H1 tags have been in extensive usage for years; however, just a couple of years back, its importance has further increased, owing to an increased demand by Google. In fact, it weighs more importance than keyword meta tag and description meta tag.

It is recommended that H1 tags should be placed within the header, positioned above the content. Experts propose that HREF links should be kept in separate from the tag. When a link is kept in h1 tag, it provides the impression to the search engines that the linked web page is more significant, compared to the present page.

Those aiming to keep a descriptive link to their own page can use the link together with proper anchor text including content of that specific web page. The h1 tags are the comparatively largest in form, and are often used independently, along with same HTML commands.

H1 tags also possess higher level of suitability similar to the Class, Align and ID attributes. Remember to always align the header tag at the top of the web page. You should be well aware that while Google scans a web page, it travels from top left to the bottom right of the page. By and large, Search engines scrutinize websites from text angle, in preference of graphical viewpoint.

Position the h1 header tag at the top left hand side or in middle part of your web page, where the main content is found. As an alternative, you may even use the h1 header tag as the title for the content present on that particular page.

You can also create sub-keywords using the same heading tags. In order to separate the text within the tags they are made BOLD. This way, they can easily be  identified against other text on the page.

Typically, search engines are always on the hunt for fundamental and authentic text on the web pages. H1 heading tags help in providing more search engine visibility to the page.

To beat the race on getting into the search engine results, all you need to do is carry out proper page optimization.

Every time you write content, make sure it has a set of certain ‘most searched for’ keywords arranged neatly in paragraphs. These keywords are the search terms you are placing your website under, while searching on the internet. Use of keywords in a proper density is again a crucial step which calls for our immediate attention. Each keyword you have chosen to use should appear several times in the contents of your page. The keywords should appear between 3 and 6 times depending upon priority for every 100 words of your content.

Next comes the ‘page title’. Your page should also contain your desired keywords for achieving excellent webpage optimization results. In fact while writing your page title, try to make those keywords become the first words of your title.

Make sure you are optimizing your page design to be search engine friendly. Divest the superfluous design elements, complex scripts and obsolete markup. Be particular in keeping navigation tight, and ensure that “Heading 3″ tags with keywords throughout the page are scattered in proportionate requirement throughout the page.

Incorporate links from external websites into the optimization process of your website. This process is called link building and it proves as a great help to boost up your page ranking in the search engine results.

Before you go along with your webpage optimization, always be prudent in choosing your keywords. Perhaps some keywords you choose to use may or may not be searched often and not give good results. However, take into account that the more aggressive keywords you choose, the harder it will become to attain top search engine results and search engine ranking thus, selection of such keywords yield no to little results.

Every now and then, Google has been bestowing millions of webnistas with its brilliant webmaster tools –bigger and better every time. These tools present comprehensive reports on site visibility, diagnose problems, and also assist in sharing information about a specific site on Google.

Educate yourself with Google webmaster’s easy-to-use tools. Follow the lead.

1.    The free and easy-to-use Google Webmaster Tools can be set up through site owner verification process simply by adding a Google code Meta tag onto the homepage or by creating and uploading a file with Google code. Once verified, you can effortlessly access the tools dashboard and get rolling.

2.    ‘Sitemap tool’ allows you to submit XML Sitemap with meticulous details on pages to index and priority to crawl pages. If you don’t have a site map created yet, do so right away and submit it to site configuration sitemap section.

3.    Crawler access tool helps in generating and testing robots.txt in order to identify how search engines are supposed to crawl and index site content.

4.    When you Google for information, you will see ‘Sitelinks’. ‘Sitelinks’ help in displaying inner links which are generated by Google algorithm. Although, you can’t add but can block or remove webmaster tools from displaying the site links if you do not wish ton get them listed.

5.    ‘Change of address’ is again an extraordinary tool to notify Google about your new domain(s), plus, it helps to move your old site users to your new domain with no trouble. This process gathers on 4 simple steps:

Follow like content link verification,

301 redirect from old to new domain,

Adding and verifying new site(s) to Google webmaster tool, and

Submitting the new address via ‘change of address’

6.    ‘Geographic target tool’ assists in targeting users in precise locations. You can choose the country depending on your target users and it would help for .com, .org and other top-level domains. Country-specific domains like .in, co.uk etc are already linked with Country-based listing.

7.    “Preferred domain(s)” allows you to choose the domain format that you wish to be displayed. You are provided with options to select http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com. If you have selected http://www.yourdomain.com and the site’s internal pages link with http://yourdomain.com, then search results display URLs which meet your desired information.

8.    Changing ‘crawl rate’ is again a piece of cake. It can be altered, depending on the site root level depth and default crawl rate. This is highly recommended to steer clear of increasing server’s bandwidth. This Crawl rate has no correlation with how frequently Googlebot crawls your site.

9.    ‘Top search queries’ tool holds information on your site search keywords impressions and clicks in form of ratios, together with keywords position.

10.    ‘Links to your site’ tool gives out information on inbound links along with anchor text for your site pages.

11.    ‘Keywords and internal links’ tool displays the common keywords Googlebot detects whiling crawling the site. Internal links reveals the total number of pages linked by other pages in your site.

If you haven’t yet, use Google webmaster tools right away to entertain yourself with the manifold benefits it is to offer free-of-cost.

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Let’s start by looking at one of its biggest treat: the easy-peasy rounded corners.  You just add a line of code of CSS3 and you have yourself perfectly trimmed rounded corners.

We are going to demonstrate this magic over here:

<html>

<head>

<title>

Elevation New Media

</title>

<LINK href=”special.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”>

</head>

<body>

<p>Elevation New Media!</p>

</body>

</html>

Now we write the CSS Code:

.roundedbox

{

background-color: #0066cc;

color: #fff;

line-height: 20px;

width: 120px;

padding: 10px;

border-radius: 10px;

-webkit-border-radius: 10px;

-moz-border-radius: 10px;

}

The border-radius is the magic word in the above code. This one word is responsible for rounded corners. Webkit is for Safari and moz is used for firefox. But guess what? CSS3 is not available for IE users, bummer!

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$(document).ready(function(){

$(“.menu a”).hover(function() {

$(this).next(“em”).animate({opacity: “show”, top: “-75″}, “slow”);

}, function() {

$(this).next(“em”).animate({opacity: “hide”, top: “-85″}, “fast”);

});

});

When you take your mouse on the menu link, it will look for the <em> object and animate it…

These hovering effects are used beautifully over many websites. One of its examples is:

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Most of the browsers display the list’s points’ numbers the same style as the rest of the body text. In this tutorial, I will use CSS to style up your numbered lists and present them with poise.

First of all, we will make a simple list. We wrap up the text in <p> tag:

<ol>

<li>

<p>This is line one</p>

</li>

<li>

<p>Here is line two</p>

</li>

<li>

<p>And last line</p>

</li>

</ol>

This is how it will appear:

A pinch of CSS will do all the magic!

ol p {
font: normal .8em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #000000;
}

This is how your list will be displayed:

This is a simple example to style up your numbered lists. You can play around with this trick and come up with an even better one! For more information, don’t forget to visit Elevation New Media!

CSS Conditional Statements
You have to write special CSS conditional statements to get your websites work on IE6. For instance, let’s have a look at the IE6 Italic font bug.
Either you would have to put so much effort hacking the IE6 bugs or you would have to yell at your client for not upgrading/changing his browser.

PNG bug
Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t support PNG alpha transparency. This hack is used to fix this bug.

There are numerous bugs in IE6 and if you still don’t hate Microsoft for that, Visit IE Exposed.
Either you don’t use PNG and CSS selectors or you can stop using the IE hacks; either way you are going to get fired. If you want to design happily ever after, you would have to live with the hacks and wait till the majority of users switch to a better browser like FF or upgrade their current IE6s.

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All you need to do is to add a 1px gradient PNG over the text. The HTML markups are:

<h1><span></span>Hello World</h1>

Now, we’ll add a pinch of CSS and you have yourself a stylish heading.

h1 {
font: bold 330%/100% “Lucida Grande”;
position: relative;
color: #464646;
}
h1 span {
background: url(gradient.png) repeat-x;
position: absolute;
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 31px;
}

You can use any solid background color with the gradient color same as your background color and it will look as elegant as this:

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• Website Designs

Flash is extensively used in website designing, across the world. I will not debate on how effectual it is in web design; however, I will showcase some websites that have employed Flash with elegance and delicacy.

If you have a look at Nivea, you will find that the whole website is beautifully developed in Flash.

Nivea

Almost every website uses the “giant-steps” approach to Flash Development but Nivea’s website leverages Flash effectively. If you start to build massive Flash websites, you may have to spend months fine-tuning every flash page and by the time you are done, your styles and designs are out-dated.

Now, Let’s have a look at Cubic Real Estate website.

Cubic Real Estate

Instead of taking a risky plunge to create a 100% flash website, they have applied the “baby-steps” approach to flash development.

• Interactive Applications and Websites

Apart from the website design, Flash has been widely used to develop e-Learning websites. For instance, at Childrens Creative, you will start loving books when you see their interactive eBooks with real look n’ feel. Astounding, eh?

Childrens Creative

Moreover, many companies, around the globe, tie in Flash to create interactive applications for the training of their employees.

• Games

Now, let’s see how Flash has ruled the multi-million dollars industry, Game Development. Flash games are as addictive as cocaine! You can run, you can hide but these games will keep popping up all over the place.

But, why are Flash games so popular? The primary reason behind their recognition is that they run on almost every platform, whether it is Windows, OSX or your Play Station; they will work everywhere.

• E-Marketing

Flash is the gateway to  successful e-Marketing. You’d be appalled when you will discover how Aston Martin and other companies use Flash to give them an edge over their competition.
Today, flash is the renaissance of online advertisement. A few years ago, the exasperating GIF ads with boring “click me” text were throwing the e-marketing budgets down the drain. With Flash revolution, we have managed to save our internet marketing campaigns.
The top ad campaign of the century is: Volkswagen’s Beetle ads. But, what made the VW Beetle ad campaign so radical? The answer is simple; they put creativity into Flash. Their interactive ads connected with the consumers by letting them build a custom Beetle of their dreams. Consequently, they would find out about more information on their cars and end up buying their dream car! The commercials have never been so good, with Flash.
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“We listen to your needs, we formulate imaginative ideas, we create perfection and you benefit!”

Our adage is not a cliché but it’s simple, transparent and proven to be a success. Now, after almost a decade, Elevation New Media has become the leader of the luminaries of Software Solution Providers; and embarked the heights of eminence in their Web design, Web development and Internet marketing solutions. We have hired the best breed of web designers, web developers and internet marketers who have been a part of the universal fruition of WWW.

At Elevation New Media, we have in-house teams of experts who create compelling and coercive websites while keeping their corporate look n’ feel intact. We deliver prompt web-based solutions, ensure our clientele’s satisfaction and make sure that we maintain our five star rating!

The veracity and variety of the accomplishments of Elevation New Media have been discussed by various booming enterprises. Short Stay Dubai, a leading self-catering accommodation provider in UAE, writes:

“Elevation New Media is our trusted choice for a sustained success in the internet world while we offer our clients “short stay solutions” in Dubai. A user friendly website design and customized search option are a real boon. These have made it a seamless task for customers to select, book and pay online for their accommodation in Dubai. Elevation New Media has helped us greatly with our strong online presence and a delighted customer base!”

Stuart Olsen; ShortStayDubai

http://www.shortstaydubai.com

Those of you who own a small biz or a huge enterprise and crave to have the opulence of a web portal… look no further! Visit Elevation New Media and experience the magic yourself!