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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web page building for beginners 4
- Page ranking by search engines such as Google are not only overrated but unusually explained by "experts" in the SEO field. SEO stands for search engine optimization and is needed to get your website placed at the top of a web search. I have no truck with someone wanting to get their pages placed in the number one or two spot from a search, but page ranking has nothing to do with that wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Designing your web site for all browsers
- Let's face it. Building a web site that browses consistently on multiple platforms and multiple browsers is not always as easy as we would like.It is safe to say that most designers spend most of their time building their sites on a given platform. Those with the highest standards should, upon completion, take a look at their creation in different browsers and different platforms.Sur...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to create a professional website in less than a week
- Here's a really simple way... any novice can create a fully functional website in less than a week.Websites are the wave of the future. Although many companies are using an online presence to drive business to their brick and mortar stores, many hobbyists also tend to have a bit of interest in developing their own online presence as well. Developing a website from scratch can be rather expe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is your websites most wanted response?
- You spend time and money promoting your website; but what do you want to achieve (apart from more page views)? Is it more sales of Blue Widgets? Is it more subscribers on your mailing list? To be exact, what is your site's Most Wanted Response?I ask this question because in the excitement of creating your very own website, it is easy to forget (or not even consider) the main purpose of your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Awards program debate
- Daily article:One of the most debated subject among webmasters is the whole concept of web site awards. I'm sure you've seen the little graphics on many different sites, announcing it is the "best", "coolest" or "most wonderful" or whatever. Sometimes you'll see terms like "bronze", "gold" and "silver" to describe the award.What's the debate about? To put it briefly, are web site awa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The testimonial trick
- One of the most popular methods of traffic generation is the link exchange. Not only can they generate fairly targeted traffic from other related web sites, the number of quality links to your site is also a major factor determining your web site's ranking in major search engines like Google.The problem with link exchanges is that they require you to give a reciprocal link in exchange for l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ten answers that turn your visitors into your customers
- You know... Before purchasing your product a person comes to your order page minimum of 7 times? Nobody buys a product or service in their first visit. People search, compare, estimate, test... They look for affordable and good product that fulfil their needs.Before buying they get so many questions in their mind.If you answer these questions, sure they will become your potential cus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Revising your site - what happened to my search engine placement?
- As of September, Smartads went through what so many have done before. I changed the entire site. I knew what it meant. It means that your search engine placements your probably so proud of are probably going to be lost in the process.Sad but true. See, search engines are getting smarter, not only are they getting smarter but they do what you do. When you change a design, typically you chang...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Appropriate key words choice
- What do the key words represent?Key words - these are the words that the users enter in a given search engine to find services or products you offer. It is extremely important to know what key words they will use. Selecting the appropriate for your activity key words is the first thing you have to do because all other strategies are built on their right choice.How to select the appro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pop-ups still work. at least for the time being
- Do you remember playing with the jack-in-the-box toy as a child? You knew that if you kept winding it up, eventually jack was going to burst out of the top and startle you!Many of you found old jack-in-the-box an annoying toy and confined it to the toy box.....Well, it reminds me of pop-ups on the internet. Eventhough you know that when you get on the internet there is a good chance ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Adding the right keywords to your website content
- You've made your website, added a great title and keywords in the meta tags. That's it, right?Not quite. There is another simple strategy to get more bang out of the content of your page ? knowing what words people are using for their searches and then incorporating them into your website.Here's a handy tool that will be your guide to finding those words: ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Keyword density
- We can't emphasize enough the importance of including keyword-rich content on your site to increase your ranking potential. Simply put, keywords are the words and/or word phrases people use when searching. As we've mentioned throughout the site, search engine spiders love content. Therefore, the more keyword-rich content you have, the better. When a search engine spider crawls your site, it won't ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 simple ways to dramatically improve your website
- Before you start worrying about marketing your website on the internet it always pays dividends to look at the website itself and get the fundamentals right before looking to shout about it from the virtual mountain-tops.You may already have thought about the following 3 ways and some of you may already have them in place on your website. If so ? congratulations ? you're well on the way to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Speed up or lose out! how to improve your websites download speed
- So your web site's online and you've got high rankings in the search engines attracting lots of visitors. But the statistics tell you most of them are leaving after viewing just one page, what's gone wrong?One possible cause could be a slow download speed of your web site's homepage or the web site as a whole. There is nothing worse than having to wait for a web site to load up. Studies ind...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Breathe new life into your half-dead website by using words that sell
- This article may come as a surprise to you.Especially since it is written by a web designer. Let me explain......Rescue Your Web Site from Boring Words and Poor Design.The difference between a successful website design and a site that brings in zero or very little business is not how nice the graphics are, not the colors you choose. It's not the flashy animation, and it's not ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to create a homepage that works
- Want to know what the worst thing to say on a homepage is?"Welcome to our homepage." And yet, time after time, we all come across such homepages on the Internet. The reason that this is such a poor opening gambit is the fact that the visitor already knows he / she is looking at your homepage, what's the point in teaching them to suck eggs?Your website's homepage needs to contain much...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Content is crucial!
- Content is undoubtedly the most important element of a website. It is the defining factor for a website, that which catches the interest of your visitors and keeps them hooked to your site.Unless what you say holds the attention and interest of the visitors to your site, the rate at which they would they hit the "back" button and say "bye - bye" to your site, will astoni...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top six ways to make your visitors to hate you!
- We will take a look at why your visitors may hate you maybe already do! There are many things that make YOUR visitors dislike you, but we take a look the top sex things that make your click the back button on their browser.1. Broken linksHyperlinks that do nothing when clicked are the pain in the butt for any surfer. Test your site often to ensure that all links work as they should....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make your site attractive to potential link partners
- Every now and then, I receive a link exchange request from someone who wants a link from my directory (my high-ranking directory directly accessible from the index page), and in exchange, they're willing to link to my page from one of their zillions of link pages about 18 jumps away from the home page. Needless to say, the proffered page has a Google PageRank of 0, and chances are it's not even in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Size does matter!
- In this article we will be looking at why you should keep your web page size small.As any good webmaster knows you should keep the web page size small, but why? It's really simple, both spiders and visitors hate web pages that take forever to load because it's harder to spider the web page or for the visitor they just don't have time to wait for your web page to come up, after all most web ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web design: use it to showcase the message
- If you are designing a web site for which the achievement of high conversion rates is a priority, focus your design efforts on showcasing and highlighting the content and copy.For sites where conversion rates are a priority, the primary purpose of design should be to present the message in such a way that it delivers the maximum impact.>> So "good" design doesn't matter?That's...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Caveat scriptor: use the advice of those who know before you build a site
- ~A man [woman] is a success if he [she] gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he [she] does what he [she] wants to do. Bob Dylan~I'm smart. Wicked smart. Too smart for my own good. At the same time (as they said when I was as kid and as it still applies), I'm too big for my own britches.So I put those prissy pantalones to some good effort and I teach others ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Designing beautiful artist websites ? 12 tips to showcase your art
- 1. Who needs an artists website?Not everyone! If you are currently exhibiting in multiple high-end galleries and making a handsome income, a website may not be for you. In fact, it might actually work against you ? some galleries may not like the perceived threat of you showing your work independently on the internet. Better to make use of your gallery's websites.On the other hand, a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Increase your website sales instantly
- If there's one thing that I've learnt so far, it's that nothing beats good copy. You may have found a way to bring in 10,000 visitors a day to your site, but if your copy is lousy, you're just wasting your effort. Web sites are only as good as their copy, so if you want to run a successful website, check and double-check your copy! Listed below are thirteen tips to better your copy and incr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Build a successful website for dummies
- So you want to build a website here I will explain some simple but also key aspects that are commonly taken in to consideration when a website developer creates a website. 1) Website Design - The website design must be neat meaning that everything looks like where it is meant to be (nothing out of place or out of proportion). Also your sites design is related to the topic of your ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Colorblind people, can they really read your web site?
- I once created a notepad-like editor. It is possible with this editor to write Russian text on a western Windows without using a Cyrillic keyboard in front of your computer.This software is equipped with an on screen Russian keyboard which is situated under the text field of the notepad like editor. The keys on the screen based keyboard is displayed with both Latin and Cyrillic characters. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Website conversion secrets revealed
- In my last article entitled, Maximizing The True Value Of Your Traffic (found at http://tinyurl.com/2cf84), you discovered the importance of generating positive responses from all your visitors.The crux of this strategy resides in the concept known as website conversion, and how it can make you tons more p.rofits with much lesser work.In essence, you can squeeze more value from the s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating a basic web design template
- A "template" is simply a design format which you can apply to all (or most) of the pages in your web site. The first advantage of using a "template" system is that it allows you to make your most important design decisions at the beginning, and then just focus on content. The second advantage is that it allows you to quickly create new pages based on your standard design.The disadvantage is...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Using server side includes to simplify your web design
- An "include" file is a piece of code that can be put into a seperate file -- for example -- your navigation bar -- and then "included" in a number of other pages. This has the very useful advantage of allowing you to retain consistency over a very large number of pages, and then make changes to all of those pages by just changing the include file.For instance, say you want each page in your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Build web pages from the top left corner down
- There are two important reasons to build your website from the top left hand corner down.The first one is that this is the way people (at least in the western world) read pages. They tend to begin at the top and read towards the bottom. And they tend to look at the left column before they look at the right. This is why your web pages should contain the most important headlines and descripti...