Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Enhance the Look and Feel of your site

Design elements can greatly enhance the look and feel of your website. Below are some of our preferred elements.

Roll Over Buttons and Images
This is when an image or button changes a color or formation when you roll over it with your mouse. This gives an interactive feel to your website.

How to in Dreamweaver:

First make or design your images and buttons and export them to your websites image folder. Now open Dreamweaver and click Insert, Image Objects, then Rollover image. There will be a window that pops up. In that window type a rollover name and alt tag. Then you need to link and browse to locate the original Image and also the Rollover Image. Click on the OK button. That’s it! It’s that easy.

Graphic and Photo Effects
Graphic and Photo effects can make the wow factor for your website. Using the correct quantity of graphic and photo effects can be very compelling, but using too many can achieve the opposite.

For an example using a curved banner on your website can make your site more professional looking and not so square. You can check out some of our portfolio websites that use this here: http://www.websitestoimpress.com/portfolio.html

Site Interactivity
To help make your website more sticky for your visitors you can use site polls, surveys, a guest book, a calendar, and a newsletter sign-up. This makes your website more eventful and draws your visitors in to your website and they are also more likely to come back and visit.

Those are just a few snippets of what you can use to spice up your website while also making it more productive and entertaining!

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