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Seven
Habits of Highly Effective Webmasters
A highly effective website will always reflect its highly effective
webmaster. Throughout the years of doing a number of websites, I've
seen quite a few effective webmasters all over the web and I would
like to share to you their successes by exploring on this topic:
"Seven Habits of Highly Effective Webmasters."
Be
Consistent.
Consistency simply means using a common style, design or theme throughout
your site. It will also mean optimising your website because all
the elements are already in memory so the next time another page
loads, it will be faster. Common Elements consists of font usage;
logos and icons; headers; footers and backgrounds; and the like.
Keep
Your Site Fresh.
Fresh and new contents welcomes and attracts new visitors so work
hard on your website.
Structure
Your Site For Clarity and Efficiency.
Consider the following, when you structure your site:
- If
you sell products/services, always have a link to a single structure
of product or service descriptions from the home page.
- Always
have a button or navigation toolbar that allows visitors to at
least return to your home page.
- Most
website benefits from a starting page consisting of a simple logo
of banner, and then a set of links to a more specific pages. This
type of page loads quickly and doesn't make any assumptions about
what the user wants to see, and
- Include
a toolbar of links to major subjects or your site, such as your
starting page, products, customer support and organizational information.
Work
Efficiently with automated content tools.
There are lots of web authoring tools out there that automatically
creates banners, headers, menus, footers, and even categorized a certain
website into themes. It will save you a lot of trouble (not to mention
headaches) if you use these tools.
Optimize
Content.
Try to view your website using a slow modem, a low resolution monitor
and an older version of different browsers. In this way, you can cater
to different types of visitors and this one is usually called "graceful
degradation." You might as well provide text-only pages for simplier
or lower-speed browsers.
Post
changes in batches so your website remains consistent.
I may not be able to change theme of my site as a whole frequently
but I can do it in groups. In this way your website will appear to
be evolving to a better "creature."
It's
a Web Wide World: Internationalize.
Here's how to do it:
- Use
graphically obvious buttons rather than words for links.
- Provide
pictures of products and operational diagrams along with descriptions.
- Use
technical language rather than "flowery" ad copy, since technical
language is more universal.
- Survey
other members of your organization for language skills and seek
their help and,
- When
international users complain that you don't have a site in their
language, enlist their support in translating it if they are bilingual.
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