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Choose & Use the Best Colors

Choose & Use the Best ColorsCopyright 2005 Andrew EatonThe Psychology of ColorAre you using the best colors for your web site? Many web designers often overlook the issues of color in web design. When choosing colors for your web site there are three main areas that should be addressed. 1) T. . .

Website Hospital

Website HospitalBy Clare Lawrence 18th August 2004Are you disappointed with your website traffic? Orders are not what you had hoped? This article suggests ways to improve.ContentWhat are the keywords you’re targeting? ri.e. what phrases are your customers entering into the search engines?Do the. . .

How to Create an Effective Web Site Navigation

How to Create an Effective Web Site Navigation Structure -Part 2Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Searching for information on the Web has recently become like a mine field. You find the site you want, only to be greeted by pop-ups when you enter, pop-ups when you are on the site and pop-ups when you l. . .

Web tune up

Web tune upBy Clare Lawrence 19th August 2004Are you dissatisfied with your websites current traffic? You wont be alone! In this brief article I give you advice on how to boost your traffic.ContentA common mistake webmasters make is to misunderstand how search engines work and what they look fo. . .

Your Biggest Mistake When You Create a Website?

--------------------------------Why Should You Create a website?--------------------------------A. What do you want when you create a website?B. What to do to get what you want.--------------------A. What do you want?--------------------1. You may be in a non-profit organisation and want to post . . .

How to find a web designer

How to find a web designerBy Clare Lawrence 19th August 2004If you’re looking for a web designer, then here’s some hints and advice.Which sites have the best ranking in your field? Pick the top 10 and send them an e-mail asking who they use?If a site has a good ranking, it’s likely to have been . . .

How To Use Flash In Your Site And Still Be Search Engine Friendly

Do you want to have a feature rich web site with animations, sound, and an opening splash screen?Do you want to use Flash extensively on your site but you are afraid of hurting your search engine positioning?Do you require an opening splash page but were told that the search engines could not ind. . .

How to Make Effective Use of Web Fonts

How to Make Effective Use of Web Fonts © Herman DrostWriting for your web site is not the same as offline writing. The fonts used for print media are different than web fonts. This is because it's harder to read text on a computer screen and visitors tend to scan your web pages rather than read t. . .

Steps To Optimizing Your HTML Codes

by Shelley LoweryYour key to success in online marketing and promotion is your web site. From your title, keywords, meta tags, and text, to your over all site design, each plays a very important role when optimizing your site. If your site doesn't rank in the top 10 or 20 when doing a keyword sea. . .

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1Copyright 2002 Herman Drost You are staring at the your monitor waiting for the image todownload. It finally appears but it has blurry edges. You go to the next page but can’t read the text because of the dark image in the background. The next page . . .

Will You Site be a BIG SUCCESS. 7 Reasons Why it Might Not!

With so many new websites going up, it is hard sometimes to tell if your site will be a BIG SUCCESS or an unexpected flop? If you are unsure of whether or not your site will fly with visitors or crash and burn, this article is definitely for you. Now we all know the importance of great service, b. . .

12 Essential Tips to a Professional Business Website

1. Choose a big enough font size. A size 12 is good for easy readability.2. Maintain a consistent look on your pages. Use the same fonts, navigation bar, general layout, colour scheme, etc. You want to create a “congruous” experience for your visitor by being consistent.3. Break the content of yo. . .

How to create a great landing page to your website

The landing page or entry page of your visitors is the most important page to your website. This page is likely to be your home page if you happen to be promoting your website url http://www.yourdomain.com more often than your other sub-directory pages as in http://www.yourdomain.com/sub-director. . .

The meta tag and the art of redirection

The meta tag and the art of redirectionThere are many occasions when you wish to display your URL in the form yourdomain/display.html but would like, instead, to direct visitors to another URL, say some-other-domain/best-mouse-trap.html. For example, you are promoting an affiliate program with U. . .

Mambo- afull featured content management system

MAMBO- a full-featured content management systemContent management systems (CMS) store and manage an organization’s electronic document and Web content so that even the non-technical authors and employee of the company can reuse the information across different applications which is otherwise don. . .

Make your site quick to load

The time it takes to load your site can make or break avisitor's first impression of your site. If your site takes toolong to load, the visitor will click "Stop" or "Back" and leaveyour web site. If you are a business and offering peopleimportant information, it is critical to have a nice design,. . .

Successful Flash Tips

Successful Flash TipsCopyright 2005 Nathan SireEver browse across a website that took ten million years to load or required a road map to find the navigation bar? True, Flash Technology might impress your clients till their eyes fall out. However, Flash Technology requires a skillful balance betw. . .

Web Design Firm: Professionals or Trouble?

Remember one thing that stays true. A Web Design Firm is only as good as their last design. My name is Anthony and I will be your guide today(saying this is a professional but fun voice). Ok, lets get down to business. A web design is there for one thing, remember this. That is to make money. Lik. . .

Marking Your Spot in Cyberspace. - 3 Keys To Making Your Site Memorable!

As significate as landing on the moon was, your spot in cyberspace can be just as memorable. I find that the better looking and working a site is then the more it makes me want to come back and use it. When a person first lands on your website they need to be amazed at not only the design but the. . .

Making Money By Outsourcing.

by: Anthony JewellSo you are thinking to yourself "how can I expand my operation, do more business and make more money?". If you are thinking this right now and are in the web design or webhosting fields then Outsourcing might be for you. Now this is not to say that other companies or businesses . . .

The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management!

The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management!By: Martin LemieuxWeb development has greatly increased in popularity over the last 5 years. Many new design concepts, code standards, and technology advances have happened in a short amount of time. With that, so has the knowledge and demand for bet. . .

7 Effective Ways to Build Your Own Web Site

7 Effective Ways to Build Your Own Web SiteCopyright 2002 Herman Drost Running a business without building a web site, is like a fishswimming in a small pond. The fish needs a vehicle to reachthe ocean. If you are a small business person who wants to reachmillions quickly and easily, building a w. . .

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 3

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 3Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Image optimization significantly improves your site's effectiveness. Whether your success is measured in revenue per user, page views, unique visitors, or pure profit, accelerating your Web site makes a huge difference. P. . .

Improve Your Web Site Design with a Fancy Font

Improve Your Web Site Design with a Fancy Font© 2003 Herman Drost Have you ever tried to design your web site with a beautifullyselected fancy font, only to realize that most folks don't have itinstalled on their computer? This means your web page won't look great to the majority ofyour viewers. . . .

How to Create Good Custom '404 Error' Pages

How to Create Good Custom '404 Error' PagesWhen visitors to your site misspell your URLs, or follow broken links to your pages, their browser will display a '404 Error' page that will tell them that the page they were trying to access does not exist. At this point, they will most likely leave, r. . .

How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Includes (SSI)

How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Includes (SSI)Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Recently a person asked me if I could replace 125 web pages ofher web site with a new drop-down navigation system. If she hadto do this manually, she would have to change each page andupload it separately to t. . .

Offering & Delivering a Professional Invoice.

Two of the trickiest things to design is a professional proposal and a professional invoice. An invoice is something that should be used in every business but usually in start ups or one man companies it is something that is overlooked. It will not only allow for you and your client to keep a rec. . .

A Closer look at Using a Template Site. Is it Professional Choice?

So you need your site online and looking good, though your budget isn't the biggest? Well, this is what alot of new sites and companies face each and every day. You are looking for an alternate route to get your site online but don't want to break your bank account. Oh, there you go. You didn't t. . .

Color Magic – can increase revenue of your website

Maximum users are using search engines to find stuff in web world. Imagine, you want information about digital camera and you find websites from search engines, you have hundreds of websites lists on your computer screen, and your surf websites one by one. Did you think which parameters of the we. . .

Build websites easier with premade templates

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Updating Your Web Site Efficiently

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7 Ways to Know that Search Engine Optimization Isn’t for You

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7 Effective Homepage Tips that will have your Visitors Begging for More!

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How to get traffic to your website!

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