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Some tips for your site?

When designing your Web site, you will want to keep in mind some basic principles. These include:

Minimizing download time by reducing the number of graphics contained on your site.

Avoid duplicating data that can be found on other sites by linking to those sites.

Avoid complex paths to important data by providing users with logical divisions of your site and including links to important information.

Try to make your web site have a general theme, in order to unite the pages of your site.

Name the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) file of the first page of your web site to whatever your server defaults to, generally "index.html" on UNIX servers, and "default.html" on Microsoft Internet Information Servers.

Maintain an appropriate level of professionalism when designing a web site.

When you have completed your Web Site, you will need to upload it to a server in order for others to view it. This can be done by using an FTP client. Contact your ISP for the account information needed to upload files.

By following these principles, users will be able to get much more out of your web site.

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