Tips and information for webmasters
Crawling the web in hope to find valuable information on many activites,creations and features on the internet we would like to share with our visitors, adding, in some cases, our touch of experience. The newest article always at the top. We post useful links - sites we recommend for every article.
Nov/Dec-2009 and January-2010, article nr.4.Multilingual online translator for your website.
Thinking of making your site readable in other language than the primary?Perhaps running a niche oriented website and would like to appeal to a web audience around the world who's native language is other than your own?
And it's not a question whether or not the bulk of your visitors have adequate reading comprehension skills. Not even if they have a problem to understand a word or sentence. They will rely on so many online dictionaries and solve the problem if they're interested enough.
We believe that having an online tool integrated with your site which provides a translated version of your site's content, may improve it's performance in context of becoming more acceptable to a loyal audience on the web from other parts of the world. This particularly addresses profit or non-profit websites with a long-term strategy in which case you struggle to reqruit more users,members,customers. A translation tool itself is no guarantee you will accomplish that but certainly, in concert with all other tehniques and utilities for performance enhancement, will lead you in the right direction. And it goes both ways: English to Non-English and vice versa.
Translating is relatively advanced work(depends on what kind of content you translate) as it involves adaptation of many abbreviations,acronyms,expressions,terms or even slang that may not exist in the form you would expect it to in other languages. And translating a whole site is thus quit difficult to perform. To have the best translated edition avaliable of your site would necessiate professional translation services. That is basically a human resource which is costly and not possibly avaliable for small websites. That's why you turn to customized online translator tools. And like all online tools they aren't flawless. But they'll do the job. Pressumably they will...
Published:1/12/2010.
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Oct/Nov-2009, article nr.3.Make your links come alive - The weight of presenting links in your directory visually.
More and more web directories put a thumbnail or screenshot of each website in every category. Along with the description, language,e-mail and rating of a website, you've certainly seen a small image of a website's home page every time you've browsed through a linksdirectory. It doesn't tell you much. You trust the description in written form right beside the image. Usually it's been written by the site owner and, perhaps, altered by the administrator.
A piece of information on what this particular site offers and more reasons why you should visit it. Essentially ,websites in the same directory don't differ that much. In relation to the prime or main content, they basically deal with the same thing.
Description,rating,traffic are detailed information that bears significance to an experienced web crawler. For an average user of the internet who lands on a web links directory searching for something concrete, a thumbnail image could clearly be an excellent way to establish communication. After all, it is supposed to be a photo of a website's first page. An image to unveil the site's concept,content and "more than meets the eye" information.
The first impression - how does the site look like? Corporate design?Colorful?Appealing? Unconventional and intriguing? I believe the majority of the internet population will appreciate seeing a thumbnail image next to a website's decription. And thumbnails in general can be used in many other purposes on the web. It adds more "weight" to the information.
It is an uncomplicated process to generate a thumbnail picture of any website. The fastest method to do this is to do it online - through a free image/generator service. In most cases, all that there is just to type in the web address and choose size and format. Some online services provides you with the option to choose either fixed or standard image size. Applications like filter and watermark are options present on some image generators.
A small demonstration on how to acquire a thumbnail image:
1. We choose one of the many services - a recommendation is a website named shrinktheweb.com.
2. We enter this website and scroll down until we reach an input field. In it we type the address. We type http://www.some domain.
When the generation is completed, you'll see the images in six different sizes:75x56px,90x68px,100x75px,120x90px,200x150px and the largest being 320x240px in .jpg format. The next step should be, by all means, to save them onto your computer.
Another very handy website is quickthumbnail.com. Here you have at your disposal additional options to change format and/or size the thumbnail or screenhot image. And, more important, you can create an image of any file stored on your computer. Doesn't have to be a webpage.
While entering the site you will quickly notice two input fields, one for files and the other for the url. Same procedure like everywhere else.
Published 10/19/2009.
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Sep/Oct-2009, article nr.2.Calculators
In the light of the ongoing economic crisis, economy,money and finances have become "hot spots" on the internet and a good way for webmasters to drive traffic to their sites. Usually it consists of an array of small gadgets or scripts you can easily include in your site:currency converters,financial reports, loan and mortgage calculators ,etc. Most of them are free without demanding membership, while some require a small fee and provide more advanced solutions.
Published - 9/2/2009. Updated - 11/15/2009.
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Aug/Sep-2009,article nr.1.Sticky content and ecards solutions
Electronic postcards, one of the first interactive tools on the web that made possible for internet users to send greeting cards to friends and family via the web. Instead of sending cards at the post office, any user with an e-mail account could easily ,in minutes, pick a card and send it to a friend who also had an e-mail account. The recipient would, in most cases, receive a nofication and the url of the location where to pick up the card. For that reason, e-cards became known as "sticky" content. Content or service that will ensure repeated visits to your site. Putting up a completely autonomous(the service is installed on your own server), is consuming time, as you would have to supply a great number of cards for each category, nicely designed cards both static or animated and/or flash cards. Secondly, a back-end programming to ensure the service to function as intended.If the website isn't primarily designed as an e-card site, a number of sites on the web provides this kind of utility for website owners and blog editors to enrich their online content. And it usually means a simple block of code in html. For the most part, these services are free, but require a sign up. Listed below are some locations where you, as a webmaster might find a solution that suits your site. We also include "sticky" content indexes. We hope this information was useful.
Re-published - 9/2/2009. Updated - 12/1/2009.
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Bravenet.com - Customizable colors to fit the design of your site. Possibility to add your own images and options for your site visitors to choose and add midi sounds. Along with these options, java special effects.
Link:
bravenet webtools and postcards.
All-yours.net - Provides customizable e-cards with text,colors,backgrounds,music and logos.
Link:
all-yours.net e-cards.
ecardsystem.com - Another website that offers a general plan for an advanced e-card system with plenty useful features for webmasters.
Link:
ecardsystem.com.
These three websites listed above require membership.
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