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• The thing about speed is that people only notice it when it's absent.

• Images 72dpi

1. Your pages must load fast.

• Above the fold

• Create a link if too long

• Everything does not need to be on home page.

2. Watch page length.

• clear, direct, and easy to use.

• If the page is long you should use anchor links to help readers find their way on the page.

3. Your pages need great navigation

• It's not okay to take a photograph and upload it to your website without resizing it and optimizing it to be as small as possible (but no smaller).

4. Image size is important.

• Color Wheel

5. Use Appropriate Colors

• Clear easy to understand term.

• Dates with years

6. Wide Audience.

• Examples: "There with there friends." "Your dumb." "He can't breath because the smoke effects his lungs to much." "I hate loosing." "She baths the cat once a month." I think: "Where with where friends?" "My dumb what?" "He can't breath because smoke puts his lungs into effect, and where is this Much place?" "You hate untying?" "She baths the cat once a month?" It should be: "They're with their friends." "You're dumb." "He can't breathe because the smoke affects his lungs too much." " "I hate losing." "She bathes the cat once a month." Other peeves of mine include "definately" (people definitely need to learn to spell this word), "should/would/could/ of" instead of "should/would/could/ have", and "alot" (it's two words - "a lot"). I also h8 txt spk and Wh3N P30PL3 7YP3 7H!5 W@Y.

7. Spell Correctly

• Check them!

• Link rot

8. Your links must work.

9. Avoid saying “click here.”

• Answer the requests

10. Pages need contact information.

• Your home page is your most important piece of real estate.

• Don’t fill it up with your twitter feed

• Social media should direct people to you not away from you.

11. Social media.

NBCCMaryland Mental Health Association

MUSIC THERAPYOREGON School Counselor Association

FLORIDA CA AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSN

Association for Talent Development – St. Louis chapter

Illinois School Counselor Association

??Guess? American Dance Therapy

• Association pages should be about providing information.

• It is not supposed to be a magic show.

12. Visual Appearance

A clear identity.

Pay close attention the next time you’re surfing the Internet.

Watch for sites with logos or titles that are obscure, or a

design so cluttered with ads and banners that the pertinent

information gets lost. So, keep your identity visible. And, be

brief and concise with your text. You don’t need a lot of

buzzwords to tell me you clean pools; just cut to the chase

and tell me why you’re the perfect pool cleaner for me.

Google search

Illinois

Counseling -1

Licensing -3

Indiana

Counseling -1

Licensing -5

Oklahoma

Counseling -1

Licensing -6

Nebraska

Counseling -1

Licensing -16

Iowa

Counseling –N/A

Licensing –N/A

Google search

Minnesota

Counseling -1

Licensing -100+

North Dakota

Counseling -1

Licensing -46

South Dakota

Counseling -1

Licensing -6

Kansas

Counseling -1

Licensing -30

Google search

Missouri

Counseling -6

Licensing -56

Ohio

Counseling -1

Licensing -100+

Michigan

Counseling -1

Licensing -6 (pdf)

Wisconsin

Counseling -1

Licensing -19

Web page names

Be sure they identify what the page is about.

3. Visible contact information.

Web surfers and web patrons have short

attention spans, so don’t make your

customers do a virtual excavation for your

contact info.

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