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Network Your Way To Good Clients
There simply is no point in using business networking to build your business unless it wins you good clients.I have been to some of these networking breakfasts. I met some really pleasant people there, but I never met a single person who introduced me to anyone who ran, or knew someone in a position of influence in, the sort of business that I believed would make a good client.And that’s the next important point – you need to be clear about the type of organization you want as your clients. Perhaps that’s why those breakfast meetings didn’t work for me. I knew exactly who I wanted to meet. They had to be substantial companies capable of paying good fees for my services.If you look at my client list in the resource box at the foot of this article you will see that I have been successful in winning business from good blue-chip clients. The fact that I focussed on those sorts of companies has been, I believe, a major factor in my success.I did a course some years ago with a company in California. The course leader kept using a phrase that has stuck in my mind ever since – “go stand in the traffic.” If you’re going to win business you’ve got to be where the business is.The critical point that is missing in the “go stand in the traffic” mantra is it has to be the right sort of traffic. If you want to get run down by Grand Prix cars you have to stand on a Grand Prix track. If you wan

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Aha! So it comes the time for CSS. If you are using HTML editors like Dreamweaver, indeed you are using CSS and creating styles yourself without even your noticing it! Wait, so you may ask, why do I need to learn CSS when I am able to create styles even without my own notice using an HTML editor? I can just tell you the answer is - "magics". Yes yes, CSS is indeed a magic and it also creates many magics. But are you satisfied if you are just able to perform one of the many magics of CSS? Your answer is surely NO. Let me tell you what the CSS magics are.

CSS Magic #1:
- You no longer need to rewrite the same set of presentation style attributes like font color, background style, alignment, border, size, etc. repeatedly within the HTML codings but can group the set of attributes into a single style class within the stylesheet. In your HTML document, you just have to call it out using the style name. CSS is well designed to allow the separation of presentation style from the main content and a stylesheet can either be included inline as part of the HTML document or referenced externally as a CSS file. (So you may have already tried this magic from Dreamweaver)

RSS Feeds and Search Engine Optimization
I have been asked many times if adding RSS feed content to your web site helps improve page rank and web site placement in the free search listings. First we have to look at RSS and if it’s right for your web site.RSS is basically Really Simple Syndication written in XML code. It allows a script to run in a RSS Reader or on your website that allows updated content that you subscribe to automatically become up to date as soon as it is published.The great thing about this is that you can always have fresh content on your site without having to do any updating or babysitting.Search engines have been known to eat up RSS feed content on web sites. They love to deliver new information to visitors. One thing to remember is that the feed must be displayed in HTML format. Search engine spiders do not read java script as plain text, so it is essential to better placement that HTML code be placed in your site instead.There are several programs that do all the hard work for you. RSS Equalizer is easy to install and lets you customize your feeds to fit your particular subject content you need. It all works on your web server backend. You log in, set up the categories of feed you want, test them, and place them on your site. No need to update, it’s all automatic.Next, does your site have an area that you can ad RSS feed content to? You can ad some to the home page. In the setup, you can set

In learning web design, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is something you must know, WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) HTML editor is something you must have and CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is some big treasure to you which deserves burying yourself into it deeper and deeper. Below I’ll explain why and will also talk about some learning tips.

HTML

HTML is a common language for building and designing website. It tells the Internet browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox how to display web content on the screen via HTML tags. In fact, everything you see on the web is under the control of HTML. What is HTML editor? It is a software like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage which helps you to create websites even though you know nothing about HTML. WOW! Does it mean by using HTML editor, you need not learn HTML yourself?? NOT necessarily.

As I told you earlier, everything you see on the web is under the instructions written in HTML. Therefore, HTML editors also create webpages using HTML. The difference is that when you use HTML editor, you just have to click the buttons to "draw" webpages as you see on screen (What-You-See) and then HTML editor writes the HTML tags for you to display the webpages on web browser in exactly the same form (What-You-Get). However, it always happens that HTML editors write clumsy HTML tags, especially when you amend the webpage layout again and again during your website designing process, which may possibly deter search engines from reading your web page and in turn poorly affect your search engine ranking. What's worse, your website cannot even be listed in search engines at all! The clumsy HTML codings will also increase your file size and hence the loading time, encouraging visitors to leave your website soon.

Therefore, you should understand HTML to unable yourself to modify the HTML codes produced by WYSIWYG HTML editors. Besides, in the designing perspective, there are also some design limitations and restrictions using HTML editors when compared to free writing of HTML codes. If you would like some special design or custom look to your webpages, you are recommended to have some knowledge on HTML yourself. In more advanced level, if you are to do SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your web page, you should know how to make use of meta tags like title, content, alt, header, etc. in order to attain better keyword positions in search engines. If you just happen to own a website designed by others, you should learn HTML in order to edit the context of your website without the need to depend on someone else in this simple but routine updating task. Or you have no website yet but you like to write articles to be displayed in others' websites, you also should learn HTML in order to create appropriate links in your articles for others' easy reference.

Learning Tips: - If you have already got some basic knowledge on HTML, you may study "Getting Started With HTML" which is the most popular free HTML tutorials online provided by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which develops interoperable technologies including specifications, guidelines, software and tools to lead the Web to its full potential.

- If you still find the above tutorials too difficult or boring to start with or your time being too limited, “One Hour HTML” is highly recommended for you. It is a practical program to take you step by step in learning HTML from the very beginning and it offers you hands-on HTML encoding experience instead of merely teaching you theories so that you could have already experienced creating webpage using HTML as early as in the first hour of learning.

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Indeed, despite my understanding on HTML, like many other web designers, I like to use WYSIWYG HTML editor such as Dreamweaver a lot and in fact, I can't even think of living without it once I encountered it as it saves me so much time in writing the complex HTML codes and the best advantage is that i can immediately visualize the effect in the splitted WYSIWYG designing screen whenever I change the HTML codings above in the HTML encoding screen! I am not contradicting myself. In fact, the key to make use WYSIWYG HTML editor software is that you have to learn the software well and to use its buttons for quick and easy HTML editing yet you don't let the software generated HTML codes to take the control but it is you who know how to master all HTML tags and to make any necessary changes to the HTML tags in order to bring the best visual and seo benefits to your website.

Among all HTML editors in the market, Dreamweaver and Frontpage are the most popular ones. Dreamweaver is very popular among professional web designers while Frontpage is popular for small enterprise users. Dreamweaver has more user-friendly features than Frontpage which include its seamless integration with Flash, its automatic generation of closing tags once you enter the opening tags, the fact that it would not automatically re-write your codings like Frontpage does when you save an external HTML page not created by Frontpage, etc. Despite less user-friendly features, Frontpage is a Microsoft Office's tool which many of you will be familiar with and it is fine enough for creating or editing websites for small projects.

Learning Tips:

- If you have never encountered HTML editors before, you may download the free trial provided by Macromedia.

- There are a few good Dreamweaver tutorials in the market. Among those, “Tutorials-4-You” and “Dreamweaver Made Simple” are two more popular ones due to the interactive nature of their video tutorials, giving Dreamweaver beginners hands on experience in using Dreamweaver from the very beginning of the tutorials. For "Tutorials-4-You", a free demo is offered for you to experience the tutorials yourself and you can choose the version of Dreamweaver in meeting your practical needs. For "Dreamweaver Made Simple", you are offered free download of a few chapters of the videos plus the ebook. Why not giving a try? It's free and for sure you'll have a lot of fun!

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How to Get Free Easy Traffic to Your Site
There are several Methods to get free traffic to your website,some are invariably more effective than others but if you use a combination of them you should see results. First is what you are reading Articles,write and submit them to as many sites as you can find. There are literally hundreds of sites that you can submit Articles to and most are free,when you submit articles one step you will go through is creating your Resource Box Treat this as if it were the Headline of an Advertisement.Make sure that it 1.Catches the readers attention and 2.Gives them additional incentive outside the content of your Article to go to your site.Another way to Drive Traffic to your site is Traffic Exchanges,most of these are Free to join as well and the more that you join and submit your url to the better off you are. One such Traffic Exchange is Webmasterquest.com,another would be 123clicks.com.The Traffic Exchanges are also a place where you can post Solo Ad's and Banners as well,some of them you will have to pay for that service others you will not.While you are in the process of joining these sites you will want to surf for credits so that you can use these credits to both advertise and to buy Targeted Visitors.Submit your site to the Search Engines on a regular basis,I am one who likes to Submit my site Monthly.This is also free you can do this from the Control Panel on most web sites, or you can submit sepe

your web page and in turn poorly affect your search engine ranking. What's worse, your website cannot even be listed in search engines at all! The clumsy HTML codings will also increase your file size and hence the loading time, encouraging visitors to leave your website soon.

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Learning Tips:

- If you have never encountered HTML editors before, you may download the free trial provided by Macromedia.

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What are My Chances to Get the First Place in Search Engine Listings?
You must have heard the stories how people became rich and famous with their websites. How could they achieve this? Their websites took a first position in search engine listings targeting popular keywords. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! To be honest, chances for a regular small business website to get to the top of the search engine listings are close to zero and each day they become smaller and smaller as a number of new and old websites grows.Let's examine the situation from the beginning. Search engines just need your content to deliver it to searchers. If a searcher is happy with the search result from the particular search engine, he will come back and use this search engine again. Do not think that search engines serve to send customers to your website. They DO NOT CARE about your website or your business. All they need is content.When the search engines first appear in the Internet they needed help to determine what your site is about and how relevant is your website to search queries. People used "Keywords" meta-tag in those days. Keywords gave too many opportunities to cheat with search engines results so searchers were not happy with their search queries results. Same thing was with the search engines. Manipulation with a website position in the search engines listings became known as Search Engine Optimization. That was the time when you could actually wake up a rich man after the search en

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which develops interoperable technologies including specifications, guidelines, software and tools to lead the Web to its full potential.

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Learning Tips:

- If you have never encountered HTML editors before, you may download the free trial provided by Macromedia.

CSS

Sending Business Email? How Well Do Receivers View It?
Effective email messages are a cost-effective and timely way to communicate with current customers and attract new ones. But customers are sick of junk email messages clogging their inboxes with useless information, how do they view your email?Typically there are three different kinds of business emails: Messages people need Messages people want Messages people hate What kind are you sending out?Getting Them To Share their email with you.The first trick of email marketing is often to convince visitors to part with their email addresses. People are very protective of their inboxes now. Most aren't willing to give you their address without a few benefits, as well as assurances that you won't misuse the information.Make them feel comfortable by clearly stating your site's privacy policy.Don't have one? You should -- it's one of the 5 key components of a good Website. Include a link to your site's privacy policy on every page. People want reassurance that you won't sell, rent, or give away their email address.All of your email should be opt-in -- which means that customers either specifically request or agree to receive emails from you. Also, give them the option to opt-out of additional mailings.Once your have their email address, be very careful how you use it!Messages People NeedThis is a relatively small, but important cat

to your website.

Learning Tips:

- If you have never encountered HTML editors before, you may download the free trial provided by Macromedia.

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How to Finance your Growing Business using Alternative Financing
Do you own a growing business that needs financing? If you are like most business owners, whenever your business needs money you head over to the bank. Unfortunately, as most small business owners soon find out, most banks do not lend money to businesses unless they have significant collateral and a history of successful operations. This presents quite a challenge for business owners.When banks are not an option, small business owners turn to what is known as the alternative financing funding market. Although the financing options discussed in this article fall under the alternative financing category, they are actually quite widely used and should be considered mainstream. Most major companies (including public companies) have used this alternative financing at one time or another during their growth history.Most of the tools described in this article can only be used by businesses that are already in operation, and whose main requirement is working capital. Although startups can benefit from these tools, the companies will need to be in operation for a little while and have a growing list of clients.General Invoice FactoringInvoice factoring (also known as accounts receivable factoring) is ideal for business owners who cannot afford to wait 30 to 90 days to get paid by their clients. It allows a business to sell invoices from commercial customers to a financing comp

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CSS

CSS Magic #2:
- You now have great control over how your website looks and can change the presentation of hundreds or even thousands of your web pages by altering just one file (i.e. your stylesheet!) if it is referenced externally as a single source by your different web pages instead of being contained inline in each one of your web page. Presentation information including positioning, layout, font, color, etc. for your entire website can be contained in this single CSS file.

CSS Magic #3:
- You can eliminate the use of table to be nested inside some more tables for your web design layout anymore as you may now use the CSS file to control the positioning of all elements inside your website. Spiders no longer have to crawl through each one of your tables and page loading time can be much faster as visitors only have to download the lightweight stylesheet once and it is automatically reused for every page. What’s remained to be loaded is the actual HTML content which is now much smaller in size and hence your website can be made visible in a flash! What’s more, you can now get rid of a lot of complicated codes with tables and so your site code can be cleaner and neater for prior view and amendment.

CSS Magic#4:
- You can use CSS to place your important keyword phrases at top of your web pages which search engines love before other of your source code. In such a way, you can gain search engine ranking benefits as search engines like Google gives more weight to content closer to the top of your HTML document and now search engines can pick up the main content of your website first before your header images or navigation menus.

CSS Magic#5:
- You can use CSS to simulate some beautiful javascript effects like rollover buttons in your website design. Yet, you need not have any images visible on your html codes which will slow down your page loading time and you need not worry about visitors turning off javascript in eliminating pop-ups as for now, all are done just inside your CSS file instead of your HTML documents.

Actually CSS can bring about much more than the above 5 magics. As I said in the first paragraph, learning CSS is not a "must" but you can certainly perform magics in your website when you know it more and more. Moreover, using CSS is a trend in web design and it is also conforming to future web standard in letting your website compatible with different browsers and making it much easier to be spidered by different search engines.

Learning Tips:
- I myself am learning it right a way and I find myself like a magician whenever I learn to eliminate the long HTML tags and replace them using CSS! I have done many researches on CSS tutorials and I find “How To Master CSS” of such a high quality and it meets my needs so well! It is a CSS know-it-all, teaching me all I need to master CSS in simple languages and how to use CSS to its full potential. Its step-by-step training videos and comprehensive CSS book are my favourites and it is even used by school teachers in teaching web design in class! It’s really worth a try if you are to learn CSS yourself. There is also a 100% risk-free money back guarantee, as for other professional web design related tutorials that I recommended. But I’m sure you won’t need it after your first trial on the tutorial!

- If you want a free tutorial regarding some basics of CSS instead, I would recommend “Adding A Touch Of Style” which is also provided by the reputable World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Conclusion

Building and designing website is not as difficult as you think. It just takes you hours to start with but of course it takes more time for your further practices. However, it will become your valuable asset for life once you've acquired the skill and got to know the crack. Don't you hesitate anymore. Start learning it today!

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