Herman Drost

Increase Search Engine Rankings

Increase Search Engine Rankings - 17 Highly Effective Strategies Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Search engines are still one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your web site. This is because it is highly targeted traffic. A person searching... Read >

How to Improve Search Engine Rankings

How to Improve Search Engine Rankings Copyright 2002 Herman Drost You finally got your web site listed in the major search engines, however it is buried amongst millions of others and you still have not seen an increase in traffic to your web site.... Read >

How to Increase Link Popularity and Improve

How to Increase Link Popularity and Improve Search Engine Ranking © 2003 Herman Drost If you want to improve search engine ranking of your web site, you need to find a large number of high quality links from other web sites. These are called inbou... Read >

How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic

How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Getting traffic to your web site without analyzing it, is like being blindfolded in a crowd. You hear voices, but you don't know which direction they are coming from or who they are. ... Read >

Spice Up Your Web Site With An Image Rotator

Spice Up Your Web Site With An Image Rotator © Herman Drost Normally I don't like moving objects when I arrive at a web site. It distracts visitors from getting to the content. However, many web sites can enhance their visitor's experience by c... Read >

How to Test Your Web Site Usability

How to Test Your Web Site Usability Copyright 2002 Herman Drost When designing a web site, you are never sure how it appears to all people. This is because people use different browsers, resolutions, computers and connection speeds to the Internet... Read >

How to Create an Effective Web Site Navigation

How to Create an Effective Web Site Navigation Structure - Part 1 Copyright 2002 Herman Drost A ship captain traversing the open seas without a good navigation system will surely get lost. Maybe he'll strike sharp rocks and his ship will sink. A vi... Read >

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 3

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 3 Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Image optimization significantly improves your site's effectiveness. Whether your success is measured in revenue per user, page views, unique visitors, or pure profit, acc... Read >

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 2

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 2 Copyright 2002 Herman Drost When surfing the Web, you will have noticed web sites where the images load very slowly whereas other images don't match with the theme of the site or appear blurry. Prese... Read >

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1

How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1 Copyright 2002 Herman Drost You are staring at the your monitor waiting for the image to download. It finally appears but it has blurry edges. You go to the next page but can't read the text because... Read >

Web Site Redesign – from stagnation to rejuvenatio

Web Site Redesign – from stagnation to rejuvenation Copyright 2002 Herman Drost When surfing the Web these days, you often come across web sites that suffer from stagnation – they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur.... Read >

How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Incl

How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Includes (SSI) Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Recently a person asked me if I could replace 125 web pages of her web site with a new drop-down navigation system. If she had to do this manually, she would h... Read >

Improve Your Web Site Design with a Fancy Font

Improve Your Web Site Design with a Fancy Font © 2003 Herman Drost Have you ever tried to design your web site with a beautifully selected fancy font, only to realize that most folks don't have it installed on their computer? This means your we... Read >

How to Make Effective Use of Web Fonts

How to Make Effective Use of Web Fonts © Herman Drost Writing for your web site is not the same as offline writing. The fonts used for print media are different than web fonts. This is because it's harder to read text on a computer screen and visitor... Read >

How to Layout Your Web Pages

How to Layout Your Web Pages Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Searching for the right information on a web page can be a very frustrating experience. Have you ever encountered web pages that are so cluttered with information and graphics, that you leave, ... Read >