- Well of course you do! That’s the whole point, after all.
Do you have a website, a blog, a newsletter or ezine? Or perhaps you write articles for online publication? When you put something online – you certainly want readers to talk about it, link to it, and share it with everybody, right?
Right. But are you making it easy for them – are you helping your readers do what you want them to do?
I’m not a big fan of those off-the-shelf, whole-site Content Management Systems (CMS) as a rule. Don’t get me wrong – I like the convenience they can offer, and for managing large Corporate sites I think a really good CMS is probably one of the most important tools to have.
While there certainly are a lot of big websites out there, there are even more small to medium sized websites. In my experience, installing and managing big site-wide CMS applications with all those seemingly ‘necessary’ features on smaller websites is often simply overkill – adding complexity to a website instead of advantages. And the more complicated it is to use, the easier it is to break – this we know.
Like all website designer-types, I use a preferred set of website tools to automate, streamline and simplify website tasks. Some are common text editors and graphics programs that are publicly available, but many tools are exclusive “Websites Secrets“.
Now I can keep a secret as well as the next guy/gal – honest, but some secrets really shouldn’t be, and these definitely fall into that category. So, in the interest of intuitive websites everywhere, I’m going to ‘leak’ info on some of my favorite website secrets, one or two at a time – starting now:
As you may know – I’ve been a fan of Sitemaps for years:
On SEOmoz, chenry wrote about an experiment he ran to see if submitting a Sitemap to Google and Yahoo would decrease the time it took Google to crawl and index the page. As he said – the results were amazing!
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