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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Web Business Design
Before you take a road trip it is usually a good idea to know where you are going. It is the same when you are building a business, creating a marketing plan or building your web site. Know what your end result will be when you are planning and designing your site will help you to build it properly from day one. Here are the 7 Deadly Sins that most web business owners commit when designing their site. Picking a business without knowing wether there is a deman. Picking too broad of a subject. If you pick a huge subject like real estate the likelyhood of soaring to the top of the search engines is slim. Niches tend to be easier to conquer and more profitable.Picking a low cost web host. You get what you pay for. Many low cost web hosts go out of business leaving your business lost in cyber space.Failure to analyze keywords for profitability. Picking the right key words for your business can be the difference between making and losing money.Failure to create and maintain your site's meta tags. These are the html tags that tell the search engines what your site is about. No metatags equals little to no traffic to your site.Failure to optimize your web business for search engine ranking. Just adding meta tags will not earn you a number one ranking. You need to know how to pick a domain name, and how many times to include your key words within your site.Failure to submit each page to the search engines on a regular basis. The greater the number of pages in your site that are spidered, the better the chance that your buyers will find you.About The Author Caterina Christakos has worked as a web designer, web design consultant and internet marketing specialist for companies all across the US. This is the web business design software that she reccomends the most: http://buildit.sitesell.com/dollarsandcents.html
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Effective Web Design Usability Principles
Website Design Usability Tips1. Getting to know about audience membersYou want a site that has personality and quality content based on your audience taste. You have to understand their color preferences, technical skills and any prevalence of special needs.2. Make the interface simple and obviousThe more obvious the interface is, the less frustration the site visitor has to guess about how your site works. You want the audience to concentrate on the content, not the interface.3. ReadabilityMake paragraph easy to read. Don't use small text for font size.4. Make your page fast loadingReduce the waiting time is a must if your page over 20KB.5. Avoid hidden (rollover to...
Ten Tips For Your Web Site Home Page
1. Loading time:- try to be below 20kb
- less number of images
- specify height and width of images
- Html with out erros
- WYSIWYG editors load up your html code. so try using text editor part of your html editors instead of visual editor
2. Images Only home page:
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Stop Sabotaging Your Sales
Do your web pages, sales letters or personal presentations include subtle distractions that unnecessarily cause you to lose sales?Sometimes prospective customers get distracted during the selling process by outside interruptions. You cannot control those. But many sales-killing distractions are caused by what you put in your web pages and other sales messages ...or by what you say in your personal presentations.Here are 3 unnecessary distractions you may be creating that sabotage your sales - and how you can avoid them:1. Requiring Customers to Make Unnecessary DecisionsDesign your selling process so prospects do not have to make unnecessary decisions.Some prospects have difficulty making a clear decision when they have several options. They often react by procrastinating and nev... |  |
| Meta Tags ? An Introduction
A long, long time ago? In a galaxy far, far away?meta tags were the key component to search engine rankings. Okay, it was about 2 years ago, but that's a long time in the Internet galaxy. Although still relevant, the evil empire?er, Darth Google, has led a movement by the search engines to de-emphasize their importance. Despite this effort, meta tags are still important. They represent the only method for a site owner to exert some control over how pages are listed in search engine results.What The Heck Is A Meta Tag?Meta tags are html code blocks that "tell" a search engine what a particular site page is about. Met... | |
| Does Your Homepage Work?
All websites have a homepage. It is the most important page of your site. It acts as the main gateway to the entire site. Most of your prospective customers will enter through it. Its vital to get it right. You dont want them to just turn around and go away again.Take a moment to clear your mind. Now go and l... | |
| Recipe For A Good Looking Web Site
We've all surfed the web and seen some awful web sites.Sites that never completely loaded. Sites with too many photos.Sites with no easy way to find what you wanted. Another way asite looks bad is when each page looks different. You're noteven sure you're at the same site. It doesn't have to be thatway. Templates are the solution.A template is a web page showing the basic elements of how youwant the site to look. The navigation bar, title, banner, andcopyright information are all there on each page. All that'smissing is the content. You can pay someone to do your site, butthis costs more money. If you have a template to startwith, all you need to do is add your content.You can buy a template already created. Find a company withtemplates for sale, choose the look you want, andchange it a little to make... | |
| 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... | |
| 5 Instant Tips For More Online Sales
Even after you've managed to bring traffic to your site you may be losing sales because of problems with your site's usability. What's "usability"?Usability is how easily people are actually able to use your site. And you may be surprised at how much money you may be losing because your site has usability problems.Just because you think your site is easy to use, doesn't mean your average customer does.Instant Tip # 1: Have someone you know who has the same computer skills as an "average user" for your site check it out.Have them to do something specific, like purchase a product, sign up for your newsletter or log into an account. Watch what they do, and ask them to speak their thoughts out loud.... | |
| Good Websites Stand Out From The Masses Of Boring, Hard To Travel Sites
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