Future of Web – HTML 5

HTML 5

The writing is on the wall: HTML 5 is the future. Soon after Apple embraced HTML 5 specifications & disallowed any FLASH based applications on its highly successful Iphone and Ipad, the industry analysts have started predicting checkmate for FLASH because HTML 5 has the potential to rival the multimedia capabilities of proprietary plug-in software’s like FLASH & Silverlight. It will also allow web site design projects to have structured pages and will give more power to the browser to carry out functions like video playback and drag and drop.

HTML 5 is being touted as the next generation mark up language with several new features. It will soon be knocking at your doorstep. Find as much as you can about it before your competitor does and uses it to design future websites.

Starting an Internet Business

Internet Business

Internet is the best thing that ever happened to small business owners. It has offered a level playing field for them since the capital involved is minimal. Today, all you need is an idea to change your life. Once you have an idea; implementation requires a computer with an internet connection and a web designer who would give you an awesome yet affordable web page design. That’s it; you are sorted & good to go. But we know even roses have thorns & likewise there are few downsides of starting an online business. Let’s take a look”

•    Security & Confidentiality:  One of the greatest challenges fronted by any business conducted over the internet is security, especially if it involves financial transactions.

•    Trust Deficiency:  Internet has evolved and has changed the way we deal with our day today life. Most of our time is spent using computer or doing any internet related activity but even after so much customers still have trust issues with online business owners.

•    Copyright Infringement:  The medium is such that it is hard to contain copyright infringement issues on internet, which in turn discourages business owners to initiate e-commerce or trade on the web.

Are You Ready with your Web 3.0 Designs?

Web 3.0 Design

After my recent seminar on web designing, an attendee came up to me very casually and asked “Can you make my site Web 3.0ish”? I had no answers and tried to dismiss this evolutionary term as just another marketing gimmick and not any real evolution of the web. But the question that day made me sit up and realize that the next generation of web is right around the corner and I need to brace myself for this technological shift or be left behind. Later on, I did some Bing-ing on the term & found out that web 3.0 has emerged out of the need of having a more intelligent web with a human-centric content. As a freelancer, if you are undertaking online web designing projects with Web 3.0 in mind then these web sites are bound to get you more traffic & visibility leading to a rich & unique browsing & customized search experience.  This multi-dimensional and focused web is the future. Let the new Web 3.0 era begin.

Content Writing – It’s not just about Words!

Content Writing

It is often said that words are building blocks of civilization. Well, in the modern world, words or rather keywords are building blocks of websites. The problem is that it’s just few words or phrases that matter in our online world. These (key)words  help people to search or scan web pages quickly. Companies spend a fortune to get the content on their websites right but low value content can kill the whole purpose of inserting keywords into the website content. The problem is that the most freelance projects are all about inserting keywords or phrases rather than making the content effective for the consumer. This is particularly true for long tail searches. Hence before undertaking web designing projects you should first decide on the words because once the proper content is ready, you are 80% done. But more often than not, it’s not the case. The role of the content writer is to just fill in the blanks-upon the design and form that is already constructed with some key(words). In most teams the content writer gets very little respect for the work that he does. But don’t let that de-motivate you because your words have power to get you a goldmine.  Keep Digging.

Affordable Web Page Designing

Web Design

Web designing is the process of creating a website to deliver content to the end-user. The web designing work requires the designer to presents a web page in such a way that it creates awareness about the company, its specialization and the focus areas. There are many online web designing projects available for the freelance web designers on the internet. These web designing projects require several basic elements incorporated into the website like creativity of the web page design, ease of navigation for the user, optimum performance of the website, customer satisfaction and serviceability.

Knowledge of graphic design, marketing and an understanding of the consumer are a must for an attractive, user-friendly and stout website. To create affordable web page designs, most companies these days employ freelancers or outsource web designing projects. The use of freelance designers’ results in creation of high quality designs & also minimizes the cost of putting an idea into reality.