About the author: IconGalore is a wonderful resource to provide small and medium sized companies with an effective medium to buy professional xp icons at low prices for their commercial as well as non commercial needs. We aim at providing our customers with complete icon solutions right from supplying quality ready made icons to custom made icons, by genuinely keeping the prices as low as possible.

The previous articles provide a glimpse at the making of a website. If you do not care to do such tedious task you still have the option of creating your own website with free web template offered through out the internet. Web templates are nothing but readymade website that could be easily modified to your purposes. This way of creating a web site is much easier than designing it from the scratch. Steps in creating a website with the free web templates are as follows:

• Locating a suitable theme template
• Customizing free web templates
• Abide by the terms
• Hosting your website

About the author: BuyTemplates.net is a wonderful resource for buying instant and professional website templates for all your web designing needs. The site also provides different membership schemes in order to facilitate a long-term relationship with webmaster, web developers and web designers. We also provide SEO & website promotional services at affordable costs.

Website creation is a complex task which involves a variety of expertise in different areas. For example, you need to be an expert in the following areas: Photoshop, HTML, writing, programming, and the like. However, the first step in designing a website is proper planning. The planning stage should include the following:

• The purpose of the website
• Target audience & their psychology
• Color sense
• Images required
• Written content of the site
• Functionalities needed
• Search engine optimization

About the author: Logoangel.com is a website dedicated to offering custom logo designing services at extremely affordable rates. We also design marketing collaterals which can be intergrated with the logo designing service and can even help you get printed marketing materials delivered at your door steps.

If you are thinking about designing new websites or web templates, you should take time to research before making some crucial choices. You don't want to spend your money on designing a worthless websites that can only spoil your image. The following article is about basic choices you need to make before developing a new website.

Time for a little bit of design inspiration from other artists. Today in the spotlight, Javier Velasco from Spain.

Javier Velasco was born in Madrid in 1974.He studied design at "Infographic Studies Centre" in Madrid before training in painting at the "Arco Verde" Artistic Centre in Madrid. He now works as Art Director for a company dealing in new technologies.

Just a little reminder of the Marcofolio.net Summer 2008 Guest authors contest. A while ago I told you about this contest with great prizes and the deadline will be this Sunday (30th of June).

So if you still want to participate, please react fast. Good luck everyone! You would help me out big time too.

The summer vacation break is coming up soon over here and I'll be gone for almost one whole month (sorry folks!). Right now, I'm holding a contest, searching for all (potential) guest authors out there that want to share one (or more) articles with the world by placing them on Marcofolio.net.

I'll personally review all submitted articles myself and will send a notification when the article is approved. Your article is placed on the front page of Marcofolio.net in this summer (July or August).

Prizes

What would a contest be without any prizes to win?

1. 1st place: A 125x125 px banner in the "Sponsors" section, advertising your website for 2 months
2. 2nd place: $30.00 USD in cash on your PayPal account
3. 3rd place: One of your own chosen articles on your blog will get featured on the sideblog

Of source, all articles will have a link to your own website, together with a short biography of yourself. You'd be promoting your own website too!

So what are you waiting for? Start writing an unique article for Marcofolio.net that'll maybe get placed this summer. Be fast, submitting articles ends at 30th of June.