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Combined Hot Multimedia Practical Tips
In the site, http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/99/26/index1a.html?tw=multimedia Francis Preve’s article on Hot Multimedia Tips, he emphasized that, “As web designers, we don’t want to get caught flat-footed when all our favorite videographers,...
Establishing your Internet Presence
Introduction This article shows you what is involved to get your own website up and running. This information can help you with preparing the requirements for your website. Having well defined requirements will result in a better website while...
How to Make Your Website a Big Hit
The Internet has become the leading information portal for hundreds of millions of global audiences. With this, lots of companies trust in the web’s capability to bring them lots of clients as well as bountiful sales and profits. How can this...
How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 2
When surfing the Web, you will have noticed web sites where the images load very slowly whereas other images don't match with the theme of the site or appear blurry. Presenting a professional image for your business means your web site design...
The Good Thing about a White Space
White spaces are everywhere about in the artists’ world – the blank white paper spread, the untouched canvass of a painter, the white space in a web page …In fact, we can be thankful as long as we still see a white space around. It significantly...
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What is Good Content?
I’ve read that a good web site is all about content, content, and oh yes content. Now if you’ve managed to design your site so that you can fill it with great content, what next, how do you know what good content is?
This may be one of those things that you know it when you see it kind of thing but I think that there are a few basic points to make in regards to having good content on your site. Considering how important content is we should all really focus on adding good content to our sites.
1. Relevant. Your content must be relevant to your site. Why would you have articles or information that has nothing to do with whatever it is that you’re selling. You would think that this would be obvious but I’ve seen web sites that just have gobs of information that really doesn’t match their site.
2. Accurate. The information that you give must be accurate. Part of the reason that you’re adding content to your site is to add to your reputation as a knowledgeable person in your field so if your information isn’t accurate then you don’t look like you know what you’re doing.
3. Free. Now if you make your living by selling information then not all of your content should be free but some of it should. How are people going to know that you know what you’re doing if they can’t read or see any of your work. I sell stock
photography and I offer all of my short informational articles for free, not only because I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience but it allows my customers to see that I know what I’m doing.
One last point but I’m not giving it as much importance as the first three, it would be ideal if all of your content was your own. Now there are exceptions to this, if you can’t write well then there is no point to writing poor articles with good information. The good information will be lost in the lack of writing ability. So it’s okay to use some of the free content, furnished by others, on your site. (Don’t forget to give them credit for their work though.) If you can create your own content I think that it the best case scenario for adding good content to your site.
If you have some specific questions please visit my Photography and Design Forum at: http://kellypaalphotography.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/index.php and post your question there.
About the Author
Copyright 2005 Kelly Paal
Kelly Paal is a Freelance Nature and Landscape Photographer, exhibiting nationally and internationally. She owns her own business Kelly Paal Photography (www.kellypaalphotography.com). She has an educational background in photography, business, and commercial art. She enjoys applying graphic design and photography principles to her web design.
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