The Adavantages of Using Linux Hosting

To create a website we should have a hosting server. Perhaps it is still confusing for you to choose between Linux host and Windows Hosting. In website hosting, there are two of the most famous server, ie Linux Hosting and Windows Hosting. It is very important for those who choose best website hosting services, whether it is using the Linux or Windows.

However at the present time, many people know that Linux hosting is far more secure than Windows. Windows also has a sophisticated security actually and always updated, it depends on the company providing the website hosting services whether the company can provide good security for their hosting services or not.

Most all linux OS is open source and free of cost. Perhaps this is one of the advantages why many companies are using Linux as a hosting server because it does not need payment for a license fee. Linux hosting in general is more stable and able to provide qualified performance when compared with windows operating system which is needed to handle many processes at the same time.

If you want to use SSH or Telnet access, just like you want to access files directly from the server without transferring it to local storage, certainly it will gives an advantage over linux. Windows hosting server often waste precious time from its users because the downtime is longer than linux. Beside that window needs more resources (hardware) which are more likely to initiate a process, this means that when doing a window reboot it generally will take a longer time.

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Slider Plugin in Wordpress

Usually the slider itself is used to display news highlights featuring headlines and images from the news. Creating a Slider In WordPress might be able to beautify the look of our website. Besides beautify the look, the slider itself can save space on the web because of the slider we can display multiple news in one frame.

You would ever find a site that uses image slider on their main page that displays an image that can change automatically every few seconds. Some WordPress themes offer this slider image features by default. But most WordPress themes do not have this feature. What if you want to have the feature image slider but use your favorite theme that is being used today.

Slider in Wordpress can be made ​​using a plugin provided for wordpress. With this plugin we do not need to bother anymore with jQuery and php. Perhaps because it is familiar with the practicality. I prefer this plugin instead of having to tinkering with jQuery templates and th scripts.

Slider plugin that can be used to make the slider on wordpress can be downloaded at the websites wordpress development. Install a slider plugin on wordpress then we can directly use either slide it in the widget as well as in the post of websites.

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Upload files to web server

Once you register on one of the free servers, then the last step so that the web page you can see all the people are uploading or sending files to a web server.

There are two kinds of methods used to send or upload files to a web server, which is directly through a browser or via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). For that you need to know which way is supported by your web server. Just an example, www.homepage.com use the browser to upload, use FTP while www.virtualave.net to www.tripod.com can use the browser or FTP. Which will be discussed here is to send files using FTP.

Software that can be used is WAS FTP or CuteFTP. (Not to be confused with the word FTP with WAS FTP or CuteFTP. FTP is a protocol used to connect to the web server, while the WAS FTP or CuteFTP software is used to connect to the web server. In short WS_FTP and CuteFTP is the software that supports FTP protocol to connect with the web server).

For the steps that we provide below using CuteFTP software and web servers www.virtualave.net. You can apply these steps in WS_FTP or other FTP software and web servers, since in principle is the same.

1. 
   
2. From the FTP menu select Quick Connect.
3. Fill in the fields host addresses, user IDs and passwords with a web server is provided to you. If the host address = virtualave.net s36.virtualave.net eg, user id = winfolder, password = sda45sddf.
4. Click on OK.
5. Wait a while until CuteFTP to successfully connect with the web server.
6. If a successful connection will display a dialog box containing the proofs. Click on OK only.
7. Now you see on the right column. It is a folder located on your web server. Visible folder called public_html. Double-click the folder. Well, in that folder you should put your files.
8. Left column is the location of files on your computer. For that move to the folder where you saved the file to be uploaded.
9. Block was the file you want to upload, then right click and select upload.
10. Already completed the upload process.
11. In addition, you can create a folder / directory on the new web server. The trick right click on the right hand column, select Make Directory, click OK.
12. For the other commands you can learn yourself

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WebCartoonMaker: 2d Animation Software

If you are looking to review the best 2d animation software or figure out to learn how to make 2d animation? if you want to try you can use this tool, here is one of the best studio program, the best software for animation, 2d Animation Software called WebCartoonMaker.

2d animation software is the best software I have ever tried. Unlike other animation 2d animation software does not have a WYSIWYG editor to drag and drop images or make them move by using a few clicks of a button. Also unlike other animation tools are not created 5 seconds gif image. Web Cartoon movie makers to create original 2D animation.

Web Animation Software 2d cartoon maker with WebCartoonMaker is an online tool to create animated 2D cartoons. It is absolutely free. Once you have created a cartoon using this tool, you can convert them to AVI video file, upload it to YouTube HD or even convert them to dvd or blu ray.

Unlike similar software 2d animation many others, Web Cartoon Maker is not pretending to be a WYSIWYG This allows you to program your cartoons, using the programming language (C + + interpreter UnderC that is installed on the server).

It may sound difficult at first sight, but with a few lines of code you can move your cartoon character with ease. For example, once you've installed Webcartoonmaker on your computer, open it and by giving a few lines.

You can use characters, images and text. Everything can be moved, rotated, scaled, flipped or become semi-transparent. Once again, each operating with only one line of code. Make sure, WCM Player software is required to play your movies and convert them to AVI format.

You can see video WebCartoonMaker 2d Animation Software here :

http://www.webcartoonmaker.com/index.php/video-gallery

For better understanding, try the online web cartoon maker, you can load multiple scripts, try the script itself, examining how the work before you download the desktop tools. Only if you have a player WCM installed on your computer, you can watch a preview of the animation.

Source : http://www.webcartoonmaker.com/wcm.html

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Monitor Website Uptime from Desktop with tagBeep Net

Nightmare for webmasters is the site down unwittingly happened you can't monitor your Web site. There are several online sites for uptime monitoring site but very few of them are free & utility offers desktop to keep by looking at the warning.

Now here there is a desktop tool for uptime monitoring sites, tagBeep Net is a free tool from tagbeep.com, monitoring uptime services which offer upto 50 checks with free SMS (20 per day), email and desktop tools for warning the site down.

To use the Net user tagBeep have to do to register to start monitoring your website with tagbeep.com and setup check. When you're done you can download and login to the tagBeep Net and started to check the status of the site.

eep Net is still in its early stages and doesn't offer a lot of features but enough for webmasters to know the status of their website is down or not.

You can also press the refresh button to do a manual check. It also shows the response time of your site. to begin, please visit the site directly below the posting here.

http://tagbeep.com

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Widgets Digital Clock-skin for Windows

Horloger 1.0.0 is a free widget that offers a variety of cool desktop clock, which displays the skin aero glass, semi-transparent and Windows phone 7 hours by type. Consists of 5 skin and has support for 10 languages. One can change the date time format &, transparency, and positions the screen easily from the settings menu. You can also set the position of the manual for the clock and Key it so cant move involuntarily.

Support – Windows 7 and Vista [x 86 x 64 &] and Microsoft Net Framework 3.5 SP1.

You are interested please visit the following link to download the Windows Clock Widget Horloger.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/206066131/horloger_v1_0_final_by_amine5a5-d3eopn7.zip

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Managing multiple WordPress blogs in a single dashboard

Most of the bloggers using wordpress platform may have more than one WordPress blog. If you have more than one WordPress blog, then managing them is no easy task especially if you receive a comment too much or want to make a posting. ManageWP is a new service that allows you to manage multiple WordPress blogs hosted on a single dashboard so this is something good to manage multiple WordPress blogs on one dashboard.

The new solution combines just different WordPress blog into one common dashboard, so you can manage it easily without having to log into each one. Its use is very simple, sign up for an account on ManageWP and download their plugins Workers. Install the plugin on to all the blogs that you want to manage using ManageWP. Once installed, all the blogs you will go to the central dashboard.

Central ManageWP the dashboard allows you to:

- Write Individual posts to one of your blog that you add
- Create a category for each blog
- Upload new themes and plugins
- Manage different site, manage comments and many other features

ManageWP also plans themselves become self-hosted version of the tool which will soon be released at a later date. ManageWP still in beta, but the service is very good especially if you have multiple blogs.

You are interested to try it please sig up in advance at http://managewp.com/

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Setting Wordpress Permalink For SEO Friendly

How do I change settings / wordpress blog permalink structure to make it more SEO friendly and free of problems. In WordPress, the default permalink setting is /? P = 123, so the url to display is http://www.yourdomain.com/?p=123. of course this is not SEO friendly because the post title is not displayed on the url. Such as learning on-page SEO, we know that appearance on permalink post title will help the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Should be changed permalink structure to /% category% /% postname% or even just /% postname% only. so that the url blog post will appear http://www.yourdomain.com/categori/postname or http: / / www.yourdomain.com /postname only.


In the new WordPress Blog, of course, this does not matter. changes can be done easily and not at risk. But what about the blogs already a lot of content? this remains a problem because the blog will lose backlinks that have been built with great difficulty due to changes in the permalink structure. Now on wordpress tutorial this time I will give simple tips and tricks wordpress to resolve the issue using the redirect trick. Htaccess file ..

Steps:

First reply you have to do is log into the wordpress admin panel. In your wordpress dashboard, click Settings> Permalinks. Then select Custom and then fill it with /% category% /% postname% or /% postname% only, as shown below ..



after that, your permalink structure will look like this http://yourdomain.com /postname

Now we need to redirect all the backlinks that use the old permalink structure to the new permalink structure. To do this you have to edit. Htaccess file located in the root directory on your wordpress hosting, Be careful when going to edit. Htaccess file, make sure you backup these files first.

Download and open the file. Htaccess file editor with a kind of notepad or WordPad, then add the code lines below:

RedirectMatch 301 / ([0-9 ]+)/([ ]+)/([ 0-9 0-9 ]+)/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/ $ 4

Then save your changes and upload again on the root directory of your wordpress. Done, you just change settings on your wordpress permalink structure without losing backlinks

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Create a logo and image buton ONLINE

To create a logo we can use service sites on the Internet, that is cooltext.com, Please follow the following steps:

1. Please open http://cooltext.com address

2. Then click on a Logo Design

3. Click on the picture logo examples that you liked

4. Write the text you want in a logo made in writing beside Logo Text. Eg: Blog Tutorial

5. Write the desired size in the next paper Text Size. Example: 50

6. Click the logo colors besides the existing text box to select the color Text Color text (text). Please select a color pal who likes

7. Select the format of image file formats in addition to writing. should. JPG or. GIF

8. Click the button that reads Render Logo Design

9. Wait a few moments when the process of making a logo lasts

10. See the results of the logo, it fits or not? if not match, click on Edit this logo repeat the above step, change you wanted. If it matches, click on Download Image to our store on our PC

11. Done. You already have a logo.

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Search Engine Friendly for Joomla 1.5.x

What is the SEF? SEF stands for Search Engine Friendly, whose function is to maximize search engine indexing keyword in making it easier for search results close to the right keyword. In default, addresses a very long URLs in Joomla example: http://websiteku.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5:joomla-license-guidelines&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=2.

It is now available several extensions to change the URL address into "friendly". There are several extensions that are used to set the display URL. For more details, please download at the official address of Joomla http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef.

In the case study here, I am using Joomla! sh404SEF which is a security component and manages title and meta tags: automatic or manual tag for each page. This extension works with or without. Htaccess file. If you are using some component like Joomfish, sh404SEF is fully compatible. Caching system for high speed and very small DB queries overhead.
Support many components natively, using sef_ext from OpenSEF / SEF Advanced. VirtueMart, FireBoard, Community Builder, mosetsTree, HotProperty, Sobi2, Docman, myBlog, iJoomla Magazine, News Portal, Remository and more supported natively.

1. Okay, first download the file here sh404SEF (Download)
2. Once stored in the computer, go to the Administrator page and select the menu Extensions> Install / Uninstall.

3.Click the Browse button to select the files to be uploaded




4.Select the file and press Open button sh404SEF

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5. Click the Upload File & Install for the installation process.

6. Wait a few minutes until the installation is complete.

7. Now arrange the URL configuration , click the Configuration sh404SEF.





8. Turn on the Main tab, then select Yes on the radio buttons.

9. Enable Tab By component, and set everything to use default handler.

10. When finished click Save button to save.

11. If a message appears, click the OK button.



12. Look at the result, URL addresses before using the SEF.

14. URLs Display after using the SEF.

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Advertise on this website

If you are interested to advertise on this website, You can contact us on the nuno.btc@gmail.com.

We will review your products, services or all of kind that you wants to commerce. And of course porn,drugs,and all of the negative things is not allowed to.

We will gladly have cooperation with you..


Regards,

Nuno

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Learn SEO : Keyword Research Tools

People need to choose those keywords that are often searched for and which is in high demand, but not being used by many other sites and competitors, and thus has low competition. There are a number of keyword research tools that can be referencesto find them.

The Wordtracker which was already discussed in an other article, we have some more equally important research tools like the Overture, Guidebeam and Google AdWords Keyword.

Guidebeam http://www.guidebeam.com/ is an interesting resource. Type in a phrase and it will recommend a large number of related searches. The numbers generated against each phrase are Guidebeam's estimation of how relevant that phrase is.

Overture's http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ keyword suggestion tool is free and much quicker to use than Wordtracker. It works more like the Wordtracker but doesn't tell you how many websites are targeting each keyword phrase. For example if you type ‘CAR’, the Overture search suggestion tool will tell you that during the last month the word ‘Car’ was searched, say for example 459650 times at Overture.Com. Similarly 'Cheap Car” was searched 304510 times. Also, given one word it will tell you all relevant combinations of that word, which are based on actual searches done by people. If the word you keyed in is not a ordinary search term then you will not get any results. It means that very few people have actually searched for that word during the last month.

Even Google Keyword Tool generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends. Features of this tool include,
1. Sorting the results of your desired keyword search by popularity, past performance history within the AdWords system, cost, and predicted ad position.
2. Easy keyword manipulation where you can select a few keywords here and there or add them all at once.
3. Searches for keywords present even in any webpage URL specified by your search. It can also expand your keyword search even further to include those pages that are linked to or from the original URL page.
4. More keyword results are generated based on regularly updated usage statistics database. This helps you to get new keywords or phrases.


These softwares are valuable for researching how people search the web and then optimizing your own web pages so that many people find your web site. FOR MORE VISIT OUR LISTING AT WWW.TOOLSFORFOREX.CO.CC

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5 Important Rules in Website Design

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website design performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

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THE WAYS TO KEEP VISITORS COMING BACK

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers -- all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

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GOOD WEB DESIGN PRACTICES

Your website is where your business resides -- it's like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective 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.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

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HOW TO HAVE WEBSITES BUILT FOR YOU THE CHEAP WAY

Normally, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here's a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer's wages, advertising costs and so on.

Therefore, it would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. These people are often working from home so they do not have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it's a "no-brainer" choice.

However, choose freelancers with care. The best way to do this would be to go to elance.com. There, you can post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you will surely get the best deal. On top of that, you will be able to choose the designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so your value for money is secured.

Another route you can take is to design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You'll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and so on.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF A SITEMAP

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1) Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site's theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.

3) Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page -- they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

4) Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accesible and neatly organized for everyone.

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IMPROVE USABILITY OF YOUR WEBSITE

No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally.

The first method is to make sure the typography of your content is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.

Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to enable visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven database search engine or just a glossary or index of articles that you have, providing such a feature will make sure your visitors can use your site with ease.

Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Most internet users will leave a website if it doesn't load completely within 15 seconds, so make sure the crème de la crème of your website is delivered to the visitors as soon as possible to retain their attention.

Last of all, test each and every link on your site before it goes online. There is nothing more effective in tarnishing your professional image than broken links, so be very careful about that.

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BUILDING YOUR MAILING LIST WITH DOWNLOADS

A mailing list is the lifeblood of your online business. The old adage "the money is in the list" cannot be true enough -- if you had a targeted list of prospects to contact each time you have a new product, you will be able to save a lot of effort by marketing it to your existing list of targeted prospects.

You can actually build up a targeted list of prospects that are interested in your products by offering a relevant download on your website. For example, let's take a look at a very good example -- apple.com. When you download the free iTunes and Quicktime software from their site, they will ask you to fill in an optional name and email form so that they can send you offers on songs that you can purchase via -- guess where -- iTunes!

In reality, you do not need to offer such a "heavyweight" download such as a full-feature software like iTunes. You can attract prospects equally well with some quality freebies such as a simple report, a free wallpaper, and so on. The important thing is that your download offers enough value for the prospect to be willing to give away his/her own email address to get it.

However, slapping together a simple download and putting a link on your website won't be enough to attract qualified prospects. You will have to do some homework in order for your lead-generating mechanism to work well for you.

First of all, you must place your download form prominently on your website. Preferably, dedicate a page to it and link to that page from every other page of your website. That way, there is no way your visitors cannot find the download page, and when they do, you'll get some of them converted into your prospects!

Also, you have to put a little effort into promoting your download. Explain and elaborate on the values of the download, and why your visitors should download it. You might think why would anyone want to pass on a freebie, but most of your visitors would be too lazy to take the effort to download it because most of their downloads just sit on the harddisk collecting virtual dust. It is hence important to show your visitors why they should download your freebie.

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MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN USING WEB TEMPLATES

Website templates are very affordable and they save you a lot of effort and time when you want to create a new layout for your website. However, a lot of people make mistakes in the process of choosing and using a web template and end up with something that was unlike the image they had in mind. Here are some guidelines to help you avoid those mistakes.

The first obvious mistake you should be aware of is using a template that is very popular. If many people use the same template, your website will not appear unique at all and your credibility as a solid, different website will be tarnished. In other words, you will appear generic just like your next-door neighbours.

To whole point of using a web template is to save time and effort. You just change the title and appropriate details and you're done. The biggest mistake one makes is to customize the template beyond recognisation. While that may be good in the sense that you're creating a unique graphic, you're defying the very purpose of using a web template -- saving time and effort.

However, on the opposite side, if a template you purchase is suitable but some changes must be made to suit your site's theme, then you will have to take some time to make the changes. For example, you can find a very nice template that suits your hobby site except the original designer has put an image of stamps in the header. You can find images of garden plants and spades to replace the stamps for your gardening hobby site. However, do only make the necessary changes and don't redesign the whole template.

In some circumstances, some people simply make the wrong choice of templates. This is a very subjective issue but you have to be careful in selecting templates to suit your audience. Do not choose templates just because they are pretty, choose them because they serve your purpose.

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