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as you decide the format and direction of your Web Site, please reach your goals with knowledge and education.  There is nothing worse than having a great idea or product and lose out to just because of a lack of information.

Start here.


The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet

Learn from the best. The author of this site, Corey Rudl gets over 2 million visitors to his websites yearly, does 2.6 million dollars in sales online each year (yes, that
is $2,600,000), and personally makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from his online businesses... all from his one small office. So listen to what he has to say as he knows what he is talking about when it comes to starting and promoting a business on the Internet. He reveals all his unconventional tips, trick and techniques with examples so you can learn most
efficient and fastest way to make money on the Internet.
Click here to go there now, I highly recommend it.

Barry Dearing
Owner,
Proprietor of Spectrum Web Design

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Graphics
There is nothing worse than waiting for 250K of graphics to download. Maximum file size of a page is about 15K. The average is about 10K. There are many HTML editors that show how long it takes to download a page.  Try to have all your pages download less than 30 seconds.  Many of your visitors won't wait for all your graphics to download. You don’t need flashy graphics, Java etc unless you want to make a point or create an atmosphere.
 
Content
Provide useful, timely and interesting information.
 
Website structure
Design your website layout on paper first. Make sure your site has a nice flow and easy navigation. Notice this site has internal links to all main pages and a home button at the left menu for your convenience.
 
Under construction
Some people argue this is the biggest mistake, and they could be right. One way of getting around this, is by making a link in the following way:
NEW-PAGE-NAME (Coming Soon)
 
Page description
A brief description of a pages contents greatly helps your visitors to navigate your website.
 

These are just some problems to note. The bottom line is you can do whatever you want, there is no right or wrong way to do it. The internet is a new frontier, without bounds or rules, just because it has not been done, does not mean it cannot be done. Use your own discretion.
p.s. don’t forget to use a sqell check.

You can really do the web pages yourself,  but, please invest in the products below.  Take the time to learn and use these programs to produce professional graphics and web pages. We use these programs.

Photo Impact 8
If you don't want to spend over $500 on Adobe PhotoShop, this is one of the finest web graphics programs on the market.
By the way....

the AD Picture with BLD Computers website on the monitor was done with Photo Impact.

Go to Ulead  Photo Impact 8


FrontPage 2000
A necessity if you want to make good,  professional web pages without HTML programming experience.
Go to MS FrontPage

FrontPage 2000

 

 

 
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