Monday, May 10, 2010

Web Design Myths debunked.........

Flash is required to make a site attractive
If you plan on using  Flash, be sure to use it efficiently and sparingly.Keep in mind that not every person is surfing with a high speed connection.Some people may still be crawling at 56 or even 28K, so this means the animation may take some time to load.This feature should enhance the visit, not hinder it.  You don't want people to become impatient and hit the back button before they even see your key message.

Additionally, people may not have the Flash plug-in installed on their PC so before they can view your site, they must wait for it to download. 


The more colors you use the better
If your visitor's eyes hurt from reading your pages, Make your website visually pleasing as possible.Your site should consist of 2 to 3 colors max and remember that it's easier to read dark text on a light background.Also remember to make sure your hyperlinks are the same color on every page.As long as they contrast from the background and are consistent throughout your site.the color of the hyperlink shouldn't matter.

Adding too much graphics is helpful
It is true that graphics will make communication easier, but over use of graphics may make it difficult.One very important thing to keep in mind about images is that they can make your pages load very slowly.  If your page doesn't load within 10 seconds, you are in danger of losing many visitors.The page carrying heavy graphics takes lot of time to load. Web design which is spun around simple and easily loading graphics is always loved by the visitor. ensure that all of your images are saved in the correct format. Photos should be saved in .jpg format (more colors), while web images, clip art, etc. should be saved in .gif format (fewer colors).

Site will always look the same in all browsers
This is a common mistake made by many webmasters. Just because your site looks fine on your PC, don't assume it looks that good everywhere.Remember In reality different website browser perceive HTML pages in different manner.  So website Designer should always make it sure that the website is optimised with web standards adopted by different browsers.

If you are using tables,The width of the tables should be set in percentage rather than in pixels. If the website designer decides to use pixels in any of the website design then it becomes difficult for the viewer to scroll left and right to view the website properly.That is a huge annoyance.

Remember to design for the masses!!!

Friday, May 7, 2010

blackhat SEO - the bad guy SEO, Avoid it and get benefited for a long time

what is Black Hat SEO?
Black Hat is like breaking into a bank’s system and getting out all you can – it definitely works. But then, obviously, it is not legal. And more importantly, you get caught. Black Hat is the trick that makes search engines believe that your site is genuine and you deserve high page रंक्स

Search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN take black hat SEO very seriously and penalize people and sites involved in this. Black hat SEO is not limited to certain tricks, but yup, there are certain ill tricks that the search engines take seriously.

The below points should be avoided and must not be done at any cost.


Cloaking
Fooling search engines is known as cloaking. It means showing something to your visitors while showing something else to the search engines is known as cloaking. This is not that much difficult to cheat the search engines, all you need is certain programming languages. Few people even use redirected pages for this. But remember that people come to a site for some specific information, and if you cheat them for your ill benefits, then search engines won’t leave you.  This is the sure shot SEO trick to get banned from search engines.

Duplicate Contents
Few sites make duplicate contents all over their site. This means they post same contents on more than one page. They follow this SEO trick just to improve their alexa rank. But remember, search engines ban these sites. Never ever post or use same contents twice.On the other hand, posting the same content in more than one page does not add extra value to your site.

Adding Metas not Related to  Content

Meta Keywords are like the address of your home. It tells the search engines what is your post about. And hence meta words play a very vital role in search engine indexing. Few people use the same keyword many times thinking that search engines will put more importance into it. But the search engines don’t think in the way you do. Never use  same keyword more than once. Don’t use those keywords which are having no relation with your contents.

Fake Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are the entrance pages to your site. Fake doorway page is like you show someone the entrance to the bedroom, but once he opens the door, he lands in the kitchen. This is freaking. In this way people get annoyed and leave your site. And search engines treat this in that same way. Search engine Bots will come once, will fall in your trick, will ban you and will never get back to your site for indexing. So, it’s better to be genuine.

Script Generated Content
Never ever use scripts or softwares to write for you. This is even worse than having duplicate contents. There are few scripts and softwares available that can rewrite the copied contents. They make few changes here and there and make them look like a new one. But search engines are pretty smart in pointing them. Once they figure you out, they will ban your site forever. Write your own blog contents, they are fresh and unique, search engines will love them.

stuffing or font matching
Never ever hide your keywords. This can be done by making the text and background colour same. In SEO term it’s called keyword stuffing or font matching. Few people also make small fonts which can’t be read and put their keywords there. But search engine robots are scripted well to find them. once they catch you, you are banned.

Automated Inquiries
Search engines recommend people not to use robots for sending automated queries. There are few scripted robots available there and those are used for sending automated search queries. They also use such scripts for auto link submissions. Remember one thing here, search engines are made for humans, they hate robots.

Title Stacking

Be specific. Do not use more than one title per page. Few people use more than one titles per page to get higher ranking in search results. But this is the most stupid idea ever. If you are not familiar with this thing, then title is the the line that reads your page.Do not cheat search engines in this way, they are far more superior than you to track and ban you

Distribute Viruses and other malicious scripts
If you are really dying to get banned, then distribute viruses, trojans, malwares or antispyawares on your site. This is the worst step that you can take to get banned. In this way search engines will remove your site entirely from their databse for people’s good. Checkout the softwares yourself that you are distributing on your site. Use secure hosting, so that spammers can’t distribute those things without your knowledge. You can also appeal to search engines later, if your site has been removed from their indexes because of this reason.



Black Hat SEO can benefit you for a short period of time but will kill your growth in the long run. Avoid such sites who claim to take you to the top in a month or so. Learn proper SEO Tips and get benefited for a long time.





 

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Top CSS Tutorial Sites

CSS has become one of the many popular languages in web designing and layout. Today, several websites have been put up to provide people who wanted to learn a simple step by step on how CSS works or advanced CSS styles.Here are some of the most popular websites built to provide the necessary information, knowledge, and know-how's to creating CSS websites.

CSSBasics.com 
W3School.com 
HTMLDog.com
Csstutorial.net/
AListAPart.com 

please let me know if you came across any better css tutorial sites than mentioned above