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The web is no longer a new thing. It is an ingrained part of our lives.Studies show that users form their first impression about a website in 1/20th of a second. What are they going to think if that time is spent watching Flash animation load? Or watching a marquee slowly scroll through a list of headlines? Or searching for creatively placed navigation? They'll think it's time to visit another website.

As Internet users get more sophisticated and impatient, the need for designs that emphasize usability becomes paramount. Here are  ten technics or Guidlines that have been developed by top designers over the years. We try to have these principles guide all of our design work.

1. Understanding Your Website's Audience. Not only in the marketing sense. Know the technical boundaries you're working within. The user experience for a high school math student in Jersey and a journalist in Lebanon are very different.

2. Understanding the purpose of the site. The client can lose sight of this, but the designer must not. If the site's purpose is to raise funds, that component must be ever-present in the design....

In order to have any professional website you need to purchase the following products and services:

1. Domain name that represents your business identity (like www.YourBusiness.com) Search for your favorit domain here

2. Web hosting to place your website files in it (like a remote hard drive) Check out our hosting plans here

3. Secure/private database for dynamic websites where customer information, forms, login information, content etc is encrypted and saved and can be retrieved only by your website commands (It comes free with all our hosting packages click here to see)

4. Professional Web design (check out our design portfolio! and our affordable design plans)

Optional addons:

1. Shopping cart software if you are selling more than 20 products on your website

2. Secure Payment Gateway - if you would like to accept credit card on your website

3. Secure Sockets Layer certificate known as SSL (like the one we have on our website- as soon as you go to check out page the http:// link turns to https:// and a lock sign shows on the toolbar to ensure visitors that their personal and financial information on the website is safe and protected and can not be retrieved by hackers

And the most important part is to integrate all these and have them communicate smoothly and fast. That is what we think we are unique at.

One-stop solution means we offer everything you need to get your business up and running effectively and efficiently. We do it all at one low price.

Logo represents company’s identity. First impression is made by logo or its absence. To know the importance of a logo just answer one question: “How many big, leading and famous companies don’t have logos?” If you company doesn’t have a logo this can raise doubts and negative thoughts. If logo was made by non-professional designer or made by owner of the company it is sometimes worse than no logo at all.

One of the popular questions is – why my logo should be custom? If logo is created with the use of a clipart (premade graphic elements from the public collections) it may look like or be identical to other logos and even your competitors’ logos. This will make identification of your company difficult or your logo may be easily mixed up with logo of another company. This situation may harm your reputation and money invested in marketing of your brand will be wasted.

Good company logo reflects the main point of your company, its values and helps in successful development of the business. Also, it is important to distinguish the logo design for big companies and start-ups. Logo for the big company may consist only of a one graphic element (Nike swoosh) and it will be easily identifiable

Summary

There are plenty of ways to market your products online using ad networks, Ebay, affiliate networks, cost per click marketing with Google Adwords, MSN or Yahoo Overture. Also, there are many 2nd tier cost per sale networks with revenue share available for e-commerce website. You need to have a good strategic internet marketing campaign and use the internet marketing tools offered online. Dana Web Design Marketing Division can help you strategize and place targeted ads on the internet and get your website optimized in search engine results, but ultimately you need to determine what kind of internet marketing will work best for your business. It used to be that you bought CPM (cost per thousand) ad campaigns on large sites and hoped the ads would perform well and get traffic to your website. Nowadays, there are plenty of options and usually one will work better than another for each campaign you run. It appears that internet marketing strategy points towards using the cost per click internet marketing tool as the best way to get return on investment. Googles Adwords and Yahoos Overture cost per click programs have dominated the internet marketing world for the last 2 years and they are only getting larger and stronger. There are internet marketing companies popping up to help beginners learn the ropes of how to use Adwords and Overture to the best of their ability. If you want to establish a brand name, then cost per click would not be an internet marketing solution. Instead for online branding, you would go with a CPM campaign that is a straight cost. The targeted advertising that now exists online is why the ad spending