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Creating a new, redesigning, or updating a website,
eastcreekwebs.com is ready to help.
Five basic elements
of Website design:
1. Content
2. Visual appeal
3. Ease of navigation
4. Download speed
5. Location
Websites are a unique form of graphic design, not of paper or canvas, but of screenfulls and hyperlinks.
Great website design is not only what websurfers see and do, but also the thoughts and emotions websurfers experience.

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Content includes both pride and joy. Pride in the truth and depth of description of the webpage subject whether it is about a product, service or information on a company, person, place, thing or idea. And joy in the pleasure and satisfaction of painlessly and pleasurably getting the point across.

Eastcreekwebs.com starts with developing content. Without content a website is meaningless. Unlike books which have content which doesn't change, and magazines and newspapers which have content which changes periodically, websites can have content which doesn't change, content which changes periodically and content which changes at will. Eastcreekwebs.com designs webpages and navigational architectures based on content.

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Eastcreekwebs.com designs webpages that catch and please the attention of wbesurfers!

Books, magazines, newspapers and TV have fixed page or screen sizes, webpages come in many sizes. The premium webpage space is the top part which fits in one screen even when viewed on different computers. To reach the widest audience, Eastcreekwebs.com designs webpages to fit on many different computer screens.

On web pages built with classic HTML Web surfers can adjust the text size to suit their needs. The smaller the text the more that fits in each screenful, and printouts fit on fewer pages. Larger text is easier to see. Designing webpages so that the layout of text and images looks good at all text sizes is a distinguishing feature of quality website design. Alternatives such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and text images are useful in moderation, but when used unnecessarily they impair the function of the website.

Eastcreekwebs.com difference is design specifically for the web, an aesthetic utilizing websafe colors, webfonts and graphics optimized to load fast and look good.

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Information architecture on most websites is poor. English is read left to right, When a navigation bar comes before your content, your content is in second place. Instead of the typical navigation bar on the left side, I generally recommend navigation tab icons on top and a text link bar at the bottom, of each webpage.

On every web domain there is one and only one page which appears first when only the domain name is entered in a web browser. That page is called the homepage. Homepages are the cornerstones of website designs. Homepages function as:

• A welcome page to greet websurfers,
• A guide to direct websurfers into your website, and
• Text and meta-text to inform search engines about your website.

Links are the essence of the web. Links between pages on your website should be easy to find and easy to understand where they will go. Links to other websites can immeasurably enhance your website content and avoid your website being a dead end on the web. A combination of graphical and text links will make your website enjoyable and practical.

If your website will be more than a single page, content will be distributed on the home page and on focused webpages. Examples are pages for products, services, about, news, location, contact, and links. Why settle for a website when you can have a websuite? Eastcreekwebs.com designs each webpage as a side or back door to function in many respects like an additional home page.

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There is no such thing as a website which loads too fast. High speed internet access (broadband) is growing rapidly in availability and popularity, but many websurfers still access the web with slow modem connections. While a website directed to a specific narrowly targeted audience might benefit from large graphics and advanced multimedia display technologies, the vast majority of websites benefit from at least a home page with clearly focused html text and graphics optimized for fast loading.
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Your location on the web is the result of many factors. Eastcreekwebs.com understands the system and will help you to achive the best position possible within your budget. Factors which determine internet location include the connection speed of your website host, the name of your domain, the titles of your webpages, meta text hidden inside and text on, your webpages. Also important is how you submit to search engines and indexes.
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What else?
Does your website have any “eastereggs”? Website eastereggs are “secret” features which add functionality without adding clutter. Eastereggs are one example of a variety of extra elements which eastcreekwebs.com provides.

 
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