Web Site Design and Promotion Help Guide

Checklist for a Building New Website

Guarantee browser compatibility. All Web pages should be compatible with the most popular browsers (such as Internet Explorer and Firefox) as well as text-only browsers. Browse the Web site using multiple browsers to test.

Ensure platform compatibility. All web pages should be compatible with both Mac & PC platforms in regard to colors and fonts.

Design for screen resolution. All pages should fit in a 1024 x 960 window without horizontal scrolling and should be compatible with most screen resolutions.

Be considerate of visitors. Pages should download quickly. Consider graphics and content in regard to download time and be forgiving of visitors on dial-up connections.

Accessibility is important. Ensure handicapped and disabled visitors can view the web site by being Section 508 compliant.

Offer consistent and easy to follow navigation. Navigation should be easy to follow and consistently placed on all pages. Every page should have a hyperlink back to the main page. The logo (usually found in the header) should link to the main page.
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PHP Dir Submit Review

Are you a website designer? Or maybe you run a web design company? If you have answered yes to either of the questions then you know there are more people jumping onto the web design business now. So if you want to succeed in the web designing business you need to give more to your website visitors. A good example to do this is to give something away for free, like an online service. An example of this would be the Google Pagerank checker tool. It allows the web site visitors to check their web site position on Google and Yahoo speedily without actually doing the manual searches on Google.

Another example of online tools would be directory submission service; a tool that allows website visitors to submit their articles and web sites to thousands directory sites quickly and effectively. Directory submission is a proven method of getting traffic and backlinks to websites. But the main problem with this link building method is that it can very time consuming if done properly. Website owners are already aware of this; and some people also know that the fully automatic submission services are waste of time and money. Instead, what they want is a website service that can cut down the required time to do the submissions manually.
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