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Business Web Presence

Positioning

If you are developing a web site for business of any kind, and you want to be seen, POSITIONING your site on the leading search engines is one of the most critical factors. This is done with HTML coding, and is one of my specialties. Click my e-mail link and request a FREE Web Position Assessment.
If they can't find you out of the hundreds of millions of Web Pages on the net, all investment in graphics, layout, Web Hosting etc. is wasted.

E-commerce

Making money with your Web-Site by selling products, taking credit card numbers and similar business transactions is called E-commerce. This is the hottest thing in business today. Your small business can compete with the biggest corporations; millionaires are being made every day. We can offer you an economical custom E-commerce solution based on your company's goals.

Text

The basic item on your web page(s) will be text. You can make it any color altho about 16 are viewable on old legacy monitors. Your text letters can be different sizes, underlined etc. You have the option of including large portions of text imbedded within your web-site without your visitors having to scroll thru it all. They can just click on it and save it on their computer to read later. This can save a lot in mail-outs, "800" numbers etc.

You can have text that links to another page or site such as the 3 words below.
Roll your mouse over these 3 words and when the cursor changes into a hand, click; remeber to
Matt's Home Page
click the 'back" button on the top of your browser to get back here!
Once back; notice how the color of the "link" letters change to a "visited link".

Here's a great way to get attention to text: a MARQUEE...

(IF you don't see scrolling words; time to update your browser!) They read this text every time!

You can do some tricks like this with javascript:
Click here Bugs invade WWWeb! to see a cool trick with ants.
REMEMBER to click your "back" button to get back here!

Visual

Of course you probably know you can put pictures, called "images" on your sight, such as the blue bar above. You will need to have them in digital format . This means you either copy them from a computer to a disk (from your files, the internet etc.) or you can get them from a store that sells "clip-art" disks. You may also decide to create images using various art software.

You could also scan a photo or even convert video segments into digital files, altho this gets costly and many computers would take a long time to view video. Just about any visual effect can be placed on your web-site!

An "animated" .gif image :

CLICK HERE to see some animated .gif images

One important visual is your background. You can use a solid color, or a "tiled" image. Most backgrounds on the internet are small images that are "tiled" or repeated across the page. This enables us to create nice backgrounds that are quick loading; that is they don't take a long time to appear on an average computer. This is important because some folks won't wait for a fancy expensive web-page to appear.
Click here for sample background CLICK HERE to see some possible background colors

Sound

Many people are not aware that you can include sound into your web-site. Many of your customers will have multi-media computers with sound playing capabilities. The types of sound vary from sound effects and music to human voices. You need the sound in the form of a computer file to post it on your web-site. You can do much of this yourself or work with a sound professional such as myself. As with video, the cost varies depending on the complexity of what you want to do.

Your site can have buttons like this:


Roll your mouse onto the button and push to go to a sample form! Click your "BACK" button to return here.

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