If you have discovered this article, our guess is that you are looking for a professional who can help you build your website. If this is your first time to build a website you may be confused on how to actually start your OWN website that will help jump start your business.

As you are reading this article, there could be 500 million websites existing on the Internet.  Out of the 500 million websites there could be at least one million website that your business will be competing against. Most of these websites have been built years before you even entertained the idea of starting your own website.  They have their own fancy looking website and a legion of followers.

So, the question is how do you get create websites that will compete with these big businesses.  This is the importance of getting individuals who have experience in web development and web design.  They have the skills in ensuring that your goals for your website is achieved

First thing that you should keep in mind is that the Internet has helped equalize the playing field between big businesses and small businesses.  This is the time when small businesses can compete with big businesses.  This is the time when small business owners can actually give big businesses a run for their own money.  So do not be overwhelmed by the number of competitions.

Now, how do you create a website that will attract your target clients? You need to know that it is not only about building a website.  The important thing is to build a website that can get the attention of your target audience. Otherwise, your website will not be able to help you achieve your company’s objectives.

The second thing that you should keep in mind is that in creating a website that will leave its mark to your target audience, profits should take a back seat over meeting the needs of your customers.  You should keep in mind to serve your clients first.  Businesses which want to achieve success with the use of the internet should know that the customers do not want to hear you directly selling stuff to them.  If this is your strategy then you can say goodbye to your dream of hitting it big in the Internet.

To be able to succeed you need to serve your clients first. Give them what they need. Inform them and educate them.  Feed them information so they will keep coming back to you.  Once you catch their attention, then that is the time that you start offering them your stuff.  So in creating your website make sure that you are able to serve your clients first before you think about profits.

Make sure that you communicate these goals to your chosen web developer!

Web development does not start with the actual building of a website.  In fact, web development starts with choosing a name for your website – domain name.

In choosing a domain name for your website, there are a few things that you may want to consider before you finally decide to register your name.

1.      Choose a name that provides a glimpse of what your organization is about.  Getting a name that relates to your organization, its products and services is very important especially so your customers can easily find you.  You can ask your web developer to choose an appropriate name for your business which is still available.  But it is best for you to decide on this for yourself.  For example, the domain name winedepot.com.ph will instantly reveal that the website is about wines.  Another example is fatboyspizza.com.ph.  The domain name will let you know that the website sells pizzas.

2.      Choose a name that is easy to spell.  In the Internet world, simplicity is beauty.  Avoid going for names that are too long or too difficult to spell.  If it is too long then your customers may have difficult time trying to remember your website domain name.  Or, if your domain name is difficult to spell then it will be misspelled by your clients.  Help your clients remember your name by choosing short names or easy names to remember.

3.      Choose names that are easy to remember.  It is always preferred to choose memorable names like business.com or ask.com. Or names that are out of the ordinary like Google.com or Bing.com.  However, this may be easier said than done.  Choosing short names can be difficult to do considering that there are a lot of names that have already been registered.  In most cases, the combining two simple words like home + business or homebusiness.com is already registered.  You need to be really creative in choosing your name and to really try to use combination of words to form names.

Once you have registered your domain name it is time to build your website using your domain name.  The actual web development and web design may start.

A good strategy for web development and web design is to decide on your Domain Name.  For those who are new to the Internet lingo, Lisa Sabin-Wilson defined the Domain Name as the unique Web address that you type in a Web browser’s address bar to visit a website.

A good example of a domain name is yahoo.com or google.com or tambayanspot.com.

Before you ask your web developer to start building your own website you need to choose your domain name.  Domain names are important because it serves as your blog or website’s identity.  It is the name that will distinguish your blog or website from other blogs or websites.  Domain names are also important because of the name recall allowing your clients to find you easily in Google.  If this is your first time to register a domain name there are several things you need to know about domain names.

A. Renting Domain Names.  Buying a domain name is not the same as owning it and exclusively possessing it for unlimited amount of time.  When you purchase a domain name you only have limited rights to its use.  It will have to depend on the terms and conditions when you purchased the domain name.  Some companies that register domain names can allow you to use your domain name from one to ten years.

B. Limited Use of Domain Name.  Bear in mind that when you register a domain name your right to its use is limited only for the duration of the period that you chose when you purchased it.  Before the time expires, you need to renew its registration.  Otherwise, any individual who is interested in your domain name can have it registered under their own account.

C. Register Domain Name Extensions. Another thing that you need to remember is that domain name extensions are different from the domain name itself.  This means that you may have purchased the right to the use of domain name tambayanspot.com but it does not prevent others from registering tambayanspot.net under their own account.  If you are interested to protect your name you need to register the different domain name extensions that come with your domain name.  For example, you may register tambayanspot.co, tambayanspot.info, tambayanspot.org.

Have you decided on what name to use on your website? Tell your web developer about it so you can start building your own website.

After you have registered your domain name, it is time for you to plan your website.

You may be excited to see your finished website and start with your business. But you need to be very patient by planning your website with your web developer before it is developed and designed.
A good web developer will help you plan your website before it is built. This makes planning an important part of web development.

There are several important criteria of a successful website. The first is usability. This means that your visitors or your target clients should be able to use your website easily. Remember that you are building your website as your official mouthpiece to your clients. It will serve as your official representative in the Internet world. So, you have to make sure that your clients will easily find the information that they need to find in your website.

There are important questions you need to ask yourself. Is the purpose clear on your website? Does your website clearly state your goals and objectives? Is it easily navigable? Is there a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page?

Remember that your clients do not have the time to read every page of your website. The most that they will do is to scan your homepage and they make the decision based on what they immediately see. Before your website can be sticky to your clients it has to be user-friendly to your clients. It is the aspect of usability which makes pre-planning of your website an important element in the web development strategy.

There are also hundreds of other websites out there which deal with the same business as you are and which cater to the same clients. You need to make sure that your website creates an immediate impact to the mind of your clients.

An experienced and skilled web developer will help you plan your website so that the elements of usability and user-friendliness are integrated and made part of your web design.

Journey for Hope: Run for Psoriasis is a fun run for a cause that aims to promote healthy lifestyle through exercise as well as to raise funds for the Psorphil Foundation.

This event also aims to build awareness about Psoriasis, a serious inflammatory, non-communicable autoimmune disease that has no known cause and cure, as it carries severe physical, mental and socio-economic burden that affects an estimated 1 to 2 million of the Philippine population. These have been going on for generations and it is not enough that we remain silent. They need to be empowered and be connected with one another in order to alleviate their condition. This inspired the Psoriasis Philippines (PsorPhil) to take the lead in the fight against discrimination through various programs and establishing the PsorPhil Resource Center. Our hope is that one day, no psoriasis sufferer will be discriminated due to his/her condition. We can only achieve this through proper awareness and information dissemination.

Journey for Hope: Run for Psoriasis is set on May 20, 2012 to be held at Bonifacio Global City. Event categories are 3K, 5K, 10K and 16K with registration fees of P450, P550, P650 and P800 respectively. So better gear up this summer and take part of this journey as we promote healthy lifestyle and help create awareness about Psoriasis!

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Because of technological innovations and rise of GPL and open source tools, anyone can study web development and web design. However, not everyone can provide a website with the highest quality. A client seeking must make sure that the web development and web design company can provide them not only a beautiful site but a user-centered one as well.

A successful and efficient web development and web design is like a woman that has both beauty and brains. Aside from being attractive, a business website needs usability and usefulness (Katz- Haas,1998). Often, site visitors will only scan the first hit that would be generated on their list. This is the main reason why in web development and web design, one has to make sure that usability and usefulness is incorporated on the website being developed or maintained.

Usability and usefulness in web development and web design has been defined by Katz- Haas (1998) as important ingredients in creating a website that is user-centered. User-Centered  refers to the ease of access and confidence of a user in using a website. This is brought by web layout, legibility of text, language and visual design. These are important factors in web development and web design that a developer and designer must keep in mind to make sure that the decisions on the design can both meet the wants of a company client as well as the needs of a site visitor. A design may be really pleasing to the eyes but it is nothing if the site users and visitors cannot easily navigate through the page, if it has words that are too difficult to understand, or if the texts are too small or too big to be read easily. The users and visitors are the primary concern in web development and web design. They are the one who interact with the site that is why websites should be ready for the different kind of user and visitors.

A web development and web design that is user-centered is not an easy task to do. Developers and designers has to have enough knowledge about the type of visitors and users. This includes user’s skill and styles in using the internet, cultural backgrounds and personal preferences. It is important that these are met in web development and web design to call the produced web successful and  efficient. It is not an easy task but the rewards are great when a web is developed as user-centered.

Being able to find a web development and web design company that knows the importance of making a website that is user-centered is like finding gold. In Tambayanspot Web Solution, client can relax and worry about other things because this web development and web design company can provide them with a website that they could be proud of.

Reference:

Katz-Haas, Raissa. (July, 1998). Ten Guidelines for User-Centered Web Design. Usability

Interface 5, 1. Retrieved June 11, 2011 from http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/articles/ucd%20_web_devel.html

With the numerous web development and web companies available, choosing the best one is difficult. Clients have different criteria that they look for in a  web development and web design company. However, among these criteria, client must make sure that the company they will choose can develop and design a website that complies to WCAG 2.

Innovations in web development and web design now incorporate accessibility not only for a regular individual but also accessibility for those with disabilities and difficulties. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 or WCAG 2 encompass principles and standard where a website is labeled as efficient and accessible even if different technologies were used in making the site. WCAG 2 is important in web development and web design because it gives guidelines for developers and designers on how they could make their site user friendly.

Following and using WCAG 2 in web development and web design is not that difficult because it also provide examples and sample commands on how to make the web user-friendly and accessible. The primary goal set by WCAG 2 in web development and web design is to “provide a shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally” (Caldwell et.al., 2008). Using WCAG 2  in web development and web design is guided by four principles. These are “(1) Content must be perceivable,(2) Interface elements must be operable, (3) Content and controls must be understandable, and (4) Content must be robust enough to work with current and future web technologies” (Caldwell et.al., 2008). Each of this four principles have 12 guidelines and 61 criteria that should be met before the site could be labeled as accessible even for individuals with different disabilities. The principles in WCAG 2 are general in nature and are applicable in business and personal type of websites.

Changes in technology and gadgets are for everyone. Even the less privilege and handicapped individual has the right to enjoy and use these gadgets and technology.  WCAG 2 in web development and web design aims to make sure that this right is being practiced to the fullest. Having a site that has passed the standards set in WCAG 2 is also an added boost for the site since there is a greater chance that users will visit the site again if they had enjoyed their stay and experience.

The software and tools will not matter as long as they can provide an acceptable, accessible and user-friendly site even for the less privilege users. In Tambayanspot Web Solution, they are familiar with the principles of WCAG 2 and they can comply.

Reference:

Caldwell Ben, Michael Cooper, Loretta Guarino, and Greg Vanderheiden. (December 2008)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. W3C Recommendation. Retrieved 11 Jun 2011 from http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

      Advertisement plays an important role in making a product or service known to the public. In a world where technology and internet dominates, many web development and web design companies competes to render service to as many client as possible without sacrificing the quality of their works.

       Topseos-Independent Authority on Search Vendors has recently released their June 2011 list of top ten web development and web design companies. The top five U. S. companies include WebiMax, Web312, Clizy Creative, DeepBlue, and Customer Magnetism. Topseos has been researching and ranking web development and web design companies for eight years now. They also have been cited by CNN as a great source to check if a specific web development and web design company could generate the kind of service the company needs. These web development and web design companies were rank according to the quality of output and service they are able to provide their client.

         The top companies’ client retention rate ranges from 85 percent to 98 percent. A web development and web design company should be able to understand and provide the different needs of their clients to retain them. For Topseos, it is important that a web development and web design company knows what processes are needed to be done to ensure that these clients are satisfied with the services provided. Satisfied clients would stay and in turn web development and web design companies are able to generate huge revenue. Customer Magnetism, as cited by Topseos, has their current revenue at 5 million dollars and their clients include Sallie Mae, Echo Inc, BeliefNet and FX Pro.

          For a company to be successfully marketed, key words and on page optimization are crucial. A web development and web design company should be able to strategically place keywords, title tags and meta tags that could make the websites ranking higher and competitive in the online marketing industry. Newest trends in web development and web designs should also be provided. Clients should be educated about it so that they know what their options are and how their websites could be enhanced for better traffic and optimization.

         A successful web development and web design company knows how to satisfy their clients. In turn, these satisfied clients rewards the company by making sure that their efforts are well compensated. In choosing a web development and web design company, one has to make sure that it is a company that could understand their needs and be able to provide it.

Reference:

Best Web Design Companies – June 2011. Topseos. Retrieved June 11, 2011 from
http://www.topseos.com/rankings-of-best-web-design-companies