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The Benefits Of Outsourcing
The year 2005 is expected to be the year of "outsourcing". By Raymond Walsh

Screen Scraping Your Way Into RSS
Introduction By Dennis Pallett

Advantages for Using FrontPage... maybe this HTML editor has some hidden advantages
Ever since I've been doing SEO work, I've always griped and complained about FrontPage and all the extraneous code it puts in the section of the page, etc. By Robin Nobles

Don't Get Fooled by the Web Hosting Wolves in Sheep's Clothing!
When looking for a good web hosting provider to look after your website, it is easy to get confused. There are thousands of companies around, and they compete fiercely for your attention. Some are good, some are wolves ... By Kai Virihaur

Basic Design Principles Part 1
There are some very basic design principles that are important to know whether you’re a graphic designer, web designer, or even a photographer. Certain very basic design principles apply to all artistic fields and are necessary for the artist and valuable information for the consumer. By Kelly Paal

Basic Design Principles Part 2
Tone and Texture By Kelly Paal

The Meta Tag Myth
The more the better right? Wrong. At least when it comes to meta tags. The history of the meta tag started off as a nice tool that web sites could use to show the search engines what the site was about without the words showing up on the actual page. By Bobby Heard

All About Google
If you read The Search Engine Showdown at www.abalone.ca/resources/searchenginetest.html, you know Google is my favourite search engine. By Courtney Heard

Design Your Site For Traffic In 2005
What better way to start the new year than with more traffic to your web site. Web traffic is a critical part of your internet business and it is imperative that you design it to bring you the most amount of traffic possible. By Elizabeth McGee

What makes a good Web Hosting Provider!
When building your website and getting it hosted online, you want your site to be up and running on the World Wide Web 24/7 without any hitches so that it is making you money all the time and all you have to worry about then is getting visitors to your site, doing seo, getting repeat visitors, By Jonathan White

Make your site quick to load!
The time it takes to load your site can make or break a visitor’s first impression of your site. If your site takes too long to load, the visitor will click “Stop” or “Back” and leave your web site. By Michael Kralj

Web Design Tips To Grow Your Online Sales
The way you design your web site affects your visitors’ online experience. As each visitor to your site is a potential customer, the easier they find your web site to use and the more they enjoy being on it, the higher the chance that they will make a purchase. By Andy Best

Link Popularity for a Successful Website: How (Not) to Go About Getting It
A classic way of getting seen and noticed on the web is to make sure your site is linked to as many other sites as possible. By Kai Virihaur

I Don’t Need A Website!….Do I?
Once upon a time, in a small home office, a busy entrepreneur wondered why he wasn’t quite as busy as he would like to be. “I market my business as much as possible”, said the entrepreneur, who has implemented many marketing procedures while running his business. By Janice D. Byer, MVA

Dotcom Business Plans Archive project
One of the most important initiatives in the domain of business documentation is that of professor David Kirsch from the University of Maryland, who thought of a dotcom Business Plan Archive - , a project that consists of collecting business plans for posterity. By Laura Ciocan

The Smartass Series #1 -- Guide to Building the Perfect Website: a Narrative How-to on Five Top Web Advisors You Should Use instead of this Know-it-all who Knows Little
~A man [woman] is a success if he [she] gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he [she] does what he [she] wants to do. Bob Dylan~ By Roxanne McDonald

Web Sites Share Your Dream With The World
With over 16 million web sites on the Internet, how do you get your home-based business's site noticed? By Terry Nicholls

Domain Names Security : How safe is yours ?
The security of domain name registrations is an increasing concern for domain name registrants and registrars. However, there are steps you can take to increase the security of your domain name registrations. By Teeyes Siva

How I reached #1 in Yahoo!
By accident, no all that reading and studying statistics finally paid off. I started out by reading articles from people with opposing views and trying to figure out who was wrong and who was right. By Michael Rock

Mobile Accessibility - Your website in the year 2005
Throughout 2004 the number of web enabled portable devices boomed. By “portable devices" I mean PDAs and smart phones. What does this mean for you? Well it depends whether or not you care about your visitors’ experience - you build your website for visitors so you really should! By Philip Wylie

Should You Renew With Your Current Host? - Your Website In The Year 2005
Sometime during this year the chances are you're going to have to renew your hosting package. Can you be sure you’re still getting the best deal for your site? By Philip Wylie

The Basic Facts About Business Web Hosting
There are a number of hosting options, from free to dedicated servers. Let’s spend a few moments and look over the options. By Terry Henry

Custom Hooks in TierDeveloper
Custom Hooks is another powerful and most demanding feature provided by TierDeveloper. Custom Hooks work like database triggers. It could be your own business logic that you can activate before or after performing some database action(s). By Ann Morris

Colors for Your Website
Oh Yes ..Colors! There are hot ones, cool ones, earthy colors, spiritual colors and every other shade in the rainbow! What colors should you use for your website? By Francisco Aloy

Web Accessibility. . . Making your Pages Friendly to People with Disabilities
Did you know that nearly 20 percent of all Web users have some form of disability? By Robin Nobles

Should you Purchase a Turnkey Site or Build Your Own?
You see them all the time, pre-packaged websites selling everything from acorns to zinc. Most of them have a nice professional look about them, with good pictures and graphics. Of course, the sales literature with the offer telling you how you're going to make a gazillion dollars! By Francisco Aloy

Web Hosting Basics
So you're about to embark on your first web project and you're wondering where on earth to start? Well, one of the first things you'll need is a web hosting package. There are so many out there it can seem daunting to try and choose one. By Steve Ashton

The Smallest Is The Best!.. As Long As It Serves Its Purpose.
It is true! In graphics optimization, seen as a part of website optimization, the smallest is the best. Of course, the element in question should still serve its purpose of being the expression of an idea. Furthermore, it should be understandable, clear, suggestive and good-looking. By Decebal Scraba

Developing a Login System with PHP and MySQL
This article is written by daBoss. daBoss is the Webmaster of Designer Banners. daBoss can be contacted at sales (at) designerbanners (dot) com. By John L

Web-site designing Pillars (part2)
USABILITY By Pavel Lenshin

Difference between Shared and Dedicated Web Hosting?
This article will explain the key differences between 2 web hosting services available today: shared and dedicated web hosting. By Leslie Pinczi

Are You Getting The Most From Your Meta Tags?
As any Web Business startup knows, creating a Website is a bunch of work! You have to bother with content, layout, graphics and HTML links, just to name a few. What about your Meta Tags? By Francisco Aloy

If you need More Targeted Visitors to Your Site this Will get the Free Traffic Flowing
If you don't know by now one the best ways to attract free traffic to your site is with articles. You find them in your email. You find them on any website that provides useful content. Take a look and you will see they are all formatted the same way. By David Parton

The Benefits Of Having a Country Top Level Domain (TLD) Name
Most new websites tend to look for a domain name with a .com or .net tld (Top Level Domain). They feel this gives the site a more professional appearance and will appeal to a more international audience and in many cases this is true. By Steve Ashton

How to Select a Web Site Host
So, you know how to create HTML files (web pages) and want to start a website. You have a domain name but don't know where to store the files (web host). By Mike Snyder

Fun CSS Tricks You Can Use
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets allow you to implement a few neat effects on your webpages easily. You can implement these CSS effects on your site by simply copying and pasting the code. By Dan Grossman

Some Basic Tests To Check Your Website For Accessibility
The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must be made accessible to disabled people. So how can you check that your website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests you can make to address some of the main issues. Webcredible (http://www.webcredible.co. By Trenton Moss

Common Website Mistakes
Is your website ailing? By Tony Valle

Building a Church Website
Have you been asked to build a website for your church? Building There are thousands of people building websites everyday. It is becoming increasingly important for many small organizations and groups to build their online presence. By Chris Ryerson

Blogging for Profits
Bloging (the act of writing to a blog) has become one of the fastest growing trends this year and many internet gurus believe that this is the new biggest trend. Well, you might ask yourself what is the big deal I don't even know what a blog is? By Chris Ryerson

Create your own Audio studio for under $100.
Creating your own audio studio has never been easier. There are so many great products around today that will allow you to produce high quality audio for a fraction of the price it used to cost. By Quentin Brown

Making Your Website Work for You: Attracting Visitors
Just building a website is not enough. You need to get people to visit it. And just submitting to the search engines won’t do much. Here is a brief overview of 3 effective strategies to get people to your website: 1) Search Engines, 2) PR and Marketing and 3) Email Newsletters. By Marc S. Grobman

Web Hosting: 4 Factors in Choosing a Hosting Company
When choosing a web hosting company there are a whole lot of different factors that should go into your decision making process. One of the biggest factors should be: By Richard Martin

Is Your Web Site Too Hard?
Take the “Easy Test” to see if your website is as visitor friendly as it should be! Websites often fail to produce the desired results. This can be because visitors find them too hard to understand or navigate. Here are some potential usability problems to avoid. By Roger C. Parker

Be the King of Your Domain
So there you are. You’ve got a topic that you really love. You’ve done your research. You’re ready to start your new website. As good as it is, you’re certain to get traffic and tons of sales. All you need to do now is register a domain name and start designing the site to end all sites! By Scott Foreman

The Top 3 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Website's Search Engine Rankings- and How to Fix Them!
Getting your website up and running is hard enough. After spending hours getting the HTML code just right and trying to make sure that you provide a great user experience, the last thing you want to do is change everything around in order to get your site ranked higher on the search engines. By Richard Martin

10 Indirect Ways To Get To The Top Of Search Engines
There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top 20 spots of the major search engines. By Chris Towland

Tapping Into The Visual Stimulus Of Your Web Site Visitors
"Oh, my eyes, my eyes! What an eye sore. Quick, click away! Click away!" By Dan J. Fry

"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend
"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend. By Andrew Mottershead

Building Your First Web Site?
Creating your own site can be a satisfying experience. Here are some tips to help get you up and running. By Tim Querrey

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