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Why You Should Use Css
It seems more and more webmasters are using CSS for the design and layout of their sites rather than depending on tables and HTML mark up. As well as being more efficient in terms of page size and reusing CSS templates many webmasters believe that it also contributes towards search engine friendliness. Jacob over at Blogging Pro has written an article based on his personal experiences and points out what he believes to make a better more search engine friendly site. For a long time I have always loved using tables for site layout, but the general consensus is now that tables are bad for layout. I agree once you start nesting tables things start to get complicated and messy. All of this extra HTML in your page gets in the way of the real content that the search engines are after. If you separate design from content the search engines can just crawl the content and ignore the design. Separating content from design also means that pages are much easier to update, rather than having to rewrite every page all you need do is alter the stylesheet. This saves you no end of time and saves you no end of bandwidth, the browser only has to pull down the stylesheet once if you use it for all of your pages. Not only have you saved on bandwidth costs but you have speeded up page loading, this is good for both your visitors and the many bots that crawl your site. I have started to use CSS in more of my sites and I am going to use CSS solely on my next site which means learning about how CSS is used for layout. One of the sites that I have found useful is the Web Design Group where they have a guide to cascading style sheets. The site also includes lots of links to other CSS resources. If you are not using CSS it would be well worth your time learning the CSS tags and their properties. Think of it as a future investment, the time you spend now will pay for itself in better search engine ranking, saved bandwidth and you will cut down on your maintenance and development time for your new sites. From the Blog of Allan Burns. Plenty of tips to keep you busy on yuor website.
Optimized Web Page Template
I want to give you a free web page template that will besearch engine friendly. Why?Well, I assume you want your web page to come up as high aspossible in search engines because that generates freetraffic.On the other hand, your page has to deliver value to yourvisitors. Most people on the web are not searching to buysomething. They're surfing the web to find information tosolve a problem or fill their needs. If your page deliversthat, they'll be back.Fortunately that is exactly what search engines want you todo.Their job is to ...
Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Webmasters
A highly effective website will always reflect its highly effective webmaster. Throughout the years of doing a number of websites, I've seen quite a few effective webmasters al...
Flash Doesnt Always Add Shine To Web Efforts
The trend today to overuse animation in a website's opening pages only serves to confirm that style often overshadows substance. Sometimes a "flash" in the pan ? often courtesy of Macromedia Corp.'s web animation program ? is simply a flash in the pan.These often-clever animations succeed in doing two things consistently: 1) wasting precio...
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Website Advertising: 10 Dynamic Tactics To Super-charge Your Sales
Here are 10 dynamic website advertising tactics to super-charge your sales, starting now:1. Test different web site color themes to see whichcombination will sell your product better. You canalso test the size and style of your web site text.2. Promise your readers an end result or outcomein your ad. You must give them a solid guaranteethat your product will solve their problem.3. Never assume people believe the information inyour ad copy. You need to back-up all your claimswith indisputable evidence.4. Give you... |  |
| Orient Your First-time Web Site Visitor
Imagine spinning someone around so profoundly and for so long that when you finally tell them to open their eyes, they ask "Where am I?" not knowing if they are even on the same continent they started from. When someone comes to your web site from a search engine or through a link from another site, it's like that for them. They may have little or no context within which to understand your home page - or another page deep within your site that they've landed on.By imagining and engineering your site for that profoundly disoriented visitor, you can add subtle clues and explicit messages to your site that orient the person arriving at your site from who knows where. You can do this without "dumbing down" your presentation in any way, turning confused visitors... | |
| Becoming A Website Designer
The ability to create simple, attractive and functional webpages is a highly marketable skill. There is a huge and growing demand for websites and web content, especiallyfor smaller organizations who often can't afford to hirea full-service web design firm.Readers often ask me whether it's necessary to take expensiveweb design courses or to learn HTML right away to get startedin this niche. Is there a cheaper way of learning these skills?If I were in your shoes, my best investment would be to learnhow to use a popular and well-supported website creation software package.Notice that I said "popular and well-supported."... | |
| 10 Ways Web Site Text Can Impact Your Readers Buying Decision
10 Ways Web Site Text Can Impact Your Reader's Buying DecisionThe appearance of your web site text can actuallyincrease or decrease your sales. The size, font, styleand color of your text can easily affect your reader'sbuying decision. Below are ten points to considerwhen typing text on your web site.1. Easy To Read- You want to make it easy for yourvisitors to read your text. You don't want to use a lightcolored text like yellow on a white background andyou don't want to use dark blue text on a black back-... | |
| Top Ten Ways To Use Audio On Your Site
Audio can provide an added dimension to your site. It creates a warm atmosphere where visitors feel like they know you. And it can enhance your reputation as an expert. Here are the top ten ways you can start using audio on your site. 1. Welcome people to your site. Toward the top of the page, add your photo or a short statement saying "Listen to a short welcome message" then a button to start the audio. Keep it brief and t... | |
| How To Design A Web Site
I'm not a professional web site designer and openly admitthere is a lot that I don't know. But if you're a beginnerI probably know more than you do, so listen up.Rather than give a lengthy dissertation on web design I havebroken it down into the following points:Keep your navigation bars either at the top or left of thepage (a recent tip I heard is: by putting the nav bar onthe right of the screen it appears below your site contentin the html code and therefore will be read by the SEspiders last). You can clearly see my navigation bar on theleft of every page at http://www.007workfromhome.comHave your navigation bars visible on every page unless its asales page, in which case you don't want them to goanywhere else.Divide y... | |
| Click Here
See, works every time. Seriously now, for some reason people keep leaving your website and you can't figure out why. Try putting a "Click Here" button at the bottom of your page that does not specify where it will redirect your customer to. This link should lead to a more interesting page; one that you feel should not be missed. It is amazing that people fall for this, no matter how bored they are on your site, with a "Click Here&q... | |
| How To Choose The Right Web Design Company
1. Size does not equate to competencePeople sometimes assume a company with more money, employees, office space etc will be more capable than one with less. This is not necessarily correct. In fact much smaller businesses (or individuals) if they apply themselves intelligently/effectively, are often likely to be able to deli... | |
| Creating A Quality Web Site Design!
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 more than 15 seconds or they will just... | |
| Is Your Web Site Turning Visitors Away?
One of the biggest problems with Web sites is that the very first pageon the site is turning people away.Why? Because most Web site owners talk about themselves instead oftalking about their Web site visitor.You know what I mean. How often have you visited a Web site thatstarts off with the big bold heading "Welcome to XYX Company"?And it only goes downhill from there.The next paragraph says something like "XYZ Company has worked for 40years in manufacturing, testing and selling ABC products to businessesa... | |
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