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	Best Design Practices To build a real winner you always start with a good plan. This goes for houses, bridges, skyscrapers and Web sites as well. Here are a few things to keep in mind before developing a plan for a web page. Even if you are hiring a professional, it pays to know these things. All too often, well meaning customers sabotage their Web projects by issuing instructions to their contractor when they have little or no experience with Web development.

	Common Errors to Avoid You can go a long way toward building a great Web presence by avoiding the common errors listed to the right. To learn more about any of these pittfalls, just click the link describing it.


	Points to Consider Before you guide a designer through developing your site (or do teh design yourself) there are a list of less-than-obvious things to consider.

		Remember that your monitor is not everybody's monitor.

		Image errors have many aliases.

		Watch out for disappearing fonts.

		Remember 3 words, Show and Tell.

		Avoid needless distractions.

		Keep formatting in reason.

		Pardon our construction, or don't.

		Splash no splash in search engines.

		SEO gone in a Flash.Turn Sound Down First!

		Music to my ears may not be music to every ear.

		Keywords? Start with the contents of Webster's.

		Don't be a Copy Cat.

		Do be a Copy Writer, or hire an expert to write good copy.

		Don't be selfish. Share the Wealth.

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