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I ran across an older article today titled “Design and Content Tips” from Webreference.com. Surprisingly, it offered some refreshing content tips that you might not have heard in a while.

The author mentions four main things:

Categorize
Be A Site Visitor
Consistency and Predictability
Loud Colors Do Not Equal Creativity

I think the most important one is “Be A Site Visitor”, particularly putting yourself in the visitors’ shoes. How would you go about finding a product on your site?

The author makes a really good point: To pretend like you have never seen the site or knew about the content. Think outside of the box and think about what is not so obvious to everyday users. I actually thought about this point myself the other day. I was working with a site that had small, white text. I thought, well I know what all this says without struggling but would the average reader? Since the text was a little hard to read for even me who looks at that type of site all day, it would probably be really hard for visitors.

Take these things into consideration when dealing with your own content, and you may get better results. 

Read the full article here.

Do you have a mobile version of your website? If not, It’s probably way past time you go to work on that.

Every day, more and more people are using their mobile phones to access the Internet. I imagine the number will be growing exponentially as the iPhone gains popularity.

In fact, Google has just released a horde of new features specifically for the iPhone.

Mobile advertising is expected to reach $1.4 billion over the next few years.

This day and age, people want to be able to access the information they want at any given time. Even shopping carts will soon have Internet capabilities.

If you want your site to be seen by as many people as possible, and if you want the ones that do see it to return, it is best to have your site represented well on as many platforms as possible.

If a visitor finds your site and it is not optimized for mobile devices, they will just turn around and find a competing site that is properly represented. Now multiply that by all of the other potential visitors out there with mobile devices with Internet access and you’re likely missing out on a ton of traffic.

If you are selling a product or service with your site, this can be a huge blow to your potential profits. If you aren’t selling anything, you probably still want people to visit your site. Otherwise, why are you even running it.

There is a plethora of articles on the web about how to optimize your site for mobile devices. I suggest you do some research and get to work if you haven’t already done so. You may be losing money right now!

This article by Thomas McMahon may be a good starting point.

Online businesses are considered high risk propositions due to the nature of the business itself. It depends so much on the traffic the site gets which in turn is highly dependent on other major internet players like Google and Yahoo!. This means that if Google decides that your site is not good enough then your online traffic from the largest search engine just dries up. Same is the case with Yahoo and MSN. This is why we keep harping about the importance of offline marketing. Offline marketing could be in the form of news paper advertisements, flyers, billboards, visiting cards etc. Today we look at a amazing low cost product that will let you print large sized banners using your desktop printer and we will see how this can help you drive more traffic to your site. Read the rest of this entry »

VisualScope, a website design firm based in Seattle, specialises in brand building and maintenance. Charter Home Builders, Parent Net Associations, Empire Promotional Products etc are some of the more prominent customers of VisualScope. This firm specialises in creating and establishing fully custom and interactive websites using the best web practices and effective and original content. As per the offiial website of VisualScope, ’solid onsite search engine optimisation’, ‘flash design and multimedia capabilities’ and ‘proper site architecture to influence flow of traffic’ are some of the key factors that drive repeat customers to this company. Read the rest of this entry »

An excellent theme based on a pleasant orange color. A simple layout has provided this with an elegance that will go well with technology, news and IT topics including SEO, online marketing etc.

You can also choose to put some ‘About Us’ information on the header. This spot can also be used to sell some links. There would be good value for such links due to their visibility. Read the rest of this entry »

This theme, as the name suggests, is a colorful theme and full of life. It is a two column theme with widget support.

Ideally suited for niches like fashion and lifestyle, the theme can also be used for general topics.

You can use plugins to add Adsense code to this theme. Adsense on the posts would pobably get the highest CTR. Try to use colors that match with with the theme color.  Read the rest of this entry »

We have looked at the power of Wordpress. And we have got many queries on the best WP themes to use. And we listened to you. From now on we regularly bring to you quality Wordpress themes that will suit your purpose. We will try and classify each theme to suggest the type of niches which would best suit the theme. Please note that there is no hard and fast rule for this classification. You could obviously choose to follow your own instinct. In fact we suggest you do so. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we came across an unique resource - a Wordpress theme generator. We must thank LivelyDirectory for helping us to find this resource. Using this theme generator, you can easily modify existing themes by changing the layout, color, font etc. Absolutely no knowledge of HTML, CSS or web design is required. You do need to have a sense of colors though.

The theme generator uses Yahoo UI and is based on Wordpress 2.1. Try out this tool and let us know what you think of it.

Wordpress has been associated closely to blogging due to the extensive support it has received from bloggers around the world from all niches. The standard features of wordpress has been sufficient for most users. But for webmasters with a creative bent of mind and with time and resources on hand, Wordpress offers infinitely more features. The customisation possibilities of this software have to be seen to be believed. The plugins, the themes, the widgets and other add-ins ensure that customising a wordpress installation is ‘comparitively a simple’ operation. We will look at a website today to illustrate our point. Read the rest of this entry »

Most webmasters have a portfolio of websites. Some of them may have only a few websites while others may have hundreds of sites in their stable. Obviously it is natural that these sites may belong to various niches and may not be inter-linked. When it comes to presenting your webmaster/company credentials, it is important that you can present your network in an impressive way. So which is the best way to present your online assets? There is no right answer but the innovative method is better. Today we look at a site which presents the webmasters portfolio in a very unique well designed way. Read the rest of this entry »