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Website Navigation Menu Tips

by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Using CSS (style sheets) to style the links of your website menu can be advantageous, both for search-friendliness and for usability. It is easy to set up styles for your links once you become somewhat comfortable with using style sheets. You can even make the links look just like tabs or buttons, with or without […]

User-Friendliness and SEO-Friendliness

by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Planning to redesign your website? Always good to hear! Here are a few tips for improving your website, even on a limited budget. 1. Keep your logo in the top left corner, linked to the main URL. It seems so simple. But there are still many sites that do not practice this. More and more […]

Keep Your Domain Name Reserved

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Be on the lookout for that renewal invoice from your domain name registration provider (registrar). Sure, we all miss a bill sometimes, but forgetting about your domain name could end up being more costly than you might realize. These days, there are a growing number of companies that specialize in buying up domain names. Sometimes […]

The 3 Essential New Year Resolutions for a Successful Site

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

It’s hard to believe another year has passed. Time seems to slip away, leaving us standing at the edge of 2008, thinking about what could have been better, or what could have been worse. It’s a time when everybody makes resolutions to better themselves, and they often neglect their websites. Your website is a window […]

Promoting Retail Business on the Web

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, December 21st, 2007

Update: Froogle has been since been renamed Google Shopping. Businesses with a tangible product to sell have access to some handy tools on the Internet that can make service industry business owners quite jealous. Case in point: Froogle. In case you haven’t heard of it, Froogle is Google’s answer to online bargain searching. If a […]

Mastering Self-Promotion

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, December 21st, 2007

Update: MySpace.com is no longer a prominently used platform, and Friendster.com no longer exists. Whether you are a clothing salesman or a real estate agent, you can always benefit from the power of the Internet. And you may have noticed a growing trend in web promotion with do-it-yourself tools like blogs and networking websites. These […]

Content is King: 4 Tips for Preparing the Meat of Your Website

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, December 7th, 2007

Most people recognize that a website is rarely just graphics and text. It really has to say something. It has to reflect the principles of a business, the mission of an organization, and sometimes it even has to convince someone to become a customer. So naturally, most business owners cringe at the thought of preparing […]

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