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What The Muscle Power of Audio Can Do for Your Site.
How Audio can Influence Sales By Brian Holte

Mysterious Tel Aviv Lifestyle 2004
Israel. What do you think when your first hear this word? Right, like most people you imagine what you probably saw on CNN or NBC. Blown up buses, Suicide Bombers, Military Operations, Outright Violence – all over the place. By Liron Rose

How to Sell your Website
There are hundreds and thousands of websites on the internet today being bought and sold and there are many places you can sell your website such as ebay and website brokers. Though this article we will explore each of these possibilities in greater details. By Matt Dobinson

Up the Sandbox!
Go to any internet marketing forum you want these days and one of the topics is sure to be whether or not there is a "sandbox" at Google where new sites are forced to come and play for 3-6 months before joining the ranks of ranked and searched results. On the surface it would appear that this is so. By Keith Thompson

Customers Don't Always Connect Where They Live
Pop Quiz: You have an international website and you want to do business in Canada. By David Leonhardt

The Technical Stuff
(including how to build a fantastic website, all the elements you need to consider and how to make it work with little or notechnical abilities). By Rob Rawson

Choosing a Hosting Service: A Checklist for Business Owners
For a website to appear on the Internet, you require a “server” that is usually provided by a web hosting company. Hosting companies are paid monthly, quarterly or yearly. Some companies come with guarantees, too. By Maria Marsala

Hexadecimal Color Notation on the Web
When designing elements for your webpage, you will often be called upon to specify a color. For example, the code for a span shown below specifies that the color of the text within the span will be yellow. By Stephen Bucaro

Leave those Links Blue!
Don't mess with those links! When you're designing your site, you should leave your text links in their natural state--blue and underlined. We all want to be creative and not do the bland, expected, normal thing. We want to change our links to red, green, yellow, even black--anything but blue. By Jamie Kiley

404 Error Pages-What are they and how do you create one?
We’ve all seen them, you’ve been browsing a website and you click a link and nothing loads apart from the words ‘404 Error’ along with the usual stuff. By Stephen Hames

Windows vs Linux : Hosting
The Basics of Linux & Windows : By Teeyes Siva

How Does Your Website Measure Up?
Does your website make a good first impression? Is the navigation intuitive? Is the content appropriate for your audience? You've had your website up and running for a while now but you've always had a nagging suspicion that your website is lacking effectiveness and you just can't put your finger By Dan Karwoski

eCommerce, How much does it cost?
Making profits with your existing website design or creating a new online store can be exciting, affordable and most of all; rewarding. Mmmm . . . that's what the last sales guy told me. By Dennis Dadey

Are Web Templates Worth It?
First off, I am a designer. Now you're thinking, here's this guy trying to convince me to hire a designer costing a few hundred to a few thousand dollars instead of buying a pre-made web template for about $60. By Dennis Dadey

Integrating Advertising into Your Web Design
If you are going to be placing ads on your website, you'll want to put some thought into how you'll integrate them. Poor integration of ads into your website will cause visitors to click away fast. Successful integration of ads into your site can be highly profitable. By Stephen Bucaro

E-Commerce Is Back On The Fast Track
How much holiday shopping did you do on-line this year? If you are reading this, then chances are good that you made at least one purchase on-line. Over 54% of all Americans did it [1]. A much higher percentage (>80%) of Internet users did it. By Craig Neidel

Determine Your Popularity On The Web
"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" I'm going to bet that it's not you, um I mean, not your website. With all of the new websites popping up all over the place how do you know where you rank? How popular is your site compared to the next one? By Craig Neidel

If You Build It They Will Come - Not Without Web Marketing!
I'm sure everybody has received an email from a company promising to get their website placed first on all the major search engines. Maybe some of you have even tried these services or may be thinking about it right now. By Craig Neidel

Basic Web Design Principles
Home Page By Zoran Makrevski

Why Choosing Form Over Function Kills Your Site
Never put form over function. Why? Because it's crucial that visitors actually be able to USE your site. Everything you do must be designed to be as easy for the visitor to understand as possible. Everything should be functional first. By Jamie Kiley

CSS - Maximum Benefits
What is CSS? By Zoran Makrevski

Web Hosting: Which Is The Host With The Most?
So you want to publish a web site do you? Welcome to the club. These days it seems that almost everyone has a web site of some kind, and thousands more continue to be launched every day. By Marc Eberhart

PIM Team Case Study: Creating Text Effects With PHP and GD
See how you can create graphic effects on text with PHP and GD - drop shadows, arcs, fonts and colors. By Bobby Handzhiev

Three Way Linking - Webmaster Strategy
Three way linking and concerns. By Jimmy Spencer

How to Chose Stock Photography for your Web Site
So youve decided to take the plunge. You know that stock photography is an effective tool for your web business, but where do you start and how do you choose the stock photo thats right for you. Here are some tips to get you started so that you are happy with your choice. By Kelly Paal

Seven Things to do NOW to Look Good ALWAYS!
Fashion magazines target people every day with lists and charts telling them the latest trends and techniques to look better, skinnier, smarter, where to buy the hippest clothes or the latest shoes! If you’re a woman, you are probably bombarded more often than you like, and if you’re a man, you By Renu Dalal-Jain

Developing State-enabled Applications With PHP
Installment 1 By John L

MySQL Database Handling in PHP
Most interactive websites nowadays require data to be presented dynamically and interactively based on input from the user. For example, a customer may need to log into a retail website to check his purchasing history. By John L

Website Checklist
10 Basic Things Your Website Should Have ... By Maya Pinion

The 5 Biggest Mistakes Almost All Web Designers Make -- And Why These Mistakes Could Cost YOU A Fortune!
Huge Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash -- Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually DECREASED the response from prospects and customers by as much as three-hundred-and-seventy percent? By Jason Mangrum

Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?
The great debate: how much copy you should have on your site, particularly on the home page? By Jamie Kiley

Track Your Visitors, Using PHP
There are many different traffic analysis tools, ranging from simple counters to complete traffic analyzers. Although there are some free ones, most of them come with a price tag. Why not do it yourself? With PHP, you can easily create a log file within minutes. In this article I will show you how! By Dennis Pallett

How Video Can Be Used Effectively Online
A powerful way to convey your communication messages to your audience is to be able to have your promotional video available on your website. By Marie-Claire Ross

How To Get A Site Online And Have It Making Money
When building and getting a site online you have to think of a number of things. Some of these include the following: By Jonathan White

How to find good Web Hosting for your site!
When building your first site the main things that you will probably think about is what types of content you will be adding to your site, how you are going to get visitors to your site and how you are going to generate good revenue from your site. By Jonathan White

Thinking About Changing to a New Web Hosting Company? 5 Steps to Plan Ahead for the Move
Perhaps your web hosting company has a technical support group that never answers their email, or their control panel is difficult to use. Maybe your website has been having more downtime than uptime. By Stacy Tabb

PHP On-The-Fly!
Introduction By Dennis Pallett

Are your SEO efforts going to waste?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a long and complicated process that can be highly rewarding if done correctly. SEO is not a waste of time, but can be if your site doesn’t appeal to visitors or function properly. By Derek Croote

You've Got a New Website, But How Do You Get Folks to Look at it?
I took a look at a new Website recently in response to a request for a site review on one of my favorite forums. And, while the appearance was pleasing, there wasn't really much there. Too often, new folks to the Internet marketing world make this crucial mistake. By Robert Thompson

Now you have a Web site. Have you ever heard of accessibility?
An accessible Web site is easily approached, easily understood, and useable for all. There are accessibility standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium, which all sites should adhere to as much as possible. By Del Maxwell

Choosing the right web host
Whatever type of website you want to host, choosing the correct host can be tricky. Most hosting companies offer you more than you will ever use, their sales staff recommend high-end packages for small websites. By Philip Wylie

The Immutable Laws Of Effective Navigation - Part 1
The first immutable law of effective navigation: It's gotta be readily available. By Jamie Kiley

PHP and Cookies; a Good Mix!
Introduction By Dennis Pallett

Open Source Free Software De-Mystified
Did you know that the most powerful software and web applications are all free? Yes that's right, just about every commercial software or web application you know of is most likely available as a free Open Source project/clone. By Jared Alberghini

Score BIG With The Search Engines - Maximising Your Site's Potential
I often get asked, "How do I improve my site's performance in the search engine's." or "I have a small budget, how can I compete with the larger sites. By Steve Ashton

Give Your Website A Chance
I often wonder how serious people are when it comes to their websites. I thought that most everyone knew that the phrase "Build it and they will come" no longer applies on the internet but I'm not sure how many people really believe it. By Elizabeth McGee

How Web Design Can Affect Search Engine Rankings
Uniquely built web sites can create unique issues when promoting your site on the search engines. By John Metzler

The Secret Benefit Of Accessibility Part 2: A Higher Search Engine Ranking
An additional benefit of website accessibility is an improved performance in search engines. The more accessible it is to search engines, the more accurately they can predict what the site's about, and the higher your site will appear in the rankings. By Trenton Moss

The Secret Benefit Of Search Engine Optimisation: Increased Usability
A higher search ranking is what many website owners dream of. What they don't realise is that by optimising their site for the search engines, if done correctly, they can also optimise it for their site visitors. By Trenton Moss

The Secret Benefit Of Accessibility Part 1: Increased Usability
Web accessibility has so many benefits that I really do wonder why such a large number of websites have such diabolically bad accessibility. By Trenton Moss

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