Suzuki Violin Lessons Web Site - Updated

Hello everyone,

I have changed the look, feel, and features of my violin studio web site. I made these changes to further reflect my embracement of the Suzuki philosophy of music education.

Now you can access it by typing suzukiviolinlessons.com. Also, if you or your child are one of my violin studio members, you'll find that I have included a "members area" with information related to the studio's activities. To enter, email me for a login name and a password.

Temporarely, the former address of http://academy.violinsong.com would take you to the "old" website, which contained links to the new violin studio home. Now, if you go to the "old" address (http://academy.violinsong.com), you might find that it already takes you to the new web site. However, all you have to type in the address bar is suzukiviolinlessons.com. You can bookmark this address on your browser for easier access.

Thanks for your support and...

Keep practicing... even through the holidays!

Rigo Murillo
http://www.SuzukiViolinLessons.com

The Number One (#1) Factor for a Good Web Site

Graphics? ... No!
Flash animations? ... No!
Color schemes? ... No!
... What, then?

- - - C O N T E N T - - -

OK, but, what is content?
Content is what will keep your visitors on your web site for a while. Information about you or your organization, articles, comments, news, links to other sites, etc. Of course, the content has to be readily available to access by a good and logical organizational system (navigation bar). But content is king.

The three-second barrier
If your site is very visually attractive, they'll be impressed for about three seconds. If you want to engage your visitors for longer than that, you'll have to offer something they are interested in. That something can be information about you or your products or services if you are a business, articles on the subject of your web site, news pertinent to your audience, practical advice, recipes, etc.

Give your visitors directions and road signs
As I mentioned earlier, you also have to appeal to your web site visitors by making it easy for them to "grab" the content they are interested in. A good and simple organizational system will do the trick. It doesn't matter if your web site is a five-page brochure or a 200-page content-driven monster. The content must still be easily accessible at your visitor's fingertips. If your web site is a cyber-maze with a hard-to-navigate flair to it, forget it! You'll have to work on it or have a professional web designer conceptualized it from the start. Good web design starts in your head with good and logical definitions of the organization, purpose, style, desired audience, and foremost, the content. The navigation bar is the key.

They should hear it through the grapevine
Furthermore, content is as important for the search engines as it is for your visitors. Search engines will "crawl" your web site "to see what's in it." Simple, eh? They don't care about your pretty graphics (unless they contain precious alt tags) as much as they care about what words and phrases are in your content. Then, they can "tell" about "what you've got" to your prospect visitors through their searches on Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, or MSN.

Take action
If you think your web site needs a little boost to attract or retain visitors, you should consider adding more interesting and related content. If you think your visitors tend to not find what you have on your web site, consider re-designing your web navigation system. Over all, fresh content will always be a winner when it comes to receiving visitors.

Lost?
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Disfunctional Web Design?

Perhaps you know what I'm talking about. Yes, you are probably right! Those web sites you get lost at. Or the kind that you never can get back to the initial page you entered at. If you are on the "visitor side," you have a great solution: Close your browser and go somewhere else. If you are on the "owner side," however, you might lose a lot of , money, business, or good impressions by knocking out your visitors/customers.
A good web design will help both the site's owner and the visitor have a good time on the Internet.

More on that later.

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