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By JDSR, on September 3rd, 2010
 I learned to meditate many years ago. Over time, and with practice, it becomes easier to maintain focus on specific thoughts and ideas. It helps to gain clarity and understanding, allowing better control over where mental and physical energy is applied. There is however, even in those quietest, most relaxing moments, behind gently closed lids, something else going on in the supposed darkness; underlying awareness, thoughts of memories, anticipation, and manifestation of other senses, intent on projecting themselves onto the mind’s eye. They hang in the background like a kaleidoscope of defining context.
The result of this phenomenon is the same as that of a Splash page, that first layer of a website that defines the expectation, the character, and the spirit of a website. Like the first waking moment of the day, maybe a sunrise through a picture window that illuminates a stained glass collection, reminding you of an upcoming art exhibit. Or, maybe you see a dark, dingy, basement apartment where the hard, grey, concrete floor and unpainted cinder walls remind you that it’s time to pay the rent this week. In either case, it is that first view that brings your mind to a particular place.
Website designers have the ultimate control in leading the mind of the e-traveler, and that is why many sites choose to have a Splash page to capture, maintain, and entertain the interest of guests, while confirming the loading of desired content. Splash pages set the stage with a look and feel using the visual appeal of animation, graphics, and sound, by displaying an image centered on the screen and then disappearing when the first program window opens.
However, like intruding thoughts to a meditating novice, Splash screens are especially inconvenient for users with slow internet connections because the first page may take longer to load, or if the user has turned off rich content (such as images, Flash or Shockwave), the splash page may not load at all. Furthermore, Splash pages created in Flash (and the associated main pages) often can’t be accessed by search engines or handled by text readers for the blind.
So keep this in mind, and remember to focus on your target audience when you are designing your website, and in particular, your homepage.
Perfectory Web Design Services, we’re making a Splash.
By JDSR, on September 1st, 2010
 I don’t have much time for television these days; it won’t be around much longer, at least not in the sense that it used to be. Not with the Internet’s power to choose content, eliminate the wait, and the commercials. When I did watch television, I always had two, three, sometimes four channels on the go, so I could quickly escape the corporate propaganda with a click. At least until the suits got smart and coordinated programs to commercial break at the same times. The point is, the vast choice and convenience of content availability is the beauty (and relief) of the Internet. In fact, publishers of content face even more of a challenge with all that is available in an increasingly demanding domain. We want choosing to be easy or we’re bouncing.
WordPress makes it easy for publishers and e-customers with its plugin architecture and templating system. WordPress is the most popular blog software and publishing platform in use today. Open source content management systems don’t get much easier than this, and the possibilities don’t end with blogs and articles. Plugin eShop and WordPress becomes the one stop e-commerce shop. eShop utilises WordPress pages, or posts, to create products and can list them in a variety of methods with multiple functional options. eShop offers various shipping options including by weight. It can upload downloadable products, keep basic statistics, including sales data, and administrators have access to an order handling section. eShop also sends automatic e-mails on successful purchases using configurable e-mail templates. Basic inventory control with built–in configurable out of stock messages keeps an eye on critical inventory levels so that you don’t have to. Various discount options may be offered, and WPMU customers can sign up to your site, with an uninstall option. Google base data creation is a great tool for setting up client libraries that enable easy analysis of target markets. eShop also comes with the merchant gateways to: Authorize.net, PayPal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL, and cash/cheque. eShop is also compatible with WP Affiliate for affiliates, and eShortcodes.
These are only the highlights of what WordPress and eShop can accomplish in tandem, all with a state-of-the-art user-friendly interface. WordPress and eShop are truly a dynamic duo, leading us into the future of business.
Perfectory Web Design Services, our future is working together.
By JDSR, on August 30th, 2010
 Sadly, some people still don’t realize how valuable the Internet is to business in the 21st Century.
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
- Bill Gates.
Welcome to the Information and Convenience Age of Business; You-Tube, Television ‘On-Demand’, High-speed Internet, you name it and our cultural ‘evolutionaries’ are pounding at your door, begging for attention; I want what I want, when I want it. This is the nature of e-consumer culture today. Forget this fact of business and quickly find yourself with a flagging website, with nothing but the sound of crickets to keep you company.
In an increasingly cyber-necessary world, user centered design, also referred to as user interface design or user interface engineering, the civilized domain of website design demands software applications that make the user’s experience and interaction both simple and efficient. Key components that Perfectory Web Design strives to optimize with extensive attention to each stage of the design process. Perfectory focuses on how users can, want, and need to use websites, rather than forcing the users to change their behaviour to accommodate the product, as many other, more elitist website designers do. Perfectory creates the ultimate websites using multi-stage problem solving and real world tests with actual users.
Perfectory knows that the client is always right. They’re here for you in every sense, as creators, consultants, and friends. Every one of Perfectory Web Design’s Technicians develops a clear definition of a goal and a purpose that ensures that each website will accomplish what the users need from it. Perfectory’s Target Market Design process balances technical functionality and visual elements by paying attention to the role of e-consumer cognition, reasoning and decision-making to create a system that is not only operational but also usable and adaptable to changing user needs. Perfectory knows people that know websites.
Perfectory Web Design Services, We’re here for you, for good.
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