Category Archives: Website Design Basics

5 Ways to Increase Website Traffic by Boosting Pageviews

Posted by on 09/08/2011 No comments

Highway Traffic

Is your website getting great traffic? Are pageviews and other metrics improving or stable? How many pages does the average visitor read on your site? If the answers to these questions are negative, you need to find ways to boost page views and increase website traffic immediately.

More pageviews means more opportunity to advertise products & services.

There are a few ways you can improve your website’s pageviews. These tips are not blackhat or unethical in anyway. They’re simple solutions that become force multipliers.

With the expense and time involved in driving raw visitors to your site, you need fixes and updates that can be done once and allow your site to capitalize on it’s user base overtime.

Increases in page views can greatly increase income or even jump start earnings where there weren’t any. What usually stimulates multiple page views is Read more »

Rapid Website Setup in Only a Few Hours

Posted by on 06/18/2010 2 comments

website buildingIn this guide I will teach you how to get an online business started so fast it will make your head spin. Oh, and this will cost you no more than 20 dollars.

You might think I’m crazy.

But I’ll show you how anyone with the passion and desire to make money online or even run a none-for-profit can have the foundation of their business established in ONE DAY.

Now I’m not about to give you some vague BS. I will give precise instructions and even files and scripts to download and use. I will tell you where to go and what to buy.

I must warn you that this is not a how to make money guide. Rather, this is a production blueprint to get your site built and Read more »

How to Pre Plan a Website Before Development

Posted by on 05/30/2010 Comments Off

Too many people rush into the development of their website without any initial planning. I will offer some advice and insight into the way you prepare your goals for a website setup project.

The first thing you need to consider is demand. What kind of demand is there for what your website will be offering. This is called the market. Rarely does a new company create a market for their product or services. Most enter an already established market where others have proven success. You will want to Read more »

User Interface Design Improvements in 5 Critical Areas

Posted by on 04/08/2010 Comments Off

User Interface Design refers to the production of the system Users will interact with. This can be a website, a content management system, applications, software, wireless devices and more.

I will cover 5 common mistakes website developers make when designing the user’s system. Although this topic is extensive with many advance principles, I will try to cover these mistakes generally when related to website design. Principles for software and physical gadgets will not be touched on in this guide. After identifying problem areas I will outline several Read more »

What is Standards Compliance?

Posted by on 09/27/2009 Comments Off

What is standards compliance?

Standards Compliance refers to a set of best practice principles that can govern any given industry including web development. There are a few organizations that regulate these principles, most notably the World Wide Web Consortium. Web Browsers and other web interfaces are often developed to comply with the standards the W3C puts forth. If a website is not validated as complying with these principles, then there might be errors in the final output.

How important is it?
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HTML examples useful in the basic web page

Posted by on 09/18/2009 Comments Off

Some example HTML for the busy web developer.

When I started building websites, I often looked for ready made blocks of code I can quickly customize and deploy. Often these would be Tables. I never really figured out how to write a table from scratch and have it layout the way I intend.

So here goes. Read more »

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