There is considerable difference between writing for the Internet and composing a piece for a magazine or newspaper. What works well for one may be wrong for the other. Readers of Internet sites, articles, and blogs usually scan first before reading the entire piece. This means their attention has to be grabbed right from the start. Seasoned journalists who are familiar with capturing their reader’s attention in the first paragraph already have the first basic rule of web content writin... Read Full Story

Building a community around your website is the most important way to stimulate traffic and have users come back. How can this be accomplished? By making your website content more visible and by using strategies, such as polls, forums, blogs, and contests, or by engaging users in conversations by means of external services. When people text, twitter, or talk around the water cooler about your site, you can be sure a few will check you out. 1. Desktop Targeting If you are a website owner, you ... Read Full Story

What is the relationship between web hosting and a website which performs well? Choosing your web hosting plan can make or break your online business. It requires some level of technical knowledge and for most people, is too important a decision to be made on their own. To be truly successful online, you should begin your search with a web designer and establish a relationship with that person. They will then guide you in finding the best web hosting service to fit your needs. How well your w... Read Full Story

How can you help your readers to know whether your site can actually help them? Do you need a web designer to make it happen? Why is content writing on the web different than any other type of writing??? Why Visitors Come It is a fact that many web users don’t actually come to your site to appreciate the attractiveness of its design. That is not to say that an attractive web design is not important. However, the majority of your site’s visitors are there because the consumer was m... Read Full Story

These days it seems like everyone knows someone that can put a simple website together. Many use templated hosting solutions which allow them to modify prebuilt systems, some use WYSIWYG editors (what you see is what you get) to create in a visual environment, some use text editors to write their coding by hand, and there are an infinite amount of other techniques in between. The one thing that remains certain is that all websites are not created equal. Great websites require thought, time, c... Read Full Story

Has this ever happened to you? You need a photo for a website, brochure, flyer, or CD/DVD cover… You buy one of those 100,000 photo and clipart collections on 10 CD-ROMs hoping to find the “perfect” picture, but after hours of searching you find your brain tired, your mouse hand numb, and no “perfect” photo in sight. Fortunately, the photo and clipart business got a lot smarter online, and anyone who ever needs good photos at rock bottom prices stands to benefit.... Read Full Story

One of the most common questions from people is whether or not they should blog. Blogs are extremely powerful and can help your business or career - NO doubt about that, but should YOU blog? Certainly blogging is not for everyone or every business! First, some non-issues. You might think these matter, but they usually don’t. 1) You don’t like to write I would have told you in 2004 that I hated writing. Five years of blogging later, and a couple of published books, I can tell you t... Read Full Story

Twitter is a fast growing “micro-blogging” service and social network all wrapped into one. After some bumpy roads & strong growing pains the free service that allows hyper-connectedness & an interesting way to express “what you’re doing” at any given time, seems to be on the fast track now to becoming the next mega success story online. Twitter was founded by Evan Williams, who is no rookie to bringing creative ideas to multi-million dollar reality. Evan... Read Full Story

The process of link building is not just one of numerous SEO strategies that are employed on the World Wide Web today; in fact, it is crucial to the success of any website trying to compete in this technological age. Even if you have no other SEO methods in place, your site should at least work on building a reliable base of back links. Why Are Back Links So Important To The Success Of A Website? For starters, having relevant, reputable sites linking back to a site is one indication of the su... Read Full Story

Where has the old school simplicity gone? So many websites today, though very artistic and unique, often overlook the simple rules of design and construction when it comes to building websites. 1) Color Clashes: The colors of a website (general rule) should be no more than three colors. Make sure that the colors do not clash with each other. Though this is sometimes artistic and unique, this kind of design is normally not appropriate. Understanding first what the rules are, and then being abl... Read Full Story