Your website is important to you and you want visitors, yet traffic seems to avoid your website. Unfortunately there are things that can prevent your website from reaching the full potential it should. Common website mistakes can prevent visitors from visiting your site or staying long enough to learn anything about what your website offers.

Does your website have a flash movie intro?

As cool as you think that flash introduction is, have you asked others what they think? The flash movies may not load on different browsers. Some people are still on dial up. Even if that seems dark ages to you, think about dial up, think about people who are in remote areas who do not have fast internet. Your flash movie will keep them from going to your site.

Is your website an eye sore?

This is a surprisingly common mistake. I visited a site that was bright green with hot pink and yellow swirls on it. Unless that site was giving away money, I was not about to stay. Have people who are not afraid to disagree with you look at your website. Ask if they like the look, you want readers to stay. If your website makes them feel sick then they are going to leave.

Are you talking features or benefits?

Most every website involves selling something. That something may be a product or service, but it involves selling. On your pages you want to talk about benefits. Stir emotion in your readers, get them involved. The soft light from this lamp will make you look younger. Getting laser hair removal will mean smooth sexy legs all summer. These are benefits that keep your visitors on your business website. Even a personal website involves selling yourself, so let the readers know how you can make them laugh, cry or otherwise bring emotion.

Did you write for online reading?

Look at various websites. You will notice that most websites have short paragraphs. Lists and highlighted text are common. There are spaces between paragraphs. What you will notice is that most of the writing can be scanned. Reading long paragraphs online is hard on the eyes. People are often busy so they also like the ability to quickly scan for information needed. Make your website easy to read and it will really help.

How can you avoid these mistakes?

The common website mistakes are problems with not thinking about how other people see your website. While you may have a certain vision for your site and think everyone wants what you want, think about others. Ask people you know for honest opinions on your website. Ask them to use different browsers. When you stay focused on the reader your site will grow.

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Having a website is the first stepping stone for every online business owner today. A website is a great way to showcase the importance of your company and advertise your offerings. It helps you reach to millions of users in short span of time and that to without reaching them in person. Today, it does not matter where you stay in east or west part of the world, you can be connected through web and do the business together and make profits. So, making a good website is really crucial for your success these days.

Through web site development we mean creating a new website. There are many companies around the globe which offer their professional website development services. Web site development has become a huge industry. There are a great number of companies who offer their services to develop a website. The web development was used to be a costly affair in the past but the cost of creating a website has considerably gone down in the recent times.

Developing a website include database driven websites, portal, e-commerce solutions such as shopping cart, online payments, web based applications such as search engines, chat, e-mail, etc. Common areas for website development services include client-side coding which is done using programming software tools such as JavaScript, Flash, and AJAX etc. Then there are database technologies such as MS SQ L Server, Oracle, My SQ L and MS Access etc.

Website Development services using following languages:

• PHP
• .net
• Cold Fusion
• ASP
• Java
• JSP
• Joomla (Open Source)
• Daisy-CMS (Open Source)
• osCommerce (Open Source)

Offshore outsourcing website development is a cost effective option for web development at home. Outsourcing is an effective cost-saving strategy when implemented thoroughly. Outsourcing website development services considerably reduce time, effort and money. Offshore outsourcing of web development services is increasingly becoming popular because of the numerous advantages it offers.

There are many advantages that you can get by outsourcing web development services. Some of the advantages are listed as below.

• Reliable, efficient and effective web development
• High quality, accuracy and in-time services
• Highly interactive website
• Dynamic and scalable marketing tool
• Website with easy access
• Experience of communicating and working with global clients
• Project completion at affordable cost
• Well recognized Information Technology skills
• Complete the development projects within the targeted time

Outsourcing web development offers many advantages such as technological agility, high-quality, skilled workforce, flexibility, cost effectiveness and faster time to market. All kinds of web development services can be outsourced.

Boby Smith is senior website developer at Hi-Tech ITO – a leading website development company offering customized website development services to it clients. If you are interested in web development services, please visit http://www.hitechito.com or drop an email at info@hitechito.com

The Internet is the great causeway of the world these days and everyone wants a vibrant successful community buzzing with ideas. If you think about it for a moment, the many that become successful there will be thousands falling by the wayside. So what makes a successful website or forum?

Glossy pictures as bold as they can be winking a hint of temptation, and then there is the neatly typed out words dancing off the page eager for you to read them, however is there any substance behind the shop window to the world. Each year millions of people stake everything they have on that one chance to make it big especially if they are opening up their brand new forum.

All graphics are in place and the topics that are allowed to be discussed are drawn up like soldiers on a battlefield ready for action. All of a sudden it dawns on someone that they may need to tell the world and there mates that the website is there waiting for those all important visitors.

So all of a sudden there is a gasp, and someone has realised they didn’t send out those all important emails, so there is a big rush to get out over 100 emails out, but no one has thought that there was an application for that so some poor person is burning the midnight oil. Then person is on the winning stretch and they have finished the emails from the database that was sent them, if only they knew about mail merge.

Another week goes by everyone keeps peeking at the website, and they look at the counter of visitors, and you know over 50 people have turned up. They don’t realise that when they visit the site, it is counted by Alexia or another site counter.

A person takes the initiative and starts to read up of how to get your website noticed, and then reads an interesting article all about marketing and registering with a directory, and thinks ‘Oh My God’ I didn’t think I would have to do that. However, surely you would of thought, how would anyone know where to look if no one gave them the path in which to reach them.

By this time all the admin staff and moderators, too numerous to mention, because no one wanted to upset the Aunty Ivy and Percy ‘the goldfish’, that they hadn’t been chosen for the position. When someone gently approached Aunty Ivy understood, but Percy, The Goldfish, well he hired hitman, Dellboy ‘The Shark’.

Now suddenly, the owner down to his last penny decides to get his act together and realises he has no staff left because Percy took out contracts for the rest of the staff and he is the only fish left in the sea, so he is the admin, moderator and he feels invincible. Just strutting around in his newly furnished goldfish bowl, and any client or member, who didn’t give Percy the praise for being such a clever goldfish and how well he was doing things would be history. Remember the other staff; well he only has to have words with Dellboy ‘The Shark’ who will rip the member or clients heads off. They just have to line up, because most people forgot Percy ‘The Goldfish’. The people who narrowly escaped Dellboy, vowed never to go back again, and they told their friends all about the website.

So the moral of this story is, make sure you plan your website before you and if you don’t know what you are doing, in regards to marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) get an expert.

One other thing, if you are employing staff at a website, never let them get a ‘Godlike complex’ with your members or clients, as this will only hurt your reputation and people will not want to come back to you.

One very important moral is to make sure you do your homework regarding your website; after all it is your money that you are wasting away.

By Tanya Petrena

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