budget web design

Add Social Media Buttons To Your Website

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:48:15 +0800

A very easy way for your website to gain exposure is through adding social media buttons to your website. Social media buttons are buttons that helps your site be promoted to social networks such as google plus one, facebook and twitter. If you are already a member of any of these sites, you probably have a lot of friends in and you can promote your website to all your friends in facebook, google etc. through the media buttons. Likewise, anyone who activates these social media buttons, will also…

Make Money From Your Website

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:49:12 +0800

One of the most rewarding thing about owning a website is the potential of earning some cash with your website. Here are some ideas on how you can make a buck or two with your website. Provide Services Services can provide you with a lot of income if you promote yourself well. If you don't provide services yet, you should ask yourself, and just as important ask people what you are good at and what skills and talents you have that others will find useful. A good way to single out what you are…

Best Free Design Software

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:47:09 +0800

When the time comes, and you want to create your own web design, you can be happy to know that the software you need can be gotten at a very attractive price - free! The first thing you will need is a web design software you can use for your website layout. The perfect free software for this job is... Inkscape When it comes to creating your layouts, and even some graphic manipulation, inkscape is one of the best in the business. Although it is a free software, many users believe that it is just…

Using Free Website Templates

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:02:02 +0800

The deal with website templates Serious individuals will want to have their websites designed by a professional website designer, but for students on a budget, a web designer will cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and that is not including the coding and hosting costs. I will tell you how to own websites which wil lcost you nothing in development and design fees yet have something that looks nice to look at. The cheapest way to own a website outside free blog services such as bloggers, would…

More AMD Bulldozer Boards To Think About

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:39:07 +0800

Last time I wrote about thinking of upgrading to an AMD bulldozer ready motherboard, the asrock 970 Extreme4, for one of my older computers. While my old AM2+ motherboard and AM3 cpu is a bit old by now, an upgrade to an AM3+ board which now seems inevitable feels quite a bit of a minor upgrade considering how cheap the board is but at the same time I am getting an "advance" on components for the inevitable upgrade that technology has cursed us consumers. But when the time comes, we all…

Your relationship with professional website designers

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:54:30 +0800

I was in a private little conference with a group of friends, mostly professional website designers, a couple of weeks ago and the topic came up about client problems, problem clients and why some clients are more difficult than others to work with. In out little get together, I came to two conclusions. One is that most clients that are difficult to work with will often find the website designer hard to work with as well. And the next conclusion is that not all difficult clients are difficult for…

Thinking of the AMD Bulldozer Upgrade Path

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:54:22 +0800

It has been a while since I have updated one of my personal computers at home. I don't usually do a lot of heavy stuff anymore such as games, rendering, and compiling entire linux distributions. However I do a lot of virtualizations and I use processor intensive applications such as Inkscape for time to time. Anybody who uses inkscape or Virtualbox knows that running one or two instances of any of these applications will have a significant hit to one's computer resources. Even on 8GB of…

Why Your Web Hosting Provider Matters.

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:17:47 +0800

As mentioned earlier, I have moved to a better hosting provider and I am currently loving it. For the price you pay, the features are well worth it. Before I go on and elaborate on Webfaction's features, I would like to let you guys know the events that led me to this move. The reason for moving to webfaction was my disdain towards the limitation of my older (crappy) web hosting provider who promised me python scripting, fast-cgi capability and even provided me with SSH connectivity which…

Moved to a new web server.

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:32:55 +0800

I now moved to a new web server. Everything should be running great again! Currently, I have a lot of design projects for 2011. One of which will be designsomniac, a web "design-only" service that will be build using as little scripting as possible and would rely on pure design and layout skills to work. I have several mock-ups of the team. Based on these mockups, we will pick what works on each and what does not to formulate something unique and eye catching as well!

Making Sound Designs

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:41:11 +0800

Creating new designs, be it on a website or any vocation that needs artistic skills, calls for an exercise in creativity. While it is possible to create designs spontaneously, it is good for an artist to know that designs can be created systematically through a few proven design sources. Many, if not the majority of web artists create their design by playing with colors, gradients and special effects that photo editors often provide. What lacks in the web-scape is what is the usage of and a…

4 situations when not to use javascript

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:51:47 +0800

JavaScript is an awesome technology that many web designers and developers have used through out the years to create wonderful, interactive, and attractive websites. While I would be first to admit that JavaScript is very important when designing web pages that require functionality that HTML just simply cannot provide, there are too many web design related professionals (such as programmers) who have overused the technology in websites. While the existence of JavaScript is a good thing, always…

Is your web designer capable?

Sat, 29 May 2010 05:48:13 +0800

In the advent of free internet trade, a lot of people from web developers to the non-techie-would-be website owners will, at one point in their career, hire a web designer to make websites or help out in making the website of their valued clients. Websites such as project bidding portals where freelancers will offer their lowest bids on a posted project has been a popular source of cheap freelancers as well as classified ads and forums. There have been a lot of capable programmers in…

Never compromise expertise

Thu, 27 May 2010 05:54:29 +0800

Before anything else, I would like to bring forth a fact that most clients seem to fail to grasp when taking thier first website project - creating good websites are more complicated than it seems. Building a great website requires experties in several areas, including graphics, layout design, and HTML programming. Usually, when you approach a good web design company, they will build the team for you. On the other hand, you can also get one guy to do all of these things, but do not expect to…

Future of the internet (humor)

Wed, 26 May 2010 07:20:56 +0800

(Notice: This article is intended as humor and should be taken purely for entertainment value) A small group of programmers and internet experts have created a program that looks into different articles all around the internet to analyze words and predict the future from it. Something sort of a bible code, but it is powered by mostly tweets rather than verses and blogs rather than books. Anyway, we got to play around with this technology and we have found some very interesting things that will happen…

Kompozer web authoring software

Mon, 24 May 2010 08:39:02 +0800

Kompozer WYSIWYG : Introduction For a while now, web developers advocates have no choice but to use commercial WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors. There are no free (as in free speech) WYSIWYG software that the budget conscious web developer can use. That is until NVU, pronounced as new view, came into play. There was a lot of buzz and hoopla going on about what seems to be a promising project. But eventually, the main developers have given up the project and moved on to better things.…

Two types of website design experts

Fri, 21 May 2010 16:05:44 +0800

In the world of website design, there are two types of experts - those who are expert in tools and those who are experts in the craft. At first, there may seem to be little to aesthetically distinguish each other's quality of work, but there is a big difference between these two professionals. This article will try to explain the differences between an expert in tools and an expert in the craft. What is an (website artist) expert anyway? A true expert is someone who knows what they do and…

Why Budget Websites?

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:14:21 +0800

A lot of would-be-website-owners will usually have their websites pre-visualized. They will have a lot of expectations in their heads on how these websites would look like, how it would function and what features it should contain. It is very easy to go overboard in the visualization process of creating websites within budget. Usually, new would-be-website owners would like to have their new websites' features and sometimes even looks, based on existing websites that…

Where to get budget pictures for you website?

Tue, 18 May 2010 03:40:44 +0800

One of the problems facing web-developers today is getting good photos for their website projects. A popular option is purchasing royalty-free images from the internet. Most of these images are often high quality and are ready to use. The obvious downside in using commercial pictures and images for budget websites, is well, the budget involved. If you are doing a project that is on a really tight budget, you would want to save as much as you can for your client. You may want to look at other…

Why W3C standards work?

Mon, 17 May 2010 17:41:39 +0800

We have assessed a lot of web-pages across the internet only to find out that a majority of them do not comply to the W3C standards. There are many reasons why developers opt to break W3C standards but there is almost no good reason why they should. A developer, or a website owner, you might ask why W3C is so important. They would often argue that W3C standards are more of a set of guidelines than the law of the land, and in that respect, they may be correct to some degree. However, in my personal…

Guidelines in designing corporate websites

Mon, 17 May 2010 16:49:21 +0800

When designing a website for your company, you should firstly consider the nature of your business. Too often, people get carried away in cramming as much features as they can in their websites and it only makes things more confusing for customers and clients. I have listed a few things to take note of before going ahead and designing your website for your business. Are your services or products available online? If your business is solely online, such as selling products over the internet or providing…