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Promote your web designs through email marketing

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Our web designs are the the masterpieces of our dedication and style. We can get lot of money with them. It’s about business that is our pleasure, too. When some websites are using our designs, it feels like we gave the world some colors and contributions for the sake of human kind’s information and technology. We need to know that is precious, and some companies are willing to appreciate your designs a lot with money. It’s a good thing to know that our pleasure is a money machine. So why don’t you try to promote your web designs through email marketing? It’s a good idea actually, here are some benefits those you’d get from email marketing.

-Email is Inexpensive

-Email Creates Quick Response Cycles

-Email Marketing Campaign Results are Measurable

-Email Has Wide Reach

-Email Drives Web Site Traffic and Registration

-Email Strengthens Brand Awareness and Builds Customer Relationships

-Email Can Be Highly Customized

-Email Saves Time

-Email is Easy to Implement and Requires Limited Resources

aren’t they interesting ? If it’s a yes, you need to contact  email marketing services. They have lots of facilities such as email software, online survey tool, bulk email marketing, and other those explain you the above benefits. Icontact is one of email marketing services that will help you promote youe web design. They take care of managing bounces and unsubscribes for you. They also take care of making sure your message gets to the inbox of your recipients through their ISP relations, feedback loops, and whitelist status. If you are currently running into deliverability issues with your existing newsletter sending method, iContact will be very helpful and ensure inbox delivery of your messages. An overview video and practice will help you to promote your web design starts today

Expandable Website Design

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Tutorial on Designing for 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024 and higher

Designing web sites to fit all resolutions is a very important web design principle. Try out the Entheos site in all resolutions higher than 800 x 600 and you will find that it is designed to fit the page exactly. Therefore, visitors who have higher resolution can see more content in one page which reduces scrolling. Most web sites are designed for only one resolution. They may look perfect in a 800 x 600 resolution but if viewed in a 1024 x 768 resolution look a little empty. You’ll find a lot of wasted space around it making the web site look quite small.

From our research we have found that majority of our viewers are on the 1024×768 resolutions and higher. As time goes by more and more people are going to switch to higher resolutions as seen by our site statistics. It is therefore very important to design web sites for all resolutions. That is one of the principles we follow while designing web sites for our clients. With that bit of background information, lets get started on how to design a web site for all screen resolutions.

Step 1: Decide on the lowest Screen Resolution

Before you start you need to decide on your lowest screen resolution. Your web site will have to be designed keeping the lowest resolution in mind. Through our research we have found that less than 0.5% are on the 640 x 480 resolution So we ignore that completely. The next important resolution is the 800 x 600 resolution. Some of our visitors are on this resolution so we use this as our lowest screen resolution. This means that our web site has to fit all resolutions equal to or higher than 800 x 600.

Step 2: Design Your Web Site On This Resolution

Once you decide on your lowest screen resolution you need to design your web site for that resolution This means that all your graphics will be designed for this resolution. Design your web site and export the images as you would normally do.

Step 3: While converting your design to HTML make sure all your tables are measured in terms of percentages

Important: This is the trick to developing web sites for all resolutions. You need to work in terms of percentages and not pixels. If you work in pixels you are giving an absolute measurement to a table, whereas working in percentages gives a relative measurement. The table will be a given percentage of the screen resolution.

I hope you have understood this clearly. I’d like to explain this with an example. If you were to design a site for a 800 x 600 resolution, you would probably make a table with width 800 px and height 600 px. Now if you were to design a web site for all resolutions you need to make a table with width and height 100%, so that whatever the screen resolution may be the web page will scale to fit the page. It will be 100% of the screen resolution or whatever percentage you choose to give it.

The first step is to make a table with 100% height and 100% width. You could make it 95% if you want some white space around it.

Step 4: Insert images and content

Once you have designed your tables in terms of percentages you need to insert your images and content. The usual layouts will probably have a logo which can come on the top left corner and your navigation buttons in the top right or left navigation bar.

For more complex layouts you will need to use background fills to design your web sites. Remember since you are designing web sites to fit all resolutions you need to position your images accordingly (for your header). The easiest principle I follow (if possible) is to use the top left and right corners for fixed images and let the middle tile according to the size of the page.

Step 5: Test your site in all the resolutions

The last step is to test your site in all the resolutions that are available on your computer. To do this you need to:

  1. Right click on your Desktop and click on Properties
  2. Click on the tab Settings
  3. Under Desktop area click shift the scale to 800 x 600, 1024×768 or higher if possible
  4. Once you have chosen the resolution you want to check the site in, click on the Test button
  5. If you can see the bitmap clearly you can click on Apply