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Jeffrey Allen Consulting

"Tokyo Web Designs really provided us with great solutions for our website. Everything was explained to us along the way and at every step we were provided with creative options to choose from plus give our own input. We really felt like a partner from the start to the finish of the project. The thing that impressed us the most was the level of personalized service we received. Every request or question that we had throughout the process was handled quickly and professionally. We wholeheartedly recommend Tokyo Web Designs to anyone who is seeking help in developing a website." - Jeffrey Allen Consulting

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MacMillan LanguageHouse

"We were looking to give one of our best selling products a branded presence on the web and provide our customers with added support for the product. Tokyo Web Designs not only helped us with all our requests, but also provided us with some very good suggestions on how to improve the look and impact of the site. It was a pleasure working with them and we appreciate all the hard work they put into our project." - Darren Halliday, Sales & Marketing Manager

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Parts Agent Australia

"To have a successful business you need to have the right people and right associates to give you a competitive edge. Tokyo Web Designs have given our growing company that edge. They created exactly what we wanted. No fuss and no bother. They created clean, simple, Internet shop front that worked. Now we are able to give potential customers easy access to our business and information to generate sales." - Cliff Lugton, Director

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DIY Web Building Pitfalls

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Thanks to web page editors like Dreamweaver, getting a website on line is now easy. Building a GOOD website is still difficult.

Web page editors are initially attractive to people with no prior knowledge of coding in HyperText Markup Language because they offer a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG)
environment similar to the Microsoft Word and Excel products that they already know. However, there are some important downsides to this approach as well:

Bloated slow loading pages

WYSIWYG HTML editors typically generate underlying code that mixes content instructions with presentational instructions. The result is mountains of inefficiently written web code that takes up many more lines
than more efficient design techniques. Good web designers these days are almost unanimously agreed on the benefits of placing presentational information into separate “Style Sheet” web files. This produces a major benefit in smaller file size and faster processing times.

“Table Tag Soup”

Browse a few websites and take a quick look at their underlying source code (from your browser menu select “View/Page Source” in Firefox, “View/Source in Internet Explorer”). If you see masses of code instructions like

and

you are looking at a page written using a coding technique now almost universally disapproved of by good web designers.

Using

and

(called “tables tags”) is fine for the purpose they were intended i.e. displaying tabular data such as schedules. However many inexperienced website creators use WYSIWYG editors to produce designs that are entirely table based. The bottom line is that trying to maintain or modify the resulting mess of table tags can be a nightmare.

If you employ a web professional, make sure they use modern “hand-coding” techniques rather than relying on discredited WYSIWYG creation methods.

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Choosing a Designer

7 Things to Consider

We hope these articles help you when choosing a web designer in Japan or abroad and that you will consider Tokyo Web Designs as your English and Japanese website designer consultants.

  • 1. Website Localization?

    • Localization means adapting your website to succeed in a specific country or region. If you are looking to create a Japanese web site design, there are good reasons to seek assistance from a Japan website designer with experience in the local environment ...continued

  • 2. The 0.05 Second Rule

    • "You don`t get a second chance to make a first impression". Most of us are familiar with that old advice. Recent research is revealing how quickly that first impression of your website is actually formed ...continued

  • 3. All That Glitters Isn't Gold

    • It`s easy to be impressed by many of the slick, FLASH and Javascript powered "eye-candy" web templates available for download at seemingly attractive prices. But there are some inconvenient truths which you should be aware of before taking the cookie cutter route ...continued

  • 4. DIY Web Building Pitfalls

    • Thanks to web page editors like Dreamweaver, putting a website online is now easy. Building a GOOD website is still difficult ...continued

  • 5. Don't Make Me Think!

    • This is Web Usability expert Steve Krug`s golden rule. He explains "..if Web pages are going to be effective, they have to work most of their magic at a glance. And the best way to do this is to create pages that are self-evident, or at least self-explanatory"...continued

  • 6. If a Tree Falls in the Forest..

    • This is the beginning to a rather well known philosophical riddle that raises questions about whether something can exist if it is not capable of being perceived. We'd like to change the question and ask "if a website exists in cyberspace but nobody can find it, does it really serve a purpose?" ...continued

  • 7. Standards-schmandards?

    • At Tokyo Web Designs we are continually surprised by the number of websites we see that appear to have been put together with no regard to valid web standards. This is disappointing considering that it isn`t really hard to do so and the benefits of "clean" coding practices are potentially great ...continued

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