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Essential Tips for Web Developers

Posted by weblinkindia on July 23, 2010

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When developing a website, there are many things going through the web developer’s mind. While creativity and content presentation rule the appearance part, the user friendliness and marketing of the website, enables it to be popular among the target audience. Merely making a website is not enough in the expanse of the World Wide Web; you should know the tricks of the trade to enhance its visibility on the internet. There are some basic details that constitute this strategy and here we are discussing them in brief.

The Title Tag
A Title Tag is one of the reasons why certain websites are ranked higher than others. This is because a relevant and catchy title tag is likely to be ranked higher by the search engines like Google and Yahoo, which results in your website being listed in the first page of a related search. The key to having a good Title Tag is its ability to attract and its uniqueness making it keyword friendly.

The First Paragraph
This is the foremost representation of what is described in your webpage. Whether we are talking in terms of the user, reading your content or the search engines scanning the test of your webpage, the first paragraph is the most important part. The relevant keywords must be used in this paragraph itself and it should aptly summarize the content of your website.

Accessibility and Visibility
Whether they are inbound or outbound, the links of a website play a big role in improvement of rankings. Quality for the Links means that they should be few and must link to relevant sites (links to websites containing spam/malware are not acceptable at all).

Content on your website should be updated as frequently and consistently as possible.

URL of the website is another major element that needs to be user as well as search-engine friendly. What would you rather remember- a website with a name like www.mailcheck.com or www.checkyourmailseasily.com?
Always make sure that your website loads easily, the pages and links are fully functional, and all the HTML elements are accurate and valid.

The ALT Attribute
The ALT Attribute is used with images to tag it with certain keywords that describe it aptly. But it is becoming a common practice to spam this space with irrelevant keywords, just to increase the ranking in search engines.  If you want your website to be ranked higher and not struck off from the Google rankings, then use this attribute judiciously.

Links for Anchor Text
For both outgoing and incoming links, it is highly essential that the anchor text should be relevant and short. The anchor text must give a clear idea of where the link will take the visitor, in order to enable easy navigation. This is also beneficial for search engine crawlers to let them know where the link connects.

The Crucial Robots.txt
A Robots.txt is vital for controlling the search ability of your WebPages. Search engine spiders or crawlers are regularly searching the net and an optimized Robots.txt can be of immense help. To optimize the Robots.txt means that you have command over the pages that will be searched by the crawlers.

Appearance
Last but never the least, the appearance of the website always plays a major role in its popularity. A website with good layout, active links, interesting content and user-friendly navigation will definitely have an edge over others, while attracting viewers and search engines alike.

Once the credibility of a website is established then you just have to keep in line with the latest trends to develop it further.  Optimizing your website for search engines isn’t that difficult if you just play by certain rules while keeping your creativity flowing.

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Get your website designed in 5 easy steps

Posted by weblinkindia on July 21, 2010

Wish to have a successful business and do not have an online presence…..then this wish tends to remain more or less unfulfilled. In the current scenario, business having its online facet has become a mandatory deal. Having a website online is a key to success but usually people think that getting a website will ask for a lot of money and efforts. However, it is not as people think, contacting a web design company will make the website development process simple and easy for you. Web designing companies have web experts who assist you until your website goes online.

Here in this write up you will see how you can have your own website designed in 5 very simple steps.

Step 1.  Discussion about your requirements and estimated budget

What you need to provide is simply few details like :

  • Your business details
  • Objective behind having a website

That web expert will provide you the quote along with the deliverables based on the requirements and business objectives you have provided.

Step 2. Booking of domain and space

Domain name, the address to your website and the server space are the two important things that need to be booked prior to the designing of the website. The web expert will suggest you the domain name example www.yourcompany-name.com. This domain name will be suggested in accordance with your business objectives and the SEO perspective. You have the complete liberty to choose the domain name and only after your approval, domain will be booked along with the web space for the hosting of your website.

Step 3.  Collection of Basic Data

For designing an effective website, company’s details are required like :

  • Establishment year
  • Details about infrastructure
  • Details about the company’s offerings
  • Images of the products and the company premises
  • Contact details

The web expert will help you to gather the details required on (hyperlinks) different pages of your website. Any assistance needed in this regard is readily offered by the web expert. Ensure that you provide only authentic data that is supported with proofs.

Step 4. Promotional Measures

After the collection of data, the information is handed over to the SEO Experts who analyse and reframe the data as per the web promotional norms. This is an integral step as it helps a website achieve higher rankings on various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL etc.

Step 5. Designing and development phase

The final and the most crucial step is the designing phase. All the reframed and edited data is handed over to Web Designers and Developers who prepare the website for hosting. Before the actual hosting, the site will be shown to you on hidden URL. Any changes for the improvement of the website can be suggested by you at this very stage.

Once you are satisfied with all the aspects of your website i.e. its appearance, content, loading time, etc. the site would then be launched on the domain booked for you i.e. yourcompany-name.com.

Following these 5 simple steps, you get your well-designed website that is ready to earn you more and more web traffic and thus business. ALWAYS remember to choose a renowned and trusted web development company in order to have a well-promoted website.

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Optimize a Website for SEO in 5 simple ways

Posted by weblinkindia on June 28, 2010

In today’s tech savvy world, it has become essential to get your website noticed by the major search engines like Google, MSN etc. This search engines direct most of the web traffic and are also the major source of searching information for the user. No doubt, search engines help businesses in rising and extending their roots, but everyone is not that fortunate enough to experience the same.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the only key that will give your website good ranking on the search results for a particular search phrase. It is necessary to make your website search engine friendly, make specific updates and link with other websites for marking a strong online presence.

All these things can be done if you follow effective SEO techniques, which will also give your website a chance to rank higher on the search engines. Through this write-up, we are presenting you 5 simple SEO tips that will optimize your website for search engines.

  1. Unique keyword on every page
    Most of the search engines differentiate web pages on the basis of the key words used on them. Adding as many useful keywords as you can on each page of your website will make search engines consider your website valuable and provide it a good ranking on the results page.
  2. Adding footer links for easy navigation
    Spiders of every search engine find it difficult to read flash or Javascript content. Links and plain text links are easiest ways through which spiders go from page to page and read content of your website. Footer links added on the website are the best way of attracting attention of the web spiders as they make the indexing easier. Make sure that every page of your website has link of other major pages of the website through footer. Include keywords on the footer links for higher search engine ranking.
  3. Update title tags frequently
    Title tags are often used as the heading of your SEO rankings as they are the first indication to the search engines about the information available on that particular webpage. Using SEO friendly keywords in title tags and making sure that every page has different title tag will not only provide you good ranking but also help in avoiding any penalty for copied content.
  4. Search for copied content
    Even if your title tags and main copy of content posted on the website are different, still there are chances of getting snagged by the copied content evil. Your copyright text, privacy policy, etc. kind of content, which you need to put on various pages throughout the site, will make search engines drop your website off their main results page because of the copied content. It’s better to put duplicate information in image form so that spiders can’t read it and doesn’t penalize your website.
  5. Update Meta descriptions
    Meta descriptions are essential because they affect the number of clicks you get on the basis of SEO rankings. Provide reasons to the users to click through your website and try to say something different then what your competitors are saying by updating Meta descriptions on regular basis. Make sure that your Meta description is different on every page for avoiding duplicity of content.

Implementing these simple SEO techniques for optimizing your website will ensure high ranking on the search engine results page and also make your company, a credible name in the market.

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Are you going to launch your website?

Posted by weblinkindia on June 17, 2010

Having an effective online presence is a key to a successful business. A company’s website is its online face, which says everything about it. The common mistake that entrepreneurs make is that they pay attention only to the attraction quotient of the website ignoring its launching issues. This often leads to failure of the site in achieving apt promotion. So, here in this write up we offer you some important points that need to be checked before your website is launched. These points will ensure that the website fulfils your dreams and come up to your expectations.

Loading time

Check the loading time, yes it’s crucially important that your website opens at a faster speed. No matter how great your website is if it makes your visitor wait for minutes, it is a failure. Believe me the visitor rather than waiting will prefer to click on other websites having faster speed.

Navigation

Check the links and their connectivity. Are they leading your visitors to desired pages without much number of clicks and misleading paths? This check is very important to ensure that your visitors do not just visit the main page but stay longer on your website.

Images

√ Images say a lot, they appeal more to the humans than the written content. Clarity of images matters a lot. You need to know whether they are clear enough and translate the exact figure or not?√ Apart from this, naming of images is very important. In case your visitor likes a particular image and want to enquire about the same, he should have clear name to send a query.
√ Also, do not put unnecessary cluster of images on the Index Page, it should be just symbolic to your business.

Content

√ Thoroughly check the content on your website and ensure that it is grammatically correct with accurate spellings
√ Ensure that the font is readable
√ Each section should have sufficient information to convince your visitor
√ Ensure that language is user friendly and easy to interpret. Do not use jargons; they might confuse your visitors.

Technical functionality

  • Site map
  • Feedback section
  • Enquiry forms
  • Correct and complete contact information
  • Correct price list (in case of ecommerce websites)
  • Systems to ensure secured transactions (in case of ecommerce web designing)

So, after checking all the above points you can ensure that your website is ready to be launched. This site will be error-free and surely a well-promoted one that will take your business to greater heights.

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Earn trust for your website

Posted by weblinkindia on May 31, 2010

Web world is a different world altogether and earning trust for your website is one of the most important tasks, especially when it is a service or product selling website. In virtual world, the companies and the customers do not interact face-to-face, which makes it tougher for the customers to rely easily on a company.

In such a scenario, everything depends on the information published on the website. This necessitates website owners to publish only genuine and verified information on their website, as it fosters trust. Authentic information is the foundation stone of any website to generate trust amid the customers. However, there are a host of other techniques, which if followed prudently, help in strengthening the trust of your customer’s.

We are enlisting few simple tips with the help of which any website owner can earn the trust of a visitor: -

  1. In order to earn trust of a visitor, always provide truthful information about you and your offerings. Add such fact figures to the information section, which seem to be real rather than those that create an imaginary picture.
  2. Communication with the customers plays an important role in building trust amid visitors. Some of the easiest options to solve this problem are to have a Company Blog, Phone Numbers & Email Addresses duly highlighted on the website. However, Web Forums are becoming more popular these days for open discussions.
  3. A customer oriented or user-friendly website Design always leaves a positive impact on the visitor. Hence, it is necessary that your website is user friendly and eliminates all scopes of hassle for a web user.
  4. In order to earn trust, it is necessary to maintain the quality of your product/service. Hence, make sure that you continue to provide the same kind of quality or even better quality of your products/services that you use to provide them earlier.
  5. Give a personal touch to your website and keep tabs on the minutest details, published on your website.
  6. Another important thing to be kept in mind is the addition of Photos and Bios of the senior company officials on the website. Additionally, place your customers’ testimonials on the website; write texts in conversational, personal style etc.
  7. If you have a number of websites under one brand, then it will be beneficial if you interlink them by mentioning their Domain Name/URLs on each of your website.

These are some of the basic tips, which have potentially significant impact on the trust level of the visitors, landing on your website. So just follow them, and add more value to your business and enjoy real time benefits of a website.

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Web Design is different from Website Development

Posted by weblinkindia on October 31, 2009

Web Design is different from Website Development

For a neophyte the terms Website Development or Website Designing may sound same but the fact is that they both greatly vary in Scope, Functioning as well as Importance. When looked into the details, one can easily observe that there are sea-like changes amongst the two. Austerely speaking, we can say that the essence of web design lays emphasis on look and feel of a page whereas web development emphasizes on the functionality of a webpage or website.

Before proceeding further, we would like to ask you something.web design and development
Have you ever pondered as to what all yo’ve seen on a website? Definitely, the answer of most of us will be “No” because we go to a website just to gain information we’re looking for. Who has the time to look into a web page’s details! However, you should know what all is there on a page if you are eager to know about either website Development or Designing.
Now first we are shedding light on the key ingredients (to have a clearer understanding between web designing and web development), which a website has on its different pages: -

Appearance : - The appearance of a web page is made viable through different color patterns, images, graphics, navigation factors and so on.

Functionality: - In a website, functionality is rated with the results a user achieves after Click(s)/Enter(s)

Content: - The informative values which a user gets majorly in the form of text or sometimes in images.

Usability: - It can be termed as features available for a user on the website. They might be interactive tools, videos, navigation etc.

Based on aforementioned parameters, the distinction between Web Design and Web Development can be easily made. In the parlance of internet technology, web design mainly entails appearance building including content creation. However, with web development all the tools are made functional which are further examined for usability. A web designers should be cognizant with various graphic design tools (knowledge of HTML is desirable) whereas a web developer should have proficiency in making a program functional using different HTML codes and other languages.

A number of designers usually perform the testing of usability so as to avoid hassles in page loading time. On the other hand, web developers do usability test to ensure that whether the program made by them is functional or not.

Albeit there are many distinctions between the two terms, with perfect liaison between web designers and web developers the ultimate purpose of any website can be achieved in the best way. Last but not the least, the results of website development could be enriched if website development tips as well as website designing tips are followed with bit of prudency.

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Website Copyright Method

Posted by weblinkindia on October 23, 2009

In order to get a brief idea of website copyright, let’s take a look at the following:

Content Copyright © All Right Reserved | weblinkindia.net

This is a copyright notice at the bottom of each web page of the website: (http://www.weblinkindia.net/)

This means, all material on the site (text, images, TITLE tag content, programming, design etc. is copyright to Weblink India.Net and its owner (owners) and is not supposed to be reproduced anywhere else without explicit written permission.

In most websites, the date in terms of year is mentioned. But it is not mandatory. In any case, the dates you would come upon in a copyright statement is no indication of expiry of the website and it becoming a public domain. The date signifies the date of creating and launching the website.

Content in the Internet is available in the public domain, but this does Not mean that, Internet is public domain. One can access a website, copy materials and sometimes download content, images, music and videos. But, in no way one should reproduce content in another website (websites) for public use. It is unlawful to be incorporated in printed texts too. Any such instance comes under the malpractice called plagiarism and is liable for legal consequences. There are relaxations in some websites where authors ask for mention of references if in anyway they need to be reproduced elsewhere. The person who uses the content from the original site should keep that in mind.

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Difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 ?

Posted by weblinkindia on October 3, 2009

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It all started with the advent of the internet in early 2000. In those days, internet use was minimal and unexplored. Softwares were designed to access the internet easily. Web 1.0 proved to be popular. With the passage of time, it was found that Web 1.0 will not be able to cope up with the growing net traffic. Gradually users found its limitations. In Web 1.0 information once accessed could not be Availed again. The flow of information was static.

Today’s times, interacting over the internet is one of the most essential aspect of the internet. Web 1.0 lacked the competence to support blogs, online discussion forums etc. Morever, there was no way to rectify if any changes were to be made in downloaded files. Soon it was realized that Web 1.0 cannot be relied upon when it came to privacy settings. Such flaws fuelled the need to enhance Web 1.0 to another level, that is now called Web 2.0

Web 2.0
To live upto the present internet usage, Web 1.0 was bound to be upgraded. This upgradation gave birth to Web 2.0 (For those who think the journey of internet ends here, should see Web 3.0, which will be bloom sooner than expected).

Web 2.0 had all those features one could probably ask for. It was well managed, advanced and most importantly, it was devoid of same flaws Web 1.0 was infected with. Web 2.0 cannot be technically defined but it suited the market to a great extent— all the softwares could be operated, downloading of files was possible and it was less time consuming.

Web 2.0 opened a new window of hope for the upcoming generations, software professionals, technicians etc. Though they have their own advanced software these days, Web 2.0 applications can never be fully ignored. As mentioned earlier, with the increasing web traffic and rise in the number of users, Web 2.0 will be further developed into Web 3.0, a sophistication of its present self.

In this fast-paced world of technology, coping up with changes is most essential. For the benefit of humanity, man has been coming up with advanced technologies so that each and everyone will be able to enjoy the facilities of scientific advancement.

Key Differences

Connectivity :- When compared to Web 1.0, connectivity in Web 2.0 is more reliable and carries more for users.

Usage :-  Since one could not indulge in many activities with the help of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 comes with added features which enable users to share opinions. Web 2.0 is has more commercial usage than Web 1.0

Advanced Browsers :- Initially Web 1.0 was all about HTML, but today, Web 2.0 has been upgraded to XML which is more advanced and fast.

Immovability :-  Since Web 1.0 websites are static, wherein a person cannot get back to the desired page once left. This in turn used to cause a lot of inconvenience. Web 2.0 offers the facility to the user to get to any desired page with just a click.

Support :-  Compared to Web 1.0, there is ample infrastructure to support Web 2.0 based applications.

Dynamic System Tools :- The software used in Web 2.0 based applications is AJAX. It is more powerful which than that of Web 1.0, which is termed J2EE.

Interactions :- Interactions on Web 1.0 sites were impossible. Users could only visit such sites. Today, when blogging and interacting with people is an important marketing tool, certain websites like Wikipedia offers the users to comment on or alter articles.

Technology is moving at a faster pace and users are equally restless. Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 are like a classroom activity, where Web 1.0 is the lecture and Web 2.0 is about discussions and opinions.

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Tips to create a user friendly website

Posted by weblinkindia on September 29, 2009

Every website has a purpose behind it. In addition, with every purpose there are a lot of dreams, objectives and vision attached to web design. Every page and every section carries some amount of hope in it. Designing a website is not just a software development, it is also an art that cannot be achieved easily, until and unless the person is creative, has the right blend of ideas and knows basics to keep the visitors engrossed. However, many a times when the self-taught web designers design the web pages they tend work in their own peripheries and they do not try to widen their horizons. As a result, they may deliver an appealing website but the website fails on retaining users and on parameters of best website designing. If few basic things are ignored during designing, the ready structure may irate the user and enforce him to logout. Let’s not create only a website, let’s create a user friendly website with creative web design.

Maximise the Ease of Navigation

  • Hyperlinks should always take a user to the desired information, so ensure smooth navigation.
  • Logo should be linked to the home page i.e. a click on Logo should lead the visitors to the home page.
  • The main navigators (links) should also be on footer with few additional links (as per requirement)
  • Maintain consistency of navigation on each webpage.
  • Current location of user should be highlighted on navigation bar.
  • The information given on the page can be provided with the link(s) where the same information can be browsed in detail.
  • Do not ignore Breadcrumb navigation, its indispensible for a user-friendly website.
  • Provide a link right there, In case information available on the current page has more detail on other page.
  • If any link is given with the content (anywhere apart from navigation bar), it should always be underlined.
  • Follow right kinds of strategy to bring a user back on the desired page.
  • Title attribute on a link increases the cognizance of users.

Presentation of Text

  • Presentation of Text
  • Presentation of text plays an important role in good website designing.
  • Keep the text font large enough (not less than 12px)so that the visitor does not face problems while reading it.
  • The font sizes should be flexible.
  • Spacing between lines should be justified.
  • One line should have maximum 45 to 60 characters in order to ensure to get compatible with eye span.
  • Say is loud with colors, styles, font selection and font size; prioritize the important text using these tools.
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How to write web Application

Posted by weblinkindia on September 23, 2009

A web application programmer must understand concepts related to distributed applications and services, the HTTP protocol, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programming, HTML/JavaScript programming, user authentication and authorization, session management, data exchange from disparate sources and so on. This column explains the concepts you need to know to write a web application and outlines the steps for writing a simple web application. A typical web application starts when a user clicks a link in an HTML page and causes the browser to instigate an HTTP request transaction with a web server, CGI program and web application server. The targeted server must perform other functions as following:

  • Execute business logic
  • Retrieve data according to query parameters
  • Authenticate and authorize users
  • Exchange data with legacy systems
  • Build the HTML response page dynamically to be passed back to the server

    A web application has an accompanying configuration called web.xml. This file contains all the configuration information of the application that web container needs to know in order to deploy and run the application properly. Understanding the web.xml file is important since you are going to have to construct web.xml file as a part of development of your web application. A web application is defined as a series of directories and files in a standard layout. Such a hierarchy can be accessed in its unpacked form, where each directory and file exists in the file system separately, or in a packed form known as a Web Application Archive or WAR file. The former format is more useful during development while the latter is used when you distribute your application to the target platform.

    COMMON TOOLS USED IN WEB APPLICATION
    ASP.NET
    CSS
    JavaScript
    CGI
    Django
    WebSphere Administrative Console
    WebSphere Studio
    VisualAge for Java

    Developing a web application is a meticulous and a methodical process. Techniques and process of web application development constantly change with advancement of technologies. Apart from this, diversified demands also influence the style and tools to be used in development of web application. Discussion on this topic can’t be wrapped in a single post. Shortly we will map a series of posts on “Writing a web application”

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