What is Good Content?Written by Kelly Paal
I’ve read that a good web site is all about content, content, and oh yes content. Now if you’ve managed to design your site so that you can fill it with great content, what next, how do you know what good content is? This may be one of those things that you know it when you see it kind of thing but I think that there are a few basic points to make in regards to having good content on your site. Considering how important content is we should all really focus on adding good content to our sites.1. Relevant. Your content must be relevant to your site. Why would you have articles or information that has nothing to do with whatever it is that you’re selling. You would think that this would be obvious but I’ve seen web sites that just have gobs of information that really doesn’t match their site. 2. Accurate. The information that you give must be accurate. Part of reason that you’re adding content to your site is to add to your reputation as a knowledgeable person in your field so if your information isn’t accurate then you don’t look like you know what you’re doing. 3. Free. Now if you make your living by selling information then not all of your content should be free but some of it should. How are people going to know that you know what you’re doing if they can’t read or see any of your work. I sell stock photography and I offer all of my short informational articles for free, not only because I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience but it allows my customers to see that I know what I’m doing.
| | Printing Your Website the Right WayWritten by Maricon Almonte
There are so many techniques and methods available to create a user friendly website. The first one is by using a server side routine or print stylesheets. The print version may strip out images and navigation that lose their meaning on printed page and may show page in a single column using a dissimilar font with a different size. When there is no printable version or printable version includes ads or other settings, you can use stylesheets. With CSS awareness plus some web development tools, you can easily create your own formatted print versions. The tool you may need involves Mozilla Firefox. If you don’t have it yet, you can install Chris Pederick’s Web Developer’s Toolbar. Various techniques are utilized in order to expose grid of website, segregate element containing content you want, use CSS to format page with suitable font sizes, widths, and margins, use CSS to selectively show and hide other parts of page as you see fit and save CSS to create an immediate custom printable view. To easily take an X-ray of site, use web developer’s toolbar. After that, use Outline Block Level Elements or Outline Table Cells to outline site’s grid then use View ID and Class Details from Miscellaneous menu. To isolate target, set container and its descendants to be visible, and then move to top of editing area and hide everything. But before you do this, you can first change its background color, format texts, change fonts or its border properties so that you can easily identify it. Use Boxes and Arrows to do this.
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