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I am from New Jersey, and attempting to start a website. There are so many website design companies and I am looking for more than just development. Do you know any website designers that you really recommend based not on just a really good layout but there marketing support… and of course, affordable?

I am a web designer in NJ. Send me an email with some more specifics & I’ll see what I can do for you.

Since I am not a web designer what I need is just one friendly tool to design my own website, something which contains maybe a gallerie with predesigned templates, video tutorials etc. It should support Greek Language for the website. Payment is not a problem since you can’t have it all…

I haven’t tried it because I use a more advance program to create my websites (Adobe Dreamweaver) but Intuit websites looks like a fairly easy program (website) to use to create a webpage. http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/

I have Photoshop design of a website I would like coded so that it becomes an ecommerce website where customers can purchase my products online, log into a ‘wholesale’ area and manage their purchasing. What is the best way to do this? What software/programs/services? Thank you!

Coding a site for e-commerce can be done in many different ways. One of the biggest factors is how payment processing will be handled. For example, if you choose to use PayPal – as many do that are starting out – your costs will be lower for your hosting. (Can usually avoid purchasing a security certificate.) This is because all the actual transaction data is handled on PayPal’s secure servers.
https://www.paypal.com/
Even better, assuming you know how to write your own HTML code, etc., PayPal offers a lot of help in their documentation and tools in getting you started.
Google Checkout is another payment processing company that works similar to PayPal:
http://checkout.google.com/
Google has more restrictions over the kinds of products you can sell, so read through those sections carefully.

This is assuming you want to code your HTML and so forth yourself. I’ll get into software that provides support for such things in a bit…

In order to take advantage of EITHER company’s fraud protection services, you will need to provide various terms and conditions statements – such as your returns policy – on your site. Again, read over the requirements and advice. (Good stuff, even if you never use their services!)

The next level of an e-commerce site, where the transaction process would occur on your site, involves a lot more stuff and cost. You’d need a security certificate for the site, and arrange payment processing through a combination of services including a merchant account setup through a local bank. Costs for doing such a setup is significantly higher, which is why I suggest waiting until you know your sales will produce a steady profit of at least $1,000 per month. Then again, such services will automate many of the details you will be handling yourself going the other route. (Thus saving you time and effort.)

As to what kind of software you might want to run on such a site… Again, there are a lot of choices out there. Rather hard to make a recommendation unless I knew more about what you were selling, how you planned to handle the transactions, your level of expertise in so far as handling coding, databases, etc.

Another issue in choosing the software is if you are looking for a commercial solution or open source (License free). Let me warn you, there are a LOT of opinions on which direction someone should go. Developers, such as myself, will always tend to go in one direction in this area over another. I’m not going to get into explaining the pros/cons of either methodology here, as I’m spending a lot of time on this answer as it is. Suffice to say, that’s a good question to ask on its own!

Good news for you is that software designed for ecommerce use may have plug-ins, or add-ons available to integrate with PayPal, Google’s Checkout, etc. (If going open source, avoiding the cost of licensing too.) But, this again is very dependent on the exact software in use.

Finally, assuming the design you have isn’t too complicated, a good developer should have little trouble converting that for use as a theme, skin, or template set for use with the software you plan to use. I would certainly ask the developer to give you links for similar setups that they have done somewhere before hiring them! (So you can check them out to see if they look nice and actually work.)

Good luck with your project!

I have Photoshop design of a website I would like coded so that it becomes an ecommerce website where customers can purchase my products online, log into a ‘wholesale’ area and manage their purchasing. What is the best way to do this? What software/programs/services? Thank you!

Coding a site for e-commerce can be done in many different ways. One of the biggest factors is how payment processing will be handled. For example, if you choose to use PayPal – as many do that are starting out – your costs will be lower for your hosting. (Can usually avoid purchasing a security certificate.) This is because all the actual transaction data is handled on PayPal’s secure servers.
https://www.paypal.com/
Even better, assuming you know how to write your own HTML code, etc., PayPal offers a lot of help in their documentation and tools in getting you started.
Google Checkout is another payment processing company that works similar to PayPal:
http://checkout.google.com/
Google has more restrictions over the kinds of products you can sell, so read through those sections carefully.

This is assuming you want to code your HTML and so forth yourself. I’ll get into software that provides support for such things in a bit…

In order to take advantage of EITHER company’s fraud protection services, you will need to provide various terms and conditions statements – such as your returns policy – on your site. Again, read over the requirements and advice. (Good stuff, even if you never use their services!)

The next level of an e-commerce site, where the transaction process would occur on your site, involves a lot more stuff and cost. You’d need a security certificate for the site, and arrange payment processing through a combination of services including a merchant account setup through a local bank. Costs for doing such a setup is significantly higher, which is why I suggest waiting until you know your sales will produce a steady profit of at least $1,000 per month. Then again, such services will automate many of the details you will be handling yourself going the other route. (Thus saving you time and effort.)

As to what kind of software you might want to run on such a site… Again, there are a lot of choices out there. Rather hard to make a recommendation unless I knew more about what you were selling, how you planned to handle the transactions, your level of expertise in so far as handling coding, databases, etc.

Another issue in choosing the software is if you are looking for a commercial solution or open source (License free). Let me warn you, there are a LOT of opinions on which direction someone should go. Developers, such as myself, will always tend to go in one direction in this area over another. I’m not going to get into explaining the pros/cons of either methodology here, as I’m spending a lot of time on this answer as it is. Suffice to say, that’s a good question to ask on its own!

Good news for you is that software designed for ecommerce use may have plug-ins, or add-ons available to integrate with PayPal, Google’s Checkout, etc. (If going open source, avoiding the cost of licensing too.) But, this again is very dependent on the exact software in use.

Finally, assuming the design you have isn’t too complicated, a good developer should have little trouble converting that for use as a theme, skin, or template set for use with the software you plan to use. I would certainly ask the developer to give you links for similar setups that they have done somewhere before hiring them! (So you can check them out to see if they look nice and actually work.)

Good luck with your project!

Can I do just as good with a certificate as i can a degree in website design? How can I become a very successfull freelancer in website design? What are an excellent site that are 100% to find freelance website design work?

It all depends on your business, for instance my specialty is funeral ceremonial.
Working at a funeral home part-time as a greeter until I graduate high school and go to mortuary science.

Anyhow, you don’t want a funeral home’s website too dark or eerie, it has to be light, tranquil and have warm (not bright nor dark) colors. It has to be elegant yet simple.

So look at your business, analyze what you need to draw in people’s attention and use that as a guide, look for website designers for a fair price, they can help!

I’m looking for various websites to find what I like about their designs. I work for a financial advisor at the moment and I’m hoping some of you have some good ideas of professional website designs.

Thanks in advance.

I viewed several different sites I found by looking up some top wealth management firms. Here is one that caught my eye…it may be just suited to my taste, but looks great to me (and is simple, yet informative). With our B/D they say we must use their approved vendors for a site, but we could reach out to our OSJ to request to use a different design.

http://filamentadvisors.com/index.html

I had a website designed by a company and paid for that design. My account with them is due I didn’t pay for the renewal and they took my site down. They are holding my domain name and the design is gone. Can they do that? Isn’t that website design mine and if so how do I get it? Can they hold my domain name? They are costing me loss of money here what do I do? I don’t want to renew with them because they are overcharging me for the domain name and the webhosting.

Well how much are they overcharging? ….Most of these companies are very competative so I can’t see the difference in price between them and other companies being very much…and in that case if your talking $20 or $30 WHO CARES!

If you sue them..the cost of that event will be monumentally greater than the difference of your other hosting service….times ten. So..thats really not a logical option.

Get your site up and focus on making more money with actual sales, not by penny pinching expenses.

For now I would pay the bill for the next year….and during that time, have your domain ownership registration transferred to you personally. Obtain the website on CD in HTML format and the raw design format (The actual files from whatever design software was used to create the pages)

Until you do those things, they have you by the *alls

Good Luck

I designed my website in Microsoft Publisher. Now I have learned that my site suffers from "code bloat", a common MS Publisher problem, which may be negatively impacting on my site’s performance and SEO.

To the best of my limited knowledge in this area, the only solution is to use some other website design program.

Which program should I use? And IS it possible to import an existing website without redoing the entire site from scratch?

Thanks in advance.

Hey don’t worry victoria , its easy .all your web sites are saved in html or aspx or php , formats right ? simply open it with other programs it will let you regain acess to edit it .
i personally use adobe Dreamweaver , its simple and easy to use , more than that u can directly ftp the whole site to your server .
just right click the html and open it with dreamweaver or run dreamweaver and open file .
for beginners and professionals , dream weaver is the best i can reccon ..
go for it .
chaos

Basicly , iv been let down by the police ( dont take my school this year or somthing stupid like that ) army is one option but a interest i like doing is website design . Can you actualy do web design in bristol as a work expierience?
thanks!

I have a very good experience in web designing.Its a very interesting and inovative field there is always opportunity for growth in this field.

I am doing a diploma in IT at the moment, and I am now looking at university courses for next year. What are some of the good universities for studying website design in the UK? I am looking to do a honours degree or a foundation degree.

I am also looking for a university with good night life and student accomodation.
Thanks, but I am looking to do a website design degree, not a general computing science degree. I know you can do them at a few places.

There are two parts to a website; the graphics and the things that you can do with the site. Two different skill sets and taught quite differently. Some people will claim to be able do both but they require different kinds of brain so it isn’t really possible.

To study graphic design you will need to go to Art school.

For the ‘parts that move’ you will read Computing at a regular uni. This will give you the skills to create the dynamic part of the website plus teach you many other important areas relating to websites such as security, databases, distributed processing etc.