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The Top 8 Website Sins Part Two
Sin #5
Poor Spelling And Grammar
We all make mistakes when we write things down or type things out. Nobody is 100% perfect but a huge number of website owners completely ignore the basic...6 Fatal Design Flaws Newbie Web Design
Even if you're not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago?you're teaching yourself web design and you're starting...So Youre Hiring a Web Designer
Whether you're hiring a designer who has created 10 sites or 1000 sites for other businesses, there are 10 things every website should do for you.
1. Be wary of companies who charge by...Creating Personal Web Sites
This is a two-part article about creating a web site on the web and the tools that you need to do that.
During the last decade we have truly entered the information age. More and more p...Creating Personal Web Sites Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article about creating a web site on the Internet and the tools that you will need to do it.
Some basic terminology that you should take a look at ...Testament to Testimonials
Should You Use Testimonials on Your Website?
Author: Cal Hyslop
We have all seen websites showcasing their testimonials either spread strategically throughout the site or all togethe...How Important Is It For Copywriters To Have An Agency Quality Website
Find out how important an ?agency quality? website is for copywriters trying to prospect outside their geographic region....3 Tips You Can Use Right Now to Improve
Studies done by Jakob Nielson the man touted as the, "King of usability" by Internet Magazine showed that people do not read on the web like they would normally read offline.
So what do...Web Design Tips To Boost Your Online Sales
The way you design your web site affects your visitors' online
experience. As each visitor to your site is a potential
customer, the easier they find your web site to use and the more
t...TOP 10 WEBSITE MISTAKES
After being a website designer and user since 1996, I'm still
seeing people make the same mistakes on their websites.
Here's a list of the ones that will drive people away from
your sit...Improve the Readability of Your Web Page
By Christine Churchill ? 2004
The importance of web site readability was brought home to me
through personal experience with my aged mother. As a hard core
Internet junkie, I felt com...Leading a Website Redesign Team Things NonTechnical Managers Should Know
Are you a marketing person or general manager who has been put in charge of your company?s website redesign? If so, you?re in good company. A majority of the website redesigns being done today are not...The importance of a good title tag
By Jakob Jelling
http://www.sitetube.com
When you are optimizing your website for search engine placement and trying to get a higher search engine ranking, you usually use several diff...Dont Make Your Website UserUNfriendly
Web Design is a very subjective process. Your idea of what looks good may differ from the next person's. While wild backgrounds and flashing text were once considered 'cool', unwritten sta...Ten Design Mistakes to Avoid
Avoid these mistakes and your site will be steps ahead of your competition.
1. Not planning your site
Before you even have a website, you must have an idea, a focus. Why do you want a ...How to Design a Professional Website for Your Busi
If you intend to create a business website, you should keep the requirements of your website visitors in mind. This is to ensure that your website visitors enjoy visiting your website and ...Webdesign dos
By David Callan
You may have read the article entitled Webdesign don'ts, the article as the name suggests covers some of the things you should avoid when designing a website, things that ...Webdesign donts
By David Callan
Your website is the life and soul of your Internet presence, if your website appears and acts unprofessional your company will seem unprofessional and people won't feel co...Faviconico file guide
By David Callan
Favicon.ico is the name of the icon Internet Explorer 5+ uses in the address bar when someone's viewing their favorites. There should be one beside the address of this pag...Custom error pages
By David Callan
Link Rot is everywhere on the Internet. Link rot is the name often used to refer to broken links on the web, by broken I do of course mean links that don't work.
When s...htaccess file guide
By David Callan
You may have already come across the .htaccess file while on www.akamarketing.com, we used it in the article Custom error pages to enable you to set up custom error pages ...Accessibility Issues Make a Difference
By Scottie Claiborne
You often read advice from industry experts along the lines of "using tags as they were meant to be used" and limiting your use of advanced programming techniques in ...What Your Web Designer Isnt Telling You
By Kalena Jordan 1st July 2001
If I was to ask you right now "Are you absolutely certain that your web site is optimized for high search engine rankings?", what would you say?
W...3 Supertips To Build Promote And Profit More Fro
Are you happy with your website? (Does your business even
have one?)
Does it 'perform' as well as you'd like?
I'm a professional web designer and I always try to
influence the desi...Is YOUR Web Site Ready For Christmas
It will soon be Christmas. Whether Christian or not, that
means one thing to online vendors everywhere: BIG SALES!
But is your site *ready* for Christmas?
Let me explain what I mean...Designing A Site That Demands High Traffic
Marnie Pehrson may not be well known for driving traffic to Web sites, but she should be! Her ability to get literally hundreds of thousands of page views a month is simply astounding! (NO...DoitYourself Websites
Copyright (c) 2003 Heather Reimer
Several years ago, at the beginning of my Internet career, I asked someone if HTML was an abbreviation for Hotmail. Yes, I really was that naive. Since ...Top Ten Features of a Good Web Site
As a professional web design business, we have created and re-created many sites. The "great" ones have certain things in common. We thought we'd share those elements with you?
1. Easy ...Make Sure Your Site Passes the 7 Second Test
Seven seconds. That's all the time you have to make a good impression on your web site visitors. Seven seconds is not a lot of time! What happens if your site doesn't make the grade? CLICK...Screen Size Compatibility
Have you ever visited a Web site that looked, well ? strange? Something about it just wasn't right. The design was well done but it just didn't seem to fit the screen. It happens quite a b...