How RIAs Can Increase Your Website’s ROI
When properly conceived, architected, and executed - RIAs can engage your users, build your brand, and drive your technology ROI.
RIAs, or Rich Internet Applications, are applications which move traditional desktop functionality onto the web. A great example of this is Gmail, the Google email client which is entirely web-based. Instead of accessing a desktop client such as Outlook, you log into a web site and get a similar experience.
At the heart of an RIA is the user experience (UX). The traditional web paradigm was to present static pages of text with a series of links or buttons. Users would click on things and wait for a new page to load while their transaction was taking place somewhere behind a web server.
This paradigm still holds for web navigation, but for interaction with a single web application, page-loads are a no-go. Technologies like Ajax, Adobe Flex, and Microsoft Silverlight can build the user interface in the browser, handle user interactions, and allow for communication with the server without reloading the page.
Ideally, users will experience near instantaneous interaction (like with most desktop software). In fact research has shown that web users are growing less patient, and expect a greater perception of performance with the web sites they use.
If you are doing business on the web, it is in your best interest to evaluate how RIA technology can help you keep your competitive edge. Your customers will be expecting it.
With RIA technology properly applied your business can:
-Create a more engaging experience for your customers - building a larger and more active customer base
-Add stickiness to your site - keeping customers from going to your competition
-Build your brand - adding bankable value to your most important asset
-Use and re-use web services - getting a higher return on your technology investment
-Add new features to your web site - turning your site into larger profit center
This is not to say that you should try to build your own version of Gmail. A prudent way to begin is to look at the way your users interact (or want to interact) with your web site. Find ways to add that perception of instantaneous action. You can iteratively add functionality to your web site while keeping a sharp eye on usability.
Let’s say, for example, that you have an ecommerce web site where people can check their orders. They navigate to an orders page where they are shown a list of order numbers and dates that are hyperlinked to an order details page. What if clicking on that link dropped open a box underneath that order that contained the detail info? The user doesn’t have to navigate away, and can check each order from that one page. This is one small example of the interactivity and user experience that RIA technology can provide.
John Moore is a Web 2.0 expert who creates Rich Internet Applications. He has created the web’s first RIA community at http://www.riaspot.com
Network Security -It Takes a Village
Securing the world’s largest temporary network takes a variety of vendors working together.
For three days, InteropNet is one of the largest hacking targets on the planet. Attacks and threats come from both inside and outside the network. While the external attacks are certainly more malicious in intent, most of the internal ones ended up being due to misconfiguration or just plain misunderstanding.
To understand the problems associated with this type of setup, please view the following:
1.Video streaming devices flooded the network with millions of multicast packets per second. EM7 noticed a big bump in latency on that network segment at the same time that the Enterasys Dragon IDS caught the flood of packets. Both tools could tell the origin of the packets and traced them back to misconfigured video multicast devices. In this case Not Malicious, but the result was still degradation to that network segment until the problem was fixed.
2.One vendor at the show purposely scanned all other devices on the show network to model them in their product demos. They didn’t ask anyone’s permission (or at least they didn’t ask ours). They purposely used multiple community strings to see if any would work. Personally I don’t think they meant it to be malicious, but as a monitoring tool in this space, they should have known that doing all that scanning would actually degrade network and other vendors’ device performance. I wonder if this is the vendor that was telling people that it does this at every show, and this is the first time it’s been caught.
Connect the Vendors
Enterasys took care of external attacks by identifying them and asking Qwest to block them. But it’s with the internal “devices behaving badly”, that the real fun began. It took a combination of vendors to identify, confirm and track down the offenders on the network.
First Enterasys Dragon IDS alerted on suspicious behaviors. Dragon identified what IP, MAC address or port on a switch was having the issue - which information was cross-checked against vendor registry info in EM7 to track down offenders to a booth, a room or a wireless access point in the facility. Splunk was also used to look at logs and verify the source of bad behavior.
For tracking down wireless misbehavior, Aruba Networks had a cool tool that took the info from Dragon and EM7 and used it to literally triangulate the location (down to a laptop).
Before the show started, we tested our security process by sending people out with laptops and finding them, gps-style, whether they were walking around or hiding under a desk.
Overall, I think the real-life multi-vendor network security solutions I’ve described here are great examples of why interoperability is so important and why InteropNet was such a great experience.
Louis DiMeglio is in charge of all pre and post-sale customer engineering engagements at ScienceLogic, a provider of virtualization management and monitoring solutions. Louis has nearly fifteen years of experience in IT and over seven in IT and Network Management . Louis’ expertise lies in connecting the business needs of an organization to the IT delivery organization.
What To Know About Buying Networking Supplies
When buying network supplies, one must take into consideration the quality of the products and its longevity. These are a very important element to computing and keeping your IT system running. In the event of your supplies depleting after a prolonged amount of usage, you should always have a backup plan with your networking systems. Networking supplies can include things like connectors, LAN testers, crimp tools, data/server racks, LAN cables, RJ45 adaptors, fibre optic leads and patch panels. All of these items can wear away and lose its optimum functionality after a long period.
Finding the best quality network supplies can take plenty of time; this can very often confuse people as to deciding which suppliers to approach. Many suppliers online say they offer the best quality and reasonably priced products. The best thing to do is to approach the suppliers that have a good reputation for the supplies and have proven track record of selling good quality products. To do this you can research on the internet, read up forum posts from people who have had direct contact with these suppliers and compare prices from the selected suppliers.
Always look for a guarantee or warranty, as unpredictable situations will arise and it is best to be prepared to take back your products if it is necessary. If you do not have a guarantee for your product, you can always approach your suppliers and discuss a possible exchange or discount on your next purchase order. You want these products to be tried, tested and trusted. Often buying network supplies will mean that you will not know how well they function after a long period, as different supplies have a different functionality.
Some of the network supplies may take up plenty of floor space; if this is an issue then some of the accessories such as the essential server racks and cabinets, are good to save floor space and prevent cables from being stretched across the room. This continues to be a mounting problem for many people; therefore, extra accessories such as cable clips and ties are good to maintain a neat and tidy system. Patch leads are also good for keeping things looking presentable and are also very popular as they are affordable to buy off the internet.
Using the network supplies is good for making sure that you have access to your IT system as and when you need it. Many people find that this is a necessary tool for offices and in their daily working life. You can take a glimpse at how each of these network supplies work, through looking at specific supplier websites and reading up on the various product reviews. This will ensure you make the right choice on the product you want, however, if you really are stuck for what to get, then you should approach someone with more experience or speak to someone directly at the suppliers.
Anna Stenning is an expert on network supplies as she has had to pre order many products for the computer systems at work.
How To Counteract Bad News
The saying that all publicity is good publicity is not strictly true. If a celebrity constantly has bad press, this will eventually have a negative effect on their reputation and the way they are perceived by the public. Everybody is allowed to make mistakes and most people understand that any mistake a celebrity makes will be magnified tenfold through the press. This does put a certain responsibility on them to behave in a certain way and many of them do but with the spotlight of the world’s paparazzi constantly on them, impeccable behaviour is bound to slip occasionally. And why shouldn’t they? They are only human after all.
However, when one of us minions slips up and has a drunken brawl in the street no-one takes a great deal of notice and we can still turn up to work the next day and earn the same amount of money - albeit a little sheepishly. It’s a little different for those who people expect to see setting an example and continuous bad press can have disastrous effects on a career.
So, what can they do to counteract it? Given that a vast majority of the population will read the news online, particularly the people that matter, the celebrity’s agents can contact a search engine optimization company and enlist their help for reputation protection. Online reports can be managed in such a way as to stop the bad news showing up first when a Google search is carried out on that particular person.
The mainstream users of search engines will rarely read past the first page and this is why search engine optimisation is such big business - everyone wants to be on page one for their key terms in order to generate the maximum amount of business from their website. So, in order to minimise the ill effects of bad publicity, high profile people will use search engine optimisation for reputation protection.
A thorough understanding of search engines and the way they work is crucial to managing an online reputation effectively. Software is available to try and cover it but each individual will need bespoke handling and software simply doesn’t cover it. Software is useful for tracking the bad publicity but cannot do anything about where it appears in a search engine.
The saying that bad news travels fast is true. So, thanks to all the social networking sites and blogs that are now online, any bad news is quickly replicated and finds its way to the top of the search engine. Search engines love blogs because they are mostly text based and the information is relatively fresh most of the time so will spider them regularly.
A search engine optimisation company worth its money will show tact and discretion in counteracting the bad news with good news. The news will be optimised into a fashion that understands how search engines work and works within these boundaries. It’s never going to be possible to take the bad news out but if you counteract it with enough good news that is search engine friendly then you can at least push the bad news back a page or two. As we have already established, most people only look at the first page of a search engine which means the chances of them seeing the bad news will be limited.
SEO expert Catherine Harvey looks at the way search engine optimisation can protect a reputation.
IT Basics for an Evolving Company
Information Technology, also known as IT, has become a widely-used and all-encompassing term for computer systems that are designed to store, analyze, organize and acquire useful information. When used correctly, IT can be a very useful tool in the business world. The trick is to find IT that makes business simpler rather than more complicated. The following article outlines several criteria you should look for in IT products and the companies that sell those products. If they meet these standards, you will have a much better chance of being satisfied with your investment.
Business Savvy Professionals
Many IT businesses are experts in their field, but completely inexperienced in business. Unless you have the time to earn your own degree in IT you need them to be experts in their field and products, but additional business expertise is helpful because it allows them to evaluate your business needs. Unless they understand what you do, how you do it and why you do it, matching up the best IT solutions with your needs will be a difficult task. With the right business knowledge, an IT company can create a customized IT system to meet your needs.
Simple Technology
Bells and whistles can be cool on a car or a T.V., but IT systems are designed for efficiency; not show. The easier it is to use your system, the easier it will be to train new employees and incorporate the technology into your daily business activity. Keep it simple and you will avoid a lot of headaches.
Excellent Customer Support
Good customer support with IT systems goes beyond installing the system and teaching you how to use it. If your business is going to depend on that technology, you need to be able to depend on the IT company that sold it to you for continual service. With so many complex programs being designed every year, occasional bugs are bound to crop up every once in awhile. If a bug knocks out your IT, you will need repairs and other service as fast as possible to get on track again. Checking outside sources is usually the most reliable way to judge a company’s customer service. These sources can be anything from customer referrals and testimonials to consumer reports on their products.
You might not understand how to build IT systems yourself after reading this article, but at least you have some guidelines to follow as you shop for the right technology.
The Revere Group (http://www.reveregroup.com/services/enterprise-platforms.aspx) is an experienced consulting company that specializes in IT solutions. If you are interested in their services, they have several offices across the country and an extensive website. The author, Art Gib, is a freelance writer.
Top 10 Questions to Ask Your IT Outsourcing Services Provider
For organizations looking to simplify their IT operations, outsourcing can be a tremendous help. Having one provider, one network, one point of contact, and one level of expected quality can be a tremendous boon to the organization’s productivity and bottom line.
Why Outsource?
Outsourcing allows your organization to focus your existing IT staff on core, strategic initiatives. It also allows you to tap into the select specialized skills of external resources that would not be cost justified for you to build internally. The ability to work with outsourcing partners that have deep technical know-how reduces risks, increases your IT department’s contribution, and greatly improves organizational security and control.
By selecting the right partner, your organization can:
-Ensure IT reliability and continuity.
-Make IT costs predictable.
-Experience significant cost savings by not having to chase the latest technological trends or operate second and third shifts.
-Concentrate scarce resources on mission-critical projects, focus on strategic planning while reducing management burden, and increase customer satisfaction by providing extra services - all can be done when your staff is freed up through outsourcing.
-Leverage the provider’s relationships with other technical product and service providers.
The Questions
The key to receiving the full benefits of outsourcing is singularly dependent on selecting the right service provider. First and foremost, you are looking for a firm that will treat you as a partner and has the flexibility to put a support solution in place that is customized for your organization.
Beyond this critical factor, there are 10 key questions to ask a prospective service provider. They are:
1. Does your firm background check, criminal check, drug screen, IQ test, and technical test all your candidates?
2. Does your firm provide only a proven (have previously worked successfully in another area of the business) people for its full-time on-site positions?
3. Does your firm provide trained backups in instances where the full-time person is unavailable due to illness, emergency, or other?
4. Does your firm provide technical support to your full-time on-site personnel so they don’t spend hours working on a specific problem?
5. Will your firm save me tens of thousands of dollars per year on IT projects by being able to provide only the requisite subject matter expertise to your on-site teams?
6. Does your firm to have the ability to provide 24 X 7 X 365 network monitoring and management as well as after hours response?
7. Does your firm have significant numbers of additional technical personnel that can be brought in for projects, subject matter expertise, or emergency?
8. Does your firm have a vast network of manufacturer and industry contacts that can be leveraged when necessary?
9. Does your firm have the ability to provide product procurement, warranty, and parts logistics services?
10. Does your firm have dedicated Service Delivery managers that oversee your solution, the SLA’s, and your full-time on-site personnel?
If you’re not satisfied with the answers, keep looking. The right partner is out there.
George Louris is the Director of Support Services for Custom Computer Specialists, Inc. (http://www.customonline.com), a Long Island, NY-based technology solutions provider that specializes in reducing IT complexity and the true cost of IT for clients.Reach him at glouris@customonline.com.
What Makes A Jobs Script Successful
As we prepare to enter a new generation of employment, it’s hard to argue against the fact that a highly active jobs script significantly contributes to the economy. A jobs script is just a tool - but the opportunities it provides to almost anyone these days proves how its potential for financial success confirms current applications. Recent news reports indicate that our current economy is headed for danger and the latest real estate woes certainly do little to sway analysts predictions. However the jobs scripts industry is booming. In fact it’s booming so much so that Congress has raised interest in initiating Internet taxes (yet) again.
What’s behind the growing number of opportunities behind the jobs script? The success of a highly active jobs script is clearly its community. A successful jobs script — that is a jobs script that flourishes with daily activity and transactions — is one that encourages communication above expectations found even in offline employment services.
In reviewing some of the more successful job scripts already in existence, we’ve discovered that their administrators place utmost importance on freelancer-client communication daily. At first impression, one could easily believe that communication takes precedence over other responsibilities although this certainly isn’t the case. It’s just that the effects of constant communication offer members the sense of security they need to feel confident about their choices.
To understand this principle, we can look at the following example: Let’s say that a client assigns a job to a freelancer within a 20-day deadline. As long as the chosen freelancer informs the client of the job’s progress every three to four days, the client will feel assured that work is progressing as planned - or determine whether to make other accommodations. This simple communication contributes to the respect one would normally expect in offline, professional work environments. However online, it trickles onto other aspects that further contribute to a jobs script’s success.
A jobs script built to foster and then disperse respect only enforces the integrity that enable business environments to thrive. When freelancers and clients respect each other, both productivity and available work increase. Clients will want to continue using a jobs script whose freelancers respect the needs of their clients, and freelancers will want to continue using a jobs script whose clients appreciate the efforts of their freelancers.
The entire experience is made up of the blending of several key attitudes and goals - both which benefit the jobs script administrator, freelancer, and client. For in the midst of the entire experience births recommendations, glowing referrals, and of course, repeat business. Interestingly, these events tend spill outside of the jobs script environment onto other areas, which only further benefit all.
The highly successful jobs script will be recommended in offline circles, such as brick and mortar office environments, or online in private discussion groups, chatrooms, and Usenet newsgroups. Good support of an employment community it appears, cultivates its own growth and success. And at the base of this community is constant communication.
But this communication doesn’t need to occur from within an exclusive freelancer-client relationship. Occasional newsletters and personal emails from a jobs script’s administrator fosters good (i.e. stable) community relationships as well. On one hand, administrator communication grants access to things like system improvement ideas while on the other hand, it cultivates a sense of responsibility and genuine care about how the jobs script is accommodating business needs.
Our ability to understand the successful potential of a jobs script of course is manifested in its community - not just in size, but in the quality of the communication in the community that takes place. Questions should always be answered in a timely manner - suggestions should always be sought - and problems should always be corrected. Only then will a jobs script prevail in the eyes of its own members and in the eyes of those who have yet to learn more about it.
Some individuals are now only beginning to examine and investigate how the average jobs script has such a direct effect in the business world - online and offline. However for good examples of how a sense of strong community builds jobs script success, peruse the boards of Rentacoder, Elance, ScriptLance, GetACoder, and HotGigs. These websites exemplify the trickle-down effect of fostering strong and professional relationships within an online employment environment, and although each differs from another, they put their freelancers and clients in the unique position to succeed.
Let us not ever forget that community also lends to a jobs script’s stability - another key determinant of success. The above example jobs scripts have been up and running online for at least three years - and in some cases more.
Ron McNeil promotes job site software that allows you to run your own jobs script site powered by WebScribble software located at http://www.webscribble.com/products/webjobs/
Generating New Ideas For A Productive Job Script
Efforts to differentiate a job script from the myriad of others already in existence are never in vain. But these efforts aren’t always easy to make. At one extreme, the characteristics of a standard job script contribute to a welcomed stable working environment - however clientele may not feel comfortable leaving a job software that’s working just fine simply to try one that’s no different. At the other extreme, a job script that’s wildly different from the norm has the propensity to alienate itself from the industry altogether.
At some point, there has to be a happy medium in which a job software can attract and keep new clientele without scaring anyone away. The following offers a few suggestions you can use to keep your job script exciting and productive at the same time.
1. Lead a clientele directed job software. Let your clientele develop the job script’s user agreement or establish effective communication methods. The idea here is to let both the freelancers and clients that use your job script shape their own online employment experience. In doing so, you will generate a tremendous amount of goodwill - however this suggestion does not come without warning. You must lead a clientele directed job software within reason. Nothing you allow your clientele to do should interfere with governing laws. Nor should they disrupt the reputation that you’re trying to build.
2. Enforce a global pay rate on your job script. Our different currency rates give some freelancers and clients a financial advantage over one another simply because of the location in which they live. For example, the fees that a freelancer in India may charge may be significantly lower than the fees that a freelancer in North America may charge. To discourage disgruntled American workers from labeling your job script environment as a breeding ground for slave labor, enforce the first international pay scale that appropriates fees within a reasonable pay scale.
3. Set up and hold annual conventions for the people who use your job software. One of the best ways to instill the value of community is by hosting conventions for the people that have made your job script a success. A convention needn’t be terribly expensive since there are certainly alternative, less-expensive ways to meet people. One such way is through an online convention - complete with video, speech, and chatrooms. Another way to physically get your clientele together is to meet at a sports event or at a low-cost luncheon.
4. Configure your job software so that it doesn’t include weekends or holidays as workdays. Offline, very few people work on the weekend or holidays and chances are, job script administrators don’t work on theses days either. So why include them inside the time span in which a project or job is to end? Both freelancers and clients welcome weekend and holiday breaks, so by automating them into your script, you’ll yet again, break from the norm and create goodwill among your users at the same time
5. Send out monthly or bi-monthly surveys to your job software users and ask for feedback, suggestions, criticisms, and questions. By requesting ideas and suggestions for improvements, you’ll show that you care about how well your job script is reaching its goals and satisfying the needs of your users at the same time.
6. Select a charity each month and dedicate a portion of the income your job software generates toward that charity. Another way to instill community is to band together toward a cause. By making a regular contribution to a charity of your choice (or of your clientele’s choice), you can generate a sense of family among your users and help improve the environment or society all at once.
7. Feature a “Freelancer” or “Client of the Month” section on your job script. Sooner or later, your users are going to get curious about each other and a special section dedicated to spotlighting one individual out of many is an appropriate way to satisfy that curiosity. Featured users could submit their own personal stories and with an accompanying photograph while the whole gang gets to know who uses your job software on a personal level, one-by-one.
8. Display industry news as part of your job script. A little more difficult to implement than the above suggestions, this idea has the potential of providing direction to your existing user base, or - validating the intentions of those whom may be questioning their choices. When your clients see actual news stories about the industry that they’re working right from the very job software that they use every day, they can get a good idea of how their efforts contribute to its development.
Ron McNeil promotes job software that allows you to run your own job script site powered by WebScribble software located at http://www.webscribble.com/products/webjobs/
The Importance Of Reinforcing Legalities Surrounding Job Software
As we enter a new age of communicating and working online, we’re faced with new challenges that require more protections than what we’ve been presented with offline. Although some aspects of these online challenges are analogous to the offline environment, there are a significant number of issues that are specific to Internet networking - in particular, job software.
This is a truly interesting aspect of the working environment especially when we’re faced with a set of legal procedures already put into place. Legal documents that typically accompany sub-contracted job offline are somewhat applicable to a job software system, however at the same time, they aren’t completely appropriate. The nature of the Internet just doesn’t allow us to apply the same procedures and conditions pertinent of the brick and mortar employment office to the dynamic character of an online job software system.
So instead of blindly following what has been set before us in the past, we must quickly adopt current (although changing) practices of ethics and we must adhere to and reinforce them in an effort to validate them. Only when we do so can we create an Internet-based atmosphere that is lucrative for all parties involved.
Having said that, we need to consider requirements. We need to consider what is required to create an atmosphere that reinforces the values we expect offline and online. As mentioned earlier, the offline contract model alone is not sufficient. It simply doesn’t make appropriate adjustments for things like email, Internet connections, or viruses. Nor is Internet terminology addressed in offline agreements. Without taking these things into account, we can mistakenly assume that offline laws are adequate to protect our investments.
Because these considerations need to protect a job software system’s clientele and the system administrator at the same time, they need to be carefully crafted in such a way that the system fosters confidence. That is - confidence that private information won’t be divulged or accessed by strangers, confidence that clientele computers will be protected from viruses, and of course, confidence that disputes will be handled in a way that they are reinforced in any court of law.
As it currently stands, most job software systems have success with reinforcing legalities via terms of service agreements, privacy policies, and sensitive material policies. In these materials, emphasis is on protecting all parties from things like copyright violations, warranties, defamatory content, and viruses. While these protections are typical, they may not be enough to protect a job software system from unforeseen events.
In all the discussions of malicious Internet activity, purposely-malevolent acts must be addressed in any agreement, and they must be met with legal repercussions if a job software system is to recover and maintain a reputation of integrity. Because the clientele that accesses your job software system will expect legal reinforcements, conditions or terms need to be clearly defined and accessible not only by your users, but also by the legal representatives that will help you in times of crisis.
Therefore terms of service agreements, privacy policies, and sensitive material policies should be within reach from every part of a job software system, and they must be written in a manner that does not cause confusion or create loopholes. Users must also agree to the conditions inside these types of agreements before they are even allowed to access the system. Every once in a while, the way that an agreement statement is written or presented is intentionally misinterpreted for the benefit of a hacker or simply someone who does not wish to comply with “the rules.”
To reinforce responsibility, the agreement terms of a job software system cannot be open to interpretation. The terms of such agreements must permeate every conceivable situation we’ve encountered in the history of Internet crime thus far and they must comply with the laws of a governing state. Since there is no “international” state or “international” law to date, the governing state is usually the state in which the job software system administrator conducts business.
All of this by far is a very broad introduction to the complexities involved in setting up a legal job software system and there are certainly more specific issues that each system must address. As we continue to build a global network that evolves, it’s just goes to show you that while the world wide web is prone to illegal activity, it’s still possible and reasonable to expect legal protection for job software systems once the proper tools are put into place.
Ron McNeil promotes job software that allows you to run your own job board software site powered by WebScribble software located at http://www.webscribble.com/products/webjobs/
Very Important Rules of Any Website Design
Designing a website, though quite simple to some, requires the designers and the planners to combine thoughts of what message you are trying to project. Below are a few rules that I suggest for a good quality web development plan.
1.Navigation
The single most important part of the website where more people falter is the navigation factor. The ease of navigation in your website can set you apart from your competition. The idea is simple, the easier it is for the user to browse through your website, the more pages he or she is going to end up reading and this could result in more profits for you depending upon your business model. The idea is to carefully plan your entire website before you start to actually design it. I do this with a paper and pencil. Thinking through about the various pages and the way they would be interlinked helps a lot to an easy navigational system on your website. Search engines love html(text) navigational systems; as it gives them an easier path to follow on your website.
2.Readability
You must have at some point of time encountered a website that had a, what I call eye-unfriendly color scheme. Some website owners think this will attract visitors where it does the exact opposite. Most of the times you would end up closing the eye unfriendly website without even bothering to see what the content is. So, it is again very important to make designs that don’t hurt the eye. Your website represents who you and your company are. You need to choose the colors carefully keeping in mind that the entire website must have readable text and your message must be clear within each page.
3.Screen Real Estate
The golden rule is the “Content is the King” rule. If you give a good deal of your real estate to your content you are attracting more people. You should plan how you will divide the space amongst your content, advertisement, graphics and navigation menus. Compare your layout from other new websites that have attracted you. An easy layout makes it easier for your web page to be read, don”t bunch up a lot of text in one area as visitors wont even read it. Make your body paragraphs short and to the point. Your message will be read lot more in small sections rather than one big huge text block.
4.Quick Loading Web Pages
How quickly your page loads is a very key parameter for the users to like or dislike your website. We have all clicked off a website when it does not load instantly, the web is to big to wait for some websites to load, I personally think next and press the back button. I am proudly guilty of this action myself. So make sure you have limited flash and smaller images on your website. Huge flash or images will up your load time drastically. So keep it simple!
5.Compatibility
Any discussion on a good website design will not be complete without the mention of the websites compatibilities. A good designer will always test the website in multiple browsers and in multiple resolutions. It is good to plan a layout which is compatible on all the browsers and looks alright on various resolutions and nowadays also the hand held devices. Planners may however also want to consider a target group of audience and then plan the best possible layout for them and have alternatives for the others. Make sure everyone can see your website efficiently!
Creatively yours,
Todd Herman, Senior Vice President
GlobalWebsiteCreations.com
President
GlobalWebsiteCreating.com
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