The Home (Page) is Where the Heart IsWritten by Heather Reimer
I know your online business has heart... miles and miles and miles of heart. But how come when I visit your site, I can't find it? The "heart" of your website is thing that makes your company tick. It's compact yet vital nugget that lets me know in short order what you do and how you can help me. It's thing I need most when I arrive at a site for first time. But instead, here's what I get from many webmasters: >Corporate jargon >Blustery self promotion >History lessons in past achievements >Nothing! >Everything! >Banner farms >Graphic design masterpieces with no message >Flash intros that communicate zilch. So where are they hiding information their visitors need? I have found excellent home page content squirreled away on About Us pages, Contact Us pages, FAQ pages - everywhere but where it really belongs... Up front, center stage, index page. Why not open up your home page right now and compare its content with following checklist that you can use to reveal your site's living, breathing heart to your visitors: >A brief but clear description of what site is about and
| | Finding the Errors on Your SiteWritten by Paulina Roe
When you are building your site, and try to test it in a browser, do you sometimes (or perhaps more often) get an error message telling you that your site contains a script error, and would you like to continue running scripts on page - yes or no? If so, look at that screen before discounting it - it should tell you which line has a syntax error or whatever problem it tells you. You can now look for that line to correct it - but finding it might not be as easy as you'd think. Blank lines do count, and count might piece some lines together which you would no expect. One way to find line in question is to go near line you think you counted to. When you are there, see which line it tells you error is at. For example, if your error is at line 33, you can go to about line 29 and then add a blank line. Again try to view page - which line does it tell you error is on now? Does it say line 33 again? If so, you have added blank line AFTER line with an error. Go up
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