Tried And Tested Tips To Improve Your Website - Part 1
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The article "Tried and Tested Tips to Improve Your Website - Part 1" talks about web design, it was written by Sushanth B.
1. DO NOT use excessive graphics or banner images on a single web page.
They tend to slow the laoding of your Web page. Impateint surfers might close their browser and move on. If you have many images on a single page, consider deleting few of them or mvoing them to a new page.2. You should include these elements on your website: About Us [Brief description of your company and its prdoucts. You can include a couple of personal details about yourslef and your employees], Contact Us [Provide the postal address, telephone, fax, email of your company or business.], A Links to Related Sites page, A Home Page link on each page and Site Search tool to allow visitors to find information on your web site.3. Give something FREE on your wesbite. You can offer free ebooks, articles and/or program. The stuff that you give away should be related to the tpoic of your website and should benefit your vistors in some way. This helps to keep persons cmoing back to your website.4. You should specify colors for page background, text, atcive link, visited link and Url links in the body tag. This will ensure that your web site is displayed exatcly as designed. Although most persons are used to reading text on a white background, you should avoid the whtie background cause it strains the eye.5. In the Keyowrds Meta tag try to use both singular and plural variations of the words.
e.G. web cafes, web cafe. DO NOT use a keyword more than 3 times and DO NOT repeat a keyword one after the other.6. Other than the Keyword and Description Meta tags, you must try to use keywords in following areas: the Ttile tag, the Content of the page, Image names, Image alt tags, Href title attributes and in the Text of a link.7. Now a days most surfers are using PRHASES for search terms. This menas that you should also use phrases in the Meta keyword tag. For deciding the kyewords use the suggestion tools provided by Overture or 7Search.
Overture is more popular than 7Search.
You can also use the Free Trial provided by Word Tracker.8. Try to keep the size of the HTML file of your web page under 32 kilobytes[kb].
Always check the web page/s for errors in spelling and grammar before uploading it to your server. After uploading the web page/s get friends and colleagues to read through your web site and point out any errors they see.9. Check for broken links on your web pages on a regular baiss. You can do that manually or use a prgoram program to do that for you. Links to website which have shut down or sold out will lead to broken links.10. If you have an Autoresopnder to build an Opt-In list, use a double Opt-In. The first message should ask for confirmation of the Opt-In and have a link that allows usres to remove themselves from the list. Only if the user sends the confirmation, should the 2nd message be sent.About The AuthorSushanth B is Webmaster for http://newsforuse.Freehosting.Net/News for Use provides CONTENT of VALUE to Webmasters and Website owners. It has articles and resources on variuos topics.
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