What does the term mean? Graphic Web Design typically refers to reworking some or all of the content of your website to focus more on graphical aspects instead of textual context. This is normally done to provide “prettier fonts” and “smoother edges” on some of the text. Possibly special effects (such as drop-shadows) are possible on graphical text (a .jpg image of text, for instance), whereas on raw text, most fonts are traditionally rendered blocky and ugly, even by modern browsers (even worse, the traditional list of “web-friendly” fonts is markably short!). The graphic web design website should never have ugly text, of course!

A Website heavily focused on graphics can often have a difficult time with search engine indexing due to a lack of textual content. This can often mean poor search engine traffic results.

Typically, a graphic web design will focus on maximizing the visual impact of the website. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of minimizing the impact on the search engine, which focuses primarily on structure, content and tags.

Most graphic web design websites also primarily use flash content, so even the “human-readable” text portions of their websites are lost to the search engines. Flash-only websites should typically be avoided until a better solution is found!

Why won’t my graphic web design site show in the search engines?

It’s probably there somewhere. On page 10… or 20… maybe 30… It depends on the terms you are trying to target. An abstractionist painter, for instance, would target the terms “abstract art”. In this case, the particular keyword term is likely to be fairly saturated on the search engines, and likely by historical and information pages about “abstract art” and/or “artists”… This is very problematic for the graphic web design website that just wants their work to be seen!

How can I get my graphic web design website to rank well?

Graphic Web design websites (the “Photo-gallery” websites) are still traditionally difficult to rank well. In this case, it is vitally important that every consideration be taken to all parts of the website structure. In particular, file names, image names, and particular title/alt tags for the HTML source of the image will traditionally help.

It is also extremely important that text be intermingled with images. This will provide search engines much greater accessibility to the content of the pages and over time will eventually help the site’s ranking dramatically. Sometimes we have to sacrifice our pretty fonts to give the search engines something to read too!!

Consider a free website consultation if you have a particular marketing need. I look forward to hearing from you!

GREAT! So you want a website? Now what???

Well, it is natural to assume that you will (probably) want to register a domain name. Pick a good one! It will stick with you for awhile!!!

Next step in a website is hosting! Website hosting is essentially storage space for your website’s files, but it gets abit more complicated than that (But not too much!)

(You can probably skip this next part if you want)

Technically, the web server that hosts your website is also responsible for “serving” that content to the rest of the world! This is why it is called a “server”, and the operating system (OS) of the server runs similiarly to your own personal computer! A Website Host will typically run Windows or Linux, with different capabilities for each type. For the most part, you will want a website host company that has both options open to you. The majority of websites (being mostly HTML) will run just fine on either platform. Specific applications (such as Wordpress, the application that powers the blog you are reading now) will experience greater compatibility on a Linux platform for the most part, and many web developers prefer Linux hosting (since most applications developed for Linux are open source, there are MANY free applications available (correctly referred to as “scripts”). Additionally, many of these open-source applications will have an extremely wide variety of themes and plugins available to customize your website with very little effort! This is GREAT news! It means you can have a fully functioning, interactive website hosted and live with VERY little effort or learning! There are other methods to building a website, so sometimes it can be tough to choose. Let me know if a free consultation interests you and I will be glad to help guide you to a solution.

(Ok, Keep Reading)

For the most part, you can build ANY type of website on almost any type of hosting plan or package, including a full eCommerce site if you choose, with very little experience and next to no programming required (if any!)

Next, you need to decide on an overall purpose for your website. Will it be just a basic layout, super simple? You could get away with a website design software utility for that purpose. Alternatively, you could hand-code HTML or a scripting language of your choice, but who wants to do that?!?! If you do not have website design software, you could consider using a blogging platform, such as Wordpress, or even a full-fledged CMS (Content Management System) such as Joomla or Drupal. These work great, and are easy to get up and running. All of our website hosting includes installers for these and other applications to make hosting a website super easy! We encourage you to explore your options and make the decision to FINALLY bring your website online! If you have questions about specific goals/needs, feel free to ask: we love comments. You can also use our free consultation to help make the right decisions.

If you’ve enjoyed this long-winded article, please share it on your favorite social networks! I’m sure your friends would like it too! Thanks, and have a great day!

What good could FREE Website Design advice possibly be anyway??

Starting an online business is WAY tougher than anybody will ever let on: ESPECIALLY while they are in the middle of trying to “sell” you something. It takes effort! It takes atleast some knowledge! It takes a slight bit of planning and some work. People that are honest enough to let you know this up front, they are worth listening to!

Starting a business online when you may not even know what a website is takes courage. The fact is, ANY online business can be successful, and ANY existing business can be made even more successful by strategic online marketing.

Aligning yourself with consultative assistance is the first step to success: hard work and dedication follows after.

Great! where do I start?

Where do you get started if you don’t even know what HTML is, or how the internet even works?

Especially if you are just starting out, you will be amazed at the extremely vast array of tools available to design a website. Even better, you will be shocked to find that many of these tools are available FREE, and are extremely easy to use, without learning a single bit of coding!

In fact, you will quickly discover that designing a website is the absolute easiest part of your new online business! The tools you will learn are used by the very same web-masters that charge literally thousands of dollars to “build” your website, with surprisingly little work involved.

You will receive starter information on the best ways to begin and brand your business online.

Additionally, you will receive information on starting your website, with consultation services provided on website design and optimization assistance.

Sometimes, taking the first step is the hardest part. Thank you for letting me give you that head start!

• Why Free Consulting?
  I firmly believe one of the most valuable things you can offer anybody online is offered without price. On the other hand, a company cannot remain profitable by simply providing free services and advice, 100% of the time. On that note, online business consulting coincides perfectly with my other business focus; Domain Registration, Hosting, and Website Design Products.
• What Services will be included with my Free Online Business Consulting?
  Certain Services will be recommended of course, depending on your unique needs. Advice provided for the consultation itself is provided at no charge, regardless of service options selected, or the provider selected for such services. Advice is provided in good faith, and comes from an industry expert with over 15 years in the technical industry, including website design and programming.
• What good is free advice?
  Certainly better than the advice not taken! I look forward to assisting you!
• So why is this really free?
  It is really really free! What you choose to do with it is entirely up to you! I have been providing advice and assistance for years on a one-on-one basis for a wide variety of websites and consider myself among the most technically equipped to handle any marketing challenge that the internet can muster! I enjoy tackling the challenge, and as a new facet of my own personal online business, personal consulting is a natural fit!

What good could FREE Website Design advice possibly be anyway??

Starting an online business is WAY tougher than anybody will ever let on: ESPECIALLY while they are in the middle of trying to “sell” you something. It takes effort! It takes atleast some knowledge! It takes a slight bit of planning and some work. People that are honest enough to let you know this up front, they are worth listening to!

Starting a business online when you may not even know what a website is takes courage. The fact is, ANY online business can be successful, and ANY existing business can be made even more successful by strategic online marketing.

Aligning yourself with consultative assistance is the first step to success: hard work and dedication follows after.

Great! Where do I start?

Where do you get started if you don’t even know what HTML is, or how the internet even works?

Especially if you are just starting out, you will be amazed at the extremely vast array of tools available to design a website. Even better, you will be shocked to find that many of these tools are available FREE, and are extremely easy to use, without learning a single bit of coding!

In fact, you will quickly discover that designing a website is the absolute easiest part of your new online business! The tools you will learn are used by the very same web-masters that charge literally thousands of dollars to “build” your website, with surprisingly little work involved.

You will receive starter information on the best ways to begin and brand your business online.

Additionally, you will receive information on starting your website, with consultation services provided on website design and optimization assistance.

Sometimes, taking the first step is the hardest part. Thank you for letting me give you that head start!

• Why Free Consulting?
  I firmly believe one of the most valuable things you can offer anybody online is offered without price. On the other hand, a company cannot remain profitable by simply providing free services and advice, 100% of the time. On that note, online business consulting coincides perfectly with my other business focus; Domain Registration, Hosting, and Website Design Products.
• What Services will be included with my Free Online Business Consulting?
  Certain Services will be recommended of course, depending on your unique needs. Advice provided for the consultation itself is provided at no charge, regardless of service options selected, or the provider selected for such services. Advice is provided in good faith, and comes from an industry expert with over 15 years in the technical industry, including website design and programming.
• What good is free advice?
  Certainly better than the advice not taken! I look forward to assisting you!
• So why is this really free?
  It is really really free! What you choose to do with it is entirely up to you! I have been providing advice and assistance for years on a one-on-one basis for a wide variety of websites and consider myself among the most technically equipped to handle any marketing challenge that the internet can muster! I enjoy tackling the challenge, and as a new facet of my own personal online business, personal consulting is a natural fit!