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May 2007 Monthly Archive

4 Tips to a More Visitor-Friendly Website

I remember my very first website. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever created; it had Flash, Javascript, an animated graphic I designed all on my own, plus various bits of 'artwork' placed at strategic locations throughout the site. Plus it used frames, something I thought would ease navigation for my visitors. What an astonishing display of talent!

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How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 2

Searching for information on the Web has recently become like a mine field. You find the site you want, only to be greeted by pop-ups when you enter, pop-ups when you are on the site and pop-ups when you leave. Other sites use a flash introduction, make you wait several minutes (which feels like hours), until the page finishes loading. Heck, you just want to find the information as swiftly as possible without having to watch out for these mine fields.

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How To Use Viral "Refer-A-Friend" Promotions To Increase Traffic And Sales

"Viral Publicity" and "Viral Marketing" are really just new buzz words for the oldest form of publicity in the world...

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Weave Your Own Web

Many elementary school children know the miracle of Charlotte's Web. Weaving the words "Some Pig" into the center of her web, Charlotte keeps Wilbur from the frying pan. E.B. White's story provides some fascinating guidelines for web spinning.

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Where Exactly Is This Business Coming From?

Have you ever tried to complete an online order form only to find there just aren't enough boxes for your address. Or that there are too many and the form will not submit until all boxes are completed? Have you ever filled them with gibberish? Ever received one filled with gibberish?

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Webjunxsion is Foraging It's Way Through the Muddle

Webjunxsion has come a long way since September of 2003. There webpage was VERY unprofessional in the beginning as you can see at http://www.webjunxsion.com/home. Things seem to be changing for them though and there looks are improving somewhat as you can see here: http://www.webjunxsion.com/MDsp. However I think that they may be a little confused on there company logo. When you go to http://www.webjunxsion.com everything seems to be in a nice maroon color. Then when you visit there page at http://www.webjunxsion.com/MDsp there logo and color have changed to a baby blue. I understand that they are just beginning and starting out in this muddle of an internet business but they need to get there logo's and colors straight. They need to adapt uniformity. Come on guys let's get it together ok? When they accomplish this I believe that they will have leaped over a major hurdle.

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Money for nothing?

Not hardly!

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How To Host Several Websites Under One Account

If you operate several websites, each with its own domain name, signing up of separate ...hosting accounts can be an expensive proposition. Even if your hosting company offers the add-on domain feature (which will allow you to add different domains to the same hosting account) you will be charged a monthly fee for each domain you add, sometimes costing almost the same as your full hosting fee.

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How to Effectively Manage Your Time

Are you spending too much time with your home business and not achieving the results you desire. Focusing too much of your time and efforts on your business and achieving poor results can have detrimental effects on your business, your personal relationships, physical and mental health, and overall happiness in life.

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MARKETING YOUR BUSINESS the 'Affiliate Way'

An Affiliate Marketer is someone who actively promotes the products or services of one or more businesses, and receives commissions on sales generated through his/her referrals. A successful Affiliate Marketer is efficient and 'savvy', can locate a good business opportunity and extract it's full income generating potential.

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Five Minutes

This article may only be reproduced in its entirety, including the resource box and subscription information electronically or in print. A courtesy copy of your publication would be nice, too!

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Are You A Copy Cat?

How many times a day have you seen the same ad? If you are like me, you hit the delete key and go on. The product or service may be outstanding, but you need to get your ad read first to be successful.

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Interactive Features

If you really want people to be attracted to your web site time after time, you need to add interactivity. This can be as simple or as complicated as you want. It does not matter whether you are a beginner, an intermediate webmaster or the most advanced web designer around, you can add interactive elements to your web site.

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The Contest Queen

Persistence and a "don't quit" attitude, is what it takes to make entering contests for free advertising worth it.

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Customer Preferences in Online Advertising-Part 1 of 3

Online consumers have given some very explicit information regarding their preferences when it comes to advertising. According to research conducted by Jupiter (www.jup.com), a worldwide authority on Internet commerce, there are several things online business people need to be aware of in order to increase their advertising effectiveness.

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Independent Consultants Take Over Web Design

Whether you are a web designer, or have worked with web design vendors, the web design business has changed greatly over the last few years. While there has been great change in this marketplace, there are a few main streams which are developing, most of which are positive trends for the independent web consultant.

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No Website Sales? Maybe Your Site is Missing the Mark!

If you've moved your brick and mortar store online or recently started an Internet business and the sales just aren't coming in, the culprit may be your website.

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Web Site Management: Statistics

Statistics are your most important resource! Used properly, web site statistics will tell you who is visiting your site, where they came from,what search engines they used, their browser types and even their monitor resolutions.

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SEE IT! LIKE IT! BUY IT!Flash Animation 101: A behind the scenes look at what's involved in creating an effective web site animation

Animation is more involved than what appears in the final product.There are many aspects of animation that go unnoticed, such as paying attention to, and complimenting the message, legibility and limiting motion and breaking up the monotony.

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YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR, BUT DON'T OVER PAY!

The Internet has created the most exciting new ways to obtain information the world has ever seen.

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