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How to Choose Professional Website Color Scheme?

Today, I would like to provide you a good guideline in choosing a Professional Color Scheme for your website. Of course, before that, make sure when you engage a web development company, they have Graphic Designer to work on your web design. And make sure that they are NOT using Template. Because a good Graphic Designer can make a big difference in your Website Professionalism. These are the guidelines for you to decide your Color Scheme: Serious Corporate Feel? Or Classy Look? If you want to have a Serious Business or Corporate Feel, you can use Blue or Grey color. ( recommended to Corporate which provides services/consultancy) If you want to have a Classy Look & Feel, use Dark Grey, Black, Gold, Red. ( recommended for Design Studio website, Photographer Website, Premium Real Estate Website, High Priced Product Website) Complement Existing Corporate Logo If you already have a Corporate Logo, the website color must complement corporate logo. (Unless you want to Redesign your Logo...

Price isnt everything

It is very tempting to automatically exclude anyone who won't work for peanuts. But if you do that, you're not going to have a good looking site. You should come up with a price you think is reasonable, but if every designer quotes you something much higher than that, you probably are expecting too much for too little. On the other hand, it doesn't help to just go with the most expensive quote. Just because someone quotes you a rate that's extremely high doesn't mean that you will get an extremely good site. The law of diminishing returns applies. Some rules of thumb for pricing: Free means you'll get a very bad site or very very little. At best you'll get a good site, and then when you ask them to make one change they'll never answer your calls. Volunteering and barter is different than free. If you run a non-profit, you might be able to find a Web designer to volunteer time for your website. But don't expect it. An estimate of $5-10 per page is ext...

Why Joomla Web Designing is a Better Option?

Joomla CMS is the latest rage in website designing. It is getting popularity due to its easy accessibility and dynamic features. Hurray! I just completed creating a new website and that too ALL By my Own. Well thats the kind of freedom Joomla web designing has provided you. Your website will look and feel exactly the way you like it. You need not worry about designers fussing over your ideas, or the exuberant cost that you have to pay for good website designing. Joomla Web Designing is a the easiest way so for being introduced for CMS (Content Mangement system of a website). For those who are still unaware of what Joomla exactly is, let me tell you, that Joomla is an open source content management system, that is used to build a website and used henceforth, for any editing that the website might require. Small and Medium sized businesses that develop a medium sized website, are really really fond of this easy to use web designing technique. It is most suitable for those websites, tha...