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The Top 8 Website Sins Part One

They say the eyes are the window to the soul. Your website then is the window to your business. What would a passerby think of your "window"? What does your website say about you? About your business?Does your website entice the visitor to pause and take a few moments to look around or does it co. . .

Why your site should be developed with CSS and semantic markup

One thing that I have learned in over a decade developing web sites is that the Net is continually changing, and to keep up you need to change with it. One of the more recent developments in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and semantic web design has several benefits: clar. . .

Google SiteMaps and You

Google SiteMaps and YouLast week, we looked (http://www.cafeid.com/art-rss.shtml) at the recent news that Microsoft had decided to embrace RSS in a big way in its upcoming releases of Internet Explorer and Windows "Longhorn" and determined that this was a Good Thing. This week, we're taking a lo. . .

Building eCommerce Websites That Work - Part 1

Building eCommerce Websites That Work - Part 1 Copyright 2005 Richard Keir You want to succeed at eCommerce? Welcome to a very big family. Right off, let’s be clear - there are lots of ways to do business on the internet. And lots of ways to both make and lose money. Successful eCommerce websi. . .

Create Your Own Webcomic

Syndicated comic authors have been complaining about newspaper size restrictions, content censoring and similar issues for a long time. Comic enthusiasts have been increasingly irritated by the treatment their entertainment medium receives as well. Then along came the Internet, providing unlimite. . .

The Dos and Don'ts Of Business Web Design

It would appear that many business owners just aren't getting it when it comes to Web design. It has been proven over and over again that Web surfers prefer certain things when visiting sites. The list below is short, sweet and to-the-point. It will help to guide you as you design, or redesign, y. . .

The Case for Minimalist Web Page Design

The Case for Minimalist Web Page DesignWith the increased affordability of web space and bandwidth, the growing use of high speed modems, and the abundance of implementation technologies like Flash, audio and video, comes the temptation to overuse them in web page design.One important characteris. . .

The Secrets to Building a Successful Website

by Shelley LoweryIf you're doing business on the Internet, one of the most important aspects of your success is your web site. If your web site doesn't look professional, no matter what product you're offering your chances of success are minimal.Before you begin, if you've never designed a web pa. . .

Building Customer Trust with Secure E-Commerce by www.vipwh.com

Whether your e-commerce operation involves selling an entire catalogue of items, a small collection of goods, or even just one product, the simple reality is that unless people buy the items for sale on your Web site, you won’t make any money. And while the last few years have done a lot to make . . .

Choosing the Perfect Colors for Your Web Site

When designing a Web site, most people give a lot of attention to two major factors: the design (graphics and logos) and the content. But what about the colors? This is one of the most important things to consider when designing your site. The colors of your Web site are important because they wi. . .

Accepting Payments Online: Merchant Accounts vs. Third Party

Accepting Payments Online: Merchant Accounts vs. Third PartyIf you want to sell online, you need to be able to accept credit card payments. The traditional way is to open a merchant account. However, opening a merchant account is expensive, especially for small businesses who are just starting. . . .

The 8 'Must Do' rules for effective website design

To succeed at your online business (whether you are selling your own product/service or are selling for other merchants as an affiliate), you need a Web design must be just for that - a simple, focused site. One that is easy to build, maintenance-free, low cost, credible, and a powerful traffic-b. . .

"About Us" Pages in Small Business Websites

"About Us" Pages in Small Business WebsitesThe Internet has been heralded as "the great equalizer": on a browser window, any company, no matter how small, can look as good as a large company with a long history of quality and service. This situation presents an important challenge for small busi. . .

From Concept to Website

You’ve decided to create a website to market your products or services. More and more people start their information searches online, so having a website is the logical next step. But without web development skills or knowledge, how do you build and market a website?To help you bring your busines. . .

Understanding Your Website's Traffic Statistics

Understanding Your Website's Traffic StatisticsIf you want to know how much traffic is coming to your site, which pages are bringing the most traffic, where are your visitors coming from, and when is traffic coming in, you just have to analyze your website's statistics. Nowadays, most web hosts . . .

Do-it-Yourself Websites

Copyright (c) 2003 Heather Reimer Several years ago, at the beginning of my Internet career, I asked someone if HTML was an abbreviation for Hotmail. Yes, I really was that naive. Since then, I've learned a fair bit about HTML coding. I had to. As a writer, I needed an online presence for my web . . .

Ten Basic Steps for Building a Web Site that Works

Ten Basic Steps for Building a Web Site that Works Assemble a Web site development plan that is integrated with your overall marketing processes. The content should be consistent with offline materials; the graphics/images don’t have to be identical with traditional media, but should be consisten. . .

The Do's and Don'ts of Launching a Small Business Website

Launching a new small business website is often a long and painstaking process. And for most small businesses, the endeavor rarely ends in success. The terrain is mapped with freelancers, firms, and consultants that don’t offer the same services and most certainly don’t charge the same prices. . . .

What is Quality Content?

What is Quality Content?June 5, 2004Lots of people tell you to make quality content, but they fail to ever define what quality is. What quality are people talking about when they say make quality content? Long, short, easy reading, snappy, robust, colorful, interesting, unique, bla bla bla...Sear. . .

3 Super-tips To Build, Promote And Profit More From Your Website!

Are you happy with your website? (Does your business evenhave one?)Does it 'perform' as well as you'd like?I'm a professional web designer and I always try toinfluence the design of a client site with the followingthree so-called super-tips. If I apply these tips to a new(or existing) site, I alw. . .

Website promotion Ideas: 10 Web Site Add-Ons To Increase Your Traffic.

If you’re not getting a lot of traffic to your website anymore, must implement these Website promotion ideas immediately.1. Add a message board to your web site. Peoplewill visit your web site to ask questions and answerother people's questions.2. Add a directory of web site links to your website. . .

How To Create Meta Tags To Optimize Your Web Site

How To Create Meta Tags To Optimize Your Web SiteBy: Martin LemieuxIn this article, I will teach you the basics about Meta Tags and their functions. Learning how to create Meta Tags is essential for your companies web site ranking.What Are Meta Tags?Meta Tags are a series of sentences created by . . .

Make Sure Your Site Passes the 7 Second Test

Seven seconds. That's all the time you have to make a good impression on your web site visitors. Seven seconds is not a lot of time! What happens if your site doesn't make the grade? CLICK! Off to the competition they go. Let's discuss what you can do to make sure your site's layout, design and c. . .

Designing A Site That Demands High Traffic

Marnie Pehrson may not be well known for driving traffic to Web sites, but she should be! Her ability to get literally hundreds of thousands of page views a month is simply astounding! (NOTE: I said "page views," not "hits." BIG difference!) I had to ask her to reveal her secrets so that we all c. . .

Website Design: 10 Smart Tips To Improve Your Ad Copy

Your website design may be affecting your sales in ways that you may not believe.Here are a few website design tips to help you improve your website and ad copy for greater profitability:1. You could decrease or increase the length ofyour ad copy. There is no rule on how long yourad copy should b. . .

How to use stylesheets

Web sites can contain hundreds of pages, even thousands. You have spent your time making a look and brand for your web site, using different font sizes, colours, margins etc all within each web page. Later on you decide that you want to change the background colour of the website, and. . .

Cascading Style Sheets Basics

Cascading Style Sheets BasicsIf you're not a web designer, but have nevertheless experimented with HTML or popular editors like FrontPage to try to build a website, if you didn't use cascading style sheets you probably came across most of the common problems that cascading style sheets were creat. . .

Between Marketing and the Webmaster

Web designing is certainly not just about creating the most fanciful, colourful and animated pages and then slapping them somewhere on the web. Your business as a Webmaster is a marketing responsibility and should be managed as one. Like any other marketing-oriented business therefore, a lot de. . .

nsider Tips for Choosing the Right Web Designer

Stop! Before you rush to build a presence on the Web be careful! So-called Web designers are popping up in all directions. Owning Web creation software does not make one a Web designer. For goodness sake, free web design software can be downloaded from the 'Net in about 20 minutes. For your site . . .

.htaccess file guide

By David CallanYou may have already come across the .htaccess file while on www.akamarketing.com, we used it in the article Custom error pages to enable you to set up custom error pages so visitors will be taken to a custom error page on your site and not your hosts error page or what's even wors. . .

How to Design a Search Engine Friendly Website

There are many websites that fail to target their required traffic, even if they’ve had some search engine optimization work done. One of the main causes for this is simply because the website isn’t search engine friendly. /This is a basic essential that needs to be incorporated into the design o. . .

Optimizing Google Adsense For Better Performance and More Money!

Optimizing Google Adsense For Better Performance and More Money!rr / By: Martin Lemieuxrr / rr / So you want to make money with Google Adsense? I don't blame you, who doesn't want residual income! This article will show you how to better optimize Google Adsense to make more money from your . . .

Is YOUR Web Site Ready For Christmas?

It will soon be Christmas. Whether Christian or not, thatmeans one thing to online vendors everywhere: BIG SALES!But is your site *ready* for Christmas?Let me explain what I mean.As webmaster of a UK shopping directory I get to review manyonline shopping sites. I take about 60 seconds to decidewh. . .

Dynamic Content

While developing a concept for a web site, make sure you leave yourself some room for integrating animations or interactivity. While some designers are hesitant about creating Flash pages, it really can add a little something extra to your site. If you are interested in having total layout flexib. . .

How To Tweak Your Website For More Sales

How To Tweak Your Website For More Salesby Michael SouthonThere are two pillars to a successful online business.One of them is traffic and the other is sales copy - thetext on your your website. That's what this article isabout - getting more sales from your website.(1) Format. The fastest selli. . .

How to Avoid Sloppy Web Site Copy

How to Avoid Sloppy Web Site CopyCopyright 2002 Herman Drost If your web site visitor can’t find the information on your web site, within 10 seconds or less, you will lose them. Two of the largest factors that contribute to this, are the lack of clear purpose and poor layout of your web pages. . . .

Designing Your Product's Website

By Shelley LoweryDesigning a website specifically designed to sell your product is an essential part of your success. Everything within your website should have one specific purpose -- getting your visitor to take action.Creating a professional website specifically designed to sell will take a gr. . .

What's Your Right Photo Shade

What's Your Right Photo Shade by: MAricon Williams Sometimes photos would appear a little frustrating especially when there is no transparency to match color. The reason to this is that printing companies have been slow in going with the flow to accommodate new images. They often stumbles through. . .

10 Prominent Website Mistakes

10 Prominent Website Mistakes by: Maricon Williams Nowadays, sites are getting better. With minimal design and highly maintained archives they continue to offer comprehensive services. However, prominent mistakes on several websites are still apparent. Here is a list of the website mistakes that . . .

Book Review: The Elements Of Graphic Design

Book Review: The Elements Of Graphic Design by: Maricon Williams Graphic design is a very broad field and to master it is a very challenging escapade. We can have a good grasp of graphic design by understanding the basic elements and principles which make effective design and page layout. Graphic. . .

The Right Navigator For You

The Right Navigator For You by: Maricon Williams If you think it’s hard to decide what navigational style to use and what design fits you best, then read on and be enlightened… Text links are the simplest sort of navigation. Usually they contain one to two words and are filed in an array. Example. . .

Website Navigation: The Shopping Mall Analogy

Website Navigation: The Shopping Mall AnalogyYour website's navigation tools and techniques should basically give users the answer to three questions: Where am I? Where have I been? and Where can I go? To better explain how to answer those questions we will draw a parallel between your website's . . .

Proper Font Selection

Proper Font Selection by: Maricon Williams In times when you are writing a message in your computer, have you ever asked yourself the following questions: How will I convey my message with the use of my fonts? Do I need several colors? Am I going to use big, bold, crisp or spaced fonts? Well, you. . .

Breathtaking Color Power!

Breathtaking Color Power! by: Maricon Williams Colors convey character, emotion and intention. You are what colors you choose. Thus, your choice of colors should reflect the message or feeling you to hope to convey to the viewer. Red - Red is hot color. It is an established color of love, urgency. . .

10 Ways to Achieve Superior Web Site Design

10 Ways to Achieve Superior Web Site Design by: Maricon Williams In order to achieve online success, one must have effective and reliable products and services and great web design as well. Many people are judging the book by its cover this is the reason why your website should also be superior. . . .

Finding The Balance Between Form And Function

Finding The Balance Between Form And Function by: Maricon Williams Form is the arrangement of the general structure of an artwork while function is a relation such that one thing is dependent on another. For instance - height is a function of age or price is a function of supply and demand. A fun. . .

Make Your Web Pages Easier to Read

Make Your Web Pages Easier to ReadComputer screens are hard on the eyes, and their limited size forces users to scroll. This makes reading online harder, slower and more uncomfortable than reading on print. Following are a few simple tips that you can follow to make the experience of reading on. . .

Are Web Templates Aimed to Exterminate the ‘Web Stars’?

Are Web Templates Aimed to Exterminate the ‘Web Stars’? by: Maricon Williams Since the arrival of web templates, there has been an unwritten haunch that plagued the Net. Many businesses and companies have turned to these templates to be aided for a less costly web design. Compared to sums which w. . .

About Your Web Design? - Panic No More

About Your Web Design? - Panic No More by: Maricon Williams The Net is bombarded with different kinds of websites. When you visit from one website to another, you can’t help but compare. In some instances, you do not even have time to compare, involuntarily, you are clicking away from the site. I. . .

A Pretty Site Equates to Fewer Sales – Is it a Fact or a Fallacy?

A Pretty Site Equates to Fewer Sales – Is it a Fact or a Fallacy? by: Maricon Williams One that is pretty is very tempting. Thus, a book with fabulous cover and catchy title will likely to generate more sales, the same way that the dish with luscious presentation and extra-ordinary garnishing wil. . .