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Top Five Sins of the Startpage Exchanges
Right now, these exchanges are generating more traffic to mysite than any other single method ever has. They are a greattool, as any, in the right hands. They may not work nextweek, who knows, but that's the nature of the Internet. By Pamela Heywood

Create Your Own "First Visit" Popup Window
It's a proven fact that the use of popup windows is a highly effective marketing technique that produces great results. However, they can be very irritating to your visitors. By Shelley Lowery

3 Quick Tips for Selling More on Your Website
Recently, after a delicious dinner, a long-time friend askedme, "Can you give me some tips for selling more on my website?" By Raynay Valles

How To Design Your Website For Maximum Sales
1. Front Page By Michael Low

Home Page Essentials: Miss These & You're Missing the Mark!
The home page (also known as "index" or "default" page) isusually the first thing people see upon entering your site.If it doesn't grab them - or contain certain information -many people won't venture past it... and might just leaveyour site altogether. By Merle

How to Use Pop Ups Without Annoying Your Visitors
At the risk of losing you before we even get started, I'm going to say a "dirty" word: Pop Up (as in Windows).If you're like me, you've been popped more times thana firecracker on the 4th of July...but that's no reason to click away in disgust. By Merle

"How to give your small business web site a corporate look"
The Web is an amazing thing! You can be a 15-year old girland make everyone believe you are a big-time executive whojust can't wait to get home from work after a busy day ofmeetings and lunches, and relax by your big-screen TV with anexpensive Siberian cat in you lap. By Milana Nastetskaya

Advanced 404 Pages
In a previous article, I discussed the advantages of using acustomized 404 error page on your site and gave instructions onhow to create one. As I explained back then, these pages arehighly useful because they enable you to benefit from trafficthat would otherwise be lost. By Lauri Harpf

10 Covert Ways To Make People Visit Longer!
1. Offer a free ebook that's published right on yourweb site. They would have to stay at your web siteto read it. By Larry Dotson

Using SSI's to Ease Site Maintenance
Before building a site, every webmaster has to make a decisionon what layout method to use. Most seem to go with either aframe or a table-based layout, the latter being more popular inthese days. By Lauri Harpf

Set Your Website In Order
One thing that will kill the potential for a website is thelack of order for the web pages - especially the homepage. By Candice Pardue

Untangling Spaghetti HTML
Untangling Spaghetti HTML=========================by Sunil Tanna, EBookCompiler.com By Sunil Tanna

How to Choose a Web Site Designer
It seems that everyone from the 15-year-old kid to their Grandmother is able to design a web site these days. By Herman Drost

HOW TO PROFIT WITH FREE DISCUSSION FORUMS
If there's one thing I've learned in my years of doing businessonline, it's that credibility should be your number oneobjective. If people know you and respect you, they'll feel likethey can trust you with their money. By Lisa Lake

Putting an "ADD TO FAVORITES" button on your page
It's always better to make your visitor add your page to the"Favorites" folder so that he or she can come back to your sitein future. I myself bookmark pages I find useful. By Amrit Hallan

NAVIGATION BAR AND BULLETED LISTS
Next, we are going to learn to make a navigation bar so that the Web site becomes "navigable", and then we learn to present point-wise information in the form of "Bulleted Lists". By Amrit Hallan

CASCADING STYLE SHEETS AND SERVER SIDE INCLUDES
Highlight: Below, first we learn how to define individual tags with multiple definitions using the Cascading Style Sheets, and then we learn how to include common components on multiple web pages with minimum effort. By Amrit Hallan

Learn From Their Multi-Million Dollar Mistakes!
Here is a classic example of what NOT to do whenconducting business online. That is, unless you canafford to throw away millions of dollars. By A. T. Rendon

What’s In A (Domain) Name?
Choosing a domain name is a very important first step for anyone starting a business on the Internet. This name is the first impression that strangers are going to have about you and your business. You are going to need to give this decision some real thought. By Sibyl McLendon

So, You Want Your Own Website? Is Free Or Paid Hosting Right For You?
You have made the decision to build a website! Good for you. Whether you are simply looking for a way to show off your family, to try your hand at making money from an affiliate program or to go into a full-fledged business, your first decision is going to be where to host it. By Sibyl McLendon

Color Your Way To Online Success
Color Your Way To Online Successby BB Lee (C)2002 By BB Lee

Website Design vs. Function
Easily, one of the biggest mistakes webmasters make when firststarting out on the web is in the design of their site. Thisis extremely understandable, considering that, in the brick andmortar world, a business's success is often dependent on it'sappearance. By John Buchanan

Quicktime Format
One of the very first video formats was released by Apple Computer Systems way back in 1991. It's still in use and it's called Quicktime. In those long ago days of computers (pre-web) Quicktime was hot stuff. Like many of the really great innovations of the time, Apple was the creator. By Richard Lowe

The Real Video Format
One of the big problems on the internet is the fact that by far the vast majority of people use slow dial-up connections. In spite of all of the hoopla about DSL and Cable, perhaps 90% to 95% of all of the people in the United States is still on dial-up. By Richard Lowe

DESIGNING WITH STYLE
One important aspect of good design is to give your site atheme and coherence. A great deal of this can be done usinga stylesheet. By Richard Igoe

"How To Keep Your Visitors 10 Times Longer On Your Web Site"
Everyone knows this: the longer your visitors stay on your website, the more likely they are to buy something. The longer they stay, the more trust they develop in your business, the more comfortable they will become ordering from you. By Milana Nastetskaya

Effective Small Business Web Sites On a Budget
As more and more of the world's business starts taking placeonline, we're left to wonder how our own web pages will stand upand out in the jumble of everybody else's. By Kevin Nunley

10 Tips For Running A Well-Oiled Business Site!
1. Address your targeted audience on your businesssite. Example: "Welcome Internet Marketers". Ifyou have more than one, address them all. By Larry Dotson

Building the Website of Your Dreams Not Your NightMares
In 1999, when I set out to build my first website I knew very little about html and even less about planning websites. Like a lot of Newbies I just struggled along learning as I went. I also knew very little about running a home business on the net. By Judi Singleton

How To Put An Everyday Business Online
In this edition, we'll be having a look at two websites.These two sites are what I like to call "Traditional Business"websites. These businesses are not based on the internet alonelike many e-business sites we do, but are traditional everydaybusinesses that have store-fronts and showrooms. By Doug Seidl

Perfection and Practicality. Get The Site You Want Without Going Overboard
It's a common belief that in order to be successful in any field,one must strive for perfection. Although this is a nobleintention we must be wary of the fact that the pursuit ofperfection in design can, in come cases, cause more harm thangood. By Colin Eyo

3 Easy Tips to Get Your Site Looking More Professional
Ask yourself, does your web site look professional? If you'reinterested in making money online, you have no choice but tomake sure that it does. By Colin Eyo

4 Huge Web Design Errors That Are Costing You Business Online
Business people: the point of your website is to getbusiness, make money. By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

How "User Friendly" Is Your Site?
Is an Over-Complicated Site Costing You Sales? By Doug Seidl

This is why YOUR website isn't making you any money!
Read this report and you'll know why your website isn'tmaking you as much money as you want it to. The reasonisn't war, recession, or bioterrorism either. It's a series of "garden variety" problems you can do somethingabout right now -- if you're serious about online success. By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Interactive Sites are More Successful than Boring Sites
When the web was in its infancy, websites were a couple of columns oftext and color. It's been a long time since first generation web designand yet many people are content with their static andconsequentially boring websites. By Cris Anderson

Flash Design: Is it all it's cracked up to be?
INTRODUCTION By Jody Hatton

How To Make Your Website A Profit Powerhouse!
Got a website? Here's how to make thousands of dollarsusing simple income generating techniques! By Grady Smith

Contact Methods
How many times have you been visiting a website and had trouble finding what you wanted? Have you found a broken link? Did a product description lack important information?There are many reasons a visitor may need to contact a webmaster or customer service agent, and if they can't, they may never By Dawn Gray

How To Make Sure Your Visitors Don't Come Back!
Pop up windows - when you arrive, when you leave, whenyou click to another page! It's an epidemic! By Joe Reinbold

How to Avoid Sloppy Web Site Copy
If your web site visitor can't find the information on your website, within 10 seconds or less, you will lose them. Two of thelargest factors that contribute to this, are the lack of clearpurpose and poor layout of your web pages. By Herman Drost

A Custom Icon For Your Web Site
WHAT IS FAVICON (Or the Icon in general) By Amrit Hallan

Why Autoresponders Are an Essential Tool for Every Internet Business
I admit it -- when I'm on the Internet, I want everythinginstantly. And I know I'm not alone; in our high-speedworld we expect to get what we want with the click-of-a-mouse. By Angela Wu

YOU NEED SSI RIGHT NOW!
I learned of SSI (Server Side Includes) long before I builtmy current site. Since it seemed the only way to go, I checkedit out once again for the new site to be. By Bob McElwain

Stop Driving Your Visitors Away!
Your web site may contain flaws or glitchesthat are driving your visitors away! Such athought is enough to give the most laid backwebmaster a migraine. How can you uncoverand fix any problem areas that may be lurking in the dark recesses of your site? Relax gentle readers, there is a simple answer. By Bill Daugherty

Designing Professional Web Pages
If your Web site doesn't project a professional and polished image to your visitors, your credibility and that of your products and services will suffer. Image is everything--especially online where your competitor is only one mouse click away! By Joanne Glasspoole

Choosing A Color Scheme
When you begin the design of your Web site, one of the first things you need to do is decide on a color scheme. Although choosing colors seems like a relatively easy proposition, it's not easy at all. In fact, it's hard. By Joanne Glasspoole

The Power of Color
Do you find it hard to choose color schemes for your Web designs? It is a question I get asked often. An effective color scheme can make or break your Web site. By Joanne Glasspoole

Where Exactly Is This Business Coming From?
Have you ever tried to complete an online order form only to find there just aren't enough boxes for your address. By Richard L.Paylor

How I Got Number One Position In Yahoo/Google and Altavista...On My First Attempt!
This article may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long as the by-line is left intact. By Roger J. Burke

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