Components of a Great Web SiteWritten by David Bell
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If your site is large you might want to include a search function to help visitors find what they are looking for. The more content you include harder it gets for visitors to find exactly what they want. A search form makes this simple. HTML editors like MS FrontPage makes it easy to insert search tools into your site and automatically update itself when new pages are added. Having a web site means making constant updates. People want to know that information they are reading is fresh and new. That being said you should include last date page was updated on all of pages in your site. This lets public know when changes were last made -- or you can include a "What's New" page that is specifically used for this purpose. Adding a page of related links is another great idea. You can contact other site owners and ask to exchange links or just add other sites that you like that compliment yours. By asking to exchange links you help generate traffic for each other's sites. The best sites on 'Net usually offer links to related sites where more information can be found on same topic. If you can write a brief description next to each link all better. If you do include a link page check it occasionally to remove dead links. It's very annoying to click on a link and get an error. If you take all of these tips and implement them on your web site, you'll have an interesting, well-designed site that people will want to return to again and again. Anyone can easily get on Information Super Highway, but it's up to you to decide on what kind of "car" you want to be seen in. I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.
David Bell is Manager, Online Marketing, at http://www.wspromotion.com/ , a leading Search Engine Optimization services firm and Advertising Agency.
| | Make Artistic Graphic DesignsWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
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•Teaches you about composition – getting into a good drawing class draws out knowledge about making good composition. Principles in good drawing compositions apply also to graphic design. •Gives you knowledge on color – drawing will teach you about tones and shades, even if you draw only in black and white. You’ll also learn some color theory that you could put to good use in creating graphic designs. •Gets you to distinguish good art – a single or couple of drawing class can never make a great artist out of you. But, abilities such as being able to distinguish good art can be honed in you after taking up a drawing class. As a graphic designer, you may eventually have to hire an illustrator and this ability of yours can be put to good use.Don’t give me a line about some people that can never learn to draw even as they have graphic design skills… Early on as kids, all of us have expressed ourselves by drawing anything. So now that we have complete and matured mental faculties, all of us can learn how to draw. Time and practice are all it would take. Great talents and skills are always result of never – ending practice. By learning to draw, we could also get most essential elements of creating artistic graphic designs.-30-
Lala C. Ballatan is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate. Book reading has always been her greatest passion -- mysteries, horrors, psycho-thrillers, historical documentaries and classics. Her writing prowess began as early as she was 10 years old in girlish diaries. With writing, she felt freedom – to express her viewpoints and assert it, to bring out all concerns -- imagined and observed, to bear witness.
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