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Graphics for the Web: Plug-Ins
You've probably noticed that just about any application of any realsignificance these days has the capability to be expanded in some way. By Richard Lowe

Awards Programs: Judging Sites
Okay, so you've taken the plunge and created your awards program. Yourcriteria are defined and well written, your purpose is understood and you'vepromoted the heck out of your program. Now you've started gettingapplications - and the real work begins. By Richard Lowe

Good Web Design
One of the primary keys to a successful website is a good design. A poorlydesigned site actually discourages visitors from even getting to your site,and to leave quickly when (and if) they arrive. A well designed siteencourages people to visit and to remain once they find it. By Richard Lowe

Brief web Design Tips
Here is a list of some tips to help you with your web pages. These aresimply suggestions to help you create a better surfing experience for yourvisitors. By Richard Lowe

Good Web Design: Create A Custom 404 Error Page
As you know if you've spent any time at all surfing the web, sometimes youwill see the dreaded 404 error condition. This often occurs because you'veentered an incorrect link (perhaps added a ".html" instead of ". By Richard Lowe

Search Boxes
One of my pet peeves is webmasters which make it difficult for me to usetheir site. I mean, I'm there, looking at a page and I just cannot find whatI want. I look everywhere for navigation, and what I want to find justdoesn't seem to be covered. By Richard Lowe

Bad Web Design: Mistakes With Text
Even in today's world of Flash animation, animated GIFs, sound files,VRML and other dazzling special effects, the basic reason why peoplesurf the web is to read. Yes, the pictures are great, and yes theanimations are wonderful, but what people really care about is whatyou've got to say. By Richard Lowe

Graphics Optimization
Graphics images on the internet come in three major formats: GIF, JPEG andPNG (and PNG's close relation MNG). Each of these formats has it'sassociated advantages and disadvantages. By Richard Lowe

Good web Design: External Links
The world wide web is called a web for a reason. The concept is simple.Allow people to tie (link) documents together in any manner which they seefit. This gives readers the capability to move from document to document asneeded. By Richard Lowe

Web Site Design: How To Get Around
Our web site (Internet Tips and Secrets - http://www.internet-tips.net/ ) runs an awards program which gets as many as fifty submissions a week. That means we visit each of those fifty sites each and every week to determine if they measure up to the criteria for the awards. By Richard Lowe

Web Site Design: Pulling Them In Deeper
Good web sites take full advantage of the features of HTML (and the various client- and server-side scripting languages), which allow pages to be linked together at will. You need to remember that your web site is not a book, a poster or a brochure - it is a web site. By Richard Lowe

Internet Privacy: Creating A Privacy Policy
Any good web site has a certain amount of interactivity which causes visitors to need to enter data of one sort or another. Sometimes this is just a name or gender, and sometimes it is a full array of personal information. By Richard Lowe

Putting Sound on your Web Site - Part 1
Putting sound on your web site can give your web site that special sparkle. As Interlaced graphics are gradually focusing on the page, the visitor can be put into the proper mood, preparing them for the graphic images and textual messages they will see. By John Rickey

Putting Sound on your Web Site - Part 2
In the prior article I discussed the fact that MIDI is the best choice when adding background music to autoplay on your web site. Choruses of favourite songs can be looped to play while images and text are loading. By John Rickey

Putting Sound on your Web Site - Part 3
Making MIDI Files for your site By John Rickey

Adding Flash 4 to your website
Macromedia has taken the internet world by storm with its introduction of Flash a few years ago. What started as an animation tool has evolved into a full website development tool. By Robert Walters

Designing by Numbers -- Statistics and No Lies!
Stats tell us a myriad of things, some even useful and we'reaccustomed to using them in our marketing and selling processes.Frequently abused and made to say what WE want, but here I ammerely considering them in ways that influence site design ... By Pamela Heywood

TRANSLATING YOUR WEB
Considering that 43% of Internet users cannot read English, translating yourweb site into a foreign language is a powerful way to promote your business. By Paolo Risso

TALKINGSITES WEB SITE AUDIO
People love pantomimes because they can communicate so cleverly without everuttering a sound. I find them fascinating. But imagine what theworld would be like if all our entertainment, conversation, andadvertising was done in pantomime. By Dane Scott

Web Source Web Design Tips - Using META Tags for Search Engine Indexing
Meta tags are used to give detailed instructions, inregard to a web page, to the Search Engines and browsers. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Using META Tags to Redirect
Meta tags are used to give detailed instructions, inregard to a web page, to the Search Engines and browsers. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Using META Tags to Prevent Browser Cache
Meta tags are used to give detailed instructions, inregard to a web page, to the Search Engines and browsers. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Using META Tags to Prevent Search Engine Indexing
Meta tags are used to give detailed instructions, inregard to a web page, to the Search Engines and browsers. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Open a Web Page in a New Window
When you link to outside web pages, you may not want tocompletely lose your visitor. By creating a link to otherweb sites that opens in a new window, your web page willremain open as well. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Using An Image To Create A Line
You can use an image to create a vertical or horizontalline in a web page. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Adding An Image Background To Your Tables
You can add an image background to your table cells by adding BACKGROUND="yourimage.gif" to your tag. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips -
You can create special mouseover link effects by placingthe following code between the and tagswithin your HTML code. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - How To Make Your Background Image Stationary
Stationary background images remain in one place even when scrolling through the page. Only the text will move. To create this effect, place the code below within your tag. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Highlighting Free for All Links
You can use the code below to highlight your link in some free for all sites. This code will not work on all free for all sites, but if you scroll down the page and see some links already highlighted, you'll know it works. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Open A New Window With A Button or Link
Button: By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Close A window With A Button or Link
Button: By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Open A Window on Page Load
The code below will open a new window when a web page loads. This window may be customized to any size you'd like. Place this code under the tag within your HTML. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Reload A Window With A Button or Link
Button: By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Creating An Automatic Drop Down Navigation Menu
This is a simple navigation script that will redirect yourvisitors with a drop down menu that will automaticallyadvance to the selected page without a submit button. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Decreasing A Website's Load Time
The main page of your web site should load in 8 seconds or less with a 56K modem. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Don't Forget Your META tags
When designing a website, make sure you include proper META tags in the HTML of each page. META tags are HTML code that enable the search engines to determine what keywords are relevant to a specific site. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Selecting the Perfect Background for Your Website
When selecting a background for your website, make sure youselect a background that will compliment your text anddesign. By Shelley Lowery

Give Your Graphics A Professional Look without the Price
Graphic design is an intimidating subject for many Internetentrepreneurs. However, most of us must learn some basicdesign techniques to avoid the high costs of hiring a professional graphics designer. By Shelley Lowery

How To Make Your Site Visitors Do What You Want Them To Do!
Quick! hink about your website. If I were to pop out of yourscreen in the next few seconds and ask you why you've got one,and what its purpose is, would you be able to tell me on the spot? By Jody Hatton

WHY DESIGN IS AS IMPORTANT AS PROMOTION
We have all heard that there's no use having the best site in the world ifyou don't promote it, and submit it to the search engines. By Richard Igoe

DO FRAMES AFFECT YOUR PROMOTION AND MARKETING EFFORTS ?
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

FRAMES or NO FRAMES ?
The following article outlines the Pros and Cons of using frames with adeeper look at how they might affect your search engine ranking. By Richard Igoe

Should you DIY your own Website?
Last summer I decided finally to create my own website, to broadenawareness of my advertising-slogan database and related search services(ADSlogans Unlimited). By Timothy R V Foster

The 4 Deadly Sins of Business Web Design
1. Designing a site with large slow loading pictures and fancy flash presentations. By Matthew May

Prophesying Profit in CyberSpace . . .
Business owners can be rushed into creating Web sites, perhaps because "my competition has one", or because "it's the hot thing right now". By Philippa Gamse

Top Ten Website Musts
Launching and promoting a successful website is no easy task. There are thousands of books, articles and web sites with advice on how to design your site. In order to help you with the basics I compiled a list of the "musts" that pertain to all websites no matter how small or how large. By Bonnie Jo Davis

What Color is Your Website?
During site creation, it is very easy to fall into the trap of "if I can, I will" thinking. This method of thinking is very dangerous. The premise is if I can create a site with 256 differently colored words, backgrounds and graphics, I will. By Andrew T. LaPointe

How to Make Your Site Sell
Remember, your website can only communicate to your readers in two ways. The first is the colors you use, while the second is your copy (your writing). Even if you use audio/video on your site, you still need to write the copy. So let's add some punch to your site and skyrocket your sales! By Andrew T. LaPointe

Your Web Site - Do It Yourself? or Get Serious!
FACT: Your web site appearance can make you thousands of dollars OR it can kill your business - DEAD! By Mike Jones

Success Through Superior Design
Many people fail to understand just how important the design of aweb site is to your online image. Some simply assume that becausethey have a great product they'll be automatically successful.But in order to achieve online success, one must haveboth a wonderful product or service and a great design. By Micah D. Cranman

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