Yes! Finally Clear Well Written about Building a Professional Website with Drupal
Following a link from http://drupal.org/planet I came across the excellent series by IBM developers about developing a profession website using open source technology. In fact, the series focuses on using Drupal as the core.
The professionalism in the process used to redesign the website and the detail with which these articles are written make this series a must read for anyone interested in community websites.
Some items to highlight include:
I just came across this great post from back in April by Dean over at Heal Your Church Web Site about Software as a Service for Church Websites .
It is worth a read and your consideration if you are involved with any Christian Website for an organization. Here is a small snippet to entice you over to read the post:
...SaaS helps keep this highly mobile, suburbanly sprawled congregation together by facilitating both paid and lay staff in terms of communications, sharing materials and schedule management. In other words, the problems solved by FBCF’s use of the CCM go well past that of simple website content ‘manglement.’
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Conclusions
One of the best ways to get consistent traffic to your site
with by getting other webmasters to add your link to their
pages. This results in direct traffic from people clicking on
the links, and indirect traffic because modern search engines
use links to determine how to rank a site in the search engine
results page. The more "quality" links a site has, the higher
it appears in the listings (quality is defined as other higher
ranking sites).
Introduction
Keep it short and simple
Investing in domain names.
Summarising
Many people, including ourselves are involved in domain name speculation. While the great domain rush was happening, investors made huge profits in reselling domain names. This boom has now become a bust, never to recover. I would advise not to spend your hard earned money in this area unless you can afford to lose it. The only names with real value are one-word generic English names. To learn more about domain name trading, read this article:
http://www.tamingthebeast.ne...
Introduction
The Website Doctor?s prescription to healthy Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Using Keywords
Introductions Don't Have to Be Flashy
Website Maps and Add URL Pages
Website Navigation Bars and Headlines
Website Page Titles, File Names, Meta tags, and Your'e not Dense
Your'e Bloated and Not Relevant
Left Overs, Tiny Letters, and The End
Introduction
The Website Doctor?s prescription to healthy Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Using Keywords
Introductions Don't Have to Be Flashy
Website Maps and Add URL Pages
Website Navigation Bars and Headlines
Website Page Titles, File Names, Meta tags, and Your'e not Dense
Your'e Bloated and Not Relevant
Left Overs, Tiny Letters, and The End
You're wondering why, right? Well, one or more of the following reasons might apply:
1) Your submission was not accepted by the
Search Engines. If you used spamming techniques, such as:
* Repeating keywords in the keyword meta tag or using text in the same color as the background, some Search Engines might refuse to index your site.
Introduction
WEBSITE DESIGN TIPS
MARKETING IDEAS (ATTRACTING VISITORS)
KEEPING VISITORS
Content, content, content. Your site must say something, teach something, provide valuable useful information. This is the most important element of any successful website. Furthermore, this information must be dynamic - kept up to date and always changing.
I'll focus my comments on the last reason: how errors in the Web site can affect the company's health.
It's clear that you can make money on the Web if you have customers. You have customers if you have viewers- "traffic" in the geek's language. And you get traffic if your site is easy to find -- near the top -- in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). That's not so easy to achieve.
If you're doing business on the internet, one of the most important aspects of your businesses success is your web site. If your web site doesn't look professional, no matter what product you're offering, your chances of success are minimal.
Before you begin, if you've never designed a web page, it would be wise to become familiar with HTML. (Hypertext Markup Language). A great place to start is NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML - http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Gen...
Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
The main page of your web site should be under 60KB in size and take only 30 seconds to load. If a page takes too long to load, your potential customer will not wait. Ultimately costing you business.