To create professional websites is not an easy task by any means. There are many things that you got to take into consideration like easy navigation, strategic links, clean coding, professional layout, easy downloading, scanability, usability and so on. These are the elements that differentiate a professional website from a mediocre one. So in a [...]

How often have you seen a webpage called “no title” a quick Google search yields over 1 million. The Title tag is probably the most important meta tag for page optimization and over a million pages have just squandered it! Most people make a web page using a web page template and another common mistake [...]

1. Avoid creating menu on the left-hand side of a website . If unavoidable, an alternative way is to put some text with rich keywords at the top or above the left-hand menu so that this text will be the first thing to read by search engines. 2. Headlines are rated more important than the [...]

Keyword research is one of the first steps to making your own website. Done properly it will identify good projects and help eliminate unprofitable ones. It is used to research the website theme/niche and also the web page topics themselves. Keywords and keyword research is vital to any website. So What Exactly is a Keyword? [...]

What is a landing page? It’s the page your website visitor arrived at after clicking a link. The link could be on any page on your website or pay per click advertising or banner ads or keyword search. The goal of landing page is to cause your visitors to take definite action. You don’t want [...]

1. Whats the purpose? The most fundamental thing to do before designing your web site is to define its purpose. Do you want to sell products directly to your customer through your web site, or collect contact details to develop future relationships? A lot of this will depend on the products or services you sell, [...]

The appearance of your web site is one of the most important aspects of your success. Your product or service will literally be judged by the appearance of your web site. Poor web design is one of the leading causes of small business failure. There are literally thousands of home-based Internet businesses struggling to make [...]

If you have spent any time online in the last ten years, I am sure you have heard the phrase content is king. I first heard the phrase myself in 1996 during an undergraduate computer class at my beloved alma mater, Cornell College, (GO RAMS!). We were discussing a recent speech given by Microsoft founder [...]

Running an effective website is a continuous process. I have compiled five (5) ways of doing it on a regular basis. 1. Maintain and Optimize Your Site. Maintenance is making sure your site is technically ready for visitors. To do this, a web site owner needs to regularly run site diagnostics to unearth common problems, [...]

What is web accessibility & why is it important? Web accessibility is about making your website accessible to all Internet users (both disabled and non-disabled), regardless of what browsing technology they’re using. In addition to complying with the law, an accessible website can reap huge benefits on to your website and your business. Your website [...]