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5 Steps to Understanding HTML.
Share HTML is a relatively simple language, but that doesn’t stop people from having problems with it. Why is that? It’s mainly because, while the HTML tags themselves are easy, creating an HTML document that works as intended on a web server requires you to know a few extra things that aren’t often explained. Here, [...]
Read more5 Simple Steps to Accepting Payments.
Share When you’re selling things, you need people to be able to pay you. Sure, they could send you cheques in the post, but that’s not really convenient or scalable, is it? No, to do business on the web, you need to be able to accept card payments electronically and, luckily for you, it’s never [...]
Read more10 Easy Ways to Promote Your Website.
Share Promoting your website can be a daunting task: it feels like there are thousands of ways to do it, but all of them take a lot of time or money for no guaranteed return. To help solve this problem, I’ve compiled a list of ten easy ways to promote your website. 1. Advertise in [...]
Read moreMaking Searches Simple.
Share One sticky point with many websites is this: they have absolutely terrible search engines. It does make sense, in a way, as searches are complicated to program for, and it takes time to write or implement a search engine on your site. Still, if you do search badly, it’s worse than not doing it [...]
Read moreAn Introduction to Paint Shop Pro.
Share Paint Shop Pro is one of the most popular image editors out there. Even though it’s increasingly geared towards digital photography, you’d be surprised just how useful it can be to web designers. Features. So what features does Paint Shop Pro have? Well, for a start, it supports just about every image format there [...]
Read moreThere’s More than One Web Browser.
Share If you’re like 90% of web users, then you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s web browser. Why? Well, because it comes with Windows, usually, and it’s there on your desktop when you first want to use the web. When you’re creating a website, however, you have to consider the other 10% of the web’s users [...]
Read moreRegistering a Domain Name
Share Before you can start a website, you need to come up with a domain name. The domain name is the name of your site on the web – the ‘www.yourname.com’ that people will type in their browsers and see at the top of every page of your website. Obviously, it’s important to choose a [...]
Read moreEncryption and Security with SSL.
Share When it comes to accepting online payments and other sensitive information over the web, normal HTTP just doesn’t cut it. It’s an insecure method of communication where everything is sent over the wire in cleartext – it’s completely trivial for anyone in a network administrator position at a business or ISP to gain access [...]
Read moreHow the Web Works
Share Many people think the Internet and the web are the same thing. In fact, the Internet is simply a global network of computers – the web runs on top of the Internet, and makes it useful for us. So how does the web work? The Invention of the Web. The web was invented by [...]
Read moreHow to Run Ads Without Driving Visitors Crazy.
Share As you travel around the web, you’ll notice that most sites now have ads in some form or another. Some of them are subtle, but some of them just aren’t – in fact, after a while, the ads at some sites can annoy you enough that you’ll either block them out entirely or leave [...]
Read morePicking a Colour Scheme
Share Before you can consider the finer points of your design, you need to make the big decisions. Few of these decisions are more important than what colour scheme your website is going to use. If you choose the wrong one, your site will be, in the worst cases, completely unreadable. Pay Attention to Contrast. [...]
Read moreRSS: Really Simple Syndication
Share More websites are starting to offer RSS feeds, and more users are making use of RSS readers instead of visiting every website they want to read individually. But what is RSS, why is it getting popular, and – most importantly –what can it do for you? Read on. What is RSS? RSS stands for [...]
Read morePhotoshop: a Graphic Designer’s Dream
Share When it comes to web design – in fact, any kind of computerised graphic design – Photoshop has been the standard for years, and remains the market leader. But just what is so great about it? Photoshop’s Features. Photoshop was originally designed for print graphic designers, and it shows: the selection of features available [...]
Read moreGoogle Talk
Share I just heard about the new Google Talk service from Google which allows you to talk over your computer to friends/family/clients. I heard an example Chris Pirillo demonstrated on his podcast and I couldn’t believe the quality of the sound. Google states “Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were [...]
Read moreFlash MP3 player for your site
Share I found a great flash mp3 player that anyone can easily install on their site. It works with php, asp and coldfusion driven sites. I believe it only plays mp3′s but it does it pretty fast and streams them very nicely. I thought of some very good uses for this player other then just [...]
Read moreBack in Norway
Share I just got back to Norway last week and have been busy enjoying the sun here. It is amazingly warm now and so it’s hard to stay inside and work. I have been able to get a little bit done. I’m working on two sites at the moment, doing a bit of redesign on [...]
Read moreConvert Excel Spreadsheets to MySQL
Share I accidently stumbled upon iDevX2My v1.0 from iDevDirect.com which allows you to convert excel spreadsheets to MySQL. If you use spreadsheets or text file databases for any reason and want to import that information into a MySQL database then you should check out this software. Once your information is in a MySQL database you [...]
Read moreWebmerge 2.4 Database to Static HTML site
Share I’ve recently found some new software that everyone should know about. Well everyone who wants to create a static html site that is generated from a database. And I mean from any database, excel, pipe delimited, comma delimited or other. If you haven’t checked out FourthWorld‘s WebMerge software then I suggest you do. It [...]
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