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 Have you thought about re-designing your website or even starting a new website? If the answer is yes, and I think most reading this, are all thinking yes that’s me, then you absolutely must keep reading (oh and watch the video too)! Editor's Note: Okay, so you don't have to do it today or anything, it being Christmas and all, but everybody should make a periodic checklist of what their website needs in order to serve the end-user better. That way everybody gets what they want. Jill Whalen gives some tips here, but surely there are more ideas. Grant our wish and brain storm in the comment section about what else can be done to make sure your site is ready. There are a few basic things that you should remember when designing a webpage. WebProNews talked with Founder and CEO of High Rankings and Co-Founder of SEMNE, Jill Whalen about what you should do when starting to design a page. 1. The first step is keyword research. You need to know what you want to highlight on your page for the search engines.
Whalen said, “You want to sort of figure out what pages you need on the site, based on what keyword phrases you find people are looking for. And from there, you can just put them into the navigation.” 2. Make a blueprint of what you think your site should look like. You can even use index cards for this. Simply write your ideas for categories and tabs that you want on the cards and then you can separate them into groups, etc, to create a map and layout of your page design. 3. Make sure your headings are bold and appear consistently in the same place on every page. Just like most things in the design stage, consistency could be the most important feature on your site. So now the question arises as to what don’t I do on my site? Well the video gives more tips, but here are just a few quick things you shouldn’t be doing. 1. You should not try to put every link on every page. 2. Don’t open a new page up in a new window. “You could design a menu that could not be found by the search engines, that can’t be seen at all by them. Certain Java Script menu’s would be pretty much invisible and so they wouldn’t know you had all those links, so you want to avoid them,” said Whalen of what not to do. So the only thing left to do is to go ahead and start designing your site…and of course watch the video to gain more tips here on WebProNews. And here are some previous articles that you can catch yourself up on site navigation and menus.
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 By Jason Lee Miller
Online Community Rallies Behind Cancer Victim A couple of days ago something strange began happening on Twitter. Avatars of the people I follow began sporting peas. Peas in the background, in the foreground, pea pods, pea hats. And I'm all, "what's with the freakin' peas?" And sometimes carrots. You know, because of Forrest Gump. An inside joke, I gathered. But not a joke, a cause. The peas were appearing on Twitter in advance of today, Frozen Pea Friday. Susan Reynolds, an artist and new media consultant, is having surgery today to remove a malignant mass in her breast. The peas are for her, and for the American Cancer Society. Read More...
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PageRank A Highly Weighted Ranking Factor? Our featured post today comes from webnauts. He has been debating whether PageRank is a highly weighted ranking factor. He has found an article that backs up his opinion on this. Tell us your thoughts at WebProWorld! Subscribe to the WebProWorld Feed 
I am debating here for months, that PageRank became a very important/highly weighted ranking factor, and I am very sure that many of you here already know that I have been beaten up mercyless for preaching that. Today I read an article that is backing up my preachings with facts, so I would appreciate if you would also have a look and tell me what is your opinion about this everlasting for me burning issue: Sculpting Your PageRank For Maximum SEO Impact Thanks in advance for your kind contribution. 
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