1. Web page templates : Part I
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It is easy to create a new website these days. Everyone has access to tools that make it easy to put up
web pages. However the efficiency is no longer in getting the page built, its in getting it built right.
A lot of advice already exists on the web about graphics and layout design to help you get the perfect
web page. But to retain visitors on your site or to bring them back again and again means you need a
good website design to make your page usable. It's a little difficult to find sound advice about good
website design in relation to convergence of design and usability.
Good web site design needs to use the basic principles attracting people to the site and being able to
convert them into clients and in the process, retain them for long: we need to find out how people use
the internet and use those findings to improve your presence and increase your sales with a good
website design. This not only involves traditional marketing practices such as positioning your product,
testing your market and measuring results; it means looking at how people are using your web site in
the first place.
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Hiring a web designer to come up with the custom solution that you need can set you back a few
thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop simple for mere
pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com for details!

2. Web page templates : End of Part I
Google Sitemaps 7 Benefits You Can't Ignore
Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to Directly Alert Google to Changes and Additions on a Website
and that's just one of 7 Benefits.
Telling search engines about new pages or new websites use to be what the submission process was all
about. But major search engines stopped using that process a long time ago.
Google has for a long time depended on external links from pages they already know about in order to
find new websites.
For webmasters and website owners Google Sitemaps is the most important development since RSS or
Blog and Ping, to hit the Internet.
Using RSS and Blog and Ping enabled webmasters to alert the search engines to new additions to their
web pages even though that was not the primary purpose of these systems.
If you've ever waited weeks or months to get your web pages found and indexed you'll know how
excited we webmasters get when someone discovers a new way to get your web pages found quicker.
Well that new way has just arrived in Google Sitemaps and it's a whole lot simpler than setting up an RSS
feed or Blog and Ping. If you haven't heard of Blog and Ping it's a means by which it's possible to alert
the search engines to crawl your new website content within a matter of hours.

3. If you're a webmaster or website owner Google Sitemaps is something you can't afford to ignore, even if
you're also using RSS and/or Blog and Ping
The reason you should start using Google Sitemaps is that it's designed solely to alert and direct Google
Search Engine crawlers to your web pages. RSS and Blog and Ping are indirect methods to alert search
engines, but it's not there primary purpose.
It works now, but like most things it's becoming abused. Search Engines will find ways to combat the
abuse as they've done with every other form of abuse that's gone before.
Abusing the search engines is a short term not a long term strategy and in some cases certain forms of
abuse will get you banned from a search engines index.
You may also be thinking, don't we already have web page meta tags that tell a search engine when to
revisit a page. That's true, but the search engine spider still has to find the new page first, before it can
read the meta tag. Besides that meta tags are out of favour with many search engines especially Google,
because of abuse.
If talk of search engine spiders leaves you confused, they're nothing more than software programs that
electronically scour the Internet visiting web sites looking for changes and new pages.
How often the search engine spider alias robot, visits your website depends on how often your site
content is updated, or you alert them to a change. Otherwise for a search engine like Google they may
only visit a website once a month.
As the internet gets bigger every second of every day, the problem for search engines and webmasters
is becoming evidently greater. For the search engines it's taking their search spiders longer to crawl the
web for new sites or updates to existing ones.

4. For the webmaster it's taking longer and becoming more difficult to get web pages found and indexed
by the search engines
If you can't get web pages found and indexed by search engines, your pages will never be found in a
search and you'll get no visitors from search engines to those pages.
The answer to this problem at least for Google is Google Sitemaps
Whilst still only in a beta phase while Google refines the process, it's fully expected that this system, or
one very similar, is here to stay.
Google Sitemaps is clearly a win-win situation
Google wins because it reduces the huge waste of their resources to crawl web sites that have not
changed. Webmasters win because they alert Google through Google Sitemaps what changes or new
content has been added to a website and direct Google's crawlers to the exact pages.
Google Sitemaps has the potential to speed up the process of discovery and addition of pages to
Google's index for any webmaster that uses Google Sitemaps.
Conventional sitemaps have been used by webmasters for quite some time to allow the easier crawling
of their websites by the search engine spiders. This type of sitemap is a directory of all pages on the
website that the webmaster wants the search engines or visitors to find.
Without sitemaps a webmaster runs the risk of webpage's being difficult to find by the search engine
crawlers, or never being found at all.
Do I need Google Sitemaps if I already have sitemaps on my websites ?

5. Google Sitemaps are different to conventional sitemaps because they're only seen by the Search Engine
Spiders and not human visitors. Google Sitemaps also contain information that's only of value to the
search engine in a format they understand.
Creating Google Sitemaps in 5 steps
1. Create Google Sitemaps in a supported format ( see end of article )
2. Upload Google Sitemaps to your Web Hosting space
3. Register for a free Google Account if you don't already have one
4. Login to your Google Sitemaps Account and submit the location of your sitemaps
5. Update your Sitemaps when your site changes and Resubmit it to Google
From your Google Sitemaps account you can also see when your sitemap was last updated and when
Google downloaded it for processing. It will also tell you if there were any problems found with your
sitemaps.
Google Sitemaps can be used with commercial or non-commercial websites, those with a single
webpage, through to sites with millions of constantly updated pages. However a single Google Sitemaps
file is limited to 50,000 web pages. For websites with more pages, another Google Sitemaps file must be
created for each block of 50,000 pages.
If you want Google to crawl more of your pages and alert them when content on your site changes, you
should be using Google Sitemaps. The other added benefit is it's free.

6. If you're expecting this special alert process with Google Sitemaps to improve your Page Rank, change
the way Google ranks your web pages, or in any way guarantee inclusion of your web pages, Google has
made it clear it will make no difference.
Google Sitemaps web pages are still subject to the same rules as non Google Sitemaps pages.
If your site has dynamic content or pages that aren't easily discovered by following links, Google
Sitemaps will allow spiders to know what URLs are available and how often page content changes.
Google has said that Google Sitemaps is not a replacement for the normal crawling of web pages and
websites as that will continue in the conventional way. Google Sitemaps does however allow the search
engine to do a better job of crawling your site.
The Google Sitemap Protocol is an XML file containing a list of the URLs on a site. It also tells the search
engine when each page was last updated, how often each page changes and how important each page is
in relation to other web pages in the site.
Google Sitemaps 7 Benefits You Can't Ignore
1. Alert Google to Changes and Additions to your Website Anytime You Want
2. Your Website is crawled more Efficiently and Effectively
3. Web Pages are Categorized and Prioritized exactly How You Want
4. Speed up the process of New Website and New Web Page Discovery
5. No Waiting and Guessing to see when Spiders crawl your web pages

7. 6. Google Sitemaps is likely to set the standard for Webpage Submission and Update Notification which
will extend the benefits to other Search Engines
7. The Google Sitemaps service is Free
Exactly how to create a Google Sitemaps file to upload to your website is in the continuing part of this
article in Google Sitemaps.
Hiring a web designer to come up with the custom solution that you need can set you back a few
thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop simple for mere
pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com for details!
Web page templates : End of Part II
Graphic Artists - Who Needs One When You Can Do It Yourself Online?
Image is everything! Think about it. How many times have you made a judgment about a company
based on the quality of the junk mail that you have been sent?
Other people make similar judgements, too. Businesses cannot afford to be thought of as cheapskate in
their marketing.
You know that most of your mail goes straight in the trash, and it may grieve you to spend four times
the amount, just for it to be thrown away.

8. Think of it this way. Every communication you send is an advertisement for your business. You have a
marketing budget. Think of the design of your logo and company stationery as marketing, as an
investment in the future of your business.
It is possible to design a logo yourself using free or very low cost software, you can even design a logo
online, but the results are immediately and obviously amateurish. A company website must be
immediately recognizable with the company logo, colors and other graphic elements.
It is far better to pay the price and have a professional job done. Your company image is a vital part of
your marketing and if the company logo and image are scrappy or amateurish, who is going to buy from
you? Would you buy from a company that had a logo that you recognized had been done using standard
graphic fonts such as Wingdings?
A graphic artist will design a logo from scratch, using leading edge software that can achieve color
blends not achievable using lower specification software. Your artist will incorporate your logo into a
unique set of company graphics that will come to be associated with your company over time.
How do you find a graphic artist? Ask friends and fellow business people whom they used. Searching
online is another. Elance is an excellent place to start looking for a graphic artist. You can invite bids for
your work and negotiate with the graphic artist of your choice.
You should always ask to see samples of previous work. The company should be able to give you a wide
choice from work they have completed. Be wary about making a payment before you see any results.
Specify the format that the work should be given to you. You need to have software that will open the
files, so you can make simple amendments in ten years time.
Hiring a web designer to come up with the custom solution that you need can set you back a few
thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop simple for mere
pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com for details!
Web page templates : End of Part III