| 731 | Five Common Web Design Mistakes Preview: There are often many mistakes encountered when creating a webpage or website. Learn about the top five website mistakes, and how to avoid them. Mistake #1 Web page size. If your website takes longer than 10-15 seconds to load you should consider optimizing it for the web. This is one of the biggest mistakes a web designer can make. You may ha... (more) Published By: Charles Nixon III Submitted: 05 July,2004 |
| 732 | Optimize your Photos for the Web Preview: It doesn’t matter if your emailing photos of your grandson or putting images of your latest product on your online store. Too many people don’t consider optimizing their photos for the web. We’ve all been on too many web pages where it seemed that the photos would never load, and sometimes they didn’t. So here are some steps to make sure that your... (more) Published By: Kelly Paal Submitted: 17 July,2004 |
| 733 | Basic Graphic Design Preview: Wether you design your business brochures, flyers, web page, or ads there are some things that you need to know. There are some basic graphic design principles that those of us trained in the commercial art/graphic design field don’t always share. Here’s a short list of elements of graphic design that you can use today. Color This is the first an... (more) Published By: Kelly Paal Submitted: 17 July,2004 |
| 734 | How designing a "helpful" website can kill product sales! Preview: Think you need an "interesting" website, with lots of valuable content, interactivity, and frequent updates -- to keep visitors returning? Think again! Enticing visitors with lots of free content and hoping for an impulse sale is a quick way to starve! Yet so many "how-to" publications and gurus tell you to design a full site with helpful, freque... (more) Published By: Harold R. Fann Submitted: 23 July,2004 |
| 735 | 5 Essential Traits Of A Home Business Website Preview: Copyright© Trent Brownrigg www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com I grant permission to publish this article, electronically or in print, as long as the bylines are included, with a live link, and the article is not changed in any way (grammatical corrections accepted). 5 Essential Traits of a Home Business Website So you’ve decided to start an on... (more) Published By: Trent Brownrigg Submitted: 25 July,2004 |
| 736 | Free Websites For Healers: One Woman’s Thank You Preview: It was on the night of December 24, 2001 when Maggie Wahls realized she could stand up for the first time in over a year. Maggie had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had become an invalid in 2000. Her doctors thought it might have been from a deer tick bite and the complication of Lyme Disease. Maggie was committed to finding a cure for her di... (more) Published By: Brenda Hayes Submitted: 26 July,2004 |
| 737 | Are you cross-browser compatible? Preview: The question of cross browser compatibility is a common topic among Web developers. Should you or should you not make your website cross-browser accommodating? The answer is yes and especially if you are an e-business. As Ripley would say, "believe it or not" but at the time of this article slightly more than 20% of Internet users use a browser ot... (more) Published By: Matt Benya Submitted: 28 July,2004 |
| 738 | Part II - Planning A Website Preview: This is the second article I have written about how to plan a website. You can find part 1 at http://keepitsimplewebsites.com/planawebsite.cfm or type in Regina Stevens in the Author Name box at http://goarticles.com. This article is for people who may be thinking about getting a website for their business, but have not done any research to find ... (more) Published By: Regina Stevens Submitted: 02 August,2004 |
| 739 | Building websites using web templates Preview: Gone are the days when you had to rely on a web-designer to design your websites. New technologies with innovative ideas have brought out a new variant to this trend in the form of ready to use website templates. So what are web templates? Well, to put it in a simple way, web templates are nothing but readymade web-pages that can be used to crea... (more) Published By: M.Mukesh Submitted: 02 August,2004 |
| 740 | Graphic Design Using Color Preview: Color is everywhere and conveys a message even if we don’t realize it. While this message can vary by culture it pays to know what colors “say” in your own corner of the universe, and even what color means to your target market. If you don’t think that color speaks just complete this sentence, “red means ---- and green means –“ even a child will k... (more) Published By: Kelly Paal Submitted: 03 August,2004 |
| 741 | The Next Marketing Tool: Design Preview: Design sells. It’s something that all of us know, but few of us consciously acknowledge. There is an age old adage that warns people not to “judge books by their cover.” In other words, we shouldn’t judge people or products by their appearance. But this isn’t true in America. We do judge books by their cover – in fact we spend billions of dollars ... (more) Published By: Kyle Neath Submitted: 03 August,2004 |
| 742 | Top 10 Ways Websites Makes Me Suffer Preview: ----------------------------------------------------------------- TERMS OF REPRINT copyright 2004 You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included and you follow these rules: * Email distribution of this article MUST be opt-in email only. * You must forward a copy of the ... (more) Published By: Jason OConnor Submitted: 05 August,2004 |
| 743 | Why Robots.txt? Preview: I am sure that a lot of you have heard of the file named robots.txt (also called a "robot exclusion file") before. But what does this file really pertain to? Basically you can think of a robots.txt file as a list of rules that search engines follow when they spider your site. A robots.txt file gives you the Webmaster a say in what does and does n... (more) Published By: Matt Benya Submitted: 06 August,2004 |
| 744 | I Have A Web Store…… So What? Preview: Just because you put up a web store doesn't mean people will come, take a look and then give you their hard earned dollars. The most successful e-commerce sites have systems in place that entice people to come and buy-again and again. How do they do it. Here are some helpful hints: First they do everything they can to get people to leave their na... (more) Published By: Sue and Chuck DeFiore Submitted: 11 August,2004 |
| 745 | Characteristics of Successful URLs Preview: While there are many things that make a successful web address, there are certain attributes that all successful web addresses share. They are: First, they are short and simple. Shorter is always better. Short web addresses are easier to remember and reduce the possibility of typing errors that can trip up potential visitors. Second, they ar... (more) Published By: Sue and Chuck DeFiore Submitted: 11 August,2004 |
| 746 | How to set up a professional website on your own using web templates Preview: To create professional websites is not an easy task by any means. There are many things that you got to take into consideration like easy navigation, strategic links, clean coding, professional layout, easy downloading, scanability, usability and so on. These are the elements that differentiate a professional website from a mediocre one. So in a ... (more) Published By: bizbrim.com Submitted: 12 August,2004 |
| 747 | Culture and Website Localization Preview: Culture and Website Localization With the rise in ownership of computers and internet usage growing daily, the internet is fast becoming the primary port of call for information, shopping and services. In addition, those computer and internet users are increasingly from non-English speaking countries. At the end of 2002, it was estimated that 32%... (more) Published By: Neil Payne Submitted: 12 August,2004 |
| 748 | Improving your website’s usability Preview: Web usability is perhaps the most important factor in any web design. This is the driving factor that keeps your visitors coming back to your website. Given below are a few points that you need to consider to increase your website’s usability. Points to consider for improving web usability 1.) Give your visitor what he is looking for A visit... (more) Published By: buytemplates.net Submitted: 12 August,2004 |
| 749 | The 5 key steps to promoting your website Preview: Promoting your website can seem like a daunting, complicated task. The truth of it is that it's not a trivial undertaking. But with some well laid plans, you can be sure that you're leaving no stone unturned and working toward the best possible results. Step 1: Preparation - Prepare your website for the search engines - This is a critical phase w... (more) Published By: Robin Eldred Submitted: 13 August,2004 |
| 750 | "About Us" Pages in Small Business Websites Preview: The Internet has been heralded as "the great equalizer": on a browser window, any company, no matter how small, can look as good as a large company with a long history of quality and service. This situation presents an important challenge for small businesses: how can I convince my potential customers that I am not an unethical, fly-by-night opera... (more) Published By: Mario Sanchez Submitted: 14 August,2004 |