Sometime ago, I wrote on article detailing 7 tips on getting those first visits to your website. Here are some additional tips that can help you get that jumpstart that you need.

• Your Email Signature is Prime Real Estate. Have a few links (but nothing elaborate) to your website in your email signature. A well-written email to a client, associate or family member might entice them to visit your website.
• Use Online Profiles To Your Advantage. There are always curious people who might check out your profile on StumbleUpon, Digg, Facebook or miscallaneous forums. Give them something to look at; post a link to your website.
• If Something You Wrote is Relevant, Forward It. If a coworker or old classmate asks me how to do something I’ve discussed on my blog. Instead of completely reiterating what it was that I wrote, I’ll forward them a link. Try not to brag or anything, just try to slip it in.

Hope that helps.

This is a continuation on the first article I wrote on developing HTML emails and email templates. Let’s jump right into some tips:

Use HTML markup to style whenever possible. Use attributes like background=”” whenever possible. CSS backgrounds will incorrectly render in GMail, so whenever applicable, make sure your background will work if applied to a […]

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So you’ve got an idea, whether it’s a blog, online community, company, whatever. Whatever it is that you do, you need the domain name. Here are a few tips on buying your domain name:

Your first target should be the .com. If only the .biz/.net/.org/.info/etc is available, try another name. Other TLD’s just don’t come to […]

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I decided to bundle these two issues together. Although usability and design already play a big part in websites in general, they play an even bigger part in online communities.

Design
Your design, is your identity. Your users will feel how much work you put into your site’s branding and identity. If your forum uses a common […]

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Now you’ve gotten through Part 1 of CSS Layout Basics and you understand the basic principles behind CSS, we can get a little deeper.

Not all CSS requires stylesheets. Apart from a stylesheet, there are two ways to incorporate CSS: inline CSS and page CSS.
Inline CSS
Inline CSS is referred to when CSS is inserted to […]

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Sometimes, if you do a little bit of digging, you can find out that multiple domain names can display the same website. This is a problem, if it’s not done correctly.

Why It’s Bad
Search Engines, or, let’s be serious here, Google, is known to penalize sites with duplicate content. These penalties can range from de-listing your […]

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When developing websites, you’ll often be tasked with launching emails from your web server to a variety of destinations, whether they’re internal or external. These emails can be confirmation emails, newsletters, etc. However, sometimes they get caught in various spam filters, and since many spam filters are different, it’s hard to pinpoint what you need […]

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In the event you’ve figured out that you want to ditch table-based layouts and build CSS-based layouts, but you just don’t know where to start, I’m here to help. I won’t go too indepth, but I’ll cover the basics.
You will need to have two files. An HTML file, and a CSS file. Both of these […]

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This article is part 3 of our 10 web development tips series. If you’re interested in part 1, click here, or in part 2, click here. These 10 tips will deal more with CSS and developing your HTML base template from the design.

1 - Use ID instead of CLASS wherever possible
In the example: <div id=”myID”>myID</div> […]

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Over time, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting some abnormal PageRank boosts. I finally tracked it down. (And this can be our little secret.)

Blogs or websites with the “Top Commenters” plugin will actually post links to the author’s website without a nofollow link. These links can appear on every page, or uniquely on the main […]

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