Web Design

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Web Site Evaluation & Design

The new era of communication & marketing requires a dynamic presence on the web. A & A can help you create that presence. Not only do we design attractive, easy-to-navigate web pages, but we also research and provide all the informational links that will bring web users back to your site over and over again. And, after we have designed and published your web site, we will then submit your page to the major search engines.

We also offer help in the following areas:

Identification of purpose and audience

Creation of verbal and visual messages

Market testing and evaluation

Sample of web pages recently designed:

1. This link is to a learning community created as a Senior Project for The Union Institute &
     University. It is full of learning, travel and research resources, as well as a course designed
     on German Expressionism in Painting & Film which can be found on Level Three. Take the
     grand tour of Venture-Learn.org - the Online Learning Community.

2. Here is a recently created site for a young musician. The Clearwater Hot Club also has some
wonderful audio links you will enjoy.

For more information on website design, please contact us.

HOW TO DESIGN A WEB PAGE IN 25 STEPS

1. Download a piece of Web authoring software ~
20 minutes.
2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page ~
6 weeks.
3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded it ~
20 minutes.
4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on your site ~
1 minute.
5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like ~
25 minutes.
7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do ~
15 minutes.
8. View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a few words here and there ~
4 hours.
9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software ~
1 minute.
10. Try to horizontally line up two related images ~
6 hours.
11. Remove one of the images ~
10 seconds.
12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is gone ~
4 hours.
13. Download a counter from your ISP ~
4 minutes.
14. Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are visitor number 16.3 E10" ~
3 hours.
15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text ~
8 hours.
16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP ~
40 minutes.
17. Accidentally delete your complete web page ~
1 second.
18. Recreate your web page ~
3 weeks.
20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP ~
30 minutes.
21. Download FTP software ~
10 minutes.
22. Call your friend again ~
15 minutes.
23. Upload your web page to your ISP's server ~
10 minutes.
24. Connect to your site on the web ~
1 minute.
25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps ~ eternity
Courtesy of 'clean laffs'