The most effective means of advertising will often depend on company’s industry, business objectives and financial situation. Online companies may benefit more from Internet advertising since people can go directly to their websites. A television ad campaign will not be very feasible and effective if you do not have the necessary advertising budget. Similarly, reasons also vary for each advertiser for their business, product or services.
Why ALT text is important in web design?
User alternate text wherever we have pictures, icons, thumbnails which also helps in SEO and works as image placeholders. Alternatives text is used as a replacement for an image, whenever the image cannot be seen. This can happen, for example, when someone:
- uses a screen reader (e.g. a visually impaired person)
- uses a text-only browser (e.g. browsing from a mobile phone)
- uses a graphical browser with images turned off
- has not yet downloaded the image
- browses results from a Web search
- fails to download the image because of a network problem
- copies an extract from a Web page into a word processor.
How to use colors in web design?
- The human eye is attracted to color before black and white.
- Build the interface using black, white, and gray first, then add color only if you have a good reason to do so.
- Use either white, off-white, light gray, pale blue, or pale yellow for an application’s background, and use black for the text.
- Always use dark text on a light background because it is the easiest to read.
- Never use a dark color for the background or a light color for the text.
- Limit the number of colors (other than white, black, and gray) to three.
- Never use color as the only means of identification for an interface element.
Why any business needs website?
If you want to save time and money and want to open your business to new prospects and new opportunities, you need a website. Below are some basic reasons why website is necessary for any business.
Top 10 most important features for any business website
A website is way of communication with globally. If your website seems dated, your business would not be able to communicate with its target audience. Below are a top 10 most important features which every good website should have.
GUI guidelines for information presentation
- Organize the user interface so that the information flows either vertically or horizontally, with the most important information always located in the upper-left corner of the screen.
- Group related controls together using either white space or a frame.
- Place the most commonly used command button first.
- Assign meaningful captions to command buttons.
- Place the caption on one line and use from one to three words only.
- Command buttons in the interface should be sized relative to each other.
- If the command buttons are centered on the bottom of the screen, then each button should be the same height; there widths, however, may vary.
- If the command buttons are stacked in a corner, then each should be the same height and the same width.
Most important elements in web design
It is up-to designer how he perceives the layout, colors and elements which requires in-depth of experience in analytical skills of design which is called aesthetics. A designer himself has to see why the design is good and why the design is bad and when he overcomes this, he will see the difference in quality all the ways which will lead him! However, apart from this, below are some key elements that a web designer can consider while designing a layout.
16 web application GUI style guidelines
Most of the guidelines that are specified for Windows GUI applications can also be applied to Web based application’s User Interface. Web applications must try to keep it close to the windows applications or adhere to the UI Style guide.
How to add custom fields in Joomla CMS?
It is easy for every designer to apply design in Joomla CMS but at the same time if they need to add additional fields in the website, it is almost impossible for them due to lack of custom programming language.
FieldsAttach is the simple answer for it. It is very easy, simple and powerful to use. It is a component for all kind of objects like a article or a category. Designers can add input text, select, image, image gallery, YouTube video etc. Once these fields are added, it becomes data entry fields for them in Administrator interface.
5 reasons why one should use Joomla to build the website
There are many Content Management Systems available on the Internet and so sometimes it becomes difficult for one to choose the right one from it. Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online web applications. Ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular and best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone to create various kind of websites as below: (more…)