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| Designing a Simple Online Note Keeping Web Site | | 2008-05-14 01:57:19 | |
From the start of Web 2.0 everything from Bookmarks to Spreadsheets and Office
packages to RSS Readers has become an online thing. In that spirit we are going
to create an Online Note Keeping application in PHP which would give us the
power to keep our notes online. That means all of our notes will be accessible
from anywhere the Internet is available that too secured with user authentication.
We are talking about storing notes so obviously we’ll need either a database
or file to store the data. For now we’ll use a file instead.
To store notes in a file we need to create and follow a format (the way each
of the notes will be stored). For each note there will be a Title, Date and
Time it was written and the actual Note. So I think the following format will
be fine:
<Title>
<Date & Time>
<Body>
We’ll follow this for each note we store into the file.
Talking about the interface, user will first be presented with a login | | By: Learning Computer Programming | | |
| | How To Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic | | 2008-05-10 14:23:00 | | **By: The LegendSome people get on average around 10,000 to 12,000 unique visitors to thier main sites each month. Actually, when you're speaking about the Internet, that's not too much to brag about, but it's better than getting say 1000 or 2000 visitors; that was they usual rate until they aggressively went after targeted traffic for their sites.they thought they would briefly and in very simple terms explain how they increased the targeted traffic to their main sites from around 1,000 to 10,000 unique visitors each month. That's a ten-fold increase -- they are aiming for a hundred-fold increase but would gladly settle for thirty or forty times the traffic.How did I increase my site's traffic? The answer might just help you get more traffic to your own site. Most of these techniques are very simple to implement and if you're serious about building an online business, lets face it, the first thing you're going to need is targeted visitors to your site.I hope you have noticed I have me | | By: I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Mon | | |
| | McCain woos Hispanics and launches Spanish web site | | 2008-05-06 15:45:23 | | PHOENIX (Reuters) - John McCain reached out to Hispanic voters on Monday as he sought to win over a constituency that has moved away from his Republican Party but could prove key in swing states in a close U.S. presidential election in November.
The Arizona senator’s campaign launched a Spanish language Web site to mark the [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | | | Romain "Roo" Chapus: new web site | | 2008-04-24 16:28:21 | | News:
24-04-2008:
"Roo" has made a great job of updating his main web site: http://www.rooguitar.com/. Roo also got a new endorsement. Roo says: I'm very happy to announce official endorsement with BrossardPicks. "Brossard's high-quality handmade picks produce a wide variety of tones: from the soft warmth of Ebony through the crystal-clarity of Bone to the brightness and precision of Abalone."...
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| | Zapak will provide online gaming to Kolkota Knight Riders fans at the official Web site | | 2008-04-23 07:44:40 | | Zapak the online Gaming portal has tied up with "Kolkota Knight Riders" sponsored by Shahrukh Khan, to create a dedicated section of Cricket "on the official Web site.Rohit Sharma, chief operating officer of Zapak Digital Entertainment, said the games would give Cricket fans an opportunity to connect with the "Knight Riders".The dedicated zone will host 10 Cricket games custom-built specially around "Knight Riders" and based on the response to these games, Zapak will introduce even more games in this zone.Currently the zone just shows up two games namely, "Let's Ride" and "Bully Cricket". We'll keep you posted on the remaining games as well.Speaking on the partnership, SRK said the custom-built games would give gamers an opportunity to feel and be part of "Knight Riders". | | By: Latest Technology News India | | |
| | SANS solves mystery of mass Web site infections | | 2008-04-20 05:55:00 | | The SANS institute has just revealed as what they've called the "rare gem"since january there are large number of websites has been hacked ,based on computer security investigation.read more info here | | By: blogtech | | |
| | Must Have Features Your Web Site | | 2008-04-14 05:23:20 | | Just don’t focus on the home page, keywords and titles: The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details. Understanding Your Target Customer: If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you don’t really know who your customers are and what they want to buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an extension or repla | | By: Make Money Online : Tips from I Digg Anything | | |
| | | What is Web site? | | 2008-03-26 01:26:01 | | A site (location) on the World Wide Web. A Web site is a collection of Web pages, which are documents coded in HTML that are linked to each other and very often to pages on other Web sites. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization. | | By: Search Engine Optimization Tips | | |
| | Agencies Still Beat Airline, Travel Retail Web Site Prices | | 2008-03-25 04:05:00 | | average $56 less than identical itineraries directly booked through airline Web sites or through online travel retailers like Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity, according to Topaz International research released last week.Topaz said travel agency fares were less costly on nearly 95 percent of itineraries compared with the same itinerary available online to the public. However, Topaz said its research shows the savings gap has closed steadily since it initiated the research in 2001, when the chasm between online public fares and agency fares averaged $171. Though the $56 differential recorded in 2007 matches the lowest gap in 2005, corporate travel agencies have grown slightly in lower-fare reliability: Topaz said agency fares in 2001 were cheaper just over 93 percent of the time, a figure that since grew steadily to last year's 94.85 percent.
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| | | SEO Copywriting Tips – How to Write Great Web Site Content | | 2008-03-24 07:47:00 | | Keyword research: This topic deserves a whole article on its own, but suffice to say that you'll want to base your site content on the keyword terms that you know are most popular among the audience you're trying to reach. There are online tools available that can help you determine the right keywords for your company. Among them are WordTracker and Keyword Discovery. One topic per page: If your company makes 5 different products, you'll need to devote at least one page per topic. Details, details: Each topic should be covered in enough detail that the site visitor can determine whether to contact you for more information. From an SEO standpoint, the more detail you provide on each topic, the more easily the search engines will be able to determine the relevance of your site to that keyword. Kill the sales brochure: Internet users don't appreciate going to your web to find only a sales brochure. Avoid flowery language; it usually signifies a page that's light on conte | | By: What's Up | | |
| | Pamela Moore: new web site, tour and cd deal | | 2008-03-22 14:11:42 | | News:
22-03-2008:
We now have a new limited offer Blue Room Special available through Cdbaby.com. Check it out! A copy of Stories From A Blue Room plus Pamela’s newest video single Cross My Heart. For purchase go to: http://cdbaby.com/cd/pamelamoore3
March 3, 2008 Pamela’s going to Europe with Queensryche again! Here are the New dates:
Jun 1 2008 Teatro Sa da Bandeira Porto, Portuga
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| | 10 Tips for Designing an Ecommerce Web Site | | 2008-03-17 06:24:00 | | Want to sell your goods directly from your site? Here are 10 tips:10. Design for your target market. Find out who your potential customers are and why they come to your site (i.e. where they are on the consumption cycle.)9. Identify your objectives for the site and introduce content accordingly. One Internet marketer tells the story of erroneously marketing an automotive book as an aid to car repair then discovered that the real market for his publication was buyers of new cars.8. Be cautious about using offline marketing material on the Web. Print material often does not lend itself to Web content and usually needs to be modified.7. Engage the viewer with dynamic environments. Allow the customer to experience the site - not just view it. Chat features, forums, solicited feedback, and database delivery of custom content go a long way.6. Provide good navigational structure, including search capabilities for larger sites. Viewers enter your site at various webpages - they should be able | | By: web site deveopment design | | |
| | How to Design a Search Engine Friendly Web Site | | 2008-03-09 07:50:00 | | Many web site designers don't design their sites for the search engines. This is a huge mistake because they miss out on attracting lots of free traffic. Your beautifully designed web site may have cost you thousands of dollars but it still needs to attract visitors to be profitable. Here are 12 highly effective strategies for designing a search engine friendly web site: <!-- @AD -->
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| | Disney to Offer Some Vintage TV Series on Its Web Site | | 2008-03-07 06:30:00 | | The Walt Disney Company will begin showing its classic television shows on the Internet, its chief executive, Robert A. Iger, told shareholders on Thursday."In the near future, you'll see more of that product available on Disney.com, either for free or through some sort of subscription," Mr. Iger, 57, said at the company's annual meeting. "Providing physical goods on DVD is tougher and tougher these days because shelf space is limited."Disney, producer of the "Zo | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
| | Easiest way to get traffic to your web site | Digg and StumbleUpon | | 2008-03-02 19:55:07 | | For your information ,Stumbleupon and DIGG are social bookmarking websites which are useful to catch upon some new websites and other things in whichever category you want.They can be, if properly used, a very potent weapon for getting a good amount of traffic for your website.Having said that,I would like to add that if your [...] | | By: GeniusHackers.Com | | |
| | Pameran Iklan Web Site Privacy Statement | | 2008-03-02 06:21:00 | | Pameran Iklan Web Site Privacy Statement What follows is the Privacy Statement for all Pameran Iklan Web Site websites (a.k.a. blogs) including all the websites run under the http://pameran-iklan.blogspot.com domain. Please read this statement regarding our blogs. If you have questions please ask us via our contact form. Email Addresses You may choose to add your email address to our contact list via the forms on our websites. We agree that we will never share you email with any third party and that we will remove your email at your request. We don’t currently send advertising via email, but in the future our email may contain advertisements and we may send dedicated email messages from our advertisers without revealing your email addresses to them. If you have any problem removing your email address please contact us via our contact form. Ownership of Information Pameran Iklan Web Site is the sole owner of any information collected on our websites. Comments/ | | By: Free Classified Ads | | |
| | Google Sites offers simple tools for collaborative Web site creation | | 2008-03-01 03:36:00 | | Google on Thursday plans to introduce Google Sites, a new addition to its Google Apps suite that provides simple, intuitive tools for collaborative Web site creation.Google Sites is based on the wiki technology developed by JotSpot, which Google acquired in October, 2006. The word "wiki," however, appears to have been lost during the move."We see Google Sites as bigger than a wiki," said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google's enterprise group. "It's as easy to edit as a wiki, but looks as good as a Web site. ... One of the challenges of wikis, even though working with them is easier than working with HTML, is that they're built by IT for IT, and not with the end-user experience in mind."
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| | California Tourism Web Site | | 2008-03-01 03:01:00 | | Potential travelers to the Golden State want to be Californian, if only for a week or weekend, and they are turning to California Tourism's redesigned Web site, http://www.visitcalifornia.com/, to learn how to do just that.The California Travel and Tourism Commission (CTTC), the state's official organization for promoting, marketing and increasing travel and tourism to the state, recently launched an improved and redesigned central Web site, based on recent findings from focus groups that visitors to the Golden State want to be "honorary Californians" and experience fully the state's easygoing culture and lifestyle like a local resident.
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| | A Write Up About My Web Site! | | 2008-02-28 11:52:00 | | A dear friend of mine, Lori Duncan, who is a very gifted and talented writer, as well as a staff member of my beauty forum, wrote this fabulous article recently about The Makeup Divas and published it at Associated Content. I wanted to share it with all of you and hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
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| | Two Basic Parts of a Low Cost Web Site Promotion | | 2008-02-26 02:41:17 | | Anybody could own a web site. Anybody could up sell their own products and services to their target audience. Anyone could try to promote their web site with a low cost. But there are not many web sites that have a truly successful web site with traffic all day through. What these individuals or companies lack is the most essential factor of success – a low cost web site promotion that really works. If you have been trying to promote your own web site and you have received traffic every hour, my hands are down for you. But for those people who need assistance, who does not have the patience to promote their own product and services, and lacks knowledge to properly advertise themselves, here are some guidelines to help you achieve success with a low cost web site promotion. Search Engine Submission and Ranking are the two basic parts to a low cost web site promotion. Both of the parts have the same effect on the market of the web site – for your products and services present | | By: Money-making-Systems | | |
| | | | Wikileaks web site ordered removed from the internet DNS system | | 2008-02-18 15:17:01 | | A California court has taken upon itself to order the removal of the DNS entries for Wikileaks, a whistle blower site that contains information that others would prefer never saw the light of day. WIkileaks can still be found at its old IP address of http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks.
However, the main site was taken offline after the [...] | | By: techwag | | |
| | | | Web Site Design Mistakes | | 2008-01-18 03:12:00 | | by Halstatt PiresSome wise human once said "Learn from the mistakes of others. There isn't nearly enough time to make them all yourself." Hence this article. Here are five of the most annoying and common web design mistakes.1. Slow download time - Don't be that site that is filled with the coolest gizmos in the world. You know, animation, music and other "cool" things. Why? Because nobody is going to go to it because it takes too long to download. A nice clean site that downloads quickly will get you much further than a site with all the fixings that takes forever to download.2. Unreadable text - If a user has to struggle to read the text on your web site, chances are they won't. Here are some common readability issues:A. Low contrast text and background - Don't use light colored text on a light background. Also, don't use dark text on a dark background. Text is most easily read with extreme contrasts between the background and text. Black on white is about as good as it gets for | | By: All of Web Design | | |
| | How to Build a High Performance Web Site | | 2008-01-16 20:06:00 | | Every company or organization wants to deploy a web site which will reach its clients, project certain image, and help solicit new business or members. Most companies, organizations, and individual entities prioritize the overall look and feel of a web site, and assess the final web site based on its ability to provide information in an organized, easy-to-read way. These are all important issues in web site construction. Yet, other aspects of web site development need to be addressed in order for a web site to be an effective marketing tool for a company.Search Engine Marketing Produces IncomeIn order to produce income, increase membership or visibility, speak directly to niche markets, or generate new leads, a web site must be outfitted properly for search engines. This means that all of the text should be easily ‘crawlable’ by spiders and bots. The web design is integral to this process, but is not central to the process. A web designer should work hand-in-hand with a web site pr | | By: WebMaster Way | | |
| | Advantages of a web site template | | 2007-12-26 22:47:00 | | So, you are just starting your company or web business and what you immediately need is a web site. But you don’t have thousands of dollars to hire a web design company and you also want your web site to be launched as quickly as possible. Well, one possible answer to your dilemma is a web site template. What is a template? A web site template, also called a web template or web design template, is a ready-made web site which allows quick customization to suit your business needs. What are the advantages of a web site template?1. What you see is what you get. Usually, companies that provide templates (like www.creativebynature.ro) offer the possibility to choose from hundreds of web site templates, so you don’t need to worry of how your project will turn out. You actually select the one you like most.2. It’s fast. Working with a web site template greatly increases the speed of the creation process. You don’t have to wait for weeks until your project is done. No need to hassle over original concepts, color schemes, layout etc. In fact, the more time you initially spend in planning a website’s purpose and features, the less time the actual site selection and creation will take.3. The price. Web site templates are much cheaper that hiring a web design company or a professional designer. This can literarily save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars.4. High quality. Web site templates companies use professional designers to create compelling templates so you don’t need to worry over the quality of their work.5. Easy customization. Depending on the type of template, anyone with a basic HTML or Flash knowledge can easily customize the web site template. If you don’t know any of these programs, don’t worry; almost every major template company offers the possibility to further customize the template you’ve just bought.6. User friendly. As already mentioned, the design and layout of a web site template is created by professional designers, so usability s | | By: All of Web Design | | |
| | | Five Top Opportunities to Optimize Your Web site | | 2007-12-18 01:34:00 | | Opportunity #1: The Importance of Link Building Link building is by far the single most important SEO tactic that can be applied to increase search engine rankings. A Web site could have the exact same content posted as its top competitor’s site, with the only difference being the number of in-bound links that Google has indexed for the two sites. For instance, an in-bound link is a link to your Web site that is located on someone else’s Web site.For the sake of this example, let’s assume that Google has indexed 100 in-bound links to your Web site and 500 links for your top competitor. Despite the content being identical, Google will rank your competitor’s Web site higher, and potentially significantly higher, based on this critical measure of site popularity.We used Google for this example because approximately 41 percent of all Web searches take place on Google. This is a staggering number. Google’s nearest competitor is Yahoo with 28 percent market share and MSN is a distant third with 9 percent.To find the number of in-bound links to a Web site, go to Google.com and enter link:www.insertyourdomain.com into the search field and click Search.Opportunity #2: The Power of Page Titles How many times have you visited a Web site and the Page Title (the white text within the blue bar found in the upper-left corner of your browser window) reads “Home,†some variation of the company name, or maybe a generic header for the content section just entered, such as “Products� This is a significant missed opportunity, and here’s why.Google uses the Page Title within a Web site’s code to develop and display its search results. For example, the links representing each of the sites within Google’s search results are pulled directly from the Page Titles of the various sites. Figure 1 shows the results of a search for the keywords “Kohler wholesale†on Google. An AVS Group client is displayed as the number 2 ranked Web site out of 834,000 competing Web si | | By: WebMaster Way | | |
| | HTML based web site and Flash web site. | | 2007-12-07 20:55:00 | | The web development can be classified into two types accordingto the appearance and the technology used. One is the textbased or it can be said as a web site which has texts and lessgraphics or images. The other type of web site is the one whichis eye catchy and the one which attracts users or browsersthrough their images or graphics. Technically these twowebsites are said as HTML based web site and Flash web site.There is a famous quote which says pictures speaks more thanwords but, according to the web world the sites developed inHTML are ranked higher than the flash web sites. Searchengines cannot read flash based web site also it is verydifficult to optimize a site developed in flash to rank better.But it is not impossible, harder.The search engines love HTML, it is enough for a programmeror a technical person to optimize a web site developed in Flashto have better page ranks. The technique is called as Cloaking.In cloaking the user while browsing through the site can seethe Flash version of the web site and while the search enginecan see the website only as a HTML web site. That isshowing user the actual web site developed in Flash andshowing the search engine bots as HTML tags.There are many server scripting languages which help incloaking. The languages are PHP, ASP and HTAccess.The other way instead of showing two faces of a website,one to the browser and one to the search engine it ispossible to have good rank for a Flash web site. It is theusage of keywords and concentrating on title tags. But thekeywords should not be often repeated. It is so because thesearch engine may consider it as Spam. The title tags shouldnot be longer. These are the easy way to bring up the rankof a flash web site. But above all, the user and the developermust feel comfortable while using the flash web site.This can be said as easy navigation rather than tricky ones,rather to be an entire flash web site HTML can be combinedto give a greater look to the site.Article written by Jous | | By: WebMaster Way | | |
| | All Free Shipping Web Site Launches Today!!! | | 2007-12-06 08:38:32 | | After many long nights staying up to 3 in the morning and then back up again at 8 AM, we finally launched our free shipping site. And hopefully with enough time for most of you to get some use out of it before Christmas hits.
We have created FreeShipping.org with the goal of being the best [...] | | By: Internet Marketing Blog | | |
| | Technorati Refreshes Web Site | | 2007-12-04 16:32:02 | | Technorati’s new site design is up and running right now, the biggest change is to the home page, as a default-landing page. It looks like it might work for being more news and blog oriented than the previous design. In all hunting down your stuff will be harder, but getting into the meme of things [...] | | By: techwag | | |
| | | Another inconvenient truth: Al Gore's Web site hacked | | 2007-11-28 00:13:14 | | Noone's safe these days...Another inconvenient truth: Al Gore's Web site hackedThe Web site for Al Gore's film, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' has been hacked.Robert McMillan (IDG News Service) 27/11/2007 12:24:32A blog set up to promote former US Vice President Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," has been hacked and is hosting links to Web sites hawking online pharmaceuticals.The links appear to have been created as part of a scheme to boost the Web traffic for sites that promote the drugs, security experts said Monday. They contain titles such as "Xanax On Line," "Viagra," and "Buy Valium Online."Cyber scammers have been using this technique for months now, packing hacked Web sites with links to their products in hopes of bumping up their rankings on search engines such as Google and Ask.com. Another similar tactic, known as "comment spam," involves flooding the comment sections of Web sites with these types of links.Because search engines give priority to pages that are linked | | By: ILL_Natured_gr's Blogger | | |
| | | Free Ways To Increase Web Site Traffic | | 2007-11-19 09:28:55 | | Free Search Engine SubmissionThe first and fore most steps to be done to increase website traffic in free way are to submit their sites to search engines and directories. Most of the major search engines accept the site submissions for free. Google, Yahoo, Gig blast, Askjeeves are the some of the search engines that accepts free submission; you can find other search engines by searching.Free Directory InclusionDirectories also plays important role for increasing traffic. But choosing the relevant directory has become tedious job today. Actually free directories are not absolutely free, Some directories insists some pay for consideration of listing and some requires reciprocal link exchange. And also site listing takes some time, in free directories due to their huge requests.Alternatively you may start a new directory service and it drives huge traffic.Participating In Forum Activities Or By Answering other questionsParticipate in forum activities will drive huge traffic to sites. Yes | | By: Full Time Income From Home | | |
| | Evaluating Web Site Performance | | 2007-11-18 22:49:00 | | Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals. If you don't know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online announcement that you are in business. If you expect your site to stimulate some form of action, whether it is visitors filling out a form so a representative can contact them, or purchasing a product, there are steps you can take to insure that your website is functioning at peak efficiency. One of the first indicators of how well your site is working for you is finding out the number of visitors in a given period of time. A good baseline measurement is a month in which you haven't been doing any unusual offline promotional activities. However, just because hoards of people have passed t | | By: All of SEO | | |
| | How to Enhance Your Web Site with Header Graphics | | 2007-11-18 21:36:00 | | So you're making your own web site. You've been working on it for a while, you have some good content, but something is still missing... cool graphics! Let's face it: a web site without nice graphics is like a TV show without color. It's boring and drab and won't look very visually appealing. You want your site to catch people's attention and make them say, "Hmm, this looks interesting, I think I'll check it out". One of the best ways to do this is to have a good header graphic at the top of the page. What is a Header Graphic? A header graphic is an image consisting of three parts: a background, a title, and a sub-heading. For example, let's say you are building a web site about dogs. Your background might be a scenic view of a city park with a few dogs running around having a good time. Your title might be: "Dog Lovers Paradise". For a sub-heading, you could either use the URL of your main web site (www.yourdomainname.com) or a line of descriptive text saying what your site is about: "all the info you need to be a good dog owner", "buy discount dog food here", "how to take care of your dog", etc. If you are running on online business, you could put your business slogan here. How do I get Header Graphics? There are 3 main ways to get header graphics, depending on how much time and money you have available: 1. The expensive way - hire a professional graphic designer to make them for you 2. The cheap way - buy a customizable set of pre-made graphics from the Internet 3. The free way - make them yourself! Option #1 may be great for big corporations that have a lot of money, but it's not so practical for small businesses or individuals who make web pages as a hobby. Sure, you might be able to hire a freelance graphic designer who will charge $50 per graphic or something like that, but even that's a lot of money for most people. When I design web sites, I prefer option #2. This is a great balance between time and money. It's easy to find header graphics packag | | By: All of Web Design | | |
| | Cost of a Web Site | | 2007-11-18 12:50:00 | | A common question asked and often not answered among web designers is: what is the cost of a website. This is a complicated question as there are a lot of factors, custom web design work isn't like the retail industry with clearly defined price points. Below, I'll go through a few of the factors, and then, even go into the hard numbers.Hard CostsThese costs are pretty fixed, there are certain things you need to host a website that can't be avoided:Domain name: from $15-35/yearHost: from $5 to thousands per month, depending on the traffic and services. For example if you are hosting a direct to drive movie service, with tens of thousands of users, this won't be cheap. For most businesses this cost will be closer to $10-$30/month.PreproductionThis is the stage before your site itself is made.Photography: both the purchase of stock images and hiring a photographer can be expensive. This could be anywhere from $0 to thousands, but I'd recommend setting aside a few hundred dollars if you don't already have high quality images to work with.Content writing: some clients save money by creating their own content, otherwise budget $25-$50 a page.Copy editing: if you do provide your own text, you'll still want your designer to proof it, and ensure it's "web-ready". Likely only a few hours work, so $50 is another safe budget.Video: if you need to shoot video for flash movies on your website, much like photography, the cost varies depending on what you need.High fidelity testing and focus groups: The most important part of preproduction is trying to minimize wasted production time. Focus groups and surveys are a great way of ensuring all of the elements you want in your website are desired by your users. Costs can go from $0-$1000 depending availability of participants, space rentals, meals, and of course analysis of the results.ProductionNow is where the real work begins.Design: a small site may take 10 hours of work, a large one 100 hours. Designers charge anywhere fro | | By: Saskatoon Web Design | | |
| | Avoid These 5 Web Site Blunders! | | 2007-11-11 04:42:00 | | The Web is intended to help people find information quickly and easily. So why do so many sites make it difficult for users to get what they need?As president of a copywriting firm that writes and edits dozens of online projects a year, I've come across several common blunders that prevent effective communication via the Web. Here are my top five:BLUNDER #1: Hiding who you are and what you do.It's sad that many sites make it a challenge to figure out what they're about. Yes, it may be cool to have a giant dancing logo on your home page, but don't forget WHY your visitors are there: to learn what you can DO for them! Be sure your home page includes a *short overview* that clearly and concisely describes what you have to offer. It's also a good idea to repeat your tagline or a short mission statement on *every page* of your site. Why? People can pop in and land on an inside page via a search engine/directory link that you may not be aware of. Make sure they know who your are right a | | By: WebMaster Way | | |
| | | Creating Your Web Site | | 2007-11-04 22:16:00 | | Before talking to the Web Designer of your choice there are a few things you must do. Keep in mind that your website will be created by both yourself and your web designer. It will be a joint effort. You must communicate to your designer exactly what you envision and what you want to accomplish. Remember, this is YOUR site! You own it! 1. Ask yourself why you want a website and what is it you wish to accomplish. 2. Are you selling something? Information? Items you have created? Services?3. Identify your target market. In other words, whom do you want to sell to? Things to consider in the layout and design of your page.* Content: This is THE most important aspect of your site. After all, the content is what you want people to see! Be specific. Don't put long paragraphs of text on your pages unless you are selling information or providing instruction. People want to find information quickly and easily.* Graphics: Sites that take a long time to load lose visitors. Don't use large gra | | By: All of Web Design | | |
| | Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS | | 2007-10-27 08:00:15 | | Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up. ( PDF | 23,1 MB | 488 pages) download | | By: free e book | | |
| | Web site in flash | | 2007-10-24 10:07:43 | | Continua la scelta di siti web in flash, da vedere per la qualità grafica.Oggi vi suggerisco il seguentehttp://futyulos.zwack.hu/ .....bello il sito e la musica di sottofondo. | | By: Il Paniere | | |
| | 10 ways to make your Web site 'sticky' | | 2007-10-16 06:42:00 | | Here are 10 ways to make your site "sticky."1.Comfort your visitors with familiar items and navigation. Think about walking into a department store or supermarket for the first time. Previous experience tells you where to go to find what you need because there are conventions — established and traditional traffic patterns for you to follow. Similarly, there are online standards now to help orient visitors, making them comfortable and ready to learn more.In a recent study, Nielsen's consulting firm, the Nielsen Norman Group in Fremont, Calif., found the following page elements on roughly four out of every 10 sites.• The term "site map" for the site overview• A different color after links are clicked and expired• Shopping-cart links in the upper right corner• Left-hand navigation for peer-level links• Logos in the upper left corner• When used, search boxes on the home pageThere may be other standards that apply to your business or industry. Check out competitive sites and, if you decide to flout convention, have a good reason.2. Keep it simple. The faster and easier the navigation, the happier your customer will be. If you're launching an e-commerce site, it might pay off to outsource some of the complex management and tools you'll need, such as with Microsoft's Commerce Manager. And set up a plan to monitor every page periodically so that you catch broken links and make sure every page loads quickly.3. Offer a guided tour. "Find out who your visitors are and make suggestions about where they might want to go," says Thomas Obrey, co-founder of PixelMEDIA, a Portsmouth, N.H., Internet services company, explaining that it can be done via navigational cues or by a click-by-click page tour or demo. "It's the same concept as a salesperson greeting you at the store, understanding who you are, and guiding you to what you want."As an example, Obrey points to the ECCO shoes site (www.eccousa.com), which his company recently redesigned. "The site is 100% engi | | By: web site deveopment design | | |
| | The top 10 top 10 tips for ecommerce web site design | | 2007-10-06 01:40:00 | | 1 Think about designMake sure all aspects of your design matches your customers expectations, not just how it looks.Ten Top Tips for a good Web Site .. has the wisdomRed On Blue Isn't GoodI Don't Like Your Java ClockPopup Window? I'm Leaving!..but they then split the advice onto two pages, making it impossible to print. They also use blue text for headers which look a little too much like links for my liking.10 Most Important Web Design Tips.. contains tips such as..Simple navigation.Helpful and useful information.Good quality content and images... which I agree with but they then go on to use arbitrary animations and sound in their web page. I'm not so sure about those design choices. Because "simple navigation" is actually very subjective it can be extremely hard to acheive. Designing "simplicity" takes real skill and artistry.Top 10 Tips For Web SitesI like the tips from this site because the tips are easily measured and can be implemented. Anybody can validate their site's HTML or check the 404 page. A simple "tick the box" checklist that will genuinely help.Ensure Your Web Site Complies With HTML StandardsMake Use Of CSS - And Ensure The CSS Is CompliantProvide A Search Facility For Your Web SiteEnsure Your 404 Error Page Is TailoredTop Ten Digital Photography TipsOne of the most common problems with small to medium sites is overlooking the use of imagery. Bad cropping, poor photography can all be helped by spending a little time playing with your camera and learning what it can and can't do.Warm Up Those TonesSunglasses PolarizerOutdoor Portraits That Shine2. Use the best technologyUnderstanding what the technology is capable of will help you make the best technology choice. Make sure you find a partner who can leave the jargon at the door and can clearly explain their technology choices.10 Important Tips for a fast loading web siteAgain, these tips could be more explicit, maybe showing examples of how to optimize code.Optimize your HTML code:Effective T | | By: Web site design graphic design | | |
| | | 5 reasons to track Web site traffic by Monte Enbysk | | 2007-09-15 12:49:03 | | If you have a Web site that means more to you than just a brochure for your business, here are five ways a Web analytics tool can help:1.You can evaluate the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. If you're spending a lot on search engine ads and keyword buys, you need to see which ones are performing and which aren't. Web analytics tools let you see which search engines are sending you traffic as well as the most popular keywords used to find your site. What if you aren't spending any money at all on online marketing? A Web monitoring tool will show you the gaps and holes in your search engine rankings and results, and very likely how you can shore them up with search engine submissions and/or keyword buys. 2.You need to know where your traffic is coming from, and why. Are search engines your site's biggest source of traffic? Or do you have little-known but significant on-ramps from other Web sites, perhaps complementary companies who are potential business partners? Also, are your efforts to generate new customers and sales leads (such as newsletter signups and free product trials) working or not? FastCounter Pro, for example, contains a "referrer" section showing who is sending you traffic — by specific Web page, by domain and by domain type (such .com, .edu, .gov, etc.). 3.You need to know what users like and don't like about your Web site. Web site monitoring tools identify your site's most requested pages, as well as your most common entry pages and exit pages. "If you know what is working well, you can optimize your site to provide more of it," says Helen Chan, a small-business technology analyst with The Yankee Group, a technology research firm. But knowing your most common exit pages can be just as beneficial, Osmeloski says. "Where users bail out is important. Maybe you're losing people because of the content on that page," and you need to change it to something more intriguing or compelling, she says. 4.You need to know about any defects on you | | By: Tips How To Make Money Online | | |
| | How are my Las Vegas real estate web-site, Las Vegas homes, condos land and commercial real estate and its companion blog performing in Google search results pages? Rocketing to the top!! | | 2007-09-13 01:34:24 | | This the concluding article in the series.Why and how this blog and its companion web-site Las Vegas homes, condos and commercial real estate came to be. This is a lesson in life, business, planning and executionIt takes time for a web-site to come up in the search engine results and my web-site is less than 2.5 month old and at least six months ahead of my best case scenario.A search engine results page is the listing of web-pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query such as sell Las Vegas home. In response to the search, Google returns the web-pages which include all the words in that search (sell, Las, Vegas, home) and shows the number of web-pages that contain all these keywords on the right side of the search results bar on the top of the page. Following is a small sample of how my web-site and blog are performing in the Google search result pages. If I have a link in the top 100 results, I looked no further. (Keyword search) Las Vegas real estate = 89 (Posit | | By: Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Blog | | |
| | Give your Web site a facelift: 11 tips by Joanna Krotz | | 2007-09-12 10:18:02 | | Here are 11 ideas culled from Web marketers and developers that can modernize your site swiftly without costing you a bundle.1.Reduce the number of site pages. Focus on redesigning only the core 10 to 15 pages, suggests Matt Greer, chief executive officer at Zeeo Interactive in Boston, a Web design services company. You can then archive any remaining popular or highly trafficked pages into Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word documents that are suitable for download. 2.Make the site a marketing tool. If you're not yet capturing data basics, such as which sites and search engines visitors are clicking from or which pages are most trafficked, get cracking.Use prepackaged software or a Web services provider such as Microsoft's FastCounter Pro to capture detailed information about site visitors. "The first question to ask is: 'When visitors come to your site, what do you want them to do?'" says Erin Duckhorn, spokesperson for Crucial Technology, an online memory upgrade provider based in Boise, Idaho. Once you have answers, you can define the tracking metrics and develop the content, navigation and structure that will quickly satisfy your targeted visitors. 3.Set up an e-mail program. Create an incentive for visitors to register or give you their e-mail addresses. "Give away something that the targeted audience would perceive as value for their exchange of personal information, like a prize for consumers or a white paper for business-to-business clients," suggests Jeff Stanislow, president and CEO of Motor City Interactive, a digital advertising agency in Novi, Mich. Once you have addresses, send out useful e-zines or other bulletins. 4.Create an online reward for prized customers. Treat your best customers with distinctive perks or discounts. "You can give them their own area of the site without any special technology," says Wally Bock, a Web consultant in Wilmington, N.C. You can also, of course, e-mail special offers. 5.Speed loading time. In the beginning, fancy graphics | | By: Tips How To Make Money Online | | |
| | How I designed my Las Vegas real estate web-site, and why it should go to the top within 18 month | | 2007-09-11 21:24:05 | | This is the fourth article ofWhy and how this blog and its companion web-site Las Vegas homes, condos and commercial real estate came to be. This is a lesson in life, business, planning and execution3: People had to be able to find my web site relatively easily.The most important factor in designing a web-site with the top of search engine results in mind is the structure of the web site. The structure includes two distinct parts, layout and semantic tags. I desperately wanted a three column layout, so the visitor to my web site can see more links in the side bars. About three years ago three column layouts were all the rage in the web master community with many articles and demos about the subject on the internet. But doing a three column layout offers no advantage in search engine optimization. In order to gain maximum advantage over competition web sites mine had to have a special kind of layout called source ordered three column layout. It means that by using a CSS2* trick the sear | | By: Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Blog | | |
| | How I plan to take my Las Vegas real estate web-site to the top, analysis of a real world business plan (problem) and how to attack it | | 2007-09-11 05:37:33 | | This is the third article ofWhy and how this blog and its companion web-site Las Vegas homes, condos and commercial real estate came to be. This is a lesson in life, business, planning and executionIn my last blog post I discussed the criteria which my new Las Vegas web site had to satisfy, I’ll repeat it here for your convenience.1: I had to have full control over the web site so I could change or modify it at will.2: It had to contain a great deal of information covering all phases of buying or selling a residential property. Commercial real estate is not meant for civilians.3: People had to be able to find it relatively easily.4: It had to be aesthetically pleasing; the rule of thumb is that web page readers decide to stay with a web site in under six seconds.5: The web site had to be easy to navigate and all the information in the web site should be reachable within three clicks if possible.This is all good. Obviously a dingy little web site is not the answer. The problem was tha | | By: Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Blog | | |
| | How I began my real estate career in Las Vegas, Nevada. Criteria to design my real estate web site. | | 2007-09-10 07:02:04 | | This is the second article ofWhy and how this blog and its companion web-site Las Vegas homes, condos and commercial real estate came to be. This is a lesson in life, business, planning and executionBy the time we arrived in Las Vegas in Oct. 2003, the Las Vegas real estate market was on fire. Everybody and their aunts and uncles were getting into the business. The number of Las Vegas real estate agent reps (unless you are a Las Vegas real estate broker you are called a real estate agent representative since you are representing your broker) went from under 10,000 to 17,000 in no time and everyone, especially brokers, made a lot of money since those who got their real estate license would buy a property for themselves and one or more others for a relative or friends. So I started attending a real estate school, passed the test, waited for three month for the background check which is a Nevada Government requirement and got my license. Now what?I was new to town and didn’t know anyt | | By: Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Blog | | |
| | Why and how this blog and its companion web-site Las Vegas homes, condos and commercial real estate came to be. This is a lesson in life, business, planning and execution | | 2007-09-08 01:19:34 | | BackgroundMy dear wife Karen, whose opinion I value greatly, told me that she didn’t like the last few posts and that these posts were not reflective of my personality and style. I agree and will change things accordingly.First a few words about me so you can get a picture of my environment as it is essential to this discussion. A bad accident can be a point of discontinuity in a person’s life and an auto accident turned mine upside down in October 1996 and due to the same accident I don’t remember much about my life prior to the accident other than being a habitual underperformer. I had studied electrical engineering and ended up with a low C average and was drifting through life aimlessly. One day I came across a quote from Michael Jordan. It said “AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TO STOP ASPIRING TO BE THE MAN YOU WANT TO BE AND START BEING THE MAN YOU ASPIRE TO BE”. I went back to school the next semester and started taking courses again. There I met two people who had a profound e | | By: Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Blog | | |
| | Web Site Development Process Tips to turn the tide in your favor | | 2007-09-03 04:20:00 | | The development of your website involves an important decision-making process. A key factor in the process is the consideration of how potential clients or customers will interact with your site. The success of your website, and possibly your entire business rests on how you address that issueWhen you begin the process of setting up a website, here are some questions that you should consider: 1.What is the one overall message that a customer should take away with them when they leave your website? 2.How does your website make your customers feel? 3.How can your product or service best be explained to the customer in a simple and concise manner? 4.How can the customer be guided to buy/buy now? 5.How can you encourage the customer to come back? 6.How can you get your customer to bring you additional customers? Planning a Website is a two-part processFirst Part -- You gather your development partners, analyze your needs and goals, and work through the development process outlined here to refine your plans.Second Part --- create a site specification document that details what you intend to do and why, what technology and content you'll need, how long the process will take, what you will spend to do it, and how you will assess the results of your efforts. The site specification document is crucial to creating a successful site, as it is both the blueprint for your process and the touchstone you'll use to keep the project focused on your agreed goals and deliverables.Remember Websites are developed by groups of people to meet the needs of other groups of people. Unfortunately, Web projects are often approached as a "technology problem," and projects are colored from the beginning by enthusiasms for particular Web techniques or browser plug-ins (Flash, digital media, XML, databases, etc.), not by real human or business needs. People are the key to successful Web projects. To create a substantial site you'll need content experts, writers, information architects, graphic | | By: Cost effective website development | | |
| | Changes coming to Web site | | 2007-09-01 23:06:43 | | The Newsletter for the World of Word by Elias Tobias
Changes are happening here in Laredo for my wife and I. She has a new job waiting for her in Indianapolis, Indiana, and by Sept. 17, 2007, if all goes as planned, we will be settled in a new apartment. I have no plans yet [...] | | By: World of World by Elias Tobias | | |
| | Spruz Up Your Web Site | | 2007-09-01 00:51:14 | | Spruz is a brand new web site creation system that is one of the most enhanced, in depth, and feature rich system I have ever seen while still keeping it simple for new users. New users go through a simple wizard that helps get you off your feet and create your first web site. Like [...] | | By: Super Justin | | |
| | What to choose - web site template or custom development ? | | 2007-08-27 01:50:00 | | What should site be to positively influence business and not bring heaps of problems?”. In this article we want to analyse the parameter of how site is created. There are two major variants – you can get custom developed site or you can buy off-the-shelf ready solution for a site. Exactly these two variants or choice of web sites appearing will be discussed in this article.variant 1: you decided that you don’t want to be like all the rest and that your business deserves a lot and, constantly, your company web site should be the best in the whole world, especially if you consider it to be a very important constituent of your business. Welcome to the category of people willing to get a custom developed site (exclusive and perfect). Advantages of such a site are: * custom web site development always allows taking into consideration current and future (which is the most important) needs of the market and customers; * every field of activity and, consequently, target group has lots of details which you will be able to provide for; * you will get exactly what you wanted as a result of custom web site development; * if you want to get profit and benefit from your web site’s work, you will need to constantly develop and improve it (both content and functionality). It is difficult to do this with off-the-shelf solutions, but custom developed sites can be easily improved, developed and changed. Unfortunately, this variant of web site development is not ideal. There are two big disadvantages: time and money. Custom web site development is labour-consuming and takes a lot of time (of course, time of development depends on, first of all, your requirements) and, therefore, it requires great expenditures. So, if you have time and big budget for the project, take this variant into account. Second variant : you need to get site (probably, not the most special) as soon as possible and it is highly desirable that site should be not very expensive. You belong to people who need | | By: web site deveopment design | | |
| | The Art of Negotiation: This feedback got my web-site indexed in Yahoo in only 4 days! | | 2007-08-26 06:46:00 | | One of the most important aspects of a real estate transaction and for that matter any kind of transaction is the negotiation. The reason I called negotiations an art is because both science and uncertainty are involved. The outcome of any act which involves human beings is inherently uncertain. A successful negotiator possesses complete knowledge of his/her environment. By that I mean the facts involved in the transaction, and a good knowledge of the other sides want and needs and concerns. A good negotiator tries to optimally leverage any asset she/he has in order to acquire what he/she wants, and remember there is always two sides in any transaction. Having discussed all this I will analyze my feed back to Yahoo.The situation was as follows:A: I wanted Yahoo to index my web site’s pages and had no indication on when or if my web site’s pages were going to get indexed in Yahoo. B: Yahoo is huge, I am little, Yahoo has nothing to gain by indexing my pages and I have everything t | | By: Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Blog | | |
| | Cool Tips on Optimizing a Web Site | | 2007-08-24 23:07:30 | | After spending so much time and/or money on designing and building your site, now the real problem comes. It is not enough that you have built a site and just let it hang there. In doing such, its like throwing away the money and time spent on this project to trash. You are done with the easy parts. Yes, you heard it right, those are easy compared to what you will do next.To be able to get higher traffic, continuous optimization of your pages is necessary. It is done to have high search engine rankings and to have high pr. Here are some suggestions on optimizing a website:KeywordsIt is beneficial to take all the time that it takes to research for keywords and key phrases for your site. Never use irrelevant keywords moreover do not “keyword stuff” your meta tags. It has been abused frequently and as a consequence, most major search engine don't give much weight on the meta tags. If found to be in such violation, search engine will penalize your site.Title TagBe short and descriptiv | | By: Make moeny Online with a 12 years old Kid | | |
| | Top 10 basic SEO Tips to build high traffic web site | | 2007-08-11 19:16:37 | | Webmasters are hiring the SEO companies by paying thousands of dollars to optimize their sites for search engines and to get traffic from giants like Google, Yahoo and MSN. This is not possible for all webmasters. If you keep track of following basic SEO tips you can save these dollars and can achieve almost same final effect.
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| | Pocket PC Web site development tips | | 2007-08-10 04:44:00 | | More and more users are accessing the Web via Pocket PC handhelds, so Web developers need to be proficient in Pocket Internet Explorer (pIE) specifications. This article examines the basic pIE specs and shows you how to tune your Web site appropriately.When you're developing Pocket PC Web sites, you need to consider three elements: presentation, browser features, and bandwidth. You can create mobile code by hand or with specialized tools. The Visual Studio .NET 2003 mobile controls easily self-render ASP.NET pages for the Pocket PC platform.This article will offer a brief overview of the Pocket PC Web site specification. I'll examine details native to the Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer (known as pIE), but much of the information will be applicable to other Pocket PC-enabled Web browsers, such as Access NetFront, ThunderHawk, and MultiIERead more at Pocket PC Web site development tips | | By: Cost effective website development | | |
| | More about how to put video on your web site | | 2007-08-10 04:30:00 | | If you want to put videos on your web site, what video format is the best choice? How to convert videos to this format? And how to put videos on Web using your own site not other video hosting service site like YouTube? This small how-to-do-it-step-by-step guide is going to help you with these questions.Read it at How to convert video to Flash video and put video on your site | | By: canada web site design | | |
| | | How to Promote Your Web Site by Writing Articles | | 2007-07-30 13:06:00 | | Sharing knowledge on the web can be a very powerful way to establish your online presence and credibility. First, you write a thoughtful and informative article on an topic in your area of expertise. Then you submit it to e-zines to be read by the general public and possibly re-published on other web sites.Appended to the end of your article is a resource box containing a brief promotional message linking to your web site. Webmasters who wish to reprint your article on their sites are required to include your resource box along with any live links to your site.For example, an article written by me might have the following resource box:Article by Oudam Em. Oudam is the webmaster of Web Launch, http://www.nexcomp.com/weblaunch, a free resource for web site promotion and search engine optimization. Please visit his site for more free tips and tutorials on building traffic and generating income on your site.The benefit that you get from your article is two-fold. First, your article will be | | By: Make moeny Online with a 12 years old Kid | | |
| | Put a Press Section on your Web site Today! | | 2007-07-23 00:13:32 | | Having a good press section on your web site can do wonders for your off line and online public relations efforts.
The goal of a press section is to make it easier for the media to write about your company/services in their newspapers, magazines, blogs, evening news, television shows, radio… Press sections save time for reporters because all the information they need is in one place. The easier you make it for reporters to write about you the more likely they will.
A good press section should include the following:
Press Releases
You should post all of your press releases on your web site. Reporters will often look at your press releases for ideas of what to write about your company. Often times they will just reprint your press releases or alter them slightly, especially when they are on a deadline. Press releases also let your visitors know what is happening with your company.
Previous Press Hits
Include links to previous press hits (articles and press publications that have | | By: Internet Marketing Blog | | |
| | Changing world of Web Site statistics | | 2007-07-15 17:19:13 | | Time on site is getting more popular press over the last couple of days since Nielsen said that this was how it was going to start augmenting stats over the traditional page view and hits versus unique IP address. Beths blog has a great summary of the general responses to the concept.
In the web 2.0 world, the time on site metric is critical in determining the quantity of time that someone spends on the site, versus what they do when they are there. When we did our research on which social networking leads to the longest time on site. If you are watching a video, then the duration on site is a good thing.
The other component to this though is the idea of quality, many sites have no idea of what the quality of the user is on their web site. This also feeds into the idea of advertising, and how on line advertising costs a lot, but the advertisers really don’t know if the users are quality, those people more inclined to actually purchase something.
While the ad campaign that leads to | | By: techwag | | |
| | 9 Important Tips for a fast loading web site | | 2007-06-29 06:32:00 | | It is important to have a reasonably fast loading web site so that viewers are not made to wait for a long time and to accommodate users on slow internet connections. Search engine algorithms also do take into consideration your load time. Follow these tips while designing and developing your site: 1. Optimize your HTML code: Make sure that your site doesn't have any unwanted tags and that it is optimized. 2. Effective Table designing: Design using nested tables instead of using cell merges and splits. Use separate tables where ever possible. Not designing for 100% height is better as if you use just one outer table, the web page is displayed only after the table is loaded fully. If many outer tables are present [you can have different tables for the header, content, footer, etc.] the page displays the content of each table as soon as its elements are loaded. 3. Maximize content area: This not only reduces load time, it enhances the readability of your site. 4. Minimize use of graphics, Flash, scripts: These are the major contributors to the size of your web page, so try minimizing them. Try using background colors and fills instead of heavy images. 5. Optimize all heavy files: As much as possible optimize heavy graphics, Flash files and scripts. In editors like fireworks and flash you can see the various options in the preview panel to reduce the sizes. See how popular web sites like google and yahoo have pages that are very small in size and thus load in seconds. 6. Stick to simple designs: Most fast loading sites have very simple designs. Take the hint! Complicated designs will slow down your pages. Spread out your content: In case you find yourself having very long pages of content, break them down into separate sections and thus bring down the sizes of the individual pages. 7. Use Text Links instead of graphic buttons: basically try to make use of HTML as much as possible. Use CSS Styles for text links to make them as attractive as buttons. Read our CSS Styles | | By: canada web site design | | |
| | 10 Tips on designing a fast loading web site | | 2007-06-26 02:46:00 | | Tips and tricks on effective web designThe Number 1 rule that every web designer should follow is to create a fast loading web site. You might have a great design but very few people are going to see it if it takes a long time to load. While designing a web site always think about how long it will take to load. Try out our tips to build a great looking web site that also loads fast1. Minimize the use of images - The key to a fast loading web site is to minimize the use of images. Images do enhance a page but don't make 80% of your web site only images. Instead break it down as much as possible to simple HTML. Notice the popular sites like Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Amazon etc., they have very few images because the load time is more important. Very often simple designs are the best.2. Optimize images for the web - Once you have decided on the images that you need on your site, make sure that it is optimized for the web. They should be in the gif or jpeg format. You can also minimize the size of the image by choosing the number of colors you need, from the color palette. The less the colors you choose, the less the size of the image. You can also use online tools like Gif Wizard to optimize your images or to get a recommendation on how to cut down the size of an image.3. Use Tables creatively - You can get some great looking designs by using tables creatively . Tables load very fast because it is just HTML code. Tables can be used in the homepage, menus or anywhere you like. Read more on Using HTML Tables Creatively4. Cut down the use of animated gifs - Don't use animated gifs unless it is necessary. Animated gifs take a long time to load and can also be very irritating. But since they catch your attention you could use small animated gifs to draw a visitor's attention to a particular section of your site.5. Design simple icons - Instead of using big, bulky images use simple and small icons that add a little color and draw the attention of a visitor. 6. Use background | | By: Web site design graphic design | | |
| | Web Site Attack Hits Italy Tourism Sites | | 2007-06-20 01:31:00 | | Trend Micro said it detected more than 4,500 travel sites in Italy that have been infected as part of a scheme through which data on computers that visit those sites is being stolen and sent to a server located in Chicago, said David Perry, a spokesman for the Japan-based company.
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| | Common Web Site Mistakes: Ten Things You Should Always Leave Out | | 2007-06-16 02:36:00 | | Designing a slick, attractive Web site takes practice and persistence. With time and feedback from visitors, you'll learn what makes them come back for more and what causes them to abandon your site after one quick stop. Few site owners do the job perfectly the first time: thankfully, you can always upload updated pages as you make improvements. Experience is the best teacher, but here's something to start you on the road to a solid, professional Web site: things that you should always leave out. No matter what type of site you design – personal, business or somewhere in between – these things should never find their way onto your pages. . Flashing graphics. If the neon-green-and-white image gives you an instant migraine, odds are your visitors will have the same problem. Keep the headache-inducing elements as far away from your site as possible. . Sound files that automatically load. The auto-loading option only wastes valuable time that can be better spent loading your real content. And many visitors surf with their speakers turned off anyway, just to avoid annoying website noises. You may want to provide brief audio or video clips, but always make them voluntary! . Clashing backgrounds and blocks of text. Grey text on a graphical background of court house steps won't work. You'll be able to read some bits and pieces, but most will be lost in the image. . Embedded ad windows that were designed to foil pop-up blockers. These ads aren't quite embedded: they cover your page's content until the user does something with the ad windows. Stick with text-based ads, like Google's AdSense, to generate a little money from your site. . Extremely long pages. Break them up into different pages and use HTML coding to link them together. Users would rather have quick-loading, short pages than one massive document that requires endless scrolling. . Pointless Flash animation. There's a reason that many Flash elements include the "Skip Intro" option. Unless it's necessa | | By: Cost effective website development | | |
| | Shores International Launches its New Travel Web Site | | 2007-05-31 06:11:00 | | To the Editor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Penny Busch Daley
Shores International Specialty Travel
Phone (518) 893-0461
Fax (518) 893-0461
info@shoresinternational.com
http://www.shoresinternational.com
Shores International Launches its New Travel Web Site
MIDDLE GROVE, NY- March 20, 2000- Shores International Specialty Travel launches a new travel web site, http://www.shoresinternational.com, which now offers customers a large variety of special interest and adventure travel tours. Customers are now able to research an activity of interest such as fishing, hiking or kayaking, just to name a few. In addition, customers are able to retrieve information directly from the tour operator offering a specialty travel tour. Shores International is well positioned to cater to the growing need of online buyers of adventure travel.
Shores International also offers corporate research services to companies interested in planning employee/executive related trips. By using an advanced onli | | By: UniQuest | | |
| | The Birth of a Professional Web Site | | 2007-05-26 00:36:00 | | The Internet has opened a whole New World of opportunity for all of us. With the vast amount of information available at your fingertips, it has never been easier to communicate your message to the world. A web site will enable you to create your own home on the World Wide Web. Your home may be as simple or dynamic as you'd like and is only limited by your imagination.Although designing a great web site is an important part of developing a successful online business, it is only one small part of an overall plan.Although many new Internet entrepreneurs believe that all they need to do to make money online is to put up a web site, that couldn't be further from the truth.The truth is developing a successful Internet business takes a great deal of time, thought and effort. It takes a sincere commitment, a lot of patience, and a lot of personal drive. There are a lot of lessons that must be learned, and a lot of failures that must be endured. However, if you're truly passionate about your business and success, it will happen -- you will succeed. A major factor in determining your success is the amount of time you take to educate yourself. Please don't take this point lightly, as it can literally mean the difference between your success and failure.Sure, learning HTML is an important part of designing a successful web site; however, it is only one small part. You must first develop a strategic plan and design your web site accordingly.Prior to designing your web site, here are some questions to assist you in developing your strategy:• Who is your target audience?• What is your most wanted response?• What products and/or services will you offer?• Will you sell affiliate products and/or services?• What type of design will you use?• Will you design your site or hire a professional?• How will your site be navigated?• How will your site be optimized?• What type of graphics will your site use?• Where will you obtain your graphics?• What graphic formats | | By: Cost effective website development | | |
| | Avoid These Web Site Design And Writing No-Nos | | 2007-05-23 07:36:00 | | Is your website doomed before it even gets off the ground? A badly-designed website can turn off potential customers before they even think about buying your product. Here are some website design mistakes that you should avoid.1. Don't load your web site with a lot of high techclutter. As a rule, avoid using fancy animation or scriptcode unless it is absolutely necessary.. Those things only serve to distract from your sales message.2. A website that loads slowly is just about the mostannoying thing on the Internet. Don't use large graphicsor anything else that dramatically increases your site'sload time.3. Don't make the mistake that everyone will totallyunderstand your web site message. Use descriptive words and examples to get your point across.4. Don't write your strongest point or benefit only once.You should repeat it at least 3 times because some peoplemay miss it.5. Don't push all your words together on your web site.People like to skim; use plenty of headings and subheadings.6. Stay focused. Don't use site content your targetaudience isn't interested in. If people are coming to yoursite to find info about fishing, then don't include soccer content.7. Keep a unified theme. Don't use 50 different content formats all over your web site. Use the same fonts, text sizes, text colors, etc.8. Stick to the basics. Don't use words your web sitevisitors might not understand. People are not going to stopand look in a dictionary, they will just go to another site.9. Don't let your selling words and phrases go unnoticed. Highlight important words and phrases with color, bolding, italics, underlining, etc.10. Don't forget to use words that create emotion. Allpeople have emotions, people will have more interest whenthey are emotionally attached.11. Don't use unnecessary words or phrases on your site.You only have so much time to get your visitor's attentionand interest; so make ever word count.12. Stay organized by avoiding the "cluttered" look. I see plenty | | By: canada web site design | | |
| | Professional Truck Driver Institute Web site updated | | 2007-05-17 15:43:46 | | Thomson Delmar Learning, a provider of learning products and services for the health care, technology and trades and career education markets and part of The Thomson Corp., today announced that after a collaborative effort between Thomson Delmar Learning and the Professional Truck Driver Institute (PTDI), the PTDI Web site www.ptdi.org has been successfully updated and enhanced.Since its beginning, PTDI, which is affiliated with the Truckload Carriers Assocation, has promoted minimum training standards for those considering entering the truck driving industry and schools that value quality training. PTDI officials said the new and improved Web site proves that this remains true even to this day.
They said that in addition to its fresh new look, the Web site offers much more information, such as a summary of curriculum guidelines, as well as user-friendly navigation. These changes enable the site’s visitors to find the answers they need quickly and with the greatest of eas | | By: American Truck Buyer - All About Trucks & Trai | | |
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