This isn’t a site redesign but a complete new application booking service using leading edge infrastructure and architecture and require a user experience and user interface to support it. Read the rest of this entry »
Converting and providing Software on-line in “the cloud” is increasingly popular, infrastructure can be managed externally, lower operating costs allowing greater investment in R & D, improving capabilities and competitive advantages.
Also assisting the user to meet a range of specific business goals is often required such as downloading product information signing up for a newsletter etc…
When setting up Google Apps to receive other POP email accounts (as you might with gmail) you need to point your MX records to Google servers but then you need to Verify your email. If you can’t access your new account, you should be able create “Catch-all address” via your Google Apps / Settings to retrieve the Verification email to finish your set-up.
(Before doing any of these steps read this article first to see if it applies to you?)
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Some of the main considerations when optimising your website include Content, site structure / architecture and useful meta data but also using tools such as Google Analytics to monitor and improve performance for key conversion areas.
Primarily the content on your site is its most valuable asset, this is what your audience is hopefully searching for; it needs to be appealing and interesting not only to build recognition and encourage return visits but to build recommendations in the way of link backs, blog posts, emails etc.. Legitimate links to your website especially those from other reputable sources re-enforce your sites value to the Search Engines (SE’s).
Your website structure should be created logically for your users experience and interaction but also to assist the SE’s indexing of your website to provide the best possible search results.
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Magento e-commerce allows to take or create your business and sell on-line professionally with ease, it allows you to maintain your own inventory and offers a rich set of cutting edge features to rival any on-line shopping cart system including product comparisons, add to wish-list, up-selling, special offers, analytics, shipping to multiple addresses, one page checkout, multiple payment options and great search features just skims the surface.
This is a site I’ve recently launched on behalf of Metricon, Mayfield Park is a Metricon land development project located in Mernda Victoria.
Most other land development websites I researched were pretty terrible so challenging the current standard wasn’t hard.
The main brief was to compliment a brochure branded in house for the development.
The new Metricon.com.au website has reached it’s best results to date with over 8000 hits daily making it Australia’s 2nd most visited building website.
Out of a team of three, I was responsible for the website design and front end development (custom coding html & css from scratch using js & jquery) the site is not only optimised for greater search engine results it offers a streamlined user experience making researching new homes a breeze.
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Open source web software is when a programs source code is made available to the general public to use and modify for free under certain licenses. Contributions that improve the product may often be added to the core program or made available in the form of add-ons or plug-ins.
I'm a website User Experience & application interface designer with 12+ years experience.
My work covers all elements of the development cycle from conceptualisation to building and/or prototyping of a website, implementation, deployment and post launch support.
I work with and support other developers to integrate designs, front-end developments and prototypes and with their in house applications as well as open source Content Management Systems (CMS).
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