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I Need A Website - Where Do I Start? - You know you need a website, but you don't know where to start. This is the situation we find many companies who come to us are in. Ask yourself… Who is my audience? Who am I trying to reach?  What are the goals for my website? How do we achieve these goals?

Designing For Content - We've all been told that a successful website has great content. The problem that I've discovered is what do you do with and how to you organize all this great content?

Building Your Subscriber List - The most successful Internet marketing gurus know that the secret is in the LIST. The list of subscribers they’ve built, an audience that WANTS to hear from them every month and eagerly reads the newsletters and other communications and frequently buy from what is offered.

"About Us" Pages in Small Business Websites - The Internet has been heralded as "the great equalizer": on a browser window, any company, no matter how small, can look as good as a large company with a long history of quality and service. This situation presents an important challenge for small businesses: how can I convince my potential customers that I am not an unethical, fly-by-night operation? The best way to do it is through a properly structured "About Us" page.

Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Website - All of us knowingly or unknowingly, use a standard decision making process in our day-to-day lives. The very first step of this process is to decide whether TO DO or NOT TO DO. If the choice is TO DO, we think of the various ways and means of attaining our objective/s, compare their pros & cons and take a final stand. This aim of this write up is to make you aware of the resources that are needed to achieve your TO DO objective. The TO DO objective is to conceptualize, build and publish your web site.

Tried and Tested Tips to Improve your Website - DO NOT use excessive graphics or banner images on a single web page. They tend to slow the loading of your Web page. Impatient surfers might close their browser and move on. Usually your web page must load within 10 seconds. If you have many images on a single page, consider deleting few of them or moving them to a new page.

Learn the Language of the World Wide Web - If you are already on the web or thinking about it then you must know the terminology used on the web. This article provides definitions for many important web terms such as visitors, page views, hits, referral URL, counter, targeted traffic, WYSIWYG, Link Popularity, Direct Linking, Spider, Autoresponder, and more.

Your Choice of Web Site Color - Many web designers overlook the importance of color when designing a web site. Color should be one of your first concerns when it comes time to start your web site design. If you don't pay close attention to the colors you chose, your site you will end up either plain and boring or so chaotic it's hard to look at. The color you use should only be chosen after careful consideration.

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