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HTML 5 – Coming To Browser Near You?
Yes, HTML 5 is on its way!

Most of the hardcore web community already knows that there is a new standard coming our way. This new programming language and yes I think I can get away with calling it that now that they have added some true commands, not just tags anymore, is HMTL 5. Web standards and usability is ever evolving system and the standards we use to create web pages is getting ready to take a huge leap forward. HTML 5 will be the newest version of the popular Hyper Text Markup Language for web site developers to take advantage of in there web development arsenal. The whole package is still being put together and there are many new features, capabilities and extendability options being considered and added.

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HTML 5 will make use of some familiar XML standards to extend it’s usability and functionality. It looks like there may be some carry over from some other popular web programming languages like Java and PHP as well. HTML 5 may prove to be a very versatile programming language for web developers and webmasters.

This may actually become the web developers language of choice in the near future, at least that is what the pros at Google are saying. Google is so exited about the new features that HTML 5 will be bringing to the table that they have made public that they are no longer going to put development hours into there own Google Gears API, but rather start developing on the new HTML 5 platform instead!

If you want to learn more about the new standards that HTML 5 will be coming soon, we suggest the following resource, as they have been a leader in web standards and are the most trusted source out there as far as we are concerned.

W3 – HTML 5 Specification

We are obviously very exited about what these new changes are going to bring to the Internet in the following months and years and hope that you are too. We will keep this page updated with more news on HTML 5 as we receive it.

HTML 5 For Vimeo and Youtube!

Will it work cross browser?
The videos will work natively in Safari and Chrome (well, YouTube would certainly have to, wouldn’t it?). They’ll also work in IE if you have ChromeFrame installed (which we all know is cheating). If you’re using a browser that doesn’t support HTML5 video it will default back to the Flash method they currently employ.

Both YouTube and Vimeo use the H.264 codec to encode the videos — and that’s where things start to get complicated.

Since no official codec is defined in the spec because browser manufacturers have chosen to use different codecs to render HTML5 video. Opera and Mozilla use the Ogg Theora codec (more on that later), while Apple and Google use H.264. Who knows which side of the fence Microsoft will come down on, but I feel duty bound to mention that the licensors of the H.264 codec include both Microsoft and Apple.

There’s one major problem here: Ogg Theora, the open source video codec supported by both Firefox and Opera, is not supported on either site. It’s a shame these browsers aren’t supported, especially since Firefox 3.6 was released last week and announced support for full-screen video in its native video player.
Why use Ogg?

As previously stated, Ogg is an open source codec, meaning it’s free to use and implement. By contrast, support for native H.264 decoding in a browser costs approximately $5 million per year. (See summary of AVC/H.264 license terms [PDF].) It also seems that people creating H.264 content will be liable for royalties starting in 2011.

Far be it from me to get into the ins and outs of the debate over which codec to use, but it seems that open source would be the better way to go. Silivia Pfeiffer (a contractor for Mozilla) claims that serving as Ogg Theora will reach more people than serving as H264.

Google, on the other hand, which owns YouTube has said that Theora is not a good enough codec, claiming “If [youtube] were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the Internet”, a claim hotly (and convincingly) contested in Greg Maxwell’s YouTube / Ogg/Theora comparison.

YouTube and Vimeo seem to have discounted Ogg. I’d love to find out if there are other plans to add support for Firefox and Opera.

Ignoring the whole video codec debate, it leaves us in some ways back where we started — dealing with proprietary software or complicated licensing to create online content rather than using technologies that will allow us to have a truly open web.
With Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Opera not likely to budge on their respective codec choices for HTML5 video, we can only hope that the developers at market-leading sites like YouTube and Vimeo can implement cross-browser interoperable video just like Kroc Camen’s Video for Everybody. Judging by the aforementioned blog posts, both sites have more plans in the pipeline, which is encouraging.

The codec battles are only beginning, and we’re waiting to see which direction one big gun will point. Last year, Google (which owns YouTube) announced that is paying $104million for a company called On2 Technologies, “a leading creator of high-quality video compression technology” and which made the original VP3 codec which is the basis for Ogg Theora.

What are their plans? To release a “better” Theora-like codec into the community? We can only speculate.
Back to today. Although not perfect, these sites’ support for the element is still a massive leap forward for HTML5. Who knows — if more large sites continue to adopt HTML5, maybe it’ll be ready in 2010 rather than 2022!

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Your Website Design Sucks Because… Users Can’t Find Crap!

I know ayh! A great title to start of another year of C2.0 Web Design Blog! : -)

To kick off the new year in Web Design, I thought it would be best to go through a couple of my tell-tale signs that can help you gauge if and when your website’s design sucks. Obviously, “Website design” in this concept does not only include the graphical elements of the page, but of course the Information architecture, usability, accessibility, etc. So without further ado– Let’s get going with round one of “Your website design sucks because…” with Your website design sucks because users can’t find crap!
1. What the heck are you thinking?!

Whether or not you are running a corporate information site or a 15,000 page e-Commerce store- your content should be easy to find! The biggest problem is people think that you ALWAYS need a search box. Search on a website comes in many flavours, and sure; a search box would be awesome- as long as the results are easy to understand and filter to the right place. Having said that, not all great websites have search boxes or website search for that matter – but most if not all of them [great websites, that is] make the user experience worthwhile by making their content easy to find. Here are a few tips:

* If you are running a blog, make sure there is at least a way for the user to find an archive of all your content. After all, one of the main calling-cards, if you like – of a blog, is the fact that it is a chronological listing of posts or entries. Other important elements that help users searching for content is Tags and Categories. Try to make sure your posts only belong to one parent category. I.e. Not “Sydney Web Design” AND “Web Design” — after all, 99% of the time, one of the two (or more) categories makes the most sense. Tags help users by allowing to search for other posts which they might find interesting based on a common interest; i.e. Usability.

* If you are running a website; other than a web log , make sure that there is a common, geographical structure to your pages. I.e. there should always be the same header and footer on all pages – including any side-navigation or side elements. Doing this makes sure that users learn where things are and helps elevate any problems in looking for things all over your website.

2. Some conventional wisdom

Most webmasters and/or designers usually get search from a UI point of view under control. I mean come on! It’s basically three elements– A label “search for:”, a text box, usually pre-filled with “type query here” or something of the sort, and finally a “go/search/find” submit button… Easy, right? Wrong! Whilst the front-end features of site search are seen as simple, most websites/intranets (even the big players) crash and burn on the search results page.
3. A case study in Search Usability: Australia Post

Ahh, good old Australia Post! I love the fact that they deliver to anywhere in the world and the prices are not too bad — and I haven’t had anything major get lost whilst sending out *so far*. However, one thing that drives me insane about Australia Post is their website; http://www.austpost.com.au — not only is this website in need of a “major” overhaul. Let’s start with the essentials of this particular topic; Search.

The search on AustPost is located at: http://search.auspost.com.au. Nothing wrong with that so far- In fact, it’s smart to have search on either a sub-domain or a sub-folder at search.domain.com or domain.com/search. Moving right along. Oh wait! That domain does not work (Under Construction!!) unless you append the following to it: “/cse/auspost/” making the FULL-URI http://search.auspost.com.au/cse/auspost/ – Tsk, tsk AP!

If you type “test” in the search box and click the search button of the main page you get diverted to a search results page; which is okay so far– However, the diverted results page is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT website (in terms of overall look and feel). Check it out for yourself.
Australia Post Search Box – Main Page

Australia Post Search Box – Main Page

All good so far… Let’s see what happens when we get diverted to the ‘actual’ search page.
Australia Post Search Results Page – Search.austpost.com.au

Australia Post Search Results Page – Search.austpost.com.au

Oops! Something went completely wrong. Did I, as the user kill the site? Or is it meant to be a completely different site followed by a completely different user experience? [Both valid questions you don't need a visitor to your website, especially your search page asking!].

As Homer Simpson would say in a time of crisis; Doh! Different Logo, Different colour scheme, Different tab system, Different IA… Well, at least the logo is generally in the same place as before. Granted, I don’t know the reasoning behind this– Maybe they are in the process of moving sites across to a newer(?) design – but nonetheless, I think being a government corporation, this is pretty bad usability!
Anyway, let’s move right along… As if that first problem wasn’t bad enough, let’s see the search results form. Below is a screenshot of the “general” search form. By general search form I’m referring to the non-advanced variety!
Search Results Box

Search Results Box

Wow, okay — where to start, where to start. Let’s rattle off some of the issues with this search box/form.

1. Why have a “Show search options >>” as well as “‘Advanced Search”. That is not only confusing, but a waste of visual space/real estate. Why not make general search easy to use with no extra-ordinary features, and leave advanced search for those people that need to dig deeper into the data mine. Ahhh, I slowly started to realise why, and you will see why soon!

2. See the “Select All” and “Clear All” check boxes? They only select/deselect one option — and that is the “Australia Post Website” check box. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING AUSTPOST DESIGNERS/DEVELOPERS!!! Give me three good reasons why this is necessary on this page (in its current format) and I will stop using Facebook for a month… Okay, a week! Not only is this stupid from a usability/IA point of view, but it’s NOT needed here. Why?, you ask?

1. When you actually decide to click on “Search” you really DON’T end up having a choice in the matter, because the “Australia Post Website” check box is auto-ticked when the page has reloaded with the search results! Oh Oh!

2. It’s a waste of a control to begin with! The same thing could be easily achieved with one button which toggles through the selections. I.e. starts off as “Select all options” then changes to “De-select all options” upon click… However…

3. There is NO need for the control at all since there is NO other option/area to search from. I.e. If there was “Australia Post Website” and “Australia Post PO Box Search”, etc., then it would make sense — however, there is no other option!

3. The “Exact Phrase” check box control is USELESS in all formats of the word! In theory, the “Exact phrase” should let you search for the term “test” instead of the term test. What this ultimately means is that in reality, “Exact Phrase” should only find the search query if it exists EXACTLY in that format, and not part of other words, or as part of a phrase, etc. The only problem with this is that selecting “Exact Phrase” does NOT change the result set; in essence, returning the SAME number of results as well as in the same order! Yay for happy searching — Not!

4. Clicking “Show search options >>” reveals two fields/controls which are apparently meant to help the user whilst searching but not be enough to warrant the name “Advanced Search”. When you click this link, two new fields pop down; a) Format, and b) Modified. Fair enough, you say. They are letting the user choose what type of file format to search; i.e. PDF, Word, etc. as well as the ‘age’ of the document(s) in question or when they were last updated. So what’s the problem here? Let’s take a peek!
Search Results – Modified drop-down

Search Results – Modified drop-down

Wow! That’s probably the best word to describe this drop-down. Sure, Australia Post must feel great giving thier users so many options to choose from, but on what planet would you be from if you need THAT many options in sorting last modified periods? Surely, a) “Anytime”, b) Past 24 hours, c) Past week, d) Past month, and e) Past year – would suffice? No? Granularity of options is something worth your time as an Information architect or Website designer/developer investing in! The more options you give the user that they don’t necessarily need or will never use, the more they have to think. The experience should not make them think! Just give them results, and quick!

5. Don’t even get me started on the “Advanced Search” link! Let’s just say that it’s a little more advanced than what an “advanced search” needs to be. So much so that a PhD in Comp. Science would definitely help! I mean for Pete’s sake, there is a field called “Custom query” which lets you, quote “Create a query using search operators (and, or, not, near, quotes and parenthesis) and system fields.” unquote! WHAT THA?!?! Sure, I may get it, hell you might even get it as a developer or designer, but your average Joe who might need just that little bit more input into his or her search would most likely freak out! Take it off PLEASE! I’m not searching the CIA Central Repository here, people!

3. In conclusion…

Okay, so I must admit at this point in time that I’m getting a little bit more critical and more importantly a touch “harsher” in my blogging and reviews — but I think it’s important to look at problems like these that normal web browsers would AND DO encounter on a day-to-day basis surfing the Interweb! So hopefully you have picked up a few pointers from this blog post that will help you with your upcoming search page design/re-design. Remember, these are above all just some ideas of what not to do, but the field is huge! Make sure you get people with limited Internet experience to trial all software you create (if possible!) but more importantly, keep in mind some of these ideas for next time and I’m sure your users will thank you!

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Useful Tips for Effective Web Design

Listed below are some useful and rather important tips for designing a professional and high quality web site:

*Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them. Read our article on Web site Navigation Tips.

*Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site’s looks. Try to keep the focus on your content, use dreamweaver templates for this. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

* Program using pure CSS: The world is moving away from table based websites to pure CSS websites because it offers accessibility, reusability and considerably reduces file size apart from giving greater control over the look of your website. The single most important skill you can learn today to become a quality web designer is CSS programming! Even if you are not an expert at CSS you can learn to use the following simple CSS Styles Effects to enhance your website:

1. Cool Text Effects using CSS Styles: Text Links Rollover, Text Case Setting, Text Spacing, Line-through Effect.

2. Bullets in HTML or Deamweaver: Using CSS Styles with bullets (shapes, decimal, roman-numerals, images, etc.)

3. Links without Underline: Use CSS Styles to display links without the appearance of the underline.

*Optimum Load Time: Make sure your load time is low. For this you must:

Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely increase your file size.

Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your site doesn’t have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.

Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.

* Website Layout for all Screen Resolutions: A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn’t look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.
Read our article Designing for all Screen Resolutions for more.

*Ensure Web site scalability: Make sure your code and design is scalable. As technology advances and configuration of computers & their monitors keep increasing and varying it is impossible to test your site in all screen sizes and platforms.

*Cross Browser Compatible: Make sure you check your site for Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1+, Opera 7+, Safari 3+ and Netscape Navigator 6+ as they constitute 95% of the worlds browsers.

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Can’t Seem To Make Your Site Look Good On Other Computers?

Now that you have just finished what you think is a well designed site and what is left to do now is upload it on the web. Once you are successful you are sure that it is alright. Or is it? See, your website may appear fine from your computer but did you check to see how it looks on other peoples computers? If not, you could be showing hundreds or even thousands of visitors a horrible website design that hurts your reputation.

The screen resolution on different pcs can be very high or low. That means when your site loads up it could be totally out of control. Things like having one section display at the top while the other displays near the bottom. Navigation controls are off center or not showing up at all. This can usually happen if you have a 3 or more column website. It is not good enough that your site looks good on your pc. You must get out and test your site with other computors as soon as possible before you broadcast your site to the entire web.

I found that the ideal place is the local library. Their computers are set so that mature people can read the screen easier. Dynamic resolutions that normally makes your website wider than you are use to. Don’t be disappointed if your site does not fit the screen perfectly like it did on your personal computer. It is normal to see a bottom cursor come up to span across your site. What you are hoping for is that all of your tiers come up where they should be. If not then you will have to adjust the margins a bit until it lines up right. You will never get it to fit the screen the same on all computers. You just want it to look good enough so that guest can search your site properly.

Large images can also unbalance the site. If they take up to much space then it will push other tiers out of the way. Although it did not happen on your laptop pc it still can happen on others. Be careful to ensure that any images you display are well within your margins.

Setting your container margins on your default or style page within 1000 pixels usually gives you the best results. Within that margin just play around with the individual margins for each column of your website until all show up the way it is suppose to be.

So just remember that you are not done once you load up your website. Test the look of the website with different computers to see what a potential visitor will see. If not then who knows how many people you may have turned away from your site.

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Smart Design Methods

Your website is where your online business lives — it is just like the headquarter of an offline business. Therefore, it is very important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the most number of visitors as well as sells to as much individuals as you possibly can.

Be sure you have clear instructions for the navigation of your web site. The navigation menu ought to be uncluttered and concise so that visitors can find their way around your web site with no confusion.

Limit the number of images in your web site. They will make your blog load very slowly and often they are really not needed. If you happen to believe any picture is essential on your site, always optimize them utilizing image editing programs so they have minimum file size.

Keep the text paragraphs at a reasonable length. In the event that your paragraph is too big, it’s best to break it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too large. This will be significant just because a block of text that’s too big are going to prevent tourists from reading the articles.

Be sure your internet site complies to web site standards at www.w3.org and make certain they are cross-browser compatible. If your site views great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you’ll miss out on a number of potential website visitors.

Stay away from scripting languages on your blog unless it is totally necessary. Apply scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to generate visual effects on your web site. Heavy scripts are going to slow down the loading time of your web site as well as crash some browsers. Furthermore, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors may possibly miss critical information due to that.

Use CSS to style your page content due to the fact they will save alot of work by styling all elements on your site in a single go.

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Viral Content Magic Review – How To Develop A Profitable Website From Start To Finish

So what is Viral Content Magic? According to the developers, David Wood, Kenny Gregg, and Jim Chao, Viral Content Magic is a segment of video modules designed to give you a step by step strategy to make your video and article content viral. Viral content refers to marketing strategies that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of computer viruses.

You may be wondering why you should care what David Wood, Kenny Gregg, and Jim Chao have to say. These gentlemen are all well respected Web Marketers and are able to create very successful online businesses with the tools they teach in Viral Content Magic.

The end goal of Viral Content Magic is to train the average person how they can create a web entity or blog from nothing with the correct design strategies, plugins, and search engine marketing required to become successful online. Viral Content Magic covers EVERYTHING from a to z to create your business online. The following subjects, valued at over $1,000 if purchased in separate courses, are covered in Viral Content Magic: Massive Traffic Creation, Blogging Secrets, Article Marketing, Keyword Research, Video Creation, Content Promotion, Sponsoring Secrets, How to Convert Leads into Sales, and an encompassing game plan that brings it all together.

The fear that many have when they decide on purchases like this is whether or not they will be able to find any help from the developers of the course. I can personally vouch for these professionals and say that any problems I’ve had has been answered via Facebook, Twitter or email. It is NOT a program that just speaks about the psychology of creating a business and then never teaches us how to actually do it. You will get an EXACT diagram and a step by step program of what you need to do to be outstanding in this industry by promoting viral media and viral ads to targeted places throughout the Internet.

What we have researched in the past six years of advertising online businesses for myself and over eleven years of creating websites for others is it doesn’t matter how much a financial education program costs as long as you are able to harvest a return on your investment quickly. Even for someone with my knowledge, it only takes ONE successful technique that I can personally apply right now to make a purchase worth it. This Viral Content Magic Review would be a waste of time without mentioning just how much the product retails for. You can obtain Viral Content Magic for a one time price of 497.00; this includes lifetime updates. This may be a cause for concern for individuals who are just beginning, but the difference between the successful and those who struggle all their existence is the ability to make judgments based on value and not cost. The value gained from following all ten video modules from this team is second-to-none. Anyone with the determination to succeed has all the techniques needed from start-to-finish to jump out of the depressing 9 to 5 rat race and make something of themselves. The knowledge gained from this one-time fee will last a lifetime, and let’s face it…it’s almost impossible to pay for an entire semester of college for $497. Let’s face it, time is our most valuable and irreplaceable asset. The time we waste “trying to learn it on our own” is a recipe for disaster and depression; trust me I wasted at least a year in the past doing this same thing. If I had this knowledge ten years ago, I would probably be relaxing on an island somewhere sipping an exotic drink and getting a message. The decision is yours.

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Completely Free Graphics For Your Site Like Website Templates

Corrupted Illusion is a completely free graphics website that I created. Some examples of stuff Corrupted Illusion has is backgrounds, buttons, banners, and more. On my website there is a blog where I talk about Corrupted Illusion, my opinions, what’s going on, and my thoughts. Please no talking, or posting anything inappropriate on my blog, and if you do post anything inappropriate it will be deleted. There are forums, but those are under construction right now, that’s why there are no forums posted. Same with the forums, when they are up, please do not post anything that is inappropriate because this isn’t an age restricted website and anyone should be able to access it without feeling uncomfortable.

Here is a little about Corrupted Illusion, it was just started in the beginning of 2009; it was hosted on Webs, but is now hosted on Hostmonster, which by the way, in my opinion, is a great deal. The design of Corrupted Illusion was made by me, it was not made by someone else then modified by me, it was completely made by myself on Photoshop, and then put together on Dreamweaver. It did take awhile for the design to be completed, but it also took time putting it all together in Dreamweaver.

The graphics were made by me in Photoshop, and some of them, like the animated rainbow background, look like you have seen them before, you may have because some of the graphics are common to make, but I did make the ones you see on Corrupted Illusion. The “Other” category in the “Content” page in “Backgrounds” was donated to me by a person who I met on Webs when Corrupted Illusion was hosted by them, and I trust that this person did not just steal these and send them to me.

I also have an “Affiliate Application” that you can fill out if you meet the requirements. Whoever really impresses me and is beyond the requirements, gets to be in the “Elite Affiliates”. You can subscribe to Corrupted Illusion, and be up to date with everything that’s going on with the site; your email address will be kept completely private, and will not be sold or given to anyone without your consent.

If you have any question, comments, concerns, or suggestions, please go to Corrupted Illusion, then go to “Articles” in the menu, then “Contact Me.” Please don’t send any hate mail, if you don’t like me or my work, keep that to yourself, because I seriously don’t have the time or interest to be reading hate mail, and I simply don’t care what you have to say if it’s offensive.

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Free Web Software Gives Your Business A Leg Up.

Your business website has been subsisting for quite a year but you didn’t see any growth in revenue or sales. In other words, it just remained as it is prior to starting up a website for your business. What you must do is to use some free web software that will enlarge the growth or development of your business through improvement of your website. Here’s a list of some free web software that you can use to do this:

Website Analyst Tools

Not only is a website analyst tool is so easy to add to your website but it’s also free web software. It makes extensive statistic about your website such as top search queries, diagnostics, internal and external links and a many other helpful tools to examine in detail your website.

Website evaluator

Another free web software is a website evaluator because it makes an analysis of your website’s traffic, social popularity, competitor site analysis and keyword ranking. You’ll give your company’s website and a few links of your competitor’s websites after that you’ll be informed according to how modify your website and how well it does compared to the websites of your opponents.
Wikis

If you’re having difficulties organizing help information and FAQs in your website, you can use wikis available in the internet. It permits companies to use SSL encryption, alter privacy settings, denominate roles, chat in wiki-specific forums and map wiki to existing domain. This will surely help your interoperate with your subscribers and get their feedbacks, which in return will help you make plans of making progress in your business by addressing their needs.

CRM online

Some websites propose online Customer Relationship Management software for your sales people. It enables sales people to manage their sales and marketing opportunities. It also permits managers to verify the performance of their sales people and how they are directing the way towards your target sales and revenues. It also has analytic tools to help your sales people to put perspective of their sales and marketing data.

Online appointment scheduler

Do you want to economize money on reception staff? Then you should use an online appointment scheduler. It affords a convenient way for your surfers to schedule an appointment with you or your sales people. It includes appointments for staffers and it can schedule gaps automatically between appointments. It can also send reminders via email and SMS and prevents short-notice bookings by enforcing minimum lead times when scheduling an appointment.

Website creator

If you want to use a website creator other than the independent application you have, you can try using online website creators. These website creators can be used by those with null programming skills and experience. Subscribers have the capability to upload and share documents, create a couple of email addresses, and have a document, contact and project manager at hand.

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Tips On Designing Squeeze Pages

There are hundreds of them on the Internet. We all see them each and every day but are they effectual? Do they really make you want to really perform the thing they are asking you to carry out – which is typically to sign up for an email list? What are we talking about? Why, squeeze pages, of course.

What exactly is a Squeeze Page?

It sounds like it has maybe something to do with fruit. What you are squeezing is definitely not foodstuffs but individuals. You covet their contact details for your list. Whether you are looking for sales leads or subscribers, a squeeze page is an efficient method to get what you seek.

A squeeze page is in effect a landing page. It may be your home page on your site, however if you are conducting more than one marketing campaign, it might be a different page, the target of which is to get people to opt-in to your email list in exchange for something. What might they opt-in for? It might be ezines, no cost reports, complimentary website analysis, free catalogs and the like. You decide who you are searching for and which media will find the names and email addresses for you.

These website pages are significant because their sole intention is to induce the reader to perform an action that has been prearranged by you. The “act” does not involve sales directly. You want to secure the trust of your prospective purchaser before you ask them to consider buying anything from you. For sure one great benefit you will achieve at this time is a list of targeted subscribers that are within your target market. Somebody who is definitely not interested will not sign up.

Employing a squeeze page as a sales page can possibly draw individuals who are not in your target market. If you publicize a page that offers “get rich quick” scenarios, you are guaranteed to pick up lots of takers although not the ones you seek. As an alternative advertise a website page that offers “reputable online business ideas” and gather the ones you want.

Characteristics of a Squeeze Page

Internet marketers shell out a bunch of capital to have squeeze pages constructed for them. With this website page, you ought to pull out all of the stops to get seen by your niche. Subsequently, let us begin at the top, the top of the website page that is.

1. Heading. Visitors glance over website pages while they read on the World Wide Web. Your headline might be the only opportunity to gain their attention. Sum that up in a few words and apply it as your heading: “The Ultimate List Building Solution!” Do not forget to utilize the very same keywords you researched for your website.

2. Get personal. Share a story that is germane to your theme. Perhaps you had a habit you sought to break. Offer the reader insight into your problem and how you solved it.

3. Get user-friendly. Avail yourself of bullet points and numbered passages to secure the reader’s interest. Emboldened phraseology stands out and lets the reader glance to find out if you have to reveal anything that they desire to learn.

4. The action. Do not forget to incorporate what you wish for them to complete. If it is signing up for something, advise them how to execute it and what they will gain. Have your opt-in form unmistakably labeled with a link back to your site.

A squeeze page is one terrific way of creating a targeted list of interested people who will with a bit of luck be converted into customers. They are a great method to not only grow your list, but potentially your profits as well.

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Blog: Corporate blogs opens the doors for conversation with your budding partners and clients.

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