| 551 | Starting Your own Website (c) Cheryl A. Crossan 2002. Preview: Starting Your Own Website by Cheryl A. Crossan. Everyday thousands of new people are looking for online business opportunities. When they first start, one of the most common mistakes they make is signing up for every opportunity that they find until they don't even know what they are promoting. Consequently, they don't make any money, and usually... (more) Published By: Cheryl A. Crossan Submitted: 27 June,2002 |
| 552 | Quality Web Site Language Preview: Well written web sites don't just happen, they are designed and engineered. You don't just run the spell checker through the text and consider the job done. You need to review the words, and examine them carefully. Put yourself in the place of your prospects and customers. How will they perceive and respond to what is written? Euphemisms Rev... (more) Published By: Grant McNamara Submitted: 27 June,2002 |
| 553 | WML: Simple Steps to a Wireless Site Preview: WML: Getting Your Wireless Site Online Three Simple Steps How To View Wireless Sites Using a PC's Browser WAP Search Engines WML Validators The presence of the wireless / mobile / hand-held world is becoming more apparent daily. With the introduction of WML (wire less markup language) and the creation of WAP (wireless application protocol) ... (more) Published By: William J. Tolson Submitted: 30 June,2002 |
| 554 | The One Vital Web Design Element That Virtually No One Is Telling You About Preview: The One Vital Web Design Element That Virtually No One Is Telling You About by Doug Parr (c) 2002 http://www.smallbiz2000.com You've probably seen articles that cover the "Top Ten Web Design Mistakes" or something to that effect. They all seem to say the same things, don't they? No animation, keep the appearance professional, use easy navigation,... (more) Published By: Doug Parr Submitted: 05 July,2002 |
| 555 | Want A Sticky Website That Sells? Forget Content! Preview: An interesting debate is raging among copywriters, web designers and content providers about the key differences, if any, between writing copy for the web versus writing content. According to prolific copywriter Nick Usborne, a survey conducted among the readers of his email newsletter "Excess Voice," which is available at nickusborne.com, offers... (more) Published By: Michel Fortin Submitted: 16 July,2002 |
| 556 | Popping Out of Control Preview: Are Pop-Up Windows the wave of the future or an annoyance that is just getting out of control? I remember when you could go to a site and you would have a little pop up window that would promote the business- a new feature or subscription to their newsletter. This was great. It was kind of a stand-out promotion for the business' main resource t... (more) Published By: Debbie Solomon Submitted: 16 July,2002 |
| 557 | Personal Private Minisites Pave Paths To Profits! Preview: A recent, growing trend on the Internet is the private minisite -- it's a small, password-protected website that offers "insider information" on a topic that might be of interest to a specific audience. Similar to an ebook, it primarily offers information that's geared for a specific group, niche or vertical industry. A private "minisite" is like... (more) Published By: Michel Fortin Submitted: 16 July,2002 |
| 558 | Targeting "Right" Visitors Preview: ================================================================ "If you don't know where you are going, then it doesn't matter which road you take, does it?" -- Cheshire Cat in Alice in the Wonderland. ================================================================= A few days back a client was sitting with me when I connected to the Internet ... (more) Published By: Amrit Hallan Submitted: 16 July,2002 |
| 559 | Keep Visitors Coming Back Over & Over! Offer Them What They Want! Preview: If you have a site you want to be "sticky" - meaning visitors will hang out at your site and check it out for awhile, and then come back for more visits due to changing content they want to see - you need to have a strategy. You need to know what your site theme needs to draw targeted visitors back again and again. No matter what you do with... (more) Published By: Paulina Roe Submitted: 18 July,2002 |
| 560 | Attract Product Buyers--Create your Home Page With Marketing Pizzazz Preview: Your home page needs to grab your visitors by the collar--persuade and engage them. You have the power to gain your visitors loyalty, to book mark your site, and eventually, to buy your products if you write irresistible, streamlined copy that engrosses them all the way to your order pages. Here's a rough draft of my new home page: Part ... (more) Published By: Judy Cullins Submitted: 18 July,2002 |
| 561 | "How's Your Sense of Style?" Preview: No, I'm not referring to your wardrobe here, but to cascading style sheets, also known as CSS. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, it allows webmasters to separate site layout from the design. CSS is actually a standard for controlling the appearance of your Web pages. It's essentially a set of rules that, when linked to or embedded i... (more) Published By: Merle Submitted: 20 July,2002 |
| 562 | "Offer Changing Content - 6 quick tips" Preview: 1. Always offer changing content on your site if appropriate it will keep visitors coming back. 2. You can use news links for automated news updates or , another nice features are jokes, quotations, tips. (do a little brainstorming and send them to me) 3. Have you ever revisited a site and wondered whether any thing not readily visible has chang... (more) Published By: Michael Hall Submitted: 21 July,2002 |
| 563 | You cant just build a website and hope it works! Preview: Like any area of business your website needs some effort from you if its going to be successful. You'd be foolish to just build any old website and hope it works. Yet this approach, or rather lack of approach, is still widespread on the internet. Businesses still dont seem to understand what the internet can do to benefit them and their customers.... (more) Published By: Peter Simmons Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 564 | Anatomy of a Successful E-Business Web Site Preview: According to a new survey carried out by Alliance & where ID_NUM=9270; Leicester, one in five small business owners view tax as their greatest concern. The Chancellor has announced in his last budget that companies with profits below œ10,000 will not have to pay any corporation tax with effect from 1 April 2002. The question to be asked is: d... (more) Published By: Shannan Hearne-Fortner Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 565 | Cookies: How to Improve Your Website AND Learn From Your Visitors Preview: Question: How can you improve your visitors' experience of your website AND at the same time learn how to improve your website (or learn how to increase sales)? Answer: cookies Cookies? Yes. Let me explain... => COOKIES EXPLAINED A "cookie" is simply a small piece of text information which a web server stores temporarily with your web visit... (more) Published By: Steve Nash Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 566 | Congratulations! You've Gotten the Visitors to your Site - Now, can they find what they're looking for? Preview: As search engine marketers, we spend an enormous amount of time trying to get targeted traffic to our site. But, once those visitors get to our site, can they find what they're looking for? If not, guess what? We've lost a customer. Think about it this way. How many times have you found a site through a major search engine or directory, only to v... (more) Published By: Robin Nobles Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 567 | FONTS: HOW TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM Preview: According to a new survey carried out by Alliance & where ID_NUM=9270; Leicester, one in five small business owners view tax as their greatest concern. The Chancellor has announced in his last budget that companies with profits below œ10,000 will not have to pay any corporation tax with effect from 1 April 2002. The question to be asked is: d... (more) Published By: Tim North Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 568 | Is Your Website "Killing" Your Online Business? Preview: The design of your website is crucial to the success of your ebook publishing business. People have gotten wise to Internet amateurism and a poor looking website will turn many visitors off buying. Similarly, a site that lacks focus and tries to be too many things to too many people will not have visitors scrambling to give hand over their cred... (more) Published By: Michael Hopkins Submitted: 26 July,2002 |
| 569 | Get FASTER Download Times By Making BIGGER Web Pages! Preview: 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 design experts will suggest that you optimize your GIFs and JPGs so that they download faster. Th... (more) Published By: Michael Hopkins Submitted: 26 July,2002 |
| 570 | GET SMART AND KEEP THOSE VISITORS! Preview: According to a new survey carried out by Alliance & where ID_NUM=9270; Leicester, one in five small business owners view tax as their greatest concern. The Chancellor has announced in his last budget that companies with profits below œ10,000 will not have to pay any corporation tax with effect from 1 April 2002. The question to be asked is: d... (more) Published By: Jennifer Johnson Submitted: 30 July,2002 |