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How To Create Website Stickyness
By Teresa Shouair
You may have heard this term before, "website sticky". This refers to the ability to keep your website visitors on your website longer. The longer they stay the better chance you have to sell them on your product or service. One of the best ways to keep your visitors on your site, and to bring them back again and again, is by giving your visitors a reason to be there in the first place. Content is key to getting traffic! If you can offer your visitors advice, tips or articles on related topics to your website, they will use you as a resource and as an expert in that subject area. A great example of using content to gain traffic can be found on any great website, from horoscope sites to interior design and on just about any subject. You probably have sites you have visited for the purpose of gaining knowledge on something, maybe even how to put your website together! You will probably find those sites selling hosting packages or
Accessibility
Two new links: "Defining A Good Accessibility Statement" and "Google's Smart Captioning Move".
Cascading Style Sheets
Three new links: "Setting Rather Than Resetting Default Styling", "CSS3-Only Tabbed Area", and "Creating Beveled Images with CSS".
Color
One new link: "Types of Color Blindness".
Evaluation and Testing
Two new links: "Do's and Don'ts of Usability Testing" and "Why You Only Need To Test With Five Users - Explained".
Events
Three new links: "MIX", "Canadian Post-Secondary Web Conference", and "Fronteers 2010".
Flash
Two new links: "Creating an Accessible Animated Presentation in Flash" and "Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web".
Javascript
One new link: "Crockford on JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax".
Miscellaneous
One new link: "Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group".
Standards, Guidelines and Patterns
Five new links: "Web Standards For E-Book", "Everything You Need To Know About HTML5 Video And Audi", "Exploring HTML 5", "The i, b, em, and strong Elements", and "Latest HTML5 Working Draft Published Despite Claims of Sabotage'=".
Usability
Two new links: "Closeness of Actions and Objects in GUI Design" and "Is Technology Becoming More Usable-or Less-and With What Consequences".
domain names or something related. If you don't have someone that can write articles for you...don't worry. I doubt few website owners employ a full time staff writer. Never fear there are all kinds of websites that offer resources for including free content feeds. The most inportant thing to remember is why people are visiting your site in the first place. Make sure whatever content you choose makes sense to present to your visitor. If they associate you with certain content you can believe they will be back again to read more. If you are not sure where to find free content, please visit http:www.silverspoonmurals.com. This site features articles on Arts and Crafts, Decorating and Parenting, but also offers free website content for webmasters via completely configurable javascript and RSS feeds in over 30 subject categories. You don't need to be a to to use these feeds. It's a simple copy paste process!
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