Keep these guidelines in mind as you plan your website's layout and content.

"Content is King"

This is not just a clever saying. It is critical if you want a successful and effective website. Your site will be one of many millions, and people get distracted easily and quickly. Keep them interested with fresh and entertaining content regularly. If you let the content go stale, then people will leave and may never return. Additionally, you must keep the content relevant to the overall mission of your site. For instance, don't waste time on cookie recipes if you are trying to sell vintage floppy disks.

Internet Explorer 7 has trouble jumping to on-page anchor links when you code the page using the usual standards.  In other words, the page will validate and your code may be correct but IE fails to properly use the anchor.

For example, if your anchor code is like this:

What is a Content Management System? 

A Content Management System (CMS) is an integrated interface that helps you to easily manage all the content on your website.

Current and correct information is very important for a successful business and website. A CMS gives you immediate control of the site content instead of waiting on a third party to make changes which may or may not be correct.

The content management system implemented by n390 is extraordinarily powerful and flexible yet very intuitive and easy to use.

The HTTP "301 Redirect" is the best method to use when you want to redirect browsers to another page. This method of redirection is best because search engines prefer it ie, they do not penalize your site for using 301 Redirection. Not to mention it is easy to do and cleanly accomplishes the task.
There are many ways to do page redirection. For example you can use:

• .htaccess
• Mod_Rewrite
• PHP
• CGI or Perl
• ASP, .Net or IIS
• Most any server side scripting technology

HTML or JavaScript Redirection

Google and possilby some other search engines index words that contain a dash differently than those with underscores. If your word is like my_house then Google will only return a result if the user searched on the whole string (my_house). If dashes are used like my-house then Google will return a result if either 'my' or 'house' is queried.

"There was a time not that long ago when many drivers thought nothing of tossing empty bottles out the windows of their cars. Years later, these same citizens came to realize that littering was not an acceptable way to dispose of their trash. The web design community is now undergoing a similar shift in attitude. Web standards are key to this transformation."

—Designing with Web Standards