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10 Tips for Creating a Successful Website
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Mr. Help
 
By Mr. Help
Published on 05/2/2008
 
Tips on how to setup a successful website.

Buy your own domain rather than burying your website under another domain, ie. Tripod or AOL. Use websites like ManageMySite.com for the lowest priced, secure domain registrations.

Make sure there is a menu on each page and a link back to your homepage for easy navigation.

Your content should be interesting and valuable.There is a lot of information available on the internet and unless your information catches a surfer's attention, it will be bypassed.

Produce high quality content.Make sure your spelling and grammar are perfect.Producing grammatically incorrect work will cause readers to question the accuracy of the content.Also, make sure everything on your website works properly, such as the links.

Provide contact information in case there are additional questions.This also legitimizes your website because it proves your confidence since you are not hiding behind the cloak of anonymity.

Adhere to copyright laws.Do not publish pictures or content on your website that does not belong to you.

Increase the readability of your website by ensuring that the page is not too long or too wide.

Your font should be a reasonable size and should be a color that contrasts against the background. For large amounts of text, a dark color on a light background works better than the reverse.

Do not use pop-ups on your website.Because of the many advertisements circulating on the internet, many systems will block the pop-ups and many users will avoid websites with the annoyances of pop-up windows.

Limit each page to a reasonable amount of content.Modern internet users do not want to wait for long periods of time for a page to load, so if your website is boggled down with an infinite amount of pictures, it will negatively affect your traffic.