721. 10 Covert Ways To Make People Visit Longer! - 09/06/2005
1. Offer a free ebook that's published right on your web site. They would have to stay at your web site to read it. 2. Give your visitors a different free bonus for each link they click-through on your web site. Example: "If you click...

722. Home Page Essentials: Miss These & You're... - 09/06/2005
"Home Page Essentials: Miss These & You're Missing the Mark!" The home page (also known as "index" or "default" page) is usually the first thing people see upon entering your site. If it doesn't grab them -...

723. Pop-Under Windows - The Latest Pop-Window Trend - 09/06/2005
Although there has been a great deal of controversy over the use of pop-up windows, the fact remains; pop-up windows are highly effective. The latest pop-window trend to hit the Internet is the pop-under window. Pop-under windows are less intr...

724. Top Five Sins of the Startpage Exchanges - 09/06/2005
Right now, these exchanges are generating more traffic to my site than any other single method ever has. They are a great tool, as any, in the right hands. They may not work next week, who knows, but that's the nature of the Internet. What I...

725. The Core Elements of a Successful Website - 09/06/2005
It seems to me that many of you who are new to building websites are having trouble figuring out exactly what makes the difference between a website that's effective and one that doesn't produce results. For example, I recently received this f...

726. Does Your Homepage Work? - 09/06/2005
All websites have a homepage. It is the most important page of your site. It acts as the main gateway to the entire site. Most of your prospective customers will enter through it. Its vital to get it right. You dont want them to just turn arou...

727. 3 Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves... - 09/06/2005
With web design tools becoming easier and easier to use, almost anyone with an idea can create their own website. In many cases, individuals who design without professional guidance miss key elements, which compromise the effectiveness of th...

728. Web Content Case Study ... - 09/06/2005
We recently "re-engineered the content and design of a website for Gardner+Lang ( www.gal.com.au ), a leading commercial real estate consultancy in Melbourne, and the result is a site that is quite different from most commercial agency si...

729. Top 10 Ways For Web Designers To Find... - 09/06/2005
Given the "dotcom" bust and the global recession of the past 18 months it can be difficult for Independent Web Designers to put food on the table these days. However, the business is out there -- you just have to be a little more a...

730. Clean Up That Code! - 09/06/2005
How do you write your code so that it shows up on all or most browsers the way you want it to look? By understanding which browsers support which tags, and using a validation service to check your code. There are different tags that somet...

731. Why Dot-Coms Fail - a Webmaster's Perspective - 09/06/2005
Everyday we hear that another company goes out of business. When and why does a dot-com become a dot-bomb? After checking few dozen defunct companies, I think the main reasons for dot-coms failure are: * Poor business plan. In the last yea...

732. Why FrontPage XP? - 09/02/2005
I must admit that I use Microsoft FrontPage quite a bit. It's not that I am particularly fond of the product, it's just that FrontPage has a very simple, easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. This is especially true of it'...

733. Keeping Your Pop-Ups - and Your Audience - 09/02/2005
In "Why Pop-Ups are Pop-Bad", we looked at the pitfalls of pop-up advertising, the most significant of them being the way Internet surfers feel about pop-ups. As I mentioned in that previous article, when you use pop-ups, you take th...

734. Why Pop-Ups Are Pop-Bad - 09/02/2005
Not too long ago, seeing a pop-up ad appear meant that you were either on a page that distributed illegal software or looking at something that isn't suitable for the eyes of under 18-year-olds. Back then, pop-ups were seen as an annoying bu...

735. Top Secret Tips for a Perfect Color Scheme - 09/02/2005
Many Web page builders agonize unnecessarily over choosing a color scheme for their pages. In addition to the color choices themselves, the proportion of those colors is also critical to the overall look of the Web page. Fortunately, there i...

736. No Giant Pop-Ups, Please! - 09/02/2005
Everyone loves little pop-ups. They are handy and helpful. You can sign up for a newsletter, download a free e-book, sign up for a mini email course, do a little quiz, enter a contest ... and so on. These wizard promoters usually pop up in t...

737. Top 10 Signs Your Site Needs An Overhaul - 09/02/2005
These are the top 10 signs your web site needs an overhaul. # 10 The images used on your site include a revolving globe, bevelled horizontal line separators, and one of those animated mail box icons that were popular in free image librari...

738. Do This One Thing to Create a Powerful... - 09/02/2005
"Do This One Thing to Create a Powerful Product-Selling Web Site" Spend time planning your Web site. Before you design a page or write a word, get a visual, and mental picture of your preferred audience. Your visitors will spend u...

739. Your Web Copy Is Too Skimpy to Work! - 09/02/2005
Almost every day I hear from somebody with a web site that isn't selling well. "Can you please take a look and let me know what we're doing wrong?" they ask. Sometimes their product isn't very good. Other times their price is wrong...

740. A Lot More Profits with Less Links - 09/02/2005
Have you got too many links on your site? I saw a site today that had only 4 visible links on its home page. 3 of those links were text links and linked to other pages within the same web site. Therefore there was only 1 link to a differe...