Archive for Getting Started
Before Hiring a Web Designer
Posted by: | CommentsBefore You Hire a Web Designer
When you hire a web designer to create or manage your website, be careful when searching the internet. Many small website companies go out of business, leaving their clients without the important information they need to manage their website for the long term.
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What is Good Website Design?
Posted by: | CommentsWhy Design Is Important
Simple Website Service follows these 5 principles of website design:
1) Marketing Focus & Purpose
2) Design & Layout: Keep It Simple
3) Do Not Make Your Visitors Work (too hard)
4) SEO: If You Build It (properly), They Will Come
5) Build Your Website for the Long Term
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What You Need to Know about Hosting Your Website
Posted by: | CommentsWeb Hosting – Expensive Does Not Equal Quality
Web hosting is paying a company to store all of your website files on a server, making sure that your website is live on the internet continuously.
Hosting prices vary widely, and there are a multitude of companies offering these services.
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Choosing a Domain Name
Posted by: | CommentsHow to Choose a Domain Name
Naming Your Domain
One of the first steps, when building any website, is carefully choosing the correct name. The name of your website, known as the “domain” or “URL”, is an important marketing tool and requires careful consideration.
Over 80 million domains have been sold worldwide with the instantly recognizable “dotcom” extension. In addition, millions of other domain names have been registered, using the name extensions .org, .net, .biz, and .us, as well as country specific endings.
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A Checklist for Website Marketing
Posted by: | CommentsHow to Deliver a Powerful Marketing Message
with Your Website
Do you want to turn prospects in to customers on your website? Do you want to stand out from the crowd? Then, say something important to your audience.
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SEO – What Is It?
Posted by: | CommentsA) What is Search Engine Optimization?
Optimization is the process of improving the volume of traffic to a web site delivered by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, and MSN).
Google, MSN, Bing, and Yahoo dominate, with a combined market share of over 90% for search engines. Google dominates, being used for over 70% of internet searches.
The higher your website ranks on a search engine, the more searchers will visit your site. The goal of optimizing is to make your site more visible to the search engines and climb the rankings.
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Font Style
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How to Choose Your Font Style: Web Safe Fonts
Web safe fonts are fonts that are almost universally available on any computer. Browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) can only display fonts on a web page if they are installed in that computer viewing the web page.
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