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There are 4 basic characteristics that are present in all professional web sites. If you want to portray a professional presents on the web, implement these into your site:

Get your own name.

Having a professional sounding domain name such as ‘www.enewstoday.com’, will give your site a more professional image. Continue Reading »

If you are serious about having an e-business, you need to understand how to correctly use text and copy to get results. Here is a list of what NOT to do:

1. Don’t stray off topic.

There are couple of good reasons for following this advice. The first is that you will bore your visitors. Remember that your visitors came to get information about the topic of your site, your product or service. Continue Reading »

This is probably the one thing that is most misunderstood on the web. Most sites I see today are gimmie, gimmie, gimmie. They seem to forget that most web surfers are in quest of pretty much one thing and one thing alone… Information.

Not just any information either. Specific information to help them solve a problem they are having or perhaps prevent one. Why do you think diet pills and security cameras are such popular products? Continue Reading »

Give what you want to say on your pages a lot of thought. Anyone can create a web site these day’s, however it is the site that is well thought out that will pull in sales.

Be sure that your site has a very clear purpose. A person that enters a site that is confused as to what your site is about, offering or trying to tell them, will be hitting their back button faster then you can get two words across. Continue Reading »

If your site isn’t pulling enough sales in comparison to the amount of traffic you get, don’t be hasty to write it off on crummy traffic. The lack of response could very well be your site.

Now, if you just invested a lot of time and money into building (or having your site built) your site, you are probably pretty proud of what you have accomplished and don’t want to be told that it could be a problem waiting to happen. Well, I won’t. Continue Reading »

When building a site, you need more then just page building skills; you need to understand the whole picture. Many new e-businesses fail because they think that having an e-business is as simple as slapping some products together and advertising them.

To prevent you from such a fate, I have compiled a very simple 6-step process to help you in building your e-business. While the steps are simple, they are EXTREMELY important to know, without them, you are nothing more than just another web-site that wants money. Continue Reading »

Tip 1: Be Cross-Platform Compatible

Pages that you create may look great to you, but may not look the same to another person viewing your pages from a different computer. This is caused by browsers that read HTML slightly differently, by monitors with different resolutions and platforms that display differently. Continue Reading »