Here are a few tips and examples that may help you in your page creation and graphic designs. Tips on this page will be more of a general nature, so if you need more info on Html tags, Style Sheets, or Graphic creation, please follow the Tutorial links posted on the menu to the right. General tips will include page layout, text help, how to get noticed using Meta tags, and how to make your pages load faster. Check back often for updates. If you would like to add any of your favorite tips, please email them to me. |
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| 1. Ever get this? Remove viewing directory list on your site. |
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Add an index html page to every directory and subdirectory on your server This will prevent viewing your directories. Note: you can either make the index.html page blank, or a have it redirects your visitor to another page automatically. |
| 2. Text and graphic on Border? Display text and graphics away from border. |
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See: How to Use Side Borders |
| 3. Can't read text? A sure way to scare everyone way. Let visitors be able to read your text. Back |
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Try changing your background to a not so busy pattern. If you still want to use crazy backgrounds, try tables with a solid color background. Use fonts that are easy to read. Try a texture that not so hard on the eyes. |
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| Help robots and spiders (programs used by search engines to find web content) find your site and content. | Be sure to include Meta tags with your page Title, Description, and Keywords in your html code's Head section. <TITLE>Your Title</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="A sentence describing your page"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="list of keywords separated by commas"> |
| Help your page load faster. | By breaking up a long scrolling page into several pages an with the use of hyperlinks to those other pages, you will keep visitors from having to wait for a long page to load. Also try to keep your graphic file(s) small in size by using a good graphic compression program. If you page has a lot of graphics, place a notice at the top of your page letting your visitor know that it is a graphics intense page. |
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