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This workshop is for web designers and business owners alike who are looking to harness the power of social media as a marketing tool. Starting a Twitter account is easy – using it to the greatest advantage isn't quite so simple. Students in this workshop will learn how to create the social media presence they need, how to link them together for maximum cross-promotion, and best practices for engaging customers and increasing customer loyalty.

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web design study for an artists group website – la buildings

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According to the W3C, a CSS color is either a keyword or a numerical specification. That definition seems simple. Colors are either keywords or numbers, but it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Color Keywords
Color keywords are exactly what you might think they are – a list of words (in English) that correspond to colors on Web pages. There are 16 HTML 4 color keywords:
•    aqua
•    black
•    blue
•    fuchsia
•    gray
•    green
•    lime
•    maroon
•    navy
•    olive
•    purple
•    red
•    silver
•    teal
•    white
•    yellow
To make things interesting, the W3C reports that “orange” is also a color keyword in the CSS 2 specification. Perhaps it will get added back into CSS 3 before it’s finalized.
But it gets more complicated than that, as there’s another list of color keywords that you can use. These colors are often called the Netscape Named Colors because the Netscape browser was the first Web browser to define the color keywords and support them. The W3C calls this list the “SVG Color Keywords”. But whatever you call it, you need to be careful when you use these keywords. Internet Explorer doesn’t like the different spellings of gray/grey.
Colors as Numbers
Okay, so color keywords aren’t as simple as they appear, but what about numbers – that should be fairly simple, right? Wrong. The CSS 2 specification provides for two ways of specifying colors as numbers:

•    RGB
•    Hexadecimal RGB
RGB Color Numbers
The format of an RGB color number is:
rgb(red,green,blue);
The red,green,blue are numerical values from 0 to 255 or percentage values from 0% to 100%. So, the color red is written:
rgb(255,0,0)
rgb(100%,0%,0%)
Hexadecimal Color Numbers
Hexadecimal color numbers are also RGB – they are just written differently to allow for differences in how browsers handle the CSS.
Hexadecimal colors are the same RGB color numbers converted to base-16 and written as one long number. Hexadecimal to RGB color charts make this easy to see. They are written:
#RRGGBB
Each pair of the hexadecimal triplet is a number from 00 to FF (base-16), which corresponds to 0 – 255 in decimal. So the color red is written:
#ff0000
CSS 3 Color Numbers
CSS 3 adds some additional complexity to the color numbers. In the CSS 3 recommendation, there is:
•    the transparent keyword
•    RGBA color values
•    HSL color values
The transparent keyword is not exactly new to CSS 3. CSS 1 allowed background-colors to be marked transparent. Then CSS 2 extended it to the border-color property. CSS 3 extends this keyword to use in any property that uses color values including the color property for changing text and foreground colors.
An RGBA color value allows you to define the opacity of the color. It is written:
rgba(red,green,blue,opacity)
The final number is an alpha value ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. A color with an alpha value of 0.0 is fully transparent and an alpha value of 1.0 is fully opaque. According to the specification, if the user-agent doesn’t support RGBA, it should default to RGB and ignore the alpha value information. However, in practice, this doesn’t happen and the color value is completely ignored.
HSL color values refer to hue-saturation-lightness numerical codes for colors. They were added to solve some specific problems with RGB colors:
•    RGB is hardware-oriented. It references CRTs and assumes that color model for displaying the colors. Most professional printers are not RGB based, but CMYK and the translation from screen to print is not always good.
•    RGB is non-intuitive. In other words, most people think of colors in reference to the hue (red versus yellow), saturation (grey versus red), or lightness (dark red to red to pink) but RGB forces you to put the colors in a machine-generated way.
Red in HSL would be written:
hsl(0,100%,50%);
HSL also has an alpha value notation – HSLA – which allows you to specify opacity with this color notation just like RGBA.
HSL is not supported by most browsers, so it’s a good idea to just remember this notation for the future.

By: Vinodd Kumarr
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When it comes to Design a successful Logo the keyword is “The quality” It is that much simple! Logos and Trademarks build up the most International language in the World. A fantabulous Logo Design can cross lot of barriers and offer your Organization with a means of handing over to your Customers a clear and coherent message.

Every flourishing Company has its own “character” and exactly as Human character, it can as well be very complex. A successful Logo is a means of compacting a complex realism into a single, simple statement, modified, one that can be controlled, matured and developed over time. Your logo requires being much more than simply a unique mark for your Company. It must be a value, sign of quality and reliability too.

A logo must do these things successfully:

Recognition: For your company, service or product.

Distinguish: It from the group of other similar Companies.

Converse: The Information as to your products quality and value.

Add worth: – By getting you to offer a quality service in order to assert your Company’s reputation.

Symbolize: Possibly valuable assets.

If your Logo Design does not do these things, then you may require updating it, maybe assaying Professional advice as Logo is very essential as a public image of your company. It is really important as your Logo is a part of the innovation on which you establish your brand. Particularly since the latest bang of internet businesses, but even before that, clients have a whelming diversity of choices. Chances are that whatsoever you are selling, there is something exactly similar to it which is already available.

You normally pay attention to the Logos of Web pages when you visit a Website. Oftentimes, it is the amazing point to draw the attention of visitors. Are you having a Personal Website? And if you anticipate that you’re Web pages are paddling and could appeal more and more attention.

AAA Logo Software is a best solution for you. If you are an administrator of a Website, with this utility you can develop Professional Logo Designs. After some time you will definitely thank for these logos, the visitor’s quantity of your Web pages is increased rapidly. If you like to develop Professional Logo Designs yourself?

Making a living out of trading Logo Designs can be troubled with danger. Cuthroats wishing to cut down your throat on street corners, drug insane thugs and scheming conmen are just some of the things to keep off. Getting Computer Design training as well means a bigger choice of employment. To get a Computer Graphic Designer, the most basic requirements include good creative abilities, good communication skills and good computers skills.

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The tips for getting more business from your website boil down to:

1. Title tags: Make sure the title tag for your page reflects the target search phrase that you expect searchers looking for your product to type in (for more on how to pick the right target search phrase see http://www.seochat.com/c/b/Choosing-Keywords-Help/

2. Clear and simple navigation: The way that searchers see the route to the information that they are seeking is via the Navigation linkages that your website provides. Make sure that your navigation is clear and contains the main actions that a searcher is likely to want to carry out. Remember you only have approximately 3 seconds before the average searcher bounces back to the search results( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4616700.stm )

3. Main Heading (H1): Often the reason searchers bounce off a page is because it takes too long to figure out what the website they have landed on does and whether this is what the searcher needs. Therefore a clear heading saying in 5 or 6 words your Unique Selling Proposition, your USP (what is a USP) and if possible you should include some of the words that appear in your target search phrase to increase keyword density.

4. Testimonials in a Guest Book: One certain way to reduce your bounce rate is to enable your customers to give positive feedback and to feature this in a prominent place on your home page.

5. News and special offers in your Blog: Another way that searchers make their mind up about a website is to see if there are any signs of life in terms of recent news. If it is clear from a blog that features recent content that there are people actively working on the website it is a great confidence inspiring measure. Another advantage of a blog is that it allows you to feature time related special offers (for example 50% off if you book before the end of this month). This can be captured by Google and featured in search results for the product or service that you supply.

6. Motivation Architecture: Think about the person reading the page. If someone stops you in the street to sell you a charity subscription they don’t launch straight into what they want you to do. They start by attempting to establish a rapport with you. In the inanimate medium of the web this is often forgotten. The most motivating word in the English language is “you”, for example “We create solutions for you” or “We will look after you”. Once a degree of intimacy has been achieved then you seek to motivate the searcher to take action using power words in “calls to action” such as “Please call us now” or “Order now and save”.

7. The final item on your home page is your page footer. Include your address here and your target search phrase as both of these will help your appearance in Google.

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By: Website Design Dublin
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Building a web site can be complex yet simple all at the same time. There are many aspects that many designers and companies skip over during the process. Keeping in mind Search Engine Optimization and usability, crafting a web site should be a well thought-out and organized method.

CODANK Charlotte Web Design is here to provide companies with some of the essential web design tips that every web site should follow. Be sure to refer back to our first set of tips here.

CODANK Tips for Web Design

Browser Compatibility – All sites should be browser compatible. Your site’s look should be the same in Google Chrome as well as in Mozilla Firefox. It is wise not to stop designing a web site after you have found out that it looks marvelous on Internet Explorer. Consult with your designer to make sure that all HTML is correct for each browser.

Navigation – Create navigation on your web site that makes it easy for visitors to go through it. It is best to place all important links at accessible spots of the page – preferably right on top. Try to link as many pages of your web site as possible.

Comprehensible Font – Try to steer away from bright colors and font that may not be available on most computers – such as Comic Sans. The best professional fonts to stick with are Arial and Verdana.

Links – Make it a mandatory duty to check for broken links within your web site before loading it to your web server. In applications such as Dreamweaver you are able to check for broken links on any file.

If you design your web site by using the tips and suggestions from above, CODANK Charlotte Web Design guarantees that each one of your visitors will have a wonderful first impression of your web site.

By: CODANK WEB DESIGN
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We talk about table less design these days so that they are more search engine friendly. So what is this table free designs. Well, it is not really new it is just that search engines have started giving CSS more importance now as Web 2.0 standards are adapted by many.

CSS means Cascading Style Sheets and it is a simple way of displaying your content to the search engine which is better than tables. In short the spiders were having issues with tables so they have decided to go CSS way.

Well, you need to create correctly formatted may be based on Yahoo GRID base style sheets in your HTML pages that can make your site more accessible. You should test it with various browsers such as IE 6 and IE 7. It is important to test on Internet explorer because if you miss a simple tag, it will not display your page.

Your

website design decides your presence on the Internet. Many sites were originally made with tables and are now migrating to CSS, why? Because the communication of CSS with search engines is friendlier than the tables as stated above as well. Other benefits of CSS includes faster download, changes of color scheme is much quicker among others.

Recently at

Applelounge.com we have migrated our team from developing sites in tables to CSS, it was a daunting task. It is ongoing as new things are being introduced and lot of testing goes in CSS. So if you decide to get your site developed in CSS expect to pay more for it than a regular table based site.

CSS is certainly the new way moving forward with certain observations recently noticed by allocation of Google Page Rank to different sites, which is sites that have migrated to CSS have received higher PR rankings than the sites that do not have been implemented on CSS.

You should also consider in what version of HTML you are using. If you use a specific version then it might not work in all systems. So you will not get all your pages accessible, but with CSS you are bound to get it right. See for yourself on a major search engine such as Google.com.

You may consider inserting flash to give a better look to your site or applets or other plug ins that look great, however you need to be aware that these plug ins do not assist you in Search Engine optimization but add an extra pressure to your server. Of course use of such plug ins is important for interactive demo’s but these embedded tools should be followed by strict guidelines.

In Conclusion,

websites are evolving and so are search engines. Sites are competing each other on a global scale to be on top of each other by adopting technologies that help them the most. CSS is the way to go now and there might be another powerful weapon in the future that may further charge up your site. But in the near future, CSS is the way to go.

By: markandey
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