Design Your Web Site
June 5, 2009
A web designer’s ultimate aim for a website is to achieve a balance between its attractiveness (targetted look-and-feel with necessary design effects), load time (optimized, well coded and error free), user friendliness (easy-to-use navigation) and uniform user experience (web standards compliant and cross browser compatible) - without entirely compromising on either of them. Between the extremes of making bare designs with cluttered content and hard-to-navigate complex designs, a professional web designer needs to learn to expertly create a web design that is impressive, cohesive, well laid out, fast-loading and easy to use.
Before designing a web site the designer needs to be fully aware of what type of website he/she is going to design. Unless you have some clear goals in mind it would be difficult for you to start off on the actual design. A good way to get started on your website is to decide on the layout structure, colors and overall theme beforehand. If you want to create your own web site on the Internet, but have no idea where to start, this article will provide you with the exact information you’ll need to get started, including what you can expect to pay to get your website up and running. However, before I begin, I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself, and how I got started, so you’ll know who you’re dealing with. Read more
How Keyword Strategy Criteria
May 19, 2009
Lots of people rush into Tags, URL’s and code optimizing without realizing that the first step in any SEO strategy will probably have nothing to do with that. Starting to correct code, optimize tags, URL’s and metatags without carefully having planned a coherent “Keyword Strategy” beforehand is like throwing all your soldiers into a battlefield without analyzing the terrain, the enemy, your weapons and your tactics.
Your “Keyword strategy” means in other words which are the keywords that you choose to position your website with. To create an efficient and effective keyword strategy, four main aspects need to be considered:
- Keyword Search volume: The search volume of a given keyword determines the total potential traffic that this keyword can drive to your website. To give an example, the monthly volume of searches in Google of the keyword “MBA” is 5′000,000 while the volume of searches of the keyword “executive MBA” is just Read more
How 25 Post Ideas To Grow Your Authority
May 6, 2009
Great content is founded on great ideas. Without an interesting post idea, you will end up with boring content. Here are 25 post ideas that you can use to make your blog more attractive to readers and to provide more regular, unique, and interesting content while growing your authority.
1. Write about a current event.
2. Write about a change in your market.
3. Call for a change in your market.
4. Argue against a change in your market.
5. Write a satirical post about your market.
6. Write a tutorial on your area of expertise.
7. Write an article on how NOT to do something.
8. Write an autobiographical post about how you achieved success. Read more
SEO Tips For Your Website
May 6, 2009
Image optimization is a relatively new trend in the world of organic Search Engine Optimization. While ever more people are searching for image content on Google and other search engines the amount of traffic operated by the image search is becoming more significant. That makes optimizing for images worth the effort not only for websites built around image content but also for the industries where images are not main or even secondary product.
If you want your website to appear in the image search results and tap into new visitors and customers you need to optimize your website for image search. This is not hard to do but will require some time and effort from you. Here are the steps to follow when optimizing your website for image search.
Think How You Can Employ Images On Your Website
First of all you need to think how you can employ images on your website and what kind of images that Read more
URL Shortener Good Or Bad For Website
April 29, 2009
When you list out the top 3 internet Buzz words; URL shortener comes next to social networking and micro-blogging.
A URL shortener is a Website that will create a short Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Web page address from a long one so that the short version, which is easier to remember and enter, can be used instead. The shortened URLs will never expire, and they can be easily shared and distributed in websites, forums, blogs, Instant Messengers, SMS and especially in social media services like Twitter, which allows users to post only 140 characters.
TinyURL, Bit.ly, Snurl, dwarfURL and Tiny.cc are some of the popular sites that offer URL shortening service. The shortened URL offers various advantages including easy management of links, promotion of sharing of site link, compile click data and useful user interface. Read more