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Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

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If you have even a remote interest in earning money on the internet, you have probably come across those pay per click programs that promise fabulous amounts of money just by clicking on ads and completing free offers. Are these things for real? Let’s take a look at exactly how they work and why you should avoid them.

The reality is that these pay per click websites are earning quite a bit of money off of their users. Sure, they might pay you a sum of money for doing the offers on their site, but rest assured that they are earning far more than you are! Between paid ads and the payment they receive for sending you to collect all those special offers, the pay per click sites are raking it in! And they have even more techniques to make money off of their unsuspecting users.

For example, have you ever read the Terms and Conditions contract that is on the website of one of these pay per click programs? If not, you should. You are almost guaranteed to find that they are not protecting you against anything. Your private information will become public knowledge and not only that, but possibly sold for yet more profit by the pay per click company or its affiliates!

While many pay per click sites really do pay up, they often have a payout limit that takes forever to reach so many people give up before getting to their goal of $50 or whatever the amount is and the company never needs to actually pay up. And when you do reach the payout level, there are far too many pay per click sites that actually refuse to pay!

That is the downside of the actual pay per click company, but what about the offers that you are completing? There are assorted different offers that you can fill out. Anything from simply filling out a form with your email address and name to ordering a product or a quote that you pay for and are then reimbursed for (on top of which you receive a bonus from the pay per click company).

If you fill out a form on a pay per click site, you are probably signing up for an email newsletter from the company that is paying. These are the lowest paying pay per click actions, ranging from fifty cents to a dollar. You are guaranteed to receive heaps of ads and junk mail to your inbox after signing up for one of these offers, and just deleting them all takes so much time that the piddly sum isn’t worth it!

As for the major pay per click offers where you sign up for a free trial period or a quote or other item that requires you to enter your credit card, stay far, far away. Too many people have been cheated out of their money by these companies when they were unable to cancel their membership when the trial period came up. These sites are usually designed so that you can’t quit even if you want to and they just keep charging your credit card, month after month.

Pay per click programs sound great, but they are often a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is better to look for a real online job rather than waste your time with these programs.

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For those of you who are new to the internet this whole online business thing might seem a little overwhelming. If you have never really surfed online, you might find yourself wondering how to find information on the things that interest you. Once you get the hang of things, you shouldn’t have any troubles at all. This article will explain the basics for you.

Search engines are the new to the internet surfer’s best friend. The most popular ones include Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, and Ask Jeeves. There are plenty of others, but as someone who is new to the internet, these will serve you just fine.

Since you are new to the internet, what a search engine does is take the important words that you type in and looks for the same words in millions of webpages around the world. It then throws back all those matching pages and they appear in front of you. This usually only takes a few seconds since all these pages and articles are already indexed. The most popular and most relevant (according to the main words) will appear at the top of the list.

For example, if you type in “craft supplies, wheat, felt, google eyes”, your first results on the search engine page will appear with all of these. Further down, or on the next page will come those that didn’t match all of the search terms. Perhaps they only had felt and craft supplies on the list. And so on and so forth until in the last pages you are looking at just one of any of the words that you entered, such as “eyes” or “craft”. For this reason, most people don’t bother looking further than those first two or three pages.

Once you have typed in the words or phrases that you are interested in and gotten back your results, you are ready to start looking at websites. This can get a bit confusing for those who are new to the internet. There is so much information crammed into a tiny space that it can be difficult to know what to look for. The first few results on the page, the ones that are separated by a colored box or a line, are sponsored links and they will generally lead you to a website that is trying to sell you something. Most new to the internet explorers fall for the appealing text of these ads, so stay away from them. Continue downwards until you find the real websites.

Each website has a title and a brief description. You can often tell from the few sentences that you can see whether or not this is something that you wish to look at. Many people who are new to the internet only read the titles and click, but these are not necessarily indicative of what there is on the page, so read the description, too. If the site is not what you thought, hit the back button at the top of your screen and try another site.

Just because you are new to the internet doesn’t mean you need to end up lost in cyberspace. Understanding how to use a search engine is the first step in getting to the sites you want to visit. After that, everything else is easy.

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You probably have one or two forums that you enjoy frequenting, where you read and post about issues relevant to you. Have you ever noticed that some forums just aren’t worth looking at because they are so slow moving? You could write a question and not get an answer for days! This is where a great business opportunity comes in . . . paid forum posting.

Basically, paid forum posting is just that, the forum owner pays one or more people to start new threads, keep older ones going and to basically maintain some movement in the forum. It is one of the easier online jobs you can get and if you join forums that are interesting to you, it can be useful as well!

There are two ways to go about getting a forum posting job. The first is to do it yourself. Find stagnant forums by doing a quick search on Google for the type of forum you are interested in. Go directly to page ten and continue from there. These are the less popular forums on that topic and the most likely to not have much activity.

Once you find a near-dead forum, write the administrator and let them know that you are available as a paid poster if they are interested. Offer to write quality posts, responses and start a minimum of two threads per day, for a fee. Although you can set nearly any price you wish, you will have a better response if you stick with the norm for forum posting which is between twenty and fifty cents per post.

To find a forum posting job with a company, do a search on a search engine like Google for forum posting jobs and you will come up with quite a few options. Check out two or three to see which ones pay the best and then ask on a forum or two (these sites often have their own) what other people think of the service. It is usually best to start with just one until you have an idea of how much work will come your way. Otherwise, you could end up with more jobs than you can comfortably do in a day!

You will be given assignments based on preferences and interests, usually. Any special instructions will accompany the assignment, along with how many posts you are expected to do each day. In general, you will be required to write high quality (not spam) posts that are at least 25-50 words long and spread over the different categories on the forum. Some forums will request four or five posts per day, with a couple of those being new threads and the rest replies, while others will only want one post every other day.

The nice thing about working for a company is that you can easily have up to 50 posts assigned per day without having to search for them. Although the pay is slightly less (usually between ten and twenty cents per post), you will be paid by the company, which means higher amounts in a shorter period of time. For example, you might earn only two or three dollars on each forum in a week, but the company will pay you the twenty-five dollars total from all the forums you worked on.

Forum posting can be a good way to get paid for what you enjoy doing anyway. So why not start looking for work in this area?

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