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Maintenance Tips

Tips for maintaining your Website

The following Website features are the most important:

1. Quality of content.
2. Fast download time.
3. Ease of use and navigation.

When it's time to maintain your site consider these design tips:

• » Create a HTML template for your Website which contains all of the items that normally appears on every page of your site. Make sure your HTML code for the page includes: DOCTYPE, meta data, your standard images, headers, footers, links, navigation scheme, etc. This will save you time, and ensure that all of all pages start with the same format.
• » Keep your audience in mind when you update your pages and/or add new pages. Use your referrer tracking data to get to know more about your visitors.
• » Spend your time developing content, not bells and whistles.
• » Use light colored background colors with text color(s) that has a high contrast to your background.
• » Minimize the number of graphics on each page. Do not use more than two animated links per page. Optimize your graphics and always include Alt, Width and Height Tags with your image tags.
• » Use only browser-safe colors on your site.
• » Design your Website to fit all resolutions. Plus, test the most often used browsers.
• » If you change or add text to a page make sure you spell check the page.
• » Use a link checker and make sure your hyper-links are still valid once a month.
• » Make sure all your external links contains a description of the linked site.
• » On each page, ensure your visitors can provide you feedback, report broken links or advise you of other problems.
• » If your site has 7 or more pages, add a Table Of Contents to it.
• » A Website is never finished. But, do not use under construction signs!
• » Frames. My advice, don't use them.
• » Add a " What's New" page to your site and "New" graphic next to items added.
• » Read these Webmaster Tips. Return often, they are updated daily.
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