Trend Watching

Always on the lookout for trends, I have subscribed to Trend Watchers newsletter to get usefull info on the latest trends.  If you want to know what might be the world's next trends then you give this site a peep.  I guess they have 8,000 plus trend watchers scoping...

Create a feed from any site

This site (feed43.com) looks like it might be very popular.  It's in beta right now and you need to be invited to test it out.  What it does is allow you to create a feed from any website that doesn't already have feeds.  So basically it's a screen scraper which turns...

Reminder Feed – Free Feed Reminder

Need to keep track of an important date and don't want to miss it?  Create a free reminder at ReminderFeed.com to create a free feed of your important date and have it sent to you through your feed reader.  The site was designed by Thissideup located in the UK.  They...

Another contest from Performancing.com

Performancing.com is a blog for professional bloggers about how to run a commercial blog. They have a plugin for firefox that allows users to post to their blog directly from firefox. “Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right...

The Confusing World of Web Hosting: Making Your Decision.

Before you can get a website up and running, you need to have a place to put it. Paying for web hosting is, basically, like renting a small amount of space on someone's server and paying what it costs them to send your web pages to your customers. Fortunately for you,...

The Case Against Flash.

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...

The Basics of Web Servers.

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...

The Basics of Web Forms.

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...

The Art of the Logo.

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...

Text Ads: Unobtrusive Advertising.

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...

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