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Where Should I Put All The Image?
Dec 28th
Images is very important in making website. with image you can tell everyone more detail about what you are writing. Like some people said that an image contains thousands of words. But if you are going to make a website contains of images, the main problem is where to put all your images, because images takes more space than an essay (we are talking about people who host their website on a hosting company, not for them who had their own server in their room). A good quality photo sometimes can take more than 500 Kilobytes, and a 1000-words essay will not bigger than 100 Kilobytes in size.
There are 2 options where to put your images. The first one is to host your images in your server, and the second is to put them in an image sharing sites.
Hosting images in your server
pros:
1. you can manage your image easily because its your server, and you have full access for it.
2. your images will have the same uptime with your website, better than when your website up but your images can’t be seen because the image’s server is down.
3. You will not lost your images, if you host it in an image-sharing sites, it might be lost because they host so many images.
Cons
1. You will get your file for backup become bigger, because everytime you backup your site, you must download all the images.
2. You have to rent a bigger space of hosting, or your images can’t be host there.
Put them in an image-sharing website
pros
1. You will not lose any server space for images because your images hosted in the other server.
2. Some image-sharing websites have a good bandwith so your visitors can load your images fastly.
cons
1. Sometimes you didn’t get full control for it, like rename, move, etc.
2. If there’s a problem with your image-sharing website, so you must replace the code for your image one by one, from the first post of your website.
So by the pros and cons of each options, you can choose whether to host your images in your server or put them in an image-sharing website.
Things to write if you’re running out of idea
Dec 25th
It’s common for a writer to running out of idea when they want to update their website. If you’re running out of idea to write on your website, the first thing to do is write whatever you are thinking right now. Because if you don’t update your website for a long time, your visitors that checks your website regularly will think that your website is not active, and even won’t visit your website again. And visitors is vital when you are making a website, so try to keep your visitors by updating your website regularly. These are some topics to post in your blog when you are running out of idea:
1. Movie Review
You can go to the nearest cinema and watch movie, and write the review about it in your blog. Watch a new or booming movie so that your visitors that haven’t watch it can decide whether they will or won’t watch that movie. Watching movie also can make you become relax, and even it can give you idea for your next article!
2. News
You can tell your visitors news about what happened around you, or in your country, if your visitors come from around the world. Sometimes an interesting news in your country is not exposed to another country, so you can be the first one to tell it to the world via your website.
3. Interesting things that you find on the net
When you are surfing the web, you maybe find a good article or general knowledge article, post it in your website as an interlude, so your visitors can get general knowledge too from your website.
There are some more thing to post in your website when you are running out of idea, you can search it with your own creativity. And keep in mind that a webmaster must be able to keep their visitors visiting their website. More visitors you have, more revenue you can get.
How to Keep Your Visitors
Dec 24th
When you already have a good website and articles in your website, you will get traffic. Traffic is the number of visitors who browse your website. The higher your number of visitors is, the better your traffic is. And website that has a good traffic could make revenue. A good website is one that gives people reasons to visit it’s pages again. When you already have a good traffic, try to make a good website so your visitors will come back to your site again and give you traffic, or even revenue. These are some aspect (or problem) from your website that makes your visitors don’t want to visit your website again.
Pop up Advertisement
A lot of people who browse the internet installed pop-up blockers on their computer. Because almost everyone thinks that this kind of advertisement is absolutely disturbing, because it popup in the middle of reading articles, and they need to close it to continue reading.
Navigation
Having good navigation is vital for a website. If you can’t give your customer good navigation between your pages, they are most likely close your page and open another browser tab to continue browsing from other source. So try making a good navigation in your site, and if you could, you can make a “related items” between posts, so your visitors can read your other post that is related to your post that they read now.
Animations
If you think image that contains long animation is a good way to grab your visitor’s attention, think about it again. because they said that visitors only browse your site around 20 seconds and search for their need, so they won’t hang around to see you animation.
Elements of Web Design
Dec 22nd
There are basic elements that you can learn to make your website has an effective way to put together design elements with a good and effective site. A good designer realized that web design is not just about doing colours on the page but also making a pleasing and useful web design. These are the elements you need to make your website useful and pleasing your visitors:
Balance in Web Design
Web Design Balance distribute heavy and light elements on a page. Balancing your website concentrated on the page layout. you must have visual balance on all aspects the page, not only the initial view. It is common to make invisitble grid system to create balance and make your visitor’s navigation easier. The three types of balance are Asymmetrical, Discordant, and Symmetrical.
Asymmetrical is more challenging to build but you have to do some strategies to make this type of design looked pleasant.
Discordant type of design make visitors uncomfortable or uneasy, so it best used for sites that intented to make people think when visit it.
Symmetrical means placing the element in balance and match elements on the left with the right. But some of them looks flat and boring.
The Emphasis in Web Design
involves where the eye is drawn into in a design. Keep in mind if everything in the design has equal emphasis, your entirepage will looks like too busy to be confortable and can make your visitor don’t get what you want to tell them. You can use markup, font size, image size, or contrast to make emphasis.
The Rhythm in Web Design
Also known as repetition. Almost all elements in your website design can be repeated to make pleasing rhythm for your design. For example you can repeat your headline, some image, or make a background that patterned with repetitive picture, but don’t use complex image for your background to prevent distraction.
Contrast in Web Design
Involves contrasting shapes, sizes, and textures. You can take it by changing font size, weight, and font family to make contrast. But remember not to scare your visitors with to loud contrast of colours. The important links in your page should be contrasted to get attention from your visitors.
In Designing a website, it’s important to keep these elements to make your visitors comfortable in visiting your website and they will come again to your site soon.
Allow Others Use Your Article
Dec 21st
You can allow other people to use your article with your byline to tell their visitors who wrote it. This will help you promote your website and bring traffic because your byline must contain link to your website and visitors can get to your website from it. It’s better if your article copied by someone who has good rank in the search engine.
The more people uses your article as content on their website, more traffic you will get. These webmaster probably use search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, banner exchange, or even pay per click program such as Google Adwords to promote their website.
This advertising method is absolutely free because you give your articles so others can use them. The problem is when many webmasters use your article, it become not unique. But it is ok as long as they put your byline under your article, so their visitors may see who was the real writer and even go to your site, and improve your traffic.
If you make articles with search engine optimization technique and share them to others, your article will raise up in the search engine, and with byline under your article, you can get tons of visitors from sites they placed your article.
Choosing a Web Designer
Dec 20th
If you are not interested or unable to do the website design yourself, you can hire a web designer to do it. It is quite easy to find a web designer because many people that interested to design probably learn web design because it will become new jobs couple of years later. These are important things to remember when you are looking for a web designer.
You should go with a freelancer if you have just started your website and need somebody to design a template for it. You can probably hire one for around $30. There are many freelancing companies on the web and even comunities (like bulletin boards) that contains freelancer web designers. You can get web designer from there.
And you can ask before hiring them about the sample sites that they have made, and ratings that may avaible for the designer, or ask to the community about this designer, any bad experience or good experiences with them, etc. This may help you find a good designer that will finish the project well without any delay or the worst if they can’t finish the job they claim they can do.
What Experience Do I Need?
Dec 19th
In making money with articles, you don’t need previous career related experience because you can learn about it as you go. There are some skills that you’ll need to teach yourself to make your site succesful. but you can’t go without knowing anything, not learning anything, but still expect of making revenue with it.
First you need to know where to pick your articles. There are many types of articles from free articles to expensive articles. Each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Expensive articles may be look expensive but if it placed in the good place it can make revenue doubled from your expense.
You also need to choose keywords for your site that can help you doing search engine optimization and help you gain traffic. choose a good keywords for your site and keep writing articles related to it. if you choose a highly competitive keywords that used by many websites and big websites, you probably can’t go in the first page of search engines.
Then you need to know about search engine optimization to optimize your website for search engines. search engine optimization skill will allow you to get good ranks in the search engine like google for your keywords, which helps you get visitors and make profit.
Don’t forget to market your website through your own way, it can be from mouth to mouth, banner advertising, or text links.
If you are able to have these skills and use them during the making of your website, then you will become an expert. The only thing that you need before you begin making revenue from sites is read how to get started book by maybe purchase internet marketing book and make fund for starting a small site.
Make Your Own Website Design
Dec 18th
When you want to make revenue from promoting articles and links, you need a good navigation in your site to put them on. You can do it by your self or hire someone to do it.
For some people, designing website can be difficult. you will need many tutorials to get going. You also have risk of having a site that looks so bad on your first time designing. Remember that the most important thing is your site can be navigated well, all your readers can see and search what they are going to see or search, and your advertisement placed in the right place, can be seen by every visitors but not to distract them from reading your articles.
and remember to make your website unique, means that it different from other website, and don’t use free templates because it can make your website become kinda “amateur”. it’s ok for the low traffic or newcomer, but it might be a problem for a website that have big number of visitors.
Picking Articles for Your Site
Dec 10th
Pick articles for your site carefully so that you can make traffic and gain revenue from your site. If you get your articles from free articles website, it may be difficult to you to find good articles for your website. But you can edit the articles with search engine optimization mode. If you wanted to buy content, tell your writer what you wanted in your article. Remember, if you make wrong article it may reduce your traffic and low search engine rankings. but if you can make it right, you may get much revenue from your website.
Searching for Free Articles
Dec 9th
Some webmaster use articles from free directories to make website. This is important to they who just started working in this kind of thing and they who do not yet have any funds to recruit writers.
Even this is sometimes the only options for those who doesn’t have budget yet, it is not a way to build your website effectively. There are few reasons why I said like that.
1. Getting Visitors to Click
If you think that getting high ranks in search engines ranking is hard work, this is only the half of the big work. You must also make your visitor convinced to clicks on your advertisements. If your articles seems to be like the other site, they will least likely to click on your advertisements.
If you just copy articles from other website, you will be seems like someone who does not know what are they writing and you will never convince your readers.
2. Author Bylines
Most free articles given to you only if you put the writer’s name under the article. This makes problem because bylines must contains links. when your visitor done with your article and wanted to read more articles from the same author, they will clicks on the Author name and navigate away from your site.
3. Search Engines
Search engine will look down to your site if they found you duplicating contents from the other sites. Means that the more unique your article is, the more rank you will get from the search engines. And you can use Search Engine Optimization technique to increase your rank.
You may look your revenue coming from your site, but only in a small amount. Once you get enough amount for recruiting a writer, do it. you need original content to help your site rank up. Or you can do it by yourself. write your own articles about what you are interested at. It may be hard in the beginning, but later it will be fun!