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Web Site Helps
10 Ways to Enhance Your Web Site
The web changes every day and new and exciting elements can make your site look and sound more exciting. Adding these items will make your visitors remember your site tomorrow. It may make them bookmark it or tell their friends about it. Isn't that the kind of exposure you'rs looking for?
Listed below are a few of the items that can have a big impact on your site. Because of the unique nature of each of these elements, the time for their development varies.
- Flash. Quickly becoming a standard element to many web sites, flash intros and presentations provide animation and sometimes sound that engages the user. Think of it as a short commercial for your company.
- PDF documents. Having documents that a user can download can be very helpful for many businesses. PDF documents can be viewed with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader so nearly anyone can view, save or print out any "paper" document you might have.
- Downloadable and streaming content. Want to provide audio clips of your recent seminar? Do you want to share your vacation videos with the world? Your visitors can download your media or have it stream to them directly on their computer.
- Forms. Using forms to collect information from your visitors is a valuable tool used at many web sites. Depending on the uses for your forms, you can send the data to a database or simply send it as an email to a specified recipient.
- Search engine submission. Though search engines aren't the only way you want to attract visitors to your site, you do want the best listing in them as possible. Following the suggestions that each search engine provides will help you a great deal in improving your ranking. Other methods can be used effectively as the site is developed and updated.
- Traffic Counter. Counters can provide a company with information on the people that are visiting their web site. What pages do they go to? What browser are they using? Where did they come from? These and other questions can be answered with a variety of counters available.
- Site Search. Do you have a large site that your visitors might want to search to find a specific page or document? Adding a site search will help your users quickly and easily find what they're looking for.
- Easter Eggs. Easter eggs are hidden content within your site. So why would a person develop a site and then hide part of it so people can't see it? Some companies use them as ways to share an inside joke with friends. Others prepare elaborate "Easter Eggs" that they can direct clients to. This gives the client a feeling like they're being let in on a "special" part of the company's information.
- Databased information. If your site contains a large amount of data that changes regularly, a web site that utilizes a database may be a good fit for you. Information about items in an eCommerce site are generally stored in a database. Their uses vary widely and they can be extremely valuable to a site that needs to provide a great deal of information to its visitors.
- JavaScript Navigation. One of the areas of web site design that has changed drastically over the last year or so is site navigation. Using a scripting language called JavaScript, you can have menus that expand, change colors or any number of things. They can greatly enhance your web site.
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