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A good idea has to be put into action to be called successful. An excellent idea or concept, if badly implemented is a failure.  The same applies to websites too.

If you are looking to succeed in an online project, then it is of utmost importance that you give enough importance to the design and development of your site. Web development companies can do this job if they are good enough. Consider DataDial. This company, based in London is an excellent example of a great web development company. With over 150 clients DataDial has designed websites that are developed to generate leads, what the company terms ‘ a compelling call to action’ for users. Read the rest of this entry »

In order to reduce the time and effort required to design a new site, webmasters choose to opt for off-the-shelf content management systems. Some of the open source content management softwares or CMS in short have become very popular owing to their being free, ease of use, flexibility and availability of community support. Examples of such CMS are Wordpress, Joomla, Nucleus, Drupal and hundreds of others.

When you setup your site based on these software, you may want the look and feel of the site to be different from other sites using the same software. This can be achieved using templates or skins. Read the rest of this entry »

A good website can be identified by the graphics it uses. With photoshop being some what difficult to use, dotAlex.com presents some tutorials to create stunning graphics for your site.

Each tutorial contains detailed step by step instructions to ensure that there is no ambiguity and no room for unexpected results. For an example check out this tutorial on how to create an attractive banner.

Also available on this site are some HTML and PHP tutorials and more tutorials are expected to be added soon. The pudding on the cake is the 200 free psd logos that you can download for free. For a sample of some of the logos, please visit this page.

We, all webmasters spend so much time on marketing and content that we sometimes lose track of the third most important factor in a website - good design. If a site is not pleasing to look and feel (yes, you can ‘feel’ a good site), then chances are visitors will leave as quickly as they come in.

This is where All4YourWebsite.com comes in. As a webmaster you can get ready made website templates for your site, ensuring you concentrate on things you are good at. Templates are all reasonably priced and categorised. You can select from categories such as flash templates, swish templates etc. Templates are also available for popular applications/CMS’ like Wordpress, Zen cart, osCommerce etc. A search option is also built in to help you to quickly identify templates suitable for your niche.

A special category that you must make a point to visit is the zero download section. Here you will find templates that have never been bought/downloaded. This means that these are totally unique over the entire net. Real value for money, we say.

How many times have you been looking for free web templates that are not of trash quality? Google returns millions of results and to find that hidden gem in that easily takes hours.

We suggest that you try oswd.org for all your free web design needs. OSWD has hundreds of very high quality designs that you can use for free. All these web design templates have passed through strict quality checks to ensure that all these templates are standards compliant.

Last count there were nearly 1700 designs available for your use - and each one is of the highest quality.

If you are a designer looking to popularise your work, then oswd.org is the place to submit your design. If it gets accepted, then you can proudly mention it in your portfolio. Templates listed in oswd are known to be the source of hundreds of visitors.