Tips for winning websites

Tips for winning websites

When it comes to websites everything should be perfect, the development, design and the contents. Far too many websites are done hastily and unprofessionally without even referring to the professionals with their enterprise project management. This doesn’t create a good impact on the company or business the site represents. Web design should be most unique, simple and professional to attract customers like any professionally developed software application. It should be built on previous experience of other similar sites and should be planned carefully and executed with care and attention to detail. Everything matters, a small spelling mistake can repel many customers. In order to attract them you need to have a site that’s easy to read, navigate and browse. Don’t use fancy scripts or dark backgrounds with light letters. Unless it’s a horror movie site, it won’t look good with a custom wordpress theme. Stick to the most elegant and simple forms and you will do well. Make sure you know who your site is for and cater to the target audience. Business sites should be fast loading with minimum flourish and maximum information that’s up to the point and easy to get. No one likes waste time waiting for pages to load. keep in mind that there are many other sites users can go to and remember they may be tired, so make the task of browsing your site enjoyable and stress-free.

Making the most of good web design

Making the most of good web design

To make a good site all the ingredients of it – web software development, web design and professional copy – should be up to scratch to make a popular vehicle for online success. Let’s get some tips on web design up our sleeves today and try to see what we can do to make our website more attractive to clients and users everywhere. First of all, knowing the client you are aiming at is important. Do it for the user behind that laptop, not yourself. Make your site good-looking in all browsers, all sizes screens and make sure it’s easy to read and navigate. Do not forget that your site will be visible not only on a PC or laptop but on mobile phones and iPad.

That's why it must be compatible with these modern devices. If you aren't aware of the compatibility issues you need to refer to iPad application developers. Too much colorful and technological stuff like invitations to start live chats or web conferencing and sign in for a quick look around are unnecessary and annoying, they will make users go away without the desire to return. Welcoming pages, self-loading video, pop-ups and scrolling text are all time-waters, people don’t like them, they don’t have any time to waste these days. Make your site up to the point, concise, easy to read and search, navigate and browse.

Websites that are well-made will surely be a hit with users, those that are fancy for the sake of showing off will go down unnoticed. Use our tips and have fun with them.

t’s never a good experience to expect to see a webpage and to get a 404 error, most of us will just hit the back button on the browser when experiencing such a thing. Since errors will happen no matter how good your website is, it’s a good idea to improve your 404 page to make it as useful as possible, the main challenge being to keep those visitors on your site.

What should your 404 page be?

Your 404 page should be branded

Don’t let your visitors in the wild, let them know that they are on your website by inputing some of the visual elements that make your website recognizable.

Your 404 page should be informative

When arriving on the page, the reader should know that he didn’t reach the page he was expecting right away. Inform him of what happened.

Your 404 page should be useful

If your viewers happen to reach a 404 page, it would be good to guide them through your site to let them find what they want. To achieve this, you can add some useful links and a search box, some will add links to popular posts or promotions.

Your 404 page should be tracked

Why don’t you add a tracker to your 404 page to know what happened, what people who stumbled on that page where looking for or where they were coming from?

How to add keyword description meta tags in a webpage

Ok. Today i will explain about a little seo strategies that are really very necessary to get you o the top of search engines. Yes I am talking here about meta tags that are most important for any website or blog. In my previous post about meta tags for blogspot , I explained how to add meta tags on a blogger blog but this will explain how to add meta tags on a web page.

Let’s begin

Almost every site on the web has used these two “key” meta tags, descriptions and keywords and some of these contains three and third one is keypharases. The description meta tag gives a brief summary about a page or website. The keywords give the search engines some extra information when someone searches for a specific query. You shouldn’t have the same keywords you used in your description (why?) because Google already picks the most important keywords for you. This sums up the basic explanation of meta tags.

How to Add Keyword Meta Tags

Step 1. Open up the page you want to SEO

Step 2. Go into your page’s code view

Step 3. Locate the <head></head> tags

Step 4. Inside these tags, insert the below code

<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, this is a key phrase, another key phrase" />

If you notice I added some random keywords to give you a sense of how to go about populating the keyword tag. Notice how each word is separated with a comma. If you wanted you could make key phrases instead of words or both. Key phrases work the same way, separated with a comma.

How to Add Description Meta Tags

Step 1. Open up the page you want to SEO

Step 2. Go into your page’s code view

Step 3. Locate the <head></head> tags

Step 4. Inside these tags, insert the below code

<meta name="description" content="This is where a description of your site goes..." />

The meta description is similar to the meta keywords except you don’t insert commas after every word. The description should be a short summary of your entire website/page. As you can see I already added, “This is where a description of your site goes…” All you have to do is edit that part and your set. SEO doesn’t take any special knowledge, it only takes time.

Top 5 wordpress themes

Opening Information: I spent all of last night (about four hours) searching for quality WordPress themes. After this search, I wrote the below list of the sickest WordPress themes on the web. Some are and aren’t free (one isn’t). Each has a text label stating whether or not they are free.

I hope you enjoy this list.

 

Neatty – Download

My Rating – 4/5

Price: Free

Neatty Theme

Description of the “Neatty” theme…

Specifacations: 2 Columns, Adsense Ready, By Lorelei, Left Sidebar, WP Themes Widget Ready

A decent theme that’s free of charge. It offers flexibility to it’s bloggers, and provides a diverse look. All in all I give this theme a four out of five rating. Why not a five? The only reasons is because it can act buggy in some situations. One of the bus don’t correctly align the text around images. Other then these minor issues this is an excellent, sick theme.

Manifest – Download – Demo

My Rating – 5/5

Manifest Theme

Description of the “Manifest” theme…

Specifacations: 1 column,500 wide pixel layout

Features: 404 page, Archives template, Links template, IE6 unsupported (feature not a bug), Some webkit visual candy (smooth rollover transitions), and more.

A simplistic theme developed towards large blogs for top peek performance. In a way this is a similar theme to my third theme on this list. Another great feature this theme utilizes is it’s one column layout (500 pixel’s wide). All in all I give this theme a five out of five. Why? For it’s simplicity and top peek performance.

How to Add or Display Favicon on your Blogger Blog

How to Add or Display Favicon on your Blogger Blog

Favicons are generally small sized icons associated with a blog. These icons are displayed beside your blog’s URL so that anyone who visits your blog can see the favicon. Favicon gives your blog an unique value since your blog gets it’s own branded favicon which displays the theme of your blog or site. These favicons are small sized 16 x 16 or 32 x 32 icons. Here is the tutorial on how to display or add favicon to Blogger blog.

Favicons works as a logo since people tend to recognize a site from it’s favicon. If we see “g” or “Y!”, we come to know that this page belongs to Google and Yahoo! respectively. Adding a favicon to blogger blog is a nice step to add more value to your blog and help people to i