3 Rules of Website Designing and Layout

Now that you have got your domain name registered, your next worry is about designing a website or getting it designed, depending on your budget,inclination and knowledge.

To help the newbie's start it right - Design your website before getting the domain name registered. Why park an empty domain on the web just like that? Why waste even a single day after registration? right? So a better idea is to keep your "small but complete" site ready. As soon as domain name registration notification arrives, upload the pages. You can keep adding value forever.

Small but complete" is what is being explained thru' this article. Keep three things in mind. Simplicity, Appropriate content and Easy navigation. Try striking a perfect balance between them and you are bound to succeed.

Simplicity: Keep everything about your website simple. Flow of content,language, layout and terminology. Considering the potential of your visitor(who might be your future client/ buyer/affiliate) and his technical ignorance, you will do yourself a great deal of good sticking to simplicity. However stylized or hi fi your site is, if it can't hold the traffic or visitor's attention- its pointless.

Appropriate content: Content is the king. No augments. Always look at content is two parts. One, keeping the visitors in mind and the other keeping the spiders. Visitor needs emotional convincing and the spider - logical. Meta tags and keywords are what will come in handy with Spiders, Visitors can be reached across better if we can help them identify and relate to our message or proposal in a more emotional manner. He will not buy from your site because you have designed you site in java or your because he found your core key-phrase in the anchor tag! He will have to be aspired... thus, content is the soul of site and you will have to keep it ticking...

Navigation: Let your site be very easy to navigate. A closely weaved theme, and therefore a well presented index will help the visitor to gain focus and think in a certain direction A SITE MAP IS A MUST. All the pages, as you keep adding them to your site should find a place on the site map. Spider should be able to reach all your pages thru site map. Another important thing to keep in mind is try to connect each link page from one other station besides sitemap. Connect your internal pages with each other according to their theme. No orphan pages. No broken links...

The author is Purva Mewar webmaster of two Work at Home Business websites:

http://www.yesearnformhome.com and http://www.work-at-home-earn-extra-income.com

In The News:

pen paper and inkwell


cat break through


Allocating Your Web Site?s Budget Properly

I had a client say something to me the other... Read More

Duplication vs. Individualism

How can we add Word Rich Content to our Websites... Read More

Building Websites with Directory Generator

Directory Generator, a product from Armand Morin and Marc Quarles,... Read More

Launch Your Own Website Today - Its Easier Than You Think!

Thousands of people are now making a living online and... Read More

17 Tips to Plan a Website

Everyone wants one.Everyone wishes they knew how to make one.SOME... Read More

Make Your Communication Come Alive

Design and layout can make your communication come alive and... Read More

What is SQL?

What is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language and... Read More

Remember This When Building A New Site - Beginners Guide

I recently helped my mom to launch a website (www.mom2me.com)... Read More

Now You Have a Web Site - Have You Ever Heard of Accessibility?

An accessible Web site is easily approached, easily understood, and... Read More

6 Steps To Your Own Website

A lot of people these days are interested in getting... Read More

Up The Sandbox!

Go to any internet marketing forum you want these days... Read More

How to Make Your Own Free Website in 8.5 Minutes or Less

Designing and creating your own website does not have to... Read More

HTML Editors 101 - Smaller Is Better

SiteSpinnerSiteSpinner is a user-friendly web site development tool that includes... Read More

The Number One Reason Most Websites Fail

Failure, just like success, is measured differently by each and... Read More

4 Steps to Selling More With Your Web Site

Most web sites are more like stage sets than real... Read More

Where?s Your Web Site?

This simple question can take on several different forms, but... Read More

Optimal Website Design

Optimal website design is the art of logical navigation.It will... Read More

PIM Team Case Study: Creating Text Effects With PHP and GD

See how you can create graphic effects on text with... Read More

Ten Major Tips to Develop a Multilingual Web Site to Work

If you are living in a country that its native... Read More

Cost Effective and Powerful Dynamic Websites w. Fantastico Web Hosting

If you are developing your website on a host that... Read More

Learn to Build a Better Online Business Website Using Keywords and Content

Are you aware that 90% of the websites on the... Read More

How Disabled Users Access The Internet

In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people... Read More

Successful Commercial Sites

Do you make your website just to entertain yourself or... Read More

Set Up Your Website in Minutes ? For Free

There was a time not long ago when setting up... Read More

Server Stats ? Analyzing Traffic To Your Site

Analyzing traffic to a site is a key factor in... Read More

How To Convert More Sales On Your Website

One of the biggest mistakes that most online retailers make... Read More

FREE Amber Alert Tickers for Your Website

Project Safekids provides webmasters a valuable tool which could save... Read More

A Network Of Web Sites Is Not Enough!

The big thing these days is your ability to capture... Read More

Introductory PHP For Non-Programmers

When you started reading this sentence you assumed lo acabarķa... Read More

Have You Got Your Ear To The Ground Or Your Head In The Sand?

What happened on your website yesterday? What about last week... Read More

Preventing Repeat Form Submission Using PHP Sessions

We've all seen those messages on some websites warning not... Read More

Make Your Web Site Stand Out

When visitors add your web site to their Favorites or... Read More

9 Keys to an Effective Website

Many small companies choose not to invest in a professionally... Read More