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When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they’re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it — volume or muting controls would work fine.

That’s all for today, hope this tips will help you towards a good website design!

If you run a small company, you may find that the world of blogging for business owners is a world that you want to be a part of. Blogging is a great way to get theword out to consumers about your product or service, and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty and helping you keep your workers at peak morale. If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be able to do for you.

Blogging for business owners has a lot in common with all other types of blogging, but it has its own unique pitfalls and strengths. The key to having a successful blog as a business owner is keeping your goals clear and concrete at every step of your blogging adventure. It ncan be all to easy to get sidetracked, especially if you nare just learning about the exciting possibilities of
blogging technology, but if you want your blog to succeed you need to stay focused. Write up a plan for how often you will update, how you will promote your blog and retain readers, whether you will feature photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog, and then stick to it with the same kind of determination that you used when you built your company.

Blogging 101 is mostly about the blogging vocabulary. To understand blogs, you need to know the terms blog, platform, domain, and web host. Once you have mastered these key elements of blogging, you can enter any conversation about blogging with confidence. After you know what exactly a blog is, you will be on your way to passing the final exam of blogging 101.

Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order. That’s all! Most blogs are text, but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. The rest of blogging 101 has to do with the technical side of things. If you are setting up a blog, you will need a platform, a web host, and a domain. A blogging platform is a computer software program that allows you to write posts and to update your blog.

Your platform is also what you use to design the look of your blog, from color scheme to font size. The web host is sort of like the virtual file cabinet where your blog is stored. Your computer communicates with the host when you upload or edit a post. The domain is the online address of your blog, and usually ends in ‘dot com’. Now that you know what a blog is, what a platform is, and what domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself!
You have passed blogging 101.

Do you know what to do if your Wordpress links to post suddenly broken without you even noticed it? This situation has happened to me several times & the recent one is 3 days ago.

Here’s the easy steps on how to overcome it:

Firstly, don’t be panic & it’s important to stay calm when this problem happens to your Wordpress blog.

Try to remember, do you ever made any recent adjustments to your .htacces file in your Wordpress installation directory that is on the server. Because the main cause of this problem is closely related to your Wordpress permalinks & .htacces write protect permissions.

Whatever it is, straight to the point. Open you favorite ftp program (i’m using Filezilla) & log in to your web hosting directory that is your Worpress installation directory (usually YourRootServer/public html/….

Then find your .htaccess file if there’s one. I’m sure you have one. (if not, create a blank notepad file & upload to your Wordpress installation dir, rename it to .htaccess.) Once you have/found the .htaccess file, just right click over it and choose ‘file attributes’. A pop up dialog will be opened to allow you to change the file attributes for that .htaccess file.

Now noticed that there’s a small ‘text box’ that allow you to enter the value number of the attributes that you want for the particular file. Then, enter ‘666′ (without quotes) into the box. After that click ‘ok’.

For this step, go to admin section of your Wordpress blog. After login, go to ‘options’ tab & select ‘permalinks’ just after that. You’ll see there’s a ‘Common Options’ for the Customize Permalink Structure. Now set the options of permalinks to ‘default’ (usually like this> http://yourblog.com/?p=123).

Then click ‘Update Permalink Structure’ button. After the option was saved, now go & check whether your Wordpress blog functioning properly right now. (I’m sure it is)

Now, the final part of the process. To return back your customize permalinks structure (it’s about SEO right?), once again go to admin panel, choose ‘options’ then ‘permalinks’. Here you goes, now select ‘custom’ permalinks structure from the list of ‘radio buttons’ there. Just fill in the box with your favorite custom permalink structure (i’m always using this: /%category%/%postname%). Then try to refresh your Wordpress blog & now you’re good to go!!!

*if you’re having problem during the process, feel free to drop me a visit here!

Yesterday, i’ve just launch a Beta test website called Malaysia Million Pixels. Do you know what is it? Actually it’s called pixels advertising too. Pixel advertising is a form of display advertising on the web, in which the cost of each advertisement is calculated dependent on the number of pixels that was occupied.

In a general rule,pixel advertising is basically about selling pixel ads in minimum 100 pixel “blocks” as “cell ad” because this is the smallest size to reasonably display anything meaningful, and remain easily clickable. A few newer sites have additional features that allows a larger image to appear when visitors hover the cursor over the small pixel ad, while others allow pixel ads to be bought for a temporary period of time. For the details explaination about this projects go to here.

ok,enough for the explaination part :)

Now, i’m inviting you guys out there to participate for my Malaysia Million Pixels:beta here. I’m not charging even a single penny of you guys. This time it’s FREE!!(Beta test)
Grab you pixel links now! Be a part of Malaysia’s internet history!