How to make your site come alive

My first web site was nothing more than a brochure that was transformed into an HTML document and dgdg454dfhhfd installed on the web. Since then I have learned that web pages can do a lot more than printed brochures, because they can offer several different ways to involve cheap NFL Jerseys the visitors. Here are some of the ways that I use to bring my sites to life.

The first and most obvious kind of interactivity is to have a way in which someone can send you a message or contact you. You can do this by putting your e-mail address as a "clickable" link on your web pages. This is normally enough, but sometimes people are not surfing on their own computers and can't click on the mail link because they don't have an e-mail program on that particular computer. The answer is to put a contact form on the web site. This allows Cheap Jerseys China anyone to contact you, no matter where they are surfing. Also, as far as I can see, the contact form seems to get more responses than a simple "mailto" link, perhaps because it requires so little effort to complete.

Forms can be activated by a CGI script, or if you are using Front Page, through the Front Page extensions. The newsletter or e-zine in its simplest form can be nothing more than an update of new features on your web site. Or you can be more ambitious and write an article on themes related to your web site. For example, if your web site represents your bicycle shop, your newsletter could contain articles about cycling. Explain the scope of your newsletter with an announcement on your web site: "Get updates and information related to the themes of our website in a free e-mail newsletter" followed by a sign-up form where the people can sign up for the newsletter.

Start a

Newsletter

In your newsletter provide links to your web site, and your products or services order pages. I find that whenever I send out a newsletter, traffic on the website increases as do orders for my products. Also provide information on how people can subscribe and unsubscribe, and tell people to forward the newsletter to friends and people who wholesale nike jerseys might be interested in your website.

You can keep people coming back to your site by using a bulletin board or online forum. The beauty of the bulletin board is that your visitors create your content. However, in order for this to work you must have enough traffic. If you have a Britney Spears fan site, then it should be no problem to get your bulletin board up and running. If your site doesn't have a strong flow of visitors there is still a way in which you can use a bulletin board. Hold a special forum. Announce, on your site and in your newsletter, a specific period in which there will be a discussion on a topic: "Visit our special forum on Racing Bicycles which will be held from September 1-5. Participating in the discussion will be the webmaster and his staff of racing experts". This is a good way to tie together your newsletter and your bulletin board to sustain interest in your site.

Put Up

a Bulletin Board

In order to have a bulletin board you may have to install a script on your site. Or perhaps your

hosting firm has a pre-installed bulletin board script. You can get bulletin board scripts for free or for a small fee. If you are not able to install a bulletin board once again you can get cheap nike Jerseys one hosted on another server for free (with advertisements) or for a monthly fee (without advertisements).

Finally, here is another idea on how to draw your visitors into the site. You're an expert on something, that's why you have your website! Start a questions and answers column on the site let your web visitors send in their questions and you and or your team of experts can give the answers. Award a prize to the person who sends in the best question of the month. It will help you to generate some useful and new content for your site and also let you know what your web visitors are thinking.