Tip 36 - Twitter

OK so you have all heard the news about Google+ and new changes to FaceBook, well this tip is to not forget about the huge success of Twitter and why you should use it.

First of it you have not already done so head over to Twitter and create your account, and start tweeting. Making sure you tweet about stuff that is not only interesting, but stuff that you are doing. Dont use Twitter as a place just to shout your link to your website, blog, facebook, google+ or whatever.

Each tweet should be about interesting stuff and try to incorporate hash tags by using the hash (#) symbol before words, for example your tweet could read "just started my new blog on #photography".

Keep your tweets short and interesting and you will get followers.

Also make sure you use lists, these help you group people into categories you understand, there are a couple of great places to start your twitter journey once you have created your id.

1. www.listorious.com - A great place to share your lists and find interesting people to follow
2. www.twellow.com - A directory of twitter users, just like the phone book only for twitter.

Once you start tweeting just keep it up, and make sure you pay attention to others who you follow, retweet interesting post, mention people in your posts by using the at (@) symbol, for example to mention me use @potissimus in your tweets.

Feel free to follow  my Twitter account and I will follow you back.

@Potissimus - http://twitter.com/potissimus



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Tip 26 - Internet Speed

This tip in nice and simple, "dont juse code your site for faster internet connection and normal viewers".

There are far too many site today being designed with flashy multimedia and heavy graphics, this is great is you are running a 100meg internet connection, but as the average internet speed is still only around 10meg, you must remember to make sure your site is just as fast.

My advice for this is simple code your site for the most common types of internet connection, not speed and you cant go wrong. So if you keep in mind that a cable connection, and adsl connection and a leased line connection you wont go far wrong.

Simply put, cable connections are usually around 10meg, but can go as low as 2meg and as fast as 100meg. ADSL connections still only average out at about 8meg, but can go as fast as 24meg or as slow as a few hundred kilobytes.

So in short thing of speeds of 2meg and under, 8-24meg and 24meg + and you site will work great for everyone. One word of caution if you are thinking of the mobile market, most mobile browsers will run at around 1-2meg tops, so make sure you have a cut down mobile version of your website, as unfortunately todays modern smartphones will be happy to attempt to load a full non mobile designed website.

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Tip 13 - Dont Over Do It

As I look more and more over this world wide web thing, it is becoming more important that the design of your website is not as important as it once was.

This is not to say that design is not important, but functionalityof the design is becoming more important that having flashy graphics, such as movement and such. This has really become true if you take my home page potissimus.co.uk the design has been changed to be more fluid and simple. This as you will know moves it away from the flash header and makes the site more appealing.

So in short, spend time on your website layout and design, and keep to the fact that your website is for your visitors and not you. So cut down on the unnecessary flashy graphics, sounds or anything else. Try to Keep to the saying KISS 'keep it simple stupid'.

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Tip 1 - Correctly Code Your website

It is essential that the code you use on your website follows W3C guidelines.
It does not always have to validate, but it should be as close to what they recommend as possible this will allow you to reach out to the vast marketplace, not to mention getting a better rating on the search engines.

As today the main browser are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, FireFox, with others such as Mozilla not far behind. Valid coding means your site will look as you want it on all machines.

A good place to start is the W3C website.

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