Alpha Web Solutions Provides Resources To Help Guide You On The Internet Highway

Website Design Interview Form* - Not sure where to start? Think it through in writing! Download this PDF document and go through a step-by-step process of evaluating nearly all the information needed for your new website.

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eCommerce Web Site Worksheet* (to be used in conjunction with the Web Site Planning Interview Worksheet)

Design Tools
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Meta Tag Generator Tool

Once you have generated the words for your meta tag, copy and paste them into an email message and send them to your webmaster/website designer. Click here to open a message to Alpha Web Solutions. If you need help copying and pasting, simply use the left button of your mouse and place the curser in front of the first word. Then, still holding the button down, drag your mouse to the end of the selection. This will highlight the selection. Release the left button, but DO NOT MOVE THE MOUSE, and select "Control" and "C" to copy or push the right button of the mouse and select "copy." Then open the message and either press "Control" and "V" to paste, or push the right button of the mouse and select "paste."

Title
The Title Tag must contain no more than 70 characters (generally, 100 characters may be indexed).

Author
The Author Tag is for the person who wrote the material for the site.

Subject
The Subject Tag is for what your site is. Business, music, hobby, cars. Use up to 100 characters.

Description
The Description Tag can have up to 150 characters (generally, 200 to 250 characters may be indexed, though only a smaller portion of this amount may be displayed).

Classification
The Classification tag is similar to description but more in detail.

Keywords
In the Keyword tag use everything you think someone will search for to find your site. Use 200 characters.

Geography
Where are you located? Full Address

Language
Is your site in English, Spanish, French.....?

Expires
Use "never" unless your site will expire. (Eg. Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:57:09 GMT | Note: Requires RFC1123 date as shown here

Cache Control
Cache control level.

No Cache
This directive indicates cached information should not be used and instead requests should be forwarded to the origin server.
Yes
No

Copyright
Who is the Owner of the site, Company Name

Zip Code
Your Zip Code

City
Your City, Town

Country
Your Country, use all names; USA, United States, United States Of America, America, etc.

Designer
Webmaster name

Publisher
Owner, Webmaster, Company Names.

Revisit-After
Tell search engine how often this page updates. (Eg. 21 days | Note: Most search engines do not support this Meta Tag)

Distribution
Use [Global] unless it is a [Local] only site.

Robots
The values ALL and NONE set all directives on or off: [ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW] and [NONE=NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW].

MS Tags
Do you want Microsoft products to automatically generate smart tags on your web pages.
Yes
No

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