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The Secrets of The Shriekers


I am constantly bombarded with all sorts of advertisements, single-page sites, and sites offering very little real content but some wonderful new "product" or "service" for sale that purports to make its customers wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

Website Savvy: 10 Key Steps to Turn Your Customers ON!


?How to turn ?slightly interested? customers into ?I?ve got to have it!? customers!?

Make it Clear What Your Website is About


Just about every list of the "Top 10 Web Design Mistakes" includes at least one reference to either

Build Web Pages from the Top Left Corner Down


There are two important reasons to build your website from the top left hand corner down.

Using Server Side Includes to Simplify Your Web Design


An "include" file is a piece of code that can be put into a seperate file -- for example -- your navigation bar -- and then "included" in a number of other pages. This has the very useful advantage of allowing you to retain consistency over a very large number of pages, and then make changes to all of those pages by just changing the include file.

Creating a Basic Web Design Template


A "template" is simply a design format which you can apply to all (or most) of the pages in your web site. The first advantage of using a "template" system is that it allows you to make your most important design decisions at the beginning, and then just focus on content. The second advantage is that it allows you to quickly create new pages based on your standard design.

Website Conversion Secrets Revealed


In my last article entitled, Maximizing The True Value Of Your Traffic (found at http://tinyurl.com/2cf84), you discovered the importance of generating positive responses from all your visitors.

Colorblind People, Can They Really Read Your Web Site?


I once created a notepad-like editor. It is possible with this editor to write Russian text on a western Windows without using a Cyrillic keyboard in front of your computer.

Build A Successful Website For Dummies


Increase Your Website Sales Instantly


If there?s one thing that I?ve learnt so far, it?s that nothing beats good copy. You may have found a way to bring in 10,000 visitors a day to your site, but if your copy is lousy, you?re just wasting your effort. Web sites are only as good as their copy, so if you want to run a successful website, check and double-check your copy!

Designing Beautiful Artist Websites ? 12 Tips To Showcase Your Art


1. Who needs an artists website?

Caveat Scriptor: Use the Advice of Those Who Know Before You Build a Site


~A man [woman] is a success if he [she] gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he [she] does what he [she] wants to do. Bob Dylan~

Web Design: Use it to Showcase the Message


If you are designing a web site for which the achievement of high conversion rates is a priority, focus your design efforts on showcasing and highlighting the content and copy.

Size Does Matter!


In this article we will be looking at why you should keep your web page size small.

How to Make Your Site Attractive to Potential Link Partners


Every now and then, I receive a link exchange request from someone who wants a link from my directory (my high-ranking directory directly accessible from the index page), and in exchange, they're willing to link to my page from one of their zillions of link pages about 18 jumps away from the home page. Needless to say, the proffered page has a Google PageRank of 0, and chances are it's not even indexed by any search engines.

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