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With the holiday season just around the corner, now is the time to make sure your site is in perfect order.

Here is a quick pointer to help you in preparing for the holiday rush:

- Does your site strand users?

Many Yahoo! Merchant Solution and Yahoo! Store owners still use the default click-to-enlarge. While it is useful for your customers to see enlarged images of your products, it strands them on a page where the only way to get back to your site is to hit the back button. To make matters worse, some customers might think that the image popped-up into a new browser… when they exit that browser, they also exit your site!

RedSand Web Design offers two custom solutions that will prevent this from happening.

The first custom solution is our basic click-to-enlarge, which pop’s up a new browser window that is sized small enough that your site is still visible beneath. This makes it clear that the user is supposed to close that window to continue browsing your store.

The second custom solution we offer is our advanced click-to-enlarge. Instead of using windows at all, which can sometimes be blocked by pop-up blockers… it uses a layering technology. This technology is 100% pop-up blocker proof and the best part, the user never leaves the page they are on thus reducing confusion and improving conversions!

The input tag is used within the form tag on a web page. It is used to create input fields which will allow you to gather information from your visitors.

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Highlighting text and links is a good way to attract your visitors attention, here is how to do it: 

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The input tag is used within the form tag on a web page. It is used to create input fields which will allow you to gather information from your visitors.

In this quick tutorial, I will teach you how to not only specify the size of the input field, but also to limit the amount of text that a visitor can type in.

To start off you will need an input tag which is usually found between form tags:

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Ever wonder how to add things like the copyright or trade mark sign to your pages? Here is how…

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Need to look up a HTML tag? Here is a list of the most commonly used ones and their attributes:  Continue Reading »

Here is a great tool for translating your text to HTML.  Just use it like you would any word processor, then when you have it just how you would like it, push the ‘HTML’ tab at the bottom right and you will be given the HTML code.  Then just cut and paste this HTML code into your page!

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I’ve constructed this check list to give you an idea of the things you need to look for when designing your e-business site.

1. Do your pages load quickly?

Make sure that your first page loads in about 10 to 15 seconds. Subsequent pages you can stretch to 20 seconds, but I would recommend trying to keep it to 15 seconds. Continue Reading »

With all the cool advances of the web, it makes it tempting to use the latest technology available to let your visitors know that your company is leading edge. I have two notes of caution for you though…

1. Flash forward.

Flash is an exciting new technology that is popping up everywhere you look on the net. The benefit’s of using flash is rather obvious seeing that it can create some powerful emotions in your visitors, the simple fact is that it is still in it’s infancy. Continue Reading »

There are two things that really damper your visitors mood and should be avoided period.

1. Under Construction.

So, you have this great page, or section planned and want to let your visitors know that it’s going to great and want them to return when it’s done. Continue Reading »