| 411 | Good Web Design Preview: One of the primary keys to a successful website is a good design. A poorly designed site actually discourages visitors from even getting to your site, and to leave quickly when (and if) they arrive. A well designed site encourages people to visit and to remain once they find it. In fact, the best designed sites encourage communication, which in tu... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 412 | Checklist For A Successful Web Site Design Preview: Designing a Web site can be a time consuming and often complicated task. Even if you have a general idea or a vision for your site, there are many details that will need your attention before the project is completed. How in the world do you keep up with it all? We suggest that you start a journal that will contain your thoughts, notes, and ideas... (more) Published By: Viki Nygaard Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 413 | STREAMING MEDIA - Leveling the Playing Field for Small Business - Preview: Statistics tell us that there are 5,000 new websites coming on-line everyday! And, sadly, they all have one thing in common...they are all starting to look the same. Our company, pursuing its own marketing efforts, has the need to look at thousands of small business websites, and they seem to have the same ingredients: a few pictures, lots of text... (more) Published By: Don Rhodes Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 414 | How To Keep More Of Your Visitors Preview: Did you know that most of your visitors probably never go beyond your homepage? And a lot of them leave within ten seconds of hitting your homepage, NEVER to return again? These are wasted visitors, and you must do everything possible to reduce the waste, or you'll simply miss out on a great amount of profits. Luckily, there are a couple of ... (more) Published By: Said Rouhani Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 415 | Graphics for the web: GIF Format Preview: The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) format was invented in 1987 by Compuserve to allow images to be displayed. This format allows for 256 colors (which was a lot at the time), compression, interlacing and animation. It is a very powerful format, suitable for many different types of images. Due to the limited number of colors, GIF is primarily u... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 416 | How To Make Your Visitors Stay Preview: I bet you agree that visiting a colorful web site might be a wonderful or painful experience, depending how long we have to wait to see all that beauty... Not many people know that slowly loading pages is the main reason visitors leave web sites right upon arrival. So, keep your own web pages lean in graphics and fast in loading -- you cannot per... (more) Published By: Wanda Loskot Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 417 | Putting Sound on your Web Site - Part 2 Preview: In the prior article I discussed the fact that MIDI is the best choice when adding background music to autoplay on your web site. Choruses of favourite songs can be looped to play while images and text are loading. MIDI is the best choice as it takes up very little space on your web space(2-7k bytes). Other types of sound files that are useful... (more) Published By: John Rickey Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 418 | Brief web Design Tips Preview: Here is a list of some tips to help you with your web pages. These are simply suggestions to help you create a better surfing experience for your visitors. Avoid Under Construction signs - All good web sites should always be under construction. Including the words "under construction", or worse yet a blinking animation, only makes you look like a... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 419 | Search Boxes Preview: One of my pet peeves is webmasters which make it difficult for me to use their site. I mean, I'm there, looking at a page and I just cannot find what I want. I look everywhere for navigation, and what I want to find just doesn't seem to be covered. That's not necessarily a problem, as everything cannot be always be handled by the navigation menus.... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 420 | WEB-DESIGN GUIDELINES Preview: It's not enough to know *how* to create a web site, you also need to know what makes a *good* web site. Think back on some of the web sites you've visited recently. Were you impressed by all of them? Probably not. Many web sites are technically fine, but fail on aesthetic grounds. The guidelines below will help you to create web sites that are us... (more) Published By: Tim North Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 421 | Writing the Income-Generating Web Site Preview: Hello: This new article about writing income-generating Web copy is for your readers who sell products or services from their Web site. Thanks for considering it for an upcoming issue of your newsletter. Yours, Scott T. Smith publisher, 'Starting Point' newsletter 800.798.4471 | +1 406.585.0181 http://www.copywriting.net (624 words) 'Writing... (more) Published By: Scott T. Smith Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 422 | STREAMING MEDIA - Leveling the Playing Field for Small Business - Part III Preview: IS YOUR WEB SITE READY FOR PRIME TIME?? In the first two articles on streaming media, I discussed audio, the maturest streaming technology, and streaming pictures, which marries photos and graphics with an audio presentation. (If you missed these two installments, please go to http://www.wbcimaging.com/articles/audio_article.htm). I'd now like to... (more) Published By: Don Rhodes Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 423 | CREATE STICKINESS WITH STREAMING MEDIA Preview: Okay!! You've finally gotten them to your web site after a large investment in time and effort, not to mention money. What?? They're not staying long enough to buy anything or to fill out those profile forms that you stayed up until 3:00AM to create? Why?? The site navigation is good; you have a secured order form; the site loads quickly without t... (more) Published By: Ronni Rhodes Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 424 | Five Pieces of Information You Must Include on Your Website to Generate Sales Preview: One of the first things online entrepreneurs have to recognize about the Internet is that it's a very impersonal medium. When you're selling something to someone in direct conversation, you have the opportunity to create rapport and inspire trust in them. You can answer any questions they have, and you can guarantee their satisfaction. However, o... (more) Published By: Micah Cranman Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 425 | Web Site Design: How To Get Around Preview: Our web site (Internet Tips and Secrets - http://www.internet- tips.net/ ) runs an awards program which gets as many as fifty submissions a week. That means we visit each of those fifty sites each and every week to determine if they measure up to the criteria for the awards. Do you know that at least half of those sites make our job as award m... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 426 | Homepages Preview: In my humble opinion, everyone should create a homepage. Wait, let's back up a minute. What's a homepage? Well, there are really two definitions. First, a homepage is the first page of a web site, usually named index, default or home. Second, a homepage is a web site with one or more pages which is personal. It's the second definition which we are... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 427 | Bad Web Design: Strange Cursors Preview: I've been to some sites lately which have some pretty fantastic cursors. You probably know what I'm talking about - cursors that have little balls dangling from them, look like a heart or consist of a string of letters waving as if in the wind. The first time I saw these cursors I thought, "that's pretty cool, I wonder how they did that?" The ans... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 428 | Graphics for the Web: Plug-Ins Preview: You've probably noticed that just about any application of any real significance these days has the capability to be expanded in some way. Usually these are called "plug-ins", although they are also called snap-ins (Windows 2000), add-ons, add-ins (Outlook 2000), ActiveX Controls (Internet Explorer) and filters (Adobe Photoshop, as well as any num... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 429 | Bad Web Design: Advertising Mistakes Preview: Okay, we know we all need to pay the bills. I know that many of us want to get traffic to our web sites. And some of us just want to make enough money to pay for our costs so that this thing we love to do is free. But, come on, that doesn't mean you should plaster a hundred ads or a dozen banners on every page of your web site. A banner here and ... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |
| 430 | Good web Design: External Links Preview: The world wide web is called a web for a reason. The concept is simple. Allow people to tie (link) documents together in any manner which they see fit. This gives readers the capability to move from document to document as needed. For example, you might have an article about diabetes which links to reports about drugs and blood monitors. These in... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 08 December,2001 |