What dollar amount does your web site contribute to this $316 billion dollar trend? Have you spent thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands on your web site only to discover that it attracts more flies than customers? Do you hate your web site, your web developer or your entire IT department? Do not despair! You are not alone! A great web site is crucial in order to effectively communicate to a business's target audience. It is important for Chief Executives and small business owners to pay close attention to the effect that their web site has on their business....

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When a prospect lands on your website will he or she understand what you are presenting? Do your ordering/sign up instructions make sense? Can prospects easily find the information they are searching for? If you don't know the answers to these questions you may be driving away potential customers. As a writer I put a lot of effort into making ideas clear. Therefore, I sometimes find it annoying when I can't figure out what a webmaster is trying to say. I admit I sometimes don't grasp a concept because I'm in a hurry....

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If you have a business, big or small you may be thinking of getting yourself a website. The world wide web is another way of spreading your message or selling your product. First you need to find somebody or a company to build and design your website. Some web designers charge a huge amount of money so it is quite difficult to make the right choice. One area you could try first is online auction websites such as ebay. There may well be a new company who is just starting out and who are looking at building up a portfolio....

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Want to know what the worst thing to say on a homepage is? "Welcome to our homepage." And yet, time after time, we all come across such homepages on the Internet. The reason that this is such a poor opening gambit is the fact that the visitor already knows he / she is looking at your homepage, what's the point in teaching them to suck eggs? Your website's homepage needs to contain much more important messages than a simple welcome statement or brief history to your company. Why has someone landed on your website in the first place?...

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Content is king. Without content your website is an empty shell, a skeleton with no flesh, an empty vessel. Content can redeem the worst designed website. The right content can make your phone ring off the hook and flood your inbox with people wanting your product or service. Content is the most important ingredient in the recipe for your website's success. If you have engrossing, valuable and relevant content you are onto a winner.. Tip 1 - Keep It Customer-Focused - What You Like Is Irrelevant I land on the homepage....

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Building a website can be overwhelming, here are some design tips to help keep you on the right path (or is that web?) --- Designing a Frames-based web site Frames may make the job of maintaining a big web site easy, but search engines hate them. Most search engines cannot find their way through them and end up indexing only the home page. Lose your frames right away. You will start getting positive improvements the moment you redesign your site without frames. --- Having an all-Flash or graphic-only home page This is another classic mistake....

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I've written about META tags in the past, and I thought I'd help you expand your search engine optimization efforts and increase your web hits. Most everyone knows the two basic META tags: keywords and description. Keywords should be in a descending order of importance. Move your most important keywords to the front, and don't repeat yourself (e. g. auto, parts, auto parts, Auto Parts). Keep the list short, to about 25 keywords. If you cater to more than one ethnic group of people, consider keywords in other languages....

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If one more business owner tells me their website sucks because they're just "too darn busy to deal with it", I'm gonna hurl. That's like saying, "I'm doing business in my dirty underwear because I'm too busy to get dressed." Realize it or not, your website (or lack thereof) is very often the first impression your prospect or peer will have of you. Now, it's no longer a matter of having a website -- it's a matter of having a great one. #1) Be Exciting Most websites are informative, but dull. Not surprising....

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For years now I've been looking to start my own business, but my highest priority has always been to spend less time working, and more time with my family, while still giving them everything they need (and most of what they want). It's a common dream, right? No boss to answer to, less stress, more vacation, more quality family time... I wanted to get away from the 9 to 5 and the traffic. (I bet you do, too.) So, I started to research various business opportunities. I looked into franchises of all sorts, but the money I had to invest upfront was way too much (thousands of dollars, at a minimum), which made the idea too risky - I couldn't risk my family's financial well-being on a dream of mine....

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Customer service questionnaires can help your clients better understand their requirements. Your clients can benefit by: * Focusing on immediate project requirements * Increased awareness of budgeted time and finances * Better understanding of project goals * Setting priorities of essential project features * Planning for project post-implementation phase On the other hand, you as a service provider will have a clearer understanding of what your clients want. This will help you to suggest your clients the exact services they need....

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Everywhere you look these days, people are telling you that in order to sell through your website, you need tons of traffic. Well, even though my business is traffic generation, *I'm* going to tell you that it's a BIG FAT LIE! The secret of a successful website isn't just in the amount of visitors it has; it's in the amount of visitors that are converted to buyers. It's no good having 4,000 visitors if your means of bringing them to your site means that they're vague rather than targeted visitors....

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Before you set up any scripts you will need some information about your server. You can get this by e-mailing your web hosting provider. It's good to have these on hand before you try to set up a script. You may not need all of the information for each script, but some of the larger scripts demand more information to work. The information you may need is: Relative Path Which is the relative path to your server, not the HTML path. A sample is: /home/yourlogin/public_html/ HTML Path To Your Server Which is the URL path to your server, for example: http://yourdomain....

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