All Website Temple websites come pre-loaded with placeholder content that is strategically designed to follow a logical structure to make content easily understandable and attractive enough to stand tall above the competition.

If you feel confident, you do have the freedom to easily scrap the preloaded content and structure your content on your own. But if you want to quickly establish a cutting edge, high end web presence without the cost of an in house website design staff, simply swap out the preloaded text and images with your own, and you're on your way!

Symmetry is overrated, as you gain more practice experimenting with whitespace in your website content layout don't be afraid to stray from rigid layouts. Visual balance is not about symmetry. In fact there are many optical illusions that designers employ where asymmetry will actually look better to the eye than something perfectly aligned.

All SEO techniques can be divided into 2 main categories: on-page SEO techniques, and off-page SEO techniques.

On-page SEO

Step 1 - Page Title and URL

• Use friendly URLs for your website's pages such as www.yourdomain.com/website-design and NOT your www.domain.com/page2.html
• Check the length of your page title. If it’s under 50 characters then you should add an additional word. The maximum recommended length for page titles is 70 characters. Something thats related to your site such as ‘Shirts’, ‘Flowers’, ‘Web Design’, ‘Coupons’, ‘Envelopes’, or even a name of a local town or county would be a great addition.
• Make sure your key phrase is at the beginning of your title. Rather than 'Website Temple - Search Engine Optimization' go for 'Search Engine Optimization by Website Temple'. Google prefers key phrases as close to the beginning of your title as possible.

Step 2 Meta Data

• Keywords - Make the keywords specific to every page they are on. Ensure that your most important phrases are at the beginning.
• Description - Make sure the main keyword you want your page found for is as close to the beginning of the description as possible. Ideally it should start in the first 3 words.

Step 3 - Good Content

• Headings and Subheadings
  • Ensure you have only one h1 (heading 1) tag on each page. Subsequent headings can be wrapped around other heading tags such as (H2, H3, H4, H5, H6).
  • Check that every heading relates to your content directly below it. So if a heading contains a keyword, make sure this keyword is in the first sentence below the heading.
• Internal Linking
  • When linking to other pages within your website, don’t just call them ‘products’, ’services’, ‘gallery’ etc. Try adding an additional word to these to describe the page the link goes to. Something like ‘Marketing Products’, ‘SEO Services’, ‘Web Design Gallery’. These describe the page that the link goes to in better detail.
• External Linking
  • Links to high rankings sites that are relevant to the content of your page. This may be a link to a news website that talks about the same topic or even Wikipedia.

Off-page SEO

Step 4 - Inbound linking

• Create quality traffic to your site via 3rd party websites - talk about your business and your website on forums that relate to your industry, blogs, etc… Quality inbound links will not only bring visitors to your site, they will also vastly improve your website ranking on major search engines as they will consider your website as popular and relevant.
• Submit your website to directories and web galleries.

Cut Out The Background Using The Magic Wand Tool

Here is a short video tutorial on how to easily cut out the background of an image using the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop:

Cut Out The Image Using The Pen Tool

And here is another method using the Pen Tool - this method is much more precise and yields much better results if you are patient and if you make sure to zoom on the image at least 400%:

• Download some free (open source) icons
• Get free icons at www.iconspedia.com
• You can also search Google for images but be careful with copyrighted material
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