Home Business: Web site building, site structure and mapping

Web site building, site structure and mapping

Written by Martin Thomassen

Content is king, linking is queen, but structure comes first. A logical structure of your site is an asset to take into account and not to be underestimated. Actually, I believe that structure is repparttar

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three. Site mapping Imagine a piece of paper, just a white sheet. Put your home page on top. Below it, put repparttar 100379

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same level as your home page. Below that put repparttar 100381

sub directories that you have on your host and their pages below them. You really should not have sub directories of your sub directories (search engines will not easily find them) so it stops here. Draw a circle around it all and start adding your internal links drawing lines between your pages. Now draw outgoing and incoming links (one line can represent several links). This is what I call site mapping, your site structure. You should build your site structure repparttar 100382

same way you build your page structure, with extreme care and with a purpose. AND, your structure should reflect your strategy. You can have 2 main strategies for your home based business site, so we will discuss 2 main structures as well. Two types of structures and strategies One type of structere is when repparttar 100383

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things you show on your home page (or main selling pages). This is a very simple strategy and everything should point mainly to those pages. Your other pages will have one goal, lead your visitors to your home page and try to sell (or offer) them your product or service. This means that all your resources, all your work should be concentrated on improving and updating your home page, so your visitors will come back to it. All your optimizing efforts are concentrated mainly upon your home page and PR (Page Rank) and keyword optimization will be of repparttar 100385

utmost importance to that page. This will result in five or six, links on each page, deliberately concentrating PageRank on a small number of sales pages which you want to rank highly in search engines. The other strategy is that you have several main pages. Your home page and several pages at repparttar 100386

same level that are directly and logically (inter-)related. Visitors can jump around, go from theme to theme and find several things they are interested in. Your main strategy is not to lead them to your home page, that is only something like a welcome page. Your main strategy is to keep your visitors on your site or get them interested in coming back. Your incoming and outgoing links are spread throughout your main pages. You are spreading PR and keyword optimization throughout your site. This results in dozens of links on every page, to all other pages of repparttar 100387

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site. When you start building your site, you will have to choose between one of these two strategies. Once chosen one, stay with it. I think I would rather make a new site than try to change or combine these strategies and structures. Is one better than repparttar 100389

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purpose of your site.

Create your own audio studio for under $100.

Written by Quentin Brown

Creating your own audio studio has never been easier. There are so many great products around today that will allow you to produce high quality audio for a fraction of repparttar

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HARDWARE

The first thing you will need is a compatible computer. Today every new computer is already set up with everything you will need. A basic sound card with a mic and line in jack. If you do not have a sound card they are very cheap and you can get a good one from any standard computer shop.

Next you will need a good mic. These come in all sizes and shapes with different configurations however a general all round mic like repparttar 100377 Logitech Noise-canceling microphone is fine for beginners. I suggest you get a desk top one to start with as you may want to move into video later and so you wont want a headset in your videos.

Of course you could go up a stage and get a preamp with a professional mic but this will start running into dollars and repparttar 100378 whole aim of this article ids to help you get started.

Next you will want to get some cables to connect up your tape recorder and other audio equipment. Again repparttar 100379 computer stores now have packs that will connect up pretty well any device into your computer to digitalize your sound.

SOFTWARE - RECORDING

Recording your audio is probably one of repparttar 100380 most critical parts of this process and again you can get software that ranges from free to many thousands of dollars. For this exercise I suggest you download repparttar 100381 free copy of Audacity. This is an excellent software package that will allow you to record from your mic or any equipment you have.

It provides excellent editing capabilities and also will allow you to edit multiple tracks and then combine them into one single track. For a wuick overview of how to do this you can watch this video.

http://www.msincome.com.au/sound/testaudio.html Download repparttar 100382 software here. http://audacity.sourceforge.net

SOFTWARE - CONVERTING

The next piece of software you will need for your studio is a converting program that will allow you to convert different formats. For example you may have a real audio file and you want to convert it to mp3. dBpoweramp is like repparttar 100383 swiss army knife for repparttar 100384 audio industry and will convert just about any file to any other file format.

Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others whilst preserving ID Tags. It will also rip CDs for you.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

SOFTWARE - REDUCTION

If you are going to stream an mp3 direct then you may want to recompile repparttar 100385 file to a smaller format. RazorLame is a so-called "front-end" for use with LAME. LAME is a great MP3-Encoder: it's very fast, it produces high-quality files, has many advanced features (like Variable Bitrates and Joint-Stereo), and it's open source. Unfortunately, it is a command line utility, and that is where RazorLame comes in: It provides an easy-to-use graphical user-interface which makes MP3-encoding even easier!

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