10 Great Design portfolio sites.

Branded07
Astuteo
Design Sensory
 Digital Mash
Matt Dempsey 
Web Media Alliance
89Bytes
 Gourami Design
Vebbu
Two December

10 Reasons to hire a professional designer.

A Web Site is Your Online Representative
Professionalism
Saving Time
Getting Ahead of the Competition
Uniqueness and Customization
Communicating Your Message
Getting attention to your site
Search Engine Optimization
Browser Compatibility
Making the Difference between Personal and Commercial Web Sites

10 Ways to use the web to promote your business

1 Set up your own website
2 Use pay per click advertising
3 Submit your name to many website directories.
4 Participate in forums and blogs.
5 Use email marketing.
6 use of personal branding
7 use facebook or twiter
8 posting videos to promote your buisness
9 use of the pay to blog
10 use of podcasting

10Technologies that are changing the way we work and play.

internet
cell phones
video gameing
 telivision
Ipods
laptops
zoom text
adobe flash
adobe photoshop
adobe dreamweaver

ten things to optimized for Search engines

 

1.  The use of key words

2.  The use of description meta tags

3.  Pay to be on the top of Goggle’s search

4.  “Every page on your site must have a unique HTML title tag, meta keywords tag, and meta description tag.

5.   Follow W3C recommendations for HTML document structure. Begin the body copy of your page with your keyword phrase, and repeat it as needed as the theme of the page throughout your copy. Feature your keyword phrase prominently by including it in headers and making it bold or italics.

6.  Use text navigation on your site, and use the keyword phrases you have selected as the links. If you cannot use text navigation, include a footer on every page using text links.

7.  Build a text site map, and link to it from every page of your site.

8.  Organize your navigation according to the importance of your keyword phrases. If you break your site into many pages, link to the most important pages from every page of your site, and link to the other pages from section header pages and the site map.

9.  Establish your site by submitting to the major directories, The Open Directory and the Yahoo! Directory, then build your link popularity by submitting to web directories, search engines, and requesting links from related websites.

10.       Be patient. A search engine optimization project can take quite some time to work.”

http://www.seologic.com/guide/

10 Things to make your site index better.

1 easy navigation eather on the side or sides or on the top
2 use of images and background imgages
3 use of <div>'s to keep the content organized
4 use of no more than 3 or 4 colors
5 use of buttons or image links for for navigation
6 try to avoid animation
7 use of lists for  navigation
8 use of java script for drop-down minus
9 have <a> change color when they are hovered over
10 have them be underlined when they are hovering over them

10 Ways to make money on the web

1 though advertising by posting links to their website.
2 charge membership to be on your site or to host contests and charge a entering fee.
3 Sell photos on stock photography sites 
4 Blog for pay.
5 start your own blog network
6 Write reviews for pay or perks. 
7 Build services atop Amazon Web Services.
8 Virtually assist other web workers.
9  Offer your professional expertise in an online marketplace.
10 Online life coaching.

10 Design ideas to make your site look better.

1, Draw sketches and thumbnails
2. Use clear navigation
3. use of links and color scheme
3. use of  images
4. clear navigation
5 use <div>'s to organize the site
6 use of banors
7 use of bakgraound images
8 divide data into columns or <p> classes
9 use of color based on the theme of yoursite or your target audience
10 use of buttons or blocks to make your navigation look interesting

10 things that make a bad website

1. Grammar and spelling- spelling and grammar mistakes makes the site look unprofessional.

2. Should not use more than three colors- makes the site hard to look at with too many colors.

3. There should not be any flashing colors- in addition to causing  seizures, it is visually distracting.

4. Pics should not get int the way of the content- it makes it harder to read.

5. Pics should be small- it shortens loading time.

6. Navigation should be easy to find- if the viewer can not find the navigation they will not go to other pages.

7. Links have to work- if the links don't work the site falls apart.

8. Should use contrast of collors- green on green does not work.

9. Music- music should not be included unless it is a video.

10. Use of flash- Flash sould only be used when it has to be.

10 skills I will develop in the near future

1 make very effective and and well designed websites
2 be able to make money on the web
3 learn to use social marketing
4 use the web to promote my services
5 improvee my understanding of CSS and HTMl
6 make my sites more enteractive
7 how to add coments to my site
8 better seach engin optimisation
9 create a portfolio site
10 lean how to use personal branding to promote myself