8 Twitter SEO Tips

Twitter

Wanna increase the traffic on your website? Are you worried that search engines are not giving a damn about your website? Do you want new customers but don’t want to spend money on marketing or on SEO based activities? How do you promote your website?The situation at the moment might sound bleak & difficult but it isn’t…Read on….

The answer to all your questions is one word: “Twitter”!

By now you must be wondering as to how twitter could help your company with web page ecommerce or with any kind of promotional activity. Twitter makes this possible because, with more than 100 million users, it has a reach that no other medium can provide. Major search engines like Google & Bing, have also started indexing the tweets which can easily be leveraged by the companies for building their brands.  Few key tips that one must keep in mind are as follows:

1.    Follow the right people
2.    Be a regular tweeter/re-tweeter
3.    Tweet relevant content using pertinent keywords
4.    Create new and exciting content for your followers
5.    Give twitterverse what it wants
6.    Keep your twitter handle short, sweet and relevant
7.    Optimize the content in your Bio
8.    Use hash tags

Future of Web – HTML 5

HTML 5

The writing is on the wall: HTML 5 is the future. Soon after Apple embraced HTML 5 specifications & disallowed any FLASH based applications on its highly successful Iphone and Ipad, the industry analysts have started predicting checkmate for FLASH because HTML 5 has the potential to rival the multimedia capabilities of proprietary plug-in software’s like FLASH & Silverlight. It will also allow web site design projects to have structured pages and will give more power to the browser to carry out functions like video playback and drag and drop.

HTML 5 is being touted as the next generation mark up language with several new features. It will soon be knocking at your doorstep. Find as much as you can about it before your competitor does and uses it to design future websites.

Starting an Internet Business

Internet Business

Internet is the best thing that ever happened to small business owners. It has offered a level playing field for them since the capital involved is minimal. Today, all you need is an idea to change your life. Once you have an idea; implementation requires a computer with an internet connection and a web designer who would give you an awesome yet affordable web page design. That’s it; you are sorted & good to go. But we know even roses have thorns & likewise there are few downsides of starting an online business. Let’s take a look”

•    Security & Confidentiality:  One of the greatest challenges fronted by any business conducted over the internet is security, especially if it involves financial transactions.

•    Trust Deficiency:  Internet has evolved and has changed the way we deal with our day today life. Most of our time is spent using computer or doing any internet related activity but even after so much customers still have trust issues with online business owners.

•    Copyright Infringement:  The medium is such that it is hard to contain copyright infringement issues on internet, which in turn discourages business owners to initiate e-commerce or trade on the web.

Affordable Website Page Design

Web Page Design

Most start-ups shut shop due to lack of funds or financial issues, hence affordability is something that one must always keep in mind for a freshly designed website, especially for a website that is not showing results. Taken, that it’s not viable for a small business to pump in huge amounts of funds into web site design projects but creating low-cost or affordable web page design does not mean that you will have to surrender quality. In other words, there are no reasons why a budget design should look like it was designed in the eighties because, more often than not, a good design is also an affordable design.

In the recent trend, online design challenges have offered affordable solutions which are gaining popularity. Websites like www.crowdthinktank.com use the power of the crowd to provide you with the best yet affordable design. This is much better than dealing with large design firms that are only interested in your money.

Good Design is CRAP

Good Design

How would you feel, as a graphic design designer if your creative head calls your designs C.R.A.P.? I’m sure you would be anything but destroyed! But you need not worry because in the world of graphics or web designing, it’s taken as a complement. Confused? Well the term C.R.A.P. was coined by an author Robin Williams in her book “Non-Designer’s Design Book”. The acronym was used to describe the importance of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity in any design work.

•    Contrast – This design principle refers to the variation in shapes, sizes, colors etc. that could be used to contradistinguish the text or any other design object.  Incorporating contrast in your designs would simplify things for the user & make it easier for them to understand it.

•    Repetition – Repetition pertains mainly to repeating the design styles and keeping them consistent throughout, without overdoing it.

•    Alignment – Alignment refers to the act of adjusting or positioning the parts to visually connect the design elements in relation to each other.

•    Proximity – Graphic design designers should make sure that the design elements that are related or similar to each other must be kept closer to one another. It helps the user to easily look for the associated information on the design page.