Web Site Development

Your website is your face to the world. If it looks shabby and unkept, your business looks second rate.

Having a professional looking website is a requirement to build trust on the Internet. If your site is a collection of banners and displays all the colors of the rainbow, you're not going to generate the trust required to influence or persuade visitors to buy your products.

Your main page should have a professional "look" to it. It should look clean and easy to use.

If you are not experienced in developing web sites, you should either:

• Find a professional, experienced developer who can create your web site, or
• Locate a web template you can use as a model for your site, and add text, images, and links to your site yourself.

Professional developers will work with you to develop a "theme" for your site. They will work with you to find the right images and format for your site.

You will still need to create most of the text that will appear on your pages. But, all your pages will have the same "look and feel". That is, they will all look similar, have menu links in the same place, and look like they belong to the site.

The number of pages you want on you site and the complexity of the linking structure will be important factors in how much your site will cost. Most website designers work by the hour, so the more complex a project your site is, the more it will cost you.

There are many "quick and easy" web design companies out there, advertising that you can have a one or two page website up in an hour. But, be sure you know what results you can expect.

On the other hand, if you have some knowledge of how to write HTML code, you can use a web template as the basic "look and feel" of your site. You can then duplicate the template for each page. Then, you can add your own text and links.

And there are many website design programs that you can use which are very user friendly. But, keep in-mind that most of these tools are for beginners. They may not provide a professional looking site. If it’s your business, the one you’re trying to make profitable, image is everything. Don’t try to cut corners in this area.

If you can do most of the work yourself, it will cost less. And, you can always ask a friend or a professional for help when you experience difficulties.

In either case, the more work you can do yourself, the easier it will be to get your website up and running.

We hope the following web development resources will be valuable in your efforts.

Website Development Articles

Website Development Articles - ECommerce Partners

How to Add Favicons?
Adding Favicon to a website not only makes it look professional but also, helps the branding of the company logo. Favicon has the potential to make a lasting impression on the visitors and hence it helps promote brand recogniti

SHTML Makes Updating Website Easy
SHTML (Server parsed HTML) is an html document that requires parsing on the server before it is sent to the client browser. All the normal html tags work exactly same in shtml document. The only difference is that shtml documen

How to Create Columns with Div's?
When we at Ecommerce Partners started using div's rather than table for web page layout, the most daunting experience for me was how to create columns using div's. So, here is the solution for a

Conversion from HTML to XHTML
At Ecommerce Partners.net, we (HTML Production Department) were producing html codes for websites using tables for layout. Ahh, good old tables! Then about three months ago, XHTML was made the standard in our company. This implied all our websites are no

Browser Safe Fonts
Fonts make a big difference to the look and experience of the website. Usage of fonts requires sense of aesthetics and discretion. We have the liberty to use any font we want in an image but when we specify the fonts for the te

Reserved ID Values in IE/Win
 If you are facing some weird issues in IE/Win, I suggest making sure that you are not using one of the reserved ID values in the HTML.

Positioning Footer at the bottom of the Browser
Here is an example for how to position the footer at the bottom of the browser using CSS. In these examples, footer will always stay at the bottom of the browser irrespective of the amount of the content.

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