Murphy Designs

Bed And Breakfast Web Site Packages Available

2010-07-11T15:54:00.000-03:00

Murphy Designs is proud to announce a new product line:

Bed and Breakfast Web Site Packages....

Visit Our Website: http://www.murphydesigns.ca/ for more information

Disadvantages of Template Driven Websites

2010-07-04T20:34:00.000-03:00

Despite the advantages of template driven websites, before you make the decision to have a template driven website consider the following:

1.Not exclusive and unique.

Templates are available to many other users, in order for you to have a custom look you will need to have a website designed.

2.Limitations on customization.

A website template can only be tweaked to a certain degree, you may find after working with the template that you have more content than it allows for, or you want additional pages that the template does not allow.

3.Specific software required for customization.

While some website templates are easy to customize, edit and update, using readily available web authoring software like Microsoft Frontpage, others are more complex and require knowledge of photo-editing and website-building tools and coding.

Whether it is Macromedia Dreamweaver or Flash or knowledge of HTML code, you may not have the requisite software or skills to customize, edit and update your website. In this case, you may need to use the services of a web developer to customize and/or update your web template for you.

4.Image optimization requires skills.

You have to be familiar with optimizing images for the web so that your pages load quickly. If you don’t have the required skills and photo-editing software for image optimization, this will slow down the website development process and you may need to engage the services of a web developer.

5.Search engine optimization is your baby.

Website Templates will only give you the shell of your site. They are not optimized to attract search engines. You will need to do this with your website content. Keep in mind that search engines are more attracted to words than to pictures. A website template with a lot of graphics and Flash animation effects may look attractive, but may take longer to load and will not draw the search engines to your site. So despite the good looks of your Flash website, it may end up lower on search engine rankings.

While writing content, you need to use the keywords that promote your products or services and attract targeted customers to your site. You will also need to use meta-tags (Title tag, Keywords, Description) to attract the search engines to your web pages. Since content is the heart of your website, it is worth spending the time and energy to write it – or entrust it to a professional content writer.

Take the following into account before jumping into a template driven website....

Logo Design Color Choices

2010-06-15T22:38:00.000-03:00

Color offers an instant way of communicating meaning and message in your designs. It is important to ensure that when picking colors you consider the emotion that may also evoke when potential customers see your logo or promotional material.

RED

Red is a strong color, it brings forth the following emotions action, adventure, aggressive, blood, danger, drive, energy, excitement, love, passion, strength, and vigor.

It is often used in graphic design to grip the viewer's attention, and has been know to raise one's blood pressure, or make people hungry.

PINK

Pink is a feminine color, that brings forth the following emotions, appreciation, delicate, femininity, floral, gentle, girly, gratitude, innocence, romantic, soft and tranquil. Pink is often used in logos to add a feminine touch

ORANGE

This color brings forth the following, affordable, creativity, fun, jovial, light-hearted, high-spirited, and youthful

YELLOW

This color brings forth the following, caution, cheerful, cowardice, curiousity, happiness, joy, playful, positivity, sunshine, and warmth.

GREEN

This color brings the feelings of crisp, environmental, fresh, harmony, health, healing, Inexperience, money, nature, renewal, and tranquility

BLUE

This color brings the feeling of authority, calm, confidence, dignity, established, loyalty, power, success, secure, and trustworthy.

PURPLE

This color brings the feeling of ceremony, expensive, fantasy, justice, mystery, nobility, regal, sophistication, and spirituality.

BROWN

This color brings the feeling of calmness, depth, earth, natural, roughness, richness, simplicity, serious, subtle, utility, and woodsy.

BLACK

This color brings the feeling of authority, bold, classic, conservative, distinctive, formality, mystery, secrecy, and tradition.

GREY

This color brings the feeling of authority, corporate mentality, dullness, humility, moody, practicality, respect, soberness, and stability.

WHITE

This color brings the feeling of cleanliness, innocence, peace, purity, refined, sterile, simplicity, surrender, and truthfulness.

Next time that you sit down to design a logo or promotional material ensure you take the above colors into account, and make sure that your logo is making the right statement about your business or organization.