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"Chase Those Page One Blues Away...Get Themed Content On Your Site And Get On Page One!"
Here is my latest article. It may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long as the Resource Box is left intact. By Roger J. Burke

"The Spider Is Waiting To Get You...But, Are You Ready?"
Here is my latest article. It may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long as the Resource Box is left intact. By Roger J. Burke

8 Web Site Design Bloopers to Avoid
Designing your own web page or site is a project that can be as fun and creative as you like. You’re putting your work out there for potentially millions of people to read. By Lisa Maliga

Don't Count Your Hit's!
Do you have a hosting service that provides statistics for yourwebsite? Did you notice that the number of "hit's" to your site isastronomical? Many individuals think that the number of "hit's" tellsyou how many visitors you've had to your site. By Maria Marsala

Cross Browser Compatibility
Sure, it looks great in Internet Explorer 6, but..... By Michael Bloch

How I Slashed The Load Time For My Website By 200-300%...And So Can You, For Yours!
Here is my latest article. It may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long as the Resource Box is left intact. By Roger J. Burke

Independent Consultants Take Over Web Design
Whether you are a web designer, or have worked with web design vendors, the web design business has changed greatly over the last few years. By Chris Kalaboukis

Create custom error pages and keep your visitors!
HTTP 404 - File not found is a browser error message that we've all grown to know and hate. On a number of search engines, it gets to a stage where we feel that all their links will return this result? How is this happening, who is to blame and how do we fix it? By Michael Bloch

Is your website 'Dressed for success'?
You've heard the motivational talks about dressing for success. "You have to eat, drink, sleep, and breathe success to truly become successful. Your sub-conscious mind will lead you down the right path if you think about it enough." By Chuck McCullough

How to Jazz up Your Site with Quality ClipArt
Clipart has something of a bad name. And it's true, there's some terrible clip art out there. By Stefene Russell

TRAFFIC ISN'T WHERE ITS AT!!
You've heard it before. You need to get traffic to your site.Promote, promote, promote. Thats what you get from all the promoters and marketers on line. Is this really true? You want to market online. So you have built your site and submitted it to the search engines. By windsong

LET YOUR WEBSITE DO YOUR TALKING - How To Convert Your Voice To RealAudio On The Fly!
Have you ever wondered what it would take to quicklyget your own voice file onto your website? By Maria L. Schasteen

Is Your Site A Post-It Note Or Super Glue?
Traffic, traffic, traffic, that's all we hear. You'd think we were all craving two hours commutes on the Los Angeles freeway. By Anne Marie Baugh

STREAMING MEDIA - Leveling the Playing Field for Small Business -
Statistics tell us that there are 5,000 new websites coming on-line everyday! And, sadly, they all have one thing in common...they are all starting to look the same. By Don Rhodes

STREAMING MEDIA - Leveling the Playing Field for Small Business - Part II
In part I of this series, I discussed streaming audio which is the most mature of the streaming techniques. (If you missed it, see http://www.wbcimaging.com/articles/audio_articles.htm). By Don Rhodes

STREAMING MEDIA - Leveling the Playing Field for Small Business - Part III
IS YOUR WEB SITE READY FOR PRIME TIME?? By Don Rhodes

CREATE STICKINESS WITH STREAMING MEDIA
Okay!! You've finally gotten them to your web site after a large investment in time and effort, not to mention money. By Ronni Rhodes

BREAK THROUGH THE CLUTTER WITH AUDIO BANNERS
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course, his name isMister Ed!" Do any of you remember that silly jinglefrom the television show? By Ronni Rhodes

"Beginners Luck" a guide to Web Page/Site Design
Ever wonder why the cheapest looking, mostly all text, boring web sites getall the top rankings? Me Too! So I found out. By Rudy A. McCormick

Put Your Homepage To Work!
Your homepage is probably the most important page of your whole Web site. Yes, even more important than your order page (or the pages where you pre-sell affiliate program products). By Said Rouhani

How to create a great website
The web is a medium designed to communicate with people. As the writtenwords and graphics will be the main forms of communication in a website, itis of utmost importance that they convey your message in the most effectiveway without any jarring expressions, omissions and complications. By Patrick Tan

How To Keep More Of Your Visitors
Did you know that most of your visitors probably never go beyond your homepage? And a lot of them leave within ten seconds of hitting your homepage, NEVER to return again? By Said Rouhani

Writing the Income-Generating Web Site
Hello:This new article about writing income-generating Web copy is foryour readers who sell products or services from their Web site.Thanks for considering it for an upcoming issue of yournewsletter. By Scott T. Smith

In Praise of Raw Code
The first program I ever used for web layout was Adobe PageMaker,and it was hellish. By Stefene Russell

Five Pieces of Information You Must Include on Your Website to Generate Sales
One of the first things online entrepreneurs have to recognize about theInternet is that it's a very impersonal medium. When you're sellingsomething to someone in direct conversation, you have the opportunity tocreate rapport and inspire trust in them. By Micah Cranman

Pass the Mystery Meat: Learning from "Web Pages that Suck"
Though I learned much at Shakespeare's knee, the twoyears I worked for the undergraduate literary magazineat the University of Utah were almost as valuable.Every night, I took home fat manila folders full ofpoetry and fiction that were horribly instructive intheir badness. By Stefene Russell

How Active is Inter-Active?
"Interactive," like "post-modern," is an impressive word, thoughno one precisely knows what it means. This can be confusing--notto mention annoying-but the lack of a clear definition provides agood launching point for brainstorming. By Stefene Russell

The Frames Debate
Because I look at the world through frames (my glasses, that is)they've never bothered me that much on the web. By Stefene Russell

Why is any site special?
Is it because the site is unique? Is it because the site loads the quickest, has the freshest content, is easiest to use, or contains the best resources? Is the site so useful or so much fun that people SIMPLY CANNOT stop talking about it? By Steve Nash

Will They Come Back?
When you build a website, you of course, want peopleto come to your site. But not only do you want themto visit, you want them to come back, and often! By Terri Seymour

Do visitors leave YOUR site feeling confused?
I recently spent a little time surfing the web looking at general web marketing and promotion sites and was somewhat surprised at how many were making what I consider, basic design mistakes. How many of the following apply to YOUR site? By Tony Murtagh

Checklist For A Successful Web Site Design
Designing a Web site can be a time consuming and often complicated task. Even if you have a general idea or a vision for your site, there are many details that will need your attention before the project is completed. How in the world do you keep up with it all? By Viki Nygaard

How To Make Your Visitors Stay
I bet you agree that visiting a colorful web site mightbe a wonderful or painful experience, depending how longwe have to wait to see all that beauty... By Wanda Loskot

HOW FRAMES AFFECT YOUR PROMOTION AND MARKETING EFFORTS ?S ?
The following article outlines the Pros and Cons of using frames with adeeper look at how they might affect your promotion and marketing efforts. By Richard Igoe

Graphics for the web: The Most Common Formats
One of the early problems on the net was how to display graphics. The firstbrowsers only displayed textual information - the modern browser with it'simages, multimedia and plugin's did not exist. Everything was text based. By Richard Lowe

Graphics for the web: GIF Format
The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) format was invented in 1987 byCompuserve to allow images to be displayed. This format allows for 256colors (which was a lot at the time), compression, interlacing andanimation. It is a very powerful format, suitable for many different typesof images. By Richard Lowe

Graphics for the web: Animated GIF Format
Oh, so you've seen cool websites with animations moving all over the place?You've seen balls bouncing, finger's pointing, women dancing and lots ofother pictures moving on the screen while you surf. And now you want to makeyour own homepage or website come alive and move! By Richard Lowe

Graphics for the web: JPG and PNG Files
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a very efficient, true-color,compressed image format. It uses lossy compression, which means that bitsare removed from the image in order to save space. JPEG files supportmillions of colors (compared with the 256 for GIF). By Richard Lowe

Fonts For Your Web Site
In order to make your web pages look good across all platforms and browsers,you must standardize your font selection. You must also limit the fonts thatyou use to those that probably will be installed on most of your targetsystems. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: ActiveX
ActiveX uses an interesting method for enforcing security ... it doesn't.Well, that's not exactly true. What happens is when a web page requests anActiveX control the browser determines if that control is already loadedonto your system. If it is the ActiveX control is executed. By Richard Lowe

Browser Tips: Browser Helper Objects
I must admit that I tend to install a whole bunch of junk on my computersystem. It is part of my day job as Director of Technical Services at amajor company to review new software to determine if it may be of use. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: Graphics Problems
I know you like to put graphics on your page. There is little better than asite which has been done by a professional graphics designer. The perfectbalance between graphics, color, fonts, photos and layout is rare and awonder to behold. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: Advertising Mistakes
Okay, we know we all need to pay the bills. I know that many of us want toget traffic to our web sites. And some of us just want to make enough moneyto pay for our costs so that this thing we love to do is free. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: Looong Pages
One of the sins committed by many inexperienced webmasters is the creationof very long pages. I've seen this most often on sites created atuniversities, although it can happen anywhere. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: Strange Cursors
I've been to some sites lately which have some pretty fantastic cursors. Youprobably know what I'm talking about - cursors that have little ballsdangling from them, look like a heart or consist of a string of letterswaving as if in the wind. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: Navigation Errors
Confusing navigation is another way to keep your visitors from coming backor even staying very long on their first visit. You must provide a way foryour visitors to find out what you've got - it's of no use if no one seesit. By Richard Lowe

Interactive Features
If you really want people to be attracted to your web site time after time,you need to add interactivity. This can be as simple or as complicated asyou want. By Richard Lowe

Homepages
In my humble opinion, everyone should create a homepage. Wait, let's back upa minute. What's a homepage? Well, there are really two definitions. First,a homepage is the first page of a web site, usually named index, default orhome. By Richard Lowe

Web Site Management: Guestbooks
Have you ever visited a web site, liked what you saw and wanted to leave aquick note to the webmaster to let him know your feelings? Did you find agreat website which entertained you for hours, and you felt like you had tolet the person who created it know? Or did you spend the entire By Richard Lowe

Good web Design: Site Maps
When a new visitor reaches your site (by whatever means), you must rememberhe has never seen it before. Yes, I know that you are intimately familiarwith every single page throughout your site, but your new visitors mostdefinitely are not. By Richard Lowe

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