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Casual Articles - 10 Tips On How To Create A Website That Works
Being grown up and having the freedom to ‘decide’ is a goal that most of us have. However, once we have reached our early twenties, and we realize that we are actually getting a little freedom, it is not such an exciting prospect. Why? Because along with the freedom comes the need to make responsible decisions, ones that are likely to dictate the course that our lives will take.Getting Closer To Graduation DayAs we get closer to graduation day, whether it is for our first or second degree, or continuing education courses, most people are faced with a bewildering question – “What do I want to do?” It is now time to be proactive and take life by the horns. The course of your life has already been decided by the courses you took and your experience – for better or for worse, they have narrowed down your choices.The ke
Older versions of browsers for testing purposes can be downloaded at: http://browsers.evolt.org/
4. Provide consistency in navigation
Users who cannot find items on your page will leave your site. Provide a consistent navigation
I disagree with conventional thinking that the #1 fear in America is public speaking. I personally “love” to speak in public. The #1 fear in my book - as it is in most business owners’ books - is “selling. Hard-core, grubby, “get ready for rejection” traditional selling.If you are like me, you have taken a zillion sales seminars ... learned all the “secret techniques” ... listened to all the motivational tapes of top salespeopie (like Tom Hopkins) ... rehearsed your phone script with a mirror in front of you, and the bottomline is “You still hate sales”!I have been a highly successful business owner for 21 years and have NEVER gotten any business through “selling.” Where I *have* gotten ALL my business is through “marketing” and “positioning.”**************************************************Positionin
• What is the purpose of the Web site? Are you selling a product, advocating policy, educating readers or posting volunteer opportunities?
• Who is your audience?
• How do you plan to promote your site?
• what payment system do you plan to use?
• Who will design your site and for what cost?
• How often will you need your site updated?
2. Know your audience
Understanding your primary and secondary audience is important for any project you undertake.
For example, an older audience may appreciate a Web site that has a larger font size. Studies show that children are more apt to click on a banner ad than an adult; find out who you are serving and tailor the page to meet their needs.
3. Design for multiple platforms, browsers and screen resolutions
Besides knowing the demographics of your users, knowing what type of computer they use is helpful as well. While the differences between the newer versions of Internet Explorer on the Mac and Windows platforms are few, older versions display Web pages very differently.
For example, a resolution of 640x480 means that your monitor, whether 15", 17" or bigger, will display 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels long. The bigger the monitor (and often the better the video card), the larger resolution you can use.
You should never force users scroll horizontally to view content, so designing your Web site for a screen resolution of 800x600 is a safe practice. Most new computers default to 1024x768 on a 17" monitor, however, if you have an audience that is not especially high-tech, they may be viewing your page on a smaller monitor with a lower resolution.
Older versions of browsers for testing purposes can be downloaded at: http://browsers.evolt.org/
4. Provide consistency in navigation
Users who cannot find items on your page will leave your site. Provide a consistent navigation
The perceived value of professional website content writing, which should be on the rise as more and more businesses go online, has in the last few years become devalued by the search engines' relentless focus on keyword-enhanced content. How so?Many SEO firms and their clients are now shopping around for the cheapest search engine copywriters they can find, believing that the craft is simply a matter of tucking a bunch of keyword phrases into some copy and Voila! a recipe for higher rankings and more traffic.Budgeting For ContentRecently, an SEO company wanted to subcontract their client's search engine copywriting to me. The client had just spent $3000 on an optimized web design, but only budgeted $600 for the copywriting... 1/5 of the total budget!This would be just fine if he didn't hope to gen
2. Know your audience
Understanding your primary and secondary audience is important for any project you undertake.
For example, an older audience may appreciate a Web site that has a larger font size. Studies show that children are more apt to click on a banner ad than an adult; find out who you are serving and tailor the page to meet their needs.
3. Design for multiple platforms, browsers and screen resolutions
Besides knowing the demographics of your users, knowing what type of computer they use is helpful as well. While the differences between the newer versions of Internet Explorer on the Mac and Windows platforms are few, older versions display Web pages very differently.
For example, a resolution of 640x480 means that your monitor, whether 15", 17" or bigger, will display 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels long. The bigger the monitor (and often the better the video card), the larger resolution you can use.
You should never force users scroll horizontally to view content, so designing your Web site for a screen resolution of 800x600 is a safe practice. Most new computers default to 1024x768 on a 17" monitor, however, if you have an audience that is not especially high-tech, they may be viewing your page on a smaller monitor with a lower resolution.
Older versions of browsers for testing purposes can be downloaded at: http://browsers.evolt.org/
4. Provide consistency in navigation
Users who cannot find items on your page will leave your site. Provide a consistent navigation
“ Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.” Napoleon HillWith fierce global competition, organizations need to change. Global values (GV) may be the key term for the millennium. Building on similar values will be crucial for multi-national organizations. Let’s explore this thought closer. Twenty-first century organizations can no longer create values independent of others without any market input. Why should today’s leaders be concerned with organizational values? Conflicts in values between leaders and followers can have a dramatic impact on the bottom-line of an organization. Hamel, author of ,i>Leading the Revolution, maintains that these turbulent times are forcing organizations to
3. Design for multiple platforms, browsers and screen resolutions
Besides knowing the demographics of your users, knowing what type of computer they use is helpful as well. While the differences between the newer versions of Internet Explorer on the Mac and Windows platforms are few, older versions display Web pages very differently.
For example, a resolution of 640x480 means that your monitor, whether 15", 17" or bigger, will display 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels long. The bigger the monitor (and often the better the video card), the larger resolution you can use.
You should never force users scroll horizontally to view content, so designing your Web site for a screen resolution of 800x600 is a safe practice. Most new computers default to 1024x768 on a 17" monitor, however, if you have an audience that is not especially high-tech, they may be viewing your page on a smaller monitor with a lower resolution.
Older versions of browsers for testing purposes can be downloaded at: http://browsers.evolt.org/
4. Provide consistency in navigation
Users who cannot find items on your page will leave your site. Provide a consistent navigation
Before you can understand why AdSense is so important to content sites, it’s important to know how AdSense works.The concept is simple. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click. The search engine handles all the tracking and payments, providing an easy way for webmasters to display content-sensitive ads without the hassle of soliciting advertisers, collect funds, and monitor the clicks and statistics.Adsense is essential for
You should never force users scroll horizontally to view content, so designing your Web site for a screen resolution of 800x600 is a safe practice. Most new computers default to 1024x768 on a 17" monitor, however, if you have an audience that is not especially high-tech, they may be viewing your page on a smaller monitor with a lower resolution.
Older versions of browsers for testing purposes can be downloaded at: http://browsers.evolt.org/
4. Provide consistency in navigation
Users who cannot find items on your page will leave your site. Provide a consistent navigation
These days, networking is synonymous with a successful business. Networking is also the key to a good social life. No matter how big our office, how colourful our flyers, how powerful our computers or how many degrees we have, it is the quality of relationships we establish with ourselves, our family, our friends, our customers, our suppliers and, more than anything else, with people we don't know, that will determine our success in our personal life or in business.At school, we got the idea that the more knowledge we gain, the more successful we'd be in life. This intellectual focus on life is still practiced in many places around the world. The emotional approach that has been around for many years and got a boost with Daniel Goleman's book, "Emotional intelligence," proved that success has a better correlation to emotional abilities, r
Older versions of browsers for testing purposes can be downloaded at: http://browsers.evolt.org/
4. Provide consistency in navigation
Users who cannot find items on your page will leave your site. Provide a consistent navigation structure with a link to your home page to allow predictability and ease of use. Also, do not be too clever in your site design. Unless you know your audience prefers abstract images and metaphors, keep it simple; use common names such as "about", "contact", and "help".
The Web Developers Virtual Library has a good article on navigation, it is older but most of the info holds true: http://www.wdvl.com/Location/Navigation/101/
A site map is another important feature for a couple of reasons. One reason is the user will be able to find everything they need quickly and two the search engines spiders will find all your pages quicker which means it is one more way that you could get indexed quicker.
5. Write quality code
I know that coding is sometimes scary for a lot of beginners but, not all hypertext markup language (HTML) is created equally. What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Web design tools such as Microsoft Front Page and Macromedia Dreamweaver produce different HTML code that may create unexpected results in some of the different browsers.
Use an external HTML validator to verify your code so you know that your visitors will see your site the way you intended: http://validator.w3.org/
6. Create accessible Web sites
Allow all users, including those with disabilities, access to your site by following consistent guidelines; ensuring that your documents have alt tags for images and scalable fonts is a good start towards making your pages more useable for everyone.
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