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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but people have quite a bad reaction to Flash, in general. Sure, it can be used well, but the reaction of most visitors to something starting to load will be “oh no, Flash!”, followed by a hasty dash for the back button. Why is this? Well, there are a …

There are a lot of web servers out there. Whenever you go to a website, you’re downloading it from a web server. When you pay money to a web host, what you’re really doing is renting a space on their web server. The Internet consists of millions of computers networked together, but it’s the servers …

Whenever you want people to enter data and send it to you, you need a web form. Whether the data is as simple as a username and password or as complicated as a full address form, the basic principles remain the same. The Tags. Form tags have always been a troublesome part of HTML, simply …

Logos are difficult to design. Every website needs a logo, and you should spend some time designing them or yours if you haven’t already Your Logo is Your Face. When visitors come across a website that they haven’t seen before, one of the first places they look is at your logo and that’s when they …

Advertising on the web is big business again, but idea behind the revival is quite strange. Back in the dot-com boom days, all ads were graphical, as it was assumed that this was the best way to get people to click through. However, modern ad companies, led by Google’s AdSense division, have found that text …