Ethical Directory – The Green Directory?

Only a few years ago, organic food was a rarity, relegated to farmer’s markets and niche green grocers. But now you can find at least a small selection of organic products at most supermarket and even corner shop. Organic product has also broken the financial barriers or £2 Billion sales per year, which is one of the measures of the transformation of a product from niche to mainstream. As more and more people buy and demand organic product, the industries associate with it grows, out of the support industry for organic products and services emerged Ethical Directory, a website directory dedicated to listing organic and other ethically produced food and services.

Ethical Directory is arrange in an easy to browse category, which products and services arrange by a top category and various sub categories of product or services associate with the main category being listed under it, for example, on Eco Motoring category, Ethical Directory has sub categories such as LPG fuelling station, LPG conversion and other services associated with eco motoring. For those who prefer searching to browsing, a regular search form sites right at the top of the directory making searching for information just a matter of entering the work or phrase you are looking for, should the regular search not turn up what you want, you can always use the more powerful advance search form.

For users within to add their website, the starting point is Ethical Directories site submission form which boast of three submission option including the free option created to accept and list websites from non profit making organisations.

Ethical Directory, which styles itself at the green directory also contain other interesting section like the ethical blog where issues of the day are discussed with readers invited to interact via Twitter or the blog to share their opinion. The green news section contains many news items of the day pulled from green news media. Ethical Directory is a fascinating site you may want to visit, if not for the quality green websites listed in it then for the information blogs and news. The icing on the cake at Ethical Directory is the newly created Ethical Jobs section, which allows green and environment related jobs to be posted free of charge.

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Designing a website, pay attention to the basics

One of the biggest mistakes novice web designers make when designing a new website is often the basics. They tends to go though getting the difficult aspects of web design done but usually fall flat on their face when their design is analysed for the basics web design which even a novice should know.

A case in point is the forum called Rock Forums, though as a forum the design is more complex because the design was integrated into vBulletin software, the script that powers the website, however it fails one of the most basic rules of web design which is to test the final design in all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari).
Using Internet Explorer to browse The Rock Forum was fine but a visit to the site with Firefox see most of the important elements of the site including the logo fall flat on their faces.  A reference  guide novice web design should bear in mind when designing a website includes:

* Navigation
* Use of hyperlinks (general internal link structure).
* Important contents displayed prominently.
* Forms and contact pages.
* Speed of website
* Optimise graphics to improved SEO ranking, navigation for visually impaired and look and fell.
* Search capabilities
* Basic design concepts
* Site consistencies
* Standardisation and accessibility
* Compatibility with popular browsers.

Whether you are a beginner web designer or experience website designer, you can enhance you site design and development technique by exchanging ideas with other developers are UK Webmaster Forum.

Its is free to join.

Link Bid Script 5 directories offer

Link Bid Script popularly know as LBS, a bid for position directory script which recently evolved into a full fledged web directory script released the latest version, V1.5 today and announce the release date for V1.6.
The only significant difference between version 1.5 and 1.6 is that there is a network feature in V1.6 which allow sites submitted to one directory in network to automatically add the submitted site to all the other directories in that network.

To promote the release of LBS 1.6 a competition to win 5 domain name, 5 web hosting account and five installation of LBS 1.6 details of the competition can be found below.

Why star small when you can start big? Why pay for a bidding directory script when you can have LBS free of charge?

Imagine having 5 web directories with the hosting, the script, domain name and script installation done for you, imagine that the 5 five web directories are networked so that when site is submitted to one directory, it will be automatically added to the remaining 4 directories in the networks!

That is what you can win in this competition brought to you in collaboration with Link Bid Script. More information about this competition follows:

You can be the proud owner of a network of 5 directories powered by Link Bid Script.
* This competition will be run for 4 ( four ) weeks. At the end of the competition the winner will get his prize.
* Participant should be members of UKWebmasterWorld Forums
* To win, you need to submit UNIQUE article about web directories, your article can be on any aspect of web directory.
* Minimum words in your article should be 400.
* Mihai Jepan is the judge of this competition, the article he considers to be the best wins the competition.

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The winner will get:
* 5 Domain names
* 5 Web Hosting account on 5 C-class IP address
* Installation of LBS Directory software
* Free blog post to help you start your network promo going.

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How to enter
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* Register your interest at this thread on Link Bid Script forum.

How to start your own web directory

A web directory can be a great online marketing tool and a good source of revenue. When considering starting a web directory, you need to keep several issues in mind. First and foremost, you will need good reliable hosting. The most effective web directories today are subject specific, so you should consider a focus for your directory. A web directory can be quite simple, from a technological standpoint, or can involve extensive programming. The size and scope of your planned web directory may impact its overall design and structure.

You may be surprised to learn that you can start a web directory with a very low initial start up. You will need to pay for your web hosting and register a domain, of course; however, in today’s market affordable web services make starting a web directory easy. You can then find a free script online to use for your web directory, or purchase one if you lack the programming skills to create the backend programming on your own. Once your directory is set up, you need to begin marketing it, in order to make this a profitable venture.

Make use of online directory submission sites to market your directory. In order to make money, your web directory needs to get traffic and the best way to draw traffic is to offer a lot of information in your directory. Participating in online webmaster forums is another good way to draw traffic and links to your site. Keep in mind that subject specific web directories may be a more useful resource for many people and thus draw more traffic. Also, consider setting some quality control standards and avoid accepting pornographic or other questionable sites to your web directory.

How can you make money with your web directory? Online advertising programs are one great way to make money by starting a web directory. You may also want to sell featured links to bring in additional revenue.

Web directories are a great online resource for shoppers, those looking for information, and other web browsers. For webmasters, directories can be a useful money making tool. More than that, in today’s web market, quality web directories can improve search engine rankings and help sites improve their own profitability and visitor counts. If you are considering starting a web directory, you will likely find that it is easier and cheaper than you expect. Simply put, find a host, a domain and a script and you will be well on your way to being the master of your own directory.  PHP Link Bid is a free directory script software you may want to use to start you directory. It can be used for both regular directory and bid for position directory

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