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5 Tips for Using Premade Templates

This 5 point article highlights some basic but important tips and guidelines when using premade website templates.

... It's a bad idea to spend too much time in customizing the web template for your website, in an attempt to make it unique. Then what's the point in using a template in the first place ? Purpose of templates : save time and efforts. Read more...

5 Rules of Website Development

... usually splash pages have a big image relevant to the niche (many a times irrelevant too) with text such as "Click Here to Enter Site", "Welcome to XYZ". So that's one extra click for the user (visitor) to reach your actual site content. This is bad and you can lose a substantial amount of traffic ...

... do NOT let the visitors confuse or play the guessing game; it wouldn't take much time for those visitors to hit the X (close) button. Read more...

Keywords in Page Titles

... most common mistake made by small business owners when they first design their website is to place their business name or firm name in every title of every page. Actually most of your prospective customers do not bother to know the name of your firm until after they have looked at your site and decided it is worth bookmarking ...

... it is probably a waste of valuable keywords and space to put it in the title line of every page on your site. Why not put your keywords in the title so that your page will display higher in the search engine listings . Read more...

Yahoo Messenger 9

... and I must say that there has been a lot of improvement in it compared to version 8 of Yahoo Messenger; especially graphic-wise. I also noticed some newly added Smilies (the display size has increased too). The new version offers easy to choose 7 default Color Schemes (from a drop-down menu, as shown in 3rd screenshot) . Read more...