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Stefanie Hoffman, article title “iFrame Attack Infects More Than 300,000 osCommerce Sites” is an interesting read for any osCommerce users.
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By Monika Ruthe in Web Design
When you are designing a website, also think about the photos or “images” you want to include. Images in this context means diagrams and drawings as well as standard photos. All of them are held in a digital format on your computer and saved as such on the web server. Be aware of certain pitfalls in their use as this will make all the difference for visitors to your website.
Size matters
Images or photos come in all shapes and sizes. As digital cameras have advanced, the available camera size has soared from barely 1 mega-pixel to 10 or 12 or more mega-pixels, with a consequent increase in the photo size. You may have experienced what happens when a friend emails you a photo taken on their nice new camera. The attachment can be huge, and takes forever to download, even on broadband. Now imagine what would happen if you put that photo on your website – exactly the same: it would take ages for the image to be downloaded by the browser.
What you have to do is “re-size” the photo, using your photo-editing software. It’s an easy thing to do: open up the photo-editor and the photo you want to re-size, and click the menu button marked “image” (this is how most editors label it). What you have to do is change the horizontal width to a number of pixels that fits inside your web page. So if you have decided on a page width of 1,000 pixels, a photo size of 250 pixels would be one-quarter of the page width. Let the photo-editor work out the corresponding vertical length for you automatically, so apply the option to “maintain aspect ratio” or similar wording.
When you save the image, you will be given the option of saving it in different resolutions or qualities, from low resolution to high resolution. Unless you are building an “arty” website, low resolution will be quite adequate. Some photo editors actually give you a specific option to save at a suitable resolution for websites.
Finally, use “save-as” with a different file name rather than just “save” so that you don’t overwrite the original version.
Help the browser
When you include the image in your web page, you will have a line of HTML code looking something like this: img src=”mynewphoto.jpg” alt=”Words for Photo” height=”125″ width=”250″
It’s important to provide the height and width data. You can make a note of these values from when you re-sized the photo. By providing the data you are helping the browser allocate that amount of space on the page, and process the remaining HTML while the image is being downloaded.
If you don’t specify these values, older browsers will stop formatting text, download the image, check its dimensions, make room for the image and then start formatting text again.
If you follow these tips when designing a website, you will speed up the download time for your web pages, which will make it better for visitors to your website.
M. Ruthe runs a website design service for small businesses and has developed an online information resource for aspiring web designers. For further information on various aspects of website design visit www.bedfordwebsitedesign.com
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List building is an important part of Internet marketing; however, many new marketers overlook this crucial step. Some simply do not understand how to go about it, while others doubt its importance altogether. Just ask any successful Internet marketer, and you will quickly learn how important an opt-in list is.
Sometimes, beginning Internet marketers confuse list building with collecting email addresses. The two are worlds apart. Anyone can collect email addresses and send out numerous emails, the bulk of which will be deleted or lost in the spam folder. However, when you build a list of prospects to which to send emails, you are building a list of prospects who are already interested in what you are selling.
This is why it is called list building. You are not simply collecting or gathering email addresses, but you are building a list of targeted prospects, which takes time. In order to get individuals to take the time to give you their email address so that you can send them marketing emails, you will probably have to give them something in return. In fact, this is one of the easiest ways to get people to consent to receiving marketing emails.
Many Internet marketers give away a free ecourse, ebook, or something along those lines as part of their list building techniques. Look at it this way; if they are on your website, they are most likely interested in the niche in which you are marketing. Give them something for free in exchange for their name and email address, and you will add a contact that is truly interested in what you are selling.
List building is about building relationships, not collecting email addresses. While you are building a list of prospects so that you can market to them through email, you must focus on building trust. You want your prospects to view you as an expert in your field, someone in whom they can believe. While you may send numerous emails without making a sale, build relationships while you are building your list and the sales will follow.
List building is something you may have to work on from time to time. Even when you have a large list, customers will come and go and so you never want to be unconcerned about building a list. Once you have a list of prospects to market to, you want to ensure that your emails will actually be opened and read. This is where the subject line comes in. Regardless of how powerful your message is, unread messages lose all of their power the moment the recipient pushes the delete button. Therefore, you must ensure that your email subject lines convince prospects to open and read your email.
If you are new at this, it may take some time and effort to write convincing subject lines. You can learn a lot just by browsing your own email in-box. Which subject lines convince you to click on the message, and which ones do you delete? Start noticing other subject lines, and use what you learn in your list building techniques.
Steve Duval is a Successful Internet Marketer Helping Others Learn the Skills required to Be Able To make Money Online steves6figureincome.com. To Find Out More About Steve and how he can help you stve-duval.com.
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Increasing web traffic relies heavily on website optimization. These days, it’s more than just placing ads on various sites or making sure you have a lot of graphics display and information posted on your site. You need to know the right techniques that would get people’s attention and make them go through everything your site has to offer. More than just the front-end, you also have to make some adjustments to the back-end part of your website or that which the typical visitor would not see.
One of the most important things you have to ensure to keep your website traffic coming is having website optimization. Also known as SEO, search engine optimization is a great way of optimizing your content such that it does not just entice your visitors to read and come back but would also be a way for you to get popular results on various search engines. The internet these days is heavily dependent on various search engine sites as people use these to generally help them find the information that they need.
These search engines use their own types of web crawler so that they could find the information that closely matches what the person has typed. Most web crawlers use keywords in order for them to quickly identify the matches that would turn up in their search results. Because search engines are a business themselves, they have to make sure that they produce the best results for online users. This is also the reason why you have to pay attention on how you implement your SEO strategies because search engines have strict rules when it comes to these.
Social bookmarking is another technique you can explore to boost the visibility of your website and ascertain that a number of visitors visit it frequently. What would be crucial here is your appearance on social networking sites. Once your site is socially bookmarked and recognized among various social networking sites, your ad campaigns can in turn go viral and reach out to more viewers.
Link building is also something that you should try. In here, you might need to forge partnerships with other websites so that some of their keywords can be linked to any of your web pages. This is also where online directories can be useful because they can offer a free and easy way for you to build those links. Article directories can also be a good place to start doing your link building.
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