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Why own a website? |
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A website generates contacts, appoinments and takes care of your image. Your website is a reflection of your professionalism. An elaborated graphic site can be useful depending upon its objective or the product to be promoted.
Your website forms an integral part of your strategy of communication. It allows you to save on your traditional paper work (flyers, campaign letters, etc.). Recognised as a means for marketing, the Internet does not replace the classic means of communication but serves as an essential complement.
At the cost of a quarter of a page in a regional magazine, you have, on your website, several pages with coloured pictures and that too for permanent viewing. |
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Images |
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- GIF - A picture compression with only 256 colours (colours at 8bits). Includes transparency and animation.
- JPG - A picture compresion with a capapcity of millions of colours. Does not support transparency. Can be used for printing or on the web.
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Wallpaper |
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It is the colour or image of your choice which can be used as background on your site. |
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Logo |
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A logo is a symbol or unique creation which represents an organization. It can also be called a trademark.
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E-commerce |
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E-commerce simply means electronic business. If you break it into two, that is, «e» and « commerce », the meaning is electronically, usually via internet. And the « commerce » … |
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Order page |
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A webpage which accepts orders from users. With an online form, you can easily enter/post comments, place an order, subscribe to newsletters. At the base/end of a form, you will find two common buttons/links: «post/submit» and «delete/reset». The « post/submit » button allows you to send data which you have entered while the « delete/reset » button brings the form back to the original state. |
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Web hosting |
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The world wide web (www), a network of servers around the world connected to the internet, provides a method easily utilised and understood to access electronic contents. To be able to access information implies the transmission of data between a client (web browser) and an application on a server. Web hosting is therefore a means to host the application of a server on a computing system by which means the electronic contents can be easily available on internet to any client via internet browsing. |
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Domain name |
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Selecting the title of a domain is a major consideration while doing online business and is often one of the first questions to be asked. A good domain title does not guarantee success, it can have a positive (or negative) effect on almost every aspect of online business. |
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Search engine submission |
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A search engine is an index of websites which is traditionally compiled by a « spider » which visits webpages and saves information of every page in databases. |
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Graphic animations |
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Creating a visual animated effect with pictures drawn, like animated cartoons. Animation brings life to websites by displaying an assortment of motion on your screen. |
