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Any new website venture online will include a domain name. Sometimes the domain is purchased from a domain broker - someone who specializes in reselling domain names. The majority of the time, however, it will be registered through a domain registrar. No matter how it is purchased, in all cases,...

The effective design is this one, which is maximum simplified, conformable to your users because they are your main purpose. This one, simply and clearly announcing what is your website about. This one, quickly offering the users exactly what they are expecting to see on your pages without bein...

Ever since Google began placing importance on its Page Rank system, website owners have been scrambling to get incoming links to their websites, usually through the means of trading links. Incoming links are important in the Page Rank system, because they are seen as "votes" for your site, and t...

What is crontab? Crontab is a unix program that acts as a task scheduler. It serves one purpose and only one. It runs programs at the times or dates that you tell it to. A lot of people seem to get confused whenever the word crontab is mentioned. While the usage may seem somewhat difficult,...

What makes a good domain name? Well, it's a subjective issue, of course, but here are ten tips to point you in the right direction. 1. Good domain names are easily memorable and easily typed. Generally this means keeping them short. 2. Hyphens should be avoided if possible. When I chose ...

Building a successful web site is a process that works best when done in a deliberate, logical step-by-step manner. The first step is to build a top quality web site that is packed with interesting and useful content. Next, you need to submit your site to the major directories and begin a ...

Submitting your web site to the search engine directories will give you a great boost in traffic. A listing in a large search engine directory like ODP (Open Directory Project) enables your web site to get indexed for free by the major search engines such as AskJeeves, AOLSearch, Google, and Lyc...

Writing for your web site is not the same as offline writing. The fonts used for print media are different than web fonts. This is because it's harder to read text on a computer screen and visitors tend to scan your web pages rather than read them word for word. When deciding on what web font to...

You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren’t getting more clicks, and you find out that you’re ranked in the 30's, 50's, or heaven forbid, the 300's. “Great”, you think, “I finally get ranked for a good keyword and it’s a wor...

Over 31 million domain names have been registered worldwide, with 10,000 names reportedly being registered each day. Out of all this competition, how do you make sure that your web site is one of the successful ones? The good news is if you're building or running a business on the Internet to...

There are 5 elements that every page of every Web site must have. They are standard, and expected by Web users. When one of them is missing, it screams to a viewer that it's an amateur site. If a few or all of them are missing, don't expect anyone to linger for very long. These 5 elements mak...

To link or not to link? That is the question we face when we receive e-mail from people asking us to make a link to their website, or when we are looking for link partners ourselves and find a prospective site. How can we decide if it is worthwhile to take the effort to make a link for such site...

I suppose it's a form of flattery. After all, they're admitting that we are better than them. Better writers, better thinkers and better communicators. Of course, we don't really need them to admit it, we're quite aware we're better than them. So it's small consolation for those of us who sla...

In part1 of this article I covered defining the purpose of your website and planning it on paper. In this second part I will cover designing the page elements of your site. The look and feel of a site is very important, and it must convey what your site is about. A site for an artist would ...

During the month of November many website entrepreneurs were shaken when Google made its infamous "Florida" update, wiping out search positions for several high-ranking websites, which disappeared from the "top 100" overnight. While all the details behind the Google changes are still not known, ...

Advantages to Working with the Pay Engines The pay engines offer many advantages to Web site owners, including: 1. If you have a brand new site with little or no visibility and no link popularity, the pay engines are certainly a way to get started fast while you wait for your standard searc...

Everyone wants to have a lot of traffic to their website. In order to get this traffic many people try to work on their meta tags or even do tricks trying to get more visitors to their website. One of the simplest and most solid ways to increase the flow of traffic to your website is to offer mo...

How many visitors to your site *ever* return? Not as many as you would like, I bet! The thing is, it's a lot easier and less time-consuming to promote your site to people who have *already* visited. So how do you do that? Well, you could: - Ask people to bookmark your site; - Get peopl...

Whether you're concerned with business-to-business, or business to consumer, whether your organization is large or small, commercial or nonprofit, these are some fundamental questions around your Website and technology strategy that should be addressed. Otherwise, you risk missing opportuniti...

Dynamic content is delivered to the Web browser in a different form than it exists on the server, while static content is stored on the Web server in the same format that is delivered to the Web browser. Dynamic site pages are generated from a database ³on the fly² as users request them. You c...