Diabolical Design

Written by John Calder


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4. Wait a minute - I forgot aboutrepparttar links. Can you use your CSS skills to turn offrepparttar 132368 underlines in your links, plus make themrepparttar 132369 same color asrepparttar 132370 rest of your text? They stand out too much if you don't do that. But, when I hover my mouse over them, I want you to give me a further display of some cool CSS tricks by makingrepparttar 132371 link text turn to italic and get a LOT bigger. Enough to makerepparttar 132372 other text onrepparttar 132373 page move around a bit. I've never seen anything like that before.

5. Now to some good stuff - your colors. Be daring here. Forget aboutrepparttar 132374 old dark-on-light and light-on-dark basics. Try something like black text on a dark green background. Or maybe purple on red? Either way, just be different. And I don't see any reason to stick with complementary or contrasting colors. Nah, giverepparttar 132375 old color wheel a spin & see what turns up. Pick 'em and use 'em in 1-2-3 order, it won't matter. If you're using tables, it's nice to changerepparttar 132376 background color of every single cell. That will prove to merepparttar 132377 level of tireless effort you've put into your site just for me.

Bonus tip: If you will put menus and other navigation elements in different places on each page, and not be clear on where a click will take me, that will make me look over each page more thoroughly, and I will want to click on all those links, just because I want to know where they lead. Really I will.

Byrepparttar 132378 way, we hope you know that these tips were all in good fun, and very sarcastic. If you didn't know that, please buy Mr. Flanders' book, or any good book on design. Your visitors' eyes will thank you!

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Web Sites Share Your Dream With The World

Written by Terry Nicholls


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Contact Information -- You must have a means for visitors to contact you clearly posted on your web sites. If there's a problem and your visitors can't get in touch with you, you could lose them forever.

Spell Check -- It should be common sense, but it isn't. You should spell check your web pages before you put them on your site. Nothing says unprofessional like spelling mistakes throughout your web pages.

And, for Pete's sake, look at your web pages after they're up on your site. Make sure they lookrepparttar way you want them to look. Remember, you want your web site to be profitable, to help your home-based business to be as successful as it can be.

Conclusion

While there are many things to consider when setting up your web site, it's worthrepparttar 132367 effort.

It's absolutely necessary for you to have web space for your home-based business to succeed!

For a more detailed explanation ofrepparttar 132368 various aspects of web sites, and more great advice for your home-based business, please visit My Home-Based Business Advisor.

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