May
13
Making user friendly Online forms
10:05 am
An online form allows prospects to take a variety of actions: contact you, subscribe to your e-zine, request information and, of course, order something. A form is a communication tool for them and a marketing tool for you. You need an online form to collect contact information and to get permission to communicate with prospects. Otherwise, once they leave your site, they could be gone forever.
An online form itself isn’t effective marketing, however. In fact, if you’re committing the following mistakes, yours could be costing you customers.
- Requiring unnecessary information : Do you really need prospects to provide personal information such as a company title, phone number, mailing address and registration of a login name and password? If not, remove these fields or label them as optional.
- Restricting open fields : Ever type so many characters that a field ended before you finished? Expand the length of your fields to account for long names, e-mail addresses and other information you require.
- Forcing repeat work : If your forms are not completed correctly, are prospects forced to start over? They won’t. Be sure to retain the information already entered while pointing out the area that needs attention.
Don’t just fix your forms; optimize them. Try these time-tested tips to make your forms better marketing tools:
- Include your contact information. Give prospects the option to call you instead of, or in addition to, completing your online form.
- Offer your e-zine. While they’re already contacting you, invite them to subscribe to your newsletter.
- Ask how they found your site. This optional question could give you insightful marketing information without putting off prospects.
Your online forms get prospects to make initial contact with you. Make this process painless because your online forms won’t get a second chance to make a first impression.
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May
07
Emotions involved in Web Designing Colors
06:53 pm
Color Theme on your website design template is very important to realize that different colors invoke different emotions, are associated with specific concepts and say different things in each society. The colors you choose will have a direct effect on how the public perceives your web company. Technology allows us to create color combinations.
Here are some of color according from Human Body Chakra’s :
Red:
Sense of power, excitement and energy, Money, strength, action
Orange:
Love, passion, sexuality, Ideas, Imaginations, Currier, friendliness, and energy
Pink
Love, Peaceful, happy, feminine, compassion, sweet, playful
Yellow:
Prosperity, Caution, brightness, intelligence, joy, organization, Spring time
Green:
Health, nature, comfort, growth, freshness, sharing and responsiveness
Blue:
Knowledge, Scientist, Understanding, cooperation, protection and security
Purple:
Spiritualism, Royalty, sophistication, religion
Black
Super power, Elegant , Dramatic, classy, committed, serious
White:
Pure, fresh, easy, cleanliness or goodness
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May
04
Say no to flash
07:47 pm
When Flash came along…
Millions and millions of years ago, man created an invisible entity, a power to which the world would kneel down and worship and would change the lives of everyone forever. Some called it the ‘World Wide Web’, but by some it was known only as ‘The Internet’.
In it’s early days of life, the Internet was slow and ugly and rarely reared it’s head in public. But over time it began to grow and flourish. It adopted HTML to promote it’s power and ideas, picked up CSS to fashion it’s wardrobe and used directories and Search Engines for PR. Soon, the Internet had a whole team behind it - a list of acronyms only a madman could contemplate.
But something was missing. There was no movie producer, no director to push the Internet to the big screen. Until Flash came along. Hailed as the saviour, the messiah - the chosen one!
Right I’m going to cut the insane metaphor here. Flash was not a saviour - it simply opened doors, many of which shouldn’t have been opened. It made bad websites worse, and generally made good websites… different.
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Apr
26
sIFR-The magic of javascript and Flash
11:54 am
SIFR-Scalable Inman Flash Replacement.As the meaning of the word suggest it has something to do with the flash and the replacement of something in the web in flash.SIFR enables us to embed the customized fonts into web page by the use of javascript with some special kind of flash.
sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is created by Mike Davidson. It solves the problem that disappoints of many people when they first start designing websites - browsers only accept a limited number of fonts. Some people try to get around this obstacle by using images for text, but this technique is bad for SEO, invisible to screenreaders and difficult to change. SIFR uses Javascript and Flash to solve all those issues.
However, one thing you need to do is create a special Flash file to hold your font. In this quick tutorial we’ll show you how to use sIFR on your Joomla site in 8 easy steps:
Simple Instructions to Create Cool Font Headings in Joomla.
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