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Your company's presence on the Internet is the equivalent of giving out your business card to thousands of people. If applicable, it makes public relations simple and efficient by profiling your company and its employees. Every business benefits from public relations, whether it's through newsletters, photographs or biographies.
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1. Logos, Images and Slogans
Assemble all assets you have for your company including pictures, key phrases or slogans, logos, graphics and letterheads.
Ideally these would be in the format of a computer file. Paper copies can be scanned for web display.
2. Links and Content
Determine what pages and links will be needed to display your content. A products page, for example, could include other additional links to more detailed product listings.
Detailed product listings would be ideally made in a spreadsheet.
3. Graphics and Layout
A rough idea of what you envision your site should look like can help you and the developer understand the presence and goals of your new site. This means both the visual display of the web site and the dynamic features that showcase its content.
If a web site on the internet catches your attention, note the URL for future reference.
4. Getting Feedback
Talking with a web professional at MattDWeb can help you further understand what you what is best for you and your new web site. Additionally, expand on ideas or questions that you may have.
Send an email or give a call with any questions, or visit the "quotes" section to to see what your site will cost...
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HTML & CSS formatting is done in the code to ensure the cleanest and most efficient code possible. Many web site creators and "wizards" are available which generally create excess code making future revisions difficult if not used with that specific program.
A "page" is one HTML document which contains text, photos, graphics and links to other pages. Examples of pages could be a home page, a services page, a photo gallery page and so on.
This test will prevent programmed computers from submitting this form. Although they can fill in the fields and click the submit button, they can't answer the question below like a human can.
A Domain Name is your location on the internet. Usually in the format http://www.yoursite.com or www.yoursite.com internet users can type this address into the URL bar of their web browser to get directly to your site. Some users may type this address into google or another search engine to find your site.
Web Hosting is space on the internet that holds all the files that power your web site.
Google Analytics is a comprehensive web statistics gathering service for web sites. A snippet of code installed in your pages will allow you to track how many visits you get to your site, what pages are getting viewed, where visitors are coming from, how they are finding you and so much more.
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of a page or site on the World Wide Web.
Contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial
The Georgia typeface shares many similarities with Times New Roman, though Georgia is noticeably larger than Times at the same point size. Times New Roman's characters are slightly narrower, having a more vertical axis. When one compensates for the size differences and disregards the differences in compression and spacing, the remaining differences are minimal. Overall, Georgia's serifs are slightly wider and have blunter, flatter ends, but on initial inspection many letterforms are difficult for a novice to distinguish between Georgia and Times New Roman. Figures (numerals) are an exception: Georgia uses text (old-style) figures whereas Times New Roman has lining figures.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(typeface)
Bearing similarities to humanist sans-serif typefaces such as Frutiger, Verdana was designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen. The lack of serifs, large x-height (heights of lower-case letters, as scaled to the letter x being exactly equal to one), wide proportions, loose letter-spacing, large counters (spaces inside partially enclosed portions of letters or symbols such as c, s, or curved quotation marks), and emphasized distinctions between similarly-shaped characters are chosen to increase legibility.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana
Trebuchet MS distinguishes itself from other common sans-serif typefaces through several characteristics, the most notable of which include: The splayed edges of the uppercase M which form a 10° angle with a vertical line, The shape of the tail of the uppercase Q, The bar of the capital A is low, The shortened tails of the lowercase e and the numerals 6 and 9, The hybrid open and looped tail of the lowercase g, The rounded dots above and the shapes of the lowercase i and j, The curved tail beneath the lowercase l, The dollar sign symbol, in which the vertical strike only appears above the top and below the bottom curves of the S, The ampersand in the form of an "Et" ligature and The exclamation point, whose dot is large and round. Italic fonts incorporate italic type characteristics instead of just tilting roman glyphs, making it the first sans serif font family from Microsoft to use true italic features.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet_MS
Because of its ubiquitous nature, the typeface has been influential in the subsequent development of a number of serif typefaces both before and after the start of the digital-font era. One notable example is Georgia, which has very similar stroke shapes to Times New Roman but wider serifs.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Roman
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter. The typeface was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler in 1955. The design of the original Courier New typeface was commissioned in the 1950s by IBM for use in typewriters, but they did not secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it soon became a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. As a monospaced font, it has recently found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned. It has also become an industry standard for all screenplays to be written in 12 point Courier or a close variant.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_(typeface)
