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We're glad you found us! Our web designers have helped many businesses, just like yours, experience true success on the web! We specialize in designing custom websites that give businesses the professional web presence they need.

As your website designer, our goal is your complete satisfaction. We work closely with you to understand your needs and meet your goals. Our custom web design will meet or exceed your expectations!

A further look at how our team can help you succeed on the web...

Custom Web Design

Your reflection-
We work closely with you to decide on a custom color scheme, layout and design that reflects your business the way you want it to. From executive web design to creative web design, we custom design your site so that it appeals to you and your target audience.

Professional Web Development

We've got you covered-
From simple Brochure-ware sites to Database Driven sites, our team provides professional development that makes your website work for you. If you are not entirely sure what kind of development is required to meet your goals, we can assist you in making an informed decision.
Website Content

The complete package-
We don't hand you an empty shell of a website! Unlike most designers, we place your content for you...up to 20 pages! Since we understand the importance of visual appeal, we consider font types, sizes, color and placement of all the content.

Website Content Management

Freedom to expand-
Content management is something you may not have considered if you have never owned a website. You will find it is very important that you are able to adjust or add to your content without having to mess with the code and without having to re-hire your web designer to do it for you. We provide each website we create with an online content management system which provides the freedom to add pages, edit your content, and update your site anytime.

Website Promotion

Targeted website traffic-
Hiring a website designer is one thing, hiring a website promotion specialist is another. Or is it? The VietSmall is unique. We specialize in designing websites and promoting websites. If you're not sure why site promotion is important to us as web designers, please read the importance of website promotion! Believe me it will be important to you too!

Custom website

Custom Web Site Design & Graphic Design Services

The VietSmall specializes in providing professional web and graphic design services for business.

Area of expertise includes:

* custom website design
* graphic design services

Custom Web Site Design

The VietSmall is a Vietnam based web developer. The VietSmall focuses on providing professional custom website design services.
Every completed project receives the same degree of attention.
Key elements are:

* working closely with the Customer
* unique graphic layout design
* standards compliance
* search engine optimization (white hat SEO)
* search engine optimization

Graphic Design Services

Graphic design is a service complementary to the custom web site design service.
For those seeking a coherent corporate identity, VietSmall offers professional 2d and 3d graphic design solutions.

The VietSmall is a custom web design service based in Hanoi, Vietnam run solely by an independent web designer.

Dos and Don'ts for website design

A website design is used for a variety of purposes. It is used by companies to promote their business and corporate agencies to market several products to the customers. There is no medium in the world today which does not make use of web site design facility. Some of the chief medium in which web site design is used includes:

• Web designing is used in building Websites for businesses
• Web design is used for online resources in Banks
• Web design is readily used in the entertainment industry to promote movies and sitcoms
• Web design is used in News media to provide latest news to people all over the world.
• Web designs are used for personal promotions.

A website design is very important as it displays the potential of the body it represent. A second-rate design web page would repel most people from the site and this would eventually effect the person or business the website design represent. There are many dos and don'ts when it comes to web site designing. Some major one's including:

The scope of design web sites

Do check the scope of the web site you are designing. It is very important that the target of the web site is clearly in your mind when you are designing a web page.

Don't design heavy sites with several links if it is used for personal purposes or representing a small business. Most online sites are design with the aim to be user friendly and easy to surf.

The layout for design websites

Do the designing of the website according to the requirement of the websites. Heavy animations and images often imposes heavy burden on the site. Such websites consume much time to load and most people quickly lose interest in such websites.

Don't ever try to heavily decorate a web page to impress people. It is evidently proven that more people are attracted to simpler built web site as compare to those which are heavily filled with images, sounds and animations.

The compatibility of design websites

Do check that the design website is compatible with the major browsers which are being used in the world. It is also necessary that when you add animations and designing to your webpage you are aware what type of graphics the browser support and which animation won't work on the internet.

Don't upload your websites on server if they are not run on most common browsers such as internet explorer and Netscape navigator. Always check the authenticity of a server before uploading you work online.

Documentation of design websites

Do make sure that the text on your design website is relevant. It is very necessary that the documentation on the design website is easily understandable and to the point. The uses of keywords while describing the contents of your website is also very important as it keep the focus of the reader to the topics on the design websites.

Don't fill your design sites with useless links and irrelevant text as this diverts most of the traffic from the web site. The amount of information or any knowledge which is provided on the design website should be done in a professional manner.

Safe and secure mechanism

Do make sure that your website is safe from viruses and hackers. If you are dealing with online business and the design web site is also use for cash transaction it is very necessary that latest security protocols are implemented with the website design to ensure that the exchange of cash is not bugged at any occasion.

Don't encourage the sharing of security protocol and protection mechanism with the general public. Your priority should be to give the people the assurance of secure cash transaction and not the way the security is put into operation in your website.

Optimizing for Yahoo: The Next Big Thing

February 2004--Yahoo decides that they had had enough of Google subservience for their search results, finally pulling the plug on their alliance with Google for search technology, and aligning instead with Inktomi. Not only does this herald the advent of yet another eminent contender to defy Google’s dominion in the search market--Yahoo makes quite a significant chunk of the online traffic coming to a website--but it also sets the stage for a battle to be waged in SEO, with all sights now set on Yahoo.

With Google SERPs now beginning to make sense and offering some respite to most webmasters and SEOs, those webmasters and SEOs won’t be pulling any punches in trying their hands on the SERPs at Yahoo; the good SERPs at Yahoo that once used to come like a windfall for good optimization at Google now need to be specifically earned.

The New Scenario

The rules of the game have changed, and identifying the SEO rules is the name of the game. Thankfully, the new Yahoo SERPs still don’t show a marked departure from the existing Google algorithm, and the affinity between the two algorithms is still perceptible. This wipes out the need to make a fresh start while optimizing for Yahoo, and just weighing the Google SERPs against the Yahoo’s would suffice to make out the new algorithm Yahoo uses for ranking web pages.

Yahoo!'s New Search Engine - In conclusion

Yahoo dropped Google and this will impact anyone’s traffic. Instead of search results provided by Google, Yahoo is serving its own search engine results. They are different from the ones provided by Inktomi although Inktomi seems to partially feed results.

While we all wait to see what happens on April 15, when Yahoo will announce its own new paid inclusion program for Yahoo Search, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of having one's web site submitted to Inktomi. In addition to partially feeding Yahoo Search, Inktomi currently provides search results to MSN Search, About.com, and others.

All these changes in the search engine market place should remind us all once again how important it is to monitor and maintain one's search engine rankings.

Should you have any questions about how these events will impact your web site's search engine rankings, feel free to contact WebSage.

Yahoo!'s New Search Engine - How to Optimize for Yahoo Search

Just before the launch of Yahoo Search, rumors started appearing on the renaming of the new spider. It is official now - it is called Yahoo Slurp and you can see its visits in your web server log file like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp)

Yahoo! Slurp will continue to follow the Robot Exclusion Standard, so as long as you have your robots.txt file valid, you should be fine.

For more information on the new Yahoo spider, see http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/.

What are the Yahoo's site submission guidelines?

Yahoo! Search crawls the web every 2-4 weeks and automatically finds new content for indexing. If pages already in the Yahoo! Search index link to your site, it will be considered for inclusion in the next update of the index.

Not surprisingly, getting your site listed in major directory services such as the Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ is an excellent way to be sure that there are links to your site.

What is different in Yahoo-optimization from Google-optimization?

Careful selection of keywords, incoming links, title tags, header and keyword-rich content are of course going to be as important to Yahoo as they are to Google.

Yahoo cares about page descriptions. Google usually composes its own page description based on the text of the first paragraph of the indexed page. Yahoo wants you to have a unique page description and you should diligently follow their advice.

Specifically, Yahoo advises:

“Use a "description" meta-tag and write your description accurately and carefully. After the title, the description is the most important draw for users. Make sure the document title and description attract the interest of the user but also fit the content on your site.

Use a "keyword" meta-tag to list key words for the document. Use a distinct list of keywords that relate to the specific page on your site instead of using one broad set of keywords for every page.

Yahoo!'s New Search Engine - Yahoo Search is NOT the same as Inktomi

Submitting a URL to Inktomi is valuable because the results would feed MSN Search, at least until MSN Search develops their own search engine. In addition, an Inktomi submission would provide results to About.com and other partners.

However, the interesting thing about Yahoo and Inktomi is that, at least according to industry insiders, the new Yahoo Search is not a simple copy of Inktomi but rather an evolved, advanced form of Inktomi. As proof one can consider comparing the search results provided by MSN and HotBot both of which serve Inktomi results – they are certainly different from the results provided by Yahoo Search.

There are even claims that Yahoo will stop using the Inktomi database or paid inclusion after April 15 when a new Yahoo paid inclusion program will be made available.

This is what one of Inktomi partners, PositionTech.com:

“IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT INKTOMI SEARCH SUBMIT:

"Yahoo! Search has transitioned to its own search technology and is preparing to launch a new inclusion program. As a bonus for Search Submit customers, Yahoo! Search is providing a free trial of Yahoo! traffic that will end on April 15, 2004.

"When the new inclusion program launches, Search Submit customers will have the option of joining the new program for ongoing participation in Yahoo! Search results.

So what are we to do with all this confusing information? My opinion is to continue using Inktomi at least for the benefit of appearing in the MSN Search results and to have one’s options open for the April 15th planned introduction of Yahoo Search paid submission. Nobody knows if paid inclusion in Yahoo Search will be more expensive than the $39 Inktomi currently charges per URL, so putting some portion of your marketing budget for the new big search engine player would be wise.