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Web Development Help & Advice
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10 Reasons Why Websites Fail - And How To Avoid The Normal Pitfalls
Perhaps you have attempted (maybe more than once) to have a website. You may have signed up late at night on one of the countless web hosting plans that are on the web and for only $7.95 you were u...
10 Seconds Is All It Takes… (How To Grab The Attention Of Your Audience With Your Web Site)
FACT: 30 to 60% of visitors tend to drop off and click to another site when they are forced to click their mouse more often than necessary. FACT: People who use the internet are usually those who are...
5 Common Web Site Development Mistakes of Small Business
Here's some mistakes to avoid when selecting or building your Web site. You know on those days when you have to wear your tech hat. 1) No Value - Too Simple This is probably the most common mistake m...
7 Quick And Easy Steps To Manage Your Time More Effectively
The internet is one of those things in life that borders on the verge of a good versus evil battle. It can be the greatest money making tool in existence, or the most malicious time waster. When peop...
Analyze This: Web Analytics
So, you think you’re off to a good start because you finally got your new Web site up and running. You even have one of those counters at the bottom of your homepage so you know exactly how many peop...
Building Web Communities With Free Forums
Looking for somewhere online to meet new people, discuss hobbies, plan events, or just have fun chatting? Internet forums have been around for some time on the web and often are free and easy to setu...
Convert Document To PDF
Introduction There are several ways to create a PDF from a Microsoft Word document. PDF, or Portable Document Format, is used worldwide as a standard in publishing documents on the Internet. This art...
Deliver Your Web Site From Evil (Part 1)
1. Backup your website on the server. If you have more than one important web site, put them on different web hosts. Don't rely on your web host for backups. Find two different hosts which allow SS...
Deliver Your Web Site From Evil (Part 2)
Here are some tips to protect your content from being ripped off. Other sites can easily outrank you in SERPs for your own content. This can happen if they have higher PageRank than you, or get spide...
Everything Needed To Optimize Your Web Site
Even the most talented writer can’t create copy that optimizes your business’ ability to maximize results, be it lead or sales generation, unless he has ‘the facts.’ By providing your copywriter with...
Free Automatic Content - Can the Search Engines See Yours?
Ever heard any of this advice? * Content Is King - so Search Engines and Visitors will Love your Site * Make Your Site Sticky - so Visitors will Return * Add New Content Regularly - so Search Engines...
How To Design Your Website For Optimal Productivity
What works best when promoting your web site. As the internet evolves from its infancy into maturity, website development, design and marketing becomes more and more sophisticated - and more and more...
Improving Website Performance
Images, graphic and flash animation Many sites have images or graphics that are too large. By too large, I don't necessarily mean the dimensions of the images, but the file size is excessive and does...
Make Sure Your Site Loads Fast
Every site must exert every effort in order to make their websites load fast. Too slow or lousy loading drives away visitors. The reason behind is – they don’t want to WAIT, that is! Patience and ti...
Streamline Your Website Pages
Squeezing the most efficient performance from your web pages is important. The benefits are universal, whether the site is personal or large and professional. Reducing page weight can speed up the br...
Turn Harmful 404 Error Pages Into Helpful 301 Redirects
It's a fact, Page Not Found, known as a 404 error, can harm your website Ranking with Search Engines as well as being a Turn-Off for Visitors. A search engine that repeatedly gets a 404 error will de...
Web Design for Speed
Have you ever noticed that some sites are much faster than others. Or that some specific websites take a notably larger amount of time to load than others? Have you ever seen a site that begins by ...
When You Should Consider Using a Site Template or Wizard to Build Your Own Website
I'm a web designer letting you know when it's important not to use a web designer. I feel this is very important to discuss, because many customers spend a lot of money when a much simpler solution i...
Why I Switched to A Tableless Design
Since I made the switch 6 months ago to a tableless design on my main site, I’ve noticed some interesting things: My search engine rankings have dramatically improved My bandwidth usage has droppe...
Why is Optimizing Your Site For Speed is Important? Tips on How to do so!
If there is one thing we have all suffered through is waiting for a site to download online. It seems like it is the worse thing in the world and will never end. We actually either click off of the s...
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