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I have a new web design company (www.creative-itsolutions.net) and think the best targets a newly started businesses, but with out spending loads of money i don’t no how to get to them any ideas?

The biggest downside is that there is so much competition online. The negatives can be greatly outweighed by the positives but you really have to set yourself apart from the other million businesses online. There are a few ways to do this:

1) An eye-catching web page. This is the most important thing because you want people to be attracted to your business. It should suit whatever product you are selling but also be unique and fun. It should give the appearance of professionalism.

2) Advertise on free press release sites. There are many out there to choose from but all of them achieve the same goal; name exposure.

3) Get a toll free number. A catchy 1-800 number is something any business should have. There’s a reason EVERY Fortune 500 company has one. A toll free gives customers easy access to contact you without paying long distance charges. It also adds to the appearance of professionalism. And a customer will remember the number and be more likely to find you later. It’s a fact that a toll free number can increase business by as much as 600%. I recommend going with www.tollfreenumber.org. They cater to small businesses so they’ve got the lowest prices out there.

Hope this helps =)

I have a new web design company (www.creative-itsolutions.net) and think the best targets a newly started businesses, but with out spending loads of money i don’t no how to get to them any ideas?

The biggest downside is that there is so much competition online. The negatives can be greatly outweighed by the positives but you really have to set yourself apart from the other million businesses online. There are a few ways to do this:

1) An eye-catching web page. This is the most important thing because you want people to be attracted to your business. It should suit whatever product you are selling but also be unique and fun. It should give the appearance of professionalism.

2) Advertise on free press release sites. There are many out there to choose from but all of them achieve the same goal; name exposure.

3) Get a toll free number. A catchy 1-800 number is something any business should have. There’s a reason EVERY Fortune 500 company has one. A toll free gives customers easy access to contact you without paying long distance charges. It also adds to the appearance of professionalism. And a customer will remember the number and be more likely to find you later. It’s a fact that a toll free number can increase business by as much as 600%. I recommend going with www.tollfreenumber.org. They cater to small businesses so they’ve got the lowest prices out there.

Hope this helps =)

I am looking for a webhost with Mysql and PHP supported. E-mails and such are not required. It needs little space maybe 10-20 MBs. I also want one that doesn’t make its price cheaper but put ads on your page. I need to also register a domain for 18-months so an 18-month or 2 year deal. What is good?

Thank you for your help… P.S. this is for a Wedding website i will design myself
Its been a while since i have done a website for anyone or hosted one for myself so any info you have will help

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I am looking for a webhost with Mysql and PHP supported. E-mails and such are not required. It needs little space maybe 10-20 MBs. I also want one that doesn’t make its price cheaper but put ads on your page. I need to also register a domain for 18-months so an 18-month or 2 year deal. What is good?

Thank you for your help… P.S. this is for a Wedding website i will design myself
Its been a while since i have done a website for anyone or hosted one for myself so any info you have will help

If you want personalized, reliable and quick advice, you should check out ProCompare.com (http://procompare.com/top/Web-hosting). They have a recommendation engine that ranks web hosting services based on ratings and reviews from a community of trusted IT professionals. They also have an effective personalization slider that lets you personalize the results based on the criteria that are most important to YOU.

Hope you’ll find this answer useful.

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Ok. I read this article recently, it was on digg.com, I can’t find it anymore. It basically said how much the running cost would be to hire web development (top of the line almost).

Basically, it was like there was 4 different sectors, and each got 101 dollars per hour.

If anyone can find that page for me, or find a similar page on what is the running prices and stuff. I do webdesign, it’s just that this guy wants me to work for 8 dollars an hour, and I want to show him this link I found that has just 1 part of the team making 100 dollars per hour, when this guy wants to pay me 8 dollars per hour for everything.

There’s a discussion at:

http://digg.com/design/4_Steps_To_Effective_Web_Design_Pricing

Of course it depends on what country you’re in and how good you are as to whether you can reach that sort of fee or not – starting off at $100/hour is unlikely without commercial experience – if you don’t have any customers yet, you should pitch a lot lower at first.

Ok. I read this article recently, it was on digg.com, I can’t find it anymore. It basically said how much the running cost would be to hire web development (top of the line almost).

Basically, it was like there was 4 different sectors, and each got 101 dollars per hour.

If anyone can find that page for me, or find a similar page on what is the running prices and stuff. I do webdesign, it’s just that this guy wants me to work for 8 dollars an hour, and I want to show him this link I found that has just 1 part of the team making 100 dollars per hour, when this guy wants to pay me 8 dollars per hour for everything.

There’s a discussion at:

http://digg.com/design/4_Steps_To_Effective_Web_Design_Pricing

Of course it depends on what country you’re in and how good you are as to whether you can reach that sort of fee or not – starting off at $100/hour is unlikely without commercial experience – if you don’t have any customers yet, you should pitch a lot lower at first.

I design my own websites on Dreamweaver and everytime I look at my website on another computer the things I designed (i.e. pictures, layers, frames, etc.) are out of place or the font is completely changed. What do I need to do in order for my wesbite to be uniform on every computer? Is there an HTML code that prevents this from happening?

Your site will never look the same on all computers but nevertheless there are things you can do to make it more consistent.

Different browsers will show your site differently so test your code in at least IE6, IE7 and Firefox.

Differently-sized monitors will show your site differently. Decide whether you want a liquid layout or a fixed-width layout or a mix of both: this will depend on how much and what kind of content your site is to have. If it’s fixed-width a good maximum width is 800pixels.

Always test to make sure your html and css code validates 100%.

Stop using Frames, they are obsolescent and generally problematic.

Separate content and style. Content markup (div, h1, h2, p tags etc) goes in the html; all styling information (size, color, background images, fonts, widths, borders etc) goes in the css stylesheet. Don’t use tables for page layout.

The first instruction in your css stylesheet should reset all margins and padding to zero i.e.

* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Then for h1, h2, p tags etc you can set specific margins/padding instead of the browsers using their own default settings.

Don’t try to control the design too much. For example use % or em to set font sizes, never an exact number of pixels e.g. 14px. That way a partially-sighted user can increase the text size to make your site more readable to them.

You shouldn’t need to instruct visitors which browser or screen resolution to use, not if you’ve got the design right. You only tend to see this on really amateur sites.

I design my own websites on Dreamweaver and everytime I look at my website on another computer the things I designed (i.e. pictures, layers, frames, etc.) are out of place or the font is completely changed. What do I need to do in order for my wesbite to be uniform on every computer? Is there an HTML code that prevents this from happening?

Your site will never look the same on all computers but nevertheless there are things you can do to make it more consistent.

Different browsers will show your site differently so test your code in at least IE6, IE7 and Firefox.

Differently-sized monitors will show your site differently. Decide whether you want a liquid layout or a fixed-width layout or a mix of both: this will depend on how much and what kind of content your site is to have. If it’s fixed-width a good maximum width is 800pixels.

Always test to make sure your html and css code validates 100%.

Stop using Frames, they are obsolescent and generally problematic.

Separate content and style. Content markup (div, h1, h2, p tags etc) goes in the html; all styling information (size, color, background images, fonts, widths, borders etc) goes in the css stylesheet. Don’t use tables for page layout.

The first instruction in your css stylesheet should reset all margins and padding to zero i.e.

* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Then for h1, h2, p tags etc you can set specific margins/padding instead of the browsers using their own default settings.

Don’t try to control the design too much. For example use % or em to set font sizes, never an exact number of pixels e.g. 14px. That way a partially-sighted user can increase the text size to make your site more readable to them.

You shouldn’t need to instruct visitors which browser or screen resolution to use, not if you’ve got the design right. You only tend to see this on really amateur sites.

Guys,

I wanted to know how much money does a web designer earn as a freelance in Australia? Any idea

Thanks

You can register at few freelance websites and check .

Guys,

I wanted to know how much money does a web designer earn as a freelance in Australia? Any idea

Thanks

You can register at few freelance websites and check .