Archive for Website Design And Planning

Create Professional Websites For Pennies

Create Professional Websites For Pennies

February 26, 2011 No Comments

Every one of us has this instinct and desire to create our very own website; to showcase our talent on the web and share our creativity with friends and family. I have mentioned a few options prior and here is one that I use and has served me well. This software is extremely powerful and ...

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How To Create A Website

How To Create A Website

January 8, 2011 2 Comments

This is probably the most asked question from a newbie who wishes to have a web presence, besides how to make money. With every passing day there are newer, better, faster and cheaper ways to create websites;  not only that the process of actually creating a website is now so much easier then just two ...

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How To Select A Web Host.

How To Select A Web Host.

December 30, 2010 13 Comments

Whilst we are preparing, designing, planning our website we also need to consider where it will be hosted. Selecting a website host is just as important as planning your website, in fact I would consider it as part of your website planning. So what’s so important about a host that we need to be careful ...

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Choosing Domains Names

Choosing Domains Names

December 19, 2010 5 Comments

We all go through the painful period of searching and racking our “information overloaded” brains with the perfect Domain Name to Register. It happens, and will continue to do so as long as we keep registering domain names. Every-time we think we have found just the right domain name and there is no way someone ...

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What Are Meta Tags

What Are Meta Tags

December 12, 2010 2 Comments

Using my theory of Treating Each Web Page As A Website I will look at different parts of a web page that we can plan to Search Engine Optimize. Title: This is a brief one-liner that  describes the content within the web page. It shows up on the top left hand corner of your browser. ...

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Planning Your Website

Planning Your Website

December 6, 2010 4 Comments

Every Website regardless of how many pages or how basic its needs, requires some thought and pre-planning. Let’s look at the most fundamental requirements for any website; Domain Name: Choose a domain name that either reflects your product, service, business or brand name. Of course shorter, easy to remember domains are the best. .COM is ...

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What Do Spiders,Robots Like and Dislike?

What Do Spiders,Robots Like and Dislike?

December 2, 2010 22 Comments

Certain parameters within our website are pleasing to spiders, robots and crawlers, by the way these terminologies are referring to search engines like Google, Yahoo etc. There are no physical spiders as such “crawling” around the net. One of the first files a spider visiting your website looks for is robot.txt (I will cover how ...

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Register Your Own Domain – ALWAYS!

Register Your Own Domain – ALWAYS!

November 30, 2010 6 Comments

For those that are new to the web, internet, websites etc. it can be indeed overwhelming and confusing. Information overload. What do you believe and what to discard as rubbish? One of those very important scenarios is Domain Registration. Many hosting sites, webmasters, web designers offer registering the domain for you, or provide free domains ...

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Improve SEO; Use Keywords To Name Your Files

Improve SEO; Use Keywords To Name Your Files

November 28, 2010 8 Comments

One very important part of website planning that gets overlooked consistently by most is the use of file names for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes. Our website has a bunch of files and documents that are accessed by various webpages, these files need to be given meaningful and appropriate  names to help improve our website’s ...

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What Is A Website?

What Is A Website?

November 26, 2010 112 Comments

A Website is a collection of WebPages and each WebPage is an Electronic Document. Just as you have a word document (also an electronic document) stored on your system,  a webpage is document that is stored on another computer (called your host) so that the entire world has the option of accessing it. Collection of ...

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Your Website Will Fail Without This……

Your Website Will Fail Without This……

November 23, 2010 2 Comments

How does a website continually attract new visitors and ensure the old ones return on a regular basis? With millions of websites springing up every day, what do you think we should do to make ours standout? Do you think we should have lots of flash images, lots of bright colours, lots of photos, lots ...

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Simple Steps To Create A Website

Simple Steps To Create A Website

November 18, 2010 5 Comments

What are the most basic steps to create a website for say your local club, your home based business, your hobby etc? For most newbies in the internet world this can be an overwhelming task. Yet it is a very simple process. First and foremost is to Register A Domain. Domain is the name by ...

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Are Bigger Websites Better?

Are Bigger Websites Better?

November 16, 2010 4 Comments

Is a 3 Page Website better then a 100 Page Website? All depends on the type of website we are creating. If the site is created for a select few users who will be the only ones accessing it and all it requires is a few pages of information then a 3 to 5 page ...

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Yippee !! FREE Hosting

Yippee !! FREE Hosting

November 8, 2010 15 Comments

Within my social circles I generally get asked why they should pay for hosting when there are many out there who give it away for free. I say Bah Humbug! there is nothing for free that does not cost you somewhere else. It is indeed a very enticing for newbies to jump the gun and ...

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Treat Each Web Page Like A Website – And Plan It.

Treat Each Web Page Like A Website – And Plan It.

November 4, 2010 39 Comments

In order to appreciate the rise and fall of a website, one has to grasp the basics of how a search engine views a website. To a search robot (spider, engine); each web page is viewed as a website. In other words if you have a 10 page website, then the robot “eyes” it as ...

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