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Use Photoshop for your Photos

Photoshop can help to optimize your images before they are used on your website. This can help to reduce website loading time.

Caching

Use caching to shorten your website loading time. Allow the browsers of your website visitors to store cache in their computers. This ensures that your website does not have to resend the complete page when they revisit next time.

Avoid Empty Img, Src or Href

When encountered by an Empty img, src or href, your visitors’ browsers will generate another HTTP request and cause longer loading time.

Having Gradients in Your Background is Not a Good Idea!

JPG or PNG images have high definition and require extra website loading time.

Avoid HTML Image Scaling

When images are scaled in HTML, your website loads slower due to the time it needs to calculate the pixels.

Use Image Hosts

Use Google Picasa or other image hosts for your images to increase website loading speed.

Compress Your Site

Compressing your website ensures that your website files can be opened more quickly. However, your visitors’ browsers must be able to decompress the files.

Choosing the right colors for your website is of paramount importance. Good combinations of colors tend to give your site visitors the right feelings and entice them to return in the future. Bad choices of colors can cause your websites to be dull, boring and turn away your visitors.

Choose the right colors to express the right feelings and messages!

Blue

Calm, tranquility, trustworthiness and stability. It is no doubt a favorite color of many that also equals trust and honor.

Red

Means excitement, desire, love, energy and passion. Warning: You should also be aware of its negative messages such as danger, high risk, etc.

Yellow

When we see yellow, we feel liveliness, energy and happiness. It can also mean curiosity, joy, brightness, etc.

Green

Signifies nature, life, harmony, health, healing and environmentally friendly. At the same time, some of us tend to relate green with money.

Brown

Means confidence, solidness, reliability, relaxation, etc. More often than not, it is associated with tradition or sophistication.

Orange

We often associate orange with cheerfulness and friendliness. It also equals playfulness, creativity, etc.

Purple

Beware! It can mean romance and mystery, or more traditionally, luxury, royalty, dignity and wealth.

Pink

Is the color of affection, tenderness, romance and more often than not, femininity. It can also signify healing in emotions, sweet tasting / smelling, peace, care, etc.

Black

Is thought to be stylish and elegant. It signifies power, formality, sophistication, etc. Black is extremely useful; it can be used to add mystery to your overall web design. Warning: Black can also give depressing feelings when used excessively.

Grey

Expresses maturity, solidness, practicality and sometimes sadness and gloominess. It is also a color of seriousness and traditionalism.

White

White, just like Snow White, is often associated with purity, goodness, innocence, simplicity, freshness, etc. White is also a fantastic background color for its ability to highlight other colors.

Using Links
Don’t use “Click here” . You should keep your links in an informative tone instead of just click here. Having a click here will straight give an impression for readers like me to exit and click back and never visit your site. Avoid verbs phrases. Your hyperlink is best to have a noun such as “More Information”

Keep it personalized
When you want your readers to read your content, try to create a persona and at least put a name so that when your readers read the information, it portrays like a person is giving the information instead of a robot giving the information.

Include A Contact Us Detail
Being a writer, it’s definitely a must to include a contact details either email or a contact form. This can give you an idea what your readers are looking for. From there, you can get a positive or negative feedback. Please be rest assured then when you receive criticism, it’s actually an opportunity for you to correct your mistake.

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1. Write relevant content

It may be tempting to write the latest news about what is going on for example the recent election in the United States but if the content doesn’t relate to your site, it is highly recommended that you just leave it out. This is because your web visitors / followers who always come to your site for the certain niche might turn away when they see some irrelevant content on your website.

2. Write your key points & highlight them in each paragraph

Each paragraph needs to be concise and makes sense to every key point. The majority of your visitors do not spend their time reading every single word on your website. Chances are high that they just scan through while looking for the key points. Thus having short paragraphs definitely gives you better advantage than writing a lengthy one.

3. Action words (Call to Action)

Instruct your readers what to do and when to act. Do not use passive tone; be direct!

4. Use lists instead of paragraphs if you can

Lists make your content short and simple. They can highlight your key points better than paragraphs do.

5. Proofread your content

When your content has too many unchecked spellings and grammatical mistakes, readers will start to have doubt on the quality of your content.

“Both are important to your website security. Both do a great job in protecting your customers’ confidential and valuable data. Both boost consumer confidence and increase your website sales by ensuring your customers maximum online security.”

These are the reasons why SSL & SiteLock are frequently mixed up by many! However, they are really two different things that contribute to one single goal of yours – Enhance your website security!

In order to give our customers a clearer picture on how the powerful duo works their separate ways to help you maximize your website security, we created a table that indicates their different functions respectively.

Although different, SiteLock and SSL Certificates work hand in hand to give your website unbeatable protection and your customers the highest confidence. To find out more, visit:

SiteLock: http://www.exabytes.com/services/sitelock/

SSL: http://www.exabytes.com/services/ssl/