Home Business: Web site building, site structure and mapping

Web site building, site structure and mapping

Written by Martin Thomassen

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How can this mapping of your site help you? You need a logical structure for your site. The map shows you how people enter your site, leave your site and where your main attention should go to when updating and optimizing. You need repparttar

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same template and it should be obvious what you want them to do and it should be easy to follow this flow. It is extremely important that your site is easy to navigate! Try to want them to stay on your site and invite them to come back, and of course, give them a reason to do so. Give repparttar 100381

option to bookmark your site and be sure that your site title is unique, clear and inviting. Offer your newsletter, updates, articles etc. I do not like pop ups, actually I hate them. I did not ask for them, so I do not want to see them. Tracking You need to know if your strategy is working, so you need to know where people enter your site, how they browse around, where they left your site and how long they where at your site. Of course you want to know for each visitor what they did. Use this information to tweak your site and strategy. I use StatCounter, simply repparttar 100382

best tracker there is. I would like to know what it is they are looking for. Your tracker should give you repparttar 100383

information about which keywords people used to get to your site. An other service that can be extremely helpful is a robot watch that tells your when search engines visited your site and how they crawled it. Robot Manager provides this service. But what would be even better than knowing where your visitors came from and which keywords got them to you? I would like to know what they are looking for on my site! Of course you can ask them. Get them to fill in a survey or something like that (and reward them for doing so). I have heard people who said it worked quite well. I could understand that if you have a high traffic site, but if not? There wont be a lot of people willing to spend their time to supply you with this kind of info. What do I do? I use a site search box that once a week gives me repparttar 100384

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second article in a series about web site building (for beginners). The other articles can be found on my web site: Ebiz Setup Tutorial - Starting a homebased business for beginners.

Martin Thomassen is an economist and system analyst who took to the internet to apply his knowledge in this area. His aim is to provide useful information and help to ebiz starters to setup their business for free. Visit his site, http:/www.ebizforfree.co.nr : Ebiz Setup Tutorial - Starting a homebased business for beginners.

Create your own audio studio for under $100.

Written by Quentin Brown

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The best way to use this software is to get one file and compile in a number of different formats to test repparttar size against quality. Very similar to working with graphics.

http://www.dors.de/razorlame/download.php

SOFTWARE – STREAMING

There are a few different ways of streaming your new audio files. If you have Macromedia products you can simple organize this your self however there are some great third party programs around that will do it all for you at a fraction of repparttar 100377 cost.

MP3 SOUND STREAM

This is a simple piece of software that takes any mp3 or wav audio and converts repparttar 100378 whole file into a swf file and then attaches a button so that viewers can listen on a web page without needing to download any extra software. This is because repparttar 100379 flash plugin is on 98% of computesr and if not it will automatically detect and load repparttar 100380 small plugin. This is great for anyone not wanting to get ino all repparttar 100381 technical aspects of streaming audio.

You will not need to reduce your files at all with this program as it doers it all for you. This is perfect for anyone wanting to stream one file at a time and wants to do it quickly and efficiently. It will stream even over most modem connections.

http://www.mp3soundstream

MSIJUKEBOX

For people wanting to stream a number of files then msijukebox is a great alternative. This software lets you choose any number of mp3 files and then organizes them using an XML file. By using repparttar 100382 above free programs you can significantly reduce repparttar 100383 size of these files to save on bandwidth.

Because MSIJukebox streams repparttar 100384 actual mp3 you can also have a lot higher quality playback including stereo files. This is much better for those wanting to stream a number of very high quality mp3 audio files.

http://www.msijukebox.com

SUMMARY

So there you have it. A complete studio set up for under $100. Just download all repparttar 100385 free software and purchase any of repparttar 100386 streaming audio setups that you want. You can then create, edit and manipulate any audio files you like. You will also be able to add these audios to your website. With repparttar 100387 web surfer becoming much more "web savvy" than they were a year ago, they are expecting not only information but an entertaining web experience.

Quentin Brown has been helping people add audio to their web sites for the past two years and provides a wealth of knowledge and expertise for those who are technically challenged but want to make use of new technology without spending a fortune. http://www.quentinbrown.com

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