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When making a website it is important to keep visitors returning to your website. The best way to achieve this is through the content on your website. Make sure the website content is engaging and updated regularly. Basically keep the website fresh.
Another way to keep a website fresh is through its design. Now, obviously you don’t want to keep re-designing your website but the good news is, you don’t have to. There are subtle techniques that you can utilise to strike a chord with your website visitors.
One method is to code the website to work out the time of day it is and then display a relevant background image. So, you could have four settings that the website would recognise. Namely “sunrise”, “sunset”, “day”, and “night”. For each of these four states you would have a background image created. Then the website would work out which of the four settings the current time of day falls within and it would then display the relevant background image. So if a visitor visits a website at 22:00 then the website would display the “night” background image.
Website visitors like little nuances like this as it makes a site more original and engaging and it is worthwhile for a webmaster to do as it doesn’t take much time.
Allow us to show you a very simply example of how this can be achieved. We have produced a simple example for you over at the following link, take a look: http://www.panoconsulting.co.uk/demo/time-sensitive-websites/
We won’t bore you with the science behind how it is achieved but when utilised it effectively produces a time sensitive website.
On March 26th I took my Grade 4 Violin exam so I had been practicing like an athlete for the weeks leading up to it. It went well I feel but I won’t get the results for another couple of weeks. For my pieces I played “English Dance” which is 13th-century melody and is very fast-paced and played vigorously. Then, my favourite piece “Mazurka” which is a Polish Dance that has a lively tempo and heavy accents on the first note of each bar. Finally, I played a Cuban piece called “Estes Indifferente” (You Are Indifferent) which is slower than the previous two and is played in a moody style.
I have been organising a Charity Letterbox walk on behalf of The Labrador Rescue Trust. It was a rush to get everything ready in time which I just managed to do. I sited the stamps on the moors the day before the “Spring Meet” and got caught in a heavy hail storm halfway around the route but me and my dog sheltered behind a rock and it passed off eventually. On Sunday 29th March I was in Lee Moor Village Hall at the Spring Meet selling my charity Letterbox walk along with another volunteer who bought some LRT merchandise for us to sell as well as the clue sheets for the walk. Thoroughly enjoyed the day and made a nice amount of money for The Labrador Rescue Trust.
Now, lets break it down…
In a few previous posts I have discussed website content in some shape or form. Well here is the most important thing you will learn about content on the web. I have mentioned it before but I will mention it again:
To the untrained eye, they will not know whether their website has been hand-coded or whether it was a template website or made in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) software. So what’s the fuss you might ask. The fuss is that Search Engines (like Google, Yahoo, etc) don’t care what your website looks like. They don’t care about the fancy use of colour or the stunning photos you have on your website. They care about the “construction” of the website, how the website was built. After all, if a search engine doesn’t “rate” your website then nobody will be able to find it.