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Sites That Make Sense

Context is the whole picture of your site: What it's about, how you navigate through the different pages, the information about your business, and of course the graphics. You are creating an environment for the visitor through your choices for t...

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Choosing Your Website's Address and Link Names

One of the most important things you will do when creating your website is selecting its web address. When you choose a web address, you want to make it descriptive of your company name, or the service you offer. Let's say you own a company call...

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Hiring a Professional Designer

The reasons for hiring a professional designer are the same reasons as hiring any other professional. You want someone who is knowledgeable in design, understands the needs of clients, and is able to accommodate any issues that arise. As such a profe...

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Designing Above the Fold

The most value part of any web page is that part which is shown in your browser before the need to scroll. This is generally known as "above the fold." Arguably, you have just 10 seconds to grab your visitors' attention. That doesn't seem l...

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I don’t need a website!….Do I

Once upon a time, in a small home office, a busy entrepreneur wondered why he wasn’t quite as busy as he would like to be. “I market my business as much as possible”, said the entrepreneur, who has implemented many marketing procedures while ru...

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How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 1

A ship captain traversing the open seas without a goodnavigation system will surely get lost. Maybe he'll strike sharprocks and his ship will sink. A visitor who arrives at yoursite and can't navigate it for the information they seek, wills...

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How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1

You are staring at the your monitor waiting for the image todownload. It finally appears but it has blurry edges. You go tothe next page but can't read the text because of the dark imagein the background. The next page has animated images, that ...

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Top Five Sins of the Startpage Exchanges

Right now, these exchanges are generating more traffic to mysite than any other single method ever has. They are a greattool, as any, in the right hands. They may not work nextweek, who knows, but that's the nature of the Internet.What IS certai...

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10 Tips For Running A Well-Oiled Business Site!

1. Address your targeted audience on your businesssite. Example: "Welcome Internet Marketers". Ifyou have more than one, address them all.2. Make sure your content and graphics are relevantto your web site's theme. You wouldn't want to usea...

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WEB-DESIGN GUIDELINES

It's not enough to know how to create a web site, you also needto know what makes a good web site. Think back on some of theweb sites you've visited recently. Were you impressed by all ofthem? Probably not. Many web sites are technically fi...

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