Posted by Elizabeth Hughes on September 28, 2010 3:26 pm
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Website Design really is a huge and broad topic. For every blog entry that I've written and posted about Website Design, there are about 5 relating posts which I immediately want to share with Quote Bean readers. When researching and investigating new web design issues it's easy to lose site of the main purpose of Quote Bean's Website Design resources, which is to help buyers like yourselves make informed purchasing decisions.
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Posted by Elizabeth Hughes on September 27, 2010 3:33 pm
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Occasionally sole-traders and small partnerships believe that in order to succeed with their business development efforts they need to make themselves appear bigger than they actually are. This is often reflected in their online presence: multi-age websites which repeatedly feature words such as "associated consultants" "associates" and "hand-picked associates" in the site's content. Now I've done a bit of digging around, and I haven't been able to find out if this approach actually works or not! One thing is for certain however, projecting the image of a much larger company onto a smaller one is misleading and can be potentially damaging to a business's reputation
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Posted by Elizabeth Hughes on September 23, 2010 5:56 pm
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Websites are far from the online business cards which they were categorised as a decade ago. According to experts Web 3.0 is almost upon us, and in order to communicate effectively websites need to be intuitive and engaging.
Corporate and business websites can be dry and un-engaging in their design and content, especially when website designers fail to communicate the need for engaging and emotional design. Injecting some personality into a corporate website is easy; and when done properly it doesn't impede on the professionalism of the site, it enhances it.
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Posted by Elizabeth Hughes on September 22, 2010 12:19 pm
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During August 2010 the very first International Conference on Green Computing, which addressed "key issues and topics related to energy efficiency in computing and promoting environmentally friendly computer technologies and systems." took place. This may be news to many of you our online activities have an impact on our Carbon Footprint, and the ICGC addressed ways in which computers could have a positive effect on the well-being of our environment. One of the ways in which UK businesses can help IT contribute to improving the welfare of our world is through a new Web Design trend - Green Web Design.
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Posted by Elizabeth Hughes on September 21, 2010 2:57 pm
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As the future of the world wide web develops and becomes more intuitive and interactive, so too do the websites which populate it. Responsive businesses need responsive websites, and as a business owner you should be heavily involved in getting the right look and feel for your website.
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Posted by Doug Peters on June 11, 2010 1:48 pm
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A new generation of web designers are creating sites which no longer resemble websites....they look more like posters.
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