Archive for April, 2008

Using CCS to Eliminate Tables

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets has opened up tremendous possibilities for improving web site designs, web page layouts and adding new features. The HTML code can be made shorter, cleaner and simpler by CSS resulting in faster loading of web pages, and making them more accessible to search engines. Here ...

How to Create a Professional Web Site in 24 Hours

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

While creating a Web site may seem like a difficult, time-intensive and expensive process, it's actually possible to have a professional site up and running in less than 24 hours for under $50 with little to no prior Web development experience. And whether your business sells products or services, you can ...

5 Web Site Design Tips to Make Your Site More Attractive

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The question that I most frequently hear from people is "How can I attract thousands of visitors to my site each month?" Well, driving high traffic to your site is important, but what's even more important, is designing a web site that makes them stay. After all, what's the use of ...

10 Easy Steps To A User Friendly Web site

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

As a busy search engine optimization consultant, I don't have a lot of time to manage my web site. But recently I learnt the hard way about the fickle nature of web site visitors and the damage that having a user-unfriendly site can do to a business. Now I give ...

Bad Design Characteristics For A Website

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Making a poorly designed web site is one of the easiest things you can do as a webmaster! You barely need to try! If you want to run a successful high traffic web site there are many different elements of design that you need to implement, and ones you need ...

Tips On Effectively Organizing Your Navigation

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Not all links are created equal. While all of your links may be important, you must sort and prioritize to come up with an effective navigation scheme. Here's what you should keep in mind: 1. Sort your links Your links should be organized according to their relationship to each other. Any time you ...

What Business Owners MUST Know BEFORE They Commit To Having A Web Site

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Q1. Why would I need a web site? A1. Improve my service by providing the existing clients with useful resources That will help me to build up the loyalty of the clientele and get returning clients. Examples: my contact details, this month special, technical info on the products. - Obtain new clients ...

How to Make Effective Use of Web Fonts

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Writing 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 them word for word. ...

Why Should You Care About Your Web Site Colors?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

**How Colors are Used in web design:** Demarcates screen elements into groups- You can pu a blue background for your navagational bar and white for rest of your page. This tells the visitor that the blue area has different elements and grabs his attention. You can relate different groups of element on ...

Website Maintenance: What Does it Take to Manage Your Website?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Every action has a beginning phase where you launch your activity, a middle period in which you must sustain and develop it and a conclusion. Many people set up a web site enthusiastically but then they find that they don't have the skills or knowledge to maintain and develop it. ...