What is a Scrolling Screen Size?
By Scrolling Screen Size we mean the part of the page that is seen in the browser window when you first enter a web site. The scroll bars to the right of the window allow you to scroll down to see more of the web page. The scrolling screen size of a web page then is how many full browser windows it takes to view the whole page.
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Is Page Downloading time really important?
It is if you want to keep your customers on your web site. There's a funny thing about web surfers - they
are an impatient lot. If they have to wait more than ten seconds for a page to load they have a tendency to
leave the site. BB Media Web Design builds your pages with this fact in mind.
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What is a Static Web site?
A Static Web is one that doesn't change. If offers no real customer interactivity besides navigation buttons and maybe an e-mail button. It is handy when you want to present information that doesn't change or need to be updated regularly.
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What is an Interactive Web site?
An Interactive Web asks for input from the customer or allows the customer to do something more than
just navigate your site or send you an e-mail. An interactive site may contain methods of interaction for
the viewer. This could be message boards, guestbooks, forums, intereactive quizes, and shopping
carts to name a few. These sites usually
require more maintenance than static web sites because the information is constantly changing.
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Do I really need a Domain Name?
A Domain Name is not necessary to have a web site. Many personal sites use only the Domain Name of their
Internet Service Provider (ISP). We would recommend a Domain Name if your site would be a commercial
enterprise. As a business it just looks more professional and lends an air of credibility to your site.
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What are Meta Tags?
Meta Tags are hidden names in the web page's HTML code. You will never see these names in the browser
window, but search engines use them to index your web site. Meta Tags are crucial for getting listed on
the major search engines. BB Media Web Design puts Meta Tags on all your pages based on the purpose and
content of your site. It's part of the package deal!
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How do I Keep People From Leaving My Site?
Many times web pages have links to other web sites of similar interest. This is a great way to make the
web surfing experience more enjoyable for your customer and reciprocating links help your ranking in the
search engines. This has a down side though; you want customers to find your site and then stay for awhile.
It's not very polite to send them away as soon as they arrive. We can build your pages
that contain HTML code that will keep your customer on your site by opening a new window in the browser
when they click on an external site link. When your customer closes that new window they will be back
where they started from - on your web site.
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Will I be able to Make Changes to my site?
You can always change your web site at any time. This is especially recommended to keep your site
fresh and bring your customers back time and again. We offer a maintenance plan for
these updates too. Using the maintenance plan will save you 50% off the hourly rate.
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Can I Protect My Web Content?
Copyright violations are a real problem on the World Wide Web. We've heard it said that once you put
something on the Internet anybody could appropriate it for his or her own use. In fact farther along on
this page we'll tell you how you can download graphics from other web sites. This can be very handy when
building your own clip art files. But what if you have a personal photograph or work of art on your web
page that you don't want copied? We can build your page with code that will disable the
right mouse click and copy function to save your artwork for you alone.
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What are Interactive Forms?
Interactive Forms are forms that ask your customer for information. If you have ever logged on to
Yahoo or AOL and where asked your user name and password you've filled out an Interactive Form.
BB Media Web Design can build basic forms for your web site that can be used
for reservations, requests for information, data collecting, or other user input for a small additional
fee. Our Contact page uses just such a form.
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What are Interactive Graphics?
Interactive Graphics are fun, and very effective on your web site. These graphics have code behind them
that allows them to do something when the user places the mouse cursor over the graphic or clicks on a
part of the graphic. The most common forms of interactive graphics are the mouse rollover and image maps.
In fact the navigation buttons on this site are an example of the mouse rollover. The button graphics change
when the mouse cursor is placed over them. The process happens so quickly that it appears as if the buttons
are animated. Actually, each button is a set of two graphics, one placed on top of the other. There are
many interesting effects that you can achieve with rollovers.
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What is an Image Map?
An Image Map is a graphic that has what are known as hotspots built into them. These hotspots can be
programmed to do something like act as a hyper link to other web sites or pages. For example, say you had
a map of the United States. If you turned that map into an Image Map you could set each state up as a
hotspot that links to a web page specifically designed for that particular state.
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Can you make a Company Logo for me?
BB Media Web Design can design custom graphics for your site. Just tell us what you want and we'll see
what we can come up with.
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What are Internet Ready Graphics?
Internet Ready Graphics are pictures, images, and animations that are saved in an Internet friendly file format such as JPEG or GIF. Basically, any graphic you can send as an attachment in e-mail is ready for the Internet, and can be placed on your web page.
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Can I Get Images from the Internet?
You can always download images from the Internet, unless they are protected (see above). There are
many free clip art sites on the Internet that have great graphics you can use for your web site. You
can download any graphic to your hard drive by right clicking on it and selecting the Save As option
from the menu shortcut that pops up. One thing to remember though is the copyright law. If you download
original graphics from some other site to use on your own site be sure to get permission from the original
owner.
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How can I Send My Graphics to you?
Graphics sent to us by electronic means (e-mail) have to be in a digital format. Pictures and artwork
should be in the JPEG or GIF format. If you do not have a digital camera or scanner one option you can
use is to develop your film and get a photo CD at the same time. Any picture on the photo CD can be
e-mailed to BB Media Web Design. You can also send your photographs to us and we can scan them into
digital format. Remember that three scanned images per page are part of the web package deal.
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How can I use Lots of Graphics on my page?
You really can't use lots of graphics on a page and still maintain a fast download time. We do have an option though. We can use Thumbnail Images that are hyper links to the larger image.
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What is a Thumbnail Image?
A Thumbnail Image is a miniature version of your original graphic. Many of these can be placed on a
page, and because of their small size, won't affect the download time as much as large graphics. These
small images can be made into links to the larger images on another page. Thumbnails have the added
benefit of giving your customer the choice of the images or graphics he really wants to see. Your customer
can skip the pictures (and download time) that he or she is not interested in. Thumbnail images are perfect
for gallery and catalog pages for your Internet site.
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