Building Loyalty By Talking
To reduce turnover, managers and employees need to communicate effectively. Nancy, a hardworking competent legal secretary, is considering quitting after five years. Why? Because she feels overworked and underpaid compared to the firm’s other legal secretaries. She claims her colleagues make frequent personal telepho

Finding Hot Products That People Really, Really Want
You’ve got your new business up and running but no one seems to be buying from you? Are you sure that you are selling stuff that people want? There are ways to ensure that what you are selling is what people actually want.First of all look at what market you will be selling to - that it who do you expect to

Article Submissions: 4 Reasons to Use HTML When Submitting Your Article
Writing articles is an excellent way to promote your website. Links from your articles drive traffic to your site. They aid in your search engine optimization efforts. These two facts lead to the simple conclusion that the more an article is redistributed and republished, the more traffic a site will acquire. and can only download at 28.8 kb per second.

You as a web site owner, designer or any one who has control over a web site should follow a simple rule : make sure you are on a 28.8 connection type in the URL for your web page, hit enter, and hold your breath. If you needed to gasp for air before the page was fully down loaded you really need to cut down on the size of the page. The web page should be no larger then 50K. Try to shoot for less than 30K. The number one visited web site home page is under 21k.

All graphic images should be as small as possible. Try to get them smaller than 4k. Going up to 6k is reasonable. When designing a graphic for the web site keep in mind the number of colors being used. As a graphic designer, it is hard to go from millions of color to only 216. Yes, 216 is the number of colors that is available on a web safe color pallet. Use solid colors when designing the image. PhotoShop has made the gradient such a popular tool. It looks good to fade things in and out. Always see a background border made up of this gradient. Right click on that image to see the size. The 8k-12k is not worth the space. The problem with the gradient is it uses many colors and dithering. Both take up big time K. The more color in an image the bigger it's going to be.

Use design more, graphics less. For a web page to be successful it needs to download quickly and look good. Instead of designing graphics and taking pictures and turning them into jpgs to make the web page look good, try using color schemes. Use cell colors to make boarders. Use the negative space on your web site. What is not there is just as

larger then 50K. Try to shoot for less than 30K. The number one visited web site home page is under 21k.

All graphic images should be as small as possible. Try to get them smaller than 4k. Going up to 6k is reasonable. When designing a graphic for the web site keep in mind the number of colors being used. As a graphic designer, it is hard to go from millions of color to only 216. Yes, 216 is the number of colors that is available on a web safe color pallet. Use solid colors when designing the image. PhotoShop has made the gradient such a popular tool. It looks good to fade things in and out. Always see a background border made up of this gradient. Right click on that image to see the size. The 8k-12k is not worth the space. The problem with the gradient is it uses many colors and dithering. Both take up big time K. The more color in an image the bigger it's going to be.

Use design more, graphics less. For a web page to be successful it needs to download quickly and look good. Instead of designing graphics and taking pictures and turning them into jpgs to make the web page look good, try using color schemes. Use cell colors to make boarders. Use the negative space on your web site. What is not there is just as

colors that is available on a web safe color pallet. Use solid colors when designing the image. PhotoShop has made the gradient such a popular tool. It looks good to fade things in and out. Always see a background border made up of this gradient. Right click on that image to see the size. The 8k-12k is not worth the space. The problem with the gradient is it uses many colors and dithering. Both take up big time K. The more color in an image the bigger it's going to be.

Use design more, graphics less. For a web page to be successful it needs to download quickly and look good. Instead of designing graphics and taking pictures and turning them into jpgs to make the web page look good, try using color schemes. Use cell colors to make boarders. Use the negative space on your web site. What is not there is just as

me K. The more color in an image the bigger it's going to be.

Use design more, graphics less. For a web page to be successful it needs to download quickly and look good. Instead of designing graphics and taking pictures and turning them into jpgs to make the web page look good, try using color schemes. Use cell colors to make boarders. Use the negative space on your web site. What is not there is just as important as what is there. Remember sometimes less is more. Think of a typical visitor coming to your web page. Would that extra graphic sell them or keep them coming back again and again. If the answer is yes, by all means keep it. If the answer is "well maybe" or "it just looks good there", throw it. Viewers will appreciate not waiting more then they have to. The web is here to make our life easier not to sit in front of a screen waiting for heavy web pages to download.