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Website Credibility - Can Your Site be Trusted? |
| How to create lists in HTML and control the way they look You make lists every day - shopping lists, "things to do" lists, people to call lists. Indeed, lists are a very important part of our lives. That's why when HTML was developed, its programmers just couldn't help it - they created a way to add a list to a web page. ...read on |
| How To Design a Consistent Web Site Using Style Sheets We don't expect Madonna to wear the same hair style, or the same kind of clothes at every concert - that would be really boring! But when it comes to web sites, we do need some consistency so we could find things faster and easier. ...read on |
| CGI Perl and Server Side Includes - Two Tools that Simplify Site Maintenance Does this describe you...Your website has steadily grown to over 50 pages. You're quite proud of your site and its content, but the end of the year is quickly approaching and you now find yourself working well into the night changing the Copyright notice at the bottom of each page. ...read on |
| Five Simple Changes Guaranteed to Freshen Up your Website Does your website feel like it's getting stale, but you don't have the time for a complete redesign? We've put together a short list of five fairly easy changes that are guaranteed to give your site some long overdue "freshness". ...read on |
| How to Make Use of Autoresponders Have you been following up on your contacts by hand and found it very time consuming? Do you want to increase your chances to make more sales, keep more of your customers? An autoresponder should be part of your marketing arsenal. ...read on |
| Tracking and Analyzing your Website Traffic - Part I (Tracking Software) You have a website, but how do you know if its meeting your visitors needs? Which pages of your site are viewed most often? How do visitors get to your site? Once they get there, which pages do they go to and how long do they stay? ...read on |
| Tracking and Analyzing your Website Traffic - Part II (Reporting Visitor Statistics) I'm sure you've hear the old adage "Garbage in; garbage out". Reports are only as useful as the input data. Therefore, capturing the right information is key. Given the right data, you will have the basis for some very actionable reporting. ...read on |
| Focus Your Website...Or Get Out of Business Last November, I was jumping up and down absolutely excited about my new idea. I was going to create a web site filled with articles, links and resources on just about any topic you could imagine. This way no matter who finds my site and for whatever reason they click on it, I will always make money, right? ...read on |
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Four Simple Design Tips that Leave Room to Grow |
| Market Your Website - 101 The Web provides a great vehicle for low budget and even the free promotion of projects, commercial ventures and even "self". You already knew this, I'm sure, but the Web changes every moment and here are some up-to-the-minute tips on Web marketing and promotion. ...read on |
| Smart Tags or Dummy Tags (You Decide) Many debates have been present in the PC/Web community ever since Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Office XP, which will contain new MS technology, "Smart Tags". ...read on |
| 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability - (Simple things that make your site easier to use) Designing a usable website doesn't have to be a complex process. Often times, it's the little things that make the biggest impact on a site's usability. However, because websites are often a form of self expression, we have a natural tendency to create the most impressive presentation we can. ...read on |
| ASP vs. PHP - Which one is right for you With all of the acronyms floating around the Web genre, it's difficult to keep track of the new (or old for that matter) technologies. But there are two acronyms that stand out in today's Web design vernacular more so than any others do. ASP and PHP are different approaches to building dynamic Web sites that can incorporate database interactivity and other application server uses into your Web site. ...read on |
| Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 vs. FrontPage 2000 I'm a channel operator in a Portuguese IRC HTML channel, and the question asked me most often is: "Should I use Dreamweaver 4 or FrontPage 2000 to create my Web sites?" I say to them: "It depends on a lot of factors." I will explain my point of view. ...read on |
| Using MS Access as a Back-End Database - Making an MS Access Database Secure SQL is a highly used and reliably secure database server that is used by many small and large businesses alike. The reasons for it's popularity and high regard are numerous, but the fact that it is a database server designed to be accessed securely over the Internet is the leading reason why it is the database of choice. ...read on |
| Optimizing Images for the Web Part 1 - Optimization, Do You Really Need It? After text and hyper-links, images are the most frequently displayed Web entity. Images used on the Web are often combined with text and hyperlinks and can range from low-resolution static images to high-resolution interactive images complete with image maps. ...read on |
| Optimizing Images for the Web Part 2 - Image Formats It doesnt take much experience with images on computers to run into a GIF file. GIF is a popular format that constitutes a significant portion of images used on the Web. But GIF is only one of a number of different graphics standards. ...read on |
| Optimizing Images for the Web Part 3 - Performance Considerations If Web performance (time it takes a page to load) is to be improved, two primary factors are to be considered, #1) the speed of the Net connection and #2) the amount of data that needs to be transferred. ...read on |
| Optimizing Images for the Web Part 4 - Optimization Factors you Control The size of an inline image determines how quickly it can be loaded and is a key factor in optimizing images for the Web. You can manipulate four characteristics of an image to improve your page performance ...read on |
| Optimizing Images for the Web Part 5 - Image Slicing Image slicing is pretty-much what it sounds like, taking a single image and "slicing" it into smaller pieces. The intended purpose of the slicing is to provide Web designers/developers with a tool that allows them to better optimize their images for Net data transfer as well as enhance artistic design options. ...more |
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