Live Support from Your Website? Can You Do It for Free?
I'm a freelance programmer and somehow I managed to get clients, speak with them, and generate leads for years without a live help system. To be honest, I had put in bids for a "live" help system several times, and I wasn't aware there were free options out there.
Art of War Now Offering Game Servers in Israel
Art of War Central is now offering game servers in Israel. The new Israel data center allows hosting of all game servers including ranked servers such as Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142. Art of War Central's international expansion has helped it grow 50% in the pats 12 months.
How To Create A Viral Marketing Tool That Generate Massive Amounts Of Traffic To Your Website
No matter what you are trying to sell, it's not going to sell unless you come up with ways to generate massive amounts of traffic to your website The more traffic that you get, the higher ranking you are going to get ranked on search engines and the more sales you are going to make
New Real-Estate Website Company Gives A Voice To Sellers, Changing The Housing Market For Foreclosures, Short Sales, Lease Options And Motivated Selle
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News from the Short Sale Trenches: New Website Lets Buyers Look into the Future
Rapidforeclosure.com is a new website that gives buyers a look at overmortgaged properties before they are listed publicly as part of the foreclosure process. Launched this month, it is the first website in the US offering preforeclosure data in an easily accessible and easy-to-use way. Advanced Real Estate Concepts, LLC founder, CEO and Real Estate Entrepreneur Oscar Morante, specializes in fixing problems for over-mortgaged property owners. He has been offering his "Short Sales A-Z," seminars for four years and is a leading expert in converting short sales into tall profits. The current environment of short sales and its immediate future is better than it's been in decades. Many homeowners and institutional lenders have been caught off-g...
Designing Your Business Website
Designing your business website is the first step in the crucial process of becoming Internet-ready. Embracing the Internet as a small business owner is no longer a novelty, but more of a requirement for anyone looking to build a serious, significant business. As such, the website you design for your business is of critical importance, being the face of your entity on the world wide web. With access to a global market, your website is the only form of communicating with your market youre going to have, and should be of equal if not higher quality than printed offline marketing materials. But how do you go about designing your business website?
Create A Website: Make It Easy To Maintain
If you want to create a website it is good for you and your business. Nowadays it has become essential to have your own website in case you are keen to promote your business or become noticeable or express yourself. Not all websites look good; it is essential that you make your website standout by having a good design. Bad designs also can standout - but obviously for wrong reasons. You should consider these design tips while creating your website in order to create the best impression.
How to Optimize Your Website For Better Visitor Experience
This article describes in simple terms, practical and effective tactics used to optimize your website. Following these suggestions, will result in a more enjoyable visitors experience and traffic. At the end of this article there is a Reference and Resources section where you can find supportive information and services related to each topic.
Website Accessibility - Proper Navigation
A very important point to consider while designing a website is proper navigation. You must ensure that potential clients or customers are able to find the information they are looking for without too many clicks. As a quick rule of thumb, visitors to your site should be able to visit all your pages by using, at most, 3 clicks. This is also important when considering search engine optimization (SEO) because search engines will only spider (or index) pages that are 3 clicks deep into your site. Not only does proper navigation allow users to find information they are looking for, but it also allows search engines to spider (or index) the information they are looking for. This is essential if you want high quality search engine traffic directed to your website.
Different types of websites employ different navigation styles, so it is probably best to visit websites similar to your own to see which navigation structure they have chosen. The most common locations for your navigation menu are either on the left side of the page or at the top of the page. When internet users view a website, they do so using what is termed as a "Z scan". As soon as a page loads, most people scan from the top-left, across to the top-right of the page, then down to the lower-left, and eventually across to the lower-right of the page. So, it makes the most sense to locate your navigation menu in the area where the user is going to first look.
Smaller sites usually only require a static menu on either the side or top of the page. However, website that contains 10 - 15 topics on different pages may require a drop-down menu. These menus may use DHTM, __JavaScript, or some other programming language. When the user's mouse moves over a main topic category, boxes containing subcategories will drop-down, allowing the user to quickly find the information they are looking for. I f this type of menu is used, it is best to also include text-based navigation in another location on the page. Older browser versions may not support drop-down menus, and therefore a small percentage of people may not be able to navigate your website. Even more important though, is the fact that search engines will not be able to navigate and index your site if there is no text based navigation.
Another concern is accessibility by assistive technologies. For example, blind Internet users literally read the code of your page. Therefore, if a navigation menu is image based or uses image maps, alternate text must be used to allow the user to properly navigate the website. To make things easy, no matter what type of navigation I choose for a client's website, I always include text-based navigation links at the bottom of every page to ensure that they are accessible to all Internet users and search engine spiders.
A Few Important Tips
*Plan your site navigation structure before designing your website to ensure that you are not forgetting any page links. It may be cumbersome to fix every page you have created because you a missing a link or two.
*The navigation menu must be clean-cut and uniform.
*Do not make the user scroll down the page to see the navigation menu.
*If you have too many links, use drop-down menus or create a site map.
*The navigation structure should be flexible enough to allow the inclusion of a additional links at a later date.
*Use short, clear and concise words in your links so your customers know exactly what type of information that page will contain.
*Make sure every page has a link back to your homepage. This can be achieved by providing a "Home" link in the navigation structure, and / or linking your logo image to the homepage.
*For larger sites, breadcrumb trails can be used to let the user know what section of the website they are in. For example, at the top of a certain page, the user would see:
