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1 Minute Site, an 8.9!
Usually we do not love congratulating ourselves; every day we engage in our work so that our customers can be happy and satisfied with our product.
1 Minute Site was created with the goal of being a simple and economic way to create websites in complete autonomy, a goal that we pursue daily.
We love offering our users the opportunity to have complete control of their website thanks to our service and support along with the technology that has become our strength.
Commitment, perseverance, and passion for our work guide us every day in carrying out projects and activities and our ongoing relationships with our customers. Throughout the work day, we collect a lot of ideas and energy.
And this is why we are proud to see that our users are happy with us, rating us a 8.9
See for yourself what people have to say about us: http://goo.gl/2ryG7b
Thank you and happy website creating to everyone!
AlemuS: a clean, organized view on a personal website
Minimalist, linear graphics and a totally black design: a new website of AlemuS, an Italian singer/songwriter.
The site has many well organized sections: starting with a section dedicated to the songs, moving to one dedicated to the writings, and finishing with news and events.
The content is well organized and easily accessible, the song lyrics are alternated with poems and personal information. The website even includes videos and multimedia content to catch the interest of the viewers.
Appealing and well-structured, this new site is an excellent showcase for AlemuS, an opportunity to get to know and grow its reputation.
How about creating a website too?
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Choosing the Right Photo Editing Program
Every great website has pictures that give meaning to the words and messages that the website wants to display. Your photos need to compliment your page in order to help viewers better understand the content. Photos are important whether you are a retailer who wants to display your product, a restaurant who wants to show off some food, or a blogger who wants to put imagery to a story. Visual appeal is extremely important on the web, which is why you should know how to make your photos stand above the rest. This post is the 1st in a series of how to improve your photographs on your website.
There are many photo editing programs available, all with their benefits and setbacks. In this post, we will review 4 of the most common applications: Photoshop, Lightroom, Gimp, and Instagram.
“Photoshop” has become a household word in the last few years, referring to how advertisers can take a real image and change it entirely without the photo losing any credibility. If someone is standing in the background of your photo, you say you’ll just Photoshop them out, or if you think your bikini body could lose a few pounds, you’ll just Photoshop them away. But many people don’t really understand when photoshop is necessary and when it may just be excessive. Photoshop is useful mainly for photographers and advertisers or hobbyists. With it’s price tag and technical learning curve, it’s not recommended for those who just want to quickly edit a few pictures every now and then.
Photoshop is best for editing a single photo to look exactly how you want it.
Pros: Can do virtually anything, extreme flexibility
Cons: $550+, difficult to master
Lightroom is another application by Adobe and is a branch of the Photoshop suite. Lightroom comes installed with many functions that most people look to Photoshop for: blemish removal, recoloring, touch-ups. Lightroom also has the functionality of organizing and sorting your photos, allowing you to manipulate and store many at a time. Lightroom is a great tool for businesses who need to keep different products or services organized and edit many pictures. With it’s relatively small price tag, it’s a good investment for many.
Lightroom is best for editing large amounts of photos quickly
Pros: Quick and organized, comes with many important presets
Cons: $70 – $150, small learning curve
GIMP is a free software that provides functions such as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. Gimp is the only product that currently works on Linux and is also convenient due to the fact that it uses very little room on your hard drive.
Gimp is best for editing photos on a budget.
Pros: Free, user-friendly
Cons: Not as sophisticated as Photoshop, doesn’t have many plugins
Instagram is the number 1 photo editing app for smartphone users around the world. Very rarely will you find a picture on a social network that has not been filtered by this app. Instagram does not yet have compatibility with computers yet, but for those who need a quick fix to a picture they took on their smart phone, this program is perfect.
Instagram is best for quick edits to Smartphone pictures.
Pros: Easy to use, free
Cons: Low customization, only works for phone pictures
What programs have you used to edit your photos? Have any recommendations? Let us know in the comments and stay turned for part 2 in our series on improving images on your website!
5 tips for a great website
1. Use a visually appealing color palate
Avoid at all costs
Choose fonts and background colors that compliment each other. You want your users to enjoy your color scheme without it being distracting or overly exaggerated. If you want to see how colors can work together, check out Adobe Kuler.
2. Take advantage of your header
Include your most critical information at the top of your page. WARNING: Don’t overcrowd your header, be picky when you choose which information to add. Ask yourself, “Will this give my viewer a sense of who I am and what I represent? Does this help enforce my brand? Is this distracting or attracting to my website?”
3. Search Engine Optimization is essential
Even Fry can tell when you’re desperate.
If you want to be seen, you have to be found. If your website is about travel, use the word “travel” in the title and in the URL. Put important words in the headers of your posts, but make sure it sounds fluid. If you are writing about your last trip to Italy, say “Stories from my travels to Italy”, not “Europe Italy Travel Stories Rome”. Sure, the second option would help you get found, but you look desperate and your users will be able to tell. SEO is such an important topic that we can’t fully cover everything, but you can read some great advice from our friends over at quicksprout.com
4. Find your niche
Sometimes it’s okay to exclude people from your website. Don’t try to please everyone with everything!
There are so many fascinating things in the world, but try not to include all of them on your website. If you are known for writing about cars, stick to cars. If you always produce high-quality portraits, talk about photography. It’s all about consistency, not information overload – you wouldn’t expect to go to hotels.com to read about the news in China, keep the same standards for your website.
5. White space isn’t wasted space
I need an Ibuprofen or three for the headache this is giving me.
Too many people try to make their website as interesting as possible and include as much information as they can. Your website should be a stream of information, not an explosion of images, videos, colors, and words. People need time to think about what they have seen and read, and white space gives the appropriate room to give your eyes a break from taking in so much information.
Playgorunds: on-line a new web site!
Funny, Colorful and Endearing, here you can see some websites created by 1 Minute Site, focused on playgrounds in Italy, Poland, Spain and in other countries.
www.comes.pl, for example, is a brand new website.
COMES Sokołowscy is a rapidly growing Polish manufacturer and supplier of playgrounds equipment, with its origins of activities dated for the period of 1980s in the XX century. As an experienced manufacturer of playgrounds and parts of metal casting, we offer high quality products. Our colorful playground equipment stand in thousands of locations throughout Poland.
Cabanas Paloma del mar: a free website for a wonderful holiday!
Nowadays, a lot of travel agency or people that want to give a house for rent, use internet to show images of their hotels, apartments, close places, and the prices they request.
Building a free website allows them to present their offer to people from every place of the world.
The owner of some huts, situated in the centre of a woods, in Chile, created a free website with 1 Minute Site, that users can visit to see the photos of this wonderful place and contact the manager of the website to organize their holidays.
Have a look at the website of cabanaspalomadelmar and tell us what you think!
NEW WEBSITES CREATED WITH 1MINUTESITE
Here you have the latest free websites created with 1 Minute Site! Let’s have a glance and take ispiration from them….to create your own Free website!
NEW WEBSITES CREATED WITH 1MINUTESITE
Here you have the latest free websites created with 1 Minute Site! Let’s have a glance and take ispiration from them….to create your own Free website!
South Beach Smoke: a new product with a new website
Increasingly companies are using a website to promote their goods and services: it’s a speedy free way to advertise a product and communicate its quality and features.
A lot of users choose 1minutesite to create a free website, like South Beach Smoke that, with its simple web page electroniccigarettereviews.1minutesite.co.uk, explains the technology, the health benefits and the operation of the product.
Who is interested in electronic cigarettes, can read on internet the advantages to smoke a no traditional cigarette ( no odor, no second-hand smoke, no more carbon monoxide etc. ) and find the contacts to purchase electronic ones.
Choose 1 Minute Site to create your website!
Cavitation: a good field for a new free website
Simple on its utilization, but useful for its purpose, cavitation.1minutesite is another effective website created for free with 1MinuteSite.
In this pages you can find the explication of a new revolutionary treatment to stay in shape, the way to performe it and the contacts you can call on.
Not a presentation of too many goods but three and efficacious treatments for health and beauty: facial solutions, body solutions and Ipl solutions.
Visite the website and tell us if you like it!
