For example Currencies, major indicies etc  http://www.wikinvest.com/currency/U.S._Dollar_(USD) , DJIA http://www.wikinvest.com/index/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average_(DJI) 
http://www.wikinvest.com/commodity/Gold Gold
http://www.wikinvest.com/commodity/Coffee Coffee

and more…

We continue our collection of free resources for website owners in the financial service industry and today focus on various resources that offer free forex markets data and tools. We noticed that all or most top FX clearing firms are starting to provide free content as a way to attract IBs to clear through them. Content that used to cost a fortune via providers such as QuoteMedia and others now is free with link to clearing firms website. Any FX IB brokerage firm that is designing a website can take advantage of these places to enrich their users experience.

Following free FX content providers are popular and available to be used on your forex trading website:

CMS Forex
http://www.forexwebtools.com
Great collection of all kinds of tools at no cost
Charts, quotes, PIP, Currency, Notional Value Calculators, Calendar

Forex4You
http://www.forexpros.com/webmaster-tools/
Economic calendar, Rates, News, Live Quotes, Exchange Rates, Charts, Indexes, Commodities, Converter

AC-Markets
http://www.ac-markets.com/webmaster-resources/free-forex-tools.aspx
Live exchange rates, converter, news

FXDD
http://www.fxdd.com/en/webmaster-tools.html
Calculator generator, ticker, vertical currency ticker, news and commentary widget

Forex Factory
http://www.forexfactory.com/excal.php
Calendar

Finotec
http://www.finotec.com/trading-tools.php
Converter, Quotes, Calendar, Support/resistance, signals, news

Are you interested in forex website design? Contact LightMix to receive a proposal. LightMix provided design for FX and trading companies for over 10 years, we’ll be glad to work with your organization.

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Is your law firm lacking consistent and clear marketing message, campaign? The easiest way to bring visual consistency in communication materials for legal services organization is to upgrade corporate website which will correspond to corporate branding and complement it. What is important is to have a professional and clear design, focused entirely on your strengths and core marketing messages. When hiring a design company for your firm’s website redesign, evaluate firm’s ability to create unique, custom design as well as their understanding of the industry and prior work for law firms.

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Tips for creating effective legal web site for your law firm

1. Conduct effective research to identify active and inactive local online competitors
The nature of legal services is local. One of the most critical pieces of information is identifying the competitors who are actively engaged in online marketing and aggressively promoting their online presence. Discect� their web sites from point of of organization, SEO friendliness and call to action.

2. Plan on writing a lot of content or hire help to do so
To justify online presence, your website needs to produce leads. Sometimes organizations want websites only as presence , supporting their offline marketing , but more and more firms turn to online marketing as supporting mechanism. Search engine optimization and comfort of a client will be based on your content. More relevant content your website will have the better.

3. Hire professional design firm, stay away from the low end shops and template sites
Never hire companies advertising $1000 websites, packaged deals�or anything which is less then 20 hours of work at average $75/hr rate. No professional result will be produced at that time and no packages will give you truly unique and professional presence, your marketing dollars will be totally wasted. Best method is to try negotiate with firm you know performed well in the past and stick to quality. Stay away from web site templates as much as possible. Those will produce only mediocre, brand less designs.

4. Plan on multi-media marketing following website launch.
Its important to cover all channels of legal services marketing from inclusion your site address in all appropriate legal services directories to local craigslist advertising. Keep your offers current and advertising up to date to gain maximum exposure. Remember, users will only notice your advertising after viewing it many times.

5. Invest in creating professional brand image, logo
One of the main ways to differentiate is to create professional branding for your firm. Hire designer and don’t use online services that advertise $100 or $300 logo design.Professional logo and identity will pay off in the long term.

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We feel also that in the services area it is critical to offer temporary price cuts while insisting on the “true value” of the services. Why this is important? This can become one of the key components of deflationary trend which will permanently change correlation of services and products value vs consumer demand. In its turn, this can lead to more pressure for small business owners aiming to grab any possible discount at all costs and thus reducing the quality before all. Corporate clients are less likely to get into the same trap, but for any start ups and small business owners we fee it is critically important to understand that the service industry works similar to correlation of expertise vs happiness. Take out happiness of the provider and there will be less quality. Higher the expertise, higher the value and cost. No economic shifts should change this dependency. Of course cost cutting is a pure necessity if everyone around does the same, problem is that what is the starting point? There are many tiers of providers in different areas  and now is the time when shifts from tier to tier may occur. Suddenly companies with higher cost may start being perceived as more expensive brands and ones that were expensive, but cut costs may enter different market. In ll cases, online marketing and print promotion remains critical to communicate latest promotions. Those companies with less promotions can save money on marketing while others that cut costs will need to spend more on the promotion of the deals themselves.

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Note introduction of more aggressive organe color in contrast to previous safe corporate blue.  It is interesting that with time, it seems, corporate clients are becoming more aware of public expanding tolerance for color and old stereotypes of typical color associations may no longer be true. We will be tracking any color use changes with  other corporations in the financial services, investments and IT fields.