If you are hosting a personal site, then make sure that your page doesn’t have unnecessary large files. Remember that every time a particular page is requested, the same amount of files is forced over the internet. So for example, if your page is 100 KB-worth, then 100 KB of your bandwidth is used. Besides, if your site is designed to have pages go back to one particular menu page to access other links, large files can make your broses crash. Even if the page is already in the cache of the browser, it is till rebuilt every time that particular page is being accessed.

Use video and audio only when necessary. Images can be resized or save in a less but still acceptable resolution. Text can also be split to several pages. In this case, light is right.

Here are certain easy and simple tools on your Mac and PC that can assist you in your web publishing endeavors. Pay attention and you may not need those swanky design soft wares out there. Said tools and a little programming know-how can save you some moolah.

Note Pad
This is the infamous default Windows text editor which is available on most Windows systems by clicking the Start button, then Program, and then Accessories. Its icon is a little blue notebook.

Note Tab Light
This can be a Note Pad substitute, but it can also be a very versatile text manipulation tool. It’s freeware and downloadable in many sites – such as the official one . It’s also very easy to use too.

Simple Text
This one is for Mac users as it is the default text editor of the Mac. Another option is the TextWrangler. Like the Note Tab light, it’s more powerful, versatile, and not to mention, free!

Although the probability of coming up with original material in the web is a little tough, what with the continuous appearance of hundreds if not thousands of niche blogs and websites out there, nothing beats original content. Original and quality content will attract a lot of traffic to a particular website, and more so if the content is continually updated. By maintaining quality and consistency of your posts, visitors can not help but return. It won’t be long before the number of visitors will grow.

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Picasa is a delightfully easy way to organize, edit and share photos. It’s basic, yet goes beyond the basics of the basic photo editing software that is ususally bundled with a digital camera.

Advantages of Using Picasa
-Free!
-Easily upload images and video to Picasa Web Albums, free online web hosting.
-Beautiful and elegant interface including slideshow and timeline.
-Intuitive and straightforward navigation.
-Excellent set of easy-to-use editing tools and filters.

Robust set of features including labeling photos with keywords and star ratings, emailing images from within the program, Geotagging photos, creating videos, Photo CDs and backups, support for RAW files. It’s latest version has a slew of improvements and new features such as a Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes, face recognition with automatic red-eye removal, and the ability to add text and watermarks to photos.

Manually set the program to “watch” specified image folders on your computer hard drive.

Organize, rearrange and sync Picasa Web Albums from your desktop

The word is accessibility. In website design, it is the measure of how easy the content of a website is to access, read, and understand. One thing about this feature is that it is more of an interactive document that can be interpreted in different ways by different browsers on various platforms.

I have seen pages where the fonts become garbled, the size too small, and the color is too hurtful in the eyes. I suggest that when designing, it is best to stick to simple fonts and color since users’ settings may override the document, therefore making the page appear differently from intended.

Web design styling does change from time to time so it’s more apt to redesign but the truth is, there is a general convention in website designing like logo placements, proper navigation, and so forth. The style of the setup does change but the basic setup of a quality web page always retains. It makes more sense and more practical to simply update your website than getting rid of the entire layout to start from scratch. You can change the colors, layout, add some additional designs but starting from the very beginning is quite impractical. Especially if you have a strong foundation already and have an established website, of course subtle redesigns may work best.

by: Djai Tanji

•No SEO – without SEO on images, flash elements or other media means a great chance to place additional keywords without congestion your content. Adding titles and descriptions, and alts will give the spiders code side content to read in such locations that will up your search results

•KEYWORDS GALORE – Too much keyword will actually trigger the search engines to flag your site as overloaded. 7-9 well researched keywords are the suggested number for the search engines to locate you

•TOO MUCH JAVASCRIPT AND Iframes – Javascript and iframes both take substantial amount of time to load so if you have too much of these two, you’ll be losing half of your visitors immediately

•Too much advertisement – we often come face to face with websites leaping with ads. It looks much of a clutter than a website. If you mess up your site with advertisings, I don’t think your visitors will actually notice what you aim to say in your content. They’ll be wasting much time in finding their way through the messy ads.

•Wrong opt-in position – placing your opt-in form on the right results in lower numbers of opt-ins according to statistics. Majority of people in the world reads from left to right so naturally, the first place the eyes will notice in your site is the top left corner.

Okay. So you might be the kind of person who has diverse interests. I can understand since I’m one myself. And I do understand how it is when temptation to just mesh all of your hobbies and interests in one site comes along. It does save resources than putting up five different sites for each of your five interests. But the thing is you have to stick to one theme. If your site is about entertainment, then please do not go astray that particular path. Do not have multi-themed pages in one site about pets, housekeeping, rock music, etc. etc.

If you want to have continuous visitors in your web site, you must know that it isn’t just the quality content that will keep them coming back but also the interface design. If your design looks tedious or worse, hideous, that can definitely drive your readers away. You need to have a “gimmick” or a design tactic to have visitors rushing by your web site. If you attempt to gain opt-ins and generate profits from your site and you miss some essential designing tips, your ROI might go down the drain. So think of strategies for creating a concise and logical layout but at the same time, will help you in generating proceeds.