Archive for May, 2008

May 20 2008

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A Blog About Blog Design

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Pretty interesting title right ? Well, I am going to talk about exactly that : a blog about web design. It’s called  Max web design. A nice looking design blog owned and maintained by Robert. Along with his team he has decided to share some of his insight in the industry.

With well written articles in various categories like Web Design, Seo, Web Hosting, E-Commerce and Tools and resources, Robert is on his way on making it big with his blog.

His blog design is clean, easy to navigate through. The top spot on the blog is the featured article. Even though he only has 2 featured articles those are very well written and are on good topics.

To prevent the appearance of duplicate content Robert is using one of the most recommended wordpress hacks : using excerpts or the more tag. It is very usefull to use these tricks if you want to get SERP’s.

Although I have seen a couple of sponsored posts there, Robert does mean everything that he writes on his blog and most of them are derived from his personal experience. For example, when designing blogs he always tries to come as close as possible to a html feeling since it’s a well known fact that search engines love html more than php or other dynamic pages since they load a lot more faster.

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May 13 2008

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The importance of a good website design

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Having a website is something so common these days that you have to do something special to stand up in the crowd. A lot of website owners do not realize this thing and continue to use outdated or poor optimized designs. Because of Mozilla’s Firefox, the web standards are now so much more important. And now, if your site is not optimized to render properly on whatever web browser someone might be using you will loose a potential customer / subscriber. I must admit that I don’t even look at sites that don’t show properly in Firefox even if there is something there that I may be interested in. I just close them and forget about them. A good website design is a MUST have.

Another thing some webmasters don’t understand is that a change in the layout is also a must DO. People might get bored with your site and forget to stop by from time to time. I think that a change in the layout from time to time is good. Not too often though. You don’t want to give the wrong impression either.

The internet is full of good , quality web templates. Some can be bought with a price range from cheap to really expensive. Those expensive have the benefit that they will be unique and nobody will have it. If you will go with  cheap web templates you might find it on another site but I don’t believe it will be a big problem. And of course , the free templates.

There are lot of free web templates portals out there. Just do a google search and you will be impressed. One particular site I stumbled across the internet is dreamtemplate [DOT] com. This site has taken a different approach to market their site. Their collection of web templates is extensive. And as a plus they also have a large number of Word, PowerPoint and Flash templates. And they have free templates too, about 300 of them. But you can also have access to the rest of them by paying a one time fee of $59.95. That way you will have unlimited access for one year.

With a well structured website and following the say idea of good designs I have no doubt that they will succeed in creating a great community. I have already downloaded a couple of their design to use on some of my outdated sites. And who knows maybe I will even buy a subscription.

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May 12 2008

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Essay Deadline too close ? Hire a professional writer !

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What do you do when you don’t have time for essays writing ? It’s a common problem amongst students. Some will try and make their own , some will buy an old one and some will hire a professional writer to do their job. It all depends on the person in trouble. If you are interested in graduating on your own powers than the first option is for you. But if you don’t have any moral problems you might consider the second and third options.

Writing an essay can be a time consuming task because of the research part implied and the actual act of essay writing. Professional writers take care of all the problems. They will deliver the paper in time and you will get a great grade for it. But there is a small problem with this solution. You MUST decide from the beginning what will happen to the paper later. Is it a unique paper and you own copyright or does the writer own it and may use it later ? This could become a problem when your paper may appear on the internet or even as someone else’s paper. With every decision you make you have to accept the consequences.

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