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.
article nr.15.RSS submission directories
RSS directories - information for website owners.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a file based on XML and generally used as means to deliver content summaries on news,blog,websites, etc.
The perhaps most practical use of it is to enable your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed(s) and read the content on desktop-based,web-based or mobile device-based RSS readers or news aggregators without having to visit your website each time they want to see if some of your content has been updated. When subscribing to your feeds, they'll be informed when an update has occured.
This could(should) be of interest to website owners, especially those running websites with repeatedly updated content. In most cases on a daily basis.
So,we turn to RSS Submission directories, those that have listed all the most knows submission websites where you're able to submit and get your feed(s) listed and available for potential subscribers.
But besides that, some of these directories contain extensive information on how to create your RSS file and everything you can do with it.Besides directories, we've found good articles discussing the best ways to integrate your existing feed(s) with Google Reader.
Published:9/02/2010.
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Public domain or freeware sounds, maybe not as popular or desirable as public domain images,could prove to be a valuable asset in making online presentations.
Sound files that are included in a variety of online presentations: to serve as background sound in slideshows or short videos,to serve as an effect on a web page(landing page, page transition),etc.
In such cases, you'd want to find websites with a large number of free sound files in as many categories as possible - a reliable rich content source. We've located them for you - they are the recommendations for this article.
Published:8/13/2010.
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Photo and image galleries make up a large part of the web. And as a response to this trend, a variety of photo album templates have been developed.
A plethora of different templates in terms of:
1.Visual output - static or dynamic(slideshow,3d caroussel,flip,tiltviewer,etc.) form of photo/image presentation.
2.For users - Possibilities for the user to add comments,vote for best photos,etc.
3.Web technologies - Flash,DHTML,HTML,CSS,etc.
4.Tutorials - video tutorials with instructions on how to install these templates or scripts,etc.
Published:7/31/2010.
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Email marketing templates are an exceptionally valuable tool for a succesful business promotion campaign.
Search engine and feed submissions,social networks;indeed of significant value to ensure a presence on the Internet.
If you wish to achieve a sustained flow of new users/costumers, one cannot neglect the wonderful capabilities of electronic mail as a communication tool to reach out to thousands of people that might be interested in what you have to offer.
To do that, you'll need to have customizable, well designed email templates. You must be able to customize the templates do have at least the following:
1.Your name and logo;
2.Ability to choose a composition of colors that matches that of your website;
3.A layout which will enable you to properly present information in an inviting and interesting way.
Here are some sites with email marketing templates. Some of them include: instructions,tutorials and guidance.
Good Luck!
Published:7/7/2010.
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Fast and easy - the two words frequantly associated with online services - generators of many different objects or scripts on the internet.
A button or menu maker for webdesign(or layout) purposes is one of many useful utility services on the web.
Why?Lack of skills or necessary equipment?The right software? It could be something simple as lack of time...The question is usability.
We mainly keep our articles brief and they are meant to be a bit of information which will guide you to the recommended sites. These are places where you can actually perform a concrete task for a given topic. That is the key purpose of this section on numeroklub84.com.
Published:6/27/2010.
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3D avatars becoming increasingly attractive to , mostly younger people on the Internet, it catches also the attention of website owners in respect to their possible implementation on websites.
These avatars have been made for demonstration purpose only
Without going into why these avatars are popular among young people, we will focus on how these avatars are created and in what purpose are they being used on websites.
People are comfortable with these avatars as they visually mimic real humans. Some of them with striking human resemblence and with advanced animations giving the creator the possibility to make them act as humans as well. On several websites(links to these website are listed below) you can shape and model any avatar as you see fit.
You have many options available in terms of: gender,skin color,hair color,eye color,body shape,clothing and animated movements. Of course, all of this to a certain degree, but more than enough to engage the potential user. And this would be the primary objective of the website owner.Good Luck!
Published:5/22/2010.
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Hide your email address from spammers.
E-mail inboxes filled up with unwanted emails. It's wasting your time and is irritating...
Placing your email without proper protection would be as if you would invite spammers to harvest your email for their purposes.
Spambots search for a letter/number combination with the @ symbol on your web page. As soon as it detects an @ character, it grabs then all the info attached to the @ character, assuming it's an email address.
How to prevent spambots from harvesting your address and at the same time provide your visitors/customers the possibility to find and see your email address on your page?
Well, basically we disguise our email address, so it can't be detected by spambots.
Some of the most used manual techniques are:
1.Replacing the @ symbol:myaddress@domain.com is replaced with myaddressATdomainDOTcom, myaddress[at]domain.com or myaddress@domain.com
2.Add tags to your email:
myaddress@domain.com.nospam,myaddress@domain.com.removeme.
3.Replacing the text with a graphic image:
An image with your email address embedded. The downside is that your visitors must manually type your email address.
Other, more advanced solutions include javascript coding ,etc. Down below are some links to pages with a lot more information
and resources. Find the solution that best serves your site.Good Luck!
Published:4/26/2010.
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Converting PDF to HTML and vice versa.
When presenting documents it's desirable to offer your clients/readers an option to view your presentenation in the format they're most convenient with.Business or educational sites make documents available for downloading on a regular basis. In most cases, these are relatively large files.
Making them available in other file formats is, as we mentioned above, a matter or convenience for the website user.
The rationale behind online file converters such as a pdf to html and vice versa, is that the site administrator or document writer can do this "on the fly". Practically it means that you don't have to devote any time on creating separate documents in terms of file extensions. You save time and can concentrate on work with higher priorities.
Use a draft or test document to evaluate the performance of the converter. If you're satisfied, upload, convert and download real documents. We've come up with a few links to online converters. Good luck!
Published:4/13/2010.;Modifed:6/19/2010.
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Clip arts - pre-made images intended for decoration purposes. A large quantity of them is always available on the web and they appear in many different sizes.
Colorful, sometimes funny looking, images you've seen on a website's home page which have been placed there to mark a special event, like a holiday.A considerable number of clip arts are pre-made illustrations of objects,people,professions,etc.Others, used as small design elements as part of a larger design project. To decorate a navigation bar,etc.
There are plenty of websites with huge categorized collections of public domain clip arts that don't require membership to access the collection. No fees and, in most cases, a high level of modification is granted to you.
On the other hand, sites with free clip arts are free from charge, but with little or no level of modification allowed. Usually, this is being compensated with higher image quality. But that's not always the case.
Down below are some recommended sites with an onslaught of clip arts. Before you download them onto your computer, make sure you read the terms of use of each and every site. Good Luck!
Published:3/26/2010.;Modified:7/13/2010.
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article nr.6.Google gadgets and other widgets on the web.
Addressing again the issue of stickiness and the ways you can enrich your site's content, we focus on web gadgets. These miniature objects that serve all sorts of online content in many existing formats. Designed so that they are easily placed on websites.
Google gadgets, being one of the largest providers of gadgets on the web, offers a huge number of them in the most popular categories. Currently, there's no requirement for a sign up and basically after you land on this page, it's a matter of minutes before some of them you choose end up displayed on your web page.It's so simple you might come to the conclusion that it is all to easy. Think again.
Bad management or wrong choice of gadgets can do you more harm than good.
Put the gadgets in relation to your website. How can they benefit my site?
1. Choose the gadgets that are corresponding to your site's main content. Your visitors could get confused.
2. Customize the width,height,border and background color to fit the layout of your web page. Improper choice of settings might disturb your website's visual identity. If feasible, try to find a unique name for the gadget title. Remember that these gadgets could very well be served on other sites. You want to make them as unique as possible!
3. Don't exaggerate! One or two gadgets will do.
4. Change the gadgets at least once a week.Your users/visitors will see this as a clear indication that someone is actually maintaing the site. Put some work to find more providers of gadgets for websites!
Locations on the web we recommended for this topic are given below. Make us of it!
Published:3/8/2010. Updated:3/10/2010.
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article nr 5.Generation and submission of sitemaps
Describing simply, a sitemap or site map, is a presentation of a website's structure. Done in such a manner so it can be easily readable and understandable by human visitors. It helps visitors to get an overall picture of your website's organisation(in other words, how your website is organized). Especially large websites with several sections and subsections, it is a tool that improves the "communication" between the site and it's visitors.
At the same time a sitemap, when submitted to search engines, ensures that all pages are indexed properly.
So, when creating a sitemap, you consider both the human aspect - the situation of your ordinary visitor and the "non-human" aspect - the importance of having all your pages indexed by the spider-driven search engines.
In the first case, an ordinary page with listed pages(links that point to each page), most usually in a hierachical fashion. In the second case, an xml-based sitemap for the search engines.
You can do all of this by hand, or turn to some locations on the web specialized in giving these kind of services. One that comes up on our mind is, xml-sitemaps.com. Here you're able to customize your xml-based sitemap by manipulating several parameters: file format(you may generate sitemaps in .xml/.html/.ror/mobile sitemaps...), change frequancy - how often do you update your pages? On a daily,monthly,annually basis? Or do you not update them at all...or none...Last modification - a specified date, server's response...or none?And, of course, the priority - not all pages have the same priority! Not in yours nor in the eyes of your visitors.
So, how is the sitemap generated? First, you access this site on the web. Second, choose the proper setting for your website. Third, press the "Start" button. Last, upload the created sitemap in the root directory of your website.
Then we reach the question where to submit the newly generated sitemap? Well, all the major search engines emphasize the importance and benefit(for those own or administer a website) of a sitemap submission.So, Google,Bing and Yahoo could probably be the search engines to submit your sitemap first. Google and Bing have sections on their websites especially tailored for webmasters - On Google it's Google Webmaster Central. You first need to open a Google account, submit your site and authenticate(proving you're the owner).On Bing it is Bing Webmaster Center. They will provide you with detailed information, instructions,recommendations and guidelines on how to manage your sitemaps.
Yahoo being a search engine and a human-edited directory, it provides several options of both site and sitemap submission depending on type, or better said, versions of your website: mobile version of your website, media content,product search, etc.
Like we always do, recommended links for this topic are provided below. They will take you directly to relevant locations on the web conserning everything that is related to sitemaps.Good Luck!
Published:2/13/2010. Updated:2/28/2010.
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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. Updated:2/15/2010.
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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 shrink the web.
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. Updated:2/15/2010.
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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 - 2/15/2010.
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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: 2/15/2010.
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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.
webmaster tips and info - slideshows
Slideshows - a variety of presentations made in MS Powerpoint on topics related to webmasters and users of the Internet.
To download these presentations, you must first create a user account on the proper website.These have been saved in the "Public" option so there is no need to seek approval from the author.Unless it's not in conflict with the terms of use of authorstream.com, you can post them onto your website.See more presentations by nen972 | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations
