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There are many aspects to the success or failure of any given website design, and each should be addressed when designing and developing your website. In most cases a website alone will not constitute a successful marketing campaign. Unfortunately when it comes to your website "If you build it, they will come" ends in success about as much as playing the lottery. A website is only part of a much larger system. Read more...
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Read moreWhen a page loads, the browser parses the HTML provided by the server and creates a data structure known as the Document Object Model (DOM). Normally, the Document Object Model stays the same after it is rendered, until the user exits the page. However, JavaScript is a scripting language that has access to the Document Object Model. By manipulating the DOM, Javascript can tell the browser to do several things such as move elements on the page, or make them more or less transparent. This has several implications regarding what can be done, but one of the big things you can do with JavaScript is create animations on the page.
It would be easy to get carried away with ideas that clutter the website's design and make it too busy, but it's usually best to make the end product appear to be relatively simple. Some good javascript animations that don't clutter the web design are the drop down menu animation and coupon slideshow on a website like bruneeltirefactory.com, and the content slider on a website like Anequipment.com. You might notice that the sliders draw the users attention to the images or content inside of them, but they aren't enough to annoy the user or seem out of place.
There are other tools that provide the ability to create dynamic elements within a website; one of the popular ones is flash. Flash is an extremely powerful tool, however since anything inside of a flash object cannot be read by search engines, it's usually a better idea to implement the design using javascript. Using flash instead of javascript can hold back your SEO.
Extremely customized javascript applications can be a little bit pricey to develop, but there are many pre-built scripts that provide simple, unobtrusive functionality and take less time to implement and customize. If you build your website on a Content Management System such as Joomla, there are usually extensions that can be installed, meaning that the development cost can be cut down; the web designer still has to implement and customize the extension, and possibly design the slides or images for it, but they don't have to develop the script and do extensive testing on it. Joomla provides thousands of extensions online, available at extensions.joomla.org.
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