Cool thing about personal sites and blogs is that you can be as unapologetic and as personal as you like. You don’t have to be realistic or even reliable, unlike how you should be on professional and commercial sites. Anyway, here are a few tips or notes on hosting and domain names just in case you feel the need to establish a personal site:
You may use your own domain name if you do not mind paying for the hosting fees since it may help in maintaining that individual feel to your site. Another advantage of course is the more liberal bandwidth allotment just in case you plan to upload a huge amount of images and videos.
But it wouldn’t be a crime if you make use of free web hosts. They’re not only free but they are also a lot easy to maintain if you don’t have much (or even no) background in web design and development. This is a good idea for the beginners. After all, you may get a paid host eventually when you get the hang of it.
If you come across material that you want to share with others through your site, don’t forget to link to it. Chances are that other bloggers who will get material from your blog will also return this favor. This practice is not only common courtesy, but it is also a way of pulling in new readers. It’s really a give-and-take world out there.
By the way, blogs and sites nowadays have trackers on incoming links, meaning you’ll get updates on which sites and blogs have included your site and/or have linked to your site. You may want to check this feature out.
It takes more than signing up for a domain to actually make a website. Sure you may have a flashy layout and graphics, but remember that the main star of your site is the content. So before you do anything, plan what the site will contain first. Think of the audience and determine who your readers will be. Will they be teenagers? Will they be music lovers? Make sure that the content is relevant to these people’s interests and needs. Don’t forget to ensure that your site is very accessible to majority of your users. There is no point in making a website if no one can read it, right?
The previous post calls for a little extra cash so that you can make search engines work for you. There is a better and cheaper alternative, although this is more advantageous to blogs and text-heavy websites. Search engines do not index graphics, including Java applets and Flash. What you can do is make sure that you use words and phrases in your posts that have word strings that will most likely appear in search engines. By optimizing the text input in your site, the higher the possibility that your site is indexed at the top pages of search engine results.
Think of Google AdWords. How does it work? You enroll your site and pay Google so that when a user utilizes a particular key word, or string of words, your banner ad will appear not only on the results page of a search engine, but also on the websites that contain said string of words (provided that the sites avail of AdSense). As far as I know, personal sites and small businesses seldom use AdWords because of financial reasons, especially if you are up against big companies who can afford to pay more for ads.
Creativematch is a highly optimised site enabling your content to be viewed by 238,174 unique users a month (*ABCe audited) and getting included search engines like Google. Which is all invaluable in getting your business in front of potential clients.
When writing your press release you can be as positive as you wish, but any claims made must be qualified with evidence. Press releases which simply ask for new business or state your expertise will be omitted – there has to be a news angle. Creativematch allows businesses of all sizes with ‘a level playing field’ when it comes to publishing content.
Developing a site offline and then publishing it to a live server is always the preferred choice. If you develop directly against a live site, any problems you encounter while developing your site (and there will be some) will be visible to everyone who visits your site.
You could, of course, put up one of those graphics that you see on many sites that say “Under Construction,” but the way I see it, if a site is under construction, it should be on a development computer, not on a live Web server. After all, an artist doesn’t paint a masterpiece while the canvas hangs on a museum wall. A professional Web developer will always develop a site offline and then publish it to the Internet or intranet.
A new way to check up on friends is taking the Internet by storm. Twitter.com makes it easy and free for people to group-message their social network about their whereabouts.
More than one million users worldwide have visited Twitter.com since its launch in 2006. On the Web site, users publish their current locations, actions and moods online, according to the New York Times.
Twitter users create and receive messages similar to Facebook status updates. Individuals can make Twitter profiles and add followers.
1. Affiliate programs – These programs consist of giving part of your profit to those who help you sell.
2. Adding content – Adding high quality content to your site you will make an ideal instrument to always increase traffic.
3. Creating content materials – Creating some article or newsletter will allow you to add it immediately to your site, but you can also give it to others along with a link to your site.
4. Publishing through Ezines – A good way to achieve a number of loyal visitors is to occasionally announce everyone that chooses to be announced of news and new products.
5. Pay per Click Search Engines – When using such engines, you will pay to increase your rank for various keywords used in searches.
Formerly owned by MacroMedia and acquired by Adobe, DreamWeaver is considered to be one of the easiest web authoring tools available to date allowing HTML code to be hidden behind the overall design making layout a breeze. Considered to be a WYSIWYG editor it can be set to display the HTML equivalent of the page so more experienced developers can exact more strict control over the page they are designing. Upon acquisition by Adobe, they quickly adopted widely accepted W3C standards, something the former wasn’t quite abreast with. Continue reading ‘Adobe DreamWeaver’
