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Article Directory Website Design: Clean Up Your Content!

Article directories have taken the internet by storm. That is a good thing, as it allows authors to distribute their content and allows publishers to grab content for their web site, but unfortunately, many article directories are offering a huge disservice to authors and publishers due to poorly designed directories. Listen up article directory owners; let's think about some ways to serve our visitors in our article directory designing!

Style Elements

I have stumbled across many article directory web sites where there are a number of mixed alignings, ten different color combinations, excessive bold and italicized fonts, and numerous style "enhancements". While these different design elements can be good, there comes a time when, as the webmaster, we need to be okay with simplifying the visual end. When a visitor enters your directory, or web site for that matter, their eyes cannot help but to expect unity and clarity. If they are presented with a jumbled, disorganized mess, they will do one of two things. They will either (1) quickly jerk the mouse to the back button or (2) continue to browse your site but grow frustrated from the chaotic presentation and then eventually leave. You obviously want to prevent both of those things from happening.

When applying style elements such as colors, size, and images, we need to make sure these things help bring the visitor in contact with the content and message of the web site. There comes a time when a line is crossed between beneficial and distracting. I have visited some article directories in which images and graphics push the navigation bar down the page. You do not want to have your visitor scroll down the page to have to find where click to other portions of your site. Make it easy on your visitor to get around your directory. Keep your navigation bar towards the top of your site. If your visitor does not know how to get around your article directory they will get frustrated and leave. Bring your visitor in contact with the content!

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To expound more on the use of font colors and styling, remember to maintain consistency. Choose three or four colors to create a color scheme for your article directory. Stick with this color scheme. This provides unity in your content and makes the visitors viewing experience a lot more pleasurable. Continually ask yourself the question, "Is my article directory home page easy to read? Is it organized? Is the directory inviting?"

Advertisements and Images

As the webmaster of your article directory or web content site, it is obvious and understandable that it is a must to push your ads and affiliate programs so you can generate income. However, do keep in mind while placing your ads that you want your visitor to receive your web site's content. Your visitor wants to find valuable information. That is why they visit your web site. They do not come for the ads! Understanding that, make sure your ads relate and apply to your directory's content. It is vital that your ads do not block your web site's content. Integrate your ads so they do not intrude on your web site content.

Before you start plastering your article directory with ads and "cool" styling, keep it mind that your web site's content is first and for most. Overall, people are coming for your content--they could care less if you used pastel pink or neon green!

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Finding Free Ezine Content And Articles

Okay, so you've got your Ezine all designed and ready to go. All you need now is some good content to send to people. Time to get out your trusty keyboard and start pumping out those killer articles. Certainly you know everything there is to know about the subject of your Ezine and should have no trouble...

What's that you say? You couldn't write a post-it to pick up milk at the store if you tried? Not a problem. There is no rule that says you have to write all the content for your Ezine by yourself, or at all for that matter. There is tons of content all over the Internet about a variety of subjects.

You don't want to have to pay for content? Not a problem. There are plenty of places where you can get content for free. Well, almost for free anyway. There is always going to be some kind of catch but at least in many cases that catch isn't going to cost you anything out of your pocket.

The most common catch is that the person who supplies content for your Ezine is going to insist that he be allowed to include a link to his site at the end of the article. This isn't a problem unless he just happens to run a site that is in direct competition with yours. For example, let's say you have a site that specializes in collectable baseball cards and the person who you want to get an article from also has the same kind of site. There is a very good chance that he will steal some of your business, especially if he has a larger inventory. So you have to weigh the pros and cons of using an article from this person.

Another common catch to getting articles from a person, site or service is that you have to subscribe to the service in order to do this. This usually means giving them your email address. What this does is it makes it so that this person, site or service can send you their own offers to your email account. This can become a bit of a pain in the rear end if these people start sending you ten emails a day.

Ideally, you want to be able to find free content that has no strings attached at all. This will require a bit of digging and you won't find much. People on the Internet don't work for nothing. They are going to expect something in return for using their work, even if it's just a footnote at the bottom of the article with their name and a link to their site.

However, having said that, if you really do some digging, you can find free content with no strings attached. The easiest way to do this is to go to any search engine and type in "free content for Ezines with no strings attached." Leave out the quotes or they'll match it exactly. If you look hard enough you will find a few places that will give you content to use. It may not be the greatest quality but it will be free and with no strings.

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