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Hub You - 10 Website Sins and How to Avoid Them
The Internet is now a thriving means of communication and for everyone around the globe to receive the most up to date information at the click of a mouse button. Sending an email is now accepted as the quickest and easiest way to converse with your friends and family or business acquaintances and everyday millions of emails are sent worldwide. However, as in all aspects of life today even this form of communication is fast becoming the “old hat” system and the new kid on the block is now high streaming video email.Basically video emailing gives you the opportunity to still email at lightning speed to your friends, family and business acquaintances but now also allows you to include a high quality video message. Although this concept has been available for a short time this form of communicating usually
4. If your page opened quickly on my browser, and within a couple of seconds I understood exactly what your Website offers in a natural colour scheme that was attractive to me and 6 billion others, I may try to open another page. This is often the fourth reason why your Website stinks, because you make it far too difficult for me to:
a) find out where I can go, and
b) get there!
You will hide your navigation stuff right down at the bottom of a horribly long page,
Affiliate marketing is still an excellent way to earn quick cash from the internet. I say quick because there's no need to research and develop your own product. All the hard work's already been done.Although it's great to have all the R&D done for you, you still need to possess certain qualities, a business mentality if you will, to succeed.The need for these qualities lies in the fact that as a person who'll be most likely be working out of your own home you need to acquire a mindset that's geared towards work first, setting aside not only a place to work in your home but also a time to work. A time when no one else should be allowed to take you from your tasks.With that being said, here's a breakdown of five of the qualities
1. The biggest problem for many years is waiting for your Website to download and open the page. There are countless times I have not bothered waiting and closed the browser Window. Do not assume all your visitors are on Broadband, because the bulk of people on the Internet still use dial-up connections. If you have to display videos, let the visitor decide whether to play them and do not let them load automatically.
If you have a Flash intro, put a visible bypass link to allow people to get to the meat of your Website without wasting time watching your granny in the garden. When your Website is media-rich, let your Home Page be a simple choice for the visitor to select either Broadband or Dial-up.
2. The second reason your Website stinks is if your message is not immediately obvious. I want to know—within the first couple of seconds your page opens—exactly what it is you do, offer, or sell. Define the purpose of your Website, then write a strong headline message, and feature this in the Home Page title, description, and page heading.
3. Do not attack me with multi-colour Website, or one with an extremely dark background and weird, light-coloured text. In the early days of Websites, some pitiful techie gave out the information that on computer screens it was easier to read text if it was white on a dark background.
You may even be old enough to remember the DOS writing software called WordStar, which featured white text on blue background; in fact, you can still use this effect on most word processing software today.
However, the truth of the matter is that everybody prefers black text on white background; yes, I know there are exceptions to every rule but if you are going to sell to that tiny market sector, you going to go broke very quickly!
4. If your page opened quickly on my browser, and within a couple of seconds I understood exactly what your Website offers in a natural colour scheme that was attractive to me and 6 billion others, I may try to open another page. This is often the fourth reason why your Website stinks, because you make it far too difficult for me to:
a) find out where I can go, and
b) get there!
You will hide your navigation stuff right down at the bottom of a horribly long page,
Affiliate marketing is an industry unto itself, with people of all statures and financial backing making profits from the business. The joy of the affiliate program is the simplicity with which it works. There are no customer relations to worry about, expensive start up costs or extensive knowledge required. All that is needed is some web space a little initiative and a desire to earn money. With affiliates earning money simply by hosting a few advertisements on their site, the potential for custom is immense. There are no limits or boundaries to the earning potential of an affiliate; therefore all affiliates are masters of their own destinies to a certain extent.All the major online industries have incorporated an affiliate program in order to develop their product name and encourage new custom. However
If you have a Flash intro, put a visible bypass link to allow people to get to the meat of your Website without wasting time watching your granny in the garden. When your Website is media-rich, let your Home Page be a simple choice for the visitor to select either Broadband or Dial-up.
2. The second reason your Website stinks is if your message is not immediately obvious. I want to know—within the first couple of seconds your page opens—exactly what it is you do, offer, or sell. Define the purpose of your Website, then write a strong headline message, and feature this in the Home Page title, description, and page heading.
3. Do not attack me with multi-colour Website, or one with an extremely dark background and weird, light-coloured text. In the early days of Websites, some pitiful techie gave out the information that on computer screens it was easier to read text if it was white on a dark background.
You may even be old enough to remember the DOS writing software called WordStar, which featured white text on blue background; in fact, you can still use this effect on most word processing software today.
However, the truth of the matter is that everybody prefers black text on white background; yes, I know there are exceptions to every rule but if you are going to sell to that tiny market sector, you going to go broke very quickly!
4. If your page opened quickly on my browser, and within a couple of seconds I understood exactly what your Website offers in a natural colour scheme that was attractive to me and 6 billion others, I may try to open another page. This is often the fourth reason why your Website stinks, because you make it far too difficult for me to:
a) find out where I can go, and
b) get there!
You will hide your navigation stuff right down at the bottom of a horribly long page,
Do you know anyone whose attitude and disposition seems to drag you down? Do you know anyone whose outlook and energy bring the best out of you? I like to call this the Winner/Whiner model. I like to simplify things and divide the world into two kinds of people - Those who are Above, and those who are Below the Line. I know what you're thinking, and I'll bet it's... Huh??Think of those people in life who always seem to be in charge of their destiny, and maintain a great attitude no matter what they face. They are accountable for their actions, they are responsible, and they can't help but be infectious. I call these folks the "Winners."They might not be able to tell you whether their success is the result of their attitude, or vice versa, but I'm here to set the record straight. These "Above the
3. Do not attack me with multi-colour Website, or one with an extremely dark background and weird, light-coloured text. In the early days of Websites, some pitiful techie gave out the information that on computer screens it was easier to read text if it was white on a dark background.
You may even be old enough to remember the DOS writing software called WordStar, which featured white text on blue background; in fact, you can still use this effect on most word processing software today.
However, the truth of the matter is that everybody prefers black text on white background; yes, I know there are exceptions to every rule but if you are going to sell to that tiny market sector, you going to go broke very quickly!
4. If your page opened quickly on my browser, and within a couple of seconds I understood exactly what your Website offers in a natural colour scheme that was attractive to me and 6 billion others, I may try to open another page. This is often the fourth reason why your Website stinks, because you make it far too difficult for me to:
a) find out where I can go, and
b) get there!
You will hide your navigation stuff right down at the bottom of a horribly long page,
The only way to have a successful online business is to have a website that works. If it doesn't, you could lose customers and business. If it does, your business will flourish. It's not enough to decide you need a website and put up the latest flashy design. Instead, you need to give a lot of thought to the design of your website to make sure that it meets your business goals.In most cases, your goals will be about better sales of products and services and you will be able to see if you meet these goals by looking at the bottom line. However, there are also less tangible goals, to do with the reputation of your business and making it the first port of calls for customers who want products or services in your sector.A lot of this is to do with your reputation with the customer and a customer's perc
You may even be old enough to remember the DOS writing software called WordStar, which featured white text on blue background; in fact, you can still use this effect on most word processing software today.
However, the truth of the matter is that everybody prefers black text on white background; yes, I know there are exceptions to every rule but if you are going to sell to that tiny market sector, you going to go broke very quickly!
4. If your page opened quickly on my browser, and within a couple of seconds I understood exactly what your Website offers in a natural colour scheme that was attractive to me and 6 billion others, I may try to open another page. This is often the fourth reason why your Website stinks, because you make it far too difficult for me to:
a) find out where I can go, and
b) get there!
You will hide your navigation stuff right down at the bottom of a horribly long page,
Organizations are finding that their complaint tracking software is an important tool for building sustainable relationships with their customers and suppliers. In addition to using the data to strengthen weak spots within the organization, solid bridges to customers are being constructed as organizations provide in-the-moment solutions to common problems.Complaint tracking software, traditionally used to collect, track and analyze data for the purpose of continuous quality improvement, now stands to serve as an immediate feedback tool for organizations to seamlessly serve customers. The immediacy generated by these tools streamlines both internal and external processes within organizations.Increased communication within the organization is anticipated as part of a complaint tracking implementation
4. If your page opened quickly on my browser, and within a couple of seconds I understood exactly what your Website offers in a natural colour scheme that was attractive to me and 6 billion others, I may try to open another page. This is often the fourth reason why your Website stinks, because you make it far too difficult for me to:
a) find out where I can go, and
b) get there!
You will hide your navigation stuff right down at the bottom of a horribly long page, and then make the links in the smallest possible text. Worse, you use evil looking graphic buttons with strange pictures and unknown text that I can never decipher.
Let me give you a free, hot tip that not many people know—your links to other pages on your Website are usually keywords. Ah! The light is beginning to dawn, because keywords are the little things that Search Engine spiders look for and gobble up before indexing your page, or rushing home and telling daddy Google there is nothing to eat!
Therefore, to give yourself a chance of a listing, use text links at the top and the left of your Website, and use your keywords as links. Make it the same on every page and be consistent, do not make me have to search for it, because I won’t—I will simply close the browser.
5. While I am on the subject of your hyperlinks, please make sure that they are all active and point to the right information on the correct page. You can close browsers so quickly, and sent all your visitors away—never to return—when your navigation links don’t work!
6. There are a lot of very clever people and more than a few billionaires who do not know how to spell, and have no idea of good grammar. However, that is no excuse for you to publish Websites with pages crammed with errors of this nature. Even the most simple of word processors has a spell-check button and frequently a grammar check that you can easily apply.
If this subject is totally beyond you, find somebody who can do it for you; and don’t be a cheapskate and ask your best mate, look online and get it done by a professional.
7. Do you know what makes your Website really stink? It is when I keep finding pages listed as under-construction; often with cute little cartoon pictures of men in hard hats digging holes or building skyscrapers. I am not interested in seeing pages with nothing on them so do not even upload them or publish them on the Internet. Just write the full page and then shove it online and you will have happy little visitors who ma
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