Tags |
|
|
Links |
|
|
Casual Articles - Caveat Scriptor: Use the Advice of Those Who Know Before You Build a Site
If you are eagerly wanting to have a business but no yet financially ready and capable to engage on it, then joining the bandwagon of affiliate marketing may most likely help you jumpstart your home based business. Affiliate marketing is a new, sprouting online business that one can engage to right now. The idea of affiliate marketing is not something new, though, but has just gained recognition recently. The idea of affiliate marketing and how you can actually earn profitable money from it lies on the concept of commissioning upon selling a good; only that, with affiliate marketing, you are promoting the product and selling it thru online. Now, starting the business with affiliate marketing takes a few steps to make.Structuralize and build a website that is content-rich. The website that you are going to create is going to be your avenue to make the affiliate marketing realizable. It is where you are going to make all promotiona
Andrew Starling’s Top Ten Sites Compared, in the Web Developer’s Virtual Library at www.wdvl.internet.com
Jill Whalen’s www.highrankings.com
Jim Heath at www.viacorp.com
Keith Instone’s www.usableweb.com, 970 Links about Web Usability
Kevin Lee’s Free Keyword research Tools and Keywords revisited at Click Z Network, www.clickz.com
The PSP Interactive Zone, www.pspiz.net
www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com
Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer’s Design Fundamentals News Writing/ Newsletter coursework at www.cas.okstate.edu
Stephanie Hetu at www.stephaniehetu.com
Sumantra Roy’s SEO course, Choosing the Correct Keywords for a Site, at www.thejunglemarketer.com
Karen Zoldan of www.bridgemarketing.com
As you might have figured out, I write this not to share any of my own personal technological truths—which are wanting. I write this not to embellish the careers of any affiliates. I don’t have an affiliation with nor do I know the people in the Top Five—who do not need my small time embellishment or exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no previous knowledge of creating—though how I do like to brag.
I compose this guide to humb
Are you looking for a way to communicate with your customers? You are probably aware that one way to make contact with your clients is through email.Did the word SPAM just fly through your thoughts? It is a common concern among small business owners who are considering whether they should venture into using email as a way of communicating with their clients.If you are reading this communication, you are probably versed in the basics of standard email tools, such as Outlook or online email. You may even use these tools now to contact customers, on a one on one basis. There are many other tools available, such as auto-responders, which make email communication more versatile.Email can be an inexpensive and easy tool for connecting with customers. If you take the proper approach bulk emails to customers is not SPAM. A bit of knowledge can help alleviate any fears you may experience, so here are some definitions that pertain
I’m smart. Wicked smart. Too smart for my own good. At the same time (as they said when I was as kid and as it still applies), I’m too big for my own britches.
So I put those prissy pantalones to some good effort and I teach others how to write. I win a few awards, send a few hopefuls off to higher learning institutions where they in turn win their own awards and accolades. I do this till my seat gets burned one too many times by the politics of academia, and I go into freelance writing.
I research for 1000s of hours, submit to literary contests and magazines, start working writing gigs, and keep researching. I build a web site. With what it costs to maintain an ISP and web hosting account and little else, I create this ambitious masterpiece, believing I am now a self-taught web host, writer, teacher, and confidant for academic writers, mental disability writers, and elder memoir writers.
But as your confidant, I have to confess: as much as I’d like to think those 300 hours of study and application for usability, keyword-rich, to-the-letter-of-the-law of interstate/inter-country/internet navigation design and creation make me a self-taught smartass, I did little but the legwork by myself. Actually, five virtuosos of the web world made making a website possible:
Jakob Nielsen After creating a really bad mess of a site overloaded with spinning, flashing, color blobs of coolness, I discovered www.useit.com/alertbox and Dr. Jakob Nielsen. His stellar advice, delivered in a no-nonsense tone, is backed by his many years of theoretical and practical work. After reading and studying articles such as the following, I completely reconstructed my site:
Current Issues in Web Usability
Misconceptions about Usability
Ten Most Violated Homepage design Guidelines
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
Usability for Senior Citizens
Writing for the Web
Ed Zivkovic As I was catching on to using the experts to build a user-friendly, usable site, I was catching on to the language that indicates the writer knows what he’s talking about. This is the redeeming value of Ed Zivkovic’s site, Tips for Work at Home Webmasters, at www.ezau.com. He uses candor and directness. He provides technical content in understandable terms. And defying the popular and trendy, he tells you directly and honestly what is crap, what is not crap, what is effective website technique and what is a waste of dough. Try some of these instrumental articles for starters:
Domain Name and Web Hosting Hell
Exit Traffic Exchange-Traffic multiplier Alternative
R.I.G.H.T.S., www.rightsforartists.com As any artist/writer will attest, the work that goes into creation is an interminable challenge. But we do it because we like it, because we are good at it, and because we have to do it. We are compelled to create. But we do our own work, not the work (or art) of others. This site contains all of the legal and ethical guidelines for copyright; R.I.G.H.T.S., a coalition of contributing artists (rather than a corporation or organization, that is) thoroughly, relentlessly provides information, definitions, answers, and directions for copyrighting and protecting creative work.
Firelily Designs Just as much about the science of such vital concerns as color design for web users with color vision deficiency as about aesthetics of web design, this site practices what it preaches—as it preaches, well, teaches, graphic design. I don’t create my own web graphics. That would take me a year or two to master, when I have enough to do with getting words crafted into readable forms. But I found the advice on color at www.firelily.com fascinating and functionally useful.
Angela Hoy, Writers Weekly There are writers newsletters aplenty. And then there’s Writers Weekly. What does the site and the owner have to do with web design, specifically? They are proactive protectors of writers and creative people, in general. Hoy stands up for the rights of freelancers by refusing the requests of tightwads who solicit her to recommend writers to work for 3 bucks an hour on copy for them so they can make millions while the writers starve. Hoy encourages the ethics of hard work by way of informative how-tos. And Angela Hoy, with husband and co-owner, Richard Hoy, pours an acid tongue on the plague that is the scamming POD publisher or the conniving money-charging agent—in a section of her [their] site called “Whispers and Warnings.” For the newbie, novice, wannabe freelancer, or even for the work at home woman or man creating a website she or he wants safe from scummy scammers, www.writersweekly.com is an advisory imperative.
Robert Woodhead of Self Promotion.com Finding www.selfpromotion.com shaved centuries off of not only my design and development but my publishing and promoting the site. With uncluttered pages and cutting-edge (constantly updated) information, Woodhead (who even makes self-effacing jokes about his name) walks a web wannabe through every stage of the process, and then provides [shareware] support by helping you submit your site to hundreds of search engines and indexes that you need to have crawl your site for rankings—the latest (2004) must-have for any online business.
Of course, if you were to look at my Favorite Files, at the 900+ categories, subcategories, and links, you would find that many others pulled my smart ass up by the seat of the pants. I name a few of these helpful gurus here, too:
Andrew Starling’s Top Ten Sites Compared, in the Web Developer’s Virtual Library at www.wdvl.internet.com
Jill Whalen’s www.highrankings.com
Jim Heath at www.viacorp.com
Keith Instone’s www.usableweb.com, 970 Links about Web Usability
Kevin Lee’s Free Keyword research Tools and Keywords revisited at Click Z Network, www.clickz.com
The PSP Interactive Zone, www.pspiz.net
www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com
Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer’s Design Fundamentals News Writing/ Newsletter coursework at www.cas.okstate.edu
Stephanie Hetu at www.stephaniehetu.com
Sumantra Roy’s SEO course, Choosing the Correct Keywords for a Site, at www.thejunglemarketer.com
Karen Zoldan of www.bridgemarketing.com
As you might have figured out, I write this not to share any of my own personal technological truths—which are wanting. I write this not to embellish the careers of any affiliates. I don’t have an affiliation with nor do I know the people in the Top Five—who do not need my small time embellishment or exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no previous knowledge of creating—though how I do like to brag.
I compose this guide to humbl
How many times have you thought that all your business needs is a nice brochure? Nothing fancy, just something to pass out at trade shows. It would surely solve a lot of your sales problems. You may even think it shouldn't cost much. It would look great printed on the new office color printer, right? Unfortunately, nothing in life or business is quite that easy. Many small businesses rely on brochures as their first form of sales communication but find them unsuccessful because they underestimate the skills and resources necessary to publish effective and attractive materials. The appearance and content of brochures and other sales material are so important because they represent your company to customers, suppliers, investors and employees. This is the first impression and, basically, your sales materials are your company in many people's minds.For that reason, even small businesses benefit from hiring qualified professionals
Jakob Nielsen After creating a really bad mess of a site overloaded with spinning, flashing, color blobs of coolness, I discovered www.useit.com/alertbox and Dr. Jakob Nielsen. His stellar advice, delivered in a no-nonsense tone, is backed by his many years of theoretical and practical work. After reading and studying articles such as the following, I completely reconstructed my site:
Current Issues in Web Usability
Misconceptions about Usability
Ten Most Violated Homepage design Guidelines
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
Usability for Senior Citizens
Writing for the Web
Ed Zivkovic As I was catching on to using the experts to build a user-friendly, usable site, I was catching on to the language that indicates the writer knows what he’s talking about. This is the redeeming value of Ed Zivkovic’s site, Tips for Work at Home Webmasters, at www.ezau.com. He uses candor and directness. He provides technical content in understandable terms. And defying the popular and trendy, he tells you directly and honestly what is crap, what is not crap, what is effective website technique and what is a waste of dough. Try some of these instrumental articles for starters:
Domain Name and Web Hosting Hell
Exit Traffic Exchange-Traffic multiplier Alternative
R.I.G.H.T.S., www.rightsforartists.com As any artist/writer will attest, the work that goes into creation is an interminable challenge. But we do it because we like it, because we are good at it, and because we have to do it. We are compelled to create. But we do our own work, not the work (or art) of others. This site contains all of the legal and ethical guidelines for copyright; R.I.G.H.T.S., a coalition of contributing artists (rather than a corporation or organization, that is) thoroughly, relentlessly provides information, definitions, answers, and directions for copyrighting and protecting creative work.
Firelily Designs Just as much about the science of such vital concerns as color design for web users with color vision deficiency as about aesthetics of web design, this site practices what it preaches—as it preaches, well, teaches, graphic design. I don’t create my own web graphics. That would take me a year or two to master, when I have enough to do with getting words crafted into readable forms. But I found the advice on color at www.firelily.com fascinating and functionally useful.
Angela Hoy, Writers Weekly There are writers newsletters aplenty. And then there’s Writers Weekly. What does the site and the owner have to do with web design, specifically? They are proactive protectors of writers and creative people, in general. Hoy stands up for the rights of freelancers by refusing the requests of tightwads who solicit her to recommend writers to work for 3 bucks an hour on copy for them so they can make millions while the writers starve. Hoy encourages the ethics of hard work by way of informative how-tos. And Angela Hoy, with husband and co-owner, Richard Hoy, pours an acid tongue on the plague that is the scamming POD publisher or the conniving money-charging agent—in a section of her [their] site called “Whispers and Warnings.” For the newbie, novice, wannabe freelancer, or even for the work at home woman or man creating a website she or he wants safe from scummy scammers, www.writersweekly.com is an advisory imperative.
Robert Woodhead of Self Promotion.com Finding www.selfpromotion.com shaved centuries off of not only my design and development but my publishing and promoting the site. With uncluttered pages and cutting-edge (constantly updated) information, Woodhead (who even makes self-effacing jokes about his name) walks a web wannabe through every stage of the process, and then provides [shareware] support by helping you submit your site to hundreds of search engines and indexes that you need to have crawl your site for rankings—the latest (2004) must-have for any online business.
Of course, if you were to look at my Favorite Files, at the 900+ categories, subcategories, and links, you would find that many others pulled my smart ass up by the seat of the pants. I name a few of these helpful gurus here, too:
Andrew Starling’s Top Ten Sites Compared, in the Web Developer’s Virtual Library at www.wdvl.internet.com
Jill Whalen’s www.highrankings.com
Jim Heath at www.viacorp.com
Keith Instone’s www.usableweb.com, 970 Links about Web Usability
Kevin Lee’s Free Keyword research Tools and Keywords revisited at Click Z Network, www.clickz.com
The PSP Interactive Zone, www.pspiz.net
www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com
Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer’s Design Fundamentals News Writing/ Newsletter coursework at www.cas.okstate.edu
Stephanie Hetu at www.stephaniehetu.com
Sumantra Roy’s SEO course, Choosing the Correct Keywords for a Site, at www.thejunglemarketer.com
Karen Zoldan of www.bridgemarketing.com
As you might have figured out, I write this not to share any of my own personal technological truths—which are wanting. I write this not to embellish the careers of any affiliates. I don’t have an affiliation with nor do I know the people in the Top Five—who do not need my small time embellishment or exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no previous knowledge of creating—though how I do like to brag.
I compose this guide to humb
Who doesn't want to be rich fast? Most of us think that making money online is not possible and some thinks that it is a waste of time. But why are there still people making six figure incomes online? Is there a proven way to make money online?One of the easiest and simplest ways to make money online is to go into affiliate or online network marketing programs. You don't have to create your product, sales copy, website, payment gateway. Almost everything is taken care of, including hosting. Their products are tested and proven, sales copies are professionally written and websites are professionally design. The only thing that's for you to do is to promote the product. Simply!How's that sound to you? To me, it's a lazy man's game. You only need to focus on one thing which is to market and promote the product and that's all you need to make money online.To make simple things even simpler, you can leverage on others. Here ar
R.I.G.H.T.S., www.rightsforartists.com As any artist/writer will attest, the work that goes into creation is an interminable challenge. But we do it because we like it, because we are good at it, and because we have to do it. We are compelled to create. But we do our own work, not the work (or art) of others. This site contains all of the legal and ethical guidelines for copyright; R.I.G.H.T.S., a coalition of contributing artists (rather than a corporation or organization, that is) thoroughly, relentlessly provides information, definitions, answers, and directions for copyrighting and protecting creative work.
Firelily Designs Just as much about the science of such vital concerns as color design for web users with color vision deficiency as about aesthetics of web design, this site practices what it preaches—as it preaches, well, teaches, graphic design. I don’t create my own web graphics. That would take me a year or two to master, when I have enough to do with getting words crafted into readable forms. But I found the advice on color at www.firelily.com fascinating and functionally useful.
Angela Hoy, Writers Weekly There are writers newsletters aplenty. And then there’s Writers Weekly. What does the site and the owner have to do with web design, specifically? They are proactive protectors of writers and creative people, in general. Hoy stands up for the rights of freelancers by refusing the requests of tightwads who solicit her to recommend writers to work for 3 bucks an hour on copy for them so they can make millions while the writers starve. Hoy encourages the ethics of hard work by way of informative how-tos. And Angela Hoy, with husband and co-owner, Richard Hoy, pours an acid tongue on the plague that is the scamming POD publisher or the conniving money-charging agent—in a section of her [their] site called “Whispers and Warnings.” For the newbie, novice, wannabe freelancer, or even for the work at home woman or man creating a website she or he wants safe from scummy scammers, www.writersweekly.com is an advisory imperative.
Robert Woodhead of Self Promotion.com Finding www.selfpromotion.com shaved centuries off of not only my design and development but my publishing and promoting the site. With uncluttered pages and cutting-edge (constantly updated) information, Woodhead (who even makes self-effacing jokes about his name) walks a web wannabe through every stage of the process, and then provides [shareware] support by helping you submit your site to hundreds of search engines and indexes that you need to have crawl your site for rankings—the latest (2004) must-have for any online business.
Of course, if you were to look at my Favorite Files, at the 900+ categories, subcategories, and links, you would find that many others pulled my smart ass up by the seat of the pants. I name a few of these helpful gurus here, too:
Andrew Starling’s Top Ten Sites Compared, in the Web Developer’s Virtual Library at www.wdvl.internet.com
Jill Whalen’s www.highrankings.com
Jim Heath at www.viacorp.com
Keith Instone’s www.usableweb.com, 970 Links about Web Usability
Kevin Lee’s Free Keyword research Tools and Keywords revisited at Click Z Network, www.clickz.com
The PSP Interactive Zone, www.pspiz.net
www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com
Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer’s Design Fundamentals News Writing/ Newsletter coursework at www.cas.okstate.edu
Stephanie Hetu at www.stephaniehetu.com
Sumantra Roy’s SEO course, Choosing the Correct Keywords for a Site, at www.thejunglemarketer.com
Karen Zoldan of www.bridgemarketing.com
As you might have figured out, I write this not to share any of my own personal technological truths—which are wanting. I write this not to embellish the careers of any affiliates. I don’t have an affiliation with nor do I know the people in the Top Five—who do not need my small time embellishment or exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no previous knowledge of creating—though how I do like to brag.
I compose this guide to humb
Submitting your website to the major search engines should be done very carefully. Never allow a URL submission service to submit your site to thousands of search engines, simply because thousands of search engines do not exist. There are only about 500 search engines, and only around 200 are credible and actually receive traffic. URL submission services that offer this type of submission are to be avoided. The most efficient method to use when submitting your website for inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually.Before you begin to submit your website ensure that your web pages are thoroughly and properly designed using quality keywords, and most importantly your site must contain original, relevant content. Do not submit websites that are incomplete. Be sure to provide updated information about your website, keywords, etc. A simple submission to each search engine does not guarantee that your site would be
Robert Woodhead of Self Promotion.com Finding www.selfpromotion.com shaved centuries off of not only my design and development but my publishing and promoting the site. With uncluttered pages and cutting-edge (constantly updated) information, Woodhead (who even makes self-effacing jokes about his name) walks a web wannabe through every stage of the process, and then provides [shareware] support by helping you submit your site to hundreds of search engines and indexes that you need to have crawl your site for rankings—the latest (2004) must-have for any online business.
Of course, if you were to look at my Favorite Files, at the 900+ categories, subcategories, and links, you would find that many others pulled my smart ass up by the seat of the pants. I name a few of these helpful gurus here, too:
Andrew Starling’s Top Ten Sites Compared, in the Web Developer’s Virtual Library at www.wdvl.internet.com
Jill Whalen’s www.highrankings.com
Jim Heath at www.viacorp.com
Keith Instone’s www.usableweb.com, 970 Links about Web Usability
Kevin Lee’s Free Keyword research Tools and Keywords revisited at Click Z Network, www.clickz.com
The PSP Interactive Zone, www.pspiz.net
www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com
Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer’s Design Fundamentals News Writing/ Newsletter coursework at www.cas.okstate.edu
Stephanie Hetu at www.stephaniehetu.com
Sumantra Roy’s SEO course, Choosing the Correct Keywords for a Site, at www.thejunglemarketer.com
Karen Zoldan of www.bridgemarketing.com
As you might have figured out, I write this not to share any of my own personal technological truths—which are wanting. I write this not to embellish the careers of any affiliates. I don’t have an affiliation with nor do I know the people in the Top Five—who do not need my small time embellishment or exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no previous knowledge of creating—though how I do like to brag.
I compose this guide to humb
You have the opportunity to join a non-profit organization as their bookkeeper and while you may have a great deal of experience working within the business for profit world there are some differences between the two types of organizations that are important to consider. Usually a nonprofit organization will be providing an important service to one or more parts of a community and the people of the community will pay dues and become members of the non-profit organization. Or the organization may have donors who donate services, money, merchandise or grants. In a non-profit organization, therefore, your customers or clients are members, donors or grant providers. And your Chart of Accounts would include the accounts Member Dues Receivables, Donor Receivables and Grant Receivables in the Current Asset section of your Balance Sheet. When a pledge for a donation is received you would treat this pledge as a donor receivable and when a grant is awa
Andrew Starling’s Top Ten Sites Compared, in the Web Developer’s Virtual Library at www.wdvl.internet.com
Jill Whalen’s www.highrankings.com
Jim Heath at www.viacorp.com
Keith Instone’s www.usableweb.com, 970 Links about Web Usability
Kevin Lee’s Free Keyword research Tools and Keywords revisited at Click Z Network, www.clickz.com
The PSP Interactive Zone, www.pspiz.net
www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com
Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer’s Design Fundamentals News Writing/ Newsletter coursework at www.cas.okstate.edu
Stephanie Hetu at www.stephaniehetu.com
Sumantra Roy’s SEO course, Choosing the Correct Keywords for a Site, at www.thejunglemarketer.com
Karen Zoldan of www.bridgemarketing.com
As you might have figured out, I write this not to share any of my own personal technological truths—which are wanting. I write this not to embellish the careers of any affiliates. I don’t have an affiliation with nor do I know the people in the Top Five—who do not need my small time embellishment or exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no previous knowledge of creating—though how I do like to brag.
I compose this guide to humble myself to the fact that I was flying by the seat of my pants in most cases—except where I was lucky enough to intuit some strategies (which are still in the making, so don’t get an attitude when you visit my site and find it still needs work: I know it does).
I compose this guide to honor those who put in way more than 300 piddly hours of research, study, and practice to find out what works to make it work even better.
And I compose this guide to help you avoid even 300 (not so piddling when you are doing it yourself) hours of stitching and tearing out the stitches of the britches of a tailoring project. Smarty pants just had to do it the hard way. May your way be easier.
HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.casualarticles.com/article/86037/casualarticles-Caveat-Scriptor-Use-the-Advice-of-Those-Who-Know-Before-You-Build-a-Site.html">Caveat Scriptor: Use the Advice of Those Who Know Before You Build a Site</a>
BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.casualarticles.com/article/86037/casualarticles-Caveat-Scriptor-Use-the-Advice-of-Those-Who-Know-Before-You-Build-a-Site.html]Caveat Scriptor: Use the Advice of Those Who Know Before You Build a Site[/url]
Related Articles:
Tittle's Top Ten: How To Schmooze With The Best Of Them
Clickbank Super Affiliate Marketing Tactics Revealed!
Bookmark it:
|