If you have products to sell, then your number one reason for starting a website is likely to be promoting them. Have you considered, though, that you could sell your products directly, online? This is e-commerce basically like a much better version of mail order,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
When you want to put graphics on your website, you'll face an unexpected problem: what format should they be in? On their own computers, many people save pictures in Windows' default BMP (bitmap) format, but the files it creates are simply much too large to put on a...
If you've looked around at a few websites, you might have noticed that many of them look absolutely terrible. In many cases, this is because they were produced in the early days of the web's mainstream popularity, but they haven't been maintained or updated since. The...