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The Immutable Laws Of Effective Navigation - Part 1 |
| The first immutable law of effective navigation: It's gotta be readily available. Visitors should not have to hunt for your navigation or wonder where to find it. If you've done your job right, it will be right there when they are ready for it. The... |
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Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words? |
| The great debate: how much copy you should have on your site, particularly on the home page? Do you subscribe to the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words--and therefore images, not a lot of text, should be the main thrust of your home page?... |
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Why Choosing Form Over Function Kills Your Site |
| Never put form over function. Why? Because it's crucial that visitors actually be able to USE your site. Everything you do must be designed to be as easy for the visitor to understand as possible. Everything should be functional first. If you put fo... |
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Leave those Links Blue! |
| Don't mess with those links! When you're designing your site, you should leave your text links in their natural state--blue and underlined. We all want to be creative and not do the bland, expected, normal thing. We want to change our links to red,... |
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How To Turn Your Newsletter Into a Web Page... In 45 Seconds! |
| Do you place back-issues of your Newsletter on your website? There are two good reasons why you should: (1) It shows potential subscribers that you're serious about your Newsletter (2) Newsletters are rich in keywords, so it's a very good idea to tu... |
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Whats Wrong With My Website? |
| I ask myself that question about once a month. My website looks fine to me, but what are other people seeing? And what are the Search Engines seeing? Here's a checklist of 10 ways to optimize your website for peak performance: 1. Browser Compatibili... |
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Why Arent You Using CGI? |
| The very name CGI used to send chills up my spine. For years I put it in the 'too-hard-basket'. But like most things in life, CGI is not as scary as it seems. If you have a cgi directory on your website and you know how to FTP files, chances are you... |
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Why Dot-Coms Fail - a Webmasters Perspective |
| Everyday we hear that another company goes out of business. When and why does a dot-com become a dot-bomb? After checking few dozen defunct companies, I think the main reasons for dot-coms failure are: Poor business plan. In the last years, a lot of... |
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Whats In A (Domain) Name? |
| Choosing a domain name is a very important first step for anyone starting a business on the Internet. This name is the first impression that strangers are going to have about you and your business. You are going to need to give this decision some re... |
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Web Site Templates |
| How to make web website x 10 times cheaper and x 10 times faster. Take a look: http://www.templatemonster.com/~david/article/106-m.jpg http://www.templatemonster.com/~david/article/107-m.jpg http://www.templatemonster.com/~david/article/109-m.jpg ht... |
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Get FASTER Download Times By Making BIGGER Web Pages! |
| As a webmaster you already know how important it is that your web pages download fast. In a nutshell, if your pages are slow, then you're losing visitors. And if you're losing visitors, you're losing money. To speed up your download times, most web... |
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Choosing the Right Web Designer |
| Introduction Creating your web site can be a tricky process. Choosing the best web design company for your site is extremely important. Unless you run a web-based business, you probably do not have web design experience within your company. Building... |
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10 Web Site Design And Writing No-Nos |
| 1. Don't load your web site with a lot of high tech clutter. Your visitors may miss your whole sales message. 2. Don't use unnecessary words or phrases on your site. You only have so much time to get your visitor's attention and interest; make ever... |
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Autoresponder Tips |
| An autoresponder is useful for, well, responding to people who send you inquiries through email. They are actually more than just merely useful - they are an essential tool in any webmaster's toolbox. Used properly, they can enhance your visitors ex... |
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Why You Want to Include an FAQ In Your Site |
| Congratulations! You've got a brand new site and it's doing pretty well. You check your statistics every day and the hits and page views keep climbing, your links are all in order and everything looks very good. On top of that, your guestbook is fil... |
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Website Design Basic Concepts |
| So, what's in a website design anyway? And, how do you get a design that is appealing to the broad and varied tastes of all those Internet surfers out there? This is critical. Your website design is the first impression you make on your customers an... |
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Choosing A Color Scheme |
| When you begin the design of your Web site, one of the first things you need to do is decide on a color scheme. Although choosing colors seems like a relatively easy proposition, it's not easy at all. In fact, it's hard. One of the pluses we have as... |
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Website Polls For You And Your Visitors |
| Setting up a survey on your site is extremely simple and many times just as beneficial, for two main reasons. One, they let you create a more interactive website for your visitor. Choose interesting topics, poll opinions on recent events related to... |
