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Winning Words for the Web
Give Your Web Site The Verbal Advantage By Oscar Bruce

Content Management Systems (CMS): What They Are And Why We Love Them…
There is a buzz in the online community about a technology that empowers the average computer user with the ability to create and maintain their very own web presence. By Maarten VanRuitenburg

2 Tips On Effectively Organizing Your Navigation
Not all links are created equal. By Jamie Kiley

Mastering Regular Expressions in PHP
What are Regular Expressions? By Dennis Pallett

A Great Banner Only Needs Simple Things…
To create your own great banner, you only need five (5) simple things: By Granny's Mettle

When Your Graphic Designer Costs You Money…
So how do you know when your graphic designer costs you financially and emotionally? By Granny's Mettle

Sitemaps 101 - Back To SEO School
Sitemaps are without doubt one of the most often ignored and undervalued aspects of search engine optimization. By Niall Roche

Web Site Optimization: How to Optimize PDF Files for Web Sites
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web. While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web. By Andy King

Cheap Web Hosting – Choose The Right Company
You have carried out the hard part and that’s creating the web site. The next step is to get it hosted as to allow the public find your site. By Declan Tobin

Create and Deploy a Website From Start To Finish!
Need a website for small business, church, sports team, or community but don’t know where to start? Don’t have the time or maybe even the knowledge on how to build and or publish a website? Well let me say it’s really know big deal. I will try to give you the basics to get started. By Brock Coffee

You, too can Have Fun with Sepia Images!
If you are one of those who wonder how people come up with the cool looking sepia tone prints that you admire so much. If you are doubling up with jealousy over a sepia tone, here, we will give you tips on how you could achieve this sepia tone, too. By Lala C. Ballatan

A Crash Course on Graphic Philosophy 101
Novice and professional graphic designers, we are aware that you know the basic principles of graphic philosophy. By Lala C. Ballatan

Writing Effective ALT Text For Images
Anyone who knows anything about web accessibility knows that images need alternative, or ALT, text assigned to them. This is because screen readers can't understand images, but rather read aloud the alternative text assigned to them. By Trenton Moss

How to Boost Your Chances at Having a Successful Web Site
New Web sites are springing up online by the millions. However, when they don’t reach a level of success, the Web site owners assume that they can’t make money off the Internet. By Robin Nobles

Tell me what your website does!
You know exactly what your organisation does and what your website offers its users. This information has probably become second nature to you, but first-time visitors to your site won't know this. As such, make sure you don't forget to tell them what you do. By Trenton Moss

Your Website Hurts My Eyes: 7 Reasons to Tone Down Your Advertising
So you're on the computer, as usual. Your eyes are smarting. Your back hurts. You want to jump in the car and sail down the highway with all the windows down and your hair flapping in the wind. But before you call it quits for the day, you have to look up just one more thing. By Dina Giolitto

How You Pay More for Unused Web Space and Traffic
"2GB web space with 50GB traffic for $5.95 per month!" By Subhendu Sen

Creating Personal Web Sites
This is a two-part article about creating a web site on the web and the tools that you need to do that. By Ashish Jain

How a Business Can Benefit from a Website
With over half of all U.S. households shopping online, the internet has become a massive market for small businesses to sell their products and services to consumers. The Internet is quickly becoming the “world’s market place”. By Brad Seefeld

Basic Rules on Page Layout and Color
For one to be able to stand out from the rest, one needs to go out of the box, break the rules, and some other clichés that apply to breaking out from the traditional. But before breaking any rule, you have to understand first the basic and foundation of the rule itself. By Granny's Mettle

Basic Rules on Web Design
In every design there are basic rules to consider. For a web design, here are a few of the rules which you can take or break for your projects. By Granny's Mettle

What is SQL?
What is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language and is the lingua franca in the database world. SQL is a standard that is used by all database vendors and programmers to define, extract and access the information that is stored in databases. By John L

10 Prominent Website Mistakes
Nowadays, sites are getting better. With minimal design and highly maintained archives they continue to offer comprehensive services. However, prominent mistakes on several websites are still apparent. By Maricon Williams

Breathtaking Color Power!
Colors convey character, emotion and intention. You are what colors you choose. Thus, your choice of colors should reflect the message or feeling you to hope to convey to the viewer. By Maricon Williams

Key Facts you should know about Web Site design and Search Engine Optimization
1. Web site File Structure / File Naming Most search engines do not recognize beyond two directory levels. Make sure to name your files and directories with keywords. Don’t separate keywords using the underscore instead use hyphens. File names should be not too long. By Rajitha Dahanayake

10 Ways to Achieve Superior Web Site Design
In order to achieve online success, one must have effective and reliable products and services and great web design as well. Many people are judging the book by its cover this is the reason why your website should also be superior. By Maricon Williams

Examining the Substance of Studio MX
To all web designers out there, this article is for you! I guess you already heard about Studio MX (I think so!) – the ideal bundle for professional web designers, bringing together Dreamweaver MX for page design, Flash MX for animation and interactivity, and Fireworks MX for editing and optimizing By Mart Gil Abareta

Know-How in Microsoft Publisher
For those who still don’t know, Microsoft Publisher helps computer users to easily create, customize and publish materials such as flyers, brochures, catalogs, newsletters and websites. By Mart Gil Abareta

Review on QuarkXpress 6.0
After almost two decades of existence, Quark has become the basic building block of any print designer’s toolkit. It has deservedly gained a reputation for reliable printing, offering consistent and dependable output that prevents costly mistakes. By Mart Gil Abareta

QuarkXpress Tips: How to Move Content Between Print and Web Layouts
Since its release in 1987, QuarkXpress had made an immediate impact to computer enthusiasts. QuarkXPress introduced precision typography, layout and color control to the desktop computer, and delivered those features to designers at a fraction of the cost of proprietary typesetting systems. By Mart Gil Abareta

HSphere Control Panel Tips and Tricks - Power At Your Fingertips Part 1
This series of articles is intended to give HSphere Control Panel knowledge. I will take you through the Hsphere Control Panel, step-by-step, item-by-item till we have discovered all the power that you have at your fingertips. By Sheri barnes

How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Website
This article is intended as a guide for webmasters who want to display automatically updated content on their website in the form of RSS feeds. In this article I will cover the easiest method to implement using javascript for displaying RSS on websites to create additional dynamic content. By Allan Burns

How to create an RSS feed
An RSS news feed can be used to communicate with your target audience. It is an ideal means of notifying people of new content on your website without the need for them to keep on visiting your site. By Allan Burns

3 Tips to improve your RSS marketing
You have created an RSS feed, or maybe you have several feeds and you post at least once a week to keep your RSS subscribers interested. So now you can sit back and watch your hit counter tally up all those extra visitors. By Allan Burns

8 Ways to Build a Really Bad Web Site for Search Engines
Some web sites receive hundreds or thousands of unique visitors a day, whilst others only get a handful or none. The reason is often because the web designers or Webmaster has built the site in one ‘really bad way’ or other. This can end up hindering the potential success of the web site. By Gareth Davies

Why Re-Design?
My site is working fine. The links work. Content is added regularly. We have new features. Why does my company need a re-design? By Craig Kistler

Get Real-time Adsense Channel Stats And Find Out Which Ads Are Being Clicked
If you have multiple sites or multiple directories in your site for different subjects and you have placed Adsense codes in your site, I am sure you would like to know: (a) from which site or directory you are earning the most / least, (b) which Adsense ads are being clicked and (c) from which By Subhendu Sen

Search Engines And Your Website
You've built a great website for your business and are waiting for the visitors to come. Your return on investment research shows that if you get X number of visitors to your site this will lead to Y new clients or sales. You put the garage on standby to deliver your dream car. By John K Mitchell

6 Fatal Design Flaws “Newbie” Web Designers Make: These Mistakes Will Kill Your First Website Baby
Even if you’re not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago—you’re teaching yourself web design and you’re starting to catch on to that HTML stuff. By Mitone Griffith

How to Find a Reliable Host
The website hosting business is very competitive these days with hundreds of thousands of reliable hosting companies out there but what company is best for your needs and that will provide you with a reliable hosting service from customer support to the reliability of there web servers. By Marty Virve

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

Link Popularity: Why It's The Best Investment You Can Do For Your Business
More and more search engines rank your web pages based on the number of links that point to your web site (link popularity). Google uses link popularity as its most important factor in ranking sites. HotBot, AltaVista, MSN, Inktomi, and others also use link popularity in their formulas. By Marcio Dias

Are You Thinking Of Republishing RSS Feeds?
There is lively debate about the republishing of RSS feeds on other sites. The argument surrounds the use of RSS feeds from the feed publisher being used in an unfair manner. This includes republishing the entire articles and not displaying sufficient credit to the original source. By Allan Burns

Are Web Templates Aimed to Exterminate the ‘Web Stars’?
Since the arrival of web templates, there has been an unwritten haunch that plagued the Net. Many businesses and companies have turned to these templates to be aided for a less costly web design. Compared to sums which were then paid to web designers, only a diminutive portion of it is spent. By Maricon Williams

About Your Web Design? - Panic No More!
The Net is bombarded with different kinds of websites. When you visit from one website to another, you can’t help but compare. In some instances, you do not even have time to compare, involuntarily, you are clicking away from the site. By Maricon Williams

Seven Red Hot Tips for Linking
1. Vary the keywords in your link ‘anchor’ text By Gareth Davies

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 an ActiveX control the browser determines if that control is already loaded onto your system. If it is the ActiveX control is executed. By Richard Lowe, Jr.

Website Maintenance: What does it take to manage your website?
Every action has a beginning phase where you launch your activity, a middle period in which you must sustain and develop it and a conclusion. Many people set up a website enthusiastically but then they find that they don’t have the skills or knowledge to maintain and develop it. By Donald Nelson

The 10 Most Important Questions To Ask Your Web Host NOW!
So, you’re looking to build a web site or so fed up with your current web host that you are desperate to transfer your site elsewhere? You may not even be aware of your current host’s vulnerabilities in an industry where each week there is news about a host going down for one reason or another. By Bob Roth

A Pretty Site Equates to Fewer Sales – Is it a Fact or a Fallacy?
One that is pretty is very tempting. Thus, a book with fabulous cover and catchy title will likely to generate more sales, the same way that the dish with luscious presentation and extra-ordinary garnishing will be the first to be tasted. By Maricon Williams

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