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Getting Users To See Your Content

You may not realize this, but webmasters have more control over users than you may think. To be more specific, you can direct where a user looks on their screen with 100% accuracy. For web sites that depend upon advertising revenue, we can do this by controlling four main aspects of the web site design.

Layout

This is a fairly common mistake, even for experienced webmasters. Your main content should be the largest visible pane (above the fold) by a large margin. By that I mean that the content should occupy at least 70% of the area you're working on. The other 20% is reserved for anything else you want (navigation and advertisement panes, perhaps). Under no circumstances should your main content be dwarfed by secondary content -- ever.

Colors

The number one rule of thumb when dealing with colors: your main content should always be a lighter color than your secondary content. There are too many web sites that invert this rule, which results in the user having to forcefully focus on the main portion of the page, because the eye is naturally drawn to lighter colors.

The second rule of thumb: colors should not be contrasting. High-contrast colors (like black and white) distract the eye. Instead of offering a very hard-line break between panes you want something that blends well.

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Borders

Borders should only be used in two scenarios: when you want the user to focus on something over something else, and to help tie the overall design together. Try to avoid using borders, but if your design really lacks one central focal point, then a border can be used to add that critical point.

On the other hand, surrounding one pane with other panes that have borders will have the opposite effect: the main focal point will become the pane without the border, while the other panes all blend together (as the border tends to tie them together).

Candy

Eye-candy can be both a boon and a bane. On one hand, if used properly, eye-candy can attract visitors to less-viewed portions of the web site; however, if abuse, eye-candy can make your web site look like a big cluttered mess.

Try to limit eye-candy to only a few, high-quality pieces. It's difficult to actually explain how to properly use eye-candy, as it only come from years of experience to determine what "looks good." All is not lost, however, because I do have a few tips on placement:

By keeping all of these tips in mind while searching for or developing a web site you can keep your readers eyes on the content, and clicks on the ads.

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Jason Pullara has run a successful sole proprietorship in New York City building, repairing, and maintaining workstations, personal computers and web sites for local businesses and consumers for 5 years. You can contact him on his web site design web site.

Writing Great Web Content In English (When English Isn't Your First Language)

Do you have an English language web site? Are you not quite fluent in English?

Then guess what: there's an elephant in the room. Actually, there's an elephant on every single page of your web site.

The English language expression "an elephant in the room" refers to a situation when there's something obviously wrong about how you present yourself but no one mentions it for fear of embarassing you.

For instance, if you are attending a funeral with your fly wide open and your shirt sticking out, there's an elephant in the room.

Do you have an elephant on your web site? If you struggle speaking English, chances are you do. To an English-speaking visitor, your web content probably sounds "not quite right."

Now don't feel bad. I've seen plenty of web content written by native English-speakers that reads poorly. Some people just don't know how to write.

But you do know how to write. You're fluent in your own language and you've worked hard to develop fluency in English. I've been contacted by numerous non-native English speakers at my own web site who ask, "How can I learn to write web content like you?"

They can't. I've been speaking English since birth and writing professionally for nearly 20 years.

But why would they want to write like me? Why would they want to write like anyone other than themselves? You see, here's the thing about elephants in the room:

If you acknowledge them, they tend to go away.

It's true! When you don't acknowledge the elephant in the room, people tend to roll their eyes and whisper behind your back. They think you don't know how you sound. You don't know how you write.

But if you do acknowledge the elephant, all of a sudden you're accepted! And liked! And if you can acknowledge the elephant with humor, even better. Visitors are much more comfortable with a host who is capable of laughing at him or herself! In fact, they will probably begin to find your English and your web content "charming."

Instead of "broken."

Wouldn't that be great?

So how do I acknoledge the elephant?

There are as many ways to acknowledge the elephant as there are web sites and web authors. You could say,

Thought it might be funnier to say,

Or you could mix it up a little, to make it still more awkward:

You could also say,

Or,

These are all just examples. You will surely do better and be more convincing if you write them yourself. Also, you probably want to acknowledge the elephant more than once on your web site. It would be a good idea to do it near the top of all your entry pages.

It would be even better to express it differently on each of these pages.

Something amazing happens when you acknowledge the elephant

Not only do your visitors forgive your English and learn to enjoy it (and perhaps stick around a little longer, and take a little more of your advice or buy your product), but once the elephant is acknowledged it frees you to worry a little bit less about your English.

Why? Because you're no longer trying to fool anyone into thinking you're a native-speaker, which they probably didn't believe anyway!

In fact, maybe you can have a little more fun writing your web content once you've acknowledged the elephant. You might even choose to make your English a little more entertaining - as long as you're sure it will still be comprehended.

Of course, when writing web site content, there are two types of writing that are important.

As you probably know, the search engines are looking for a certain mix of keywords and content that, to a large extent, results in ranking some web sites highly and some not so highly.

If your web site isn't ranking highly, you need another kind of English help than this article is offering. (And also some incoming links, of course! Visit http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/writingsuccess.html for a great way to get some.)

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A LITTLE INFO ABOUT ADULT DATING

When you have been online have you ever gone searching for dating sites? Yes. Has your search taken you beyond dating sites to ADULT dating sites? More often than not, I'm sure your answer is also - YES. Was that where you really wanted to go? I know that the answer is not always -YES.

So if you are a serious single person looking to find another serious single person - help each other out.

Out in thye big WWW there are lots of fantastic dating sites for you to consider. The obvious question arises - "How do I know which dating site is going to give me what I am after?"

When looking for a site you must first consider YOURSELF. To make a cake you need ingredients, kitchen utensils, a cookbook and some way of cooking. If you are dress making, you need instructions to follow, a pattern, pins and a sewing machine. The same goes for finding yourself a person to share special moments with - there are instructions for you to follow.

Generally speaking most online dating services have a set of helpful instructions to get you going. Also you should find information to prepare you for your first few face to face dates. Most of these are common sense - however in the nervous and excitement of it all, there may be one or two things forgotten.

So now that you are equipped and ready, all you have to do is join a dating site (two if you feel the need). Leave your personal details and a photo or two, then watch your inbox. By doing this you are not only helping yourself discover your future but you are doing the same for one other person. Makes you feel good doesn't it. Helping other people always makes us feel good.

Perhaps you have children that are fast approaching the dating age and you want to protect them from some of the dating sites which have "adult" content on them. Good for you. It seems very unreasonable to be bombarding young adults with explicit material (in fact to anyone, in my opinion).

As always when you have found someone that sounds remotely interesting - let a good friend know so that when it comes time to your first face to face meeting they can either make sure you get home on time or maybe even go with you just to keep it all safe. Doing this the first few times is wise.

These are just a few helpful hints which hopefully will make your dating experience all the more enjoyable. We both know that unfortunately things don't always go to plan and it is smart to be prepared when launching into new experiences.

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