Web Design Discussion

11. Long term results

If your site is correctly optimized and well maintained it will sustain its high rankings for the long term. This means you will receive a constant stream of traffic that converts to ongoing sales.

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6. Fast loading pages

Slow loading pages will cause your visitors to click away to your competition. Your web site must be accessible within 10 seconds
or less. Factors that will help speed up that loading of your pages include:

• HTML/XHTML validation
• Image optimization
• Small number of images
• Use CSS (cascading style sheets)
• Limited use of tables
• Limited use of javascript
• Limited use of flash

7. Increase visibility internationally

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When I can’t find a product, service, business phone number or address I Google it.

How about you?

These days people are using the search engines to quickly find information. I often find it’s faster than the phone book and plus it offers more information.

This gives you a brief idea of the importance of search engine optimization (SEO) for your web site.

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When you sometimes mistakingly place some white space between some text and an end tag it causes your document to display incorrectly.

Causes of Whitespace?

When you use a space, tab, newline, carriage return, or line feed.

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Have you ever tried to incorporate the colors of an image into your web site only to find they are not web safe colors?

If you don’t use web safe colors visitors may see an entirely different color on their computer screen than what appears on yours.

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Recently I was asked to create a couple of banners that fade into each other. They would be placed at the top of a site I was
building to make it more interesting for visitors.

Normally I outsource my flash work to a flash developer but I decided to research the web to see if there was an alternative way to achieve this affect.

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How do you validate an old site that consists of 10,000 pages?

Here’s an interesting article on how the Australian Web Museum Site was validated for correct HTML.
http://webboy.net/presentation/validation.cfm

Many of these same errors I often encounter when I validate or redesign customer’s web sites.

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Recently a friend called to say she had received 6000 emails in 6 hours and most of it was spam. She was getting very frustrated because of the time wasted deleting the spam.

Have you ever experienced the same frustration?

Of course…me too!

Well, here is one highly effective method how to stop spam email using SpamAssassin

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A pop up window is a very effective method to help in the marketing of your web site because it grabs the visitor’s attention.
Unfortunately the pop up window has been abused online with “in-your-face” advertising. They have become so pervasive that pop up blockers were created. Now almost everyone employs some type of pop up blocker and most browsers now have pop up blockers built into them.

How can you avoid pop up blockers?

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Recently I decided to incorporate proper link structure on my sites so they can improve their loading times, and be search engine friendly.

When linking to the homepage from an internal page, which URL is the best choice?

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