Web Design: Ten Secrets for Building a Winning Web Site

Ten Secrets for Building a Winning Web Site

Written by Andrea Wilson

A professional-looking web site goes a long way to establishing you and your product as legitimate and trustworthy. It doesn't have to be fancy (shouldn't be, actually), but a nice, clean design is essential.

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7. Keep graphics to a minimum. Be more concerned that your site loads quickly and contains great content or a terrific sales letter.

Advantages for Using FrontPage (Part 2)

Written by Robin Nobles and Dave Barry

Another benefit to using FrontPage is being able to create virtual directories with ease. As you know, when you specify a home directory, all of repparttar

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site by creating a virtual directory out of it. A virtual directory is a directory or folder on a server that is not in repparttar 132770

actual server directory structure.

Again, Dave created a video on how to create virtual directories using Front Page:

http://www.smartcertify.com/seo/iis.asp

* If you want to create a database, it’s no problem with FrontPage. It will virtually create a database for you and import data without any database knowledge at all. The program works with Access, SQL, Oracle, and ODBC, and you can set up a SEC- compliant database within 30 seconds and begin working with asp pages with no prior knowledge whatsoever.

Click here for Dave’s video on how to create a database using FrontPage:

http://www.smartcertify.com/seo/dwizard.asp

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* What I kept hearing again and again as I interviewed users of FrontPage is that FrontPage saves you time in creating Web pages, because it’s so easy to use. Don Hammond with DonOMite (http://www.donomite.com) explains,

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