| LED Digest 2111: Web Design Contracts |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" pair Networks: The LED's Web Host Hosting and Domain Reg. from a Trusted Leader pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. March 7, 2006 Issue #2111 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ======= NEW ==================== --== Link Display Problem ==-- ~ Tom Anson "...some of my links had gone from a readable teal to an almost invisible white." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Design Contracts ==-- ~ Martha Retallick "Here's a web design contract that may be worth emulating..." ~ Mark Medlicott "I now have a generic contract...Use it or adapt it to suit as you wish." ~ Mark Frank "I provide this resource to other designers (at a really low price)..." --== Cell Phone Visitors ==-- ~ Rich Dudley "I use my Treo quite a bit for web surfing, blog posting, etc." ~ Michael Linehan "...so many people research before buying." ==== BILLBOARD =================== --== Reputable SEO/M Services? ==-- ~ Claudia Lynn --== The LED Archives, PageRank & Google ==-- ~ Steve Pronger =========== NEW ================================== From: Tom Anson Subject: Page Display Problem Hi, fellow LED-ers. I've just come across a problem with my website that totally mystifies me. I'm hoping someone can give me some help. As I was working on a new page of my website (using Dreamweaver 8), I noticed almost inadvertently that some of my links had gone from a readable teal to an almost invisible white. More specifically, while viewing the pages in FireFox, of a list of five list items, the first three changed to white, the fourth stayed the same and the fifth turned to white. In Internet Exploreer, all five links are white. They are all coded the same, so I can see no reason for this. And any work I was doing on the page should not have affected this anyway. I've checked the CSS; but even if there was a problem there -- related to something else I'd done to the page -- why wouldn't it affect all of these list items the same? The only thing I can think of that could at all be a factor here is the Amazon link. I had changed it from whatever it was before to the new iframe format. But even when I remove this link, the other links remain white. Any ideas? Your help would be very, very much appreciated. Thanks. Tom Anson Essential-Vitamins.com http://www.essential-vitamins.com ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Martha Retallick Subject: Contracts > How about some pointers on a [web design] > contract...? Anyone have a basic contract they > would share? - Nancy Cardinali, LED 2110 Here's a web design contract that may be worth emulating: http://www.wilsonweb.com/worksheet/pkg-con.htm Martha Retallick http://www.westernskycommunications.com --------- new post - same topic -------- From: Mark Medlicott Subject: Contracts Hi Nancy I too have had to search around over the years to find a suitable 'basic' contract. I now have a generic contract, which covers design outcomes, confidentiality, time, payment and customer expectations quite well. It should work as well in the USA as elsewhere in the world, and is easy enough even for the customers to understand. To make it easy to access I have added it for you to view on the following page: http://www.medlicottdesign.orcon.net.nz/smallbusiness/StandardContract.pdf Use it or adapt it to suit as you wish. I like it mainly because it is simple and works. Regards Mark Medlicott Medlicott Design www.medlicottdesign.orcon.net.nz --------- new post - same topic -------- From: Mark Frank Subject: Contracts I started my business with a free contract that I got from another designer. This free contract cost me a lot of money (and time) in unpaid work because it did not protect me from clients who changed the scope of the work in the middle of the job. After being stung a couple of times, I broke down and hired a lawyer to create a website design contract for me. It cost a few thousand dollars, but it paid off right away. It is one of the best website design contracts around because my lawyer and I wrote it to specifically cover the problems and issues I encountered as a website designer. I provide this resource to other designers (at a really low price) so that they don't get burned by their clients or by their own inexperience with contracts. If you are interested, you can find it here: http://www.websitedesignbiz.com/website_contract.htm Mark Frank http://www.websitedesignbiz.com -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Richard Dudley Subject: Cell phones > There is a move afoot... to make sites work in cell phones. > That being said, accessing the Web via cell phone is slow. - Martha Retallick, LED 2110 Actually, cell phones are now operating at DSL speeds. I have a new Treo 700w, which runs on Verizon's EVDO network. I'm clocking speeds of 440 kbps in my rural area, and Verizon claims speeds over 700 kbps in major cities. In contrast, my buddy's Treo 650, which doesn't support the EVDO network, is clocking about 25-30 kbps. The 700w is one of several devices now on the market that operate at these speeds. Sprint has a couple of devices coming out soon as well which will operate on its high-speed network, too. Building function for these devices has gotten much easier recently. Microsoft's .NET platform has greatly improved the adaptive rendering of its controls. When a website built on .NET 2.0 is accessed, the site determines what device and browser version is being used, and produces code which functions on that platform. Remember this is function, not design, which is another aspect you'll need to keep in mind. I use my Treo for quite a bit of web surfing, blog posting, etc. On short business trips, I don't even travel with a laptop, since I can function pretty well for a couple of days with just the phone. Future plans for my websites include making them compatible with these devices. Rich Dudley www.bloomery.com --------- new post - same topic -------- From: Michael Linehan Subject: Cell phones > Does anyone bother to make an ecommerce > site friendly to cell phones? Other than sites > selling ring tones, etc. Is this worthwhile? - John Barendrecht, LED 2109 Hi John, I don't actually do this for my clients - yet. There hasn't been a call for it. But just to let you know that building for this market is part of GoLive. I presume it's there in Dreamweaver too. In other words, easy-to-use tools are in place. And so many people research before buying. Even if it's an experiment for you, perhaps it's worth it. If only one comes back later, I'm imagining that would be enough to cover the cost of providing the content. Michael Linehan www.marketing-alchemy.com ==== BILLBOARD =================================== From: Claudia Lynn Subject: SEO services My websites sell only one book each: www.askmothersadvice.com and www.recipesforbaby.com. The profit does not cover the monthly fees most SEO service companies are charging... ie, $50 to $100 per month. Are there any reasonably priced companies you can suggest? I have signed up with more than one company that took my credit card and gave me absolutely no results. I don't ask for big time responses, just some consistent submissions. Claudia Lynn bequestbook, aol.com -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Steve Pronger Subject: LED archives > It's widely documented that you cannot check Google's > backlink data with any degree of accuracy with that command. - Michael Martinez, LED 2110 Yes, agreed, that's why I can't draw any solid conclusions from my own link data. But if one person on this list - just one - can identify a backlink I'll be convinced that Google, if no other SE, is recognizing these archived pages as backlinks. I really want to be wrong on this one guys. There are hundreds of pages out there with my link on them. And yours! > PR is not an indicator of value or quality. At least > not for anyone who is serious about SEO. I really only mentioned PageRank in the context that the LED archive index page, a high PR, did not seem to be passing any PR to the actual archived pages, due, I suspect, to the nature of those URLs. I wasn't making an argument for the value of PageRank in inbound links. But seeing as you brought it up, Google themselves state: -------------------- "Google's order of results is automatically determined by more than 100 factors, including our PageRank algorithm." http://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html -------------------- and... -------------------- "PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Important pages receive a higher PageRank and appear at the top of the search results." http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html -------------------- Google's words, not mine. I agree that soliciting links on the basis of PageRank alone is no longer an effective or wise strategy, but dismissing the PR of a linking page as inconsequential is folly in my view. True, I would rather have a link from a lower PR page that closely relates to the theme of my site, than from a higher PR but unrelated page. Relevancy should always be your first and over-riding consideration. But, all things being equal, I'll take the higher PR link, thanks very much. Steve Pronger http://www.stevepronger.com ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains © Copyright 1995-2006 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. "Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand." - Lakota |
