JSP: Java on Your Server.
Share JSP stands for Java Server Pages. The idea of JSP is to allow Java code to be embedded in HTML this is done uising XML tags. JSP allows you to dynamically add content to your pages, and also offers the facility to send Java to the web browser easily. The Lack of Functions. Most [...]
Read moreIt’s a World Wide Web: Going International.
Share While many websites seem to assume that everyone lives in America and speaks English, most of the world, oddly enough, doesn’t. If you want your website to be successful internationally, you need to make your content available in languages other than English. Machine Translation. A good first step in taking your website international is [...]
Read moreIt’s me!
Share Earlier this year I had the opportunity to go with some friends over to Brooks Ayola’s photography studio and take some photos. He has an amazing studio out in LA filled with awesome equipment and toys. Besides being a fashion/commercial photographer Brooks also likes to Blog and that is how my friend got to [...]
Read moreIIS and ASP: Microsoft’s Server.
Share Despite Microsoft’s dominance of everything to do with computers, their web server software sits on a relatively low 20% market share, thanks to the popularity of Apache. However, 20% of millions of servers is still a pretty substantial number of servers, and so IIS (Internet Information Server) can’t be written off that quickly. IIS [...]
Read moreStarting an Online Directory
Share Have you thought about starting an online directory? Directories can be a fun thing to start if you are passionate about a certain subject. If you regularly research a certain subject on the web and happen to find a lot of sites on that subject a web directory might be the perfect thing to [...]
Read moreHow to Set Up Your Hosting in 5 Minutes Flat.
Share Once you’ve chosen your web hosting, you’ll often find that you’re given a set of passwords and technical details, before being left to more-or-less figure it out on your own. If you haven’t started a website before, that can be a daunting experience. Point Your Domain at Your Host. The email you received should [...]
Read moreHow to Make Visitors Add You to Their Favorites.
Share If you want your visitors to come back again and again, you’ve got to get them to add your website to their favorites (also known as bookmarks in some browsers). That’s the menu where they can save websites that they want to use again, clicking them easily to get to them. Being added to [...]
Read moreHow to Install and Configure a Forum.
Share Once you’ve built your website, you might like to offer your visitors an opportunity to interact with it, and to talk to you and each other without having to use email. Forums are absolutely ideal for this purpose. Choosing a Forum. Before you can install a forum, you need to decide which forum software [...]
Read moreHow to Get Your Website Talked About on Blogs.
Share Blogs are a very powerful force on the web today. Have you ever wondered why searching for something seems to turn up so many blog entries as results? That’s because blogs link to each other all the time, creating a strong network of links that does very well in the search engines. Not only [...]
Read moreHow Databases Work.
Share Almost all of the most useful sites on the web use databases to organise their content, and they often use them to allow users to register and leave comments too. Any time you do something that a website seems to ‘remember’ the next time, the chances are that a database is involved. Yet, despite [...]
Read moreHints All the Way.
Share One of the best ways to make your site easier to use is to provide hints to your visitors everywhere you can. You might think that sounds simple enough, but the amount of time required to do it and the number of things to consider puts a lot of web designers off. Visitors Don’t [...]
Read moreFrontPage: Easy Pages.
Share One way to create web pages from scratch without using HTML is to use an editor that hides the HTML from you, letting you edit a web page as easily as you would use a word processor. These programs are called WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editors. Microsoft’s FrontPage is one [...]
Read moreFree Graphics Alternatives.
Share With Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop and most other popular image editors being commercial, paid-for software, you might be forgiven for thinking that there aren’t any free alternatives. While they’re not very well publicised, there are plenty of free graphic editing alternatives out there, if you know where to look. Here’s a rundown of some [...]
Read moreFocus on the User: Task-Oriented Websites.
Share There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of websites: ones where visitors come to be informed and entertained, and ones where users come to get things done. The second kind of website usually provides some kind of interactive service, which could be anything from letting people upload pictures to giving them a form to contact [...]
Read moreDreamweaver: The Professional Touch.
Share Dreamweaver is sometimes seen as FrontPage’s main competitor but, really, there’s not even a comparison to be made. Dreamweaver might be expensive, sure, but there are serious web designers out there using it and getting work done I can guarantee you that no real designer has ever used a copy of FrontPage to design [...]
Read moreDon’t Be Scared, It’s Only Code: HTML for Beginners.
Share For some reason, HTML seems to really frighten a lot of people. Some have seen complicated HMTL that’s been produced by an editor program, or they’ve clicked ‘View Source’ on a few pages and been scared by what they’ve seen. What you have to realise, though, is that HTML was designed from the beginning [...]
Read moreDesigning for Sales.
Share One thing that lots of designers don’t seem to understand is that there’s a big difference between the kind of design you should use if you’re trying to present information (usually with ads), and the kind of design you should use if the aim of your website is to make sales. This distinction causes [...]
Read moreContent is King.
Share Somewhere between ever more sophisticated graphic design and more complicated CSS, many designers are starting to forget one of the ground rules of the web. This rule is arguably the most important rule to follow at all times; one that you should always keep in mind when you’re designing your site. So what is [...]
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