Tag: Moving
Moving to a New PC
Posted on Jul.07, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments
Getting a new PC is exciting and a pain. It’s exciting because you get a faster processor, more storage and all the latest stuff even though it’s outdated as soon as it hits your desk. The pain comes with re-installing all of your programs, re-customizing your preferences for programs, applications, and Windows, and transferring data to the new PC.
It can be simplified by using a bootable external drive or something similar and letting it load everything on the new PC. [...]
Linking for Traffic: The Shift from Link Directories to Hyper-Targeted Linking
Posted on Jul.04, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
There’s a stiff wind blowing in a new direction on the web. And you’d benefit from taking the time to notice the direction its headed.
Website owners are clamoring for “holy grail” hyper targeted (relevant) links from sites with a lot of traffic and high pagerank. More than ever, we are all looking for fewer links to our sites, but much more powerful links.
Another trend to watch and certainly implement on your site is getting the links out of your link [...]
Why You Should Avoid Developing A Website In Flash
Posted on Apr.21, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
If you know anything about website design, or anything about the Internet in general, then you have probably heard of flash. There are actually lots of websites and advertisements online that utilize flash and some web designers are claiming that Flash is the future of the Internet and web design. However, currently there are more reasons to avoid developing a website in flash than for doing so. Not that flash is not cool and able to attract attention, it is [...]
Top 10 Design Issues According To Web Marketing!
Posted on Apr.17, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
When it comes to designing your site, there are 2 ways you can ultimately go. a) Designing for yourself and no one else, b) Designing to fit web marketing and customer attracting methods.
Here are the top 10 issues you should always consider:
1) Flash vs. HTML vs. ASP vs. PHP: The type of code you use for your site may have a huge impact.
- Flash is not yet ready to fully intergrate within web marketing. Although technology is advancing, search engines [...]
Printing and Sending: the Two Things Users Want to Do
Posted on Apr.10, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
There’s something you have to realise about the way users
interact with articles. To put it simply, they don’t just want
to read them: they also want to print them out, and send them on
to their friends, family and colleagues. If you can make it
easier for them to do this, then your site will be a hit. But
how? Well, read on.
The Print and Send Links
At either the top or the bottom of your article, you should
offer clear ‘print this article’ and ’send [...]
Your site made easy
Posted on Apr.06, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
When visitors get into your site, for sure, you want to make
sure that they will find quickly and easily what they are
looking for. if they do not find it fast, chances are they will
go on to another site. If your web site is easy to use and
understand, these visitors have then tendency to come back again
and again.
Using navigation techniques can greatly improve the usability of
your web site. This also means user satisfaction and return
rates.
One of the fine points [...]
A Website for Your Small Business: How to Get One in Nine Steps
Posted on Apr.05, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Your small business doesn’t have a website, or perhaps the
website you have is effective and you want to start over–how do
you start or start over?. The truth is, there are several ways
to “get a website” for your small business (for the first or
second time around). The good news is that by following these
nine steps, you’ll be on track, moving your business further
into the 21st century with the website you want and need.
Step One: Decide the Purpose of Your Website
Why exactly [...]
Titles and Headlines: It’s Not a Newspaper
Posted on Apr.05, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
What’s this? A whole article about titles and headlines? Well,
yes. Titles are some of the most vital parts of your site,
especially if it consists of a series of articles. Yet they’re
also some of the most ignored elements of all web pages, and
more difficult than you’d think to do correctly. You have to
realise that you’re not writing headlines – it’s more
interactive than that.
Title Bar, History, Favorites and Searches
Everything you do with your web titles should be geared towards
these four places that [...]
When brochures make good presentators
Posted on Mar.14, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
When people want to get an overview of what the business,
company or product is about, they tend to get the brochures. In
them, they are given background information on things that they
need to know. If companies were the books, then the brochures
are the summary of it. Having all the important things people
need to know in paper and in print. And in their hands.
Brochures are the representatives of the company, in prints.
Whatever information needed can be found in the pages of [...]
Using External Coding to Improve Search Engine Placement
Posted on Mar.01, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Do you have lots of JavaScript coding in the header section of
your web pages? Do you re-list your CSS styles at the top of
every page? Do you have JavaScript coding spread throughout your
web pages?
If you answered yes to any of these questions your site may be
driving away search engine spiders and losing search engine
position ranking.
As you can imagine search engine spiders have a lot of pages to
get through on the web when they are indexing sites. To improve
their speed and [...]
