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If you are in need of some swift tips on what to add, or even remove, from your website to make it more effective on the internet, read these 10 tips below…

1) Choosing A Relevant Meta Title
-> The meta title is the title that shows in your window at the top of the page. To make this more effective to improve your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), I’d advocate putting actual keywords from your meta keyword attach in your meta title. A great structure for a successful meta title we use often is…
-> “Primary Keyword”, “Secondary Keyword”, “Industry Area” – “Company Name”
EXAMPLE  ->  Web Design, Website Design, World wide web Solutions – COMPANY NAME
-> Mini-tip: Try to keep your meta titles less than 70 characters.

2) Choosing Relevant Keywords For Your Meta Keywords Tag
-> Try to include as many relevant keywords as possible. Example, if you run a web design company, you could use variations and combinations of keywords, such as…
EXAMPLE  -> 

3) Writing An Effective Meta Description
-> Try to include some of your main/strongest keywords in your meta description without making it nearly like SPAM. Obviously keyword-rich descriptions are useful and also effective but not so good when weighted down with too many keywords, or they aren’t arranged in proper sentences, etc.
EXAMPLE  ->  <meta name="description content="COMPANY NAME – Providing clients crossways the UK with web design services. Check out our web design service and our other web design resources."*gt;

4) Using DIV Tags For Layouts Instead Of HTML Tables
-> Anyone who is familiar with the web design industry will tell you that using DIV tags for page layouts instead of traditional HTML tables is more effective. Well this is true, first of all, less code is needed, HTML tables like to use a LOT of code and a lot of it is repeated. Secondly, you can customise your DIV tags with CSS code. Thirdly and finally, using DIV tags means less code needed, which results in smaller file sizes, which then results in search engines being healthy to more easily crawl your website pages to achieve a good ranking on search engines.

5) Spell Checking
-> This is probably one of the most important and also probably the most simplest of things to look out for, spelling mistakes. When you have finished a web page, I would ALWAYS advocate that you copy the entire content (not the code, the actual textual content) and paste it into a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, where it can spellcheck your content. Obviously you can spellcheck it in Dreamweaver as well because that also has a built-in spellchecker, just click on “Commands” and then “Spell Check”.

6) Use Of Images
-> Obviously, using images is a great thing to do in your website, they draw attention from visitors. However, using too many images can weigh the content down a bit, which results in slower page loading speeds. I advocate either slicing down the amount of images you might use on your website OR reduce the file size of the images, by saving the images as a GIF or JPG file instead of PNG files.

7) Your Logo
-> It is well known in the web design industry that visitors should be healthy to click on the client’s logo and it will take them back to their homepage/index page. There is usually a default border around the logo to show that it links to a page, some code to get rid of it is…
-> #imagelink {border:0; margin:0; padding:0;}
-> Then in the “img” tag, add an “id” attach to it, the ID should state id=”imagelink”.

Using External CSS Stylsheets Instead Of Inline Styles
-> I would advocate you putting all your CSS in an external stylesheet, then the only code you’d need to place into your HTML document is . Again, the advantage of using external CSS files is that you aren’t clogging up your HTML file with inline CSS, either in the content or in the header, which again assists a faster page loading rate.

OK, I hope you have found these tips useful in some way or another. You can check out my other Bukisa content from my profile. You can visit the website, that’s www.crwd.co.cc and also my YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/crwdtutorials for more web design tutorials.

Thanks for reading.

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