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Website Design 102 - How to Get the Look You Want (GUI)

This will be the second article in a series of modules intended to be read by small business owners. These modules will go through the basic steps of setting up your business online. Whether you are opening a local business, or an e-business. The internet is a powerful tool and you need to harness its power.

Now that you have your content you will be adding to your web site. It is now time to put together the graphics for your site, in many cases this is called your graphic or user interface.

Web Site Graphics

If you are a graphic designer you will probably be creating custom graphics for your web site. But as most reading this article will not be, we will discuss some easier options to build the graphic interface.

Free Site Builder: The easiest way will be to use a free builder at companies like GoDaddy. If you are new to editing HTML, then this will probably be your best bet until you get more familiar with web site development. By doing it at your web hosting company you will not need to worry about using an ftp program to get your files on a server.

Computer Programs: If you want to be able to have a little bit more control over your web site, but still want it to be fairly straight forward to build. Then i would suggest you use adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft expressions.

Hire A Developer: This option is always the easiest for someone new to launching a web site. You simply take your graphics / content, and have them assemble the site for you. Most developers are also graphic designers, and will be able to develop graphics and a logo if needed. The only downside is that web site developers will charge for their services.

In the next module we will begin to go through and set up your title tags and how to make sure they are done properly. We will also be covering how a description tag is used in your page. We will also cover the importance of a robots.txt file.

This concludes the second module; the third module will be published tomorrow, so check back soon. Or visit link at the bottom of this article, all additional additional modules will be posted there first.

Ata Rehman

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Custom Website Vs Template Website - The Debate Still Goes On FINAL PART

After the previous article, here we are again to discuss the other differentiation between the custom websites and the template websites.

In our last article, we have discussed the basic differences between the custom websites and the template websites. These websites have a lot of dissimilarities between them that keeps them apart. Our center of focus was the companies who avail them and according to what basis. But due to the less space, we couldn’t discuss much it that time. In this article, we are going to discuss it in details.

First of all, it’s important to comprehend what actually are this kind of websites? Custom websites enable the developers to create a website from the scratch that creates the exclusiveness and enhances the entire look and feel of the site. But in this entire scenario, budget plays an important part to be focused on. So, let’s have a look on the parameters which impact the most on the entrepreneurs on their choice of the websites.

Size of the organization Companies can range from smallest to the largest depending on their size, employee numbers, accountability, client base and capital investment. The larger the company is, the best package they can afford. For that reason, the small scale organizations depend on the template websites because these websites don’t need that much investment, while the large-scale organizations depend on the custom websites as these websites are unique and impressive.

Client base The clients vary depending on the products and services the company manufactures and distributes. The customers can hail locally, nationally or globally, on the basis of the manufactured items or service and the expansion of the company. With a huge client base, an organization doesn’t want to make its reputation go waste and as the website is the virtual face of the company, it should be very exclusive and should be made on the basis of the requirements of the consumers. Therefore, a big scale company with a huge client base prefers custom websites rather than template websites in order to generate traffic and expand their business more online.

Capital investment This is the major thing that decides the consistency of a company. The budget invested in an organization, on its employees, on hiring custom website development services, equipment and maintenance are the costs that the company wants to get back through promoting their organization online and that can only happen through the website. The urge of generating ROI in exchange of the products or services can be fruitful through the website if it’s attractive. The appealing factors in a website can only come if it’s unique, attractive and redirects the clients to the proper landing page. The CTA button adds the extra spark to the website that augments the conversion rate.

Ata Rehman

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You Need to Use an Account With Administrator Privileges to Install Windows 8.1

Have you ever tried updating to Windows 8.1 from the Microsoft Store? It's really exciting knowing that you'll get back that start button on the lower left hand side of your desktop toolbar. It just makes computer navigation much easier, again. With my experience in assisting clients with this process, not all situations are smoothly processed. Yes, we do get error messages from time to time.

I'm here to show you the fix regarding the error: You need to use an account with administrator privileges to install windows 8.1, when downloading Windows 8.1 from the Microsoft Store.

Just to share with you my experience regarding this error message. I'll tell you the things that we tried until we found the solution regarding this error.

Attempt # 1

Because the error is annoying administrator rights, we checked on the user account if the client is really using an Administrator user. Guess what? He is really using an administrator user.

Attempt # 2

We checked for available Windows updates. Yes, for a Windows 8 computer to be upgraded to Windows 8.1, we need to make sure that all Windows updates are properly installed on the computer. Any attempt to upgrade without all the updates will end in failure.

Attempt # 3

We tried resetting the Microsoft Store.What I did is I open and elevated command prompt. After that, I run the command wsreset.exe. It will reset the Microsoft Store back to default erasing any component errors on it.

Attempt # 4

We placed the computer on Clean boot. By doing that, it temporarily disables all the third party program and software like antivirus, anti-spyware, that may block the process of downloading the update from the Store.

Attempt # 5

We tried uninstalling KB2871389 from Windows updates. After that, we restored the computer and tried re-installing it back manually. Here's the link where you can download it http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40076

The first attempt gave us an error. It says that the installation of kb2871389 failed.

What we did is tried running the Windows installer. To do that you have to press and hold the Windows logo button on the keyboard while pressing the letter "R" button at the same time. It will open up the RUN box.

Inside it, please type services.msc and press Enter. It will open up the Services window, just look for the Windows Installer there, right click on it and click on Restart or Start.

After that we restored the computer again. After the restart, we tried downloading the Windows 8.1 upgrade from the Microsoft Store, and BOOM! It worked.

Ata Rehman

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The Plan - 4 Steps To a Website Brand

Do you have a plan? Most companies spend a reasonable amount of time, energy, and money planning what to do and how to do it.

Let's say you need a website, so you develop a plan, present it to a bunch of website designers, and get quotes or proposals. You're not going to get caught with your pants down like the last time by some nerdy geek, you know the skinny kid with the scraggly beard, who techno-babble gave you a head, or the bizarre young lady dressed in Gothic chic with the black lipstick and tattoo to match – yikes, no thanks, not this time, this time you got a plan.

Human Motivational Optimization

You read all the blogs on website design, you know all the ins-and-outs of search engine optimization, and Google AdWords. No one is going to pull a fast one on you. You know your business, your market, and your needs. Or do you?

How much do you really know about how real people interact with your website? How much do you really know about what we call Human Motivational Optimization? All the stats, logs, and number crunching analysis that forms the basis of many website development plans does not really give you the visceral understanding of how to connect to an audience, and is not that what you want your website to do?

So maybe your plan is the wrong plan; it's like planning a trip to Home Depot to buy a cabbage; it just does not make sense. So how about a plan that does make sense, something simple, understandable, easy to implement, that is if you hire the right people to do it. But before we tell you the four steps to creating your own Website Branding Plan, let's talk about Don LaFontaine.

Every Company Needs A Movie Trailer

Chances are you do not know who the late Don LaFontaine was, but you've heard his voice many, many times. Don was the most famous and influential voice behind thousands of movie and television trailers. He had a distinct deep, gravely voice, and a writing style that reinvented the entire movie trailer format. But why should you care? Simple. Movie trailers are the ultimate elevator pitch, a short memorable performance that compels you to action, kind of like what a mission statement is suppose to do, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning, or rather, the end.

Branding Starts With Thinking Backwards

Most people like to start a project at the beginning and work their way through until they reach the end. Makes sense, or does it? If you do not start with where you want to end-up, it's illegally you'll ever get where you want to go. Remember our cabin? Planning a shopping to trip to Home Depot because they got cool stuff, does not help if what you want is a cabbage.

Branding is no different. If you do not start with how you want your audience to think about you, they will probably never think about you at all. So now that we got that straight let's start our plan where it makes sense, the end.

The 4 Step Web-Branding Plan

1 The Slogan

Your slogan, you know the thing that sets underneath your logo, that simple little phrase someone in your office came up with that makes you sound important, stuff like "the cool air conditioning company." Most small and medium size companies do not think too hard about this little marketing gem, and as a result they either have something really cheesy, or some meaningless platitude that has no meaningful meaning at all, like "the best people for the best job . "

Just because you're small and do not have millions of dollars to spend on television ads promoting your pithy little motto, does not mean you should not have one. That catchphrase is who you are, and how you want people to remember you, short, memorable, and to the point. I remember my sons arguing over some complicated bit of business when one of them in frustration finally said, "Enough already. Give it to me in one word or less!" a demand to articulate what was important without all the peripheral issues; a lesson all businesses should pay attention to.

2 The Story Line (Logline)

To my mind, mission statements are a totally dysfunctional marketing element, misused and abused by a bean-counter attitude, born out of trying to squeeze every last drop of information into a statement that will not offend anyone. A wise man once said, "If what you're saying does not offend anyone, maybe you're not saying anything" and most mission statements that are full of meaningless platitudes and toned-down adjustments, fall into the category of not saying anything, at least, anything worth hearing.

Okay so let's forget about mission statements, after all this is not the military, and we're not planning the next Desert Storm. Instead let's think loglines, or what you can think of as your brand story line.

You know those short statements you find in TV Guide, or your weekend television insert, prompting you to watch the next episode of 'House,' or 'Desperate Bimbos.' They are a short form text version of a trailer, intended to get you to watch the movie or television show. For our purposes, we want people to go to our website, and stay-tuned long enough to get our core marketing message, and not walk out half way through the presentation. So, how do we do that?

The Six Elements of Effective Web Trailers

In order for us to come up with a compelling statement that prompts people to view our website presentation, we need to refer back to our old pal Don LaFontaine. What if Don LaFontaine wrote our website trailer. How would he do it?

Don had a very distinct style that you've heard a thousand times for a thousand different movies, but they all followed a similar format. Each trailer needs to cover six distinct elements, who, what, where, how, why, and when. All the things businesses should be presenting in their elevator pitch, but with one extra ingredient, personality.

Here's the format used in many movie trailers:

"In a place (where), one man (who) brings stability to chaos (what), in an epic tale that will both amaze and inspire (why)! Coming soon (when) to a theater near you." Sound familiar?

Let's take our air conditioning example, you remember, "the cool air conditioning company." Let's say our fictitious company is called Kool Air Conditioning, their website trailer maybe sound something like this:

"In a town where summer heat melts the cool of the coolest homeowners, one air conditioning company comes to the rescue. masses. The Kool Guys will amaze you with their prompt service and installation know-how. The heat is on. It's coming sooner than you think; it's coming this summer to your town, your neighborhood; your house. Kool, the cool air conditioning company. "

Over-the-top? Maybe, but we've covered all the bases, we know who (Kool), what (air conditioning), when (this summer), where (your house), why (the heat) and how (prompt service and installation know- how). Now that's a mission statement; one with a little style, panache, and personality; one that will get you remembered and prompt your audience to action.

3 The Personality

Movies like businesses all fall into certain genres or categories. There's the action movie format that's suitable for sports related businesses, the chick flick style that's ideal for cosmetic or fashion industry businesses, and the family comedy format suitable for entertainment and recreation based companies, and of course the kids movie version perfect for any business selling things for children. The point is that every company and website has to have a personality.

Many hard nosed business executives scoff at the idea of spending money on such seemingly trivial marketing concepts as company personality, but ignoring your website persona, is a big mistake. You can either invest a little in developing, creating, managing, and promoting this personality or you can let the marketplace decide for itself, or worse, find you completely redundant and irrelevant.

4 The Delivery

You may be asking yourself, this sounds good on paper, but can it really be done, and can it be done for my business, on my website? The answer is damn straight it can. Like most things in life, and in business, it's not saving the concept that so hard, it's implementing it.

With a little investment and a willingness to take some chances, you can be the market leader. But if you thought you could simply take your newly created movie trailer style website elevator pitch and slap it onto your website in text form, you would be mistaken. How you deliver the message is as important, and in many cases more important, than what you say.

Whether you sell lipstick, licorice, or lingerie, you probably have lots of competition, so how you deliver your message is what's going to make the difference.

You want your website presentation to motivate people to email or phone. You want to deliver a compelling performance that is more than a sales pitch, a presentation that uses voice, visuals, words, and music to create a website personality, a lasting impression; one that is going to allow you to stand out from the crowd and give you a competitive advantage.

Nothing will convince better than seeing an actual example, and guess what, we just happened to be able to provide you with one: check out SonicPersonality.com and see what an effective website presentation sounds like. If nothing else, you may get a chuckle or two.

Ata Rehman

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Is It Advantageous To Have Your Own WordPress Website, Or Is It Better To Get One On WordPress?

If you want to create a website, in this day and age ignoring WordPress is a severe mistake. WordPress has several advantages, it gives you a readymade interface to put your content on the internet. It is extremely flexible and can be tailored to any business or service. WordPress is the easiest and the most widely used content management system on the internet. It is used by 72.4 million websites all over the world. WordPress has plugins to enable search engine optimization, Google analytics integration, to create contact forms, to enable XML creation for Google sitemaps, and many other possible uses.

WordPress is best installed on an independent website, because the online reputation that you create for yourself when you make your website is something of immense value. If you create a domain name such as abc.com and post all your important content on it, you will rank in Google and yahoo, and other search engines. If you do that on WordPress.com all that reputation gets attributed to WordPress, not your domain name.

You should be conscious of this loss of your reputation to WordPress, if you don’t create your own independent website. This is important for anyone who wants to create a long term website. Creating a WordPress website independently is extremely cheap. You can probably start at under a mere $20 per year. It would involve virtually the same amount of work, and would create a longer term reputation for your website, and brand name for your customers.

That being said, anyone intending to create their own website, should try out the WordPress interface on WordPress’s website. That can give one a significant insight into the working of WordPress, and help one overcome the learning curve, in regard to WordPress.

A basic search engine optimization package from an average SEO provider would cost anywhere between $200 to $300. You can literally get that for free, by merely using WordPress. All the steps undertaken by a basic SEO package provider are generally included in WordPress by the very virtue of the script itself. You get free long form html links, meta tags, title tags, site descriptions that you can edit yourself.

If you get your own website, and a domain name with it, you can create your own email addresses. You can give out email addresses like info, or admin, or user. This makes your business, look immensely more professional. You also get the ability to upload files that are large, like PDF files, or video clips etc. You can then send these out, or embed these on your website.

For a small price, you get a great deal in having your own WordPress hosted website. It takes about 5 minutes to install and get up and running, if you have thought of your own domain name.

Once you have a WordPress hosted website, you can contact a designer to get a custom made theme, to make your site look like a custom made website. This is not very difficult, and good designers like good plastic surgeons can make anything happen.

Ata Rehman

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Use Best WordPress Plug-Ins For Your WordPress Blog

There are several blogging platforms to work with, but some how WordPress looks to be the trend of the time. Usually people go for something that is multi purpose, and the easiest way to blogging. Here are some of the benefits of using this software:

1. Easy to install. Once you have best hosting account and domain, installing is easy, with the help of Fantastico. It is just a few clicks away.

2. A lot of templates. You have almost unlimited templates to choose from for your WordPress blog. You get three templates at installation and you can switch between them, or download other themes that are available for WordPress.

3. Customizable themes. After choosing the basic themes you can change them to your requirements. Buy customizable themes for an elite presentation.

4. Easy organization: All the templates include pages links feed and widgets. This makes it more organized and easy to navigate.

5. Monetization It is the best way to make money. It has a plug-in for adding shopping card and all other important features that will make it easy for you to sell products direct from your blog.

6. Plug-ins: It has a great choice of plug-ins. You have so many to choose from that it is very hard to select some to start. These make blogging very easy as these automate every thing that you want to do. However, you have to plan and depending on your activity choose the plug-ins that you will need the most.

Here is a list of some of these:

1. All in one SEO pack: This is extremely popular and almost every blog uses this plug-in.

2. Spam Free: WordPress has a few plug-ins that do this job. Currently the most popular and used by too many people is Grow-map Anti-spam bot. Once you download this, the visitor has to mark a box saying that this person is not a spammer. Works good and saves your blog with all the spam.

3. WordPress back up:

This is also popular for emergency security. In case you have an accident and lose all your contents, the auto back up blog in the zip folder will over take and display all contents.

4. Google analytics with java script: Google analytics WordPress tracks your traffic for every page of your blog and helps you to take care of unwanted elements on your blog.

5. SEO friendly images; It automatically adds title attributes to all your images, improves traffic for Search engines.

6. Twitter for WordPress:

It helps you to use twitter tools to connect with twitter right from your blog by displaying your latest tweets.

Along with the above mentioned plug-ins, Do follow / No follow, Comment Luv, WordPress video, WordPress software shopping cart, WordPress ad sense manager, and add to any are also commonly used by WordPress blog users.

Ata Rehman

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Hire a WordPress Programmer to Develop WordPress Plugins From the Perspective of Product Development

The WordPress community of developers have identified 15 best WordPress plugins that would get great popularity in coming days and they are:

· W3 Total Cache- This plugin performs the two function of loading the pages faster and storing the static versions of a website.

· HeadSpace: WordPress SEO Made Simple- This plugin takes care of all the aspects of search engine optimization required for a particular blog or a website driven by this CMS.

· Gravity Forms- This plugin helps in creating posts and uploading post and media contents.

· MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja- This plugin helps in speeding up the affiliate marketing process for a particular website by identifying track clicks.

· WP-DBManager- This plugin takes amazing back up for the website and emails the complete database every day to the concerned person. This plugin is extremely important when it comes to taking content critical back-ups. Therefore, an enterprise should hire a WordPress developer who understands the potential of plugins for a cms like WordPress and has the vision for creating plugins that can transform the functionalities of the cms.

· Thank Me Later- This plugin establishes an immediate connection with the first time visitors of a particular website or a blog automatically based on the data received from the CMS.

· WP-PageNavi- This plugin helps a desirable navigation mechanism wherein the visitors can directly go the desired page.

· SEO Smart Links- This plugin helps in building page rankings by inter-linking the articles based on the seo principles.

· Feedburner Circulation- This plugin enables one to display the subscriber counts in the top right corner of the page.

· Digg Digg Social Sharing – This plugin powers all possible social icons on a particular blog or a website thereby, helping people to immediately share the content

· Revision Control – This plugin enables administrator to limit the number of post revisions that remain in the storage.

· Tweet Old Post- This plugins enables a site manager to add social media posts into tweets with the option to add hash tags.

· Widget Context- This plugin enables a site administrator to choose the pages where widget needs to be integrated thereby, creating a different look for the individual pages.

· WordPress Editorial Calendar- This plugin offers an editorial calendar that helps a content person to maintain a schedule of posts and write-ups.

· Pop Up Domination- This plugin offers the site managers with the impressive themes to choose from.

The above mentioned plugins have the potential of changing the entire functionality and user experience of a website hosted on WordPress cms. Therefore, if an enterprise wants to develop award-winning plugins, then it should hire a WordPress programmer who has previously developed plugins.

There are a few things that an experienced WordPress developer will seriously consider while developing plugins and these are:

· Code quality

· Testing

· Documentation

From the aspect of programming also, an enterprise has to hire WordPress developer who can manage the programming aspect efficiently by merging the best practices in programming and his own creativity.

Ata Rehman

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60 Words and Phrases that Make Men Fall Deeper in Love

The interesting thing about getting the love you deserve is that you have a great deal of influence in the kind of love you get. Most times, the love one gets is a function of the kind of love one gives. And when it comes to love, communication is the fuel that fans its flame. The words you choose can be the difference between a relationship where there is constant drama or one that is nurturing, blissful and romantic.

Now that you know that, let me share a little bit of the kinds of words that just simply turns men on and makes them want to love you even more.

1. Honey

2. Sweetheart

3. Sweetie

4. Baby

5. Darling

6. Sexy

7. Fine

8. Handsome

9. Stud muffin

10. Sugar

11. You just make me feel so good.

12. You are the best.

13. I can’t get enough of you.

14. You drive me wild.

15. You know me inside and out.

16. I love you so much.

17. I love you with all my heart and soul.

18. You make me laugh.

19. You are so funny.

20. I love the way you love me.

21. I love the way you make me feel.

22. I never want you to stop loving me.

23. I don’t know what I would do without you in my life.

24. You make me feel so special.

25. I need you in my life.

26. You just made my day.

27. I can’t get enough of your hugs and kisses.

28. I apologize.

29. I promise to love you forever.

30. You are the one for me.

31. I don’t need anyone else in my life.

32. You are more than enough for me.

33. Marry me and make me the happiest woman.

34. I have always loved you and will always love you.

35. I miss you so much.

36. I am so lonely without you.

37. My life is empty without you.

38. I can’t wait to see you.

39. I want to be with you forever.

40. I love the way you hold me.

41. It kills me to know that you will be gone for a long time.

42. I feel like I am dreaming when I am with you.

43. I have never been loved like this before.

44. I’d love to wake up next to you forever.

45. It hurts me so much to see you this way.

46. If I can’t be with you, then I don’t want to be with anyone else.

47. I am not waiting for a knight in shining armor – mine has already arrived.

48. If your kisses were wishes I would make a 1000 wishes.

49. Life has never been better since you came into my life.

50. I can’t believe we have been together for so long. I guess time flies when you are having fun.

51. I will go to the ends of the world for you.

52. Life without your love is a life I’d rather not live.

53. I love the way you look at me.

54. I trust you with all my heart.

55. Thank you for all you have done for me.

56. The words “I love you” are not enough to express how I feel about you.

57. I can’t find the words to express how you make me feel.

58. You make me feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world.

59. Just being with you is enough for me to have a great time.

60. You don’t have to say a word for me to feel your love.

Life without endearing words is like being in a garden without flowers. Endearing words create a feeling that transcends our reality and makes life worth living.

To find out more about how you can make your man fall head over heels in love with you, please visit: http://www.smartwomansguide.com.

Don’t forget to share this article with your friends – they will be glad you did.

Ata Rehman

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How to Make a Website Step by Step?

What a variety! Different colors, effects, images, something is blinking here and other is jumping there. But as much as different looks the websites to be, the steps to create it are almost one and the same – first you have to build it and after that to upload it in Internet.

Hey, wait for a moment! May be it is a good idea to make something like a website schedule before to start your creation.

At the beginning it is very important to define the idea of your website. It is simple – just you have to answer to the two questions “For what?” you will write and “For whom?” it will be written for. The simple sentence “I will build a website for cake cooking to be able to show my best home made recipes to other mothers” is clear definition of your website purposes.

At least in broad outlines draw the website structure. With simple words make a draft of everything that you find as an appropriate answer of the question “For what?” and arrange it such so the people that you put in the category “For whom?” to be able to find it easily. In our example think how to make your list of recipes: may be by occasion (birthday, Christmas etc.) or by time needed for it preparation?

Talking about all of these cool web design mambo-jumbos that you could see everywhere – may be you want some of them at your website? Of course there will be all of it! And even more than once, isn’t that? Just a moment, when do you plan to upload your website? During this century don’t you? So think for a moment and carefully choose which software will use. Taken easy – it is not necessary to have expensive professional software. There are a lot of other applications that will help you to make a passable website. Let not forget that this is your first website and frankly speaking, in this case, the more important is the fact itself that you will have a website yet, than its content let alone the design. Regarding the last two things I will strongly recommend you to stress on the content. Probably you will be surprised but to make a quite good website it is enough to use some text editor like MS Word.

Wow, we are ready? It is time to upload your creation in Internet. To be your website visible for everybody you have to upload it somewhere at some computer that is right along linked to the Net or the so-called web server or with simple words to find your site a hosting. It is not difficult – there are only two options – to pay for the used space or to use it for free… Come down, I know that you prefer the second one but the free hosting usually has some shortcomings as limits for scripts, little space for your or worst ads on your web pages (guess who will collect the incomes, no it is not you). Because of that I will recommend you to pay for this service when you take some advantage, but for the first one or for a personal website the free hosting is not so bad decision.

Do not be eager – we are almost done! There is only one step to make your website known to the world. You have to put it an address or in web terms to create a domain. There are two options…Yes, you are right – paid and free ones! The domain usually is looking like this your-website.com where you choose the first part and the letters after the dot are the top-level domain. Now, where is the bad news concerning the free domain – commonly your domain contains the domain name of the provider of the free service. So may be your domain will be something like your-website.free-domain.com or why not free-domain.com/your-website/index.html. It is not the easiest thing to remember but at least is free.

Ata Rehman

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How to Make a Blog Site Thrive Using WordPress

WordPress is a ubiquitous blog platform; it's a complete management system which allows you to choose the basic template and add themes and plug-ins which will ameliorate the functionality of the blog. If you are blogging for money, or you wish to generate traffic and leads for your business, WordPress is a great choice. You may choose to setup the blog with WordPress, but if you want to be more independent and have full control of the blog, you can simply install WordPress on your domain name. Being that popular, it comes as no surprise that there are numerous prefab templates available; you can use whatever you want, according to your niche and personal taste. Let's see some tips on how to make a blog site using WordPress templates.

Savvy internet people keep arguing that as long as the posts and content are good and informative, the WordPress template is not of significant importance. They claim that you can have a simple blue header and still make good money out of your blog, provided that the content is gripping. This is both true and false. Whether we like it or not, aesthetic is important to visitors.

There is a huge competition online today and if you seriously want to attract visitors on a constant basis, you need to please their senses. You can definitely keep the interest of your visitors with an extra content, but if you complement that with a well appointed, friendly to the eye and, why not, unique theme and template, then you are most likely to make a great impression. Do not forget that traffic equals money. You need it so you have to make sure that you have done the best you can for it.

Many of the templates available today are average. There are although some template brands which managed to etch their names in the market offering professional, neat and smart templates for the WordPress blogs. If users do not feel like using one of the custom templates, or create one themselves, then this is a great and affordable solution. Most of these templates are AdSense friendly. They are setup with AdSense ad blocks which are associated at high click spots. Ads gain in visibility, increasing your learning potentials.

Ata Rehman

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SEO Tips and Tricks You Can Use on Your Next Project

A phrase that you will run across on a regular basis is “SEO,” as you are learning about online marketing.

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is something that people who own Internet businesses and websites use for their marketing efforts in order to get their webpages as highly ranked as they can in Google. There are lots of ways that you can practice SEO with your own internet marketing projects and figuring out which methods are going to work best for you can sometimes seem tricky and overwhelming. So how can you figure out what SEO method will work best for you?

The next few tips are the best way to enhance your SEO strategies and make them work for you.

Search Engine Optimization will take you only a certain part of the way. No matter how great you perform SEO, you are still going to have to make sure the writing you provide is of quality. It’s best if you are thinking of writing something specifically for the reader! Proving to be second in importance to offering your audience practical and helpful information which they are able to comprehend and enjoy reading, SEO is essential. If you write solely for the search engine spiders, your material might not be readable. If someone comes to your site and can’t even read what you have written, they’re simply going to click the back button! That’s not what you are trying to do, is it?

Do not fall prey to the so called “black hat” SEO techniques that would have you littering the page with keywords, but making them the same color as the background so that they cannot be seen or displaying them behind images on the site. This is disingenuous at best, and will not be looked upon kindly by the major search engine providers. Whatever you do, don’t take anyone’s word that something is legitimate – make sure you know whether or not you’re getting scammed by these particular methods, or if they actually work. Instead, breathe in good practices. Resist letting yourself be dragged down.

Here is a huge tip to help you: Anytime you place a link on your site, either internal or outbound links, make it a point to include the keyword or keyword phrase that you have picked for your site. Not only will it look better than the “Click Here!” links for your readers, it will allow the search engines to know which links point to which sites. Offering rewards for clicking on them to receive additional information, links which blend are helpful to your reading audience. Fewer people will be likely to click on the “Click Here!” links, because it feels a little pushy.

Because there are such a vast range of different tricks for search engine optimization, you will not be able to keep them all in mind. All you need to know is the basic rules and tips to using SEO and you will do great.

Just like all other internet marketing techniques, SEO is constantly changing. Besides the main concepts, keep in mind that something greatly preferred today may be illegal tomorrow! So keep updated with the changes, and don’t try to do too much at once. Before too long you’ll be using SEO without even realizing it! In each Internet marketing concept that you tackle, you will use it automatically.

Ata Rehman

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yourlittlestarlight-blog · 7 years ago

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What Is A Blog Anyway?

If you are new to the Internet and have spent some time here, you must have heard about "Blogging" and "Blogs". But what exactly is a blog? How does it work? And how can one start one. Here are some answers for you:

What is a Blog?

In simpleest terms, a blog is a daily journal of your thoughts maintained you (a Blogger) on the web. When posting to a blog you will notice that it is arranged in chronological order – with the most recent additions on top. As you keep postings more and more posts, the older posts will enter into an Archive folder so that visitors can view your past posts easily.

You can allow your readers to add their own comments / feedback on any of your Blog post. You can add audio to your blog known as Podcast, which readers can listen to. In fact it's a great way to be in touch with your customers.

How I can start a Blog?

It's very easy really. There are numerous options available. If you want to have an experience of Blogging without spending money, you can opt for the blogging service from Blogger.com or from WordPress.com. These two websites are world's most popular free blogs providers and have some excellent tools for starting a blog. On Blogger.com you also have the option to earn money from your blog through the Google AdSense program. Basically you only need to register at these blogging service for a free account, fill some information and lo your blog is ready! Starting a Blog is just like opening a new email account!

However, I strongly advise you that once you get a sufficient experience of running a blog on these free blogging platform, you should switch to a professional blog by having your own domain name and host. This can be easily done by using the WordPress Blogging tool (wordpress.org) which is the most powerful and free blogging software on earth. Working on wordpress is as simple as a breeze. There are zillions of wordpress tutorials for newbies on internet. Further, there are many web hosting companies which offered wordpress enabled site hosting where installing wordpress is just a matter of point and click.

What a blog can do for me?

Well, a blog can change your life literally. If your blog becomes successful, you will be freed from all your financial worries. For many people, their blog has become a virtual money machine. If you have any doubts over power of a blog ask Steve Pavlina, the guy who is earning $ 1000 a day (probably more) from his personal Blog .

What are other benefit of having a blog:

There are many and some of them are:

1. A blog is a strong communication tool to keep in touch with your customers.

2. A blog allows you to get to know your customers and their needs, as well as, allowing your customers to know the blogger – that is you J

3. A blog (if regularly regularly) can provide daily, quality content – which the Search engines love and thus, increase your traffic.

4. A blog can be used to advertise your links. You can write on an affiliate product in your blog post so increasing the chance of a sale.

5. A blog can be used to answer inquiries that people may have about your product.

6. A blog can be used to bring social change as is doing by some bloggers from China, Myanmar and Iran despite stiff resistance from their Governments.

Well, the list is not exhaustive and I have not mentioned all the benefits of a blog as it's an introductory article on blogging. In my opinion there is only one draw back of starting a blog – you'll have to maintain it constantly 🙂

I read somewhere that a Blog is like a shark. It'll die if it stops. A blog needs constant feeding of your thought matter to survive. The blog should be maintained on a regular basis or it'll lose it's power and effectiveness.

Now enough of my ranting on blogging. Get up and go blogging. Best of luck to you.

Ata Rehman

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yourlittlestarlight-blog · 7 years ago

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Thinking of Starting an Online Business? Use WordPress

WordPress is really a zero-cost and open source tool for websites plus a content management system that is based on PHP and MySQL. They are general-purpose programming languages that can be used for web design. In order to create dynamic webpages and database systems, PHP and MySQL should work together. It will take a lot of reading and practicing to master these. Make it a point to look for developers who definitely are knowledgeable in these techniques and languages to enable them to easily tweak your organization webpages down the road.

WordPress has become the standard for setting up websites online. Small enterprises, online entrepreneurs, and huge corporations, like Pepsi and CNN, have all come to the realization that this is basically the best content management system available. It’s also extremely simple to put together and navigate to accomplish exactly what you must construct your business.

To create a WordPress website is not difficult by any means; you need to simply follow simple instructions. It’s not a brain surgery and there are plenty of tutorials that you can use (video, audio, or articles).

The WordPress software is a very versatile program. With numerous themes from which to choose, a business can simply customize a website site to suit their personality and needs. Additional software packages called Plugins provide a good way to improve the internet site and then make it more visible to readers and the Search Engines. Whenever using your website, most of your content is published through Articles or Content. You can contribute text and images, and even videos within a post.

WordPress has many other benefits that enable SEOs to advertise their sites and brands, it is merely the direction they utilize its plugins within the most optimal way.

Below is a brief 4 step outline of how to set up your WordPress website.

Step 1 – Purchase a Hosting Account

The first step to setting up any online business is to select and purchase a hosting account. There are many providers out there and they all have packages ranging from a few dollars a month to several hundred or more a month.

Some of the things to look out for when choosing your provider are:

The down time i.e. the percentage of time that a service is unavailable, or “down.”

The support service provided by the hosting provider i.e. how long do they take to respond to emails, do they have a live chat available or a help phone line?

The amount of disk space i.e. how much space will be allocated to your website. Will it be enough to cater for your needs? Will there be sufficient room to advertise all your products on etc.?

Do they offer Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Payment Plans?

Step 2 – Find the best Domain Name

The second step in starting an online business is to find the best domain name that suits your wordpress website.

Now once you have secured the use of a hosting provider, you next need to purchase that perfect domain name which best describes what your website is all about. This can be done by either using a choice of keywords relating to your niche or even if those keywords have been taken by starting the domain name with the term ‘Best’. Generating a distinctive domain name is imperative. It is also an important way for Google to rank your website. Once you are ready with your websites domain name, you need to purchase it from a domain registrar.

Always try to get your domain name extension of.com followed by.org and then.net or if you are only targeting a specific country i.e. If you live in Australia you would try to get the domain www.yourdomainname.com.au (Only available to ABN customers), If you live in the UK you would use www.yourdomainname.co.uk etc.

Step 3 – Install the Web Content Management System

The third step is to install the wordpress operating system (Fantastic De Lux) onto your domain name so that you can start designing your online website. The simplest and quickest way to do this is via accessing your cPanel. Details of which can be found via the welcome email that is sent out by your hosting provider.

If you are in the market to start an online business, understanding the requirements in establishing your WordPress website is crucial. WordPress is regarded as among the preeminent sites to begin your web business. WordPress has easy to use CMS (Content Management System), enabling you to strive towards your goal without difficulty. Additionally, a self-hosted WordPress website enables you to have total control of your content.

Some hosting sites give you tools that easily allow you to create your site with a few simple clicks of your mouse. However, individual hosting sites may require you to follow a specific process. So you should follow the host’s guidelines or recommend procedures on how to upload your WordPress Website.

Step 4 – Choose the Perfect WordPress theme

Next is to choose the perfect WordPress theme that best fits the style of your niche. You can choose from arrange of colours or the amount of columns that you wish use. WordPress also has variety of free themes which are easily adaptable and use. If you come across a particular theme via a search online and is not available in WordPress theme gallery, you may also upload it. The appearance and feel of your website will all depend upon your choice of the selected theme, colour use and the amount of columns you use.

Step 5 – Start Looking at Optimizing your Website

Once you have installed wordpress onto your site, your need then to start looking at optimizing your site to its fullest potential and also to enhance the visitor’s experience.

WordPress also provides you with plug-ins that are designed to optimize your website’s search engine ranking positions. You will find SEO site map creators, in addition to plug-ins that can make sure each of the images and links on your own website are online search engine friendly. The higher your website ranks on search engines like Yahoo, Google, Bing etc., the greater the chance and likelihood of more people who will find your online marketing website.

WordPress is definitely an inexpensive way to increase your businesses web presence as well as website traffic, which can lead to more sales and better profits.

Ata Rehman

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yourlittlestarlight-blog · 7 years ago

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Tutorial - How To Design Your Website

Introduction The Internet has successfully penetrated virtually every aspect of our daily lives that major of us can not imagine life without it. This reliance on the World Wide Web is grounded on logical reasons, too as we have all seen how convenient and easy things have turned out to be because of our modems.

Businesses, in particular, have benefited a lot from the Web. With websites, entrepreneurs can easily sell their products and services. Plus, the reach of this strategy is global so the potential of increasing sales and profit and achieving business success is better.

If you're about to embark on a journey that would hopefully help you see how your business horizons can widen through making a website, you have to be familiar with the basic concepts instrumental to creating a functional, effective one. And, one of the most important parts of such a process is web design. Web tutorials, such as the one youd be reading, would be able to help you.

Primary Step By Step Guide To Design Your Web Site The following steps cover the most basic but important parts of web design.

1. Create a wireframe. The first step that should be properly covered is the creation of a wireframe, or a plan. Think carefully about how you would like your website to look, and what you would want to see on it. Planning the wireframe would help you continue with the other steps. Expert designers recommend having a pen and paper handy when creating your wireframe. Or, if youd rather do it online, there are a lot of tools that you can use to sketch your plan.

2. Start your mock ups. After creating your wireframe, translating the design into a mock up or model of the design comes next. Photoshop is often used for this step as it offers the easiest options for modification and organization of the design elements.

3. Review and examine. After doing your mock ups, you need to look at your design until youre satisfied that it is what you want. This is the perfect time to make changes. Deciding to edit after the design has been coded would be very inconvenient. Thus, when choosing your final mock up, make sure that the changes you want to see happen would have made before the mock up is coded.

4. Transform it into code. The final step of website design is coding the design in HTML and CSS. At this step, the image is sliced and the visuals are translated to the screen.

Why Designing Is Helpful For Your Website Website design is important because your website is your virtual storefront. It has to encourage people to trust your products and your services. Website visitors would not be converted into clients if they are not attracted by the way you have chosen to market your business.

Web Tutorials To Make Your Life So Much Easier And, if you are looking for an easy and quick way to get your website done without having to go through long processes, there are available resources online which you could take advantage. Dreamweaver tutorial would certainly come in handy. You can learn some cool tips from creating the tables, forms, to drop down menus, among others.

Whats more, a Dreamweaver tutorial could help you glean information on how you can use free Dreamweaver templates or even free CSS website templates to make use. Thats how advantageous the World Wide Web is advantageous when it comes to guiding you through on your online businesss success.

Conclusion With web tutorials, what you need to know about website design would be relayed to you. Being a beginner should not daunt you. See, as with a little effort, you can find that there are people who would like to help you build your business better.

Ata Rehman

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yourlittlestarlight-blog · 7 years ago

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Trying to Build a Worldclass Website on a Budget? No Problem, Here's How

New businesses often find themselves needing to develop a website on a tight budget. Now you could appeal this is a false economy but in the present economic climate it's a simple fact of life that money is tight and other things take priority. Thankfully creating a low budget site that looks anything but cheap is perfectly feasible using powerful free web development tools and this article will show you how.

The mistake organizations often make when developing a website with limited funds is to opt for a static site, a website built using individual files for each page. The problem with this is it makes adding new pages tricky and in some cases impossible. This results in the website quickly becoming out of date, neglected and often an embarrassment! How often have you researched a company and been put off by an outdated website? These sites are bad for business.

Thankfully there's another way that can often be less expensive than creating a static website and will create a website you can easily update, edit, and extend. Enter the wonderful world of open source content management systems.

Now before you panic and head for the hills a content management system or CMS may sound complicated but it's actually the opposite. Put simply a content management system lets you manage the content of your website, simple.

The only slightly tricky part of taking this approach to creating your budget or low cost website is the installation of the CMS software but do not worry, there are loads of web hosting companies offering hosting that comes with an open source CMS such as Joomla or Drupal already installed and if you are not technically minded I'm advise taking this approach.

Once you have your hosting and software in place you'll need to either adapt or install a design that matches your company's logo. There are thousands of low cost and free templates available and installing them is simple, as you will have seen in the video above.

Now all you need to do is add your content and this is as simple as using a word processor but again if you lack the confidence to dive right in there are hundreds of great free video tutorials available to show you how to add content to your new website, just carry out a Google or YouTube search for Joomla or Drupal video tutorials.

Even a novice can create a great looking dynamic website using the tools mentioned above and it can be done on a very small budget. Another great advantage is that once funds allow you will be in a great place to extend and grow your site. Do not get sold a pup when looking for a cheap website. Insist on a CMS and you will be glad you did!

Ata Rehman

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yourlittlestarlight-blog · 7 years ago

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Thinking About Using A Website Template?

Time is money and it is particularly true in case of businessmen. Yet you have to spend considerable amount of time to build your website and design it with precision. Have you ever thought how much you could have gained if you had spent it on important business operations? If not, then think again.

Now you don’t have to start from scratch, instead you can just select a template and quickly build a website. With the advent of the Internet, a lot of businesses around the globe are using this medium to promote their businesses and building their own websites. The experts too have realized what works and what doesn’t. That is why they have dished out a variety of tried and tested templates before going to a website designers for a custom design.

Templates reduce the work load of building a website. You just have to log in and select the template you find interesting. Templates can be readily used, because you want all your pages to look the same.

Also the pages have similar content – they are composed of the header, a navigation bar, and the main content of the page. The header of the page includes the company name and the logo remain the same from one page to the next with a few adjustments.

Navigation bars also don’t have much modification and can be kept uniform throughout the entire website. For this reason, the templates can be very easily applied while designing a site. The application of the template cuts down on the time required and the amount of work that needs to be done.

The minor changes that need to be done simply by taking a blank template and then filling the elements that you need such as page name, articles, pictures, products etc. If you plan to add more pages to your site at a later date, you can instantly do so by taking a blank template and then adding information to it. If you want to use the CSS format all you have to do is update one CSS file and it will apply those changes to the entire website.

Template design can help you to get rid of a lot of headaches that you might have regarding the designing of your website. All you have got to do is select the template you want from a list of choices.

The templates displayed on template sites look very professional. You can take the usual templates or take the discrete ones.

So if you’re just starting your business and don’t want to spend money on a custom website then I’d recommend going with a template. If you need a website that communicates what you’re trying to convey to the visitor then I would recommend going with a professional website design firm.

Ata Rehman

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yourlittlestarlight-blog · 7 years ago

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Using WordPress to Create an Effective Website

Many of us now know that WordPpress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms available on the internet today. What you may not know is that many static websites and smaller service oriented companies can gain from the many benefits WordPress has to offer.

WordPress is a php based weblog software created by the open source community meaning that it can be installed and used free of charge. This dynamic platform allows users to quickly add posts and pages to the existing site with an easy to use interface and built in wysiwyg editor. Each new post automatically creates a new page and new links linking to that page throughout the website. Each post also creates an automatic listing in the archive. Page titled after the post and links throughout the site back to the post as well as the archive listing are just a few of the attributes that the search engine sees as helpful in classifying and listing your website. A search-engine friendly website is key to coming up high naturally in the search engines.

WordPress offers many features that any “techie” would find helpful and worthy of praise, but how can this help the business owner you ask… The answer is simple.

WordPress maintains a directory of the themes and plugins that developers in the open source community create and share with other WordPress users. It is these WordPress themes and WordPress plug-ins that really give a unique look and feel to your website. There are themes that match many different styles and genres. These themes are free download and simple to install. They simply need to be uploaded and then activated. The entire process takes seconds and makes the options for the style of your website nearly limitless.

The themes available for download at the WordPress press website offer the typical website owner options that can help set your website apart from the others. Features like a contact us form, instant call back feature, weather updates, calendars, membership sign up and many more, you truly can customize to your hearts content.

The powerful combination of WordPress blogging software, the themes library, and an assortment of plug-ins, make for a dynamic and truly effective website. Before running out and paying a web design company what could be thousands of dollars for a custom website consider running a customized version of WordPress instead.

Ata Rehman

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