Adobe Contribute CS5 Tutorials
Website Tips / Design Tips pt. 5
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Now the next element we're going to look at for our website design tips is your links. Make sure you test all of them. Make sure they work, make sure they go where they're supposed to go. Make sure you check them all still periodically, so if any of them are not well anymore, in other words they are not working anymore, they go to a dead site, you get rid of those. You don't want dead links on your site. Another thing you can do, if you are with a site, or you have a business that current information is very important, you can put the date at the top or the bottom of those pages, to tell people when they were last updated, or the last information, or even today's date, like right there. But if your site relies on specific information being current, put the dates on from when this was last modified last, updated. Obviously if you have policies and procedures and things like that, those are excellent places to have that last modified on there. So if you've been talking about changes that people can see as of what date that copy is, and if it needs to be updated. The next thing is, if I go on here, and I read information or here and find any graphic, don't steal it, it's not yours, you didn't create it. Make sure that your information that you write and that you work with is your own. Do not just copy and paste some information. If you need the information from something, link to it, or refer to it, let people go out there to the place where its at, and read the information from the person who truly wrote it. And last but not least for website design, pay attention to where you put ads. As you can see on MSN dot com they've got an ad here at the right, and the only thing that they've got down here at the bottom is just touting their Bing web search, not a whole lot of ads. And that's an excellent way to go. The fewer ads you have the more likely people are going to stay there. If you have ads all over the place, it just makes it crazy and people are not going to watch, especially if they're all moving ads. Typically some sites will have ads at the top, they'll have them down the right hand side, and then they will have them down at the bottom. You just don't want to get too carried away, and if you can, have ads that maybe have something to do with your site or have some type of connection. Now MSN is big enough, they could probably have any kind of ad they wanted, but they do have an entertainment section, so Net Flix does somewhat fit in there. If I have my MyTech release site about technology of course, and then suddenly I have some strange thing over here to try to sell flowers or something like that, and have a bunch of those type of ads on my page, it's really not going make people see a connection. And it also can effect your search engine hits and things like that if you have a bunch of whacky ads. You also don't want to share ad space with somebody. In other words if you put your link on my site or put your ad on my site, then I'll do the same for you. You want to make sure your sites have something similar before you start doing something like that. Alright that was a lot of web site design information for you, packed in these last few movies. Think about your site, if you already have it done, and are any of those things that maybe you could work on, on the design or maybe just a few little things that you could update and make your site look just a little bit better and make it design so that the users will want to actually stay there all the time and come back to your site.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Contribute CS5 |
| Author: | Melanie Hedgespeth |
| SKU: | 34192 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-73-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-01-18 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 133 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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