The problem with automated accessibility testing tools

An automated accessibility tool is a piece of software which can test a web page, or even an entire website, for accessibility. Automated accessibility tools are useful because they can save you a huge amount of time. Don’t want to check images for alt text on each and every page on your website? Run the site through an automated tester and it’ll do it all for you!

Automated accessibility testing tools have been around for a long time and have historically been a useful way of checking websites for accessibility. Bobby, one of the first and most well-known automated accessibility testing tools, is now almost 10 years, and although is no longer freely available, plenty of other free tools such as WebXact (http://webxact.watchfire.com/) and Wave (http://wave.webaim.org/index.jsp)do exist. … Continue Reading

The problem with free web hosting plans

In my opinion, free web hosting is one of the most misunderstood concepts on the web today. Free web hosting plans are becoming increasingly popular as new webmasters bite into the idea without actually analyzing the consequences. I myself spent many years, at the start of my webmaster career, using free web hosting plans. This experience has giving me an insight into the down-side of free web hosting plans that many people seem to miss.

Would Coke promote Pepsi on their website? Although the rhetorical question above seems ludicrous, this concept is one of the fundamental problems with free web hosting plans. Forced advertising is the way that hosting companies can afford to provide “free” hosting. Whether it be through pop-ups, pop-unders, headline ads, or implanted adsense you will be hosting advertisements on your website that generate revenue for your hosting company whether you like it or not. Not only is this annoying it can also ruin the look of your page; the majority of the time you cannot control what the ads look like or where they go, they are simply dropped down onto your site and there is nothing you can do. … Continue Reading

Why it is easier than ever to own and run several websites

These days it is no longer such a big deal to own and run several websites efficiently and profitably. There are actually more and more online entrepreneurs doing just that. There are several reasons or recent developments on the net that have made this possible and we will review them in this article.

PPC Ads for traffic

PPC ads as they are popularly known or pay-per-click ads have made a huge difference and continue to make their mark on the World Wide Web daily. These results-oriented advertisements have been responsible for breathing a new lease of life on many ecommerce ventures that were otherwise in trouble.

As the name suggests, the advertiser pays only for click-throughs meaning that a prospect has actually clicked on their advertisement on a site somewhere and as a result has landed on their site. A healthy percentage of these clicks end up purchasing something and becoming actual customers. What this means is that an advertiser can start with a small advertising program and end up making a profit on it to finance more ppc advertising. … Continue Reading

How To Have Several Websites But Pay For Only One Website’s hosting

Many online entrepreneurs these days are faced with the problem of running several websites and having to maintain several web hosting accounts for the various sites. Actually there is a very simple and effective solution to this problem. The answer is to run sub domains.

Although sub domains are very similar to having a site within a site, they are not simply additional web pages of an existing website. Each sub domain can have a website of it’s own and completely separate from the main website.

What is a sub domain?

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10 Important Web Design Tips: SEO Friendly Website

A website should firstly be searched out by visitors before talking about attracting or retaining those visitors. Nowadays, a well designed website does not only relate to a web site¡¦s visual attractiveness but more importantly, how friendly it is with search engines.

Below are 10 SEO friendly website designing tips where web designers should pay attention to during the early stage of their web designing process.

1. Avoid creating menu on the left-hand side of a website . If unavoidable, an alternative way is to put some text with rich keywords at the top or above the left-hand menu so that this text will be the first thing to be read by search engines.

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