Hello and welcome to Rim Digest, the ezine for
"Responsible Internet Marketers".
Striving to be the BEST resource for Small Biz Owners...
TEN years of Service & Honest Information
April 15, 2010 volume 10-issue 15
Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net
Rim Digest ezine: http://www.rimdigest.com
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Today's Issue Contains:
Publisher's Spot
Featured Article: Improve The Usability of Your Website
Positive Quote
Fun Tip or Site
Feedback
Recommended eZines
Publisher's Goodbye and Legal Stuff
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For about eleven years I have been interested in
health related products, services and websites.
I finally broke down and told my best friend and
blog site installation wizard, Sharon McPherson,
that I was ready to have a blog for both Rim Digest
ezine AND my health site that I barely promote.
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I invite you to please visit and leave comments.
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My latest news and tips, etc. are on my blog
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Featured Article
Improve The Usability of Your Website
No matter how brilliant your website design is,
if it is hard to reach the content of your site,
your site is as useful as an empty shell.
Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website
to ensure that it serves its functions optimally.
The first method is to make sure the typography of your content
is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use
CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line
of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be.
Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read
easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while
that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes
to read the actual text.
Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want
on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site
and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from
that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to enable
visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven
database search engine or just a glossary or index of articles
that you have, providing such a feature will make sure your
visitors can use your site with ease.
Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose
visitors. Most internet users will leave a website if it
doesn't load completely within 15 seconds, so make sure
the crème de la crème of your website is delivered to the
visitors as soon as possible to retain their attention.
Last of all, test each and every link on your site before
it goes online. There is nothing more effective in
tarnishing your professional image than broken links,
so be very careful about that.
This article is the propery of Jan Tallent,
owner & operator of Tallent Agency Virtual Assistance,
who specializes in proofreading, editing and social
networking assistance and maintenance
at http://www.tallentagency.com
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Positive Quote
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm
can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which
takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite,
intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.
-- Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)
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Fun Tip or Sites
These Are Things You Don't Say To Your Wife
http://tinyurl.com/DoNotSayToYourWife
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Feedback
" Hi Jan,
Thank you for the grammar and spelling information.
My spelling and sometimes grammar leave a bit to be desired.
Probably having a visual challenge may be the reason why I've
struggled all my life to spell correctly.
Spell check helps unless, even though I try every possible
solution I can think of I still don't get the correct spelling.
Sometimes this happens, so then what to do? Please keep the
information coming, thank you.
Viv
Quarterly Surf traffic exchange & advertising
http://protrafficfunnel.com/links/2965 "
hi, Viv.
thanks so much for the feedback. I love to help and love
knowing I just might be doing so :-)
I do not have many "talents" so have to pretty much take
advantage of the few I do have and I have always been an
avid reader plus grammar and spelling came so easily to me.
That is probably why I have a huge MATH deficit, lol.
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just think, you can have your feedback in this
section with a link to you or your biz, hint, hint.
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