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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Make your own website - general website design tips
- Wow, we`ve already taken a domain and chosen a web host. Great job ! Now it`s time for something special: making your own website. You could`ve completed this step before, but at the time you`d had finished it, the domain name could`ve been taken. We don`t want any complications right ?You have 2 possible routes now (..as it is in the life right..) : To learn HTML and other "prog...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A website is not enough
- Your ObjectiveYour small business needs an appealing and professional website but that is just the beginning. If no one visits your website and -- more importantly -- if it does not bring in new customers and allows you to sell more to your current customers, then your site is not effective. What do you need to improve your online marketing efforts?The first step is to decide on a pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Set up your website in minutes ? for free
- There was a time not long ago when setting up a website meant endless technical jargons, hiring a web designer, writing the html or jawa codes, selecting the right hosting platform and deciding on the band width.Now setting up a website is like 1..2..3.. and you are online. You don't need to a technical geek anymore. Let me teach you how to do it. And right now.You can be online in m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ebooks for webmasters
- Internet has opened a whole new world for web developers and web designers who are looking to get their websites developed that are finally launched on the huge world of World Wide Web. Keeping that factor webmasters are the people who have to face a lot of problems mainly due to the entrance of new software, programming languages and viruses that are a real threat for the webmasters.Beside...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stop losing precious web site traffic to the dreaded world wide web black hole
- You work hard to build traffic to your web page. If you are not doing 1 simple step you are loosing a portion of all your web site traffic to the dreaded World Wide Web Black Hole.We have all seen the dreaded 404 page not found error. This Error happens when you type a web page address into the browser window and the page does not exist on the Web Site. Most Cpanel's enable you to create a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How worldly is your world wide web?
- The growth in Internet usage around the world is astounding - 146% in the five years prior to March 2005. And it's not just European and North American users on the Net. The fastest growth was found in Africa with an almost 200% increase in usage. I am often pleasantly surprised as to how fast the internet connections are in 'developing countries' like Indonesia - much faster than the connection a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 7 tips to make your order page work harder
- So your prospect, Mary, is sitting at the computer reading your compelling sales letter. She's convinced she needs your product. So she clicks on the order link, with her credit card next to the mouse. She's taken to the order page. What she sees next makes her change her mind and click away. Can you prevent bail out at the crucial moment of ordering? You betcha!Here are 7 surefire tips ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 12 tips to great websites
- Why do some sites succeed while the vast majority of others fail? More and more website owners are asking themselves these questions. The answers are often more obvious than you may think. Below are 12 tips for better, more successful web sites.1. Location, Location, LocationThe old real estate saying applies to websites as well, but Internet location is really the website name. You ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Five question-five minute web makeover quiz
- If you haven't made the sales and built your clients to an income you want, then you may need a Web Site makeover.What I mean by that is, most people contact a web master to put up their site. They can connect the links but not all are copywriters that bring in new customers and clients. You may have written your own material, but often it lacks the promotion know how to make your words sel...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do this one thing to create a powerful product-selling web site
- Spend time planning your Web site. Before you design a page or write a word, get a visual, and mental picture of your preferred audience. Your visitors will spend up to 10 seconds on your home page, so plan accordingly.Draw your specific audience's attention with compelling headings that include benefits that will solve their problems.1. Define your preferred audience. Picture them a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to handle web surfers who disabled javascript
- There are hundreds of millions of Web surfers today. Each of them uses one of multiple web browsers available now. You as a Webmaster create cool web pages that are full of graphic and JavaScript and look very impressive in modern web browsers like Internet Explorer or FireFox. But ask yourself: "How my cool web page will look like, if the web surfer use Linx browser (text based) or just disabled ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 9 simple steps to create a background tiled image branded with your name
- You have seen those web pages where they have the name of the Name Web repeated over over over in square tiles as the background. Now by following these 9 Simple steps you too can create a web page Branded with your Name, or Company Name.I am far from a graphic designer but by using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Paint and these 9 Simple Steps. I have been able to create Tiled background Imag...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Develop a solid website presence
- Starting an internet business can be confusing to non-veterans. The internet is the new world of business and research. Conventional business practices rely on location. If we opened a bookstore on Broadway, New York City, thousands, or millions, would pass the store daily. In contrast, if we opened a bookstore on main street, Williamstown NJ, we would have significantly less customers passing eac...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The 2 most common web site mistakes
- When we review the sites of potential clients, there are 2 mistakes we see over and over. If you are having problems with your site, make sure these 2 problems aren't killing you.TrafficJust because you think something is a good idea doesn't mean the general public agrees. A web site should solve a problem that is common to some part of the population. If people have a problem, they ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bring your visitors back clamoring for more! maintain and improve your web site weekly - part 1
- 80% of your Web site is Maintenance!Once your Web site is up, you must maintain it. That means changes, and each time you make a change, you may make a mistake. I'm really grateful when people point out my Web glitches by emailing me, and these encourage me to be more proactive by checking my site each week.If your visitors get a link that doesn't work, see incomplete instructions, o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why you need a website
- You hear a great deal about the Internet these days -- that it's revolutionised communication ... commerce ... education ... Life-As-We-Know-It ...Is this just hype?You be the judge:AN INTERNET TALEAfter spending over twenty years at the Chalk-face, as a high school teacher, the novelty had worn off somewhat, so I did what so many others are doing now, I started looking...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 ways to build a website
- If you are like me you have wanted to build a website but didn't know how!Why?Because you haven't learned htmlBecause it costs too much to have someone do it for you.The software you have found is too complicatedYou just didn't have the time or patience to read the 500-page manualThere was no one to teach you how to do it.Well let's review those one...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Learn what 98% of targeted visitors do on your website
- Getting a Targeted Visitor to a website is a waste of time and money if you've got no idea what 98% of them do when they get there.I'm assuming that if you have a website selling products that your conversion rate is at least 2%. So you should know at least what 2 out of every 100 targeted visitors do and that's make a purchase.But do you know what they did before they made a purc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Traffic for webmasters
- "If you build it, they will come"; is an age old phenomenon for webmasters that they develop the website and visitors themselves would visit that. This may be true for only a handful of websites but the most important and crucial topic for any webmaster today is to how to get targeted traffic to his website.How good is a website without traffic, only webmasters know that very well...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Php & account activation
- When a user signs up at your website, you may want to verify their email address so you aren't getting bogus accounts in your database. A few lines of code can send an email to the address specified, containing a welcome greeting and link to activate their account. PHP is the best way to both send the emails and do the activation process.When the link in the email is clicked, a PHP page is ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to draw icons or images on a mapserver generated map
- In this example I have used the map of the Itasca demo of the Mapserver. I have done only small changes to the map file. The Itasca demo has (into the html file) the parameters of the path where to store the images:IMAGEPATH "set in index.html" IMAGEURL "set in index.html"I have changed them as fixed pathIMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/" IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"Than I have set as STA...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to evaluate your web sites performance
- Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your web site goals.If you don't know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring your website, all your site will be is ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Uk online shopping with an edge, for buyers and sellers alike
- Any new website competing on the internet, needs to take its business seriously, as there is so much competition around. So, there needs to be an edge on quality, content, and general user appeal.The raw basics in designing and running any commercial website, are to consider the customer first, and last. Time is a precious commodity, and so a user friendly website, with little form filling,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web site development process - the life-cycle steps
- A system development process can follow a number of standard or company specific frameworks, methodologies, modeling tools and languages. Software development life cycle normally comes with some standards which can fulfill the needs of any development team. Like software, web sites can also be developed with certain methods with some changes and additions with the existing software development pro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Database driven web site - do you need it?
- Many of site owners still don't realize all advantages of database driven web sites and don't use all abilities they give. So when do you need a database driven web site and how it will make your web-life better?What is a database driven web site? Database driven web site is one that uses database for collecting and storing information. What information it can be? Various. Ema...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You may be losing valuable traffic - and not even know it!
- Here's something you may never have thought of before:If I were to type your domain name?http://www.yourdomain.com?into my web browser without the "WWW" so it looked like this?http://yourdomain.com? would I be immediately sent to your site or would l receive a "Page Not Found" error.Don't be too quick to answer. Think about it. Have you tried this before?...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to maximize the value of every visitor to your website
- While most marketers are beginning to understand the critical importance of maximizing conversion rates, few are tracking or working to maximize another critical measurement of website effectiveness.Visitor value?Visitor value is simply a representation of how much money you make per visitor to your website.You can calculate visitor value by multiplying your number of sales ov...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 simple steps: its magic if you can e-mail you can update your web page dynamically
- Dynamically Update Your Web Pages Via E-MailIf you can Send an E-Mail you can Dynamically update Your Web Pages. Following a few simple Steps and the Power of Blogs you can Mail in your Web Page Updates anytime you want too.Step 1 - Get a Blog account.Go to http://blogger.com and sign-up for a free Account. When you have your account set-up they will allow you to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Earn on offshore web design and development
- If you have some experience in web site design and want to make good money you can try acting as IT-outsourcing partner. Learn more what you should know and how to start.Why offshore web design and development?Offshore web site design and development help to keep prices at least 3-5 times less, for example, average hourly rate of web development services in USA is $35-75; in U...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Successful commercial sites
- Do you make your website just to entertain yourself or do you want it to be a great web store? The fact is more than 80% of websites are trying to sell you something. There is nothing wrong if you want to get some money from the website you made, but remember to put some REALLY interesting information on your pages. This information must be free, unique and necessary to as many people as possible....