When it comes to designing your site, there are 2 ways you can ultimately go. a) Designing for yourself and no one else, b) Designing to fit web marketing and customer attracting methods.

Here are top 10 issues you should always consider:

1) Flash vs. HTML vs. ASP vs. PHP: The type of code you use for your site may have a huge impact.

- Flash is not yet ready to fully intergrate within web marketing. Although technology is advancing, search engines aren't moving quickly enough to include this style of coding in their rankings.

- ASP, if your site is completely data base driven, make sure that your code is writen into page, not being pulled from tables everytime. Also, make sure to pre-plan your meta tags within data base. Too many data bases out there never implement a meta tag strategy.

- PHP/Java : These are both safe programming methods, just remember to keep it clean and simple. Don't forget to test your programming.

- HTML : Probably always going to be programming method of choice when it comes to servicing search engines and user friendly web sites.

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2) Always test your site for bugs. Even if you think your programming is perfect, most times it's not. Search engines / Visitors will browse your site with more ease. Test your site here: http://netmechanic.com oolbox/html-code.htm or here: http://www.thewebclinic.com

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3) Make your site look as proffesional as you can. If you can't hire a web designer / graphic designer, go out and spend a little bit of money and buy yourself a really great template for your site.

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Here are some of most common mistakes people make while building their websites:

1.PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND :

Broken links and dead links can cause a lot of damage to your website. Make sure all your links work - There is nothing more annoying to your visitors than clicking on a link only to find a ‘page cannot be displayed' error message!

2.PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION :

Don't put a link on your site that takes you to a ‘page under construction!' Put link on site when you have something to offer. Don't toy with your visitors' time, patience and emotions!!! Oh! And please take off that annoying ‘page under construction' logo right NOW!!!

3.MULTIPLE POP UPS :

Pop ups should be used wisely, if at all! Don't drive your visitors crazy with multiple pop-up windows flooding their screen. They will never forgive you for time and effort they had to waste in closing those pop-ups!!!

4.BLACK / GARISH LOOKING BACKGROUNDS :

Avoid using black as your page background color. It not only makes it difficult to read content on your website but also makes your site look illegal and spammy! Make sure that your site conveys useful information to your visitors and in process convinces them that you are worth doing business with.

5.ILLEGIBLE TEXT :