How do i improve the traffic and design of my website. and whats the best design program to use? dreamweaver?.

Question

my website is goatlahoma.com

Answer 1

There are many old school items on your site. DreamWeaver is a good tool to use but knowing the code is better. Understanding html, xhtml, javascripting, and css is very useful.

I can tell you that what is good about your site is you say what it is about. I can get to pages. The graphics do need improving as they are early 90's style.

Getting a good design takes planning. Getting traffic takes work. It used to be you can submit your site for free. Now there is work to be done and getting other sites to link to you helps. You need to get search engine ranking.

A good website usually entails planning. You can have a simple site and not use a lot of graphics. Find sites you like, look to see who designed them, look at their portfolios.

If you want to do it yourself go ahead and get dreamweaver. Research sites. View Source Code on the browser to see how the code of sites you like is laid out. Now don't steal the code. Use it as example only.

Answer 2

It is difficult to comment on the best available tool available for designing websites. Almost all tools will provide features to incorporate basic look and feel for your website but if you want to make it look really awesome and self customized you must rely on your own web designing skills. For that it is important to be a good HTML programmer and knowing DHTML + Javascript can be quite handy. If you are not very well versed with all the HTML technicalities you may start with Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop.
The problem of traffic or network load arises only when you are making a website that would have more than a 1000 hits in an hour or so or you are sure that many simultaneous requests would be made by clients to the server. If that is the case then you must be ready to deploy your website on a good web server which supports the back end technology and database used for creating your website.

Answer 3

Just want to say, make sure you look into Cascading Style Sheets for designing your site. They will allow you to have a consistent look across pages and make it easy to change up the look of you site with minimal recoding.

As for designers, I don't have much advice, as I am more of a hand coder/programmer, but sometimes I used a free too call First Page 2000. A bit buggy but it did let me hand code and do some drop in designing as well.

Answer 4

Yeah, what he/she said above ^ ^ ^
Anyways, or you can let me design it and submit it to search engines too. I've worked on this site: http://www.triangleeventpros.com
and we have our own business site: http://www.duelwave.com
Yes, I know our Duel Wave site isn't much, but I'm too busy doing cliets websites and my school work LOL, I'll work on the biz site later.
Unlike other web companies we have FLAT rates, no paying by the hour. A simple site can cost $25 per file(page), and includes me putting on as many graphics as you want (as long as I don't have to alter them or make them from scratch, you just provide me with the stuff you want on the site and I put it up there).
Of course $25 per file(page) is our most simple website designing package, which doesn't including scripting like JAVA (that's an add on charge), nor does it include E-commerce (which is a different package all together).

And then there's just, maintaining it... unless you would like a whole new look to your site, I'm not sure.

What it looks like to me though, is someone already used dreamweaver, I can tell that by looking at the HTML source.
They just went back and added some JAVA or could of used Xara for that too, who knows.

Like the one above said, HTML guru or software that does most of it for you. Or you can just outsource and get someone to make it for you.

Well hope this helps, and tell your friends (we're a word of mouth biz, and grassroots advertising Hehehehee). B/c it pays for my FOOD. WISH you much luck.

::: Peace :::

Answer 5

There is all kinds of cool publishing software to be had. Dream weaver is one. It depends on what your intentions are for publishing. Content sites? Affiliate Marketing? Adsense? Membership Site. Forum?
Keep plugging away. Just try stuff and see how it comes out. You can read books till your eyes pop out but until you throw into motion, you won't know.
Ah, the big ? - t r a f f i c.... There is a methodology to this as well. I would suggest getting on The Reese Report to get a well
rounded perspective. Good Luck and Best wishes!

Answer 6

well,

Google is aware of you
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=site%3Agoatlahoma.com&meta=

and so is yahoo
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Agoatlahoma.com&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

But only 2 pages have been indexed.

Getting rid of the flash links should probably be your number 1 priority. I suspect Google can not find your links because they are flash links.

If the googlebot can't find your links your other pages will not show up in the search engine indexes and your pagerank will suffer.

Some things you can do right away to help with search engines:

Put the keywords in important places
- An H1 tag. (you currently don't have one)
- the title of the page

As for your usability and visual design, well, it could probably use some work as well. Try to talk to the people who will use your site and make sure your layout and content meets their needs.

Answer 7

If you must do it on your own, become an HTML guru through reading HTML books, and then submit your site to all the major search engines, google, yahoo, altavista, ask jeeves, dogpile...etc

or, if you don't mind spending a few bucks, have Incline Site Design: http://www.Inclinesitedesign.com design it for you.
Most of their web design packages are under $100 dollars, they also automatically submit your site to search engines when you have them design your site.

Answer 8

For greatest SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION outcomes My partner and i suggest applying Google Search Bot: http://is.gd/gsbsoftware Making use of that software package I have rated my web page to first page of Google on a extremely high competitive keyword.

Answer 9

You can buy targeted traffic for your website, it's very inexpensive and will save you alot of time. One of the main sites that I use is http://www.targetedwebvisits.com

Answer 10

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