistics and log files. So that you can monitor the security and speed of you site.
• Hosting price- one thing you should consider is the cost,  not all with higher cost offer good services. Make sure you find a web hosting company that can offer you  good services and also with a  good cost.
• Control Panel- you should check whether the hosting company offer enough permissions to their client, it should manage through an easy-to-use administrative interface.
• Email Services- It looks more professional and official and helps you to stay in touch with your visitors if you.  Investigate the email services provided by your hosting company. Check whether they support POP3 or IMAP4 or only offer web mail and offer Hosted Exchange or Business-Grade email. Make sure they have all the features you’re looking for in an email host.

The KEY ELEMENT here is to INVESTIGATE first!

Ways to a product or services:

VISIT THE MERCHANT

- Know every single details about the merchant. Find answer with this following question; were the products easy to find? How easily navigable was the website? Do the links work? What about the products guarantee – does it promote confidence in the product? Is it clearly stated? After you get some answers with all those  question it is now the time to ask your self; did the product and the company’s services match your expectations? If the answer is no, then you’ll find that if you were not impressed with the website, neither will other surfers.

 TEST IT YOURSELF

- You can easily promote  products if you, yourself tested it. You can easily convince customers if  you share them some of your personal experiences about the product.

KNOW THE AMOUNT OF COMMISSION PAID

- Know if the merchant offer you a commission and how much. It is important that you take a look at these as they will directly affect you as an affiliate in the commissions you can generate.

COMPARE PRODUCTS

-  Niche  got hundreds of products all trying to catch for your attention. The question is which do you pick? The last thing you want to do is pick a product that is inferior to others within its market niche.

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