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A Balanced Web Design

Posted by admin On February - 21 - 2009

When creating a website, designing it to look both professional and appealing can be achieved without being complicated. Website design can be easily handled by someone who is familiar with designing web pages. If website design is a hobby for you, then designing a website for your own professional use is even easier.

Professional Doesn’t Mean Flashy

When designing websites, most people who can really design a website will go for more functionality than flashy lights and bells. While some animation may be an added plus, many who are designing web pages know that a professional and appealing image is simple and to the point. They know that your customers are probably just looking for information rather than glitter and light shows.

Professional Looking Can Be Beautiful Too

Having a professional looking website design doesn’t mean it can’t be nice to look at as well. There are many whose designing of web pages leaves the site looking bland and lacking. Website designing must not only include needed information but also should be pleasant to look at so your visitors don’t mind hanging around. Website designing is the ability to combine both the beauty and the professional image of your idea.

Tips for A Professional Site

While having a good looking site is important, creating a professional looking image is even more so. Someone capable of website design knows this and is able to assist you accordingly. A few tips to look for in the work of someone designing web pages:

• Clean, crisp, easy to use formats
• Proper combination of centering and margins
• An eye for balance
• Consistency throughout your site
• All content is relevant and concise
• All the links are working and go where they should


Add a Splash of Colors

If you have all of the above items incorporated into your website, designing the beauty into it is relatively simple. Website design also involves the use of colors, tones, background, and subtle effects. Designing web pages also includes the following:

• The ability to coordinate contrasts and like colors
• The ability to incorporate subtle and simple effects into a site to make that make it noticeable.
• The ability to create something that doesn’t look like it came off of a free template on the internet.
• The ability to properly create effects such as mouse overs and fades


Website design takes not only an eye for detail but also an eye for imagination and creativity. 4CInteractive.com does great web design work and also offers free website consultations.

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Search Engine Optimization - SEO Made Simple

Posted by admin On February - 14 - 2009

When you think of search engines like kids, the concepts for search engine optimization (SEO) get much more simple.

With young children, you need to make things extra easy in order for them to understand. Take children’s books for example. They usually consist of a few words per page and cut right to the point.

The same thing applies to search engines. You need to make it crystal clear what each page is about, and when they understand what each page is about, they know how to rank you. The more clear, the better chance of top rankings…

By using a keyword target on each page you can tell the search engines exactly what a specific page is about. However, there is a catch: You can only have one to two keyword phrases included in your keyword target per page.

You create a keyword target by using the word or phrase you want as the focus many times throughout the text. Don’t go over 8% density, this means in you have 20 words don’t have 9 or more out of the 20 your keywords.

How do you determine a page’s keyword target
There are many free tools online to do this they are typically called Keyword Density Checkers. With these tool, you can build a focus within each page that allows the search engines to completely understand what each page is about.

The tool provides two main results: The Keyword Density Cloud and the Keyword Density Report. Ok here’s a good one Ranks.nl

The keyword density cloud is a great visual guide that shows what the search engines will see and what words are most important. Outside of that most of the words don’t really have much importance — and that’s exactly what the search engines will think as well. Both the size of the word and the order for the words are important. You want your keyword target to be the first words and the biggest words in the cloud.

Wrapping it up
1. Determine the one or two phrases for your keyword target (per page)
2. Write quality content that includes the keyword focus
3. Tweak the content using the Keyword Density Checking tool
4. Keep reading my blog and I will give you more tips about H1 tags, URL’s and other standard SEO tips.

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