Web Design
Creating a Robots.txt file by Sumantra Roy
Some people believe that they should create different pages for different search engines, each page optimized for one keyword and for one search engine. Now, while I don`t recommend that people create different pages for different search engines, if you do decide to create such pages, there is one issue that you need to be aware of.
These pages, although optimized for different searc ... continue
Creating Your First Web Site, Part 1 by Lisa Maliga
Creating Your First Web Site, Part 1
By Lisa Maliga
? 2005
Google boasts more than eight billion web pages. How will yours show up? When will the sales or hits start rolling in?
Recently I?ve come across a few people who are interested in joining the Internet and want some assistance in building their first web site. If you want to be online, start looking for informatio ... continue
Creating Your First Web Site, Part 2 by Lisa Maliga
Creating Your First Web Site, Part 2
By Lisa Maliga
? 2005
In Part 1 you learned some tips about the basics of starting your site and finding a home for it, now comes the time to properly name it and get it optimized for the search engines so that your home on the web is easy to locate.
Domain Name
This is one of the least expensive things about getting online as many ... continue
Mobile Accessibility - Your website in the year 2005 by Philip Wylie
Throughout 2004 the number of web enabled portable devices boomed. By ?portable devices` I mean PDAs and smart phones. What does this mean for you? Well it depends whether or not you care about your visitors? experience - you build your website for visitors so you really should!
Nokia, Vodafone, Microsoft and others have already applied to ICANN for the new TLD (Top Level Domain) .m ... continue
How to Build and Make Your Own Website by Michael Elder
Perhaps the biggest mistake a webmaster can make is failing to perform a competitive analysis before building the website. I have encountered many creative entrepreneurs who have spent countless hours designing a beautiful web page that no one can find on the Internet. Many people who want to build a website for a new business expect to gain a certain degree of marketing or sales results fr ... continue
One In A Million - Make Your Site Stand Out by Steven O. Ng
`One in a million`. What do I mean by that? Well, for those of you who have dabbled in internet businesses such as affiliate programs and network marketing businesses, you would know that these programs generally provide an entire website for you to market their program.
That`s great isn`t it? Your very own website to promote the business, and it also tracks your referrals and commi ... continue
Designing for Content by Kelly Paal
We?ve all been told that a successful website has great content. The problem that I?ve discovered is what do you do with and how to you organize all this great content?
Below are some of the things that I?ve learned in the time I?ve had my own site. Now my particular situation is one where my site is constantly growing in content. I didn?t start my site with all sorts of content at my fi ... continue
Software To Help You Create A Robots.Txt file by Sumantra Roy
Robogen is a software for Windows 95, Windows 98,Windows XP and Windows NT based computers which can help you create robots.txt files without having to worry about the correct syntax of a robots.txt file. It comes in two editions: the free Limited edition and the Standard edition which costs $12.95. You can get Robogen from http://www.rietta.com/robogen/.
In this article, I`ll tell ... continue
Why Ugly Sites Sell More Than Pretty Sites... by Anik Singal
What the heck is going on lately? Most internet websites I go to now, all I see are pretty graphics everywhere. I see moving images, I see crazy JAVA, things flying around.
Don`t get me wrong, some of these graphics are truly amazing - I love to see them! But, that`s the problem! I only love to look at them, when I`m done looking at them, I LEAVE! Lately, there`s been a disturbing tr ... continue
How To Take Payments On Your Website by Jeff Colburn
After my two-part article about selling things on your website, I had several people ask for more details on billing companies and shopping carts. So here goes.
If you were to Google for billing card companies, you`d find out that there are thousands of places out there. Most of these companies have set up a merchant account for their own companies, but added the right to accept paym ... continue
Building your website for visitors by Karl Norris
There are numerous articles and sites that advise on how to improve websites for search engine optimisation. SEO is, of course, vital for increasing the number of visitors to a website. However, never forget that it is visitors that turn into customers and make the money. Remember to keep visitors in mind at all times when building and designing a site. With this in mind, here are some poin ... continue
Top 7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website by Richard Wassell
by Richard Wassell
www.websitemaintenance.com.au
A website provides invaluable advantages for businesses who have one.
7 reasons why your business needs a website are:
1. Convenience for customers
Using the Internet to search for businesses and products is much easier and faster than scouring through the Yellow Pages.
2. Provides greater exposure
Your ... continue
Is Your Web Site Too Hard? by Roger C. Parker
Is your website too hard?
Take the ?Easy Test? to see if your website is as visitor friendly as it should be! Websites often fail to produce the desired results. This can be because visitors find them too hard to understand or navigate. Here are some potential usability problems to avoid.
1.Hard to find
Is your website easy to locate? Do you promote it everywhere, (i. ... continue
A Webmaster?s Toolkit and Tricks by Jason OConnor
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14 Ways to Add Content to Your Web Site by Herman Drost
When I surf the Net, I often see web sites filled with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows you to create fast Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast Creating your own site can be a satisfying experience. Here are some tips to help get you up and running. When optimizing your web site most webmasters don?t consider using the robots.txt file. This is a very important file for your site. It let the spiders and crawlers know what they can and can not index. This is helpful in keeping them out of folders that you do not want index like the admin or stats folder or content that they can not index.
beautiful graphics that strive to capture my attention.
Well, they do so for an instant, however I click away when
I don`t immediately find relevant content. The content you
add to your web site needs to attract both visitors and
search engines.
Part I - How to add content to your web site to attract
visitors
How To Design Your Web Site With CSS by Herman Drost
loading pages, increase your search engine rankings, and
modify your whole site with one style sheet. So why don?t
more people use them? This is because they got so used to
html design and are afraid or too lazy to upgrade their
skills. Some will also use ready made templates that
contain flashy graphics, bloated cod ... continue
How to Build a Basic CSS Layout by Herman Drost
becoming the new standard on the Web because of the
benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers
used these days are now able to render web pages
proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a
basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future
design projects.
Here is the live web page o ... continue
A Beginners Guide to Server Side Includes by Kabooli Directory Editors
Beginner? That`s OK!
While much has been written about Server Side Includes (SSIs -also known as Virtual Includes) much of this information is designed for intermediate to advanced webmasters. This article is aimed at beginners. It is assumed that the reader has no prior knowledge of scri ... continue
Building Your First Web Site? by TQ
Before doing anything on the technical side, you need some kind of basic idea to work with. I suggest first getting some paper and a pencil. Start by sketching a layout of how you would like your web page to appear. For example, a simple title at the top, the area in which you w ... continue
The proper way to use the robots.txt file by Jimmy Whisenhunt
Here is a list of variables that you can ... continue
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