Website designs are available in many forms and variations today that one would feel which kind of a website to chose as their marketing tool online.

Several factors however should be considered in website designs. The design should be entirely made considering the customer and nothing else. The design of the website should be able to attract more and more customers over time. This is where a proper use of all the modern tools such as the drop down menus and the use of sliding technologies through several layers in a website will have to be handled with care and not to be used excessively.

You can also rent a website package for a limited amount of time. This kind of a service is available through many online services today for companies who need instant help with an online website to launch their brand on time or to overcome a breakage in the current web server.

Once you visit one of these website designs providers, you will be provided with multiple options to chose from. These options will be based on your end requirements and the product types. It is important that you make a clear statement about the actual requirement of yours and also to mention the relevant customer base where you are going to target at. This will make things easier for the web designers to make the perfect design for your purposes.

Some of these websites will provide you with several readymade website designs and will ask you to choose the best matched. This however will only provide a limited accessibility to your marketing requirements and will need to enhance properties in different ways. This is why a proper customer adjustable and customer flexible web page is important to make sure you are in touch with each and every customer who visits the web page. Website designs should also be able to make an impression on the customer regarding the company’s actual nature and its status in the industry. This is possible with the kind of color variations used in the homepage.

Make sure that you obtain the relevant knowledge in the field of website designing before handing over the job to a designer. This will make sure that you build the website which is exactly what you need for your marketing requirements. Thousands of website designing services can be found online and they are easier to analyze as well. Compare few of them and make your mark on the marketing aspects of your business today.

We have begun playing around with Adobe’s web-hosted application called Kuler - which allows you to share, explore, and create color themes. We found it useful for generating color themes that can inspire projects that may be stuck in the mud or need a little creative kick in the pants.  It allows you to “experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community”. By the way, the Kuler community os active and large - boasting approximately 70,000 monthly uniques and receives several hundred palette uploads each day. Our favorite feature is the photo color palette generator where you  can upload one of your photos, and Kuler will automatically create  a color palette based on the colors found in your photo. It is definitely worth a look see - check out Adobe Kuler.

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I am on a journey to find the most creative advertisements and advertising campaigns - this is our first entry in what will be a series of creative advertising campaign ideas and images. We are looking for companies whose advertising is creative, striking and a bit unusual. Take a look, enjoy and be inspired.

Share your thoughts and submit your entries.

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The best resources for adding images to your blog posts!

A few weeks ago I discovered that it was taking me way too long to find the perfect image to go along with our blog posts. I set out to discover what others were doing and develop a system of my own that would act as my own “image search engine”. By combining a simple process and some great resources for images I have now cut my image search in half, which frees up my time to focus on other tasks.

I started with a great blog post by 10e20 author, Patrick Winfield titled: Rewind to Fundamentals: The 10 Best Ways to Find the Perfect Image for your Blog Post

In summary here are Paul’s ten best ways to find images…

1. Subscription Based Stock Photography
2. Creative Common Licenses
3. Free Photo Sites
4. National Parks Archives
5. Public Libraries
6. Agricultural Research Archives
7. Public Domain
8. Shoot Your Own Photos
9. Draw Your Own Pictures
10. Pull-Quotes

In each of the above categories there are links to relevant sites - I spent some time picking the ones I liked and compiled a list and began setting my bookmarks for easy reference. Using the sites mentioned in Paul’s post along with other image sites I was able to build a list of 25-30 sites that I now use on a regular basis. I encourage you to begin to develop your preferred image list to act as your own image search engine.

Free Fonts for Windows

Your Windows operating system comes with some preinstalled free downloadable fonts for users to enjoy. You will find them by accessing the drop down menu at the top of the page. However, you don’t limit yourself to only those fonts that come preloaded with your operating system. There are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of resources for free fonts for Windows. In addition, it is very simply to access and download these free fonts from various online websites,blogs and forums.

The first time I fully researched the resources for free fonts for Windows I was amazed at the selection of letter and picture fonts that you can find online. Typically, installing these free downloadable fonts is straight forward and does not take a lot of time regardless of which operating system you have on your computer. The websites that offer free fonts for Windows are typically advertising based sites which bring in a good sum of revenue fom advertisers - thus they are able to offer freebies in exchange. 

The downside to some of these free downloadable font offerings is that often times you are asked to opt in for various newsletters and things in exchange for downloading the free fonts for Windows. While this is a little annoying (there are no free lunches) and usually these companies are offering a value add in exchange for your name and email.  Of course, you can always opt out of the newsletter or ezine at a later date and you will still have the free fonts for Windows installed to your local hard drive on your computer. 

The procedure for downloading and installing free fonts is dependent on which website or blog you are getting them from. I have found that the majority of these free fonts for Windows resources have an easy paint by numbers process that they bring you through. Accessing free fonts on the web is a bit of a trade-off; give up my name and email for  quick and easy downloading of the free fonts. A word of caution, pay close attention to the process as you go through because all of the sites are different and not set up the same. 

Once you discover a few worthy websites offering free fonts for Windows you can quickly select the ones you like and easily add them to your font options in your operating system. Before you consider purchasing fonts online I would strongly recommend that you do a little research and discover the world of free fonts. You are bound to find at least a few fonts that you like.

If you do find good resources out there - please be sure to comment below so the rest of our readers can enjoy your findings. 

Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication by Maggie Macnab

Very cool video - and book. A Must read for any designer. Maggie’s theory is that most memorable designs come about because they contain symbols and shapes that occur in our everyday lives in nature.

Take a look at the video for the book, and then add it to your Amazon wish list.

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JavaScript Forms- Lesson 3

JavaScript Forms

Being able to successful create JavaScript forms isn’t a difficult process but it may be one that you are unsure about. The common misconception that creating web pages takes an expert computer programmer just isn’t true. While you will use HTML to create JavaScript, you need to realize that they aren’t exactly the same.

With JavaScript you will have several different handlers that the user can click on to perform the necessary actions. This is very important because the easier your web pages are to navigate the more interested consumers will be in them. Some people are very new to using the internet and others are experts so you want to be able to appeal to the level of skill of everyone.

The various JavaScript forms that you create will have coding inserted behind the scenes where the consumer can’t see them. For example your site may have an opt in form for the user to complete. At the bottom they simply click on the form that says SUBMIT. The codes you have entered behind the scenes work to process the information that they have provided.

In order to have a successful JavaScript form called a widget, you need to have several elements in place. They include the form name, the action you want the user to be able to perform, a method for that information to be processed, and a value for each of the JavaScript forms.

There are many different ways in which you can set up JavaScript forms on your web pages. While a simple box that they click is the easiest you may want to offer a radio box or drop down menu if there is more than one option they can select from. You can also offer a text box if you want the user to be able to type in various information.

Before you put your web pages up for consumers to look at, you want to take the time to validate all of the information you have placed into the various JavaScript forms. The goal is for everything to work exactly as it should on the first try. If you come across JavaScript errors you should check each field of entry again. It is going to take some time to master JavaScript but once you do it will become one of the most valuable tools you have to offer.

Using JavaScript - Lesson 2

Using JavaScript

Many people use JavaScript for their website needs because it is very user friendly. In fact it is said that JavaScript really changed the concepts people had about being able to create their websites on their own. Instead of paying thousands of dollars to have someone do it for them they were able to try it themselves.

The Common Gateway Interface, known as CGI, is the most complicated aspect of completing any type of web page layout. With the use of JavaScript though it is extremely easy to transfer data from the server to the browser in HTML format. In fact, you don’t even need to involve the server in many of the different tasks you will likely be processing.

With any online business the big part of it all is making sure your website looks great. After all the time and effort you put into advertising, you want the consumers to take the links and be impressed by what they find enough to make a purchase. With JavaScript you can double check to ensure all of the necessary elements are in place as they need to be.

Take some time to play around with JavaScript and see what it has to offer you. Chances are you will quickly discover it offers you a much easier way to create web pages. The fact that you can create information and validate it without having to run it through a server means your web pages will open up faster for consumers. You will also find using JavaScript takes the complications out of many different elements of designing your website and keeping it up to date.

Since JavaScript is continually updated you can also be sure you will have the most current tools to keep you in the loop. Trends change very rapidly online and your best course of defense is to be ready for them. Adding new features with the help of JavaScript will ensure your competition never gets the edge over you.

You will find plenty of great tips for using JavaScript online as well. This way you can get free assistance quickly if you aren’t able to make it do what you want to. JavaScript has been continually updated too so you can be sure it will offer you the best possible tools to get the job done.

JavaScript Primer - Lesson 1  

Using JavaScript Objects

With the various source codes for JavaScript you will be able to customize your own objects to use for your website. This gives your web pages a very unique look because too many people leave the ones that are built in for their visitors to see. Offering visitors to your site something fresh to look at will definitely capture their attention. For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, an object function is very similar to a regular function. However, it is in place to clearly define the function.

As you set up the parameters for your objects in JavaScript you will give it a value. Snippets allow you to search for any type of item or criteria that a person puts into the search box. This works very quickly so users aren’t sitting around waiting to see what it will pull up for them. It is nice to be able to offer your company logo for visitors to your site to become familiar with. With the image effects offered by JavaScript you will be able to display it and to also have it available in different places as the user moves around your site. You want the logo to be visible wherever they are on your web pages but not to block the information on them.

You will then need to add properties in order to define the object. This will be though a coding process that is behind the scenes so your visitors won’t have access to it. You can change these properties at any time without too much time or trouble being involved in the process. The next step is the most complicated and it involves adding the methods to your objects.

You will start by declaring and defining the function for each method you need to offer. You will find all the free JavaScript codes online that you need for each type of method. To ensure you get them all in correctly you should copy and paste them exactly as they are. If you have JavaScript errors when you verify it is likely in this step and you will want to check each one again.

The process of setting up JavaScript objects is much easier than you might think. Take some time to explore how this particular function of JavaScript can help you build a better website. You will be quite impressed with the results you get as well as how simple the process is even for those that have very little experience with computer programming or designing websites.