Meta Tag Your Site

In designing a website, you will work with a lot of tags such as the Meta tags.

Examples of Meta tags that you should consider placing in your website are:

meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
meta name="keywords" content="keyword,keyword,keyword"
meta name="description" content="A short summary about what the site is about"
meta name="robots" content="Index,Follow"

Here is a short description for the Meta tags:

1. The content specifies the information for that meta tag.
2. The keywords attribute of the tag lists the keywords for your site. When users type in a word in the search engine, your site may appear on the search results if the word used are these keywords.
   
3. The description attribute is used by search engines as the summary that will be shown below your link in the search results.
4. The robots attribute determines which pages of your website the search engines can crawl in.
   

Whether the website is just for fun or for business, take your time in finishing it. Meta tag it. Optimize it. Create elegant designs. And lastly, add useful stuff for your visitors.

Like Button

As you browse through countless website, you may have seen this button:



If you have, then you may have recognized that this button is made from Facebook with the small "f" icon beside it. The reason why I posted this is because as I visited one of my favorite websites, I happened to find this icon on their website.

With the button, you can get visitors of your website to "like" your site and share it to their friends on Facebook.

If you are interested, you can also get it for your website by going here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
This is the link on the Facebook developers page where you can create your own like button for your website.

You will also find other plugins at the site such as a comments plugin, which I have also tried out on my website at:
Projects

Launch of Tutoria

Tutoria - My tutorials website

Check it out to read tutorials on:

• AutoCAD
• Photoshop
• Mathlab
• Cisco
• Nippongo

The website is also available for mobile devices.
Go here: http://m.wbx.me/mobile-site-selcher

If you have any comments, please share them with me.

Key Tips for Using the Search Engines

Ever felt frustrated of not being able to find what you are looking for in at Google, Yahoo, or Bing?

Why not try using the advance search options or these simple tips:

• add a - if you want the search results to leave out a certain term

• use specific terms to narrow down your search

• if you need a serial number, add 94FBR as one of the key words (I'm not sure if this works)
  

• for specific files such as an mp3 file, add .mp3 to the keywords

These are just some common tips. If you want to find more search tips, read them here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479

Hope this tips will help you and if you know some, share them with us here.

Tips and Tools for Beginning Website Owners

Interested in making a website? As a beginner, I also had a hard time figuring out where to begin in making a website. To help you with your website creation, here are some useful pointers:

1. Try out websites offering website creation services
Some of my favorite ones are Yola, Wix and Weebly. With Yola, creating a website is easy with the drag and drop widgets. For website owners interested in making a flash website, then Wix would be the best option.

2. Create a blog
Creating a blog for a website will help. To create a blog, use the popular blogging sites such as blogspot, typepad and wordpress.


Once you have created the website, be sure to regularly update it with new content and improve the design to make it easier for users to navigate through the website.

After the website has been completed, the next step would be to optimize it for the search engines. To get tips on how to optimize a website, try searching for search engine optimization (SEO) in the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing).

Add This To Your Website or Blog

Have you ever wondered of an easier way in sharing your website or blog to other people?

If you have, then you may already know that social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace is one of the popular ways of spreading news about your website or blog.

Looking for a tool to do this, try using the button below.



The html code for this button is freely available at addthis.com if you want to add it to your website or blog.

So Delicious

Interested in social bookmarking?

If you haven't heard about it before, social bookmarking allows you to bookmark links to your favorite websites online.

Why try it out? Well, there are a lot of reasons. For me, the main reason is that it allows me to keep a copy of my favorite links in case I want to visit them even when I am not using my personal computer.

To give you a sample, here are my bookmarks on Delicious (a social bookmarking website):






selcher's Bookmarks on Delicious