Help Yourself To Webmasters Tools (Google Webmaster Tools Now In cPanel)
Great news for all Webmasters around, Google opens their Web Master Tools doors to the public. Last November, the search giant announced a pilot program whereby all Go Daddy users got free and easy access to all Webmaster Tools has to offer, right from their account management panels in Go Daddy. Now they’re taking that program and bringing it to the peps!
With access to the Google APIs hosting service provider can now integrate Google Webmaster Tools into your customer’s control panel, so customers can create accounts and submit Sitemaps all without ever leaving your service. From a customers standpoint this is awesome too because it’ll help then understand their traffic and diagnose potential problems by providing insight into how Google crawls and indexes their site.
What if my hoster isn’t offering this yet? No problem. You can still sign up for Web Master Tools the old fashion way simply hop on over to Google click Business Solutions scroll down click on Webmaster Central and then sign in to Webmasters Tools, if you don’t already have an account don’t worry it’s totally free and there’s no obligation.
In addition your account allows you to include as many domains as you want and lets you share info about your web pages directly with Google to help improve the site’s visibility. Similarly you’ll also get up-to-date helpful articles, webmasters guidelines and technical information specifically designed to make your site more search and user friendly.
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Very First Template Ever (Made With The PaperVision 3D Engine)
For example, you can now add as many pages to the Flash site as you wish - This feature is identical to the method used in their XMl Flash Site Template that allows your content to be loaded onto Flash via an XML file. Similarly, this also lets you circumvent the need to modify FLA source files whenever you need to change some text or move some pictures around.
Besides the fact that it looks very cool due to the 3D interface the ActionScript3 also provides a set of additional functional features. For example, you dont need to understand Flash/ActionScript you simply edit the website’s content in Notepad and you never worry about not having the Adobe Flash software because you’ll never have to recompile the swf file again. Another thing that comes is handy is that all of the sounds are stored as .mp3 files.
As always just to make the template customization part easier they have allocated all symbols in individual folders with appropriate names. For example jpeg and or png files would be within a folder named “bitmaps”. Likewise, you will find a “buttons” folder also for buttons symbols and so forth.
TemplateMonster says this is the first and only template made with ActionScript3 and PaperVision 3D in their collection. But there will be tons more to follow.
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Flash Technology Enhances Search Results (I Don’t Think So!)
Up till now search engines (Google, Yahoo! etc) weren’t ever able to crawl Flash files and when they did end up indexing some it was never completely free from error. So if you wanted to built a website and actually have people find it, then it made sense to do without the Flash. Nonetheless Flash still became very trendy among developers because of its knack for, shall we say, overlooking the obvious and putting together very unusual websites.
Adobe also says it’s “providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently UNDISCOVERABLE by search engines.”
Sweet! Now that Adobe has finally admitted (despite arguments to the contrary) that SWF format has never been properly index by anyone of the search engines (or that its always been pretty much crap) that should finally shut up all you evangelical Flash pushers and feens clamming Flash is the holy grail of the Internet. Shouldn’t?
So has Adobe really done what its says its done? Frankly I’m not sure. Adobe claims that this stuff will provide more relevant search results and rankings for RIA content. And in a separate blog post, Google also seems to affirm that claim stating that they’ve already launched a “Flash indexing algorithm”, which will result in better search results. Well, before you all start heading to Starbucks and buying each other those skinny soy decaf lattes, the real questions is, how much better is this as opposed to plain old static HTML text and what are the confines?
They say that in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, similarly if up till now flash files were not being indexed whatsoever, then the fact that there’s been a little progress may indeed be called “better”, but Flash indexing algorithm or not there’s still a lot of reasons why you should never go for a 100% flash-based website.
Yes Google can now discover and index text content in SWF files of all kinds etcetera, etcetera, but there’s some limitations. For example, Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. Which means that if your webpage uses JavaScript to load a Flash file. Guess what? They may not be able to discover and index the contents of that file.
Google has also admitted they “can’t attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files.” In other words so if your Flash file loads another file - such as an HTML file, an XML file, or another SWF file – what their saying is that they might index the contents of those files, but they won’t consider that content to be part of the content in your Flash files. That doesn’t sound very impressive, does it? What then? The Flash indexing algorithm does exactly what it sounds like it does NOTHING, other than the rendering of incomplete documents and the dramatic equivalent of inaccessibility.
Generally speaking when designing sites for my clients, I tend to make my content driven Flash applications run off of external XML files that are read at runtime. That way even a novice web developer with no understanding of Flash can have the functionality of editing their website’s content in notepad, and not have to recompile the swf file. Are you seriously suggesting not attaching the contents of those files to the rest of my Flash file? Seriously? Are you kidding? What the f$#@ are you talking about!
Does Adobe really expect us to believe that this will provide more relevant organic search rankings? Listen, I want my Flash files to be indexed just as much as the next guy and while this is a welcomed and important step in the right direction on the part of Adobe there’s still a lot of work to do.
So, if you do decide to use Flash (God help us all), do it in moderation and remember while Google can index the content of Flash files, other search engines wont. On that note, don’t forget to provide text equivalents of these files to help other search engines crawl and index your content.
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I Know Nothing About Flash (And So Can You!)
I get a lot of little email from nubies wanting to know how to customize a flash template typically the email reads something like this. “I purchased one of your flash website template for a client, I want to customize it with their own details which program should I use? (Dreamweaver, FrontPage, PSD)? Says it is a .swf file?” (Aww bless their little entrepreneurial hearts).
Then there’s the ones from your best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s nephew who duped you into to hire’m to do your company’s website, frantically asking “Help! I know nothing about Flash. How do I change out the pictures and symbols? I have the trial version of flash. I just want to change the prefilled info and pics to my info and pics”.
What do they have in common? Their all trying to learn things they don’t understand. Yes friends, they’re only looking for short cuts and cheat sheets it’s not about comprehension anymore, its all about instant gratification and actually many truly believe that they can cut and paste their way right through the creative process.
In order for us to understand this correctly consider this. If I were to take a thesaurus, cram it down word for word and began using three-syllable words just for the sake of making me sound smart. Would the use of such knowledge actually improve my vocabulary? Uh, most likely no, in fact I’ll probably just go around pissing off other people and quoting things out of context. Just because you can repeat a phrase doesn’t mean you comprehend or that you’re able to relate that information into a meaningful idea of some sort.
Similarly, if you hire an individual who does not take the necessary time to comprehend even the most fundamental of concepts such as layers, masking, frames, libraries and symbols you’ll end up with a site that’s just worthless and unprofessional running the risk of alienating yourself from the support of the search engine (so crucial to the future success of your business) by way of which some have inadvertently deterred many from good search engine optimization practices.
Nonetheless, from my experience I’ve found that clients are demanding more professionalism. You can’t pull the wool over their eyes (can you?), and design skills along with an accurate knowledge of the technology being presented will always mark him/her out from the pack. On that note, I entreat you to invest in professional template customization.
Our template customization services are only $380 a pop, and they include customizing any template, domain name registration, hosting set-up (1st year free web hosting included!), changing the “your Company Name” text, the content text, color scheme, making the contact form work, replacing the template imagery with your own and free website maintenance during 1 month upon project completion.
The result is a unique an interactive website working intuitively to provide a return on your investment. Should you wish to acquire more information about our template customization services simply jump on over to the contact form and let us know.
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How do you Improve your Google Ranking?
Now that we have (haven’t we?) finally buried the myth behind custom web design vs template customization by showing you how every web designer custom or not uses some form of template regardless and that the only real difference is in the tremendous amount of money you’ll pay to have a site custom made, may be we can now move on to search engine optimization and show you how to generate some real traffic over to them pages; after all aesthetics have no real relevance in search.
In this post Dyfed Lloyd Evan gives you some real insight on tuning-up your site’s PR and explains in layman’s terms how all that works and shows you lots of other helpful hints on how to publicize your site.
For the moment, at least, it seems that Google has won the ’search engine wars’. The search behemoth now has over 78% of the search engine market cornered. This means that 78% of all searches performed on the internet are done via Google.
At the heart of Google’s strategy to delivering search results is an algorithm called ‘Page Rank‘. This is named after Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and is an attempt at measuring the popularity of a web page based, primarily, on the number and quality of links coming into a site. It is this algorithm that, ultimately, determines your site’s rankings within Google’s search results.
How Does Google Work? Over the years many website owners have tried to claim (some even doing so in court) that Google’s algorithm was somehow ‘unfairly’ keeping them from the top of the search engine results. The truth is that Google, as a private company, is not beholden to the millions of website owners who all want their sites to rank well in the search engines. Rather, Google is beholden to its stock-holders and needs to be seen as delivering value to them.
Google needs to earn profits and the company does this by selling advertising. The company has determined that the best way to deliver value for its advertisers is to have the best and most relevant websites be the ones that are easiest to find on the web. Thus Google’s revenues from advertising are tied to Google’s website ranking systems.
What’s Google’s Real relevance in Search? The question of Google’s real relevance in terms of how much search and other traffic comes to a webstie has been a vexed one. I asked this question of a number of my colleagues. We all have large websites in different domains and we pooled our information for the first 6 months of 2008 to arrive at the following figures…
Total search traffic 54.8% of which:
53.7% Google Search Traffic
40.2% Other main search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, Windows Live etc)
6.1% Other search engines (the tiny ones)
The remaining 45.2% of our traffic all came from link sources: articles, blogs, recommendations, forum posts and links from people referring our websites.
So, only just over half the web traffic comes from the search engines and almost half comes from other links! However, the good news is that the way to garner more search engine traffic and more general ‘link referral’ traffic is one and the same!
How to Rank Well As was mentioned above, Google’s ranking system works with both the number and quality of in-bound links. One of the best ways of getting these links is to write and submit articles. Many article directories have excellent page rank and lots of site visitors. This means that submitting articles and including your URLs in them are a great way of gaining more links to your site. But they’re also a wonderful, direct, way of getting traffic to your site (remember the traffic figures above).
There are, however, a few key SEO considerations to take into account when writing your articles.
Article Links and SEO One big advantage of writing articles is that you can define your own ‘anchor text‘. This is the text in the link that defines what the person looking at the link sees. It also gives the search engine spider following the link an indication of what the page it’s navigating to is all about. This is why you should never, ever, put something like ‘click here’ in your links!
You link text should be related to the subject of the page you’re linking to, as this makes it more relevant to the search engines. Now, if at all possible the text of your links should also match the key words you are targeting on your web pages as these give the keywords more relevance and will improve your rankings for them.
Also, the more competitive the keyword you are targeting the more work you will have to put into ranking for that term. Indeed, if you are just starting and a keyword is very competitive (’computer’, for example) then you may never, realistically, be able to rank for it. But if you target a keyword like ‘extreme computer construction’ you are far more likely to be ranked for that term. Be clever and don’t try and bite off more than you can chew.
Indeed, the more competitive the keyword you are targeting the more work you will have to put into ranking for that keyword. In this case it may well take you many weeks before you will notice any effects from your article writing efforts.
But for less competitive keywords you may notice a jump of several tens of positions in your rankings with as few as 3 articles. In this case, you get out what you are willing to put in.
One thing to note is that Google takes not of all the link text that comes through to your page. If you have more than 60% of the links with exactly the same text this marks-up a red flag an your rankings may well drop. As a result you should vary the link text and you also need to alter the text surrounding the links.
Given enough time and commitment you can use article marketing to elevate any single web page on your website into multiple top spots in Google’s SERP rankings. However, this does mean that you need to write and publish articles on a daily basis. Few people have that level of commitment to their websites.
About the Author
Dyfed Lloyd Evans runs the Celtnet Articles Directory where you can freely submit high quality articles. If you really want high quality back-links to your sight then you need to check out his free eCourse on How to Maximize your Web Traffic.
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How to install wordpress and plugins on your domain
In my last post I introduced you to my personal favorite blogging software, which is WordPress. Also, I showed you where you can download the latest version of WordPress, which was here http://wordpress.org/download/.
And, I explained to you about WordPress themes, and warned you that they can be great for you, then again also for your competitors’ sites that bought the same template theme that you did!
Consequently, I advised you to take full advantage of our template customization services, which start at just $380 a pop (What’s the process?). In this post Mochtar Djoko shows us how to make “blogging” for everyone, everything from installation to adding a plugin etc…
Blogs and blogging are huge topics nowadays. No matter what’s your status or age, people from all over the world are blogging. Housewives, businessman, teenager and even grandmas are blogging. For all those who dont know, a blog is simply a web log or an online journal. Some people are just blogging about their lives or hobbies, but some others are using it as a marketing device or for business purpose.
To start blogging you can go to http://www.blogger.com or http://www.wordpress.com for a more popular ones. Now, I received a lot of emails asking on how to install wordpress or activate plugins on your domain. Don’t worry, once you read this article, you will be able to not only install wordpress, but you will be able to start experimenting on the plugins you have.
First, you need to go to your cpanel menus on your website. For example, if your website is http://www.rudythegreat.com, then you can access the cpanel menus by typing this on your web browser ‘http://www.rudythegreat.com/cpanel’. Once you login, you need to go look for fantastico icon on the menu. Click on it. Then select wordpress and simply clik install. It will ask you some basic information and install wordpress for you.
What if you dont have a hosting account or your hosting account does not have fantastico. This is my recommendation. Go to http://www.wordpress.org and download the files to your computer. Then what you need to do is outsource the installation to somebody else. You can get someone to install the wordpress for only $20. Usually a programmer only needs 10 - 15 minutes to install it. For outsourcing, you can try http://www.rentacoder.com
Next, you might want to install some plugins into your wordpress to optimize your pages for search engine optimization purposes. To search for a free wordpress plugins, you can try http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/.
After you find, download and extract your plugins, open up a ftp program or download a free ftp program Filezilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/). Open up your ftp program, and put your website address on the address box, then fill in the username and password. Then click on quick connect. Once you are connected, double click on www -> wp-content-> plugins.
Simply upload your plugins into his remote site. Next, you will need to login into your wordpress account, then go to plugins link. Over here, you can click on ‘activate’ for any plugins you see fit. Simply click on the name of the plugin, it will send you to the author’s website. You can look for guides over there. Every plugins will have different installation guide. Some are easy and some others are harder.
A few plugin that I recommend are: SEO Title Tag, Sociable, Social Auto Poster, Google Sitemap, Related Post, and feedburner. Search for these plugins on google, and try to download and activate it.
About the Author
Mochtar Djoko has been making money through the internet for the past five years. He specializes in selling on ebay and doing internet marketing. You can learn more about selling on ebay and internet marketing on http://www.mochtardjoko.com
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Custom Web Design or Template Customization Which is Better?
Is it true that website templates are indeed inherently deficient? - If such reasoning were true, however, why would website template usages continue to be such a reliable resource for the entire web design industry itself?
The truth is, used properly, in union with professional template customization, website templates can provide you with a unique and high quality design at just a fraction of the cost of hiring someone else to do a custom design starting from scratch.
In fact, whether they advertise it or not every web designer custom or not uses some form of website template. Just as a wise contractor makes good use of a blueprint to guide the construction of a building to its successful completion, every web designer also uses a template or basis as his or her guide in creating a unique and well-organized web site.
What then, are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using a website template? - Two clear advantages are time and money. Typically speaking it can take many days for a good designer to create a preliminary mockup of such quality.
Also, consider the time necessary to piece the original design into slices and the actual rendering of the design onto HTML and resources spent validating that code on all major browsers. The cost of which will most certainly be passed onto you, the client.
On the contrary, however, every website template is like an almost finished web page that has been preliminary designed, sliced and pull together with all the graphics and necessary coding so as to help you put your website online without difficulty and in no time.
Just what are you getting at here? - With that in mind, I’m implying that since we don’t start from scratch but build on pre-made website templates, we are faster and way less expensive than hiring a regular web design studio.
What’s more, many of our prospective clients are amazed when we show them how they can have professional template customization on anyone of our website templates custom-made to the specific needs and goals of their business for only $380.
How is that possible? - This is possible because, we only use website templates from the world’s leading providers and every template we customize comes already built and thoroughly tested by a professional web designer, as apposed to hiring some web design studio who’s in-house talent (or lack thereof) is full of print designers who’ve moved over or full of programmers who fell into web design and are nothing more than a bunch of hobbyists.
You wouldn’t want a designer who’s passionate about PHP? You can get a PHP developer. You want a designer who’s passionate about design. You don’t want to be haggling neither, no, not if you could see beforehand what it is you are buying and know exactly how much it’ll cost you.
Consequently, since we do not develop from scratch but because every web template is made by a professional that understand layout, white space, typography and the like; this enables us to pass that savings onto “you”, the client.
In addition, you don’t need any special skills you simply choose a template hop over to the contact form and give us some general information (e.g. some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes etc.). Then at your convenience we can contact you to review your projects objective and tell you more about the process.
Is it true however, that website templates are indeed resold? - Ok, yes, our web templates can be sold repeatedly to different customers, however, we thoroughly track and show you the total number of times a particular template is downloaded and we make every effort to ensure that the total number of downloads never exceeds five.
In addition, there are now over 3,000,000,000 webpages online according to statistics on www.google.com so there is a very little chance that you will ever find the same design twice.
But, be that as it may, template customization is the only sure-ways to have a website that is both affordable and unique. Template customization allow you change the templates color scheme, insert texts, substitute graphics, logo, titles, Meta tags etcetera, etcetera…
The result is a unique product that works intuitively to help your customers identify your brand, which in turn is what truly defines branding in the classic sense of the term meaning to establish a unique identity. And that shouldn’t have to cost a fortune.
So does the use of web templates present an insurmountable obstacles or irremediable technical issue, or can web templates, along with template customization, provide you with a unique and high quality design? I’m sure you’ll agree with the latter.
Can I see some template customization examples? - Thought you’d never ask! We encourage you to take a moment of your time to see our template customization portfolio this will really help you see some neat ideas and creative solutions we bring to the templates we customize.
Should you wish to acquire more information about our template customization services simply jump on over to the contact form and tell us what you think.
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Essential Web 2.0 Skills
Secondly we talked about the decentralized web and making sure your content gets the visibility it deserves through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) which lets you tap into a wealth of opportunity by offering your readers the ability to subscribe to your feed and receive regularly updated content automatically.
In addition I said your site had to be search engine and users friendly. Search engine and users friendly is as much a step back as a step forward; it means returning to the earliest ethics of the web while adhering to a few basic principles.
For example, the navigation should be easily decipherable establishing an easy to follow hierarchical layout. Meaning that there has to be a specific order of precedence among each individual element. Consequently that same order must be constant following that same pattern through every page.
Also we talked about what in my opinion, is the most important aspects of Web 2.0 and that is interactivity and collaboration. Why? Because nobody likes to be on the receiving end of a one-way conversation, good communication is a two way street. Similarly whether you are an internet entrepreneur selling a product, a small business owner providing a service or just a publisher of information you want to be sure to get your point across.
The best way to get your point across is by getting to know your audience. How? By providing some interaction or means of communication in other words, open a dialog. Consequently this type of feedback is invaluable in determining not so much what you want to say but rather, what your audience wants to hear. And hence enabling you to better market your brand and make the right decisions concerning your business.
Now that we’ve talked about some of the fundamental features of Web 2.0 let’s talk a little bit about how you can create or implement your very own web 2.0 ready site. One way to add all of the Web 2.0 elements I just mentioned instantly is to use a blogging platform to run your site.
Generally speaking, a blog is just a website usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or whatever the case may be. Moreover if you have been surfing the Internet for any length of time, then chances are you’ve read many blog posts whether you realize it or not. Even if you don’t think of your site as a blog, or maybe you just don’t feel your brand constitutes the bases for a blog or doesn’t fall under that heading; think of it as a Content Management System.
My personal favorite blogging platform or blogging software is WordPress. WordPress is both free and priceless all at the same time and you can download the latest version of WordPress (Version 2.5.1) right here http://wordpress.org/download/
Basically WordPress is what my site is run off of, likewise it is what I recommend my customers to use whenever they want a website that is search engine friendly, easy to use, interactive and relatively simple to customize.
The reason why is WordPress has a very easy to use administrative back-end that allows you update your site regularly; you just login and its almost like sending an email or using Microsoft Word you just hit publish and whoomp there it is! As apposed to having to learn some programming language or worse having to hire a web master again, and again even for the smallest modification.
Typically, WordPress is organized in reverse chronological order - that is, the newest, freshest content is presented first. Similarly all the content is linked and fitly joined together with a unique web address so that people can bookmark or link to any page and so the search engine can easily index each individual page.
In addition WordPress is instantly interactive because at the bottom of every post there is a comment box where people can talk to you and you can reply back to them and that opens up that line of communication or medium that as I’ve already mentioned it’s so important for getting that feedback.
Besides that, every time you add a post WordPress automatically notifies all of major directories (see Technorati, Bloglines, or any other feed-based aggregator) or at least most of them, likewise WordPress also automatically notifies anybody that is coming to you via their preferred feed aggregator.
So there you have it, all of the characteristics of Web 2.0 I just talked about and many more are made available by using WordPress and best of all its totally free. The last thing I want to mention also is to do with customizing your WordPress template commonly know as themes.
A huge factor weighing heavily on whether or not people who visits your site will remain there for any reasonable amount of time, or whether or not they may decide to make other return visits to your site depends upon the esthetic characteristics of your design or over all look and feel of the site.
To clarify this concept further, think of this comparison. Generally speaking, a person who wears clothes that fit properly, are clean and wrinkle free is said to be a well-dressed individual. Moreover their appearance may make us feel or act more comfortable or amicable towards then some might even see this as a clear indication of someone who is apt to be more fun to hang around with. Similarly, a website that has a neat and friendly surrounding environment will be more likely to retain its visitor.
WordPress templates
A WordPress template theme is a skin (theme or template) for this popular blogging platform – if you are not already a professional web designer I suggest you invest a little money on one of these. The cool thing about WordPress templates is that a professional web designer using the latest technology designs them.
In other words, as you can see here, people who have a real passion for and really understand typography, white space, layout things like that do all of the labor; skills you could only wish to achieve after years of practice as a graphic designer and or developer.
Be that as it may, don’t be misled – Yes WordPress templates are great for your site, nonetheless also for your competitors’ sites that bought the same template you did! On that note, I entreat you to consider the benefits of having professional template customization.
Our template customization are only $380 a pop, and they’ll allow you change the templates color scheme, font style, add your own logo and if need be, we will even installing WordPress on the server for you. What is more, we will customize any theme to fit your individual business needs.
The result is a unique interactive website that works intuitively to help your customers find everything they need (read more about our template customization process).
In the upcoming months I will introduce you to WordPress plugins and show you how to install then on your blog, we’ll definitely talk about the sites new redesign, give you more tips on customizing your template and I’ll also show you ways to start monetizing your blog.
Resources:
How to Analyze, Optimize, Publicize, Monetize and Troubleshotize the Ideal Web 2.0 Site in a Nutshell.
Is Your Site Search Engine and Users Friendly?
How Can Interactivity Increase Conversions & Make You Money?
Essential Web2.0 Skills
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Template customization process Q & A
Whenever we talk to a prospective template customization client we pretty much always get asked some of the same questions such as what do I need to do next, how much for just a basic website or how long does it take?
Thus we decided to create a basic summary of answers to all of the most commonly asked questions. Nevertheless if you have any additional questions please feel free to use the comments form below and we’ll get back to you.
1. How much for just a basic website? - You can get just a basic website off of anyone of our templates for $380 that includes the following… Adding your logo, changing all links (commonly known as buttons), adding a contact form, and up to 5 whole pages of content.
2. What is the process? - Start by choosing a template. Once your selection is made, contact us with some
general information (e.g. some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes,). Then at your convenience we can contact you to review your projects objective, answer your pre-sales questions, and provides you with a customization quote.
3. What if I didn’t by my template here do you work on other people’s templates? - Yeah, duh! We can customize any template weather it be ours or not. In addition template customization is always delivered on time and we make sure that you have the most standards compliant web sites possible.
4. Can I see some examples of the sites you’ve done? - Absolutely! We encourage you to take a moment of your time to look through some of our template customization samples this will really help you see some neat ideas and creative solutions we bring to the templates we customize.
5. Do I have to pay before or after the work is done? - Since our company is offering non-tangible irrevocable goods a 50% deposit is required on all work orders over $1000. On work orders below $1000 full payment is due upon agreement. We only make exceptions with this rule on a case-by-case basis in agreement of the parties concerned. The price for the order will include the template price along with customization.
6. How do I pay for services? - Currently we are able to accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, PayPal Buyer Credit, Instant Transfer and eCheck through PayPal recipients email used to send money is newaccounts@foamers.net. Exceptions may be granted only to domestic customers.
7. Do you only do templates? - What shu talking about willis? The short answer is yes; ready built template customization is our primary focus. Nevertheless we do take on a number of custom design jobs every year as well as offer general site updates and maintenance services.
8. How long does it take to receive the product? - Turn-Around time is determined and submitted for your approval prior agreement of services. Notwithstanding, sense you may opt to make revisions to your original service request at any time this could also postpone the initial estimated Turn-Around time. So, on that note we strongly urge you to give all your information to your designer at once. This will avoid redundant correspondence, confusion, and multiple edits.
9. How do I learn about the status of the customization work? - Once you have placed your order, we are in constant contact with you until the end of the project. Moreover through the use of e-mail, instant messenger software, and FTP programs, to transport data from one location to another, you will be able to check current stage of your order, chat live with a project consultant and even forward personal files required for customization.
10. What if I want to change something? - No! Just kidding, of course you may. You may opt to make revisions to your original service request with up to three rounds of changes at any time during the course of the project. Notwithstanding additional alteration might postpone initial estimated Turn-Around time. On that note we strongly urge you to give all your information to your designer at once. This will avoid redundant correspondence, confusion, and multiple edits.
11. Do you ‘bundle’ your services or offer ‘un-bundled’ services? - Yes we do. Typically minor revision request made after the completion of the original customization request are considered to be new and as such would be itemized and billed individually. Notwithstanding we also offer a number of packages designed to handle customizations on up to 5 pages of content at a really terrific value. For more on that read our templates customizations page.
12. How do I contact foamers.net? - Should you wish to contact us you may do so at anytime just simply hop on over to the contact form and tell us what you think.
If you have any additional questions feel free to use the comments form below and we’ll be happy to provide you with answers and ad them to this Q&A.
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Learning Basic HTML Is Not As Difficult As You May Think
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Are you a beginner struggling to learn basic HTML? Or maybe you have a template that you want to make changes too, but you are not sure how to proceed, well this article is just for you. Many people are put off building their own website or changing templates because they think that learning HTML very difficult. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Others also believe that creating your own website means purchasing expensive software. Yes there are many different programs out there that can be used to create a website for you, but basically you can do it all for free if you are willing to spend a little time learning the basics of HTML.
All over the Internet you can find websites offering template that you can download to your computer and add your own content too. Some of these templates are better than others, but even if you do find a high quality template, you still need to know some basic HTML otherwise website will have exactly the same design as everyone else who downloaded that same template.
Like everything else in life learning basic html just requires the right information.
So many times I have been asked by visitors to my HTML for beginners website how do I make my words bold? Or how do I make my text bigger? Using simple tags before and after the text involved will do this.
Here are some more Basic HTML Tags to get you started: -
< *b>Types the text in bold.< */b> This tag will make your words appear bold.
< *i>This should be italicized.< */i> This will give your words an italic look.
< *u>Underline this text.< */u> This text will be underlined
< *hr /> This forms a horizontal line. ___________________
< *font color="######">Change color.Text here< */font> This will change the color of (1) word. This (######) should be placed with the code for the color you want to use. For example if you wanted your words to be red the signs would be replaced with #ff0000
So your code will now look like this and your text will be red < *font color="#ff0000">Change color.Text here< */font>
< *small>This should be in small.< */small> Make your text small
Combining Basic HTML Tags
Perhaps you may want to combine some of the basic HTML codes above. Lets say you want to make your text bold and italic. This is what your code will look like.
< *b>< *i>Text in bold and italic< */i>< */b>
Notice we have put both the bold tag < *b> and the italic tag < *i> together to give us our bold and italic text. These combinations can also be applied to color. If you would like to make your text underlined and green, this is how the tag should appear.
< *u>< *font color="#00ff00">Change color of 1 word.Text here< */font>< */u>
In all of the above code the * should be removed to make your code work correctly. The * is used to allow you to see the actual code but must be removed when placed on your site.
These are just some of the simple things you can do to change the look and feel of your website. To learn more why not check out some of the online basic HTML tutorials to get you started and in no time at all you will be past the basics of HTML and onto pro HTML coding.
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