321. Internet Privacy: Creating A Privacy Policy - 09/08/2005
Any good web site has a certain amount of interactivity which causes visitors to need to enter data of one sort or another. Sometimes this is just a name or gender, and sometimes it is a full array of personal information. Some web sites eve...

322. Create Stickiness With Streaming Media - 09/08/2005
Okay!! You've finally gotten them to your web site after a large investment in time and effort, not to mention money. What?? They're not staying long enough to buy anything or to fill out those profile forms that you stayed up until 3:00AM t...

323. Put Your Homepage To Work! - 09/08/2005
Your homepage is probably the most important page of your whole Web site. Yes, even more important than your order page (or the pages where you pre-sell affiliate program products). The first page most of your visitors will land on is your h...

324. How To Keep More Of Your Visitors - 09/08/2005
Did you know that most of your visitors probably never go beyond your homepage? And a lot of them leave within ten seconds of hitting your homepage, NEVER to return again? These are wasted visitors, and you must do everything possible to red...

325. Adding Flash 4 To Your Website - 09/08/2005
Macromedia has taken the internet world by storm with its introduction of Flash a few years ago. What started as an animation tool has evolved into a full website development tool. After clinching several deals with major supporters like M...

326. Pass the Mystery Meat: Learning... - 09/07/2005
Pass the Mystery Meat: Learning from "Web Pages that Suck" Though I learned much at Shakespeare's knee, the two years I worked for the undergraduate literary magazine at the University of Utah were almost as valuable. Every night, ...

327. How To Make Your Visitors Stay - 09/07/2005
I bet you agree that visiting a colorful web site might be a wonderful or painful experience, depending how long we have to wait to see all that beauty... Not many people know that slowly loading pages is the main reason visitors leave web...

328. Web Site Design: How To Get Around - 09/07/2005
Our web site (Internet Tips and Secrets - http://www.internet-tips.net/ ) runs an awards program which gets as many as fifty submissions a week. That means we visit each of those fifty sites each and every week to determine if they measure u...

329. Writing the Income-Generating Web Site - 09/07/2005
This prime motive is behind every element of your Web site design and content. Start with the idea that you have one chance to reach your customers. They will never return to your site unless you make it worth their while, and they will ...

330. How to Jazz up Your Site with Quality ClipArt - 09/07/2005
Clipart has something of a bad name. And it's true, there's some terrible clip art out there. I always think of the images that appeared in my grade-school reading workbooks: rigid line drawings of kids playing sports, pictures of fruit bowls ...

331. How I Slashed The Load Time For My... - 09/07/2005
"How I Slashed The Load Time For My Website By 200-300%...And So Can You, For Yours!" How often have you waited, impatiently, for your browser to pull in the next website? Too many times, probably. Many of these slow-poke sites m...

332. Chase Those Page One Blues Away... - 09/07/2005
"Chase Those Page One Blues Away...Get Themed Content On Your Site And Get On Page One!" Not on page one of the majors yet? Elsewhere, I've written about getting on page one of the major search engines with an article here: http:...

333. How I Got Number One Position In... - 09/07/2005
"How I Got Number One Position In Yahoo/Google and Altavista...On My First Attempt!" It's not my intention to boast - far from it! But, it came as a pleasant surprise to me recently when I managed to achieve what most people say i...

334. Choosing A Color Scheme - 09/07/2005
When you begin the design of your Web site, one of the first things you need to do is decide on a color scheme. Although choosing colors seems like a relatively easy proposition, it's not easy at all. In fact, it's hard. One of the pluses we ...

335. How To Make Sure Your Visitors Don't Come Back! - 09/06/2005
Pop up windows - when you arrive, when you leave, when you click to another page! It's an epidemic! I was at a site today where they started coming up so fast and so many that it froze my browser and I had to hit Control, Alt and Delete in...

336. How To Keep Your Visitors 10 Times Longer On... - 09/06/2005
"How To Keep Your Visitors 10 Times Longer On Your Web Site" Everyone knows this: the longer your visitors stay on your web site, the more likely they are to buy something. The longer they stay, the more trust they develop in your b...

337. Designing With Style - 09/06/2005
One important aspect of good design is to give your site a theme and coherence. A great deal of this can be done using a stylesheet. Using stylesheets is not difficult. In fact it makes the task of designing a website that much easier. How...

338. Learn From Their Multi-Million Dollar Mistakes! - 09/06/2005
Here is a classic example of what NOT to do when conducting business online. That is, unless you can afford to throw away millions of dollars. Have you seen those ads by x10 for that tiny camera that you can hook up to your computer? It i...

339. Untangling Spaghetti HTML - 09/06/2005
When I was first learning to write computer programs, one of the most important points that was drummed into me was that it's never a good idea to write great chunks of computer code that are repetitions of earlier code. The reason is ...

340. How to Profit With Free Discussion Forums - 09/06/2005
If there's one thing I've learned in my years of doing business online, it's that credibility should be your number one objective. If people know you and respect you, they'll feel like they can trust you with their money. On the other hand, ...