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5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Website's Legibility

By: Debbie Campbell
Websites that make their customers work to read them are not the best way to get business. Miniscule fonts, text in colors that make it hard to see against the background color, and lines that are piled on top of each other are problems, but they're easy to correct. Let's jump right in and look at five easy fixes:
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Navigation - our visitor's travel guide

By: Chris Heilmann
This article compares real life navigation aids to those we use on the web and invites the reader to keep web navigation as simple and helpful. (published at evolt.org)

Navigation and menus are not a technical matter. They are not confined to the world of IT but
are used in real life, too. Navigation is a human interaction matter, human beings with all their issues and problems need and use it. Really successful navigations care about the visitors' needs, not promote a technique or our company's structure. What are we likely to find helpful in our local council office: An index of departments or a list of employees?

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Showcase Your Design!

by David Rodriguez

Do you have a good Web design? I'd love to see it.

As part of an upcoming article for WPDFD, I'm going to showcase and discuss some good-looking, functional, and well-coded designs. If your design can match any of these three primary descriptors, a screenshot of your design and a link to your site might make it into the article.

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How I Got 70,000 Useless Visitors To My Site In One Day!

By: Titus Hoskins
How I Got 70,000 Useless Visitors To My Site In One Day! (One Online Marketer's Analysis of Social Bookmark Traffic) Recently, a page on one of my websites was bookmarked or listed on Digg, a popular social bookmark site. It gave me the perfect op...

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SEO and Submission to Article Directories

By: Rishi555 modi555
SEO for Better Traffic

When you have decide to start a website for your company, there are many ways that you can promote it and get traffic to it. One of the easiest and most effective ways is through correct SEO methods. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it basically means that you need to optimize your website so that it will be seen by the search engines. Most people when searching for a product or service will use these search engines like Google and Yahoo and just type in the keyword they are looking for. If you have a correctly optimized site you can be located high on this page ranking and therefore be available for people to click on. It is common knowledge that many internet browsers only look at the first page when they have used a search engine and not many people look on the second or third pages, so it is very important to use as many SEO techniques as possible in order to get onto the top of the list.
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11 phenomenal tips for web designers when they deals with website design

By: Joanna Gadel
Nowadays developers are too busy with their vast work pressure thus some time they certainly forgot to maintain several important things when r building any professional website. This article grounded on some important tips which will be maintained simultaneously while designing a creative website.
Having a brilliant website is a colossal advantage of any small scale company for promoting their business into the internet. Any kind of small business can make a great profit from having their professional website design. Accruing an affordable website you can also lead yourself to reach new global market with an enormous number of unique viewers.
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Value of Choosing a Correct Domain Name

By : simran
Before you start up a site establishment right domain name plays a major role among the search engine. During the initial stages of this site development did not play much importance for naming the domain name of the site. After a rapid growth in SEO with their tips and tricks it has great demand and importance for the domain name to find more easily with simple key words from the Google search.

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Web 2.0 Plugins and Their Usages

By: Naman Jain
Web 2.0 has spread like a wild forest fire. It is catching on to the whole world and is spreading the buzz around too.

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Image Optimization Will Reducing Load Time

By : Colin_Stables
In Summary:

1.) Cater for old dialup connections.
2.) Strike a balance between text and using just enough images.
3.) Optimize all images.
4.) Choose the format carefully

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Search Engine Optimization Tips

By: Janet Meiners

I spend a good part of my day thinking about and advising clients about how to increase their search engine rankings. InternetRetailer reported on ways to optimize your web site. These tips come from speakers at the ACCM direct-marketing industry conference and trade show in Orlando, FL. I’ve also added my commentary and extra detail.

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The Advantages of Redesigning a Website

By: frankwoodford
This article looks at the risks and benefits of redesigning a website. It explains why website designs should remain up-to date and what you have to do to achieve this. It also targets some of the uses of website so you know your getting the full potential out of your domain.
Presumably every industry in the world endorses upon World Wide Web interaction to advertise and distribute information a product or a service. In the world of business securing a website and domain has almost become a necessity - from small independent businesses to large commercial organisations, they all use the internet to communicate and trade effectively.

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Features You Should Avoid when Designing a Website

By : Colin_Stables

In Summary:

Let me remind you that as a webmaster your job is to make sure your website do what it's meant to do effectively. Don't let some minor mistakes stop your site from functioning optimally so avoid the following:

1.Background music
2. Extra large/small text size
3. Popup windows and
4. Anything else you find annoying!

As a web designer, you should design your websites to give your visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most important of all a welcoming experience. It doesn't matter if you had the greatest product in the whole world -- if your website is poorly done you won't be able to sell even one copy of it because visitors will be driven off your website by the lousy design.
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What is Web 2.0 Design?

By: teamcreatives

“Web 2.0” is the term in world wide web technology coined by O'Reilly in 2001. The term “Web 2.0 “ is to describe and introduce a new area in website creation.
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Page Length For Search Engines

By : Tim McLendon
This article is about pleasing search engine bots by writing good content with the proper length.

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Keep Your Visitors Coming Back

By : Colin_Stables
In summary

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site.The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1.) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox
2.) Start a web log (blog)
3.) Carry out polls or surveys
4.)Hold puzzles, quizzes and games
5.)Update frequently with fresh content

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