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5 Essential Traits Of A Home Business Website
So you’ve decided to start an online work at home business and are just beginning to build your website. You probably have a million different ideas for what you want the site to look like. By Trent Brownrigg

Working with Royalty Free Music
When creating Multi-Media Content, Flash or Video Clips for a client's web site or CD Rom Project, the last thing you want is to get him in trouble with the law. If there's a need for music in a project, using royalty free music is essential. By Alan Steward

What’s In A (Domain) Name?
Choosing a domain name is a very important first step for anyone starting a business on the Internet. This name is the first impression that strangers are going to have about you and your business. You are going to need to give this decision some real thought. By Sibyl McLendon

Web usability: The basics
What is web usability & why is it important? By Trenton Moss

Beyond Web usability: Web credibility
Web usability: It's old news By Trenton Moss

Writing Benefit-Driven Web Copy – 4 Steps to More Sales
You've identified the benefits you offer your customers, but how do you turn a list of benefits into engaging web copy which converts visitors into customers? By Glenn Murray

7 Key Points to Consider When Choosing a Web Host
With literally thousands of web hosting companies in the industry all vieing for your business, carefully consider these key points to ensure you make the most well informed decision possible. By Kyle Dusang

iKobo Review - Part 1
The Initial Discovery By Adam Senour

iKobo Review - Part 2
Attempt 1 Conclusion By Adam Senour

What Hosting Companies Don't Tell You, Could Hurt You
Did you know that hosting companies overcrowd their servers despite all the issues caused by servers running hundreds of accounts? Are you aware of what happens if your website is hosted on a server thats overcrowded? Youre probably thinking to yourself, what do you mean overcrowd their servers? By Dave Young

Building Web Sites Using Web Templates
Gone are the days when you had to rely on a web-designer to design your websites. New technologies with innovative ideas have brought out a new variant to this trend in the form of ready to use website templates. By M.Mukesh

Top Five Most Profitable Color Combinations Used In Cover Design!
"Two days ago, an old man stopped me on the street and asked me who my stylist is. By Ovi Dogar

How to Create a Links Page and Build Page Rank
One of the hardest achievements for a webmaster to obtain is a solid links page and great web site page rank. You know as well as I do that it is very difficult to obtain well page ranked reciprocal links. By James R. Morrison

Why Dot-Coms Fail - a Webmaster's Perspective
Everyday we hear that another company goes out of business. By Daniel Bazac

Why Stock Photography is a Great Resource for Web Business
A picture is worth a thousand words. By Kelly Paal

Graphic Design Using Color
Color is everywhere and conveys a message even if we don’t realize it. While this message can vary by culture it pays to know what colors “say” in your own corner of the universe, and even what color means to your target market. By Kelly Paal

Basic Graphic Design
Wether you design your business brochures, flyers, web page, or ads there are some things that you need to know. There are some basic graphic design principles that those of us trained in the commercial art/graphic design field don’t always share. By Kelly Paal

Simple Steps to a Great Banner Ad
Everyone is using them now and if you’re planning on creating your own banner ad then there are some things that you should know. By Kelly Paal

Optimize your Photos for the Web
It doesn’t matter if your emailing photos of your grandson or putting images of your latest product on your online store. Too many people don’t consider optimizing their photos for the web. By Kelly Paal

Microsoft and Webmasters
Does Microsoft care for Webmasters By Jeff Wyrick

Are You Driving Away Potential Customers?
When a prospect lands on your website will he or she understand what you are presenting? Do your ordering/sign up instructions make sense? Can prospects easily find the information they are searching for? If you don’t know the answers to these questions you may be driving away potential customers. By Karin Peavy

The Next Marketing Tool: Deisgn
Design sells. It’s something that all of us know, but few of us consciously acknowledge. There is an age old adage that warns people not to “judge books by their cover.” In other words, we shouldn’t judge people or products by their appearance. But this isn’t true in America. By Kyle Neath

Image Formats-GIF, JPEG, BMP
When browsing the internet you are likely to come across many different image formats. However, the most common formats are: CompuServe GIF, JPEG, and Bitmaps. By Stephen Hames

What Can Lots Of Content Do For Your Site?
Today there are so many web sites on the web, but so few of them have good content and there are even fewer web sites that have large amounts of content. By Matt Colyer

Transforming A Site From Good To Excellent
One of the challenges of moving a web site up from good to excellent is transforming it from just a bunch of web pages and graphics to an interactive experience. Another term for this is community - a place where people can come to communicate with others. By Richard Lowe, Jr.

Why Aren't You Using CGI?
The very name CGI used to send chills up my spine. For years I put it in the 'too-hard-basket'. But like most things in life, CGI is not as scary as it seems. By Michael Southon

Culture and Website Localization
With the rise in ownership of computers and internet usage growing daily, the internet is fast becoming the primary port of call for information, shopping and services. In addition, those computer and internet users are increasingly from non-English speaking countries. By Neil Payne

Linking out is good
Many websites I come across don't have a single link to another website. Ask the webmaster why not, and the answer you get is simple enough: "If I link to other websites people might leave my site." At this point I break the news that site visitors will leave your site. By Trenton Moss

Advantages of a Simple Design
Easily maintained By Tyler

Web Templates: Replacing Designers?
I’ve seen articles (and websites) that suggest you can buy a website template and skip the expense of hiring a professional website designer. By William T. "Chip" Lane

The Topic Of Your Website
The first thing you will have to deal building your website has nothing to do with the web design itself, it's me related to content writing but it must be defined and will effect the rest of your actions. So first of all you need to decide what the topic of your future website is. By Oleg Lazarenko

How to Find Good Web Hosting
You have decided it is about time you jumped on the web hosting bandwagon. You have a website in mind you would like to create. You have a domain name ready to go. The one and only thing that you are missing is the actual web hosting space. By Mitch Keeler

Website Backgrounds: 5 Cool Tricks for a Professional Look
Most websites feature white backgrounds. Or they sit on a navy or gray background -- but most of the screen is still white, like a page of paper set against the darker background. By David Leonhardt

Web page buiding for beginners 1
Making a web page is a simple job that can be done in minutes by anyone with no previous experience, so I will refrain from going in that direction as much as possible. The first thing an inexperienced webmaster should learn is search engine optimization, before ever making a page. By Ted Dupuie

web page building for beginners 2
A search engine robot actually reads the wording on your web pages and places a certain amount of importance on what the content says, but not quite like a human does. By Ted Dupuie

web page building for beginners 3
An inexperienced website builder must understand that free web hosting is a great way to get more than one site up and running quickly, and that www.articlecity.com is the fastest and easiest way to fill those sites with relevant material. For instance, my site at www.saquoyah. By Ted Dupuie

What's Wrong With My Website?
I ask myself that question about once a month. My website looks fine to me, but what are other people seeing? And what are the Search Engines seeing? Here's a checklist of 10 ways to optimize your website for peak performance: By Michael Southon

web page building for beginners 4
Page ranking by search engines such as Google are not only overrated but unusually explained by “experts” in the SEO field. SEO stands for search engine optimization and is needed to get your website placed at the top of a web search. By Ted Dupuie

What is Blogger.com?
In the late 1990’s three San Francisco based web developers came up with the idea of being able to share information about anything on the web. The terminology they used was called blog. It's use was considered a mix of web page / personal journal. By Jakob Jelling

How to Choose a Quality Webhost
If you are anything like me, you’d probably like to have a website on the Internet but you just have no idea how to go about it. By Jesse S. Somer

Why a CSS Website Layout Will Make You Money
Although CSS layouts have been around for years, they haven't become so commonplace until recently. This was basically due to limited browser support (especially from Netscape 4) - nowadays though, CSS 2. By Trenton Moss

Optimal Website Design
The idea behind good website design is to offer your viewer a logical flow while making it interesting and easy to navigate. By Elizabeth McGee

Unlimited Wealth Creation Through Reseller Hosting
Web hosting can be an exciting business start up for aspiring entrepreneurs. All you have to do to set up your business is become a hosting reseller, i.e., provide hosting facilities to website owners. By Ninad Gupte

Designing your Web Site for ALL Browsers
Let's face it. Building a web site that browses consistently on multiple platforms and multiple browsers is not always as easy as we would like. By David Bell

Forums – Should you have them on your website?
Forums have become a common feature in many websites. With good free scripts available, and paid scripts being relatively cheap, it seems that every new website has its own forum(s). But is it wise to add forums to your website? By Anne Moss

How To Create A Website In Less Than A Week
Here's a really simple way... any novice can create a fully functional website in less than a week. By Andre Grisby

Avoid Getting Ripped Off By A Hosting Company...
Chances are if you host multiple domains or websites you are spending too much money at your current hosting provider. Other hosting companies increase their profits by forcing you to create an additional hosting account every time you want to host a new domain or website. By Dave Young

How To Turn Your Newsletter Into a Web Page... In 45 Seconds!
Do you place back-issues of your Newsletter on your website? By Michael Southon

The "Unethical SEO" Myth
"The use of black hat SEO techniques are completely unethical." Really? I completely disagree. By Damian Smith

How to Create a Professional Website In Less Than a Week
Here's a really simple way... any novice can create a fully functional website in less than a week. By Andre Grisby

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