Choosing the right design, the right designer and the right graphics is essential. Selecting the right business, the right platform and the right time is crucial.

If you have an artistic hand but don’t know how to write, or you have beautiful voice and you don’t know how to sing, you may have a gift, but a paralyzed one.

You have a website and don’t know what its composition is; you have graphics and don’t know how they are designed; just the lack of this information you may lose your business.

Remember the good old days, when the internet consisted of nothing more than a few simple websites formatted in basic HTML? Web design was so easy.

There are numerous sites that contain various articles and tutorials that can explain and teach everything from basic ASP to advanced dynamic manipulation of internet information and user interfaces.

Redesigning large dynamic websites can either be easy or problematic. Read how you can redesign your large website easily and efficiently.

PSP-toting kids can receive RSS feeds. Mobile phone cameras can narrowcast video straight to TV.

Digg.com has introduced its own lab, named (accurately, if not creatively) Digg Labs. This new addition will allow visitors to test features and consider concepts before they are introduced to the main Digg site. User feedback could also prevent things from making the transition from Digg Labs to Digg.

If you want to preload images to your website, there are actually a few options available.

Day two of ad:tech Chicago rounded up with a sigh. With all the parties Monday night, I think some of the attendees were looking forward to the end of the day.

User-contributed news site Digg has entered experimental territory, as founder Kevin Rose disclosed the debut of Digg Labs.

What are the secrets of converting visitors into customers? Most ecommerce sites that struggle to convert suffer from the same half dozen minor problems.

Every site owner wants one thing: more visitors. After that, their requests might vary from “more with my family” to “more ice cream in the freezer,” but they can all agree on that one wish.

Last week’s article addressed some important questions to ask a web designer before you move forward with a website.

No business has an unlimited marketing budget. If you are having a web solution developed by an outside design firm it is crucial to ensure that you are getting the most “bang for your buck”.

I’m happy to see that Michael Affronti has responded to my post about the design decisions regarding Outlook 2007′s RSS reader.

I was intrigued by the PRWeek headline: “Free podcasts become driving force in BMW branding push.”

Website design is as much an art as a science. Still, some there are some guiding principles that will, in just about every case, make for a better site. Herman Drost has compiled a list of 16 of these elements.

Whether you’re planning the launch of your first site, or wondering why your site counter is actually moving backward, stop.

Web 2.0 is the new black, rounded corners are the new complimentary accessory, drop shadows are a part of the status quo, and you’d better not wear a bevel before Labor Day.

Would you like to improve your website? Then utilize vaastu shastra – “the science of direction that combines all the five elements of nature and balances them with man and materials.”

This is not written by a professional lawyer or anyone close to one. It is written by a typical business owner of a successful web development company who has no law degree or the budget to hire a lawyer to write a web development contract.

Search engine optimization (SEO) gets them to the site. What they do (or don’t do) once SEO has done its job is up to the site owner or designer.