How To Get Your Website into the 21 st Century Denise R. Jacobs Web Solutions Consultant PapillonEffect.com

Who is Denise? Starting with teaching herself HTML in 1996 (and dreaming in it for a while), Denise R. Jacobs has worked at creating and maintaining websites, web application localization, web project management, and teaching web design/development since then. Currently, Denise is a Web Solutions Consultant with her company PapillonEffect.com in Miami, Florida. She helps individuals and businesses increase their web knowledge, transform their web presence, and bring their websites into the 21st century with standards-based markup, web 2.0 tools, and the use of Social Media.

Starting with teaching herself HTML in 1996 (and dreaming in it for a while), Denise R. Jacobs has worked at creating and maintaining websites, web application localization, web project management, and teaching web design/development since then.

Currently, Denise is a Web Solutions Consultant with her company PapillonEffect.com in Miami, Florida. She helps individuals and businesses increase their web knowledge, transform their web presence, and bring their websites into the 21st century with standards-based markup, web 2.0 tools, and the use of Social Media.

How many of you have websites? One? Most?

How do you feel about your website? Like this? … Or like this?

Like this?

Four ways to get your site into the 21 st Century Change your website… From Plain to POSH From Flat to Fabulous From Professional to Personal From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

Change your website…

From Plain to POSH

From Flat to Fabulous

From Professional to Personal

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

Change your site from Plain… to POSH!

Change from Plain to POSH – How? Have well-structured, standards-based code Have useful, well-written content Make your site highly usable and accessible to multiple users

Have well-structured, standards-based code

Have useful, well-written content

Make your site highly usable and accessible to multiple users

Change your site from Flat… to Fabulous!

Change from Flat to Fabulous – How? Utilize a content management system (cms) Leverage related content & multiple ways getting to information Optimize your site so that your users can find it easily with a web search (seo)

Utilize a content management system (cms)

Leverage related content & multiple ways getting to information

Optimize your site so that your users can find it easily with a web search (seo)

Change your site from Professional :/ to Personal :)

Change from Professional to Personal – How? Capture user information & get the word out about your site Bring in content from other sites & let users subscribe to yours Create community and connections

Capture user information & get the word out about your site

Bring in content from other sites & let users subscribe to yours

Create community and connections

Change your site from Web 1.0… to Web 2.0 (and beyond)!

Change from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 – How? Show and tell with multimedia Incorporate a blog into your site Dive into social media

Show and tell with multimedia

Incorporate a blog into your site

Dive into social media

Just say “No” to… Flashy gimmick sites Website “deals” & cookie-cutter solutions Trying to figure it all out yourself

Flashy gimmick sites

Website “deals” & cookie-cutter solutions

Trying to figure it all out yourself

Need further guidance? Want to learn more? I can help! [email_address] Thank you for your time and attention! (photo credits: users on Flickr.com)

Want to learn more? I can help!

[email_address]

Thank you for your time and attention!

(photo credits: users on Flickr.com)