Web Design: Stop Driving Your Visitors Away!

Stop Driving Your Visitors Away!

Written by Bill Daugherty

Your web site may contain flaws or glitches that are driving your visitors away! Such a thought is enough to give repparttar

most laid back webmaster a migraine. How can you uncover and fix any problem areas that may be lurking in repparttar 134604

dark recesses of your site? Relax gentle readers, there is a simple answer.

All you have to do is follow a few basic guidelines that all web sites should adhere to and you can be assured that your site is in tip-top shape. It's not unlike giving your automobile a little tuneup.

1 - Slow Loading Pages

Nothing drives a visitor away faster than having to wait around for a web page to load. Most experts will tell you that 8 seconds is repparttar 134605 maximum load time for your pages, and anything slower needs some attention. But, this doesn't take into account repparttar 134606 visitor's modem speed. Here are repparttar 134607 results from a load time check I had conducted recently on repparttar 134608 first page of one of my sites.

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This diagnostic checks how fast your page loads up under 6 common modem speeds.

Connect Rate Connect Time -------------- --------------- 14.4K 10.12 seconds 28.8K 6.05 seconds 33.6K 5.34 seconds 56K 4.41 seconds ISDN 128K 2.04 seconds T1 1.44Mpbs 1.00 seconds

LOAD TIME CHECK.......................EXCELLENT -------------------------------

I have included these results so you can see repparttar 134609 difference in load time for various modem speeds and use it as a guide instead of repparttar 134610 8 second benchmark you are often given. Please note that repparttar 134611 page tested has very few graphics. A page with more graphics will load slower, but may still load in an acceptable time. Slow load time is usually caused by either too many graphics or by graphics that are too "fat." You can have those "fat" graphics optimized by an experienced HTML programmer. If your problem is too many graphics, you need to eliminate a few.

Building the Website of Your Dreams Not Your NightMares

Written by Judi Singleton

In 1999, when I set out to build my first website I knew very little about html and even less about planning websites. Like a lot of Newbies I just struggled along learning as I went. I also knew very little about running a home business on repparttar

net. It is quite different than running a bricks and mortar store in some ways. I had run several business but never an online one. This article comes out of my personal school of hard knocks.

The first decision you must make is where you will host this new site. Do you want free web hosting? Here are some tips about choosing a free web host.

Try to go for repparttar 134603 web hosts that have been around longer. If they already have a track record for longevity, chances are greater that they'll be around for repparttar 134604 life of your site. Hosts like these include:

Geocities ; Tripod ; and Hypermart .

Please note that this is not an endorsement of these hosts nor is it any guarantee that they will last.

Make sure you know who owns repparttar 134605 content of your site -- you or repparttar 134606 free web host. This is in repparttar 134607 fine print -- read it carefully before you click repparttar 134608 submit button to create your account. When starting out often a free web host is within your budget. Until your business grows it is a good idea on repparttar 134609 web, as with a bricks and mortar store, to keep repparttar 134610 costs down. There are many good free hosting companies on repparttar 134611 web. It's your choice whether you want to host free or you would like to get a domain name now. It is all in repparttar 134612 planning.

Next you will have to decide what kind of site you are building. Is it a business site? What are you planning to sell? These are essential questions when considering how you will want your site to look. If you are not going put up your site yourself you will have to hire a website designer. This makes it imperative to have a good plan in place before you start building repparttar 134613 site of your dreams. Poor planning can cost you a lot of money and heartache.

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