Top 5 reasons to start a web site by Wilson Davalos
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Many of us have dream about starting a web site. In my experience I recall being in high school and day dreaming about how great it would be to have my own chatting service. I dreamed of a site with that ever popular space wallpaper, you know it’s black with the little stars on it.
1. Keep in touch with distant family and friends. You can create a very simple site where you can up load pictures of holiday parties and family gatherings. A calendar would be a great feature to have. Posting birthdays and anniversaries is a great way to have people coming back to your site.
2. Having an online resume is a great idea. Especially if you are an artistic technical person. I know plenty of artist that take advantage of this by creating beautiful resume. Now keep in mind you want to have a nice mix of style and usability, this is your resume. I would not suggest using a wild color scheme or pop ups.
3. Web presence for your local business. I love restaurants that have a copy of the menu. You can also do a history of how your company came together. You can also sell your goods and services. Paypal has a free shopping cart that you can use.
4. Meet people from all over the world with the same interest. Just about any hobby that you may have will have a website dedicated to it, why not start your own? You can have a website about your favorite artist, music, books, TV shows, famous personality; the list can go on and on. If you join a webring on your particular subject you will have tons of visitors that are looking for websites on your particular interest.
5. Learn something new. A few weeks ago my mom surprised me; she was building her own website. She has not been using the internet for too long but she already loves it. She is building a family tree. She has tons of pictures from weddings, birthdays, and family parties. She even has a message board where family members have dropped by and left little notes.
So in retrospect building a website can be a very satisfying experience. Nothing in the history of the world has joined so many people together from all different parts of the world.
Enjoy yourself and try to find as many tutorials that you can find on building a website. You don’t need to invest a lot of time to learn the basic of building a website. With a few hours of work you can have a simple website. And remember that you website’s content is much more important that a website that is only flashy with outdated information.
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Soliciting Search Engines by Seamus Dolly
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As your guide operator through the web, search engines are invaluable when used effectively.
You don’t have to be able to create a search engine to use it, and their interface is designed with that in mind. Here are some quick considerations that should help any domestic trade.
1.If searching for a regional product, use a regional engine. If you live in Sweden and want information on an Swedish product, use Google.se for example. This is of particular benefit if something regional is to be delivered to your door. Importing from another country would be impractical, as would a search on the global web.
2.If you don’t know the name of a regional engine, then “ask”
the global engine. Example: Type in google and sweden.
3. If you need some information on RUBBER SHOES, then type it into the search box but place inverted commas around it.
Example: “rubber shoes”. With inverted commas, results will be returned with rubber and shoes, in juxtaposition. Without inverted commas, results can be from web pages that have the word, rubber, and the word, shoes, anywhere on the same page.
Example: A fairy tale may recount a rubber dingy, and leather shoes in an unrelated sentence. That is fair game from a perspective of an engine, and a legitimate match. It may be of no use to the searcher, though.
4.Everything on the Internet is not necessarily true. Indeed, if you are doing some research, then it may take many pages of matches to compile the information that you need. You must filter the options as you see fit. Using various search engines will most likely return different matches in different orders, for the very same search term. The search engines are programmed to return matches based on their rather unique search criteria.
So some flexibility is needed.
5. Generally, search terms don’t have to be case-sensitive.
6. Give the search engines as many clues as possible. Example; “rubber shoes” chicago should Chicago be the place that you wish to locate a pair of rubber shoes, or information on such a flexible footwear product.
7.The number one match is likely to be the result of many factors, other than the best product for that search term. This is mainly reliant on Search Engine Optimisation, where competition exists. This simply means that something odd or rarely documented, may have no competition, and will come back as number one.
8.Search engines can include and use the results of other search engines.
9.More will exclude, and totally, the results of the competition, as they see appropriate or commercially sensible.
Commercial stubbornness is not unknown either.
10. Some search engines use what is referred to as “Boolean operators”. Named after George Boole and his assertion that something can be right or wrong, true or false, and more importantly, on or off, a “new” view of logic was spawned. It is entirely co-incidental that his father made shoes! While this can get a little involved, it may be no harm to experiment if your engine of choice supports it. Try; rubber and shoes, rubber or shoes, rubber and not shoes, rubber or not shoes and so on.
Now, one wouldn’t expect those particular search terms and operators to return anything worthwhile, but “computer and not science” should separate the two terms, if supported. Or “someone famous and not someone famous’s wife”, should such English be accepted. I trust that you know what I mean.
Some search engines will return all matches by default or irrespective of operators.
“You have the map; just manipulate the method”.
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Seamus Dolly is at
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