A website needs a domain name for it to be accessed via the Internet.Thus, selecting a good domain name is always as important as the contents of your website and your service.If it is a website promoting your puppy clinic, you shouldn’t register a domain name like Technosavvy.com.The domain has to have some relevance at least to what you are going to write about and what the website is all about.It is well known fact that there are many domains that are already registered that you would want to buy.Buying an already registered domain is out of the scope of this post.

We will just see here the precautions and measures that needs to be taken before registering a new domain.

It is not that easy to find the domain name of your choice in the very first instant if it is a generic domain like, say Puppycare.com as in the example above.However, it is relatively easy to register a domain with your company name XXXX followed by puppycare , like XXXXpuppycare.com.care has to be taken that the domain name that you are going to register is easy to remember and also short.Some basic common sense has to go in selecting a domain name.You cannot expect people to type something like www.puppycareatyourdoorstepintheus.com.
It has to be of reasonable length and also easy to remember which will facilitate your visitors and customers.

So, in short the basic things that you have to consider while registering a domain name are:

* Select a keyWord oriented domain
* Select a meaningful and sensible name
*The name of the domain shouldn’t be too long.
*Though hyphen(-) and numerals(0,1,2,..9) are allowed in a domain name, it is always better to avoid them whenever possible.
*Above all, selecting a dot com domain, like www.domainname.com is always better and preferred for a general website.

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Zoho is a website where you can view files online and also share them with your friends via instant messaging, social networking sites, forums, and also post in the blogs.If you have a file type that is not recognized by your system, then you can use the site and view the file.You can also share them with your friends.There is a time for the life of the document.So, you set the time till which the file will be available on their servers.

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Creating a website of your own is not that hard as it seems to be initially.At least, it is not that technical and difficult to accomplish.Most of us who are not that tech savvy would give up even trying out building our own website.However, with a simple web language called HTML (Hyper Text markup Language) which is the most basic and simplest computer languages, it is very easy to build our own website provided you have the willingness and drive to learn a few  things quick.

What is HTML?

HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language is the simplest markup language used in website creation.It is a basic mark up language.Which means that it will tell the browsers, how certain things have to be output to the user on the browser.Tags are used to markup the content to show them in whatever way we want.

Coding HTML.

Though HTML is a very simple language to learn and code at least at the basic level, many may still be not comfortable with HTML coding.In that case, you can buy software that are available which can do this work for you.In Macromedia Dreamweaver, or even Microsoft Frontpage you have this functionality which eases your work and makes it possible to get a site coded within hours.Furthermore, You can as well have access to online website builders who are third party service providers who offer web site creation help and support over the Internet.

Having said that, there are hundreds and thousands of books , magazine and other tutorials both online and off line that can greatly help you in any aspect of website building.In the modern world, information technology is the best and most cost efficient way in retaining knowledge, especially in this particular field.So get started and code your first website now.

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The face is the index of the mind.Your website is the index of your business, your services and your potential to offer services.It is the online headquarters of your services or institution/organization.Thus, it is of highest priority that you take care as to have the best of the web sites that caters to the needs of your target audience.

Navigation on the site have to be laid out perfectly so that even the new visitor finds it easy to navigate your site with ease.Confusion in navigation will decrease your site visitors drastically over time.

It would be better to have minimal number of images on your site.They add to your site load time and also in most cases they are just aesthetic and don’t give much information.If you insist and feel that certain images are to remain in your site, you will have to optimize them using image optimizing software to limit their size thereby reducing the load time.

The best practices are not just restricted to the designing work but also to the text/content part.The paragraphs of text in your site has to be of a reasonable length.It shouldn’t be too short to provide nothing at all to the readers, and it shouldn’t be too long to make the readers frustrated.

A good website has to be compatible with all the major browsers and properly loading without any bugs and issues.It is a good practice to make your site obey the W3 standards.Different users use different web browser.So, if you don’t optimize your site for all the browsers, you are bound to loose a significant amount of visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important
information because of that.

It is always better to avoid scripts and scripting languages if not absolutely necessary.If used, they haVe to be used to manipulating and handling data rather than used for creating visual effects.It is a very know fact that most of the scriptrs have a huge negative impact on the load time of the site.many can even crash browsers.You would have noticed this many time happe and you are forced to stop the script.ANother reason to avoid scripts is that they aren’t universally supported by all browsers thereby making it impossibke for people with certain browsers inaccessible to your site content.
Instead, you can use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to add styling information to your site which is light weight and easy.

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If you ask any successful web master who has had a successful web site, he would say that it is more important to have recurring visitors rather than new visitors.In the sense, the recurring visitors are more important for any website than the one time visitors or the first time visitors.Returning visitors have a good rapport with the site.They trust the site and have no problems with the credibility with the site and hence they are more converting.

1) Starting a forum for the members, chatroom or shoutbox should help.

If you are taking the initiative of starting a forum, chatroom or shoutbox which is associated with your site, it is no doubt going to get you more traffic.It is going to build a strong comminity and a group of layal members for the site who are going to support you.You are going to solve some of their problems and provide support which is going to make then  happy and increase your traffic with their word of mouth.

2) Starting a web log (blog).

I am a very strong advocate of blogging.having a blog will definitely help you to gain more visitors, more traffic, and more money.It is a means by which you can comminicate anything and everything that is happening with your Website and update your readers.A blog also has the posts chronologically and fresh updates are always welcomed by the readers/visitors.
The credibility of the site will also increase as people get to know that there is someone actually working and taking pains to keep them updated.

3) Carrying out polls and surveys.

Carrying out Polls and surveys can definitely add character to your site and bring more people to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions, prove things and show their opinions and stace on matters and to get involved in your website.But, we must be sure to publish only those polls and surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results. It wouldn’t be nice to see a poll to find who the next prime minister of India would be in a site that deals with tech gadgets.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games and entertain the readers.

Giving away freebies, helding contests, puzzles, games and other entertainmnet in the site can drastically increase the number of visitors to your site.The number will multiply rapidly if you are doing that the right way.After all, who in the wolrd doesn’t like Entertainment?

5) Fresh and frequent updates.

It is very very important to frequently update your website.Infact, the more frequently you update your site, the better it is in terms of visitors and also SEO. This is a no brainer and is considered the most widely known and most effective method of attracting visitors who will eventually become returning visitors.Having said that, this is almost always ignored as people are lazy and don’t put that much work into it. No one in the right sense would want to visit the same site with the same content over and over.Tell me frankly, would you visit the same site every few days even if it is not updated?

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Attention has to be given in web design so that every minute detail and feature of the website is pleasing to your customer or visitors who are the potential clients.As a general rule of thumb, here are some tips for having an effective and user friendly website.

1) Avoid using splash pages in your website

The term splash page refers to the very first page that is shown by the web browser.They usually have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome to our site ” or “click here to enter the site”. In fact, there is no real purpose that is being solved with having such splash pages. Some users get annoyed when they see such splash pages and generally close the site without proceeding.That is not what we want here. Give them what they want or whet you are offering them right away.

2) Avoid banner advertisements on the site

Don’t waste your site space for unnecessary banner advertisements hoping that you will get a few clicks, affiliate sales or $$$.Even the average Joey has an idea of what banner advertisement is and just ignores it. Instead of doing that, you can give more valuable and engaging content to them with affiliate links in the content so that it looks natural, and make your visitors comfortable and think that they will buy it rather than you have persuaded them to buy it.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

Navigation is one of the main aspects of web designing.Your navigation menu has to be simple and straight forward.Even a total noob has to figure out the actual navigation of your site the very first time.If you can make that, you have succeeded.
Complicated and fancy flash menus and multilayered drop downs and navigation bars must be avoided. It is a fact that is proven time and again that If your visitors don’t feel comfortable with your site navigation, they just close the site and leave.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

Once again, you will have to take every effort to make the visitors comfortable with the site.They will have to know where they are currently and the exact path that they need to follow to reach a particular location to get what info they want.

5) Avoid using audio on your site
It is always better not to have some audio playing in the background constantly disturbing your site visitors. If you insist, make sure you give them some control over the audio that is being played.You can give them a muting and volume control functionality so that they can do that if they are not interested.The more options you give to the visitors, the better it is for them.Having said that, it is not a good idea to have an auto playing audio in your site on load.

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