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6 Easy Ways to Create a Website

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1. Conceptualize an idea.   Think what you like your future website to be. What audience will you cater? Everything you do must redound to their fulfillment. They will be visiting to get what they need. Be sure that their needs are answered. That way they will be satisfied and will keep coming for more. Not only that, they can recommend your site to their friends if they find it functional and nice. 2. Find a host.  Having a host is not that expensive. In fact you can get one at $70 for two years. However, if you don want to spend a single penny, there are lots of sites that are hosting for free. The only consideration is that their banner must be placed in your site. That for one is a great deal, isn’t it?  3. Start with your first page.  Do the layout and design your first page. It will be easier and better if you have basic knowledge in HTML. Though there are hundreds of What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editors, but you will create a better site using HTML. ...

5 Ways To Guarantee Your Website Is Ready For Traffic

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It's so easy to annoy and drive away your website visitors without even realizing it. Ensuring your site is user-friendly--and not annoying--is one of the most important factors in creating a successful online presence. To guarantee your website is ready for traffic, consider the following 5 points before kicking your advertisements into high gear: 1. Remove any "under construction" signs. People are visiting your website because your promotional message triggered their fancy. Nobody wants to be directed to a site that holds a welcome message and a sign that states, "under construction." Frankly, sending traffic to unfinished website only defeats the purpose of advertising in the first place. The idea is to cater to visitors, as long as possible, in hopes of getting them to join your list or to buy. Neither is possible when you're promoting a site that isn't ready to accommodate the traffic it receives. 2. Create your subscription forms. You can't wa...

5 Surefire Ways To Ruin Any Website

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 Owning a website gives you certain rights. For example, you have the right to plaster your URL all over the doors and windows of your SUV in hopes that someone in one of the 7 cars you pass on the way to work will get the urge to visit your website and spend gobs of money. You own the website-this is your right. You also have the right to post pictures of your family, friends, pets, and other totally uninteresting images all over your website after all it's yours. One of the biggest rights you have as a webmaster is the right to make your website successful (and profitable) or to run it into the ground like a 737 missing both engines and landing gear. For those of you who despise online success and frown upon the wealth of cyberspace I have compiled a list of 5 ways to ruin any website. 1. Make Your Website As Cluttered As Possible Nothing makes visitors leave quicker than a cluttered website that is hard to navigate around. So if you want people to flee from your site like it...

5 Important Website Writing & Design Conventions.

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This article outlines the five most important conventions for writing and designing your webpages. Your presentation is every bit as important as your content. The best content in the world won't ever be read if the presentation is so bad that nobody stays long enough to read it. If you maximize your website usability, your visitors stay longer, read more, and you make more sales. If the purpose of your web site is to educate your readers and/or lead them to a specific action, (like buying something) then you should seriously consider following these design and writing conventions...  1. Start Each Page With Your Most Important Content. 2. Use Meaningful Link Text to Provide Information. 3. Write Scannable Pages. 4. Use Simple Website Designs. 5. Use Clear, Consistent Website Navigation. 1. Start Each Page With Your Most Important Content. People are impatient; they will scan your page quickly and leave as soon as they get bored. Put your best, most important content near the top o...

5 Important Tips On How To Build A Professional Website

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 The advent of the internet, a lot of business transactions are done online. Almost every business nowadays has a website. Although some customers will go to the shop to buy the product from the shop, they firstly shop for what they are looking for and compare prices on line. It is now almost imperative that any business must have a website. Whether you own a home based online business of any type, or you own a shop in your town or city, you need a website to let potential customers know that you exist and that you offer products or services or business opportunities they may be interested in. If you do not have a website, then you are not represented on the largest and most popular medium of communication today. What hints must you heed in order to build a professional website that will effectively promote your products or services and encourage visitors to actually buy from you? A well presented website: A tidy and professional looking website is important. Your website is your s...

5 Common Mistakes of Website Design

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Huge Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash -- Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually decreased the response from prospects and customers by as much as 370 percent?  Here's why: Your prospects and customers are most likely visiting your website using all types of different computers, connection speeds and internet configuration settings...  What may look great to one visitor may not even appear for another! You could very easily have shelled out hundreds or even thousands of dollars to have a website created using the Flash technology, only to find out that some of your visitors will never see it! (Not to mention the loading times can cause your visitor to close your site, never to return again.)  Huge Mistake #2: The "Internet Catalog" Approach -- You see this everywhere. Good, honest and hardworking businessmen and women get online to sell their products or services, and have a site creat...

5 Basic Rules of Web Design

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 The most important rule in web design is that your web site should be easy to read. What does this mean? You should choose your text and background colours very carefully. You don't want to use backgrounds that obscure your text or use colours that are hard to read. Dark-coloured text on a light-coloured background is easier to read than light-coloured text on a dark background.  You also don't want to set your text size too small (hard to read) or too large (it will appear to shout at your visitors). All capitalised letters give the appearance of shouting at your visitors. Keep the alignment of your main text to the left, not cantered. Centre-aligned text is best used in headlines. You want your visitors to be comfortable with what they are reading, and most text is left aligned. 1. Your web site should be easy to navigate All of your hyperlinks should be clear to your visitors. Graphic images, such as buttons or tabs, should be clearly labelled and easy to read. Your web gr...