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How to Make
the Visitor Click the Link
There are a number of steps a webmaster can take to encourage visitors
to "click" on a link or graphic located on their website.
The following steps will help "get the click"...
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How to Backup
Your WordPress Site
You've probably heard it a million times - you NEED to backup your
data or you risk losing it all forever. This is no less important
when you are using WordPress. In fact, it may be more important
given that open-source applications like WordPress are more susceptible
to hacker attacks. I can tell you from personal experience how important
it really is. Learn in this article how to avoid losing your entire
WordPress site and content...
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How to Create
HTML Links in WordPress - Several Tips
WordPress makes it easy to add links in your content. However,
there are right and wrong ways to do it. There are also times when
you'll need to create a HTML link manually such as in Text Widgets.
Finally, there is a Links Manager built into WordPress for showing
a list of links in your sidebar. We're going to take a deeper look
at creating links properly in WordPress, in all these situations...
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5 Easy Steps
to Set Up a Free, Yet Powerful, WordPress Website
Heard the buzz about WordPress? About how it gives you a
Content Management System, thousands of beautiful "Themes", tons
of "Plugins" to add functionality, and how its 100% open source,
making it FREE and limitlessly powerful. You've heard - and you
decided. It's time to build a website in WordPress! But how do you
go about getting WordPress installed and set-up? There are only
five quick and easy steps to get up and running...
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15 Web-Design
Tips
Here are 15 important website design tips that you might
not be aware of or have overlooked. Consider taking advantage of
them if you haven't already done so...
1. Custom 404 Pages
Create a custom 404 web page, so that any time your website visitor
mistypes or misspells a URL on your site, they will still be provided
with navigation options for your site (instead of getting nothing
but a "Page Not Found" error message, which is neither
friendly or helpful)...
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5 Top WordPress
Plugins For Business Blogs
After more than a decade of building websites, I have determined
that the WordPress platform is an essential part of my online business,
because it is so quick and easy to install on a new domain. In this
article, I am going to review the Top 5 Benefits of using WordPress
as a Content Management System (CMS) and the Top 5 WordPress Plugins
that you should consider using on your WordPress blog...
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How to Design
Landing Pages
The definition of a landing page is simply "the first
page that visitors hit on your site", so it is not strictly
a certain page but any page that a user "lands" on. All
websites have landing pages, whether they like it or not, even if
it was not specifically designed as such. Effective landing pages
are essential to increasing your online sales. Assessing and refining
these pages needs to be a key part of your online marketing strategy...
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Add Flair
to Your Audio and Video
I can't think of one single thing that has become more prevalent
in internet marketing than the use of video and audio as a tool
to increase conversions and stick rate...
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How to design
a logo - main concepts
A logo concept is more than just an affinity for a specific
character. Logos represent a company's brand, and as a result, serious
thought and consideration should be put into your logo. Before hand
be sure to consider, how the logo will represent your organization
and consider the thoughts that will be associated with specific
images that you consider for your logo...
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Comparison
of HTML editors
The following tables compare general and technical
information for a number of HTML editors. This article is
not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Please see the individual
products' articles for further information, and Comparison of text
editors for information on text editors, many of which have features
to assist with writing HTML...
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List of
open source content management systems
Pages in category "Open source content management
systems"
The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115
total...
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How to Design
a Good Website
•
Clearly define the purpose of building your website. Ask yourself
a question: “How will people benefit from visiting my website?”
• Use an easy-to-remember domain name.
• Never make the home page with just one button: “Enter the site”
– you should never create an extra “click” level, if that is not
absolutely necessary…
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How to Design
a Bad Website
If
you're a sadistic kind of webmaster or website owner and have a
burning desire to royally frustrate and anger your site visitors
each and every time they visit your site, these three lists are
just for you. If you want to have a terrible website that looks
bad, works horribly and breaks fundamental marketing rules, read
on…
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How to Create
a Podcast for Your Site?
The
term "podcast" was initially used to reference an RSS feed that
contained audio files in the item's enclosure field. The meaning
of podcasting has since expanded, and now refers to RSS feeds that
contain all types of media, including audio and video, in the item's
enclosure field. For the non-technical folks, podcasting is simply
a means of syndicating and distributing rich-media files via the
Internet…
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Webmaster
Toolkit
Here
is a collection of what we consider "must have" tools for webmasters.
These tools will benefit any webmaster, both novices and experts
alike. Arm yourself with these tools in order to achieve a more
professional online presence…
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What RSS
Feeds Can Be Used For
With
all the vast amounts of information available on the web, it is
becoming more and more difficult to sort through and find what you
are looking for. RSS significantly lowers the signal-to-noise ratio.
RSS has the unique ability to compile information and filter it,
so you only see unique and relevant content…
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How to Design
and Market with Adobe
A
sales campaign is analogous to a military campaign: resources have
to be assembled and then applied to an objective. In the case of
a sales campaign, the objective is to capture sales. The resources
that can be used in a sales campaign include banner ads and web
pages. Other resources—such as traffic exchanges, blogs, ezines,
and forums—can be used to help interested prospects find the banners
and targeted web pages on the Internet. This article will discuss
how I designed a banner ad and a web page to be used in a sales
campaign…
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WordPress
2.5 Installation and Styling Tips
In
this article, I will describe the installation process for WordPress.
I will then show how to customize the default theme. This article
was originally written for WordPress 2.5 but has been updated to
be a useful guide for installing and theming even the latest WordPress
version…
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Writing
Articles With Style - Create Quality Articles With CSS
Writing
your quality articles using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) will insure
that your articles will be both easy to read and aesthetically pleasing
to the viewer. This article will teach you how to utilize CSS within
your articles and your website…
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25 + Common
Website Design Mistakes To Avoid
I'm
sure you've seen examples of great websites on the internet - and
also examples of really "Bad" websites. First impressions are extremely
important - you have about 20 seconds to make that first impression
a good one. If you want your visitor to come back you've got to
do a lot to impress them in an extremely short period of time…
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Royalty
Free Stock Photography for Web Design
Stock
photography websites contain thousands of existing photographs that
can be licensed for specific uses. A customer who uses stock photography
instead of hiring a photographer can save time, effort and money.
Typically publishers can either purchase exclusive rights to a single
image or they can purchase a subscription of sorts…
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Website
Planning
In
too many cases organizations develop a web site for the wrong reasons:
• Their MD wants one
• A web design firm has offered to give them a special deal…
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How To Block
Direct Image Linking Using .htaccess
Most
of us have a specified limit to the amount of traffic our web servers
will handle for us. That limit seems very generous – until you start
looking at image downloads and the bandwidth required. A few dozen
users downloading an image – that's one thing. But what if you have
an image that dozens of other websites like?…
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The Art
of Website Maintenance
Now
that you've designed and launched your website, you have a powerful
marketing tool for your business. But, your website is only as useful
as the content is current. The process of keeping the content on
your site current is called website maintenance, and it's important
to keep both visitors and search engines supplied with new information…
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Using Graphics
To Increase Sales
If
used correctly, graphics can add to the attractiveness of a web
site and also contribute positively to a visitor's first impression
of the site. However, the opposite can also be true. If a web site
is not very attractive, a visitor may be negatively affected and
may click away from the site, possibly never to return…
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Landing
Page Quick Reference Guide
A
landing page is a website page that is created for one purpose -
to persuade the site visitor to convert into a customer by making
a sale, completing a form (thereby becoming a qualified lead), signing
up for a newsletter, etc…
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10 Ways
To Keep Visitors At Your Site Longer
The
more time people spend at your web site, the more time you'll have
to persuade them to buy your product or service. Below are ten powerful
ways to keep visitors at your web site longer…
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Font Basics
for Small Business's Logo and Brand
There
are many components of a brand identity: logo, color palette, font
choice, and the Visual Vocabulary. There's a lot of information
available about the use of logos, colors, and Visual Vocabulary,
but not much on the effective use of fonts. So, here's some information
on the creative, practical, and technical aspects of fonts…
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Finding a Graphic Designer
Are
you ready to hire someone to design your logo, collaterals, or artwork
for your website? Well, here's just the information you need to
create the best relationship with your graphic designer…
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See Your Website Through Your
Visitors Eyes
Every
time a visitor comes to your site, they take a particular path.
Their eyes move in quick motion, hopping from one hotspot to the
next. If you don't know how your visitors are traveling, your conversion
rates will suffer dramatically. Fortunately, there is a company
who has performed in-depth testing for you, revealing the common
behaviors of people viewing web pages…
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Designing Your Site for Web
2.0
Have
you heard it? There's a buzz like never before on the Internet.
Everyone is talking about Web 2.0. If you're like many people, you
may think it's a marketing gimmick and quite an overused statement.
If so, you would be at least partially right…
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Is Your Web Site Missing These
Crucial Conversion Factors?
Smart
online marketers never guess. They base their decisions on precise
testing. Unfortunately, 90% of online marketers never test at all.
However, for those that take the time to test properly, they can
quickly rise above the competition. Want to know how to increase
your profits without increasing your web site traffic? Proper testing
and tracking is the key …
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Got A Second? - Barely! Grabbing
A Website Visitors Attention
The
blink of an eye! That’s how long it takes a visitor to assess the
overall look of your website. Research has recently shown that a
site visitor will decide whether or not they like your website in
1/20th of a second. That’s less than the time it takes to blink!
And in less than 10 seconds they decide to stay at your website
or leave…
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Are You A Closet FrontPage User?
In
webmaster circles, fessing up to being a FrontPage user is akin
to inviting your mother as your date to your senior prom: you just
don't do it. In fact, admitting that you simply use a WYSIWIG editor
can often be enough for experienced webmasters to quietly chuckle,
look at you with a “someday you'll learn” look, and give you a nice
pat on the back encouraging you to keep learning…
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The Seven Characteristics of
Incredibly Successful Web Sites
If
you want to do business online, you need a web site. Your web site
will be your advertisement, your storefront, your salesperson, and
your cash register! That's why it is so important to pay careful
attention to every aspect of your web site's development…
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What The Font? Understanding
Typefaces On The Web
Do
you operate a website, send out electronic newsletters or e-mail
campaigns? Have you ever experimented with the different fonts (typefaces)
available? If you have, you probably discovered there are numerous
fonts available on your computer – in some cases 100-200 or more.
How then do you decide which font to use?…
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Improve Your Visitors Experience
- Add Scripts to Your Website
For
new webmasters, adding third-party software and scripting to a website
can be a really scary proposition. I remember when I put my first
scripts on my own website. Even with my basic dos programming experience
in high school, I was still intimidated by the whole process. I
was so sure that I was going to screw something up…
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Selecting the Best Web Design
Language for Your Project
If
you'd like to create and publish your own web site on the Internet,
your first step should be to decide what type of web site you would
like to create and what web design language you would like to use…
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7 Easy Steps to Making Your
Own Home Business Web Site
Deciding
to create a website for your home business is one of the best ways
to maximize your business success. However, as a home business owner,
you probably don't have any expertise in website creation, nor the
money to hire an expert. The good news is that this by no means
that you can't have a professional, functional, and appealing website
of your own at an affordable price…
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Color Theory - Choosing Your
Website Colors
Is
the choice of colors for your website and print materials more than
just a matter of personal preference? Does it really matter what
color choices you make? Will your audience really feel differently
because of the color combinations?…
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Top 10 Ways
Websites Makes Me Suffer
I believe some people create and
publish websites for the sole purpose of tormenting their visitors.
Browsing various websites and navigating the Web can often be like
trying to read on an airplane while a kid kicks the back of your
seat and the baby next to you alternates between screaming, crying
and drooling on you. There are some excellent websites out there
to be sure, but there are also a lot of dreadful ones too…
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Seven Principles
of Effective Typography
Whether you’re designing a magazine
layout or a personal web site, functionality, aesthetics, and -
above all else - ease of use should comprise your primary concerns.
Your reader must be able to find the information she needs, quickly
and effortlessly. Locating the desired content is only half of the
battle; once found, your audience must also be able to read your
subject matter fluently and without difficulty…
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How
To Choose Your Website Colors
Color is often overlooked in the business of optimizing websites
for better returns on investments. Website sales can be greatly
affected by simply changing its colors. Ever come across a website
that uses some funky combination of print and background colors?
If you ever want to experience an eye-twisting headache, try reading
yellow print on a blue background. The reason you see black type
on a white background so much is that it is the best color combination
for reading, both on and offline…
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