Web Design Brief History

The first website in the world was hosted on a NeXT computer at CERN in a lab in the Swiss Alps. It described what the World Wide Web Project was all about, how to access it, what to use, how to further develop it and so on. It was designed – or rather programmed – by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web himself.

Building upon the idea of the internet as a whole, Berners-Lee came up with the concept of using a system of interlinked hypertext protocols to transfer a user from document to document and so navigate the internet. He and his team developed the original Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) as well as a language in which documents could be written, called HTML. They also developed the first browser — a program capable of reading HTML and basically ‘browsing’ the various documents.

Without getting into a philosophical debate, web design evolved from chaos created by many minds. There was a certain design curve if you will. It began simple, with basic colors and layouts. Berners-Lee’s WWW site didn’t have more than text and a few links. Most other sites that followed kept it simple as well.

But soon simplicity went overboard with images, music, silly effects and slow bandwidth. Things took momentarily a turn for the worse when Adobe Flash came along. Although it could make a visitor’s site interaction interesting, it weighed down heavily on bandwidth and a user’s time.

Google changed all of that when it banked on a heavy reliance on good old fashioned text to index sites. Suddenly it became vital for a site to have text and information as opposed to fancy intros and beeping menus in order to garner rank in search engines. New languages came along such as PHP, AJAX, jQuery and others to help keep up with the demand for databases and text-based sites.

Despite fast internet available worldwide – and according to Google soon via balloon – the established current style is minimalist. Information needs to be accessible quickly and easily without too much clutter. Images need to speak their proverbial thousand words, while the words or texts need to be concise and interesting. Adobe Flash is used sparingly. While a lot of links are good in a SEO context, it is interesting to note that more and more sites return to the basic one-page scheme that only requires scrolling. This may have to do with the fact that the web is increasingly used by tablets and phones: tapping on links can be frustrating while scrolling is done with a simple flick of the finger.

The future looks simple where web design is concerned. A designer needs to meet the perfect balance between design and information for a site to be user friendly. Text and articles still matter for indexing and ranking, but the more visual a site, the better. Videos and charts help show a visitor what they are looking for.

And that is the crucial point: in the end it comes down to what the visitor is looking for. So when designing a site, give them what they want.

Creating an Anti-Depression Lifestyle

There is no denying that depression is a horrible disease. It can cause significant issues for any individual, especially those that are not doing anything to alter the condition. Many of these people suffer from high levels of stress and anxiety, and live with a sense of hopelessness every day of their life. However, if you are suffering from depression, there is an easy way to create an anti-depression lifestyle, and begin enjoying your life once again.

Every individual that suffers from depression understands exactly how hard it impacts all of the aspects of their life. If you are one of those, you recognize that you simply do not enjoy many of the activities, families and friends like you used to. You recognize that there is really no where you want to go, or anything you want to do. You may even find that it is a struggle to get out of bed.
Even so, you need to understand that there are simple ways that can alleviate these problems, so you can begin enjoying life again.

A Diagnosis

There are a variety of conditions that focus on depression that are either temporary or clinical. For those that suffer from clinical depression, there is often some type of underlying condition, either physical or mental, that is causing the problem. The only way to know if you are suffering from clinical depression is to have a proper diagnosis. The doctor will perform a variety of tests to determine exactly what is happening, and if there is a physical problem that can be remedied.

For these individuals, the doctor will often prescribe an antidepressant medication that can alleviate many of the signs and symptoms caused by the ailment. These medications are strong, but are known to be highly effective.

When used properly, by following the prescription, many individuals are alleviated of the high levels of stress and anxiety they feel every day. Their moods are elevated, and their lives are transformed. However, not everyone is an ideal candidate to take antidepressants every day. This is why it is imperative to have the doctor monitor your condition while on the medication.

A Temporary Condition

You might be suffering from a temporary form of depression caused by some outside force, or chemical imbalance due to a poor diet or lack of activity. If you have been eating poorly for years, your body might be robbed of all the essential minerals, vitamins and nutrients that your body requires. Because of the lack of proper nutrition, your body cannot produce the chemicals and hormones, causing it to be imbalanced.

The remedy to this is easy. By simply changing your diet, and beginning routine exercise, you can alleviate many of the signs and symptoms of depression, and create an anti-depression lifestyle.

No matter if you are suffering from chronic depression, or a temporary condition, there are steps you can take to create an anti-depression lifestyle. There is no need to suffer any longer, when there are remedies in sight. Take a proactive step, go see your doctor, and determine exactly how to best handle the signs and symptoms you are experiencing from your depression.

Identifying Depression Triggers

More than twenty million Americans suffer from depression every year, but just because someone is suffering from the blues doesn’t mean it has to turn into something more serious.  There are certain triggers that can often flip a person from sad to clinically depressed.  Depression is triggered by the following ten common situations:

1. Job loss.  Losing a job is the number one depression trigger.  It causes financial strain, impacts the sense of self-worth and self-identity, puts strain on relationships and marriages, and brings conflict into situations that are already stressed and unhappy.  Older, higher salaried workers are particularly vulnerable to bouts of depression following a job loss.

2. Sexual issues. Depression and sexual problems are interrelated with one often triggering the other.  Many antidepressant medications cause sexual issues.

3. Empty nest syndrome.  Loss and change are two of the hardest things we deal with, so when a child leaves it’s a double blow.  Everything that’s normal changes, every day is different.  For some, this is a real problem and can trigger depression.

4. Alcohol abuse.  Depression has been linked to alcohol abuse for many years.  Alcohol effects mood and is a depressant on the central nervous system.  This can trigger depression in a person.

5. Illness.  Diagnosis of a serious illness can trigger depression.  It can change how a person thinks about the future, it can change their outlook, and how they think of the possibilities of a future.

6. Divorce. Change is hard no matter how it happens and a divorce is a huge change.  It is not only a change, but the change is to the social unit, to the status that goes with that social unit and this can trigger depression.  Loneliness, fear, sadness – these are all common reactions following a divorce.  Additionally, there is often financial strain which can add to the depression trigger.

7. Debt and financial stress.  Constant worry about how to pay the bills will, over time, add to stress and may eventually trigger depression.  It may also effect self-esteem and cause frustration.

8. Fertility.  Trying to have a baby and not being able to conceive can be a powerful trigger for depression.   Being forced into early menopause because of illness or as a result of surgery or chemotherapy may also trigger depression as a woman realizes she may never have children.

9. Providing fulltime care for someone with a debilitating disease such as Alzheimer’s.  The caregiver role is extremely demanding taking incredible time and energy on the part of the caregiver.  This role often requires the caregiver to make conflicting choices resulting in guilt, feelings of inadequacy, and resentment.

10. Menopause and male menopause.  Hormonal fluctuations set off symptoms which can include depression, fatigue, anxiety, and low libido.  Any or all of these can lead to depression as well.

Knowing the depression triggers will help to identify potential situations and what might cause a slide into depression.  This knowledge can help prevent these bouts of depression by understanding what causes them and being able to head it off before it becomes too bad.

Basic Concepts Search Engine Optimization

Success with any type of business usually involves setting up your company in an appropriate manner. For instance, if you were to start a real business with a brick-and-mortar store, how you set the store up, and where it is located, will have a lot to do with how much success that you have. If you are setting up an Internet website with the idea that you need to sell products and services, you must also generate traffic that is interested in what you have to buy, and present those products and services in a way that motivates people to purchase what you have to offer. Search engine optimization is one of the secrets to how you can attract the right people, and also set your website up so that it will be visible when people search on the search engines. Here are a couple tips on how to do basic search engine optimization that should help you improve your overall revenues in no time at all.

The concept of search engine optimization rarely is very simple. 

There are so many factors involved, most people become overwhelmed very easily. They are constantly thinking about how the website looks, what keywords they are using, the theme on their website or blog, and a host of other worries and concerns. In reality, there are only a few SE strategies that you need to be concerned with when it comes to making sales and driving traffic to your website.

The first thing you need to consider is how much information on your particular topic is located on your website. This usually is presented in the form of articles that you have written, or that you have outsourced to an article writer. Content really is king on the Internet. This content is how people find you. Search engines use this content to determine whether or not your website is worthy of being found. Therefore, it is in your best interest to provide unique interesting content that is not only going to keep your visitors captivated, but also motivate them to buy what you have to offer. It will also motivate the search engines to rank you high in the SERPS so that you can be found very easily for the keywords you want to rank for.

Another thing you should consider is links. 

This includes internal linking and inbound linking. Internal linking refers to the links that go to all of the content throughout your site. Essentially, it should be easy for the visitor, and the search engine spiders, to travel through your site through the hyperlinks that you have set up linking to all of your content. Inbound links are the links that are pointing to your site from all over the Internet. If you have quite a few pointed to you, from many different locations, this will inspire the search engine algorithm to rank you higher, allowing you to be found whenever someone types in your main keyword phrase.

By using these two tips, and ignoring all of the other potential agonies associated with professional search engine optimization techniques, you will be one step ahead of everyone else when it comes to ranking high organically in the search engines, and also bringing interested buyers to your website that may increase your overall revenues.

Social Media Marketing Quick Tips

Although the search engines used to be the dominant location for people to spend their time, the landscape of the Internet has changed dramatically, even over the last few years. Google, Yahoo! and other search engines created advertising so that they could monetize their visitors. Facebook and other social media marketing platforms have clearly shown that more people are spending time on social media sites. Here are a few ways that you can take advantage of this new trend that people are following, one of the best ways to monetize any type of offer that you have today.

Without a doubt, the kingpin of social media is Facebook. With over 1 billion users, they are by far the largest social media website that is on the net today. Facebook marketing works because people love to share things that they see. Facebook has made it very easy for people to like, comment upon, and share the information that you post on a regular basis. By doing this, you will get free traffic to your site as people find you all over the web due to the things you post, and whether or not the postings are shared. By simply making one post every couple hours, with an occasional affiliate link, you should be able to generate a part-time income for your efforts.

Social media marketing, by the way, is not replacing search engine ads. Although Facebook offers quite a bit of leeway when it comes to targe”ting the post that you make, and getting “likes”and comments through advertising on their network, it is the way that you present the things that you want to sell which will make the difference between whether or not you make money with this online venture, or if you are simply a participant in a social media platform.

One of easiest ways to get free visitors to your site is to create what are called memes. These are tiny little graphics that can be funny, witty, or just generally silly. The stranger they are, or the more controversial that you make them, the more likely they will be shared. And when a person shares or likes a post that you made, people all over the web connected to these other individuals will also see what you have to offer. The trick is being able to make it simple enough to profit from, and utilizing your time in the most efficient manner.

One other thing social media has changed is how frequently people interact with one another. For instance, 20 years ago mailing a letter was the only way to communicate with people in writing. Now, it is possible to communicate with people on email, smart phones, and a variety of other gadgets. There are so many options to choose from, but in the end, sending an email from your phone is probably the closest we will get to matching up these two ways of working with social media. You should certainly think about social media marketing if you are serious about earning money on the web.

Web Design Made Easy Using WordPress

Creating a good-looking website doesn’t have to be hard. With the advent of WordPress and other blogging platforms, you can have a website on the Internet in just a few hours. We are going to discuss how you can do this without much technical knowledge at all. Creating websites used to be very difficult when all you had were HTML and CSS. Not many people could really create a nice looking site because of how technical it was.  And making it look good was even harder. There are still many ugly sites on the Internet today. However the technical barriers fell down when WordPress was introduced to the market.

WordPress is considered one of the best content management systems or CMS’s on the market. It allows you to quickly make a site, blog or even a sales letter quickly. With so many developers and plugins using WordPress the sky is really the limit! However WordPress isn’t the only CMS on the block, Joomla! is another easy to use platform. However there are not as many developers for Joomla! That is something to take in consideration when choosing a platform to work with.

Getting a website up and running is easy enough, but making it look good is the hard part. Having a good solid background in web design is important to making a site look great and be functional at the same time. If the design part is something that you struggle with, then you can learn more about the art of web design by attending classes at your local college or even reading books at your local bookstore.

You may also consider hiring a professional if you really want your website to stand out. In addition to hiring a traditional designer, you can find freelancers on the Internet for relatively cheap. Many freelancing websites have designers that are looking for business at this very moment! How much you pay will depend on a few different factors. One is how technical your website is, another is where it the web designer lives and finally how much content you want on the site.

One thing to consider also is how optimized your website will be for search engine optimization or SEO. Believe it or not, many web designers do not understand search engine optimization very well. And because of this, it can be hard for a website to rank for the terms that you want to be seen on Google for. I mean what is the point of a beautiful website if nobody can see? That is precisely why good on page optimization is critical. So be sure to ask if your web designer understands search engine optimization and if he will incorporate good SEO practices into the web design.

As you can see, you don’t need a PhD in web design to create a good-looking website. Because of the new and updated software on the market today you can have a great looking site up in mere hours. So go and create your site today!

Network Promoting Nowadays Best Tips

People that have tried to start out businesses for the previous few decades have accomplished there’s one business model that appears to figure higher than all of the others. the net may be a fantastic place to start out a business, primarily as a result of the dearth of overhead and also the ability to attach with thousands of individuals that will have an interest in what you’ve got to supply. making a daily business that you just run from a daily workplace is additionally a viable choice, though the overhead prices and begin up fees is quite extraordinary. If you’re searching for a contented medium that permits you to start a business for a nominal quantity of cash, which permits you to grow exponentially primarily based upon your efforts, one in every of the simplest business models ever created is thru network promoting. though many of us have tried and failing with a range of MLM firms, the business itself is kind of viable, and has made several millionaires over the years. Here ar some tips that you just ought to take into account if you’d prefer to attempt your hand at structure promoting, tips that may assist you succeed where others have failed.

The best network marketing companies are those that have stood the test of time and have been around for many decades. You will of course recognize certain names like Amway and Melaleuca. These are companies that target specific products that people need to repurchase each and every month, staple products that must be consumed or used on a regular basis. It is for this reason that they have remained profitable for so long and have helped many thousands of people generate full-time incomes. But there is another reason why these companies are successful and it has to do with the structure of a multilevel marketing company.

The main goal of any business is profitability. In fact, without profits, any business will fail. The way that multilevel market companies stay in business is through the purchase of products each and every month. Of course, when you join the company, you will have to pay a small fee. But the majority of the money that is made, the profitability of the company, is based upon the sale of consumable products. It is also a successful business model because of how it is structured. It motivates people to have other people join the business, and those people will learn how to bring other people in. The people on the top earned a small percentage of the money that their downline produces, thus increasing the motivation of all those involved at building the company and purchasing more products.

There ar 2 tips that you should invariably take into account before connection a network promoting company. The longevity of the corporate and its overall profit ar undoubtedly things to contemplate, however you want to additionally believe the corporate that you just ar reaching to be a part of. Therefore, the primary factor you wish to try and do is valuate the corporate and see if you’d mind representing it to others. The second factor you wish to contemplate ar the product that you just are getting. In most cases, the product ar consumables together with food, vitamins, and a range of non-consumables that has to even be purchased monthly like dish soap, detergent, and plenty of alternative things that we have a tendency to should use on a daily basis. If you’ll see yourself operating with the corporate, and you relish the product that they provide, this is often the corporate that you just ought to be a part of and take a look at to create a business with.

By following the guidelines during this article in relation to selecting a network promoting company to figure with, not solely can you be proud of your selection, however you may quite probably continue operating with the corporate, building your downline, and making the most of your efforts.

Network Marketing Made Easy

If you have ever thought about going into an MLM business, otherwise known as network marketing, you are probably an open minded individual that is aware of the earnings potential that is possible. The idea of having hundreds, if not thousands, of other people working for you, generating money and revenue for you on a daily basis, is something that many people see as a great idea. The problem with doing this is convincing other people to have the same vision that you do, and motivate them to join the company and begin to work in your downline. In this article, we will discuss how simple it actually is to start making a good living with network marketing, and how you can easily convince people that this is a great business opportunity as well.

Network marketing is really not that hard to understand. It basically involves having people work together, purchasing the same products month after month, and motivating other individuals to do the same. The usual hang up involved with getting people to join is that there is always some type of initial fee that must be paid when they sign up, and there is also a monthly commitment that must be made by each person that joins. This is how the company is able to pay everyone, and is one of the reasons most people can’t get others to join. It really is all about viewpoint when you think about it. Many people join gyms and clubs, paying an initial fee. They also have monthly dues that are available to use their services. This is how you need to present this to people that are hesitant to join. And by telling them they have the potential to make money at the same time, this should help those on the fence come right on board.

A benefit that many people fail to mention when it comes to network marketing is how much fun the business actually is. Instead of showing up at your 9-to-5 job, doing something that you absolutely hate to do all for a paycheck, when you actually interact with these motivated happy individuals on a regular basis that are making money just like you, it actually makes life fun again. Not only are you using the same products, and promoting the same things, you get to work together in a way that most people at a typical job never do. If you represent their company as a way to have fun and make money too, this will also help people cross over and join your downline.

Best of all, MLM is a great business model. It is something that you can pass on to your children and their children. Depending upon the company you are working with, you will realize that most of these network marketing corporations that are successful have been in business for decades. It is definitely a great way to earn money, and something that you should be proud of sharing with others along the way.