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Leer Digital Design is your key to the Internet for:
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Website Design
A website is like a window display of your business. If the impression that it creates is not good enough visitors will simply
leave. A business website should be neat, organized, attractive, and most importantly professional. It
is better if your site shows less than too much. Over crowded websites, with too many flashy elements,
are likely to create a negative effect. The first question visitors ask when coming to your website is "What can I gain from here?"
The graphical design of a website is crucial for a positive first impression for internet surfers. Every
graphic element should help present the main idea of your site. Graphics can load slowly,
so use them efficiently, keeping the overall size of your pages to around 25kb including the graphics.
A website should provide information about your business, a source for contacting you, products and services, helpful tips, similar interest
groups, and informative out links.
Internet Dynamics
Unlike television, the world wide web is an interactive medium. Visitors need to understand the
purpose of your website and how to navigate it. Clutter and complex structures can be counter
productive for the average surfer. Text links and buttons should be similar in style and location.
Don't confuse visitors with chaotic buttons and text link styles. Your site should load as quickly as possible.
Market research shows that the average surfer leaves
a site that fails to load in 7 seconds. For a dial-up modem that means a maximum of 56 kilobytes.
So avoid large graphics and flash animations. The main page of your site should not overwhelm
your visitors with too much information or you risk loosing them.
Basic Template Styles
Choose a website template design that is a good reference point for your product, with style and
design. Special fonts within images, can be a strong visual harmony with
the other elements of a good website template design. Each page on your site should have the same
logo. Certain links should go on each page, and be consistent throughout your site. We write traditional type
designs, custom made designs, and non-banner designs for a stylistic looking website.
Website Evolution
Hundreds of websites offer free website templates online. Standard templates can be
purchased on the Internet between $60 and $90 USD. Custom templates can run into the
thousands. Then you do everything else. There are many drawbacks to this if you are
not familar with html language. Some were written many years ago with old school
techniques, and some javascripts are not correct. Many do not have document titles for validation.
Templates are made for each individual site. As time goes on, your ideas can
change as what to have posted on your website with data, imaging, and graphics, making
it impossible to predict what the future will bring to each individual client. Website
illustrations, graphics, imaging, different font styles and colors are designed around
your business and products offered to your clients on your website. Clip art websites
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