websites are hard

ok so this redoing of website stuff is not easy!  Man i have a lot of quilts, and that means a lot of pictures to edit and subpages to create!ahahahahaha

so my frontpage says pics will be up today and that is a lie.......i am now going to have them up by friday...i promise.....(fingers crossed) but check out my etsy site for pics and email me with any questions you may have...thanks for understanding...

 kim the quilter

проблемы юзабилити… или интуитивно непонятный интерфейс

Каждый веб разработчик, програмист или промышленный дизайнер сталкивался в своей работе с проблемами юзабилити или интуитивно понятного интерфейса. Интерфейс, для работы с которым нужно читать инструкцию - плохой интерфейс.

 

Оказывается и книга в свое время была неинтуитивной, особенно для тех, кто всю жизнь читал папирусы в келье :)

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Web Advice #001: Bad website or no website?

I have been asked lately: Is it better to have a bad website or no website at all?

I would answer: Have no website at all. For the simple fact that people decide to stay at your website within the first nine seconds. I would suggest this, do not get a website up just for the sake of having one. Wait until you have a little bit more flexibility in your budget before investing in a website. It will not only be better for your church, product, etc., but it will be better for your wallet as well.

Any other questions or comments in regard to web design or websites, feel free to post them and I will answer them. Also, check out www.updatablechurch.com to find out more information about improving and utilizing your website.

Templates…

I charge $100 a page to build customer web sites.  That's a really good price, but still too much for some.  What's more, there are some people out there that already have a template that they are convinced is the perfect solution for them.  Unfortunately, they still haven't built their site.

Easy or not, when you've never used a template, or any other software for that matter, then working with templates is a nightmare.  There's still a learning curve involved in putting together a template site, and that takes time.  And don't forget that data entry is only a small piece of the puzzle.

Building your site with a template still doesn't guarantee that your site will look good when you're done.  It still takes and artist's eye to know what looks good, and it takes a graphic artist to properly execute a well organized, balanced, and esthetically pleasing site design.

GRIZDOG.COM to the rescue!  If you're planning to have your site built with a template, and you've had your template for 6 months, or even a year, and you still haven't done it; guess what - you never will.  It's too time consuming and you're not getting the results you wanted, so I'll do it for you.

For $50 a page I'll build your template up so that it is informative, looks nice, and is laid out the way you need it to be so that your visitors can find what they're looking for.

Let me know when you're ready to stop banging your head against your monitor.  All you have to do is send me the details (location of template, access information, data to be displayed on site) and I'll do the rest.  It's just that easy!

I'll even maintain it for you!

http://www.grizdog.com

We Don’t Need no Stinkin’ Templates!…

I was going to go all out and build fantastic web sites that my customers could update on their own.  Now, I'm not.

Everybody I meet that has a template, never bothers to update it.  Regardless of the ease, robustness, or quality of a template, customers who own them hate using them.  Nobody wants to update their own site.  Web design is repulsive to them.

Instead, I'm selling service contracts for super reasonable rates.  I charge $60 a quarter.  That gives them 3 updates a month (not including new pages) for each of the 3 months that they paid for.  Plus, they only have to pay for 3 months, so if they don't get enough use out of the system, they can skip the next quarter.

There are other guys around these parts that charge $500 a year.  That means you have to come up with $500!  None of my clients strike me as the type who would be happy doing that.  With my contract, they aren't paying for a whole year of updates, only to realize that they hardly ever use the service they paid for.  I don't ever want my customers feeling like they got ripped off by being suckered into some maintenance contract that they didn't need to begin with.

If you, or someone you know, has a template, and like most people, never use it, then send them to me.  All they have to do is send me their updates and $60 a quarter.  I'll do the rest.

http://www.grizdog.com

Efecto Cromo

Esta técnica es muy sencilla, y la intención es dar un cromado bicolor a una imagen o texto en este caso.Empecemos con una imagen de de 128 x 71 píxeles; inicialmente con dos layers, rellenemos el layer de fondo con un azul oscuro (11,4,141 en escala RGB). Read the rest of this page »

skb expiring ..

tidak terasa setahun sudah web skb mengudara, rupanya domain+hostingnya harus diperpanjang lagi..Sekalian mau re-coded lagi kayanya, soalnya yang sekarang kacau balau banget codingnya. Yup, itu adalah web resmi pertama made in uranglembur. Rencananya pengen dibikin seperti cms jadi lebih modular dan mudah dikembangkan ( keren amat bahasanya, padahal masi bego ??? ). Kendala yang dihadapi..setahun itu pula tidak menyentuh PHP-JS-HTML-CSS. lieur oge, tp yang penting dicoba dulu deh..meskipun sederhana tapi membuat sendiri tentunya lebih menyenangkan. Oya, kalo pake cakephp kira2 gimana ya???????

http://skb-kuningan.org/

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ( a distributed hypertext-based information system developed at CERN; also called the Web, WWW, or W3 commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, a user views web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks. World Wide Web an Internet-based system for the retrieval of information from distributed servers by use of a client or browser. The World Wide Web supports text, graphics and multimedia, and is a key medium for communication, business and entertainment in the Networked World. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Sam Walker from the United Kingdom, and Robert Cailliau from Belgium, working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of web standards (such as the markup languages in which web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.

Web Page

A Web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext links.

I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues

Now that people's page ranks have dropped for the update in Google's algorithm, the SEO community in general is speculating that PageRank will be no more. Are the rumors true?

Elton John Greatest Hits Album CoverYes, there are a million different examples of "real good sites" that have dropped in SERPs dramatically, but I guess I'm just having more trouble seeing this as a negative thing in the long run. When you are in the business of manipulating the system, it's only a matter of course that eventually, the system will manipulate you. As Elton John sang, "times are changing, now the poor get fat, but the fever's gonna catch you when the [expletive deleted by author] gets back."

Any time there is a shift in what works / doesn't for SEO for any of the major search engines ... well, when you're operating under assumptions and using tactics that don't apply or just don't work anymore, what is the logical reaction? Going back to 2001, you can find complaints about people's pages dropping from SERPs when Google "changes something." The circle of life is as relevant as ever.

When you spend your days researching where to buy the best paid links, and all the knowledge and work in that regard seems to have been blown out like a candle in the wind, how are you going to respond? Time and money, gone. It's extremely frustrating.

Holy Moses I have been removed!
What happened when Bourbon update came out? How about Jagger 1, 2 and 3? Was there more unrest with Big Daddy rollouts?

As a professional involved in marketing, and especially as the mother of a 2-year-old, I know I have to evolve and adapt to changing situations. Quickly. Or I won't make it. I know my future lies beyond the yellow brick road.

This new update doesn't change anything, really. Not the building blocks that matter. The strongest SEO tool we have is still the gray matter between our ears. When Google's algorithms change, our gray matter remains.

It seems since when the Bourbon update was completed, the paid link demotion was inevitable. In addition, when more importance was placed on IBL (Inbound Links) Relevancy - as indicated in Update Jagger in 2005, it only makes sense that Google would indeed continue to "purify" relevant inbound links and make relevant links matter more.

Call me naive, and maybe my rose colored glasses, electric boots and mohair suit are not fashionable at this time, but I think all the work we're doing to follow the well-publicized Google guidelines will continue to payoff.

We have Google's heart in our sights through application of their webmaster tools, and although everything crumbles sooner or later, we have a million different resources at our fingertips to apply our gray matter quickly and effectively.

Just my 2¢ anyway!

© 2007 Jennifer Poyer

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