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January
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Today's
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Publisher's
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Featured
Article: 5 Important Rules in Website Design
Positive
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Feedback
Subscriber
Freebies
Recommended
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Publisher's
Goodbye and Legal Stuff
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Welcome
to 2008 and may we all have a wonderful
and
prosperous new year! Thanks for staying with
me as
we near OUR eighth year together, which
will be
on February 10! Geez, guess I had more
inclination
to do an ezine than I thought, lol.
Almost
eight years later, I still love doing Rim
and
still love all of you. :-)
Thanks
to the endless help from Sharon both my online
store http://www.downmemorylanetreasures.com/
and my
re-do of the digital one
http://www.softwarewarrioress.com/
are
coming along way past any dreams I would have had
for
them and I am SO ready to be working only from home
again.
Yipee! :-)
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Featured
Article
5
Important Rules in Website Design
When it
comes to your website, extra attention should be
paid to
every detail to make sure it performs well and
serves
its purpose. Here are five important rules that
can
ensure that your website performs well.
1) Do
not use splash pages
Splash
pages are the first pages you see when you arrive
at a
website. They normally have a very beautiful image
with
words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In
fact,
they are just that -- pretty additions with no real
purpose.
Do not let your visitors have a reason to click
on the
"back" button. Give them the value of your site up
front
without the splash page.
2) Do
not use excessive banners and link advertisements
Even
the least net savvy people have trained themselves
to
ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting
valuable
website space. Instead, provide more
valueable
content and weave relevant related products
you
offer or affiliate links into your content, and
let
your visitors feel that they want to buy instead
of
being pushed to buy.
3) Use
simple and clear navigation
Provide
a simple and very straightforward navigation menu
so that
even a young child will know how to use it.
Stay
away from complicated Flash based menus or
multi-tiered
dropdown menus. If your visitors don't
know
how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have
a clear indication of where the visitor is
When
visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site,
make
sure they know which part of the site they are in at
that
moment. That way, they will be able to browse
relevant
information or navigate to any section of
the
site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because
confusion
means they will usually LEAVE.
5)
Avoid using obstrusive audio on your site
If your
visitor is going to stay a long time at your site,
reading
your content, you will want to make sure he or she
is not
annoyed by some audio looping on and on at your
website.
If you insist on adding audio, make sure they
have
some control over it -- volume or muting controls
would
work fine. Visit my parter site and get some great
tips
and help WITH using audio and video on YOUR site:
http://www.janronpublishing.com/videonewsletters.html
Jan
Tallent is the editor of Rim Digest eZine
at http://www.rimdigest.com/
and aka the Software
Warrioress
at http://www.softwarewarriroress.com/
You may
use this article in your own ezine or on
your
webiste by including the above resource box.
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Feedback
Hello
Jan,
Taking
a hint from your hint, but first...
Wish
You and Especially Your Princess
The
Finest of the Happy Holiday Season and a
Joyous
New Year. God Bless and Cheers!
Your
sites look great, guess that is what happens
when
one let's professionals do what we would
only
'like' to do.
Wish
you a Great New Business Year 2008.
Finest,
Jerome
D.
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