Caveat Scriptor: Use the Advice of Those Who Know Before You Build a Site

~ [woman] man is a success if he [she] gets up in the morning and gets to sleep, and between him [it] means what he [she] wants to do. Bob Dylan ~

I'm smart. Wicked smart. Too smart for their own good. At the same time (as he said when I was a child and as is still true), I'm too big for my own Britches.

So I put those Prissy pantalones to some good effort and I teach others how to write. I win a few prizes, send a few hopefuls off higher education institutions in which they turn to win their awards. I do it to my seat gets burned one too many times the policy of the academic community, and I go into freelance writing.

I research for hours 1000s, cater to literary contests and magazines, start working writing gigs, and keep researching. I build web sites. With what it costs to maintain the ISP and web hosting account and something else, I create this ambitious masterpiece, believing that I am now a self-taught web host, writer, teacher, and trustee for academic writers, mental disability writers, older writers memoirs .

But, as a person of trust, I must confess that as much as I'd like to think of those 300 hours of learning and application usability, keyword rich, to-the-letter-of-the-law of interstate / intercountry / internet navigation design and creating a self-taught make me smartass, I'm a little, but the legwork yourself. In fact, five virtuosos on the worldwide web made ​​web design possible:

Jakob Nielsen After the creation of a really bad mess of the page is overloaded with spinning, flashing, color blobs of cold, and I found Dr. Jakob Nielsen. His stellar advice, delivered in a no-nonsense tone, is backed by his many years of theoretical and practical work. After reading and studying articles such as the following, I completely rebuilt my site:

Current Issues in Web Usability

Current Issues in Web Usability

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Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines

Top Ten Web Design error 2003

use in the elderly

Writing for the

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Ed Zivkovic As I was hunting for the use of experts to build a user-friendly, useful website, I was hunting in the language that indicates the writer knows what he's talking about. This is the redeeming value of Ed Zivkovic's site, Tips for Work at Home Webmasters on. He uses candor and directness. It provides the technical content in understandable terms. And defying the popular and trendy, it tells you directly and honestly what is crap, which is not crap, what is effective web site technology, which is a waste of dough. Try some of these pages are instrumental to start:

domain name and web hosting hell

Exit Traffic Exchange-Traffic Multiplier Alternative

right, like any artist / writer will attest, the work that goes into making the challenge is endless. But we do it because I like it, because we are good at it, and therefore we must do it. We are forced to make. But we do our own work, not work (or art) of others. This page contains all the legal and ethical guidelines for copyright, rights, a coalition of contributing artists (rather than corporations or organizations, that is) good, tirelessly provides information, definitions, answers, and guidelines for the protection of copyright and creative work.

Firelily Designs Just as much about the science of such vital issues as the color design for web users with color vision deficiency as a aesthetics of web design, this site practices what it preaches - such as preaching, good teaching, graphic design. Do not create your own web graphics. It would give me a year or two to master, when I have enough to do with getting the words crafted into readable form. But I found the advice on the color of the fascinating and functionally useful.

Angela Hoy, Writers Weekly There are writers enough newsletters. And then there'sis a writers Weekly . What a site and the owner have to do with web design, specifically? They are proactive protectors of writers and creative people in general. Hoy stands for the rights of freelancers rejections tightwads who solicit her to recommend writers to work for three dollars an hour to copy them so that they can make millions while the writers starve. Hoy encourages hard work ethic through informational how-tos. And Angela Hoy, co-owner with her ​​husband, Richard Hoy, poured acid on the language of a plague that is fraud POD publishers or conniving money-filling agent in the part of its [their] website called "Whispers and Warnings." For the newbie, novice, wannabe freelancer , or even to work at home woman or man to create web-he or she wants safe from scummy scammers, an advisory imperative.

Robert Woodhead Self Promotion.com Finding shaved off the century, not just my design and development, but my publishing and promoting websites. With uncluttered pages and cutting-edge (constantly updated) information, Woodhead (who even makes self-effacing jokes about his name), walks wannabe web through each phase of the process, and then gives [shareware] support helps you submit your site to hundreds of search engines and indexes that you need to crawl your site to rank the most recent (2004) a must-have for any online business.

Of course, if you were to look at my favorite files on the 900 + categories, subcategories, and links, you would find that many others pulled my smart ass above the seat of the pants. I name some of these helpful gurus here, too:

Andrew Starling's Top Ten Places comparison, the Web Developer's Virtual Library in [http://www.wdvl.internet.com]

Jill Whalen's

Jim Heath at

Keith INSTONE-a, 970 links about web usability

Kevin Lee Free keyword research tools and keyword revisited Click Z Network,

PSP Interactive Zone,

[http://www.smallbusiness.sbc.yahoo.com]

Assistant Professor Stan Ketterer Design Fundamentals of Writing News / News coursework at

Stephanie Hetu on

Sumantra Roy's SEO course, choosing the right keywords for your site, the

Karen Zoldan from

As you may understand, I write this not to share any of my personal technology truth-what they want. I write, it's not embellish any career related companies. I have no affiliation nor do I know the people in the first five who do not need my little embellishment or time of exposure. I write this not to create an entity I had no prior knowledge of creation, though as I wanted to brag.

I've compiled this guide to humble myself to the fact that I was flying by the seat of my pants in most cases, unless I was lucky enough to intuit some strategies (which are still under construction, so you don 't get attitude when they visit my site and find it still needs work: I do not ).

I've compiled this guide in honor of those who put on way more than a piddly 300 hours of research, study and practice to learn what works to make it work even better.

and I put together this guide will help you to avoid even 300 (not so trivial when it comes to themselves) hours of stitching and tearing out the seams of Britches of tailoring the project. Smarty pants just do it the hard way. Let your way be easier.