Website owners try all tricks in the book to ensure that the ecommerce website design of their website helps attract customers and makes their website popular. But, they might have missed out on giving importance to certain aspects of the design of their websites that leave a positive impact on the website’s visitors.
So, what are the various designing aspects that guarantee a highly successful ecommerce website?
Focus on a Neat and Clean Look
Not many of your target website visitors are looking for a website that offers impressive graphics. What they are more interested in, is a website that offers clear information about the products and services offered on the site, and how to go about buying them. Therefore, it’s important that your website has a neat and clean look, completely uncluttered and wherein the message of the website comes across very strongly.
Focus on the Products and Services
The design of the website must be such that the products and services are highlighted in the best possible manner. Their most marketable and promotion worthy qualities should be projected in a manner that is both eye catching and helps the website visitors make an informed decision regarding their purchase. As soon as the visitors land on your website, they must be offered a glimpse into your products and services and should be give a clear idea as to how to go about buying them.
Focus on shopping friendly design
Why do visitors come to an ecommerce website? They come there to shop. So, it’s in the website owners’ interest that the website design is extremely shopper friendly. What this means is that when visitors come to a particular ecommerce website, they should face no problems with the shopping. The navigations buttons must be easily understood, quick and very convenient. Also, the design of the products listing and details page must be such that prospective shoppers are attracted to the products and understand their use and benefits clearly. All in all, the design must be able to facilitate a satisfying shopping process.
As you can see, there is no reason to think out of the box when it comes to successful ecommerce website design. All you need to do is ensure that you get the basics right. If you do that, there is no reason in the world, why your website won’t be able to attract visitors and more importantly, convert them into customers. If your design is complex there is every chance that visitors won’t enjoy their shopping experience or not even complete it once they have begun.
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Game Servers and Dedicated Server Companies – Why Many Providers Don’t Allow Them
Many dedicated hosting providers won’t allow game servers to be hosted on their network. This article provides some insight as to why this is the case.
Game servers generate a lot of data transfer
Gaming servers are very bandwidth intensive. Compared to hosting a web application, game servers generate a constant flow of traffic over long periods of time for each user. To ensure that the game play is good, the servers also work best with low latency or fast networks, in other words, good quality and local bandwidth. Because of the large amount of bandwidth consumed, hosting costs become high along with price sensitivity.
Business customers or Individuals?
Typically most game server operators are individuals rather than established businesses. Most dedicated hosting companies however are very much focused on providing services to businesses. Businesses by nature tend to have a level of dependence on services, and a level of tolerance for disruption to services that is very different to that of individuals. One of the major costs of providing services for gaming servers is bandwidth. Running a network that meets the needs of businesses and the budget of individuals is complex challenge.
Cheap vs Quality Internet connections
For a hosting provider to deliver a good service they need to operate a network that is fast and free of congestion. Users tend to tolerate their own Internet connection slowing during peak usage periods and congestion and contention ratios on an ISP network is common. From a web hosting perspective however it is seldom tolerated. A slow link means a bad experience for every potential customer that finds the hosted application. Providing a quality service from a network perspective means:
Low latency Internet connectivity Internet connectivity that is always free of congestion (in normal operation) Good Internet connectivity to domestic peers – ie not routing bandwidth via international carriers Minimal outages Redundant network links. Constant monitoring for faults Rapid response to any service degradation
It’s very difficult to do all of the above and do it at a low cost.
At Anchor we used to quote on game server hosting and we never managed to land a single client. The prices we discovered we were competing against were most often well below our cost. We can only assume that the bandwidth didn’t come with all of the features above.
Load on the network infrastructure
For every Mbps or GB of data transfer on a network, gaming traffic by nature generates a higher amount of load on switches and routers. Router load is generally proportional to packet count rather than octet count. Gaming traffic typically consists of a very large number of very small packets (ie, lots of packets and not many octets). This increased load increases the infrastructure cost component which in turn demands higher prices on a service which is already very cost sensitive.
Liability for DoS attack
Unfortunately operating game servers on a hosting network presents an increased risk of DoS attacks. When the competitive element of a game spills over into the real world and results in a not so happy gamer triggering a DoS attack against the source of the problem, the network suffers and all of the other customers would suffer. This is a risk many web hosts are not prepared to take.
Gaming as a pastime vs Gaming as a business model
There’s absolutely no doubt that there is money to be made out of hosting online games and there are many examples of very profitable companies doing this. World of Warcraft, Runescape etc etc. Such examples however provide game hosting as a business with very carefully calculated models that ensure the hosting costs are supported by the revenue that the operations generate.
Hosting a game server so that you and your friends can play together in a responsive environment is a very different prospect. Likewise even if end users are paying to access the game server, the number of users need to be very large before hosting costs of quality bandwidth can be covered.
Specialist game server providers
There are companies that specialise in the provision of game server hosting. I think it’s fair to say that if a hosting company provides game server hosting it will be actively advertised on their website. The absence of such adverts, or an article like this one, should be a pretty clear indicator that game server hosting is not their thing.
Man-made Diamonds
Renewed interest has spawned in the synthetic diamond debate, in part due to new color technology by the Gemesis Corporation. The company, located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, has been creating cultured diamonds for over a decade.
Gemesis has always specialized in yellow diamonds simply because that is what the machines make, influenced somewhat by the nitrogen in the air. Recently though, the company has been experimenting with the creation of pink and blue diamonds—highly coveted and extremely rare, naturally occurring stones.
If this takes off, not only will Gemesis be able to provide an abundance of color, but it would also bring economy to the world of diamond buying, with greatly reduced prices.
It is no wonder De Beers is sweating bullets these days. They have a lot to lose if machine-grown gems become a standard in the industry. Typically these stones sell for about one-third of what their naturally produced counterparts would.
HTC Desire Z deals – htc make htc desire z is attractive handsets
Article by amile
The HTC Desire Z also like so many other smartphones is slated for a mid-October release. Potential users are naturally waiting for value for money HTC Desire Z contracts to hit the market place here.
The online retailer Amazon.co.uk has stated that the HTC Desire Z Contractis scheduled for a October 11, 2010 release in the UK market. Further, the web portal informs that the HTC Desire Z will be priced SIM free at
Watching Premiership Football
You can now chuck away your cable that costs you dearly just to watch your favorite teams like Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Derby County battle for the premiership football. You may consider this as a fool’s suggestion but wait till you read further. You can view your Fulham home team go full throttle through live football stream. What is live football stream? The internet has opened a wide spectrum and provides you with facilities to watch live free premiership football TV stream. Are you aware of the vast opportunities that you are going to get to watch your favorite football games at your convenience? You can watch the live free premiership football TV stream on your computer anytime rather than wait for the highlights or skip the matches due to non-availability by the cable companies. Want to know how is it possible? To give you an insight into the working of the live football streams, let’s begin with saying that this is a networking communication that takes place between the various computers. Live football stream is made possible with the help of streaming media which functions like a normal television or radio broadcast. When you send a request for streaming live football the streaming media server partitions the file into packets which are sent across the internet one by one and then they are reassembled on your computer in the same manner and made to assume its original form. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection and the load on the server, you can watch live free premiership football TV stream instantly on your PC. The streaming media plug-in programs which are freely downloadable help you to watch live free premiership football TV stream. Programs for watching premiership football There are programs meant for your convenience to help you watch live action between Aston Villa, West Bromwich, Newcastle, Wigan Athletic and Sunderland in the fields. These P2P programs and players facilitate your viewing the various teams like Middlesborough, Everton, Manchester City, Portsmouth, West Ham, Hull City, Blackburn and Bolton Wanderers live. There are currently a few of these sites that provide this kind of services. These sites address all your problems when you watch TV through your P2P program. Normally, you can also find a list of scheduled games for the coming days. Find the game of your choice and click on the tv link voila, instant TV on your PC.