What kind of Websites are ideal for Business?

It is a well established fact that a business needs a website to surge ahead of competition. However one must decide which kind of website is required to cater to one need.

Some people may need a static website and some may need a dynamic one! It all depends on the nature of your business and nothing else. A dynamic website may be more expensive compared to static site. In this changing world of web design, one may need to keep pace with the latest web technologies and adapt accordingly.

Fixed or static Website: This website had a fixed width and doesn’t resize when it is viewed on mobiles and tablets. This could be quite irritating. In this fast changing world, where everything is at your fingertips or in your smart phone, a static website may not be in order. We may even have to pinch and zoom out, in order to view a simple website which can get even annoying at times. Apart from that

Liquid Design: This website layout is made using columns of data which are governed by percentages; these change according to the physical dimensions of the output device. As a result, the content of this website is fluid in nature; it takes shape of the output device – therefore the name ‘liquid’.

Responsive Web Design: The responsive web design is easy to view and can be accessed in a variety of devices! Thus the user doesn’t have scroll up or down in order to view the website. Navigation is easier and the flow of information appears smooth.

How do Responsive websites work?

The websites using responsive content are designed to take the pre determined shape of a browser. In fact the content is also set accordingly. For e.g., if the content is set in three columns, then if the browser resizes, the website content will be re-adjusted to display in two columns.

The quality of images and videos uploaded into the site depends on the internet connection speed. In case of slower connections, low resolution images and video are substituted in place of the heavy files.

Which Website to choose

Companies, who want to go for a new website, or design change, must consider a few points. They must be aware of the type of phones, their target audience is using. If they are using basic phones, then a fixed website will do the job. However, if the target audience is tech savvy and owns smart phones, then you might like to go for a responsive, website.  For more information contact WebCanny.

Tools to Create Web Design Faster

Websites are very essential for companies to advertise online. Without a website, a company may miss out on a lot of business opportunities. Whether it is a small or big company, website will definitely work magic on your overall sales. You can opt for an affordable web design; many companies offer such services and the rates are very competitive.

More and more companies are coming online, and in fact the web designers are getting busier by the day. However, there are some tools designed just for the purpose. These make the job of designing a website much easier.

Adobe Kuler: This is used to find color palettes for your images. This tool helps one identify complimentary colors, by using various color rules. We can thus choose a palette we find appropriate for the project.

Mocking Bird: This tool helps us create website mockups and share them with other online users.

Oto255 : This helps us to choose different variations of a single colour. It is used for graphic and web designing.

CSS Background Maker: This is used to create gradient backgrounds in CSS. It works on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer 10.

Closure Compiler Service: This helps you compile a bundle of java script files, which go together – at a single go. This also reduces the size of the code and may help enhance page load time.

Know Em Social Media Optimizer: This tool gives one an idea about how their website will look on social media like Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.

Tweak your Biz Title Generator: This is a very useful tool, given that people pay a lot of attention to a page title. A good title can in fact generate 50% more interest in your website. One just needs to enter the content in order to get appropriate title suggestions.

Photovisi : This helps us create beautiful collages and cute looking shapes. This is helpful when we may feel the need for a side-bar, or perhaps a new website background.

Is my Blog working: This tool helps you to check your server’ status. You can check if your blog is working or not. This is a very useful tool and one may no longer need to be notified by a second person regarding the same.

Yahoo! Smush.it

This is a very useful tool which cuts down the extra file size of a picture. It is a loss less tool and therefore very helpful in optimizing the picture without compromising on the quality.

Initializr

This is a very useful tool; it produces a clean HTML5 template, fully ready for customization. Thus we don’t have to worry about writing the code to start with.

Responsive Test Environment

This helps us in testing purposes; the advantage is that we can choose our own break points.

There are many tools for making low cost web design;  the ones listed above are just the tip of an iceberg. The point we are trying to make is this; creating a website is a must for improving your sales and get more clients. Get one today! For more information contact WebCanny.

How to use RSS & Feedburner

Why to use Feeedburner

Feedburner is a google product that is used by blogs and websites to keep tracks of people who subscribe to your blog using RSS, from which browser and country they came, and it has many tools and functionalities to help you share your blog content like email subscribe option.

What is RSS Feeds

 Before learning about Feedburner one has learn about RSS feed. It means really simple site syndication, it really simplifies the web experience it extracts news from your favourite sites and puts then together in a feed reader, so that user can access in one application. Let me explain it to you, there are many news websites on the internet, but people might not be interested in reading all the news in different categories, some might be interested in sports news, some in politics while some in entertainment news. This is where RSS comes into play, in it people can only subscribe to those categories which interests them, suppose I like technology blogs, so in this case I visit the news site and subscribe to technology news and then I start getting technology related news in my feed reader. So in this way I save a lot of time as you don’t have to visit each website regularly and only receive relevant news in our news feed related to  our interests. In RSS users can subscribe to your blog and read content via email or by using any web application like feed readers.   You know Feedburner has lots of great features that every blogger should be using in order to optimize and track their blog posts.

The presence of an orange symbol indicates that a site uses a feed reader and you can subscribe it using any feed reader like Feedly.

How to Use Feedburner for Blogs

Step1- Go to feedburner.google.com  and sign up with a gmail account

Step2- Paste your blog URL in window and click next

Step3- In next page put your title and the address URL where people can find your news feed.

Step4- Click next button and its all done you have now created a Feedburner for your blog.

Many Ecommerce website design company also have blogs which can be used with RRS and Feedburner to help you reach more people.

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By Choosing WebCanny, you are opting to partner with one of Australia's and New Zealand’s leading Web Design and Development Company. Since beginning operations in May 2009, we’ve had explosive growth in New Zealand, with over 3000 small to mid size businesses on board for their web design, hosting and emails with proven expertise and reliability.

How to Globalise a Website and Business?

Website globalisation is trying to reach company’s global efficiency by making the website in multilingual. This is also known as website translation. In today’s world website globalisation is a requirement. This will help your products to reach to most of the countries across the world and this helps in business expansion.
Market Analysis – First a thorough study about the market or the target customer is required, as per the geographic, culture, economy and attitude of the visitors for targeting the exact market :
Keyword Research – Research Structure of the website- Use the best structure for easy and stress free navigation and access of the website.
Effective Content- Use the relevant content for the website by analysing visitor’s behavior.
Translate the content as per the requirement- Use tools for translating the text content as per the visitor’s requirement. This will increase the traffic and usability of the particular website.
Optimise the content – We can optimise the content and images by applying the key words in the way of search engine guidelines

One of the main benefits of having an eCommerce Website is the fact that your products and services are available worldwide.
However to make sure that you can turn this multinational traffic into conversions you will need to accommodate them. i.e, your website should operate on a operating on a multi-channel level. This means your website has to be localized. What we mean by localizing is, translating the content on the website to local language. It’s just not about the language, it is about the target audience, the culture and the market comparision.
Last but definitely not the least, to go about Global Expansion, you require a good Customer service and a team that speaks native language.

Benefits of Mobile Friendly Websites

Your website is the most important marketing tool. Technology changes quickly. It is important to make the website up to date with these changes.
Your website may not be Mobile friendly:
Mobile internet use is increasing rapidly and optimising your website for a Smartphone or tablet is critical to your website being seen. A mobile website can be accessed anywhere, any time. This level of constant connectivity provides an exceptional opportunity to connect with your customers.

To improve usability for customers and to keep it up to date
Keeping it up to date with the technology and making the website user friendly, so your visitors don’t opt out of the website.
If the content management system or a particular functionality implemented on the website may not be that easy to use for the customers . If the website is redesigned regularly, the customer experience will be good and this inturn increases your visitors and potential customers

Ecommerce and its Advantages for Business Growth

Ecommerce leads the 50% of the total retails in the country. E-commerce website is the most cost effective way of marketing your services and goods online and managing your business.
The advantages of ecommerce system are listed below
• Searching/Selling/Buying 24x7
• Easy and faster searching/selling/buying of products
• Affordable operational costs and best services
• Operations beyond geographic limitations
• Can choose any products without wandering around physically
• No need of stock, sales man, physical company set-ups
• Easy to establish and manage ecommerce business.
• Enable Deals, Bargains, Coupons, and Group Buying
• Productivity gain
• Enabling discounts and offers

WebCanny : Expand the Business Online

MERITS OF ECOMMERCE WEBSITE SYSTEM
At WebCanny, we design and develop ecommerce websites.
The ecommerce system is one of the best methods to reach out to new and potential customers. This also helps in expanding the business.
MERITS OF ECOMMERCE SYSTEM
• Searching/Selling/Buying 24x7
• Easy and faster searching/selling/buying of products
• Affordable operational costs and best services
• Operations beyond geographic limitations
• Can choose any products without wandering around physically
• No need of stock, sales man, physical company set-ups
• Easy to establish and manage ecommerce business.