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 ofrepparttar 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 Way

Written 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 onrepparttar printed page and may showrepparttar 132256 page in a single column using a dissimilar font with a different size.

When there is no printable version orrepparttar 132257 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 exposerepparttar 132258 grid ofrepparttar 132259 website, segregaterepparttar 132260 element containingrepparttar 132261 content you want, use CSS to formatrepparttar 132262 page with suitable font sizes, widths, and margins, use CSS to selectively show and hiderepparttar 132263 other parts ofrepparttar 132264 page as you see fit and saverepparttar 132265 CSS to create an immediate custom printable view.

To easily take an X-ray ofrepparttar 132266 site, userepparttar 132267 web developer’s toolbar. After that, userepparttar 132268 Outline Block Level Elements or Outline Table Cells to outlinerepparttar 132269 site’s grid then use View ID and Class Details fromrepparttar 132270 Miscellaneous menu.

To isolaterepparttar 132271 target, setrepparttar 132272 container and its descendants to be visible, and then move torepparttar 132273 top ofrepparttar 132274 editing area and hide everything. But before you do this, you can first change its background color, formatrepparttar 132275 texts, change fonts or its border properties so that you can easily identify it. Userepparttar 132276 Boxes and Arrows to do this.

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