761. Is Your Website "Killing" Your Online Business? - 09/01/2005
The design of your website is crucial to the success of your ebook publishing business. People have gotten wise to Internet amateurism and a poor looking website will turn many visitors off buying. Similarly, a site that lacks focus and tr...

762. Get FASTER Download Times By Making... - 09/01/2005
"Get FASTER Download Times By Making BIGGER Web Pages!" As a webmaster you already know how important it is that your web pages download fast. In a nutshell, if your pages are slow, then you're losing visitors. And if you're losin...

763. Business Web Design Basics - 09/01/2005
On the Internet, the way your website looks reflects very heavily on your business. It is a fact of life that people judge other people by the way they look, and the cyber world isn't any different. Potential customers judge your online bu...

764. Leave Those Links Blue! - 09/01/2005
Don't mess with those links! When you're designing your site, you should leave your text links in their natural state--blue and underlined. We all want to be creative and not do the bland, expected, normal thing. We want to change our links ...

765. Using Tables As A Strategic Sales Tool - 09/01/2005
Why Tables? Tables have helped me to do the following while designing my website: 1. Establish organization. 2. Create sections on my web pages that are neat and uniform. 3. Build a unique sales presentation with direction. With tables, I've...

766. Web Site Check list For Low Sales - 09/01/2005
What good is your Web site if you want to sell something and your aren't? If your Web sales are down, check your copy. You need Web site copy with marketing pizzazz. Next time you think Web site--either putting up a new one, or wanting to impr...

767. Mirror Your Site - Avoid Internal Link Errors - 09/01/2005
Unless your web site has only one page, with no graphics, you'll have internal links. That's links to other parts of your site, or to pictures that you've included on your page. To avoid basic errors such as linking to pictures or pages that...

768. Contingency Design - 09/01/2005
Several articles have appeared recently touting a concept known as contingency design. In a nutshell, this consists of providing assistance when your visitors do the unexpected or the blatantly wrong thing. This adds an extra level of professi...

769. Table Tip: Border Control - 09/01/2005
Want a border for your table, but don't want to use the standard border? Need a table cell outline? Here's how to do it. A SINGLE ROW, SINGLE COLUMN TABLE Insert a table with one row and one column. Make border equal zero. Set cellspacing ...

770. The 25 Deadly Sins For Your Internet Marketing... - 09/01/2005
"The 25 Deadly Sins For Your Internet Marketing Website" Content Is KING! If you create a website, be sure to have valuable content you can offer. Try to find facts which cannot be found anywhere else on the Internet. It can be ...

771. Why Choosing Form Over Function Kills Your Site - 09/01/2005
Never put form over function. Why? Because it's crucial that visitors actually be able to USE your site. Everything you do must be designed to be as easy for the visitor to understand as possible. Everything should be functional first. If you...

772. Is A Picture Really Worth A Thousand Words? - 09/01/2005
The great debate: how much copy you should have on your site, particularly on the home page? Do you subscribe to the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words--and therefore images, not a lot of text, should be the main thrust of you...

773. Keep Your Navigation Simple! - 09/01/2005
Navigation must be simple. Since it's the backbone of your site, it's imperative that visitors be able to understand it. Here are two tips on how to make simplicity a reality in your site: 1. Your link titles need to be understandable. Visit...

774. 10 Easy Ways to Skyrocket Your Online Sales - 09/01/2005
1. Keep search engines in mind when designing your site. Include keywords and META tags in your web pages to improve your ranking with search engines. For information on how to improve your search-engine ranking with keywords, go to htt...

775. Plan Your Web Site for Profits - 09/01/2005
Most businesses fail to plan for online success. Knowing your purpose, audience, and uniqueness are the first steps to developing a successful web site. Follow these three steps to position your web site for Internet profits. Step 1: Determi...

776. 3 Things You Must Do To Create Personal... - 09/01/2005
"3 Things You Must Do To Create Personal Web Pages" Almost everyone I have known since getting on-line five years ago has a driven ambition to design their own web site or sales pages for some project of theirs. Yours is a special...

777. Ten Secrets for Building a Winning Web Site - 09/01/2005
A professional-looking web site goes a long way to establishing you and your product as legitimate and trustworthy. It doesn't have to be fancy (shouldn't be, actually), but a nice, clean design is essential. 1. Keep the design simple. Perio...

778. Advantages for Using FrontPage (Part 2) - 08/31/2005
Another benefit to using FrontPage is being able to create virtual directories with ease. As you know, when you specify a home directory, all of the subdirectories beneath the home directory automatically become subdirectories of the Web site ...

779. Advantages for Using FrontPage (Part I) - 08/31/2005
Ever since I've been doing SEO work, I've always griped and complained about FrontPage and all the extraneous code it puts in the section of the page, etc. Then recently, I had the opportunity to visit with a group of advanced search engin...

780. Does The Color of Your Site Matter? - 08/31/2005
You are driving your car through a rural area, enjoying the countryside. At some point you come to an intersection in the road. Out of the corner of your eye, you see a green stop sign. Do you stop or drive right through the intersection? Cha...