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The
Three Words Your Web Site Can't Live Without
There are three words which are major keys to success of any web site.
Understand these three words and you will find yourself halfway to success
on the Internet. Disregard them, and you will always be struggling to find
any type of financial success through online marketing.
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Good
website, Bad website
Start with a purpose - Why are you building this site?
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"So,
you want to be a web designer?"
Quite a few aspiring website designers have been asking me for advice
lately...
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"Tweak
your Home Page for Instant Results"
I've recently phased in some changes at my bizweb2000.com home page and the
results have been fantastic...
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Supercharged
"Atomz" For Your Website
I just filled another gaping hole at my website. In the process I found a
great new marketing tool, and a slick way to learn "exactly" what
my website visitors are looking for...
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"Beware
Overload"
The Net is a great place to learn about anything from aardvarks to zucchini.
And while this information superhighway creates a great opportunity to
discover new things, it comes as a bit of a double-edged sword. From day one
it was inevitable that "Information Overload" would creep into the
equation, and it has...
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STARTING
AT THE BOTTOM
You've got a new business to put on the web. You just wrote a book and want
to promote it on the net. You want to tell the world about your motel or
your bagpipe band. You have a limited knowledge of website creation and less
money. How do you get started?
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To
Frame or not to Frame?
Ask one webmaster what he (she) thinks of frames and they may scowl and say
they "hate'em." Ask another and they may smile and say it's the
only way to go.
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The
Trick to Rounded Corner Tables
by Andrew Schroeder
Ever wondered how some Sites achieve those rounded corners on their tables?
Andy reveals the secret and steps you through the process so that you too
can make your site appear more professional.
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A
Site Owner's Work Never Ends
When I finished my first site, I thought I had done the "hard
part". In my mind, all that was left to do was submit the site to a few
search engines and wait for the flood of traffic. After a few days when the
"flood" was a mere trickle - or more like a few drips here and
there - I came to the realization that the hard part wasn't over; in fact,
it had just begun!...
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Be
Original
It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It's also a
real good way to make people angry, and the Internet makes plagiarism oh so
easy.
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Building
Content
People ask me how I can build a web site with hundreds of pages all by
myself. Of course, the answer is that I do a little bit every week. If you
do a page here and a page there, after a year, you can look back at this
large, content-filled site you've created.
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Catching
the Online Newbie
Build traffic and sales by making
your site Internet Novice friendly, find out how here...
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First
Impressions are Everything
If first impressions are everything, then you'd better make sure your home
page is giving a good first impression, preferably a great first
impression...
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First
Impressions Last
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression."
Sure, it's a hackneyed phrase. It's also true.
Have you looked at your site lately? No, I mean really looked at your
site...
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CGI
and Mailto Forms
CGI stands for the "Common Gateway Interface". It is a standard
for interfacing external applications with information servers, such as HTTP
or Web servers...
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Color
and Web Pages
Color. It's all around us. Everywhere we look our world is filled with
color. Color can capture our attention, can make us feel certain emotions at
times, attract us, repel us, annoy us, entice us. It's much the same when it
comes to web pages...
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Consistency
With every page looking the same and every page feeling the same, visitors
are more comfortable about wandering through a site, knowing there are no
shocking surprises waiting under the next link...
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Content
is King
It's been said a thousand times...make it a thousand and one: content is
king; but what exactly comprises "great content"? I'd like to
explore a few ideas I have on the subject...
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Designing
Content - Avoiding The Hamlet Effect
There's only one way to drive repeat traffic to your site and that is to
engage your visitors with unique easy to read content. Find out if the
Hamlet Effect is affecting you...
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Ever
Wondered What Your Users Looked at First?
As designers, we tend to forget, especially
when in the grip of a new presentation tool, that, as Nielsen said of web
content in 1997: "the medium is not the message; the message is the
message... "
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Lose
the Wait!
Slow sites drive visitors away. It's that simple. Not yours, you say? Think
it's Worth The Wait? Sorry to break it to you pumpkin, it's not. Following
are some great tips on reducing the page-load time of your Web site...
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The
Importance of Keeping A Focus on Your Site
It's important to remember that when first-time visitors click in to your
Web site, you've only got a few seconds to grab their attention. Web surfers
are an impatient bunch. If they can't figure out the purpose of your site
quickly, then they'll click off elsewhere...
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Top
10 Signs Your Site Needs An Overhaul
These are the top 10 signs your web site needs an overhaul...
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Give
Your Site a Facelift
So, you've had your site for a while and you're ready to give it a
"facelift". What should you do first? Design new graphics? Change
the color scheme? Those are both good ideas, but I think you should consider
doing a couple of other things first.
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Graphically
Speaking
Graphics have a wide variety of uses. They help convey meaning, illustrate a
point, and provide web site branding...
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Hits
or Hurts
Most people measure their web site success by the number of visitors.
However, which site is more successful.... one that receives 1,000 visitors
a day and no sales... or one that receives 50 visitors a day with 40 sales?
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Overcoming
The Front Page Hurdle
by Michel Fortin Ph.D.
How to make sure that the Front Page of your site isn't the only page that
visitors see
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'ReDesign'
is not a Dirty Word
Is your site looking a little dated? In need of a facelift? Dr Mani
highlights a few areas to carefully consider when contemplating a re-design.
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Build
a template
Now that you have the majority of the site thought out, it's time
to build a template for designing the pages. The advantage of making a
template is that the pages stay consistent as you build them.
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An
easy way to build traffic
In the old days of the Internet (1995) people said the phrase "build it
and they will come".
This has changed however.. with more and more sites on the net you have to
do something that will attract people. I have found some things that have
worked.
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Take
your website to the next level
Ever know in your heart that you could be doing much better with your
website but you just DON'T KNOW HOW? Here's what you need to get started...
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What an Effective Web
Site Says
We see so many web sites that are simply an online version of
a printed brochure. That's fine and dandy if people are calling you up and
asking for your sales brochure. You don't want them to have to wait a week to
get it, so by giving them your website address and they can get the information
immediately. The problem is that an online brochure is not going to attract
any new business...
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Navigation
made Easy
Many of us don't even think twice about slapping together some
graphic buttons or making a list of links and calling it our navigation bar.
However, I think we should all look twice at our navigation, because finding
what they're looking for is probably the second most important thing to a
visitor (after load time).
