Using the Same Template throughout your site.	Naming libraries, media and pages
Using the same font size and style.

1) Use the Same Template throughout your website

Try to use the same template throughout your entire website.  Using more than one template can give your visitor the feeling that they've left your site, or make navigation difficult since links are located in different places on different templates.  Not to mention, it can give your site a sloppy or unprofessional look.

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2) Use the Same font size and style

Using the same font type and size may seem unimportant but try reading text with different types and sizes

Now the example above is extreme, but it can look just as unprofessional having different fonts scattered throuhgout your website.  So, use one size and one font for all header text and another size for all body text, and the same style throughout your site.

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3) Naming libraries, media and webpages

Instead of using the default names, be sure to give everything a name that makes sense to you. 

• When creating new Media Libraries, give them a name that separates them from the rest, even giving them a number can help you distinguish between them.  That is of course unless you would like 12 libraries named "New Library".

• When uploading images or documents into media libraries, always give them a media name.  This helps you identify them later when you want to use them on your pages. 

• When creating new web pages you should always give them a title, and a File name (by clicking on "advanced").  The title is what will appear in the dynamic navigation, and the file name is what you use to make links.  By default, a new page has the title "your title here", and the filename "yourtixxxxx" (where "yourti" is the first 6 letters of "your title here", and xxxxx has to do with the number of pages on that server).  Obviously that is not a name that best describes your page.  A good rule of thumb is to make the file name the same as the title, but drop out any spaces or punctuation and make it all lowercase. (So the page "Pastor's Message" would be "pastorsmessage.html").  Renaming your pages and giving them good file names can help avoid conversations like "Was that phone number on the page "yourti98745", or "yourti98744"?  It will also help you as you look at statistics for your site which are tracked by the file name of the page and knowing that you got 147 hits on the "yourti75342.html" page is not nearly as helpful as knowing you got 147 hits on 'youthpage.html'.

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