Author Archives: Karen Harwood
Web Site Planning – Designing a Successful Website
Website Pre-Planning Steps Want to develop a Web site? Before you start, make sure you consider your audience, the site’s purpose, how you will develop your content, and you will organize your site to make it easy to use for … Continue reading
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The Web Page Width Dilemma
With so many different resolutions (800×600, 1024×768, etc.), browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.), and platforms (Windows, Mac, Mobile ,etc.) in use, it is very difficult to design a page that looks good (or at least looks the same) in all … Continue reading
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Reduce Visual Clutter to Improve Usability
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in Web design over the last couple of years. Web pages—especially home pages—are getting bigger as designers pack increasing quantities of information into each page. Previously, a home page might contain a logo and tag … Continue reading
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Creating Printer-Friendly Web Pages using CSS
What’s the best way to create a “printer friendly” version of a Web page? Cascading Style Sheets (css) of course! Style sheets can control which parts of the page will print while excluding others. Using CSS you can hide the … Continue reading
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How to Improve Your Websites Usability
Web usability is perhaps the most important factor in any web design. This is the driving factor that keeps your visitors coming back to your Web site. Given below are a few points that you need to consider to increase … Continue reading
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Making a Site More Usable with Consistency
Give me something familiar: Have you ever visited a Web site, clicked on a link and wondered, “Am I still in the same site?” Your Web site should maintain a general look and feel. People are use to this; don’t … Continue reading
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The Key to Finding Good Keywords
If you know anything about optimizing your Web site for the search engines, you know how important it is to choose the right keywords. If you fail to pick the words that you want your site to be found under, … Continue reading
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SEO and Google
How does Google rank pages? Google’s order of results is automatically determined by more than 100 factors, including our PageRank algorithm. Please check out our “Why Use Google” page for more details. Due to the nature of our business and … Continue reading
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Keyword Selection
The foundation of an effective search engine marketing campaign is selecting the best keywords that your potential customers use to find your site. Selecting the right keywords requires research. Pretend that someone has never heard of your business but is … Continue reading
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Free Keyword Search Tools
Discover some great free search engine optimization tools. Choosing keywords for your META tags is an art. To use keywords to your advantage, use specific and common terms for your site. Some people achieve a top 10 placement in a … Continue reading
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