- The 5 Biggest Mistakes of Web Design
Your business needs a website. Heres a quick primer on how not to screw it up.
- The Background-Table Combo
Ever wondered how some websites seem to have multiple layers of designs? Although some use frames and other design techniques to accomplish this look, Im going to show you a simple way to create the look without the headaches of complicated design techniques. Youll be glad to hear...
- Web Designing Tips For New Web Designers
Websites are such useful tools. They are great for sharing information, selling products, and staying in touch and up to date with family and friends. As a web designer with some hard knocks experience under my belt.
- Domains - Boom or Bust?
Domain name registration started in earnest in the early days of the Internet, when people started to cotton onto the fact that domain names could be used for something other than novelty or specialized technical duties.
- How to Write Effective Web Copy
Writing effective web copy begins with an understanding of what the goals of your web site are. Are you trying to get your visitors to purchase something or have them sign up for your newsletter?...
- 7 Top Ways to Avoid Link Theft
If you have a link directory on a website, how do you stop link theft by sites that dont link back, or trick you into thinking they do?...
- Reinventing Your Homepage
Everyone struggles to make their sites appealing. Nonetheless, only a few has discovered the formula behind pretty and serviceable site.
- Using "Titles" with Your Web Links & Images
Using Title Tags for your web links & images is an arsenal many companies fail to utilize. These tags will help search engines to navigate through your information. In the last topic we talked about Meta Tags within your web site source code...
- How Web Design Can Affect Search Engine Rankings
Uniquely built web sites can create unique issues when being promoted on the search engines. From a basic 3 page brochure site to a corporate site with hundreds of dynamically generated pages, every web site needs to have certain design aspects in order to achieve the full effects of an SEO campaign...
- Add Streaming Audio To Your Website
Adding streaming audio to your web site can help you enhance the message you send to your customers and can serve as a wonderful confidence-building tool. In the past, audio was used primarily as a decorative effect, but advances in technology and the increased use of the internet by consumers have ...
- A Rainy Day Of Rainbows: Colors And Website Design
Theres more to websites than just images and text. A website is a marketing tool, representing the company, owner, employees and products. Beyond that, it is a personality. A website is a personality? Yes. It portrays a positive or negative symbolism and/or emotion.
- Choose & Use Best Colors, The Psychology of Color
Are you using the best colors for your web site? Many web designers often overlook the issues of color in web design.
- Colour Management
This interesting article on Web Design is about Color Management. The author discusses color theory, then applies it to graphics and monitor displays in a very helpful tutorial with lots of screenshots.
- Website Design - Choosing Your Colors Wisely
When designing a website choose colors wisely. Remember, colors convey emotions and emotions can heavily influence your decision-making process. Your choice of colors for your website should mirror the message and/or feeling you to hope to communicate to the viewer. Lets take a look at some colors....
- Web-safe Colors for Your Site (Exclusive Article)
Here a table of Web-safe colors is shown with their HTML signatures. There are altogether 216 colors (Cube 6x6x6), the classification is implemented in colors...
- The Importance of Color in Web Designing
A website is basically a marketing tool, representing the companies, products and services it is also a reflection of the companies personality, ideologies and philosophies. It is definitely a heavy burden to carry for a mere website, but it dose. Huge corporations spend millions of dollars to deter...
- An Easy Way to Choose Attractive Color Combinations
Lots of people struggle to come up with attractive color combinations when designing logos, banners or web sites. So, heres an easy technique that only takes a few minutes...
- Colours by Name, RGB and HEX
Referred to as the X11 Colour Names this Colour Naming convention was originally rejected by the W3C and may not be recognized by many browsers. Therefore I advise you not to use them, instead the HEX and RGB equivalents are included...
- Web Colour Combinations
What colour combination should I use in my website and how it will help your visitors on the long run.
- Color Adjustments: Color Theory (Video Included)
Lets proceed to the color adjustments. To work with color efficiently you have to understand the foundations of the color separation. If you know this theory, feel free to skip this page. If you dont, please read this at least once.
- Team Spirit Should Be Alive AND Well
e-Life is a Team Sport. ALWAYS ask for help. Self-reliance and jagged individualism are HIGHLY Over-Rated. Both breed jealousy and contempt. Just because youre hustling for sales all by yourself, doesnt mean you have to be alone...
- The Latest Google Page Rank Update
I am not sure how many people have noticed or even care, but there seems to have been another page rank update from Google. This update is very strange however and things are happening that are a lot different from anything I have ever seen before.
- The Mysteries of SEO
Search engine optimization recommendations are becoming must-do things to avoid oblivion and to gain some recognition for you content.
- SEO Should Be Invisible, But Not Hidden
Trying to hide your SEO practices can get you in a lot of trouble with the search engines. It could even get you banned. At the same time, however, your SEO practices should go unnoticed by the casual visitor.
- Traffic, Visitor, And Customer Analysis - Two Metrics
Ive developed two metrics I think are among the most important you can track, no matter what kind of site you have or what the objective of the site is. They are designed to focus in right on the biggest problem most sites have - getting visitors to go past the first page they see on your site.....
- Converting Visitors Into Subscribers
Convincing more visitors to subscribe to your list will let you get more bang for your buck. If your opt-in list isnt converting as well you expected, there are several target elements you can experiment with to improve your opt-in ra.....
- The Dirty Secret of Business Websites
Sometimes it seems that nearly every business has a website. And nearly every business that has a website thinks that having one is all thats needed to crack that web thing. The thinking is that if we build, they will come.
- Amazon Secret Weapon No. 1376: the race for recognition
Amazon.com drives high-quality reviews by rewarding reviewers - not with cash but with recognition, respect and goodwill. Yet again, the online book powerhouse leads the industry. By David Walker Some days it s...
- How to Easily Turn Free Content into Traffic or Cash
Whoever said that stimulating traffic and generating income is easy? Still, the job must be done. This tutorial offers one painless way to do it: distributing free content.
- SEO Techniques: Increase the SE Ranking of your Website
Higher search engine ranking is necessary to improve the sales of your products and services. But to achieve this objective, you require improving the search engine visibility of your website. It is not so simple to achieve a good rank in this competitive age.
- Importance of Good Copywriting
Whether it is the traditional print media or the electronic media, be it advertising, newspapers, or a website, copywriting is the use of a strong blend of powerful, motivating and persuasive words that brings about the desired results.
- How to Develop Pagerank Strategies
Search Engine optimization is an advantageous method by means of which your URL can get the kind of spotlight which will earn it hundreds and thousands of visitors every single day! There are a number of ways of...
- 7 Don'ts of Search Engine Optimisation
Search engine optimisation is a massive area for Internet marketing , usually if your website can not be found on the search engines your website is likely to receive little or no visitors at all. Search engine optimisation is an extremely competitive market...
- SEO And The Outsourcing Of Inbound Link Building
Whats better, spending your time to build links yourself, or paying another business to do that for you? This article offers a convincing answer.
- Top 10 SEO Tips
Before investing thousands of dollars in web design you might want to revise these SEO tips to make sure you are building the house on a reliable foundation.
- Reality Check: A Straightforward Guide To Keywords And Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Web site owners need to have realistic expectations when it comes to the world of keyword selection.
- The SEO Company I Hired Didn't Do A Thing! What Do I Do?
As a new age of web marketers filter through the trials & tribulations of success online, it brings us to an important question, who do I believe? If youve paid attention as to how to optimize your site for online performance, youll eventually come across what we call, bad SEO practices...
- SEO Consultant - 5 Qualities that a SEO Consultant Must Have
A professional SEO consultant is essential for the success of a search engine optimization project...
- What are the Best Ideas for Search Engine Marketing
Getting to the top of a search engine list is of utmost importance to get a pay-off in terms of plenty of free traffic. Here are a few important tips to get to the top of the search engine and subsequently maintain the high ranking on it.
- Do Not Be Fooled When Buying A Keyword Tool
Whenever you want to rank well for your website or any of your webpages, you need to know the right keywords to target. Whenever you want to succeed in your pay-per-click (PPC) campaign, you need to know what the right keywords to bid are.
- Let RSS and Blogging Show You The Money
If you have been following all the latest developments in Internet marketing you will have discovered a few things. Recent trends are proving to be very lucrative for those savvy marketers who are taking advantage of these new changes.
- Create an RSS Feed for Your Website Step-by-Step
Syndicating your own website content is a great way to provide information to your readers with little or no effort. Using RSS, your updated content is delivered to individuals who have subscribed to your feed automatically.
- Why RSS is a Good Thing?
This article provides basic information about RSS feeds syndication. With this information you may decide to install the RSS feed of your content, with links, to your reader/subscribers worldwide. RSS not only better distributes your
- Do you Know About RSS Feed?
RSS is a format for syndicating content and metadata over the Internet. It is commonly used to share headlines and links to news articles. With news articles, the actual article isnt usually shared, but metadata about the article is
- Is Blogging And RSS ALL THAT? Yes, And A Bag Of Chips!
Webmasters who understand what to do with a blog once they install one are reaping huge rewards in targeted traffic, incoming links, and faster search engine spidering. Read this article to jion their ranks.
- Pitfalls of a Newbie - What About RSS Feeds?
Are RSS feeds necessarily the right thing for you? Take a look at this article in order to find out everything you need to know in order to make the right decision.
- A Brief History of RSS
Where did RSS come from? How long has it been around? RSS has had quite a history, some of which is shrouded in folklore, so I cant guarantee that my understanding of RSS history is 100 percent flawless. In fact, even what RSS stands for has changed over the years! There are three meanings for RSS....
- 7 Quick and Easy Ways to Increase Your RSS Subscribers
Its no secret that a lot of blog readers prefer to read your blog through RSS. These readers may never see your blog but crafty bloggers know how to make RSS subscribers come to their blog.
- RSS Tools
The following article covers a topic that has recently moved to center stage--at least it seems that way. If youve been thinking you need to know more about it, heres your opportunity.
- Communication with RSS
RSS is fast replacing email marketing and newsletters. You would not want to be left behind would you? Your competitor will surely overtake you and speed right up...
- Working with Objects in PHP 5
The second part of the series showing new PHP programmers how to deal with Objects and learn the basics of Object Oriented Programming.
- Displaying Date and Time using PHP
Type exactly like below in Notepad or any other HTML Editor and save it as date.php in your localhost.
- Last Modified and User's Screen Resolution Detection
An easy and efficient way to write the date a file was last modified.
We call the function filemtime() that returns an integer (the number of seconds elapsed from Jan 1st, 1970 00:00 GMT) Anyway, to make this integer viewable by human beings, we just format it using date() function.
- How to Install EasyPHP ( PHP, MySql, Apache & PhpMyAdmin)
1. Download EasyPhp, Open It or Save It
2. Double Click on the setup, and follow the next steps:
- PHP Messagebox
Easily create a PHP Message Box, without using any mysql! Using this method, when your visitors post something, the simple script interprets it, and stores the message in a text document. It is also fully customizable with HTML.
- PHP Functions
Go to the next level in PHP
- Installing PHP on a Mac
One great aspect of Mac OS is that it ships with a preinstalled Apache server and PHP4. So if you want to develop dynamic PHP based web sites on your local machine, you just have to enable the PHP4 module and start the server.
- Building a Subscribe/Unsubscribe App in PHP with Dreamweaver CS3
E-mail newsletters are a very popular method of maintaining an open channel of communication with your site visitors. They have the great benefit of keeping a sites current user base up-to-date on the latest news and offerings from the organization.
- Form Handling
We are going to be working with the $_Post or $_Get arrays. They basically tell the form if i needs to post something, or get something. In this case we are going to be showing you the basics of a contact email form, so we will be using the $_Post array.
- Design an Online Chat Room with PHP and MySQL
In this article, you will learn how to design and develop a simple online chat room with PHP and MySQL. This tutorial explains every steps of the development, including both database design and PHP programming. Basic computer skills and knowledge of HTML and PHP are required. Ok, lets begin now. ....
- Inserting Rows into a Database
This tutorial will show you how to insert a row of data into a database using ASP and an MS Access database. You can do it on one ASP file, but well have two files: one processor page (proc.asp), and one form page (form.asp). Then, well make the MS Access database that corresponds to the ASP.
- Dealing with Requests in ASP
This tutorial will show you how to change the location of an iFrame using requests in one file.
- Database Connection Strings
Although our ASP database tutorials all use MS Access connection strings, there are many sorts of database software out there for use with ASP. This tutorial will show you how to connect with them...
- AIM Profile Screenname Viewer as a component of AIM Profile Designs
Aim Profile Designs constantly develop. Read ASP Tutorial: AIM Profile Screenname Viewer. This tutorial will show you how to make a script to see who has seen your AOL Instant Messenger profile.
- Show the Number of Users Online
Learn how to use global.asa to display the number of users visiting your site. This tutorial can be broken down into two sections, global.asa, and numvis.asp. Before you can begin this tutorial, make sure your host supports global.asa...
- ASP.NET in Dreamweaver 8
In this article you will be able to use the new features of dreamweaver 8 to connect to a SQL database and return the results to a datagrid.
- Counter in ASP
A hit counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to ASP and be able to give a write access to a directory...
- String Functions
This tutorial will teach you all of the basic string functions available in ASP using VBScript. I will keep things concise as possible. The following is a list of the functions and an example of each.
- ASP : Server Side Includes
This tutorial was written by one of the great guys at HTMLForums. I read through this tutorial myself and found it to be very useful and easy to understand.
- Form Mail via CDONTS
ASP gives you the power to send mail using the CDONTS mail object. This script will send an email from a user to whichever email address you choose...
- Time to Say Goodbye to Spam
You are going to love this Article - Time to Say Goodbye to Spam! The author gives you benefit of considerable programming knowledge in this helpful tutorial. Along with simple texts he gives you the code to filter spam like crazy.
- How to Make Background Music in JS
Make a background music with stop button useing jscript.
- Close Window
Add this nifty script to your pop up pages for the users to close them :). Six great styles that should work if done properly.
- Introduction to Javascript for Newbies
Javascript is a client-side programming language whose processing engine is embedded in web browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, etc. This enables the processing engine to read and interpret web pages that contain the javascript code when browsing
- Beginner JS Pt. 2
This tutorial is a well laid out recipe for basic Javascript. The article is brief and is limited to three topics: Calling the Script, Writing Comments, and Doing Stuff (Basic). Illustrations make it easy.
- onMouseover? What's This?
Well, its time to try out your first javascript. This one is nice because we dont have to deal with adding the script tag. This little script will write something of your choice to the browsers status bar when you move your mouse over a link. Lets look at the example:
- Tabular List control
This worked example applies styling and functionality to a basic grid of data to produce a simple form control thats a pleasure to use...
- JavaScript Prompts
Well, lets say you wanted to get somebodys name before they saw the page, and then write their name on your page right before their very eyes... Well, you can do this using a javascript prompt. Heres the command:
- Toggle Divs
I have found a javascript that allows you to toggel a div by the div id, well here it is...
- Last Modified, Loading Time, Preload your Images
Last Modified, Preload your Images, Loading Time. In this tutorial you will find scripts for this topics.
- How To Create Columns With Div's
When we at Ecommerce Partners started using divs rather than table for web page layout, the most daunting experience for me was how to create columns using divs. So, here is the solution for all those website developers who are struggling to use divs for web page layout.
- How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated
Following our successful experiment of setting up a news feed for my site, search engine marketer Dan Thies and I have joined forces to write this article to show other webmasters how they can do the same for their own sites. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let me set the scene... Bei...
- Why You Shouldn't Be Using XHTML
A lot of people these days are using XHTML. Why? Do they actually need it or are they just following a trend?
- Dreamweaver CS3 and Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a W3C standard mark-up language for defining the appearance of web pages. The use of CSS allows developers to fully separate the content of the page from its presentation, speeding up the development process and also making the...
- Turning off the Internet Explorer Image Toolbar
IE 6 has this (in my opinion) annoying little toolbar that appears when someone places their mouse pointer over an image: This tool bar offers some minor convenience,.....
- CSS Validation and HTML
HTML validation and CSS validation are controversial issues with some people. This article discusses some of the issues that have come increasingly to the fore in web development. The article will also provide a practical method that overworked webmasters can use to improve their website.
- Image and its Alt Text Roles in Effective Search Engine Optimization
It is Very easy to insert images into your HTML documents. Followings are the example how to insert an image into your web page and also set its properties.
- Using the Meta tag
Meta tags are really important because they are picked up by meta crawlers by search engines like google or yahoo. There are really easy to use to use. All the meta tags go into to head of your page. There are a couple different meta tags. Keywords: These are words that help web searchers find...
- An Extensive Examination of Web Services: WSE standards
As weve discussed in the previous installments of this article series, Web services are comprised of a number of core standards, including: XML, SOAP, WSDL
- How to Create Meta Tags to Optimize Your Web Site
In this article, I will teach you the basics about Meta Tags and their functions. Learning how to create Meta Tags is essential for your companies web site ranking.
- Guide to web hosting and domain name registration
Rule number one: Dont buy your domain and hosting from the same company. This is the first and foremost advice I would like to give for those who are starting their website. Because in the course of your websites life you will be changing your web hosting at least 2-3 times for variety of reaso.....
- What is a Domain and How to Choose Domain Name?
What is a Domain? Domain is an address that users use to locate your website in the Internet. In other words, domain is a set of characters that associates your internet resource with the server where it is located.
- Make Money from Dead Domain Names
Every day there are hundreds of website owners who have purchased a domain name only to forget about it and then let it expire. For those investors who are well informed about such names they can snap these up and therefore capture a huge amount of existing traffic even though the site is considered...
- Where You Should Register Your Domain Name
If you own a website, you would understand the cost and effort required to make everything just perfect. No one wants to invest a lot into a web site and just turn it over to anyone. You need to make sure the domain registrar you choose is professional and can do the job right.
- Why do we Need Privacy Protection when we Buy Domain Names?
Also known as Private Registration This is a term involved with domain name registration. And it literally means you domain name registration details are kept private or in other words your personal details such as your name, home/ office address, email address and phone numbers are not display......
- Getting Started With Your Funny Web Site
You have had the idea of a lifetime. It could be bigger than you tube, funnier than stupid videos. It will make you millions and you will be the most popular person for miles around.
- How to Pick the Perfect Domain Name
What makes the perfect domain name?
Well, it has to be:
Relatively short Simple to remember Easy to spell I was speaking to a customer recently who had a business called Otway Valley Trading Company.
- How To Find Expired Domain Names
Every day thousands of domain names expire. Some owners no longer have any use for the domain name and let it expire. There are owners who have no idea that their name has expired. Once the domain name expires it can also be referred to as a deleted domain name.
- Help! I have Lost my Domain Name
Imagine this: you wake up one morning to find your web site has disappeared, your e-mail has stopped working and a person youve never heard of is listed as the owner of your domain name. Such a Kafkaesque loss of digital identity is actually surprisingly common. The main cause is not the well publ....
- Protect Your Domain Name
Domain names can be registered in increments of 1, 2, 5 or 10 years. The domain remains yours AS LONG AS it is reregistered prior to its expiration date. If you let the registration lapse, someone else can quickly register it and make it their own.
- The Dark Side of Budget Web Hosting
As in this world nothing is for free; same is with free web hosting. In case of free web hosting there is another dark side undisclosed which hampers ones chances of becoming successful.
- See RSS Feeds from Your Website
RSS feeds have made it so convenient to gather current information. If you have an RSS Reader on your desktop, then from this one window you can get up-to-date information from any sources of your choice, such as:...
- What is Web Mail?
E-mail is something we all get and soon we will not be able to exist without it. In the time we live in today it is becoming more and more important to have a place to be reached on the Internet. At one time, being able to check your E-mail through a client, like Outlook Express, was enough...
- Web Hosting Tips
So, you have your website made but dont know where to start when you have to find a place it host it. Selecting a web host should not be made using a magic eight ball, though it may be tempting since there are so many choices to be made.
- Top 3 Free Web Hosting Services
Nowadays, there are many free webhosting services available on the Internet. Sometimes it can be difficult to choose which one is best for you. First of all, you need to bear in mind free wehosting usually have some limitations such as not allowed email accounts, no mysql databases, no perl etc.
- Web Hosting
There are literally thousands of places to get Free web hosting. Maybe you already have one. Are you happy with it? Do you wish you could do away with the advertising you must put up with?...
- Professional Web Hosting vs. Free Web Hosting
Both free and professional web hosting have their benefits and down sides. However, before the best type of web solution can be found the webmaster will need to consider the main motivator for the website.
- Website Hosting Options For Everyone
As e-commerce continues to change the way that people shop in our culture, the numbers and types of website hosting options has grown to staggering proportions. Trying to find the best hosting sites and the best website design templates can be maddening.
- Use Server Side Includes To Ease Your Workload
Im all for making things as easy as possible. The whole idea in business, and life, is to work smarter not harder. When designing websites, I not only want to create them with as little effort as possible, but I also want to make maintaining them easy.
- Web Hosting Shopping Guide
What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting means a web host provides the storage, connectivity, and services necessary to serve files for a web site
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