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What Makes a Site Lucrative?

by: Maricon Williams People ask too many things about websites. They ask about the key points to remember in order for their website to conquer the Web as well as to boost their sales. They ask about the right colors to use, layout, content and the likes. So many queries but it all sums up to on. . .

How to Achieve a Perfect Color Scheme

How to Achieve a Perfect Color Scheme by: Maricon Williams Your choice of colors reflects you and your business. Color expresses intention, emotion and character. You must be cautious when choosing your color scheme because it will reflect the message you want to convey to the viewers. Wrong choi. . .

Web Design Tips To Boost Your Online Sales

The way you design your web site affects your visitors' onlineexperience. As each visitor to your site is a potentialcustomer, the easier they find your web site to use and the morethey enjoy being on it, the higher the chance that they willmake a purchase. Therefore, a well designed web site rea. . .

Are You Choosing Your Website Colors Safely?

Are You Choosing Your Website Colors Safely? by: Maricon Williams Many designers are overlooking the vitality of colors in creating a web site. Why is it vital? It is because it creates a mood – it can annoy, irritate or interest and uplift the spirit of the visitors. Your site can end up plain a. . .

Color’s Mighty Power of Persuasion

Color’s Mighty Power of Persuasion by: Maricon Williams Color is everywhere. It surrounds us. It’s with us every time. It does not only provide crucial visual cues but also influence our feelings and thoughts. It captures our emotions thus can persuade us. However, up to what level can it influen. . .

Extracting Color Functions

Extracting Color Functions by: Maricon Williams Colors are as powerful as words. It can communicate though without the use of words. It can be as welcoming as a smile yet can be rude as a smirk. We have different perceptions about colors. They can tend to affect our emotions, memories, imaginatio. . .

How to Seize Design Essentials?

How to Seize Design Essentials? by: Maricon Williams Design is a world of both art and science. It needs skill and technology in order to succeed. In addition, you can achieve success in this field if you are knowledgeable of the important basics of design. Design is a process. It has to be purpo. . .

Checklist for a Successful Web Site Design

Designing a Web site can be a time consuming and often complicated task. Even if you have a general idea or a vision for your site, there are many details that will need your attention before the project is completed. How in the world do you keep up with it all?We suggest that you start a journal. . .

Creating A Quality Web Site Design!

Creating A Quality Web Site Design!By: Martin Lemieux (Smartads Owner)In this article, I will attempt to cover the basics of creating a great quality web design template for your site. Now it's a known fact that the layout or "eye candy" as I put it will determine whether your visitors will stay . . .

Top 10 Design Issues According To Web Marketing!

Top 10 Design Issues According To Web Marketing!By: Martin LemieuxWhen it comes to designing your site, there are 2 ways you can ultimately go. a) Designing for yourself and no one else, b) Designing to fit web marketing and customer attracting methods.Here are the top 10 issues you should always. . .

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 . . .

Flash Web Design: Pros and Cons

Flash Web Design: Pros and ConsFlash is a powerful web technology that achieves a high level of visual impact from the graphical point of view. Unfortunately, it is widely misused in web design. There are still many problems with Flash, especially related to usability and search engine behaviour;. . .

Keywords, Ranking & Search Engine Optimization Fun

I am a Search Engine Optimization newbie. I have read a little on various forums, browsed a few articles, and read through The Affiliate Masters Course (Ken Evoy) a couple of times.r /r /Eleven days ago I invested a little of my affiliate earnings in a new product that was being launched.r /r /Th. . .

Advertise Locally using Search Engines

While search engine advertising has been a great advertising medium for businesses capable of or interested in marketing their products and services to a national or international audience, the effectiveness of this type of advertising was limited for businesses interested in advertising to a loc. . .

What Your Web Designer Isn't Telling You

By Kalena Jordan 1st July 2001 If I was to ask you right now "Are you absolutely certain that your web site is optimized for high search engine rankings?", what would you say? What if I was to ask "How many search engines has your site been registered with?" Or how about "Does your site have t. . .

Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Beauty of a Clean Cut Website

Don’t knock it; “Keep It Simple, Stupid” is a great rule to live by. Nobody likes a website to “yell” at them, with blaring colors and flashing lights. Too many buttons will turn customers off. I had this problem with my homepage at http://www.antion.com. A colleague of mine, who makes a lot of m. . .

7 Reasons Why Using CSS is a Must

CSS is a new option for website designers that have been using HTML and tables for most of their web designing careers. Of course, it is a huge change and requires learning a new language and skill, however most people are saying CSS is worth it and it will give you more control, options, and is . . .

Create Your Site For Perfection, Nothing else

Create Your Site For Perfection, Nothing Less, Or You Lose!By: Martin LemieuxMany writers on the web are writing articles about how to attract visitors to your site, what about when you lose those visitors because your site wasn't up to par???You've spent all this time on web marketing to attract. . .

The Color of Success

Copyright (C) 2005 Bibi LiewColor should be one of your first concern when it comes to website design. Colors creates mood. It is immediate and memorable. It conveys character, expresses intention and emotion. Colors play a vital role in website's impact. It reflect the message and identity you w. . .

Why to have a website for your company

After having decided to start a business, the next thing that arrives in your mind is How to market the Product/Service? How to create a brand? How to recruit people? How & where to advertise? etc… Next is creating departments like Marketing, Operations, Advertising, Branding and Human Resource. . . .

The importance of a good title tag

By Jakob Jellinghttp://www.sitetube.comWhen you are optimizing your website for search engine placement and trying to get a higher search engine ranking, you usually use several different optimization techniques and modify several parts of your web pages. In this article I would like to concentra. . .

10 Website Blunders Guaranteed to Send Your Visitors Elsewhere

When you build your website you need to have a plan first. The reason for this is if you do not have a plan you will likely make mistakes, forget to include information, and overall have an unorganized and not a well thought out page. While you might read the page and completely understand everyt. . .

Ending the Confusion

With all the Web sites I’ve visited during my time on the ‘Net, I am still amazed to find one very common and widespread problem. Focus – or the lack of it. One of the most basic aspects of designing and writing copy for a site is frequently overlooked – and it is costing Web site owners everywhe. . .

Build Your Site Around Your Resources

Build Your Site Around Your Resources - Resource Advertising For Your SiteBy: Martin LemieuxWe all collect resources online to give to our visitors. Why not, it gives an added bonus to your site. What we want to do is use as many resources to our advantage. Advertise your business around your res. . .

Testament to Testimonials

Should You Use Testimonials on Your Website?Author: Cal HyslopWe have all seen websites showcasing their testimonials either spread strategically throughout the site or all together on their own glorious page. They’re there with the intent of leading us toward that high dollar purchase or convinc. . .

Using "Title Tags" With Your Web Links & Images

Using "Title Tags" With Your Web Links & ImagesBy: Martin LemieuxUsing "Title Tags" for your web links & images is an arsenal many companies fail to utilize when planning out their web site optimization. These tags will help search engines to navigate through your information.In the last topic we. . .

Ten Ways To Get Visitors To Read Longer

By: Catherine Franz Unusual, not weird, does sell even if you are a professional. Here are ten ways you can doctor your picture to get people to chuckle. When people have a lighter sense of humor, they will stay longer on your website. And of course, read more. Use your digital camera or cam to . . .

15 Website Elements That Attract Visitors

By: Catherine Franz Here is a quick list of components that make a website attractive. They are listed in layers of attractiveness beginning with the "must-haves" to the "nice to haves." 1. State the website's purpose up front and clearly. Do this as quickly as possible. The visitor needs to kno. . .

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your WebsiteWhen designing your website, remember to avoid useless and confusing features, however “cool” they may seem to be. Usually, keeping things simple and consistent are the best way to go. Here are five easy ways to improve your website and make it more appealing . . .

7 Compelling Reasons to Start Using CSS

If you haven't heard of CSS, it's short for Cascading Style Sheets. I'm not going to go through what it is. There are many free articles and resources about CSS out there in the wild wild web.Instead, I'm going to share with you why I decided toswitch to a CSS based design.I've known about CSS fo. . .

Webdesign do's

By David CallanYou may have read the article entitled Webdesign don'ts, the article as the name suggests covers some of the things you should avoid when designing a website, things that will likely cause visitors to never want to visit your site again. This article concentrates on the things you . . .

When is 'Spying on Your Competition' a Complete Waste of Time?

When is 'Spying on Your Competition' a Complete Waste of Time? Copyright 2005 Ron Hutton Your brain screams "Gimme Fast", "Gimme Easy", "Do it forme automatically"! So when you see the headline thatreads... "Imagine Spying On Your Competition To Build A Massive Targeted Keyword List Of 3000 Or. . .

Optimize Your Graphics for a Fast Loading Site

Optimize Your Graphics for a Fast Loading SiteHeavy images cost you money and traffic. They cost you money because they require both significant storage space and bandwidth. Since your web host will usually give you a limited amount of storage space and a maximum data transfer allowance, heavy . . .

FTP Basics

By Shelley LoweryFile Transfer Protocol, better known as FTP, is a procedure used to upload and download files to and from your web server. In order to use FTP, you'll need to download and install a software program on your computer. The most widely used FTP program is WS FTP Pro. You can find it. . .

7 Effective Ways to Build Your Web Site

7 Effective Ways to Build Your Web SiteHerman Drost - 27 October 2003isitebuild@aol.comhttp://www.isitebuild.com Running a business without building a web site, is like a fish swimming in a small pond. The fish needs a vehicle to reach the ocean. If you are a small business person who wants to re. . .

Why Aren't You Using CGI?

Why Aren't You Using CGI?by Michael SouthonThe very name CGI used to send chills up my spine. Foryears I put it in the 'too-hard-basket'. But like mostthings in life, CGI is not as scary as it seems. Ifyou have a cgi directory on your website and you knowhow to FTP files, chances are you can have. . .

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. . .

Five Short Quick Tips On Web Page Titles

By: Catherine Franz Search engine spiders read and record page titles first. Here are five tips on how you can get the search engine spiders to read your titles and use them in their optimization process: 1. Character count is important: Google's maximum character count for page titles is 83.. . .

Keywords are the “KEY” to a Popular and Profitable Web Site

The only activity that should preface keyword research is the brainstorming you do to come up with list of potential themes for your web site. Think about things that you find interesting, are passionate about or that leverage your skills. Once this is done you are ready to find out which topic o. . .

Web Site Redesign – from stagnation to rejuvenation

Web Site Redesign – from stagnation to rejuvenationCopyright 2002 Herman Drost When surfing the Web these days, you often come across websites that suffer from stagnation – they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur. Your web site needscontinuous improvement to capture . . .

Software to help you create a robots.txt file

Software to help you create a robots.txt fileBy Sumantra RoyRobogen is a software for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT based computers which can help you create robots.txt files without having to worry about the correct syntax of a robots.txt file. It comes in two editions: the free Limited . . .

The Top 8 Website Sins Part Two

Sin #5Poor Spelling And GrammarWe all make mistakes when we write things down or type things out. Nobody is 100% perfect but a huge number of website owners completely ignore the basics of spelling and grammar.If you're selling a product or service online and your website is littered with spellin. . .

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 html Because it costs too much to have someone do it for you. The software you have found is too complicated You just didn’t have the time or patience to read the 500-page manual There wa. . .

Creating Printer-Friendly Web Pages

Creating Printer-Friendly Web PagesReading from a computer screen is uncomfortable, so users may often want to print the page they’re viewing. The problem is that web pages don’t usually lend themselves to print. Unless your web page width is 600 pixels or less, chances are that your page copy. . .

Adding Search Funtionality To Your Site

Adding Search Funtionality To Your SiteHaving your very own search engine for your site will enable your visitors to quickly and easily find just what they are looking for, without having to navigate through numerous menus or wade through long lists of options. Your users can just type in a few k. . .

6 Fatal Design Flaws “Newbie” Web Design

Even if you’re not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago—you’re teaching yourself web design and you’re starting to catch on to that HTML stuff. You’re so excited about your new bag of tricks—but slow down partner, someti. . .

Site Maps: Let Search Engines Find Your Pages

Site Maps: Let Search Engines Find Your PagesWith 40 million websites in existence, and more than 3 billion web pages indexed by Google at the time of this writing (July 2003), it’s no wonder that more and more people are relying on search engines to find their way through the unruly world that t. . .

So You’re Hiring a Web Designer

Whether you’re hiring a designer who has created 10 sites or 1000 sites for other businesses, there are 10 things every website should do for you. 1. Be wary of companies who charge by the hour and don’t put on a cap! There isn’t a regulated industry standard in fees. So websites can easily end u. . .

MS Frontpage

MS FrontpageBy Clare Lawrence 15th August 2004Thinking of designing your own website?, MS Frontpage is a good starting point.It is widely available, well supported and reasonably priced.Why MS Frontpage?If you’re familiar with the other members of the Microsoft family such as Excel, Word or Power. . .

Making The Most Of Your Classified Ad

Classified ads are one of the most inexpensive ways to advertise your products or service. People read classified ads for a purpose. They are specifically looking for products, services and information that appeals to them. Unfortunately many people misuse classified ads. They try to sell a p. . .