by: Mike Roshuk

Have you ever visited a website that was so bad that you felt like it was sucking the life out of you? Sure you have, we all have. We all know what a poorly designed website looks like. And the sad thing is, internet surfers will more often than not judge your company by your website. These web-surfers are your potential customers, and the last thing you need is them fleeing from your website just seconds after they arrive.

If you’re thinking of creating a website for your company, or redesigning an existing one, here is a brief list of some web design principles that should be followed:

by: Dan Foley

Brothers and sisters I have sinned! I have been a sinner! I didn’t know I was sinning but the great Search Engine Spirits didn’t care. Don’t let this happen to you!

In reality, I didn’t commit all Seven of the Deadly Sins, but you don’t need to commit more than one to get banned.

The First Deadly Sin – Don’t Hide Text

When I first started one of my websites, I used a template from a large template company. There was nothing wrong with it. I just didn’t have everything in place to put into some of the Read More >> links and I didn’t have links for some of the menu buttons but knew that eventually I would use.

Inspired by typographic magazine layout grids more and more web designers are starting to embrace grid-based design siting cleaner and more easily digestible web pages as a benefit.

The concept of typographic grids employed to arrange text cleanly on pages goes all the way back to even before the days of movable type and printing. Originally the grid was used simply as a means of assuring text on the page was presented in a clear and organized manner. As grids became more and more accepted and wide-spread (mainly through a heavy reliance placed on them by newspaper and magazine publishers) designers began to experiment with the countless variations available for grid layout design. Many designers embraced the layout grid system as part of the post modernist design movement that flourished in the 1970s. Grid system adherents feel that there is a psychological appeal to designs based on the grid system, claiming the predictable and coherent structure use of a grid lends to a design that is subconsciously associated with professionalism, honesty and reliability.

So you've been working at the same job 5 years now. Tediously surfing the internet while you should be working. I know it seems as if the internet "work from home" jobs are a complete scam to leave you homeless, but I truly believe being your own boss still exists. Unfortunately, the amount of garbage versus the legitimate claims on the work from home front are not on the up side. In fact, writing blog entries informing people on these methods are blowing the search engines to bits. Recession? what recession? Some of the United States most profitable business ventures came within times of financial hardships.