Web Design 101

Wednesday, 24 July 2999

Website Potential Costs

One of the things that scare people away from building a website is the potential cost. A lot of people ask me what the average cost of a website is and it's a difficult question to answer because there really is no average cost. The cost of a website depends on what kind of website you want, if you're going to hire a web designer, and what kind of features you want. You can easily spend thousands of dollars having a website built.

One of the best ways to get an idea of what your website should be like is to visit the websites of other affiliate marketers. You'll quickly see that they can be very different in style, depending on how they choose to market their products.

This will able you to survive and keep going initially when you won't have targeted traffic. Also you need to check out your competitors in the same niche. Assess the competitions and see what good they are doing and what bad they are doing.

To build online business successfully, you need to decide your niche. You can stick to your hobby or interest. This will be more beneficial for you as you will already have good product knowledge and also you will be passionate about what you are doing.

Have the Ability to Capture Information to build your Mailing list - on of the most important elements of building a successful affiliate marketing business is building your own mailing list. Having a box or method of capture on your website is crucial to success.

After deciding your niche to build online business you need to make your presence online. Your company brand is the first part of the marketing and it is also important for your image.

There are lots of forums and groups online that can provide you with information about starting your home business. Search the internet and you will find a lot of great forums that you can become a part of. Many online blogs are also useful.

There is absolutely no good reason for why your business is not online these days. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's true. Not being experienced in technologically, or not knowing How to design a website, are not valid reasons anymore.

When you are planning your web design project, do not use scripting that will be intrusive to the user. Examples being, your preventing right clicking on the site or forcing pop ups. Both of these will be detrimental to the user. You may feel this aids in your design, but it will probably cause visitors to look for another page, instead.

Any Web designer that you hire should be able to take direction well. This means that they should be able to listen to your needs and interpret them appropriately. However, do not be surprised if the Web programmer makes some best practice recommendations that do not necessarily align with your vision. This just means that they are doing their job.

Friday, 22 April 2016

25 Mind Blowing Photoshopped Images

Photo manipulation may be the most relaxing and fun thing you can do with Photoshop. This wonderful digital art makes it possible for designers to turn ordinary photos into unexpected, unique and creative images. This type of digital art is often done by designers and Photoshop and Illustrator are among the most common software used for it.

Photos can be Photoshopped in various ways, each artist expressing his or her own creativity, personality and style through the work. The work of photo manipulators/Photoshoppers is usually a mix between photography and graphic design and combines certain elements to create an interesting, mind-blowing image.

Photo manipulation requires a very creative set of skills and only very talented designers are able to achieve a great level of perfection in which their Photoshopped images can convince even the most experienced set of eyes.

If you’re interested in changing photos to create an illusion, then these incredible Photoshopped images will surely inspire you. This type of art requires both skill as well as an active imagination. Are you up for it? If you want to learn how to upgrade your Photoshopping skills, you should also take a look at these Brilliant Sci-Fi/Space Photoshop Tutorials. These tutorials will teach you how to create lifelike images of space, planets and stars with tools found in Photoshop and they will surely help you build the strong foundation needed for successfully photo manipulating images.

Enjoy browsing through this list of 25 mind-blowing Photoshopped images which are completely unbelievable and reality-defying! You will notice that the high-skilled retouching technique used by these Photoshop artists makes these beautiful images look almost real!

So, which one of the Photoshopped images below do you like most? Some of the following images contain illustrative elements, while others go for a more realistic approach. Which approach do you prefer?

Let us know in the comment section below.

Aquatic

Revealed

Day

Vertical Turn

Fishy island

Chess king

Sleeping ocean

Aquarium

Dancing with Death

Faceoff

Childhood Dream

Fishing in the sky

A Sweet Pasture

Explosive Kiss

Mind-breaker

Guitar Splash

Wet dreams on open waters

Embrace My Sorrow

Lazy dog

On an Island

My Cocon

Keys

Go your own road

Kiss of Death

Reaching the sky 2

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Thursday, 21 April 2016

BoldGrid Review a Revolutionary Website Builder Using WordPress

Today, we will be reviewing BoldGrid, a revolutionary new website builder that is built on top of WordPress. What exactly is BoldGrid? It’s a solution to the problem of how to create a website without coding knowledge and without using a dedicated website builder. In fact, BoldGrid is built on top of WordPress, and as such allows you to benefit from thousands of themes and plugins that have been developed in WordPress. In addition, this eliminates the monthly fees you are would normally be required to pay if you were using a website builder.

Prefer to watch over reading? Check out the video below that explains what BoldGrid is:

There are 2 stages of website creation with BoldGrid. The first stage is the “inspiration” stage, where you choose the type of theme you want. The second stage is the “customization” stage, where you actually change all the elements in the theme and customize it to your liking. So let us walk through all the steps to see just how easily and quickly you can make a website with BoldGrid.

First, after we go to the Inspirations section, we are presented with a choice of the category our website will be in. At the time of writing this review, the options here are:

Portfolio, which contains Design and Photography
Home & Property, which contains Home Repair, Property Management and Real Estate
Entertainment, which contains the Music category
Universal, which contains Default and General categories
Health & Beauty, which contains Fashion and Fitness categories
Business, which contains Consulting and Marketing categories
Food & Drink, which includes the Restaurant category

I chose the “Design” category for the purposes of this review. Next, after choosing the category you are presented with all of the themes available inside that category.

I picked a theme that I liked and was then taken to the “Pages” section, where you need to pick how many pages your website will have. The 3 options here are “Base”, which includes the standard pages in the theme, “Five Page”, which gives you 5 most commonly used pages in the category you’re in, and “Kitchen Sink”, which gives you all the possible pages you can have inside a given category. There is a warning given here that choosing “Kitchen Sink” may make your menu unusually long. You may have noticed something about “Coins” in the above screenshot – there will be more on that later in this review.

And that was it for the Inspiration stage. You will get on-screen confirmation that you are finished with the Inspiration phase and you are about to enter the Customization phase.

After I clicked “Customize” I was taken to a theme Theme appearance section, which looks and acts exactly the same as any WordPress theme appearance customization section. Here you can choose your site title, logo, colors, background, menus, header and footer widgets, as well as advanced customization options including custom JS and CSS.

Active + Staging Functionality

The cool thing about BoldGrid is that it allows you to create and work on an entirely new version of your site, all while keeping your current site active. This is accomplished through BoldGrid’s “staging” functionality, where you can build out and view your new (staging) site, and make it live only after you are fully comfortable with how the new site looks and functions.

Coins

It should be noted that at this time BoldGrid works from BoldGrid-supported hosting providers only. Currently, your 2 hosting choices when it comes to BoldGrid are InMotion Hosting and Web Hosting Hub. Once you have a BoldGrid-supported hosting provider, you can use BoldGrid by picking one of the account options (outlined below). You can also add some functionality by having “coins”. This is really like credits which you use to “purchase” additional things inside your BoldGrid-enabled WP admin panel.

Account Options

BoldGrid is currently in its very early release stage, with the following options to be available:

Free Version. In April of 2016, there will be a free version of BoldGrid that allows you to use all of the functionality of BoldGrid but excludes support. Hosting and installation will also be your own responsibility when choosing the free option.
Web Professional Version. This will be available in June of 2016. There isn’t much information available on this version at this time.
Premium Version. This version will also be available in June of 2016 and will include things like automatic updates of all BoldGrid themes and plugins, GridBlocks, installation support, and 24/7 chat and ticket support.

Ready to dive in deeper? See this page on how to get started with BoldGrid today.

Get Started with BoldGrid

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20 Best Web Design Galleries to Submit Your Designs

These best web design galleries are committed to bringing you the best designed websites from around the world! Making it into some of these galleries is not as easy as simply having a valid website. Thousands of designers, students and business professionals visit them regularly to see new work, upcoming trends or design inspiration, so your design must be worth watching!

Also, if you are looking for a talented web designer for your project, you can browse through these web design galleries and contact the designers whose work caught your attention. Or if you want to create your own site or a client’s site and are looking for some design inspiration, these galleries are just perfect for that. Most of them have useful filters, by color, type, niche etc. so you can effectively browse through all the designs.

These web design galleries’ purpose is to showcase designers’ work and to act as a portal to the web design community. These great sites also provide you with a central resource to view a wide range of eye catching and innovative web designs plus inspire you to create new and exciting web designs.

Here they are!

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