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Designing A Website

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

usability

Usability is the most important aspect of web development. It's all very well with a nice looking dynamic web site, but if it takes a long time to download or is difficult to navigate, users will give up the visit of another. Users want to find the information they seek – if you do not find it quickly, we will see elsewhere.
Remember who you are the Web site for deployment. Do not sacrifice usability for design. Much of what you consider to be important if it is dependent in terms of ease of use to your audience and purpose of your website. If you think about usability before they commit to a new design project, and in the design in the development stages, it will also look good and be operable. Put your visitors first.
navigation

Navigation is the most important aspect of a website. It helps users find their way, and tells them where they are and where they go within the site. It provides a visual means for the detection of the hierarchy to find the information. Good navigation is often reflected good site structure.
Usually found in these forms:

navigation panel
location indicator device (breadcrumbs)
home button
links
html title
site map
search facility
the 404 (and other error pages)
graphics as navigation and/or links

navigation panel

Set of links on left hand side or top area of page
Best saved as a server side include
Can be text links or graphics
Should take up as little space as possible
Keep in a consistent form across the web site
Same place
If a change of color indicates a different section of the web site – make sure there are other means of indicating the change (see color blindness issues)

location indicator device (breadcrumbs)

Should be added to every page other than the home page
Near the top of the page
Shows the visitor where the page belongs – where they are in relation to the rest of the web site
Should be as concise as possible and follow the navigation structure of the site
Often as a small section of the site map
(e.g.) home > usability as on this page
Each preceding item needs to be a link
The last item should not be a link as it is the current page and provides an visual indication of this

home button

Not necessary on actual home page
A home button / company logo (link to home page) at the very top left
Should make sure there is a textual link to home on all pages for visitors who aren’t familiar with the logo being a link
The location indicator device (see above) provides a textual link to the home page

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links

All textual hyper links should be underlined
The visitor should not have to mouse over, or hover, on a link to realise it is a link – make it obvious

Provide plenty of textual links within the web site to allow the visitor to cross reference information
Try to provide these in stacked lists of links, rather than “hidden” within the text
Links within text can slow down reading flow, but this may be a good thing sometimes by highlighting particular words

Differentiate between internal links (links within the web site) and external links (links to other web sites)
If you are linking within the web site, simply link the appropriate text
If you are linking to an external web site, try to include the full web site address (e.g. http://www.othercompany.com/) in the text
This is so visitors know they are going to a different web site before they click on the link

Don’t make links open in a new window by using target=”_blank”
Visitors can get confused and/or irritated by this
Destroys the back button – a common means of back tracking

When linking to large files, such as .avi or .pdf
Provide a KB size in brackets next to the link so visitors know how large the file is before downloading it

Make sure visitors know when they have been to a link
Change the color from blue to red/purple, or a least make visited links a less saturated color than unvisited links

Back to the top of the HTML title of the HTML header to keep the current page in the browser's title bar displays the top to keep it for those who might bookmark site also see how it affects search engine some useful items
Sitemap is a separate page, a page map shows the hierarchical structure of the website with links to all relevant pages have a prominent link to the page from any page
search facility

Some users choose a search facility before using any other navigation feature
Other users will use a search facility as a last resort
Make sure your site has one
Put the search box in a prominant position on every page
Keep it as simple as possible
Don’t add extra choices for the user – can be confusing/time consuming

Make sure you know/adjust the relevancy of results
There are plenty of companies providing free service for smaller sites
http://www.atomz.com (used on this site) is free for sites less than 500 pages
Allows you to choose how relevant the page title, meta tags, body text etc are.

the 404 (and other error pages)

Use your error pages effectively
If you don’t they will probably leave your web site

Provide a custom error page for each type of error (404 page not found, 403 forbidden etc)
Visitors know they are on your web site
Provide the same site wide navigation as on your other pages
Utilize it for their benefit
Provide a brief description of your web site, why they have got this error and include a site map so they can navigate to something useful quickly

graphics as navigation and/or links

Be careful when using graphic/images as links or navigation
If the border=”0″ on the graphic tag, there may be no obvious way for the visitor to tell it is a link
If they don’t mouseover the graphic, they will not see the cursor change to a hand

Try and provide textual links to the same information as well as the graphic
If aesthetics are less important – keep the border=”1″ on graphics/images as links
See the information on image maps as navigation

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Finding A Great Way Out With Bad Credit Home Loan Refinancing

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

One of the most pressing problems facing most homeowners today to manage ballooning debt. The current financial crisis brought a lot of issues, including massive loss of jobs, raises and cuts in salaries and an increase in cost of living. Since most houses are mortgaged, fleeing from a possible partitioning of an element that has the highest priority in the checklist is. Bad credit home loan refinancing might be the solution that much needed assistance for distressed homeowners could.
Although sub-prime loans are getting to lose their flavor today, companies that do take in bad credit home loan refinancing still exist. Instead of the generous terms that existed before, these packages demand higher interest or higher closing fees. However, the Obama administration has lowered the interest rate set by the Feds so taking a bad credit home loan refinancing package could be a viable option. The terms of your package could be highly dependent on your credit score. There could be good news waiting if you have been a responsible debtor and have been paying your bills on schedule. If the only debt problem facing you is your home loan, then most likely your credit rating is could be relatively high. In this case, the bad credit home loan financing package that you might acquire could be free from pre-payment penalties. If you cannot avoid this type of penalty, try to look for a package that offers the lowest charges. To give you an idea of the ranges of pre-payment penalties that are being asked, there are packages that only require the equivalent of six months while there have been cases where two to three years of penalties are required.

When time is limited, One option is to hire the services of consultants are experts in mortgage processing. This person has a deep understanding of your work in the area of how financial companies. As well as a contact in his personal knowledge he might make a difference in saving your home with the family is homeless and out on the street very well
When you are finally able to secure a bad credit home loan refinancing, the benefits can be felt right away. The second loan used to refinance your housing loan can give you extra cash and at the same time easing your financial obligation. The fact does not change that you still owe some firm a lot of money but the terms of payments are much more manageable on your side.

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Can A Loan Modification Stop Your Foreclosure Process

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The current government has produced an interim aid plan to help troubled home owners. The plan, known as home affordability and stability plan (HASP) has allocated 75 billion U.S. dollars for financial institutions to troubled homeowners to avoid foreclosure. If you notice these difficult homeowners, but you are already in the middle of a foreclosure situation, you might ask yourself if you halt your foreclosure process by obtaining a loan modification stop.
It is possible to get a mortgage modification before the foreclosure on your home becomes final. However, you need to qualify for a mortgage modification while in the middle of foreclosure proceedings and the potential new terms of the modified loan need to be affordable to your financial situation. Every homeowner’s case is unique, as lenders evaluate the homeowner income and expenses when determining whether or not the homeowner qualifies for a loan modification. Contact your lender to find out if a loan modification while in the middle of foreclosure is an option for you.
If you're in the middle of a foreclosure, there to provide assistance to negotiate the fees charged by many organizations lending changes. You should be very careful in hiring such an organization, because normally the case, they only want to benefit from your pain. In the HASP has been allocated to provide incentives for lenders to enable them to help their mortgage holders to avoid redemption of the fund. This is your advantage of the mortgage banks to modify loans to help you. Thus, rather less likely to be required to pay a third party to develop your mortgage modification. These mortgages negotiating with extreme caution is essential.
That said, it is important to ensure that a foreclosure sale does not occur after you’ve obtained a mortgage modification. Do not automatically assume that because your loan was modified, the foreclosure process will simply stop. You must contact with your lending institution to ensure that steps were taken to halt the foreclosure on your home.
Loan modification is a viable option for many homeowners, but there are some traps to fall into homeowners in the application. Small errors in the application could be the reason you are rejecting your lender. The best way to combat this is by a loan modification do it yourself kit.
When there is one result of the two most popular kit in the kit 60-minute overview of Akira Osamu hardship loan professionals, and information on all major financial institutions of contacts, mortgage, subject to change, the more tips and tricks contains all you need. The kit is a must have housing difficulties.

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Home Based Business, So Easy……

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

So many people have the wrong idea when it comes to a home based business. They believe that only an elite few are really ever capable of being successful working from home. They believe that you have to be outgoing, business savvy, and have a ton of money to spare in order to build a successful and profitable business but this is just simply not the case.
Perhaps because I have seen the commercials for the popular insurance company claims, can be done to simplify the caveman. Well, the same home-based business in 2009 is true.
You may not be a caveman but even if you have very little experience working from home you can have success building a profitable and exciting business from home.
The reason I say that anyone can be successful working from home is that modern day marketing companies network their systems are so simple and streamlined that it is literally as easy as finding a company you like, involving proven system and to get the job.
In addition, almost everyone has a home computer and Internet access these days the market has never been so simple. Marketing network can not only save you money, mostly free, but it can also save time because you are now able to reach more people tons, more than you can offline in the real world.
In today's family-run basis, is established from the outset, a far cry from the old school, business a decade or two ago. So, if you do not have to spend time at home, everything seemed to be based on the business providing the last you should because you may just be surprised.
People from all walks of life we are all ages are enjoying the freedom to provide home-based business is all parts of the world. And start enjoying more success in your search for the right home-based business, more money more freely today.
A home based business is so easy a Caveman could do it!
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