Archive for January, 2011

Secrets to Traffic-Heavy Web Pages

Jan 31, 2011 in Computers And Technology, Information, Reference And Education

There are many ways to help improve the traffic on your website. Some are simple enough to do without any online tools. However, there are those that require intensive research and online web tutorials.

Adding multimedia to your website is way to make it attractive to any surfer. But like all technological components, there are barriers that may keep browsers from displaying them. Browser edition compatibility is one issue that developers have to take note of.

Linking to popular social networking sites is another way to keep your viewers interested. Facebook, MySpace, and others, have been playing a key role in the survival of a lot of web pages nowadays. Having significant, easy-to-remember domain names also have a large impact on website traffic, especially for those that make use of these networking sites. Emails and powerful search engines are also important functions in web sites. These tools are used by virtually every surfer, so having them excluded from your web page may make them look for other alternatives. A web site with built-in email support like google and yahoo, is more likely to keep traffic coming.

Lastly, hard links to other web pages can be beneficial for both sides as well. Survival can be a lot easier if websites have strong links to one another. This provides opportunities for more traffic flow as well as exposure.

So whether your website needs one or all of these tools and functionalities, having a total facelift is not the only solution to improve traffic flow. Just consider any of the above-mentioned web page facility and you may be back on track. Also, online tutorials and step-by-step manuals are available for web starters to help them jump start their own web pages.

A Simple Web Page Design Tutorial You Can Take to the Bank

Jan 11, 2011 in Online



There are a lot of small businesses today that are reaching to the Internet for advertising purposes. If you are one of these small businesses or you are just looking to start advertising on the Internet, this brief web page design tutorial will help you get started on the right foot to making money on the Internet. In this web page design tutorial we are going to go over some highlights to making a web page that is not only user friendly but will also get listed in the first position with no money involved for the keyword you are looking for.

Before we even start this web page design tutorial, the first step to this procedure is definitely research. When making a website you have to first understand a few things about why you are doing the web page to begin with. Some questions to ask yourself are, am I looking for an email list, and I looking to sell something, or even am I looking to just get a word out about an upcoming product I will have for sale in the future? Once you have figured this out now you have to fully understand your audience you are making this web site for. Some things to consider about your audience is what is the person thinking, why is he or she reluctant to buy, how can this product improve their life, what are some selling features (apply customer wants), and possibly are there any risks involved?

The next part of our web page design tutorial is to maintain a consistent flow of relevancy. Three topics that I can think of off the top of my head are keyword density, lay out, and flow of a buying cycle. When a potential customer tries to find some thing on the Internet they have to type in a word or sentence in the search query box, this is called a “keyword.” If you would like to be listed under such a keyword suggest you have that keyword in your website, as well it should make up about 5% of your content. This is known as “Keyword Density.” The layout of your website should be smooth and not hopping all over the place. Start the page with the questions answered for your customer as stated in the beginning of this web page design tutorial, then possibly finish with your personal thoughts of your product, or even your customers thoughts, these are called “testimonials.”

The content for your web page design tutorial goes like this to keep it simple. The paragraphs about the product you have should be short. The average attention span of a web surfer is very limited, so shorter is better. These paragraphs should be separated by “headers.” The headers should state what each paragraph is about so your visitor can scan your site quickly for the information they are looking for. Then get to the bottom line which are your “Call To Action Phrases.” Some examples of these are Click Here If…, or Learn How To Get…. to name a few.

The last but most important thing to your web page design tutorial is relevancy. From the beginning keywords to the Call To Action Phrases you have to be relevant to what your audience is looking for or you will lose them. By this I mean if your customer is looking for skate boards then it should be in some form in your keyword, your main title to your website, in your main headers for your paragraphs, and possibly even in your Call To Action Phrases. This is how you get a customer to stay and feel like he or she has found the information they have been looking for, which will make them more inclined to accept your offer.

In this web page design tutorial we went over some main topics to getting a website to be user friendly with a flow of a buying cycle that will lead to a sale almost every time. I hope this web page design tutorial was helpful to you and as well I have many other free tips for you if you would like to click on one of the links below.

Article Writing SEO Tutorials Tips For Beginners Plus Continuing Web Content Creators

Jan 07, 2011 in Writing And Speaking



Regarding article writing SEO (Search Engine Optimization), no matter how far along you are in the business of Internet entrepreneurial content creation, there is no doubt that you often run into idiosyncrasies, inconsistencies, and otherwise unexpected challenges or problems with procuring, producing, plus publishing your online content. With the currently growing and soon-to-be popular strategy of Web 2.0 link wheels, for example, it becomes instantly apparent that you literally need GOBS of high quality, non-repetitive content to effectively market your message, motto, product, or service, both individually and inclusively.

Presently, the primary medium for beginners and even highly experienced, seasoned, online author enterprisers is article marketing — particularly by way of article writing SEO content. Today’s tutorials-tips recommendation focuses upon the one aspect that can make article marketing truly effective according to your specific skills, resources, and preferences.

On that note, regarding personality and resourcefulness, perhaps this is a good place to highlight the fact that when Internet marketing strategy “gurus” make suggestions or write e-books and online instruction packages that tell you to handle your web task-work and content creation in a certain way, you need to nearly ALWAYS keep in mind how one shoe size seldom ever fits ALL people. And this fact remains particularly true when it comes to creating unique handwritten text to accurate complement the various Internet marketing tasks you see in this article writing SEO tutorials-tips presentation.

With that said, rather than give you one idea or process for completing your needed online content tasking, here you can observe a brief synopsis of the “mighty three,” most ethical, proficient, plus authoritatively preferred methods and techniques that provably work in the current online article content marketing system environment. One favorite method of content creation and utilization, because of its “automation” capability, is the article-RSS-blog function.

This technique (accordingly with the price you are able and willing to pay for it) essentially searches the web and legally extracts pre-written content (keeping the author’s credits intact) and places a varied mix of nicely related article snippets into your blog or web page on a continuing basis. Within this method, the article-writing-SEO sources for your RSS feed information system have given their permission in advance that you may reprint their article content (provided you do NOT change the writer’s link or claim that you are the NEW author of this material, regardless of how “reassembled” it may appear within your campaigns.

Simply understand that this is rearranged or restructured (yet, not “rewritten” or original on your part) content which you have permission to utilize within the ethical restrictions of such a program. Additionally, tutorial SEO article writing tips now more often list the option of systematic keyword substitution, in order that your RSS-fed programming system can more closely provide relevant article-writing-SEO information that almost perfectly matches specific keyword search queries.

Now, the other two acceptable plus respected methods comprise a combination of creating or writing your text yourself, by hand, thus giving you assured 100% unique handwritten content; or having a third party, relative, or friend (with high-level expertise plus proficiency) write content on your behalf. In such cases, the agreement on authorship is your alternative, choice, or option.

Meaning, either you can acquire the original author’s permission to publish the content in your name, or you may pay the author to write specific content for you, while retaining her or his name in your author resource box or prominent online web writer credits section. In case the above point deserves further clarification in this article writing SEO tutorials-tips session, it is again, that no differently than any other ethical, legal, or legitimate business transaction, you must respect and adhere to the acceptable, professional terms and conditions of authorship in your SEO-article-writing endeavors, as well.

The above point comprises highly important information for this tutorials-tips segment, as countless new online entrepreneurs (and many experienced ones, as well) either fail to realize or simply underestimate the perceived value of online content that remains available for procurement, production, and publishing. A separate article will additionally discuss the deeper ramifications and strategies for actually writing your own 100% unique content, by hand, using Google-style semantics accordingly with the outlines in this article writing SEO tutorials-tips session.

For now, however, it may suffice for you to know that you can handle your SEO-article-writing assignments in the above three ways, solely or combined, using article RSS to blog options, your own self-generated and completed handwritten content, or text received via legitimate publishing agreement with a preferred third party.

Creating Your Own Web Page is Easy – A Tutorial (Part 2)

Jan 07, 2011 in Online



Now, Let’s continue with Part 2. We will discuss the following here:

Creating tables
Using CSS boxes as webpage layout

Here’s how:

Creating tables

Tables are very useful in the presentation of data. The following are the html tags to be used to create a basic table:

Single-column table:

‹table width=”400″ border=”1″ cellspacing=”2″ cellpadding=”4″>
‹tr›‹td›row 1 data‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›row 2 data‹/td›‹/tr›
‹/table›

Type the above in your mywebpage.html within the body tags, save and refresh your browser. That’s the table on the web. Referring to the above html codes, width refers to the width of the whole table (you may also use pixel here like “800″), border is the outside line or outline of the table, cellspacing is the space between the cells, cells are the area where the data are located, cellpadding is the space between border and cells. You may change the values of these table attributes or properties based on your preference or requirement.

Though the above table html codes are still working, W3C.org requires the table properties or attributes be defined in the style sheets or CSS. Using CSS, the above table properties could be presented as follows:

Within style tags in the head:

.type1 {

width: 400px;

padding: 4px;

margin: 2px;

}

.border {

border: 1px solid #000;

}

Then, within the body tags:

‹table class=”type1 border”›
‹tr›‹td›row 1 data‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›row 2 data‹/td›‹/tr›
‹/table›

Looking at the codes, “type1″ is preceded by dot (.), meaning it is a class selector. For the next type of table properties or attributes, you may label it as type2, then type3 and so on or with other names you prefer. “border” is also a class selector and “border: 1px solid #000″ is the thickness (1px), border type (solid) and color (#00f) of the border. There are more discussions of CSS in “Creating CSS boxes as web page layout” and in “Using CSS in styling your web pages”

If you want to try the above, then type the codes within the style and body tags as noted, save it and refresh your browser. It must be the same as the first one.

Now, let’s make a 2-column or multi-column table:

‹table width=”400″ border=”1″ cellspacing=”2″ cellpadding=”4″›
‹tr›‹td›row 1 data 1‹/td›
‹td›row 1 data 2‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›row 2 data 1‹/td›
‹td›row 2 data 2‹/td›‹/tr›
‹/table›

Type the above in your mywebpage.html within the body tags, save and refresh your browser. That’s the 2-column table on the web. To add a column, just insert ‹td›‹/td› after ‹/td›. 1 ‹td›‹/td› is one column, 1 ‹tr›‹/tr› is one row and 1 ‹table›‹/table› is one table.

Now, lets make a table with 1 main heading and 3 subheadings:

‹table width=”400″ border=”1″ cellspacing=”2″ cellpadding=”4″›
‹tr›‹td colspan=”3″›Main Heading‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›Subheading 1‹/td›
‹td›Subheading 2‹/td›
‹td›Subheading 3‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›row 1 data 1‹/td›
‹td›row 1 data 2‹/td›
‹td›row 1 data 3‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›row 2 data 1‹/td›
‹td›row 2 data 2‹/td›
‹td›row 2 data 3‹/td›‹/tr›
‹/table›

Type the above in your mywebpage.html within the body tags, save and refresh your browser. See? Yes, just use colspan to merge the columns. To merge 2 columns, use colspan=”2″ and for 3 columns, use colspan=”3″ and so on.

If you want to merge rows, use rowspan instead of colspan. See this example:

‹table width=”400″ border=”1″ cellspacing=”2″ cellpadding=”4″›
‹tr›‹td rowspan=”2″›merge row data‹/td›
‹td›row 1 data 2‹/td›‹/tr›
‹tr›‹td›row 2 data 2‹/td›‹/tr›
‹/table›

Now, type the above in your mywebpage.html within the body tags, save and refresh your browser. Now, you see that 2 rows in your first column were merged.

Try creating your own table using different values to familiarize yourself in manipulating tables.

‹b›Creating CSS boxes for web page layout‹/b›

Before, tables are being used as layout of a web page. So, the header, right bars, left bars, main content areas and footer are inside of a table. This slows down the loading of the page as the browser will have to complete first the table before it will display the content. Your visitor may have already left before your page could be displayed. If you prefer to use table as your layout, you have to avoid using big tables. You better use small tables to allow the browser display your page little by little but faster.

Though table could still be used, W3C requires CSS boxes to be used for layout instead of tables due to the issue of accessibility. CSS boxes load faster than tables. These could be controlled within the style sheets that could be within the head tags or in separate CSS file. The most critical part in css boxes is the positioning. So, I’ll explain to you the positioning properties of these boxes, based on my experience:

position: absolute – You have to define the x-axis and y-axis as point of reference of the corner of the box. x-axis is either left or right and y-axis is either top or bottom. You have to define also the width or the left and right margin or padding of the box. The box is not affected by the preceding or subsequent boxes. Likewise, the boxes preceding or following the boxes that are positioned as absolute are also not affected.

float: left or right – You need to fix the width. You also need to select if left or right. The box will lean on the side you selected. It will lean on the box preceding it if there is enough space for it. This is affected by the other boxes except for the absolutely positioned boxes.

no position or position: static or fixed – This follows the normal flow. This is also affected by the other boxes except for the absolutely positioned ones. You need to define the width or the left and right margin.

Now, see the illustration below that will create 5 boxes, namely: headerbox, leftbox, centerbox, rightbox and footerbox. These are liquid boxes, which automatically adjust in width when the display window size of the computer is changed:

‹style type=”text/css”›
body {

text-align: center;

margin: 1px;

}
#headerbox {

width: 100%;

height: 15%;

background-color: #9cf;

border: 1px solid #00f;

padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

}

#rightbox {

float: right;

width: 20%;

margin-top: 5px;

text-align: center;

background-color: #cff;

border: 1px solid #00f;

height: 100%;

}
#leftbox {

float: left;

margin-top: 5px;

width: 20%;

text-align: center;

background-color: #cff;

border: 1px solid #00f;

height: 100%;

}

#centerbox {

width: 99%;

margin-top: 5px;

text-align: center;

background-color: #cff;

border: 1px solid #00f;

height: 100%;

}

#footerbox {

width: 100%;

text-align: center;

height: 15%;

vertical-align: middle;

margin-top: 5px;

background-color: #9cf;

border: 1px solid #00f;

}

‹/style›
‹/head›
‹body›

‹div id=”headerbox”›HEADERBOX content area‹/div›

‹div id=”leftbox”›LEFTBOX content area‹/div›

‹div id=”rightbox”›RIGHTBOX content area‹/div›

‹div id=”centerbox”›CENTERBOX content area‹/div›

‹div id=”footerbox”›FOOTERBOX content area‹/div›

‹/body›

First, you type the above html codes to you mywebpage.html within the head, style and body tags as noted in the above. Then, save it and refresh your browser or open the file with your browser. Are you seeing the headerbox on the top, the leftbox, rightbox and centerbox in the middle and footerbox at the bottom? Try to change the width of your browser window. See? The width of the boxes are also adjusting and that is excellent as your page will auto-adjust depending on the browser window size of your visitors! That is because I used %s in defining the width of boxes.

Now, let me explain the above codes for creating boxes as your layout.

headerbox – preceded with #, meaning it is an id selector and could be used only once per page; float: left means the box will lean on the left if fit; width: 100% means the box is 100% of the browser window and that is the reason why it is liquid; height: 15% means the box is 15% of the browser window; text-align: center is the alignment of the objects or characters inside the box; background-color: #9cf is the color of the space within the box; border: 1px solid #00f is same as discussed in Creating Tables.

rightbox – same explanations in the above except for the float: right which means the box will lean on the right and margin-top: 5px is the distance from the bottom line of the box above (headerbox).

leftbox – same explanations in the above.

centerbox – same explanations in the above except that it has no position defined, meaning it will follow the normal. It will fit itself based on the available space. This will be its 100% or full size. More than this limit will distort the box alignment.

footerbox – same explanations in the above except for the vertical-align: middle, which means that the objects or characters inside the box will be vertically-aligned in the middle.

Try changing the values of the values of the css boxes above, then save. Refresh your browser and familiarize yourself with the effect of each change. Please note, however that there may be minor differences if the above css boxes are displayed with browsers other than internet explorer like firefox and opera.

Continue with Part 3.