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Top 5 Tips for People That are New to Website Building

May 17, 2023March 4, 2016 by Webmaster Tips

1. Choosing the Right Domain

Regardless if you choose .com, .net, or .biz, it is extremely important at this point to pick a name that matches your business and has relevant keywords. It will be a lot easier to rank a domain EliteDogTrainingServices.com than it will be to get anyone to find TamiLovesDogs.com on the web. Think long-term, too, because this domain name will be something connected to the business for years; get it right now so potential customers can quickly associate the two.

2. Planning the Website

Think in terms of your potential buyers’ needs. Will you be selling a product, will you be providing information, or will you build a website that encourages interaction between the guests? Choose the right design platform carefully and utilize a template that will enhance the customer experience. One thing to consider here, too, is consistency. If you have a logo and color theme already in use at your brick-and-mortar store or on your
business stationery, make sure to use them throughout the website design to tie everything together and strengthen your brand.

3. Outline the Website Content

Don’t make the mistake of rushing to get your website online without having a clear outline in place. Regardless of the platform, the website is going to need basic components like an eye-catching homepage, information about-us page, relevant products or services page(s), and an easy-to-find page that has all of your contact information.

5 Fresh Templates for your Website

May 17, 2023February 22, 2016 by Webmaster Tips

A website template is like a blueprint for the construction trades. Like the blueprint, a website template is a plan for construction, the construction of a website. It’s a design guide showing what goes where. An image goes here, text goes here, a video goes here, and a menu goes here. More importantly, the template might show the size of the image, the font of the text, the purpose of the video, and the character of the menu.

If a new home builder follows a blueprint, the end result should be a beautiful new home, and in the same way, if a website builder follows a template, the end result should be a beautiful new website. For someone who has never built a website before, a template may be indispensable, but even experienced website builders will sometimes rely on a template for inspiration and guidance.

The history of website templates essentially mirrors the history of the Internet. As the Internet came to fruition in the early 1990s, along with it came the development of templates. They were primitive, clunky, pure HTML templates in the early days, but a start was certainly born.

The development of the website template scheme continues to this day, and now even the most highly developed website might very well start with a template. In 2016, there are thousands of templates to choose from, HTML, WordPress, Joomla, and more.

Some are free, but many are for sale. Those for sale may sell for as little as just a few dollars to as much as a few thousand dollars. Generally speaking, website templates are easy to use so that even a novice can use one to build an impressive website, but some still require advanced skills and even a little bit of coding. Building a website with a template can provide a valuable learning experience and even the novice will gain skills and knowledge while building a website.

4 must-haves for user-friendly Magento store

October 21, 2024January 30, 2016 by Webmaster Tips

There is no doubt that user-friendliness adds value to your store. In a good online store, customers can quickly find what they need; see a good presentation of product colours, options, etc.; add the product to the cart without unnecessary clicks and go through an easy and understandable checkout process.

In a bad online store, people have to struggle to achieve what they need, and most of them would leave a messy store without a purchase.

I bet that as an online store owner, you want your shop to be user-friendly and conversions-oriented, right? Then there are some things you should know.

Site Navigation
When you see your store many times a day, and you know which products you have as you spend much time adding and editing them, it’s hard to have a brand new look at your store. This means you are not always objective when it comes to your store usability and to the navigation in particular.

The goal here is to ensure as seamless a shopping experience as possible, so make sure your site structure is logical and easily understood.

What is A/B Split Testing and How You Can Use it to Improve Your E-Commerce?

May 17, 2023October 22, 2015 by Webmaster Tips

How A/B Split Testing Helps Your E-Commerce Website and Business

Identifying Changes in Web Pages and Effect on Customer Experience – How do we measure customer experience, and how do we know what is effective in our e-commerce design and implementation? These are questions that can be answered with statistics produced from A/B split testing experiments. For example, if you currently have a web page design and see high bounce rates and low click-through rates, you may want to identify why users are either not staying on your site or are not buying from your product or service selection. By changing everything in your design, you’ll never know what works and what doesn’t work – what is attracting users and what is shunning them away. Therefore, A/B split testing expresses statistical evidence created from incremental changes in your design or website’s effectiveness.

Understanding Your Purchase Funnel – With e-commerce website checkout pages, many internet marketers will look at the purchase funnel effectiveness using A/B split testing for different designs and routing patterns. The highest conversions will result in the implementation of either scenario A or B. The beauty of A/B split testing is that you are able to see what the change in design style or buying experience does to your click-through rates, overall sales, and bounce rates over the course of a couple of weeks. Design two different versions of your purchasing experience, make incremental changes along the way and measure the results of the action taken. Over the course of three to six months, you will fully understand the best strategy that creates the most interest.

Why and How to Improve your Web-Site Speed

May 17, 2023June 16, 2015 by Webmaster Tips

Now, Google offers the so called Page Speed Service, and it is said to be something that “automatically speeds up the loading speed of your web-site”. With this service, Google asks you to send them the entire web project, and they will “have it optimized” for you. Namely, they modify it in various ways, and, in the end, the version of the web-site that they make does load faster. The service is free, but there is a rumour that this will not last forever. You can say that it is only logical that, after some time passes, Google will be able to charge for their optimizing services, again, due to the constant development of this company.

First of all, it is important to state that the load time of any page is dependent on many factors. However, the most important ones are connected to images, animations, and other web-design experiments. So, here is a list of some tools where you can check your site speed:

Pingdom Tools

On this web-site, you can test the load time of every object that you have on your web page (like, for example, HTML, CSS, every image, Javascript, and so on) individually, so you can see which object loads the slowest. That way, you know what to work on.

GTmetrix

This web-site can be used as a tool to analyze the performance of your page. It combines Firefox performance add-ons like Yslow with Google Page Speed. The site also gives suggestions on how to improve your site both in terms of speed and some other things.

Bold Blenda Script Font – Free Download

April 11, 2023April 23, 2015 by Webmaster Tips

Blenda Script is a free font motivated by the lobster font style, a strong vintage script. This experimental font can be used for different purposes. For example, news, publications, logos, badges…

14 Adobe AIR Applications for Web Developers and Designers

May 17, 2023March 1, 2015 by Webmaster Tips

Snippage:

This is an amazing Adobe AIR application that allows you to snip any part of the website you are browsing and use it to make a desktop gadget. Very useful for web development as you can put these on your websites, fiddle with it and have fun.

FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)

The feat is another interesting application that allows you to calculate your salary, price of a project and expenditure as you lap up those freelancing projects. Very useful for freelance workers, you can install it on your site or desktop and see it work magic.

Doomi:

This is a simple Adobe AIR application that is a virtual To-Do-List. Very popular with the people around.

Vertabase Timer:

This sleek desktop widget helps you track time on a project or on a client. It is your mini-task manager.

SearchCoders dashboard:

It is an award-winning application that allows flex coders to get in touch with one another. You can interact with them on forums, on chats and exchange bits and pieces of code as well.

4 Cybersecurity Threats That You Should Know and Protect Against

October 16, 2024February 21, 2015 by Webmaster Tips

As the digital world grows and evolves, so do cybersecurity threats and attacks that you face as an online business owner. With cyber-criminals devising more sophisticated methods to infiltrate your system and steal highly-sensitive data, it can be challenging to secure your business from all sides. The good news is there are some excellent ways to keep your business and your customers protected against cyber-attacks. In this post, we’ll cover these four cybersecurity threats you should know and protect against to keep your business’ and customers’ interests protected.

1. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
A DDoS attack crashes your network or server by flooding them with unwanted traffic. This makes it impossible for your website and its services to stop working. An attack like this can cause downtime that might cost your business sales opportunities and crash your website to the point that your business ceases to exist. If that’s not serious enough, there is the risk of your private data being breached since DDoS attacks are also used by cybercriminals to extort money and information from their victims.

However, there is a solution to help you stop this kind of attack in its tracks, and that is by adopting a cyber kill chain model in your cybersecurity strategy. This preventive measure helps you make a complete and detailed assessment of your security to identify your weak spots. Think of it as getting inside the mind of a hacker, where you take a “first-person view” of the steps to carry out a cyber attack. With a cyber kill chain, you can see the layout and process of a successful cyber attack from start to finish and identify the stage where a potential threat is most likely to occur. Doing a preventive assessment through a cyber kill chain helps you reinforce your cyber security strategies, secure your business from all corners, and get the peace of mind to run your business smoothly.

UI Design Photoshop tutorials that are bound to be handy

May 17, 2023November 16, 2013 by Webmaster Tips

1. Create Dynamic iOS 7 Style Background Blur

2. Create an Instagram Style Photo Filter

3. Design an iOS 7-inspired iPhone App Screen

4. Create a detailed audio rotary knob control

5. Create texture patterns

6. Create an embossed metal tag

7. Create an iOS7 Email App

Get Started With iOS 7: Freebies

April 11, 2023September 23, 2013 by Webmaster Tips

1. iOS 7 GUI PSD

Full iOS 7 graphical user interface (GUI) PSD based on the Beta 1 release will help you create an app prototype and pitch it to stakeholders.

2. Tab Bar Icons iOS 7

A nice collection of iOS 7 inspired icons in two different styles: full color and stroke. Initially designed to be used for the tab bars, suitable in any other context.

3. iPad iOS 7 Keyboard Portrait

Daniel Crystal has designed iOS 7 iPad keyboards, both light and dark versions. Useful for creating app previews or showing the interaction of the app.

4. Start making iOS 7 Icons with the App Icon Template 3.0

The new iOS 7 came out with slightly different icon dimensions and requirements. This free app icon template will serve you in the process of updating your current icon or creating a new one.

5. Template for iOS 7 App Icons

Another app icon template includes some time-saving features like slices for fast png export, a new vector grid, smart objects for easy preview of different sizes and a vector mask of the icon body with new rounded corners.

How to Setup a cPanel-based VPS For Your Website

May 17, 2023December 12, 2012 by Webmaster Tips

VPS hosting refers to a Virtual Private Server that’s sold as a service to customers by a hosting service company. It imitates a dedicated server in a shared hosting environment and is technically considered both dedicated and shared hosting.

A VPS kind of hosting is just one of many types of web hosting accounts to choose from in order to get your website up and running online. To get a website online, you need to store the files for your website on an actual web server. But, setting up and subsequently managing a web server can be very costly as well as difficult. On the other hand, purchasing web hosting enables a person to rent adequate space on a web server, which makes it much easier since the only thing that’s required is to simply upload their website files. Today, there are three main types of available web hosting accounts, including the following:

• VPS Hosting
• Shared Hosting
• Dedicated Server Hosting

Each one of these different types of hosting accounts varies, everything from their setup to the level of customization and various features each one offers.

What’s the Difference Between VPS, Shared, and Dedicated Hosting?

With a dedicated server, the customer rents the whole server. Usually, this is for individuals that have incredibly high volumes of traffic to their sites and require that their server be setup in a certain way. However, most people don’t need an entire server to themselves. By renting just a small part of the server, you can save a great deal of money if you’re just starting out. Shared hosting refers to sharing a part of the server with other people rather than renting a whole server alone.

Joomla Module – WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player

May 17, 2023November 19, 2012 by Webmaster Tips

WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player is a flash-based Joomla Module. This Joomla Module comes with Joomla Administration back-end Control Panel, where you can set up multiple Mp3 Players for your website.

Ultimate Mp3 Player – Joomla Module

To create a new WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player:

Navigate to Components –> WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player

In WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player Control Panel, click on the New icon (upper right)

Enter the new player name (LOWERCASE WITHOUT SPACES) and click on the Save icon (upper right).

(New WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player is created in Control Panel and new module is automatically installed with the name of that player.)

Edit Newly Created WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player:

In WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player Control Pane, click on the newly created WMT Ultimate Mp3 Player.

Click on Upload Images to upload song thumbnails and images for a slideshow that is presented during playback.

The 10 Best Free Webmaster Tools

May 17, 2023October 29, 2012 by Webmaster Tips

iWebTool Web Tools

iWebTool showcases the top Web tools, which also include useful webmaster tools. There are Search Engine tools to help you check for important things like backlinks, cloaking, PageRank, keyword density, URL redirects, etc. The Domain Checkups tools will help you check your traffic rank, server status, website speed, broken links, reciprocal links, and more.

Plus, there are HTML and Miscellaneous tools that include generators, optimizers, viewers, extractors, cleaners, calculators, and testers.

Search Engine Optimization Webmaster Tools

Are you clueless about SEO and would rather try to figure it out yourself instead of hiring a professional? Submit Express offers you a wide range of free SEO tools that can be used to help boost your search engine rankings and website traffic.

You’ll have access to the following tools: meta tag and keyword analyzer, link popularity checker, XML sitemap submitter, keyword suggester, keyword traffic estimator, SEO dictionary, meta tags generator, PageRank checker, page snooper, broken link checker, link counter and reciprocal link checker.

Webmaster Toolkit

Just as the name implies, the Webmaster Toolkit is the ultimate stop for free webmaster tools and resources. This suite of tools includes SEO tools, Web utilities, domain tools, HTML tools, and resources. The large selection of SEO tools includes keyword research, keyword analysis, a search position checker, a search engine simulator, a meta tag generator and a Web page analyzer.

Use Multilayer Parallax Effect to Create an Eye-Catching Website

May 17, 2023May 15, 2012 by Webmaster Tips

Parallax was first used by Nike back in 2011 and has now become one of the most widely used effects for websites. What makes it so popular is the fantastic 3D effect that it provides and a variety of customization opportunities. On the other hand, WordPress has become one of the most popular content management systems in the world, with users from all over the world. With that in mind, many WP themes are created to put together these two in order to present an advanced but easy-to-use technology that helps all users of WP CMS to get fantastic websites fast and simple, preserving the full functionality on all devices.

In order to bring closer to you all the possibilities that parallax can give and maybe give you some ideas about how multilayer parallax slider works and what you can get by using it, we are here presenting a few among many websites that take advantage of this cool feature.

Pressels.com

This website makes pretzels look like a kind of art. It uses Parallax scrolling to present its product to the customers in a way that is so appealing that it will make you scroll up and down and enjoy the beautiful design. With the dark, simple background and the products in the foreground, it focuses on the products and the brand’s uniqueness.

Hot Dot

Hot Dot uses horizontal scrolling with a simple background. With a combination of animation, images and texts, this is an example of a multilayer parallax slider that creates a really amazing 3D effect.

Teapot-creation.com

Teapot creation also keeps it simple with a black and white design, mostly light background and only a few coloured details. All service information is packed in a simple, elegant slider, as well as the rich company portfolio.

Madwell

Madwell has the full-page parallax scrolling effect, with a different image for each section. This website gives a great visual effect by letting the images tell the story on the homepage. It provides easy navigation and insights into the provided services and previous work.

Attacat – A Great Tool to Audit Cookies

May 17, 2023November 21, 2011 by Webmaster Tips

If you are looking for a great tool to help you audit your website’s cookies and check if the website complies with the cookie directive, then check out Attacat. Some of the advantages of using this tool are the fact that it does not require any registration, it is simple, and, furthermore, it is free.

What this tool does is: find and identify cookies on your site, check if there are any cookies from third parties (that you might not know about) and help you comply with the cookie regulations.

After you have installed the extension in your Google Chrome, all you need to do is to make a few simple steps to generate the report.

First, open only one window and tab and clear the cookie history from your Chrome. Then open the extension in the browser and click on the “Start Recording” button. As you have activated the recording, go to your website and do everything an average user would do (browse, buy, register etc.). After you are finished, click on the “Stop Recording” button and then “View Report”. Easy as that.

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