This site is a Web Design Bible and I think everyone from beginners to professional web designers should at least have this site saved in their favourites / bookmarks.

Here is a list of categories the site has. Each category has a ton of resources listed.

• Specifications
• Webmasters Reference
• Web Authoring
• Articles on Web Authoring
• HTML Tutorials
• HTML Resources
• HTML Tags
• HTML Colour Codes and Swatches
• HTML FAQs
• CSS Tutorials
• CSS Resources
• CSS Compatibility Charts
• CSS Layouts & Examples
• Perl Resources
• PHP Resources
• MySQL Resources
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Site Submission
• Browsers

This list is about 40% of the categories on this site, you will have to visit the site to check out the rest: Web Design Resources.

I think this is an amazing list of Web Design Resources that shouldn’t go un-noticed. It’s definately one for my favourites. What do you think?

It’s a well-known fact that the use of professional and attractive graphical elements on websites increase the proportion of user generated activity such as sales, newsletter subscription, and the amount of time spent on a particular site. Having appealing graphics on your sales page can make the difference between 100 sales a month and 3 sales a month.

I have to agree with that statement 100%, but if you’re not graphically inclined you may struggle when it comes to attracting sales via your website.

I came accross a site that has a huge selection of Web 2.0 style banners and buttons that are ideal for attracting more sales. The only downside about this is they’re not free.

There are alot of sites that offer free banners and buttons but most of them aren’t customisable and only come in a select few colours.

This site Marketing Graphics Pro offer 6,749 for $29.95, which considering what you get for the price is worth it.

Take a look at their site and decide for yourself. They show alot of previews of what you’ll receive if you buy them and I think you’ll agree, they do look pretty snazzy!

If this applies to you this article may interest you.

After reading a post at Web Forumz I became inspired to write this article.

The poster in general has their own web design company and their website is getting 2000+ visitors a month, yet no one is biting the bait or even enquiring about their services.

I took a look at their site and I could see the problem straight away. It wasn’t obvious to the visitor that this site offered web design services. Sure enough, the text in the content specified that, but the site itself didn’t look like that.

In fact, the first thing I noticed was an image of a woman in a bikini on the right hand side. It looked like an advert to an adult-related site, and without looking at the content closer you’d think that is what it was.

Sure, a woman in a bikini will please the majority of men searching for a woman in a bikini, but for someone who wants a professional website and is searching for a professional website, the chances are they will be put off by this and go elsewhere.

When you create a website you must project what you do in the layout rather than rely on the content. In some cases this isn’t a huge problem, but if you’re a Web Design company you need to project what you do, especially if you want customers to know they’ll be getting a high quality website.

Let’s face it, if they see your website as something that doesn’t immediately project what you do, they’ll probably think you’re going to repeat that process with their website.

Do as you would be done by.

I was naive and was under the impression that anything that displayed correctly in IE7, would display correctly in IE6 and other previous versions. Oh, how wrong I was.

I wanted to install IE6 back on my PC but didn’t want to uninstall IE7, so I was in a pickle as to what to do. I didn’t just want to assume all my websites look great in IE6 because they did in IE7, and I know that a huge majority of Internet users are still using IE6.

It was then, that I came accross this great program: MultipleIE. This program is a must have for any web designer as it installs Internet Explorer versions 3 to 6 on your PC, without having to uninstall version 7.

Thoughts Aside
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