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There are two types of “free” domain names. The first places ads on your site. The second locks you into a hosting plan. You don’t want either one.

High quality pictures make a good impression, so you should pay particular attention to taking them. Here are some tips. Composition Compose your pictures carefully. The beam of light is the focal point of this picture. The people add to the picture’s composition, not distract from it. The important concept here is that you want …

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Also, see our page on Making Text Readable

Invisible text is hard to read. The image above is an example of using invisible text on your website. Some website owners think this is stylish, but it is actually very bad practice. You want people to read the text on your site, so why make it hard to read? Indoors, on a large screen, …

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The fold is the bottom of the web page before you start to scroll it, or the bottom of the above picture. It is a mistake to put important content below that point (below “the fold”) because visitors must scroll the page in order to see it.

They might not….

Use social media to drive visitors towards your website, not away from it. The #1 mistake people make is to send people away from their business website to social media. It’s the wrong direction. You want visitors to stay on your website so you can make the desired conversion. Once visitors have arrived at your website through …

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As shown in the picture, if your site has a properly configured certificate, it will either show a padlock icon, the word Secure, or something similar. Or, if you do not have one, it may show Not Secure or display some other warning.

Autoplay is a leading cause of visitors bouncing from your website. It’s 2:00 AM in the morning and you are lying in bed with your significant other browsing the Internet. You discover a website, and it immediately begins playing music. In panic, you try to find the almost invisible volume icon or button on your …

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