Archive for March, 2008
5 Ways You Can Keep Visitors Returning
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Are you experiencing visitors not returning to your website?
You probably need to re-evalutate your website. Is your webiste clean and easy to find what our visitors want? Go to your website and pretend you are a visitor looking for something specific, can you find it fast and easily?
These are some of the reasons a visitor will either leave your website quickly or not return they didn’t find what they wanted. Or it was just too difficult to figure out.
Here are some quick tips to help you.
There are a lot of websites that depend on returning visitors to be successful. The more you can get a visitor to return to your website, the more likely they will begin to trust you and eventually buy from you.
The first tip is to add a forum to your site, this is usually pretty easy to do, as most hosting companies have the script already for you to install and update to your site.
Today it has become very popular to use Blogs, they are a great way you can post important information and have your visitors post their comments and suggestion.
Both these two ways are time consuming so think before you just jump right in and add one of these and be prepared to monitor them closely for abuse.
Another easy way to keep visitors coming back is to hold polls and/or surveys on your site. Besides people coming back to check the polls, you are able to learn what they are interested in and what they’d like to learn and see. This will help you better maintain your website to their needs.
Having puzzles, games and quizzes on your website is another great way to keep people coming back to see who won. There are scripts out there for this that are not hard to install and use. You can set it up that the winner can earn cash or prizes this will keep them coming back to see what you are offering next. You can change and mix these up to keep them coming back next time to see what puzzle or game you have.
Another good idea is to keep your site up to date with fresh content. Now you don’t have to change the content daily or weekly or even monthly, just keep up to date on the latest news your site niche is.
There are many many other ways to keep visitors returning to your website, just use your imagination and see what works best for you and your visitors.
6 Reasons You Should Use CSS In Your Website
Posted by: | CommentsToday most web designers are using CSS within building a website. This simply means Cascading Style Sheet.
This is a separate page to your main website and no one but you and your designer will see it.
The purpose of CSS’s is to make websites load faster and to have customized text, tables, forms, colors, and much more. The use of CSS is the most used style there is today.
I have listed below 6 good reasons for using CSS when building your website:
1. The content of your website – your content is controlled by the style sheet. When you need to make a change to the color or font style, it will automatically change through out your website.
2. Load time is less – Because style sheets aren’t actually a website in html, they are what is called lightweight. This makes your website load much faster, up to 5 to 10 times faster which is good for your visitors.
3. Saves on your bandwidth – since style sheets don’t require a lot of space or uploading, it saves your servers on bandwidth.
4. Better Search Engine results – by using CSS you have the ability to put your content first on the CSS so the search engines will spider it first. CSS also makes your website coding much cleaner, this way search engines can separate the junk code from your real content that you want spidered.
5. Style Sheets are more compatible with browsers – since there are more and more new browsers popping up all over the internet, it’s important to make sure your website is compatible with all them. By using CSS this makes it much easier for all browsers to read your content.
6. Your website can be viewed by most all media formats – today there are so many different types of media people use to view webpages, it’s important to be able to accommodate all of them, at least the majority ones.
Since you can use more than one type of style sheet on your website. you can configure each style sheet to be compatible with the different types of media.
You should consider using a Cascading Style Sheet on your website to help make your life easier and your visitors happy. Using them helps your site load faster and also makes editing or updating your website easier. They also save you bandwidth and space on your server.
4 Simple Steps To Follow to Build a Website
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Introduction to the
Basics of Web Design
One of the things I see more often than you might realize is that lack of knowledge in building a website. People just jump in and not think about the tasks it will take to build a website.
The number one key to building a nice and professional website is to learn, knowledge is everything with building a website. And it’s not as hard as some people think it is.
Before you start to build a website, make a plan. Get the right tools you will need to build a website. You might be surprised to learn that you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars on software to build a professional looking website.
A lot of people learn at first just by using notepad. You type in HTML code into any wordpad or Notepad and save it as an HTML document.
Things to consider when you are planning out your website:
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1. The Cost - it will cost you a lot if you decide to outsource your website. The costs
you will encounter will be to register a domain name and hosting. Most of the other tools needed you can get at no cost on the internet.
2. Time – If you know nothing at all about HTML, then it will take you time to learn HTML. But it is vital that you do learn HTML at least the basics you don’t have to learn all the techy stuff, just some simple basics.
3. Tools – There are some tools you will find you will need to help you with website
designing. You will need a domain, hosting, FTP program, and an HTML editor. Most of these you can find on the internet at no cost. You will have to purchase a domain name and hosting these aren’t free, but you can get both at very low cost.
4. Knowledge – Take the time to learn the basics to HTML. The best way to learn HTML is to do while you learn. Don’t spend a lot of time just reading and learning, actually do the work as you learn it. It is much easier to learn this way.
Take the time to plan out what you want and learn the steps that are needed to put a website together.
By taking the time to follow these steps can save you loads of time and loads of money!
It’s worth it to do the right way the first time.
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