Affordable DVD Packaging

Affordable DVD Packaging was – amongst others – the topic of yesterday’s exciting Photoshop Ycademy Workshop and great Web Graphics Tutorial.

Affordable DVD Packaging

Is there a way for affordable DVD Packaging?

Well, there is the long way to elaborate all this in hundreds of little steps on Photoshop – that’s what I’ve learned and practised over quite a while based on studying the early Adobe Photoshop Bible 5 – and then there is today’s fast and spiffy way by using Actions or Action Scripts, where basically the whole process is extremely compressed into automatic processes with occasional ’stops’ to insert personalized data like a title, a name, a copyright… that deliver astonishing end products.

These Action Scripts allow even people who are no artists and who don’t intend to go that route… but who have equipped themselves properly with Photoshop and who wish to present their photos and images on Blogs and Websites in a professional and appealing way… to produce great results for say CD wrappers, attractive DVD Jewel cases and many other forms of packaging.

Of course, this is only possible because some professional Graphic Designer has gone the whole route of many little steps to create an Action Script – that basically recorded all these complex steps and wrapped it all up in a PRO Action product at a price or gives it away for ‘free’. Suddenly, anyone can get an eye-catching result at one or two mouse clicks. What’s important here is to find the real good actions between the many thousands out there on the Internet… but for this we have:

Photoshop Ycademy

Whenever working professionally, it is important to be properly equipped.

A good tool may have its price, but it’s all worth it as it saves us time and – if we know how to use it – it definitely gives us an edge over the competition.

Those Photoshop Ycademy Workshop participants who wish to reach the top – and with it a highly sophisticated clientele – have to continuously invest in high quality tools and their knowledge and skills to use them. However, this will allow them to focus on Productivity, get better results and have more music in their PayPal account at the end of the day.

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Of course, like in any website development, Hotels and Lodges Websites need to offer relevant functionalities and be user-friendly in terms of navigation. Visitors want to see what they like and then surf quickly to a Booking Form where they get a quick overview in terms of availability and prices and where they have access to simple and reliable payment gateways.

Having said that, what remains as the most challenging part for the web designer is how to achieve top positions with a Hotel Website, meaning the website’s performance on Google against stiff competition in the Travel and Tourism Industry.

But this is exactly where we at Semiomantics excel: once properly setup and indexed on Google, your path to top rankings is assured – provided you keep the website dynamic and active. Our regular tests in terms of website optimization and performance proove it daily!

Save by performing better – have a look at http://showcase.biancagubalke.com  !

Blog for Money

Blog for Money… isn’t that the Dream of so many hitting the Internet each and every day…  looking for ways of making money online the fast and easy way?

While I personally don’t believe in this approach, I stand for building one’s Business Online in a professional and future-oriented way… meaning with a respectable Website and/or Blog – genre Semiomantics Business – and then pushing for Google Top 10 positions with an aggressive little online soldier like Best YORGOO Blaster!

Blog for Money

So where does the “Blog for Money” factor come in?

Simple: most Traffic focuses on the first 10 – 20 positions on Google, meaning the first 2 pages.

You now have 3 choices:

• Either you pay forever for Google Ads on the right side, or
• you invest in a good script and an aggressive setup to reach top Google rankings on the left side,  or, as a third option:
• do both.

This depends entirely on your advertising and marketing budget. Obviously, the more you hang out your fishing line at the right places, the bigger the catch. Pure common sense.

Best YORGOO Blaster

So how can you blog for money with Best YORGOO Blaster?

Remember, there are three main ways of making money online:

• Sell your own Products and Services
• Sell other peoples’ Products and Services, eg. also through Google Adsense, your Amazon Shop etc
• Sell Advertising space.

So if you now show product and/or service Ads in well exposed positions on your websites and blogs – for instance in form of captivating web graphics with a clear and irresistible message that people simple HAVE to click on… and you write some spiffy editorials about your offers… and you do this in a smart and targeted way using a fast and aggressive script like Best YORGOO Blaster, you will get the results you expect – in your PayPal or Moneybookers account.

Then things start happening for YOU! Then you Blog for Money!

Best Price YORGOO Blaster

The price for YORGOO Blaster includes full setup, configuration and a short run-through by a professional Web Designer.

Web Design Consulting

Designing websites that appeal and bring the desired results is my Passion and you can see daily proof in form of screenshots on my Author Blog at http://biancagubalke.com.

I am looking forward to providing you with a Best YORGOO Blaster targeting your Niche and achieving top Google rankings where you get maximum exposure.

If you need my personal assistance to assist you with your choice or create Captivating Web Graphics and pulling Ads please contact me HERE.

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Best Affordable Advertising

My article earlier today on a very competitive keyword combination – Best Affordbale Advertising – broke through the virtual light barrier on the online highway!

I actually presented some work I had done with Action Scripts in Adobe Photoshop, namely Ezine Double Stack – considering the fact that Ezine Advertising is a good and affordable alternative and strategy when bringing one’s products in front of an audience.

Best Affordable Advertising on Google

As mentioned before, we monitor the results of what we are doing on a regular basis.

I was thunder-struck to see that – within just about 15 minutes – my article “Best Affordable Advertising” hit Google Top 10… not just any position, but Number ONE on Goolge ahead of 18,6 Million Search Returns!!!

Best Affordable Advertising on Google Number One

What a satisfying result! Of course, our Publishing Network will push through as well now, picking up this article and occupying more positions, but isn’t it extraordinary to see such amazing results that fast?

Semiomantics Author

All I use is a Semiomantics Author Blog directly from my SHOP HERE, properly setup, configured and tuned… and I create good original quality content in terms of Copywriting, Digital Images and Web Graphics… and I apply proper Editing and Publishing.

These are all Web Services we offer at Web Design Consulting. Ww love what we do… perhaps that’s the secret to such a remarkable Success?

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Best Affordable Advertising

What’s the best affordable Advertising when starting out on the Internet?

Good question! it depends on how fast you want to go!

Best Affordable Advertising

To illustrate some of my thoughts about Best Affordable Advertising let’s look at Global Sports from London.

Global Sports offer one of the hottest products in our era of  fast mobility and people on the go: kicks, sneakers and blings.

However, despite a certain popularity in the normal world, Global Sports was literally non-existent on the Internet. . . until they got a Semiomantics Business setup…  which was soon upgraded to Semiomantics Ecommerce with the smashing Best Shopping module as featured in WP Best eShop. As their sales generated from their presence on the Internet continued to climb, they realized the need to even accelerate their rise to fame namely to:

• stay ahead of the competition,
• capture more Google Top 10 positions and keep them… and most importantly,
• double and triple their sales volume.

Ezine Advertsing

Today, you find Global Sports on most relevant keywords – and they are continuously building their Brand.

At the time, I created a series of ads to provide some affordable advertising for the Internet. To test our new Action Scripts as discussed in this week’s Photoshop Ycademy Workshops, I decided to go a step further and point out another interesting way of advertising: Ezine Advertising.

Global Sports Ezine Double Stack by Bianca Gubalke Design

Ezine Advertising is a smart strategy to keep people ‘in the loop’ and above you see what my initial preparation for the cover (first picture) turns into… once rendered in Step 2.

Again, it is important to follow the instructions regarding the Action Script, keep the layers in good order in Step 1, and not to forget to save the results in clearly marked folders – especially the ‘rendered’ ones – to be found again at a mouseclick when a new client wants “something similar…”.

Ezine Advertising for Global Sports by Bianca Gubalke Design

Web Design Consulting

Any form of Digital Advertising consists of some spiffy copywriting and captivating Web Graphics that talk. Get in touch with us at Web Design Consulting to discuss your needs and from there get a fair quote for what exactly you need in terms of Web Graphics Design and/or Text and targeted Slogans. Prices differ as usual according to complexity.

Talk to Bianca

If you need Captivating Web Graphics for your principal Ad, get in touch with me via the Contact Form on this site and let’s get that unique visual hook out there ASAP!

Go directly to our brand-new SHOP HERE.

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Affordable DVD Packaging

Affordable DVD Packaging can develop into a profitable Small Business that can easily be managed from home. Just get started. . .

Either you wrap up your own creations – maybe digital photos you have taken from your favorite topics or some family pictures that you want to share with others – or, if you’re fit on Photoshop and smart by using some spiffy and time-saving Action Scripts as we teach in Photoshop Ycademy Workshops – why not offer your skills as a professional service.

Affordable DVD Packaging

If you look at “Affordable DVD Packaging” as a Home Business, there are many possibilities… actually, the more you look the more you find!

Imagine a group of young musicians who invested their hard earned cash into recording their first CD… now they need some good commercial packaging, now they need YOU! It could be a give and take in the beginning, as you too need to find your style and become better… but that’s a fantastic and exciting opportunity to get started and – in a way – get published in the music world. If what you do appeals, there will be more clients… and that’s how business grows.

Imagine a young model in the fashion world who wants to package her presentation book in form of a DVD that can easily be sent to agencies and photographers… what a great opportunity… and for sure GOOD IMAGES to start with!

There are many applications once you start looking and really think about it… and besides, you can develop your own style and expand into other fields while being paid for it.

Unique and Affordable Packaging for CD, DVD, Ebooks and more will soon be available in my SHOP.

Affordable DVD Packaging on Google

Writing and publishing blog posts is one thing, however, we need to monitor what our articles are doing and if and where they reach Google Top 10 positions.

As we see on the screenshot, the keyword phrase  “Affordable DVD Packaging”  has not too many search returns however many ads – which is indicative. We reached our target very fast with 3/10 positions on Google Top 10 – in this case with yesterday’s article, which was carried up by sites of our Semiomantics Publishing Network.

Let’s see what my second shot at that target will achieve! These days, the Formula 1 takes place on the Internet highway and I’m driving a Semiomantics XO – what’s YOUR vehicle?

For more information please go to Web Design Consulting and get top rankings fast too!

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Presenting Web Design Graphics

In today’s madly media oriented virtual world it’s important to integrate good quality pictures and images into our Websites and Blogs, ideally based on our own digital photography and/or Graphic Artwork.

Within that context and with improving Internet streaming and connectivities even down here in the sticks in South Africa, the ‘packaging’ of anything we present gains in importance. Just as in the ‘real’ world… the ‘look’ is what counts most. This means that we as Web Designers and Graphic Artists have to adapt our skills to be Presenting Web Design Graphics in a professional and appealing way.

Presenting Web Design Graphics

Presenting Web Design Graphics can be done the long and more elaborate way – depending obviously on the effect you wish to achieve as some are really just done in a few mouse clicks if you know the brilliant tools in your Adobe Photoshop CS4 – but for those who want to present their photos and images in a clean and pleasant manner without having to dig through complex Photoshop Tutorials, there is a smart way saving lots of time: Actions or Action Scripts.

Well, it’s what today’s Pro’s use anyway… as time is money and why reinvent the wheel?

How to Create a Reflection

In my Photoshop Series on “How to Create a Reflection” in September 2009, I introduced you to the more complex route – although this one was easy enough.

In the above example I simply used an Action Script to create a Reflection. This example is a simple one and I would say I personally would do it just as fast the ‘normal’ route, however, when it comes to automating hundreds of steps for items we don’t necessarily do every single day… WOW! this is just Magic!

One point I want to emphasize though: we always need good material to work with – sharp big photos, good quality images. It’s jsut a rule and not to be disputed.

Photoshop Ycademy Workshops

In yesterday’s Photoshop Ycademy Workshops we looked into additional Action Scripts and did some Action Script Troubleshooting.

One important point to remember was to not change the image size until at the end. Don’t even try this! I did… and had a beautiful product at the end of Step 1 – however, there was no way to render it!

Why did this happen?

Dali Through My Eyes

I had a specific picture in mind, however, as the Artwork I wanted to integrate – Dali Through My Eyes – was of much smaller size than what was dictated by the Action Script, I just decreased its size so I had a perfect fit!  Well, so thought I !!!

But that made the rendering via the Action Script impossible and, seeing that I cannot enlargen my original Artwork without losing pixels and quality, I have to abandon the idea alltogether. Yeah… any Actions Pro may have a laugh here… but this is part of the learning curve and we will get there!

Of course, I could do it in the ‘old’ way – however… as we approach different markets now – including Printing – , we need BIG pictures of HIGH quality. It requires a different way of thinking and planning… and it’s very exciting!

For the time being, I tested another Action in terms of a Cast Shadow on that well intended DVD Cover… and, of course… that attractive reflection :)

In tonight’s Photoshop Ycademy Workshop we will look into ways of dealing with Portraits and Landscapes – so look into your image folders and have some good, big pictures ready to be ‘manipulated’ for better presentation within your websites and blogs.

And to answer your question: YES! I am and have always been a fan of that great Surrealist painter… Salvadore Dali!

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Branding your Business online

The next step to Branding your Business online after purchasing and registering your domain is purchasing a hosting package to suit your business needs. Hosting is the step between your business and publishing it to the worldwide web. Offline a business takes its marketing materials to a publisher to be published and then distributed, online its to a hosting provider where your marketing material is made public online.

Hosting

There are any companies online that offer hosting packages, with varying features and prices. Most anyone can afford to buy basic hosting pack as prices have fallen over the past few years. However, one should not only be dictated by the price alone but also by the services that the hosting company provides.

Best Affordable Hosting

Identifying your business needs goes a long way to selecting the hosting package that will suit your budget and your specifications. At Small Business Consulting  we can help you assess your hosting needs and suggest  the best possible solution, however simple or complex it may be. If you are an internet marketer your needs will go way beyond a simple fun site that often you can get for free.

Hosting Features

Here are some hosting features in order of priority that I consider to be of paramount importance when considering and selecting a web hosting provider.  As a user of various hosting companies I realise these to be important:  

Customer Support

I remember when I first started how important this service was:  good, reliable customer support, providing technical assistance  and solutions as and when needed. Even today when something goes amiss it is important to have assistance from customer support.

Backups

It is important to know that the hosting provider can provide backup and has a regular backup routine in place. This however should not stop you from setting up your own backup and maintenance routine.

Web Space

Your account will require a certain amount of web space, and as you grow you need reassurance that you can also expand according to your needs.

Reliability and Access

No hosting company can really guarantee 100% uptime, those really unforeseen downtime’s do happen as well occasional short downtime for major maintenance. A good hosting company will deal with emergencies immediately and there should be very little disruption to the running of your online business. Speedy access to a website is also an important feature to considered in order that visitors are not lost by slow working websites.

At ChiHosters we provide an excellent service with hosting plans starting at:

* No Limit Shared Hosting: U$35 per year.

*Semiomantics Pro Hosting for Advanced Semiomantics Publishing: U$ 29.95 per month

* Hosting Reseller Plan (WHM): U$99.99 per month

* VSM 20GB Allocated Virtual Managed Server: U$150.00 per month
Sell WHM Reseller Packs

•Increased configuration and flexibility
•Increased uptime and security
•Full Root access
•100% Management and Monitoring – This means we worry about your server, and you worry about your sales!
•The ability to sell reseller accounts
•Based on a Dual AMD Opteron 275, 8GB ram and 20GB HD space dedicated to you.

Other options are also available on demand. Discussing your specific needs with a Consultant or hosting providing can result in a unique and satisfactory hosting solution designed especially for you.

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Branding your business online.

There are many businesses out there online these days, each business promoting its own specific product/s. To be noticed each business has its own image of the product it sells in the market. Branding your business online is one of the most important elements of advertising.
One of the first steps to branding your business is the name you choose for that business.

Brand Name

The name you choose becomes your “brand name” a type of trademark, used to identify you on any marketing material you use, from letterheads to T-shirts and identifies you as the brand owner of the products or services you provide.

Domain Registration

Register the Brand Name

Online we register the brand name by registering a domain name. Offline the owner of a business can do this through trademark registration, protecting his rights to the brand. Whether you run a small home business or  any project online registering your domain on the internet is a must , and the first investment into your business online.

Domain Registration

Domain registration is a very simple process of selecting a name, filling out a form and making a payment.

At Cashbizzhost we sell internet domain name registrations with a premium service. You will find our domain names to be one of the best values around.

Domain Registration Prices

Top Level Domain name (TLD) a .com is offered at:

* U$12.95 per domain for 1 year
* U$25.00 per domain for 2 years

Other domains such as country-code top-level domains and generic top level domains are offered at varying prices.

Cashbizzhost also offers many FREE SERVICES with domain registration:

* 100 personalized email addresses -
Create up to 100 personalized email addresses and forward them to other email addresses.

* Web/URL forwarding -
Forward/redirect/frame your domain name to any other URL/website on the web.

* Name-my-phone -
Give your phone a memorable, meaningful, identity.

* Name-my-map -
Ever want to give someone directions to your home or business, with an easy to remember name?

With every registered user we offer full customer support.

For more information feel free to contact me to discuss your requirements.

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Building Your Personal Blog

In the beginning, when Building your Personal Blog – meaning your Authority Blog – you want to focus on writing good original content and adding attractive images, photos or even videos – always in the corresponding categories and tagged properly and correctly. At this stage, it is important to bring in a continuous flow of good, well-edited and well-published posts so search engine spyders pick you up in their hungry webwide crawling routine. The more ‘fuel’ these virtual creepy-crawlies get from you on a regular basis, the more often they come back and the more flowers they will send you in terms of rankings.

Building Your Personal Blog on Google

Monitoring your results on Google allows you to see where you are doing things right – or not… and to analyze and improve your performance.

Here I demonstrate what my article “Building Your Personal Blog” did on Google… actually, I fell off my chair when seeing the first result after just 3 short hours! Unbelievable but true: there it was, spot 8 ahead of 136 million search returns! WOW! Long live Semiomantics Author Scripts and YCADEMY Business Building Seminars where the skills to Success Online are learned! I forgot to do a screenshot… however, this result being so smashing, I went back this morning to see what had happened now… and almost sure I had disappeared. 136 MILLION SEARCH RETURNS – IMAGINE THAT!

Well. . . look at what came up now! Instead of having disappeared, here we are now with a whoping 7 positions out of the 10 available one on Google Top 10:

Semiomantics Author Blogs

Semiomantics Author Blogs convince by their High Performance and are the perfect Starter Blog for the serious Blogging beginner or any ambitious and highly experienced professional.

Test the Rest – then Get the Best! That’s then… the end of the Quest!!!

If you are looking into building your Authority on the Internet and you need some advice from those who did it in the past and proove it day-in day-out through their fantastic top performance, then get in touch with me via the Contact Form here on biancagubalke.com or go to Web Design Consulting or directly to WP Best eShop!

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The Bianca Gubalke Products Shop is the new WP Best eShop currently under construction – based on a WordPress based Semiomantics Script and configured at the first Ycademy Business Building Seminar 2010 that’s taking place right now.

Bianca Gubalke Products Shop

Based on remarkable results over the past years, the new Bianca Gubalke Products Shop will offer everything that’s needed for a professional and high ranking presence on the Internet – from a smart domain name research, over hosting to a customized setup, configuration, running and maintainenance of personalized Websites and Blogs for private individuals who wish to build their Authority on the Internet… to Small Businesses with an ambition to succeed online… and large Corporate Clients who need to build, maintain and expand a professional and continuous presence on Google Top 10 positions to maximize on Traffic and Sales while cutting down on increasingly expensive Google Ads.

Each Project managed personally by Bianca Gubalke will focus exclusively on the Customers’ requirements – dependable yet independent.

Personalized Web Design & Publishing Services

Benefit from our Personalized Web Design & Publishing Services based on Google efficient Semiomantics Scripts, original well-edited Content and eye-catching Artwork -

• Customized Web Design,
• Captivating Web Graphics and
• Search Engine Optimized Writing and Publishing

as lined out in Web Design Consulting.

Stay tuned as the Bianca Gubalke Products Shop evolves. . .

The Semiomantics Shop 2010 will be the hot topic of the first Ycademy Business Building Seminar of a cycle of 12 (one Seminar per month) starting today, Saturday 23rd, 2010. It presents an extension of the Ycademy December Seminar 2009, where Seminar participants set up individual IT Consulting Blogs as the example featured below (click on the image; it will lead you to the original Web Design Consulting Blog).

The Ycademy Seminar January 2010 was booked out within days.

Semiomantics Shop 2010

The Semiomantics Shop 2010 under discussion is a basic Semiomantics WP Ecommerce based Shop solution that can be adapted to any WordPress Theme. It is an especially interesting approach as each product and each brand requires customized solutions.
We will be reporting on this exciting new Semiomantics Shop Workshop that equips our Web Design Consulting Team with a very efficient way to not only sell own products and services, but to provide customers with a user-friendly store that connects to the whole sales pipeline requirements plus follow-up and customer care.

The cherry on top: an Affiliate Program hooked to the new Semiomantics Shop!

To be continued. . .

With the Fifa 2010 Soccer World Cup on our doorstep, South Africa is gearing up to an event of exorbitant proportions and an influx of people from all over the world the Rainbow Nation has never seen before!

Have a look at the Soccer City 2010 Stadium in Cape Town and let the architectural forms and African music give you goosebumps in anticipation of the thundering event that awaits us in June – everybody included!

Accommodation, B&B’s and places to stay in South Africa will be the hottest topic around – and with it. . . 2010 Cape Town Accommodation.

2010 Cape Town Accommodation

2010 Cape Town Accommodation – including accommodation in Noordhoek as part of the Southern suburbs along the Atlantic seaboard – will be especially sought after for the matches so far scheduled according to the official FIFA Schedule :

Match 2

11/06 20:30 Cape Town Uruguay – France

March 11

14/06 20:30 Cape Town Italy – Paraguay

Match 23

18/06 20:30 Cape Town England – Algeria

Match 30

21/06 13:30 Cape Town Portugal – Korea DPR

Match 44

24/06 20:30 Cape Town Cameroon – Netherlands.

If you spent all your money on Soccer World Cup Tickets and you want to get away from the buzz and madness of the town, Accommodation in idyllic rural Noordhoek – just 30 miles from Cape Town – may be a great choice.

Web Design Consulting

If you need to get onto the Internet map for 2010 Cape Town Accommodation it’s a bit late, but not for us at Web Design Consulting!

Expect high Performance at reasonable prices… and screenshots to proove we are among the Formula 1 drivers on the Internet highway!

YEBO GO GO 2010!

Top Performance and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are the first and most important factors to be considered when setting up a new Website or Blog, never mind whether you are a private individual or a corporate company. Getting solid and knowledgeable advice from a professional web designer or Semiomantics consultant will save you money, time and frustration – although the fact is that performance and visibility on Google Top 10 as well as on Social Networks genre Facebook and Twitter do increase if you are prepared to invest more – provided you are in good, trustworthy hands – as at Web Design Consulting .

Top Performance

Top Performance is meanwhile an almost abused slogan and promise to any prospect who wants to start a presence on the Internet.

Not long ago, I saw it even in big, bold letters on the rear window of a car driving next to me on the highway. With a juicy price tag to the service, per month that is. I made a mental note of the website and promptly looked it up on Google – and didn’t discover it anywhere.

How to choose a Performing Web Designer

So how does a normal person without too much insight or experience regarding Web 2.0 know how to choose a performing Web Designer?

By doing his due diligence and looking the Web Designer or Web Design Consultant up on Google!

Is he in control of his own name to start with? Look at the website, the performance, the look, the functionalities… now… today! Not a year ago… right now! Look at what comes over, how the images talk to you, the content resonates or looks rather fishy. Is there a proven track record of consistent work and proven results, eg. screenshots as you see regularly on this website, biancagubalke.com? Meaning absolute proof of targets being reached and within which time frame?

Let’s look at yesterday’s example:

Web Graphics Joy

My article on ‘Joy’ as an important element of Web Graphics Design reached a top ranking on Google – position 3 on over a million entries to be exact – within two minutes! See the screenshot below, where I researched the search term “Web Graphics Joy” with quite another thought in mind… I wasn’t prepared for such a smashing result that fast … but that’s the Power of our Semiomantics Scripts in combination with smart Editing and Publishing :

"Web Graphics Joy" on Google Top 10 – position 3 – in 2 minutes

Web Design Consulting

When considering these details, one gets a feeling as to where Web Design Consulting Services sound right, efficient and reliable – and fun to work with! And, as we are talking about High Performance… where a script – meaning the secret engine that drives the performance of a website or blog – achieves its goals, meaning where posts reach Google Top 10 positions on the keywords as delivered by the client and then targeted.

Of course, a client needs to know his keywords; if he’s wrong on that one noone else is to be blamed.

Finding the right keywords should not be taken light-heartedly; getting it right here is fundamental to one’s success online, and it is a Science – a highly paid one. Yes, it pays to invest in proper keyword research – and as the Internet changes daily following the temperamental movements of the masses and of course Google, it’s an ongoing process.

It never ends!

Setting up a website or blog is only the beginning; then the real work starts with daily publishing of good, well-edited content and regular maintenance to keep it alive and building towards its goal in terms of visibility on Google – and then staying there.

With our knowledge, dedication and support at Web Design Consulting you will!

High Performance

High Performance and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are the first and most important factors to be considered when setting up a new Website or Blog, never mind whether you are a private individual or a corporate company. Getting solid and knowledgeable advice from a professional web designer or Semiomantics consultant will save you money, time and frustration – although the fact is that performance and visibility on Google Top 10 as well as on Social Networks genre Facebook and Twitter do increase if you are prepared to invest more – provided you are in good, trustworthy hands – as at  Web Design Consulting .

High Performance

High Performance is meanwhile an almost abused slogan and promise to any prospect who wants to start a presence on the Internet.

Not long ago, I saw it even in big, bold letters on the rear window of a car driving next to me on the highway. With a juicy price tag to the service, per month that is. I made a mental note of the website and promptly looked it up on Google – and didn’t discover it anywhere.

How to choose a Performing Web Designer

So how does a normal person without too much insight or experience regarding Web 2.0 know how to choose a performing Web Designer?

By doing his due diligence and looking the Web Designer or Web Design Consultant up on Google!

Is he in control of his own name to start with? Look at the website, the performance, the look, the functionalities… now… today! Not a year ago… right now! Look at what comes over, how the images talk to you, the content resonates or looks rather fishy. Is there a proven track record of consistent work and proven results, eg. screenshots as you see regularly on this website, biancagubalke.com? Meaning absolute proof of targets being reached and within which time frame?

Let’s look at yesterday’s example:

Web Graphics Joy

My article on ‘Joy’ as an important element of Web Graphics Design reached a top ranking on Google – position 3 on over a million entries to be exact – within two minutes! See the screenshot below, where I researched the search term “Web Graphics Joy” with quite another thought in mind… I wasn’t prepared for such a smashing result that fast … but that’s the Power of our Semiomantics Scripts in combination with smart Editing and Publishing :

"Web Graphics Joy" on Google Top 10 – position 3 – in 2 minutes

Web Design Consulting

When considering these details, one gets a feeling as to where Web Design Consulting Services sound right, efficient and reliable – and fun to work with! And, as we are talking about High Performance… where a script – meaning the secret engine that drives the performance of a website or blog – achieves its goals, meaning where posts reach Google Top 10 positions on the keywords as delivered by the client and then targeted.

Of course, a client needs to know his keywords; if he’s wrong on that one noone else is to be blamed.

Finding the right keywords should not be taken light-heartedly; getting it right here is fundamental to one’s success online, and it is a Science – a highly paid one. Yes, it pays to invest in proper keyword research – and as the Internet changes daily following the temperamental movements of the masses and of course Google, it’s an ongoing process.

It never ends!

Setting up a website or blog is only the beginning; then the real work starts with daily publishing of good, well-edited content and regular maintenance to keep it alive and building towards its goal in terms of visibility on Google – and then staying there.

With our knowledge, dedication and support at  Web Design Consulting you will!

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Small business online

Today any business that ignores the potential of marketing online is missing out on the enormous pool of potential customers and profit that the internet has to offer. The internet has opened up a global playing field for any business to take advantage of it and be an active player.

Developing an Online Presence

Developing an Online Presence can be a relatively simple affair if you know which steps to take first, otherwise it can result in being a total nightmare when searching for the right solution for your business. You can get totally lost in the minefield of information that there is. Discussing your business needs with a Small Business Consultant can save you both a lot of time and money in the long run.

Small Business Online

Building a Small Business Online

As with operating any other business, starting a small business online is a matter of developing good practices, building confidence and relationships with customers and offering products and services at a fair price.

Small Business Marketing plan

In order to market your product/s online you must have a marketing plan in place, a roadmap that drives to your ultimate goal. Drawing up such a plan is not to be a rushed process, it is worth taking the time and doing some research in order to achieve the desired result. Here are some basic questions that need to be considered when creating your marketing plan:

* Do you have the right product to attract potential customers?
* Is your product/s priced competitively?
* Which customers are you targeting? where is your target market?
* Which effective marketing techniques will you employ to reach your target?

By really spending time researching, testing, tracking and evaluating strategies, your plan will generate not only high volumes of traffic but interest, brand recognition, customers and sales that boost your business profits. Marketing plans also need to undergo periodic reviews; markets change, trends change, all of these to be considered when you evaluate the success your  plan.  

Small Business Marketing Budget

One of the first essential steps for any business, on or offline,  is to decide upon and allocate a marketing budget, both yearly and the monthly that includes the running cost.  Without advertising your business it is more likely not to succeed these days due to the enormous aggressive competition that there is around.  Marketing your small business does cost money if you wish to succeeed!  One of the main advantages of marketing  your business online is that you do have low start up costs however as your business develops online you may need to expand and also take into consideration new marketing techniques that could further generate business growth.

A marketing budget has to based on a solid business plan. The budget must be realistic; even if you go so far as to learn how to do it yourself there is still a cost. Not everyone has the time nor the patience to go through the learning curve that is required to run a profitable small business online.

If you are busy running a business time is always at a premium. Working together with a  qualified online business developer or consultant, discussing and brainstorning ideas means that he/she will find the best solution for your particular business needs and time and money is not wasted. Spending money on the right solution is an investment towards your business’s future.

IT Consulting 

At Small Business Consulting we are part of a small international team of highly trained web developers, designers, project managers and consultants who will work with you on a one to one basis, discussing your plan and the best possible solution in order to assure long term customer satisfaction and performance.

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Joy in Web Design – as an emotion of elation, inspiration and delight… triggering a smile… a precious moment of letting go the pressures and worries of the day while opening up to capture the message and ideally respond to it in a favorable and most natural way – this Joy is definitely part of what our Web Design and Web Graphics strive to express. It’s a matter of giving, reaching and receiving.

While we all love Joy – or happiness as we call it – and this deep wish is reflected in each song, each poem, novel, movie and even in a decadent piece of chocolate… only few actually reach it.

To me, there’s Joy and Laughter all around us… in little things in Nature that just need to be seen and felt… opening our hearts in a big way!

Web Design Joy

I came across two Joy Quotes I really like, especially as I so much respect the great minds behind them:

The Buddha teaches us:

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. ”

And this is from Mother Teresa: ” Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

Interestingly, when looking up “Joy” on Google without mentioning Web Design, there are around 140 million returns, just one paid ad that really made me laugh, and while even the Wiktionary seems to be short of explanations for Joy as a state of being… unless referring to names, what comes up are Joy for Mining Machinery, programming language, carpets, radio stations, books, bands, quotes… and yes, Merriam-Webster gets to the roots in the 13th century for this source of delight by describing it as “… the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by… the prospect of possessing what one desires”.

Captivating Web Graphics

Which brings us straight back to our objective in this article: the importance of captivating web graphics and attractive images on websites and blogs – be it for online advertising or just accompanying editorials and posts – to attract and envelop visitors with that pleasant feeling that accompanies “… the prospect of possessing what one desires”.

In online marketing our prime objective is to give the customer what the customer wants or needs… and a successful way of doing so is by transporting our message – in other words the offer – through captivating web graphics that evoke Joy!

For any of your Web Design, Web Graphics and Publishing requirements benefit from the personal touch and joyful approach at Web Design Consulting.

Joy

Joy – as an emotion of elation, inspiration and delight… triggering a smile… a precious moment of letting go the pressures and worries of the day while opening up to capture the message and ideally respond to it in a favorable and most natural way – this Joy is definitely part of what our Web Graphics strive to express. It’s a matter of giving, reaching and receiving.

While we all love Joy – or happiness as we call it – and this deep wish is reflected in each song, each poem, novel, movie and even in a decadent piece of chocolate…  only few actually reach it.

To me, there’s Joy and Laughter all around us… in little things in Nature that just need to be seen and felt… opening our hearts in a big way!

Joy on Google

I came across two Joy Quotes I really like, especially as I so much respect the great minds behind them:

The Buddha teaches us:

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. ”

And this is from Mother Teresa: ” Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

Interestingly, when looking up “Joy” on Google there are around 140 million returns, just one paid ad that really made me laugh, and while even the Wiktionary seems to be short of explanations for Joy as a state of being… unless referring to names, what comes up are Joy for Mining Machinery, programming language, carpets, radio stations, books, bands, quotes… and yes, Merriam-Webster gets to the roots in the 13th century for this source of delight by describing it as “… the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by… the prospect of possessing what one desires”.

Captivating Web Graphics

Which brings us straight back to our objective in this article: the importance of captivating web graphics and attractive images on websites and blogs – be it for online advertising or just accompanying editorials and posts -  to attract and envelop visitors with that pleasant feeling that accompanies “… the prospect of possessing what one desires”.

In online marketing our prime objective is to give the customer what the customer wants or needs… and a successful way of doing so is by transporting our message – in other words the offer – through captivating web graphics that evoke Joy!

For any of your Web Design, Web Graphics and Publishing requirements benefit from the personal touch and joyful approach at  Web Design Consulting.

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Style is one of the key elements when it comes to Web Graphics or any form of Design. . . and here I don’t refer to style sheets… although they present a basic element of Website Design today.

Style has to do with your “Secret Garden”. . . it is something you recognize immediately – and as such it’s important for your web presence and especially for your Branding.

Style expresses who you are.

Style – What is it?

Style – what is it?

We know the expression “style” from musical compositions and linguistics. Yes, it has to do with composition.

We know it from stars… think Michael Jackson, think Tina Turner… Madonna… Queen. Each has or had their particular style – which resonates with us or it doesn’t. It has to do with resonance.

There are distinctive architectural styles over the centuries and epochs that shaped them. We distinguish it easily in Visual Arts, where style refers to either the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint and how… or the techniques applied in doing so. It has to do with aesthetic values, definitely.

And of course, style is the determinating factor when it comes to fashion design. A legend like Coco Chanel was – and will always remain – its icon.

Style as a Creative Expression

According to Wiki, Design it refers to “…the process of creating something”. Hmmm, I’m not too convinced here, but definitely, Style is a creative expression.

An expression of what?

An expression of an individual… creator? Designer? Artist?

An expression of time, an epoch, its people?

Here we have another important element: Time!

But then, style is timeless… and perhaps herein lies its secret: to express timelessness – the essentials of being – within Time and with the right Timing.

Web Design Consulting

At Web Design Consulting we take the time to understand what our clients want to express – and guide them into finding, developing or enhancing – their own Style.

Style

Style is one of the key elements when it comes to Web Graphics or any form of Design. . .  and here I don’t refer to style sheets… although they present a basic element of  Website Design today.

Style has to do with your “Secret Garden”. . . it is something you recognize immediately – and as such it’s important for your web presence and especially for your Branding.

Style expresses who you are.

Style – What is it?

Style – what is it?

We know the expression “style” from musical compositions and linguistics. Yes, it has to do with composition.

We know it from stars… think Michael Jackson, think Tina Turner… Madonna… Queen. Each has or had their particular style – which resonates with us or it doesn’t. It has to do with resonance.

There are distinctive architectural styles over the centuries and epochs that shaped them. We distinguish it easily in Visual Arts, where style refers to either the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint and how… or the techniques applied in doing so. It has to do with aesthetic values, definitely.

And of course, style is the determinating factor when it comes to fashion design. A legend like Coco Chanel was – and will always remain – its icon.

Style as a Creative Expression

According to Wiki, Design it refers to “…the process of creating something”.  Hmmm, I’m not too convinced here, but definitely, Style is a creative expression.

An expression of what?

An expression of an individual… creator? Designer? Artist?

An expression of time, an epoch, its people?

Here we have another important element: Time!

But then, style is timeless… and perhaps herein lies its secret: to express timelessness – the essentials of being – within Time and with the right Timing.

Web Design Consulting

At  Web Design Consulting we take the time to understand what our clients want to express – and guide them into finding, developing or enhancing – their own Style.

When creating the above color composition from an original picture from my garden, I thought of our German partner Ute Schaedler.

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