The New Face of Web Copywriting

If you think back about the traditional marketing ways used to market our business, we used print ads, brochures, flyers, pamphlets, paper based proposals, tender documents and newsletters. Those were the days when use to perceive and take care of these tender documents because they were very important for the business. In tender documents, people use to manually write all the information into convoluted policy documents and templates.

Usually people find it difficult to understand the document which was written by somebody else. In the past 15 years there has been a revolution in the way communication is done. We now want quicker, faster and better things. We want to have our information in digestible chunks rather then jargon, complex language and pompous sounding words. We are now used to Web Copywriting which is the new form of writing business documents.

When Websites were initially made they were just like the old fashioned documents which are put on the net. Such websites are known as brochure sites because they contained information available in business brochures. The language used to be tough and formal and was mainly focused on talking about company. But even the form of websites have been developed a lot in recent years

People now want quick and relevant information. Only if the page we are reading seems relevant to our need we seek to go deeper and read more. Otherwise, we simply leave the page.

In the pas 2-3 years there has been further change about the way we process information. We now want to engage in discussion about the product and find out what other think about it. We love to share our views and thoughts. This has given rise to social networking and interactive Websites.

The art of Web copywriting lies in understanding he trend in communication and presenting the information following the trend so the people get it easily. We need to add colors to copywriting in such a way that allow people to scan and then go to find deeper information. We don’t talk the way Shakespeare used to. Same is the case with Internet and Web copywriting. So it is better to go with what is in the trend and follow it.

- Tony Josan – Toronto Web Development

Beware of Warning while browsing the Internet

Almost all of come across a pop up window on our desktop showing a warning like -

‘Warning – visiting this website may harm your computer’

We are so used to internet that we often forget that Internet is not as secure as it seems. It is full of various software, malware and viruses which can cause damage to out computers. It is therefore very important to know about the damaging affects which any viruses or malware can cause to our computer. Although a lot of anti viruses have been invented which promise us to prevent from this threat but still a lot of danger prevails.

It includes such websites about which our operating system warns us with a message like’ warning – visiting this website may harm your computer.’ Very few of us actually take this warning on a serious note. On the other hand most of us simply ignore this warning and go ahead with visiting the website. It is essential to take this warning seriously and know what these websites can do to your computer:

Malware, adware, spyware and Trojans are very hard to detect and very difficult to remove. These can easily get into your websites when you open such an illegitimate Websites and can infect your PC

• Visiting such websites can slow down the over all performance speed of your PC and can induce cookies, tracking devices and many other files into your PC.
• File sharing on the Internet can prove to be very dangerous and are major source of virus attacks. Websites which allow illegal music or movie downloads are such sites.
• You increase your chance of picking up malware when you visit any harmful site knowingly or unknowingly. So, it is always better to take precautions and block Websites with a warning on it.

The best method to prevent your PC from malware infection is to use the Internet carefully and choose to click wisely. Never clicks on ads or messages which look even a little suspicious. So next time, when you come across any warning while surfing net, don’t ignore it.

- Tony Josan – Toronto Web Development

Use Banner Advertisement for promotion of your pro...

Present day business world has a very volatile environment. Growing and ever changing technology and stiff competition are major factors which justify this characteristic of the business world. Over the years marketers have always utilized, various and the best possible marketing strategy to attract the potential customers. A business man can use any of the available means like print, broadcast or Internet media to advertise their products and services. Internet is one of the most widely used marketing medium throughout the globe at present time. Internet has proved its potential as a marketing medium. Banner advertisement displayed in a Website is a potential medium to attract customers to your Website.

A web banner is form of promotion and of  a company’s products and services, by displaying  its advertisement on some relevant and specific Websites. It contains a link embedded in a box containing animation or graphics. An advertiser chooses a Website to which is related to his products in some or the other way to display his banner ads. For example a person selling ladies scarf will prefer to show his banner ads on Websites which sells ladies cosmetics not on a website which sells chocolates. The content of the Website in which you display your banner ad should relate to your banner advertisement.
There are few points to take care of when you design your banner ad. The banner should be designed to be attractive and should leave a positive impression on the mind of the viewer. Don’t keep the size of the banner very large or very small. Large banners hide important contents of the Website and become distractive for the viewer and small banner are not noticeable. The banner should have a standard size and should appear unique and attractive to viewers. Use vibrant and brilliant colors. Use lavish designs and also add animations to give your banner ads a unique look which makes it appealing.

Now a day’s number of companies who specializes in creating such banner ads is available. You can hire such a company for the promotion of your products and services. You can also go for banner designer software that provides you with many creative ideas.

- Tony Josan – Toronto Web Development

Dedicated Web Hosting – The Difference

When we talk about Web hosting, there are numerous options available in the market to choose from. When you are looking for options while trying to get a web hosting service provider for your website, you may be overwhelmed at the entire concept of just what you need to get. Of course, this depends on the type of need you have for your website that you want to host. For instance, if you are thinking to conduct an online business with your website, you might want to consider the dedicated web hosting solution. You probably then fall in a need to learn as much as you can about the dedicated web hosting solution talking about the entire digital business solution you intend to run on the Web.

For a serious business conducted online, a shared hosting solution is generally not a good option especially for the people who aim to build their brand presence too. This is because of the possible risks that might be there when they do, and there are many potential problems that you are going to be facing when all you want to do is to actually get your presence online. Hosting your business site on a shared platform is a problem because your data pipeline is being shared among many people, and if some other website clogs this pipeline, it may end up leaving your website non-responsive and prone to loss of business, money and reputation.

Considering these reasons, dedicated solutions are gaining popularity increasingly. Security features, failure safety of your business, avoiding losses to money, reputation and business are big reasons why people are now choosing the dedicated hosting solutions over others while trying to mark their presence online. Simply, when you don’t any data or space with other people on the Internet, your business runs smoothly in isolation. Moreover, you get some dedicated staff or some maintenance activities targeted completely on your own website. This offers you a much more stable website and well maintained system as a whole.

After all, the integrity and ethics are the keys to any business regardless of size and number of customers with a business. Integrity of data, confidentiality of yours and your customers’ information are of high importance and indeed, are requirements in many countries. With a little cost of having a dedicated hosting solution, you can meet these requirements. Also, you get advantages like safety, reliability, better maintenance, better care of the servers, more memory, and choice of software at your own wish. Also, for the businesses undergoing expansion, a dedicated hosted environment proves to be ideal because you just need to spend a little more on extra hardware on your own dedicated hosting server.

- Tony Josan – Toronto Web Design

First 3 Programming Languages you must know for we...

There are no hard and fast checklists of skills you need to have for being a web designer. There doesn’t exist a fixed aptitude or personality test required to qualify as a web designer. You just need to possess few skills including the knowledge of a few basic programming languages, design sense and the zeal to experiment and learn. Taking up a course in web designing might prove useful to certain extent, but essentially, you learn yourself and you teach yourself when it is about web design. The Internet also offers you access to a several design portals and the modern software, it proves to be an added advantage.

The first three programming languages that you need to learn are:

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language, which is used for presenting the web pages and putting your text on the Web. You can begin to create these HTML pages either on NotePad or any other text editor. It is the first language you need to embark on your journey to becoming a successful web designer.HTML consists of many tags that are are used for each stage of text from the title

</title>

to the start and end of a new paragraph

</p>

and even for an image

<img>

These tags are the ones, which give the hypertext you view on the websites, its format and fonts.  HTML is every web designer’s first tool and also meant for designers who focus more on hypertext.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used for transforming the HTML code into a web page formatted as per your choice to make it able to appear on the Internet. You can either create or download CSS templates .CSS templates can be created using Adobe Dreamweaver or BB edit or many similar tools. After creating the style sheet, it can be implemented either externally, by embedding it, or by using inline CSS. This can be decided based on how large your website is, and how you decide to maintain it.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a scripting language which is used to give dynamic effects to the HTML pages. You can choose whether to show more text, or the user is taken to a new Website whenever he clicks a link. JavaScript allows  you to make your web page more interactive.

By learing these three basic languages, you have acquired the minimum skills required to become a web designer. Once you  make yourself friendly to these labguages, you can move ahead to learn other programs which will help you make your Website more user-friendly, attractive and optimized to pick up by search engines.

-  Tony Josan - Toronto Software Development