| Keep Them Coming Back - Update Your Site |
Keep Them Coming Back - Update Your Site
by: Richard Lowe, Jr.
If you are anything like me, your website is a reflection of yourself. It contains your thoughts and communications, exposed to the entire world at all times. Look at virtually any non-commercial web site and you will get a glimpse at the person behind the monitor.
I look at web sites all day long, and I am constantly amazed...
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| Choosing A Color Scheme |
Choosing A Color Scheme
by: Joanne Glasspoole
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 Web designers is that millions of colors are at our disposal. Unlike the print world, we do not...
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| Growing Your Business In CyberSpace |
Growing Your Business In CyberSpace
by: Mark Sincevich
A synopsis of Philippa Gamse's Presentation to the National Speakers Association, Washington DC chapter on Saturday, January 10, 2004Someone had asked Philippa why Websites are such a 'pain' in a pre-seminar question. Her opening reply was simple, yet powerful, "when you stop improving your site, you stop growing." She believes that...
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| 8 Steps to Design a Surfer Friendly Website That S |
8 Steps to Design a Surfer Friendly Website That Search Engines Love!
by: Venkata Ramana
1) Crystal Clear Source Code (HTML/CSS)Many web-designers give far too much importance to the look and the graphics of the website while ignoring the clarity of the source code. Clean and well-written source code is the first step to website design success. If a spider cannot find your keywords, you...
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| The Top 20 Web Mistakes Small Businesses Make |
The Top 20 Web Mistakes Small Businesses Make
by: Karl Groves
My parents made a monster. Little did they know 30 years ago that they would get exactly what they wished for. Like W.W. Jacobs' tale of "The Monkey's Paw", they got what they wanted, for better and maybe even for worse.See, my father is a virtuous man. Never cursing, never doing drugs, always honest and hard working, he is of...
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| Making The Business Case For Web Standards |
Making The Business Case For Web Standards
by: Karl Groves
Through the explosive growth of the Web, companies have realized the benefit of building a strong online presence. By publishing a website to the Internet, companies are able to build their brand, market their products, support existing customers, release publicity pieces, and even take orders. Lost in the feverish pace of growth...
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| The Top 5 Roadblocks To Web Accessibility |
The Top 5 Roadblocks To Web Accessibility
by: Karl Groves
IntroductionAccessibility is often the last thing on a web designer's mind when creating a website. This is not a trait unique to newbies or people working on a personal page. It is also a trait common to professional web designers (large and small) and even multinational corporations. In fact, most web designers have no clue about...
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| A More Accessible Pop-Up Window |
A More Accessible Pop-Up Window
by: Karl Groves
More and more commercial websites are featuring pop-ups these days. In many instances, I'm noticing more pop-ups being used for advertising, probably due to the harsh reality that is "banner blindness". In other cases, pop-ups are used to display supplemental content to the parent page. Unfortunately, many designers know little about how to...
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| Protecting Your Business From Spam |
Protecting Your Business From Spam
by: Edward Robirds
Even being as careful as possible with my email address, I still used to receive more than 100 email messages a day, which is no exaggeration. Only about 10% of those emails were from people that I knew and the rest of the messages were unwanted email…”spam”. And I’m sure you can relate to my frustration. It is estimated that...
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| Why You Need A Web Site |
Why You Need A Web Site
by: Edward Robirds
"I have a small business with just a couple of employees and I don’t think my product can really be sold online. Do I need a web site?"In this day and time, there is very little that can’t be sold over the Internet. There are over 20 million people shopping online, buying everything from movies to cars to real estate property. Research predicts...
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