Your Website Survival Guide 2004

Written by Niall Roche


Inrepparttar big, wide online world there are millions of websites and billions of webpages. Inrepparttar 132624 increasing sprawl of this virtual jungle there must be an evolution. Some of these webpages must grow stronger and thrive whilst others will weaken and die.

There are 3 types of websites in this jungle. It's important that you ask yourself which category your website fits into. Your website survival may count on it.

The Poster Site A stunning work of art with intricate graphics that both amaze and dazzlerepparttar 132625 visitor. Poster sites are created by graphic designers for large companies or for use byrepparttar 132626 graphic design firms themselves. They're built to look good. Usability is not normally a factor nor are good search engine rankings. Looking good takes second place to being useful.

The poster site has its place inrepparttar 132627 virtual jungle for those companies who need to put a pretty "shop front" onrepparttar 132628 Internet e.g. grapic designers. Unfortunately many companies who hire someone to design their website normally winds up with a graphic artist who recently learned how to use Dreamweaver and is now a "website consultant". The end result is a stunning piece of artwork that is of little or no use torepparttar 132629 visitors or potential customers.

Poster sites arerepparttar 132630 supermodels ofrepparttar 132631 online world - they look great but aren't useful for anything other than looking great.

Pros Looks great A definite WOW factor for visitors

Cons Normally difficult to navigate Lousy rankings in search engines

The Content Site A site littered with valuable, useful information that visitors and search engines love. Content sites are normally run by hobbyists who have an all-consuming passion for a specific topic or subject. They write, collect and publish online massive amounts of information on one specific topic.

Content sites are also used by intelligent online marketers who have realizedrepparttar 132632 true value of providing useful content to visitors. This has lead to not all content sites being created equal with some lazy online marketers using spammy tools to create "dud" content.

Learn the Language of the World Wide Web

Written by sushanth


If you are already onrepparttar web or thinking about it then you must knowrepparttar 132621 terminology used onrepparttar 132622 web. Here is a Glossary of a few must know Web Terms. Visitors: The number of distinct people who visit your site. Page Views: The number of web pages that have been viewed byrepparttar 132623 visitors to your site. If a single page is viewed many times by a visitor, each view is treated as a new page view. Hits: When a visitor views a page that has 3 graphics or images on it, he / she will give you 4 hits. 1 forrepparttar 132624 HTML page and 3 forrepparttar 132625 graphics. As hits are meaningless, you must not express your site statistics in terms of Hit count. Referrer URL: It isrepparttar 132626 web site from whichrepparttar 132627 visitor has arrived to your site. Assume thatrepparttar 132628 xyzsite.com web site has a link to your site on all its pages. When a surfer clicks on your sites' link and arrives at your site, xyzsite.com becomes your Referrer URL. Thus a referrer url indicatesrepparttar 132629 sites which are giving you traffic. If surfers typerepparttar 132630 url of your site in their browsers to arrive at your site, it will be shown as a Direct Hit inrepparttar 132631 Referrer URL list. Targeted Traffic: It includesrepparttar 132632 surfers who visit your site because they wantrepparttar 132633 product or service or information which is being offered by your site. Usually a Search Engine or Directory will produce Targeted Traffic to your site. Your aim should be to build Targeted Traffic to your site. A link or banner without supporting content will produce untargeted traffic. Page Creation Tools: They let you work with a single HTML document at a time. Netscape Composer is a Page Creation Tool. Site Creation Tools: They let you work with several HTML documents at once. MS Front Page is a Site Creation Tool. WYSIWYG HTML Editor: This is short for " What You See Is What You Get ". It is pronounced as We-z-Wig. A WYSIWYG HTML Editor will create repparttar 132634 HTML page for you. All tags are automatically inserted

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