April 2007

Purpose of Website  – again another old forum post resurrected: I believe that a site has to have a purpose, and from there, that defines the structure. There are 5 major types of site (probably more, but I will focus on 5), these being info site, sales/signup site, Blog, online store, and membersite. An info site is designed to provide the best and easiest source of information for the visitors. The visitors are usually repeat, and have already developed a relationship with the site owner and are coming to the site for information. A good example of this is Internet Based Moms. A sales/signup […]

I posted this as a reply to a post in a forum a while ago, but thought I would actually add it as it’s own post here in my blog so that everyone could read it: Always make sure your site is optimized for the search engines so when the spiders follow those links to your site, that everything works and makes sense. If you think about the search engine spiders logically, they are really just checking out your site, and being sure that everything is logical. It is like a person checking out a new brick and mortar store. First you hear about