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Professional Web Design Made Easy

Ray — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:21:42 +0000

You can master web design like the pros!

Whether you are a complete beginner or have some web site design experience, this web design course will teach you how to plan, design, build and market your own web site.

This course covers the following topics

An Introduction to Web Site Design
Writing Effective Web Site Sales Copy
An Introduction to HTML
Graphics Editors and Tools
An Introduction to JavaScript
Cascading Style Sheets Classes and ID’s
Email Forms/Opt-In Lists
Adding Audio to Your Web Page
Adding Video to Your Web Page

Make compelling websites in no time.

Act now to begin learning how easy web design can be!

Links You MUST checkout

Ray — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:09:03 +0000

Well you don’t have to check these links out, but I assume you would want to because it will make you a better web designer:) It always helps to get the creative juices flowing when you see what other web designers are doing.

25 Totally Immersive Web Experiences

Quick & Easy CSS Development with Firebug

10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers

20 Free Minimal WordPress Themes

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When you need the best Hosting Platform available

Ray — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:09:59 +0000

Cartika H-Sphere Web Hosting Platform

In one of my previous articles on what every good web designer looks for in a hosting company I recommended Host Gator for their outstanding feature set and top notch service. But sometimes you need more. When you find that you or your web design business has outgrown Host Gator or regular shared hosting in general I would recommend you take a serious look at Cartika Web Hosting.

They are set-up to handle very heavy traffic volumes and bursts that are the norm when dealing with High Volume websites. They handle everything from load balancing to to traffic queuing to avoid over capacity outages.

When Cartika says 99.9% uptime you can rest assured they have the expertise to back up those claims. They offer many different options depending on your web design business needs. They offer a single account that can handle both windows and linux hosts. This is a very unique feature and one that fits my particular need. Even though they are a higher end host they have entry level hosting plans starting at $10 per month. The only drawback to the $10/month plan is it has very little space included. That being said for a Hosting Company like Cartika to offer the kind of features and service level starting at $10 per month unlimited sites is incredible. Here are some of the other features that are offered with Cartika’s Clustered Ultimate Reseller Hosting plan.

Premium Hosting Features

True 99.9% Uptime – Industry Best
Provision across Multiple Platforms
SharePoint and Exchange server Hosting
Support for ASP.Net, SQL Server, PHP and mySQL
Reliable Clustered Environment
Private label hosting
Integrated Billing system
Registrar and SSL resale account
SCSI Hard Drive!
True 24/7/365 Support
Accessible Backups

Check them out and let us know what you think. They have plans for almost all price ranges.

Cartika H-Sphere Web Hosting Platform

If you don’t want the hassle of managing a reseller account but still make recommendations to your customer about hosting I strongly recommend taking a look at the affiliate program from Cartika. You can get paid by referring your customers to them.

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Professional Web Design Made Easy

Review of Microsoft Expression Web

Ray — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:30:26 +0000

Expression Web is a feature packed wysiwyg web design package that helps you to build fast loading valid web sites using XHTML and CSS. Expression Web is a solid, professional design program with plenty of goodies for making Web 2. Expression Web is designed for creative professionals. Expression Web should not be confused as a tool for the beginner.

Expression Web looks great, but there’s no way that professional designers are going to start using it over Dreamweaver. Although Dreamweaver is almost twice the cost of Expression Web it is a much more mature product and is the leading design tool for many professional Web Designers. Dreamweaver has evolved with the Internet which means it is has all the legacy support which is a bit clumsy.

Microsoft Expression Web is a great tool for Professional Designers. Microsoft Expression Web was built to help you produce pure css code. Microsoft thought well ahead and Expression Web and seems to be making a legitimate attempt at getting into the Web Design space. Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that. Microsoft Expression Web is a new product that provides the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites. Microsoft has been careful not to say that Expression Web is an upgrade of FrontPage which was discontinued in 2006.

Most reviews especially praise Expression Web for elegant use of CSS (cascading style sheets) and it’s standards based implementation. I find that Expression Webs CSS editor is the more advanced than Dreamweaver’s. It offers intelisense support and a very nifty style editor property pane that automatically updates style changes regardless of whether they are inline,in a referenced style sheet or declared in the current page.

SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, UI and HTML rendering engine with Microsoft Expression Web, and does not rely on Internet Explorer’s Trident engine which is less standards compliant. SharePoint Designer is aimed at SharePoint websites, but has more support for FrontPage Components. Sharepoint Designer picks up where frontpage left off. Expression Web is an entirely new product aimed more at the Dreamweaver user than people who were using Frontpage.

Expression Web is a solid product that creates modern CSS out of the box and has a standards-based approach which helps designers create good code which is browser compatible without jumping through to many hoops. Expression Web isn’t a tool for the beginners but rather professionals looking for an alternative to Dreamweaver. Expression Web is currently available for trial download and/or purchase.

Download expression web today at the Microsoft Store

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Web Design Inspiration

Ray — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:19:34 +0000

Back say 13 years ago it was hard to get inspired about designing a webpage. It was mostly hand coded very few styling options some serious bandwidth restrictions on content. I remember when animated gif’s were a huge deal. We have come a long way since then. We are on the verge of CSS 3.0, HTML 5 and have a plethora of tools available to assist us in creating sites today. Sites today are content driven utilize JavaScript in ways no one could have imagined. Except for the folks who developed Outlook web Access. With all of this at our fingertips it can be a bit daunting to say the least figure out where to start. Here are some other posts that I can recommend to help give you a creative boost.

Professional Web Design Made Easy