Building the Reef

As you know one thing that happened when Google did their Panda Penguin update is they looked at the usability factor of peoples website. In other words how engaging is your site, and with that metric, how fast does it deliver that content. A slow website is a bad website because users may click off before it loads. Ours was slow. To much crap going on everywhere and to many things loading. So I decided…

One thing you want to do is make sure you get in touch with your audience. There are a couple of ways you can do this, one is to have an email signup page and the other is to hook into social media. I dont want you to think you should choose, the best thing you can do is to do both things. The First Thing is to Add an Email Signup One important thing…

The first thing that you want to do is to get on the radar of Google and other search engines so they know that this is a relevant site and worthy to crawl the pages you have just put up. You would be surprised how quickly this can happen if you are writing good content. To begin with you should right about 7-10 good content and long tail key word rich articles that are at…

Your menu system and navigation is how your users will navigate throughout the site. It is important that your site is easily navigable and that the menu levels are not to deep. Nothing is as frustrating as having cascading menus more than two levels deep. Reserve those only for eCommerce stores. But for now you should plan on your navigational strategy. Consider that most templates are going to have the ability to make as many…

This article covers the 6 Pages Every New Website should have and how to build them easily. Of course every website needs a front page. The one page that has to be there, a coming soon or hosting holder page just wont do the trick. But after that there are pages that every website should have. Refrain from making your site a one page pony! Make sure you get a plan to put at least…