Knowing CGI's effectiveness is enough for a web
designer to start...
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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. After clinching several deals with major
supporters like Micro...
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Adding Meta Tags to your site
Presently it's hard to tell if meta tags will help you achieve a
better ranking. There are so many criteria in determining a
site's placement that meta tags are never going to be the
ultimate factor in deciding whether your site gets placed in ...
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Adding Sound to your Web Site - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Many webmasters like the idea of adding background music to their web sites but most shy away from doing it worrying about slow loading pages and large file sizes. There are many different ways to ad...
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Adsense Secrets
Pst! Wanna know some Adsense secrets? The only secret is that there are no secrets!
Do a search for Adsense secrets and you will be bombarded by a myriad of ads by telling you that they, and they alone have all the answers to making lots of money w...
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Adsense-ble, Or ”The Art Of Promoting, Without Promoting”
Adsense, a new way for almost anyone online to make a profit. All you have to do is to get cleared by Google, put some code on your web pages. And wait for someone to come and click!
Hey, wait a minute.
You can't have popups on the page. ...
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Adult Web Hosting: The all you need to know
What sort of web hosting options should you go for if you want to host an adult website? You need to remember that this is the most critical aspect of your adult website. Facts like shared or dedicated adult web hosting, the maximum allowed bandwidth, th...
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Adult Webmasters - Its Just Another Sector
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Thank you for registering to receive my crash course of emails detailing how to becoming an expert adult webmaster in no time! Here you are going to learn the secrets of becoming not just a webmaster...but a thriving successful webmaster! There...
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Advanced 404 Pages
In a previous article, I discussed the advantages of using a
customized 404 error page on your site and gave instructions on
how to create one. As I explained back then, these pages are
highly useful because they enable you to benefit from traffi...
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Advanced web design principles
Home Page
Regardless of our connection speed, Internet users expect information to be readily obtainable, pages to download quickly and solutions at the click of the mouse.
As such, you should look at your home page as your Sale point. Have you...
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Frames
To use Frames or not to use Frames...
That is the question...
I've kept away from using frames in any of my work where possible. As much as I like some of the features that frames offer, such as a static header area and side menu bar, there...
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Advantages for Using FrontPage (Part 2)
Another benefit to using FrontPage is being able to create
virtual directories with ease. As you know, when you specify a
home directory, all of the subdirectories beneath the home
directory automatically become subdirectories of the Web site as<...
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Advantages for Using FrontPage (Part I)
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.
Then recently, I had the opportunity to visit with a group of
advanced sea...
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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. Then recently, I had the opportunity to vi...
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Advantages of a Simple Design
Easily maintained If a design flaw is found for a particular browser, it's far easier to find and fix the problem in the HTML source of a simple design, compared to a complex one. Browser compatibil...
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Advantages of an Online Site Builder
There are numerous choices when it comes to building web sites. One of the first choices you will have to make is whether to use an online or offline site builder. Site Builders Site builders can be...
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Advertising Methods. Market Research Questionnaire for a Business Start Up. Which Method have you found effective?
Advertising Methods. Market Research Questionnaire for a Business Start Up.
Which Method have you found effective? I would be grateful if you would take a few moments to complete this on-line form to help me gain self employment.
Methods. M...
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Aesthetics and Web Marketing
For four years I worked in the editorial department of a major Internet directory. My job required me to search for and review thousands upon thousands of Web sites. Oh, the horror!
I could tell you about the company that misspelled its own name. I...
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Affiliate Alternative; Google Adsense
The Rise and Fall of Affiliate Programs Affiliate programs were once a great source of online revenue, a savvy webmaster with an eye for marketing could easily parley a site into a money making machi...
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Affordable Web Design
Professional web design providing Business owners with web design, web site hosting, and graphic design.
Our Services:
Small Web site - $1,000AUD
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AFTER YOU GRAB ATTENTION, TIGHTEN YOUR GRIP!
We know that something like 80% of visitors will abandon our
sites without finishing the headline. And we know that "What's
in this for me?" is the question every visitor asks immediately.
We know we must demonstrate there is something here ...
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Alexa Rank
Alexa gets its rankings data from browsers that have the Alexa toolbar installed. That's a fairly small sampling, as
well as a skewed one, as many Web-savvy individuals feel that having the toolbar is akin to having spyware on your system. Because of ...
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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. Why? Google always offers the most results for any given searc...
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All About Links -- Interview with link building expert , Bob Gladstein
Julia: Welcome Bob. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions about link building. I'm going to jump right in ask you why Web sites need links?
Bob: There are a number of reasons to have links pointing to your site. But let’s start...
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All hope is not lost - 404 Errors
In a previous article, I discussed the advantages of using a
customized 404 error page on your site and gave instructions on
how to create one. As I explained back then, these pages are
highly useful because they enable you to benefit from traffi...
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Along Came a Spider (Part One)
So, your Web site is up and running. It looks great and on its first day you're excited about getting your first order. But your excitement soon turns to weariness as that one order is the only one that comes in for a whole month. And worse, your Web si...
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Along Came a Spider (Part Two) Keyword Rich Copy Works - But Only When You Have A Plan
There's no quick or easy way to write copy for your website. In fact, you should do several things before you even begin to put pen to paper-or fingers to keyboard. And most of it involves a lot of legwork.
First, you need a master plan that tak...
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Among the Graphic Software Programs, I Go for...
With the continuous stiff competition among software companies over the production of top-notch graphic software applications to make the world of graphic designing more exciting and compelling, web designers and graphic professionals are the ones who get...
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Amsterdam firm of webwriters reveals how they got their PR-3 listing in Google
Case study into ContentClix keywords reveals
-how we got listed in the search engines
-achieved PR-3 listing in Google
-and several PR-1 listings in others;
This a shameless marketing article but we're hard faced enough to take on the od...
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An easy way to build traffic
In the old days of the Internet (1995) people said the
phrase "build it and they will come"
This has changed however.. with more and more sites on
the net you have to do something that will attract
people. I have found some things that ...
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An Editor Spins Her Thoughts about Web Content
A glossy magazine placed an advertisement on its Web site, targeting the publication’s upscale subscribers. The expensive ad emphasized how perfect the tiniest detail would be for guests who stayed ...
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An ethical alternative to “doorway pages”
Definition: A doorway page is content created specifically for the purpose of garnering high placements in the search engines.
Issue: Google makes the following specific recommendation: Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines or ot...
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An exercise to get your site in shape!
Submitting your web site to search engines is the
single-most important step, to bringing in a
flood of targeted traffic.
These people are actively seeking you out when
they type your keywords into that little search
box. Question ...
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An Extensive Examination of the PHP:DataGrid Component: Part 1
An Extensive Examination of the PHP:DataGrid Component: Part 1 Introduction One of the most common tasks in PHP is retrieving data from a database table, and creating a HTML table to output that data...
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An Ingenious Way to Use Wordtracker . . . that's actually easier too! (Part 1)
An Ingenious Way to Use Wordtracker. . . that's actually easier
too!
By Robin Nobles
If you're in the search engine industry, or if you're a Web
designer or Webmaster, it's an almost sure thing that you've
heard of, and probabl...
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An Ingenious Way to Use Wordtracker . . . that's actually easier too! (Part 2)
(Continued from Part 1)
Now, let's look at a "new" way to use Wordtracker, John's step-
by-step approach:
To write this article, I came up with a real-life example and I
started at step #1, just like you will do with your own site....
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An Introduction to ROR (Resources of a Resource)
An Introduction to ROR (Resources of a Resource)
*** What is ROR?
ROR (Resources of a Resource) is an XML format for describing the content, objects,
and structure of websites in a generic fashion so search engines and other web
applicat...
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Analysing And Creating Highly Popular Web Pages
Today's webmaster faces a very common yet disturbing problem: getting a good position on the major search engines. How many times have you ever wondered why, no matter what you do, you can't seem to find your site when you do a search for your keywords ...
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Analyzing Web Traffic
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Analyzing Website Traffic
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Analyzing your web traffic statistics can be an invaluable
tool for a number of different reasons. But before...
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Anatomy of a Brilliant Site
I love sciplus.com. Not only because it sells Bomex separatory
funnels, mug warmers, and gallon drums of plastic ants; not only
because they have a great mascot named Jarvis; and not only
because their URL is a clever play on words ("sciplus," ...
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Anatomy of a Successful E-Business Web Site
According to a new survey carried out by Alliance & where ID_NUM=9270;
Leicester, one in five small business owners view tax as
their greatest concern. The Chancellor has announced in his
last budget that companies with profits below œ10,000...
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Answering No.1 The Question About RSS - Why Should I Care?
Answering No.1 The Question About RSS - Why Should I Care?
Author: Andrew Henry
Website: http://www.pheedcentral.com
Email: andy@pheedcentral.com
Picture:http://www.moneyandmotivation.com/images/Ah.jpg
This article may be repri...
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Anyone Can Build a Web Site!
Anyone Can Build a Web Site!
by Robin Sopko
There are many levels of computer "savvy".
I'd like to think I am quite experienced, but actually, considering the vast knowledge that I have never been trained in, I'd have to consider mys...
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Anyone can start a web portal - it's easy!
When you think of a web portal, who do you think of? Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista, and others, perhaps? Did you know that you
could create your own that people would want to go to? Well you can! In this article you will find many different ways to
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Appropriate Website Promotion Methods
Why would you want a site?
Why indeed? The unceasing growth of the World Wide Web has resulted in an enormous number of sites, and new ones show up daily. Why would you want to create more? And what do you think about the widespread opinion that th...
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Are The Search Engines Censoring The Internet?
Every single day I surf through about a dozen sites, looking for
interesting articles and message board posts. I do this for many
reasons: for my job, which requires that I stay up-to-date on
current technologies, and for my hobby, which allow...
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Are Those In Search Of The Success Enjoyed By Search Engines Misled?
Are you misled by the success of search engines?
Most webmasters seem to be.
Of course, several of the most-visited sites on the Internet are
indeed search engines or directories.
"And what do engines and directories have? A zill...
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Are We Looking Stupid?
It seems LookSmart has once again rocked the SEO world with its recent implementation of a new pay per click module called “Small Business Listings.”
Recently I’ve been receiving mail correspondence from my friends at LookSmart letting me know that...
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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, onl...
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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. Com...
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Are Web Templates Worth It?
By Dennis Dadey (c) 2004
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. Well, the...
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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...
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Are You A Bill Clinton Webmaster?
Are You A Bill Clinton Webmaster?
Post-Florida Google Pulls Back the Fig Leaf
By David Leonhardt
One of the most frequent questions I get asked about my ebook, Don't Get Banned BY The Search Engines, is whether I amended it to include post-F...
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Are You A Bill Clinton Webmaster?
One of the most frequent questions I get asked about my ebook, Don't Get Banned BY The Search Engines, is whether I amended it to include post-Florida Google. "Florida" is the code name that search ...
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Are You a Hosting Hostage?
© 2004, John Calder
http://www.TheEzine.net
In recent years, the hosting business has become extremely competitive. Not so long ago, the monthly price for an average hosting account for one domain was in the $35 and up range, at a minimum. Now, ...
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Are You Being Scammed By Your Web Design Company?
Are You Being Scammed By Your Web Design Company?
By: Martin Lemieux
This is a growing concern amongst many business owners. Does your web design company own you? This may be possible if you've allowed them to host your web site for you and als...
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Are You Choosing Your Website Colors Safely?
Many designers are overlooking the vitality of colors in creating a web site. Why is it vital? It is because it creates a mood – it can annoy, irritate or interest and uplift the spirit of the visitors. Your site can end up plain and boring or chaotic if ...
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Are You Choosing Your Website Colors Safely?
Many designers are overlooking the vitality of colors in creating a web site. Why is it vital? It is because it creates a mood – it can annoy, irritate or interest and uplift the spirit of the visito...
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Are you cross-browser compatible?
The question of cross browser compatibility is a common topic among Web developers. Should you or should you not make your website cross-browser accommodating? The answer is yes and especially if you are an e-business. As Ripley would say, "believe it or...
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Are You DELIBERATELY Keeping Your Website Out Of The First page Of Google?
Search engines are very difficult to completely understand. There are no complete explanations of how their ranking algorithms work. But the very fact that the average person does not intuitively kn...
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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...
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Are you Failing to Attract Traffic to Web Site - Www.My-Beloved-Site.Com?
Do you know the two biggest reasons for lack of traffic to your product site or affiliate site?
Is it competetion? Is it the crazy search engine algorithms?
It's neither of these things! The 2 biggest reasons are:
1) You have a l...
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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?
Meta Tags are words that are placed in your web pag...
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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? Meta Tags a...
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Are You in for a Safe Landing? - PPC Landing Pages
You've paid for your ticket and your ads are up on Google AdWords and Yahoo's Overture, but have you set up a safe landing for your clients?
Run a test landing. Do a search and find your Pay Per Click (PPC) ad in Yahoo or Google. Click on it. W...
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Are You Master of Your Own Domain?
This is an important topic for anyone who currently has a website and domain name, as well as for anyone interested in building an internet identity. I am sharing not only from personal experience (I have five active websites online at this time) but from...
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Are you Ready for WAP & WML?
Acronyms make the computer world go round. Things like
HTML, DHTML, XHTML; it's enough to make a grown man cry.
Well, look out! There's a new player in alphabet-town:
"WAP." So what is it and why
should you care? WAP stands for "Wireless ...
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Are you scaring visitors away from your site instead of attracting them to it?
Have you ever wondered why your "perfect" website is not generating the kind of traffic you hoped it would? Time for a reality check! Maybe your website isn't as perfect as you thought! Heart broken? Don't be it's not too late to correct those mistak...
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Are You Targeting The Wrong Keywords?
A colleague asked me recently to name the most critical element of any search engine optimization campaign. I didn’t hesitate to respond "keyword selection".
Like it or not, the keywords and phrases you select to describe your site within your M...
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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 cre...
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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 republishi...
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Are you using both sides of the GoogleCoin?
By now most of you realise that Google can give our websites the ability to appear within their results pages using a Pay Per Click model (PPC).
This is called Google Adwords
Hopefully, you will also be aware that that Google offers website ...
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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. Your potential customer will be turned...
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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 fu...
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Article Submitter Pro Review
If you have ever submitted articles to gain website popularity, then you know how long the pain-staking process takes. Well, there is a new automatic article submitting software that was just release...
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Ask Jeeves 'How Do I Get a Top Listing in your Directory' and He’ll Now Reply 'With Cold Hard Cash'
Millions of people enjoy using 'Ask Jeeves,' by simply typing
in a question and getting back relevant search results.
With many of the search engines/directories turning to pay
models, 'Ask Jeeves' now offers its own Text Sponsorship Program...
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Ask Mr. D - "Sticky Sites"
Dear Mr. D,
I keep running across the terms "sticky
sites" and "sticky visitors." About the only
thing I have learned about this "sticky stuff"
is that it is a good thing for site owners to
make their sites "sticky."
Can ...
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Ask Mr. D - JavaScript
Dear Mr. D,
I have noticed several websites that have
a sale's message that scrolls across their
title bar. Another site I visited had a sale's
message scrolling across the status bar.
These messages really caught my eye. I
fig...
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Ask Mr. D - On Search Engine Tactics
Dear Mr. D,
My question is about getting a website
listed on the major search engines.
For the past several months I have
been submitting my website to several
of the major search engines. But, I don't
think I am listed by any o...
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Ask Mr. D - Search Engine Keywords
Dear Mr. D,
My partner and I have a website that puts
together all kinds of tours of Mexico for
people. I think we have great products
at great prices. We have a great website
that cost us a lot of money to have designed.
There...
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ASP Web Hosting
ASP web hosting refers to web hosting companies who provide support for ASP (Active Server Page). If you want a dynamic data-driven web site you may wish to embed ASP code into your web site’s HTML ...
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ASP.Net Applications - ASP.Net Now 2005
Impress users with compete and ready to run n-tier web applications in under 2 minutes while generating very well structure VB.Net and C# . Generated applications include role based security, nice looking tabs, charting, searching, sorting, filtering, men...
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Attention grabbing web design will kill your sales!
In the of-line marketing world it is all about trying to get the
attention of the potential consumers to a commercial message.
The primary goal is to get noticed by the public.
It doesn't matter if it is for radio, TV, magazines, newspapers<...
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Attention to Detail or Learning How to Hate Humble Pie
Having been in the printing & graphics business for the past
25 years, I can attest to the importance of attending to details,
both in work quality and customer satisfaction. E-commerce
is not so much different, especially in principle.
A ...
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Attract Buyers to Your Web Sitewith Power Words
Article Title: Attract Buyers to Your Web Sitewith Power Words
Author Name: Leva Duell
Copyright: © 2003
Email: webmaster@profitablewebstrategies.com
URL: http://www.profitablewebstrategies.com/power.htm
Word Count: 503 words
Category: ...
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Attract Product Buyers--Create your Home Page With Marketing Pizzazz
Your home page needs to grab your visitors by the
collar--persuade and engage them.
You have the power to gain your visitors loyalty, to book mark
your site, and eventually, to buy your products if you write
irresistible, streamlined c...
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Australian Web Hosting
Every web site needs hosting. But what is the point in having a great looking website, if the site is down all the time?
Many hosts have an unexceptable amount of downtime (the hours your web site is offline) So you need a robust, reliable, always ...
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Australian Website guides
Some important facts for Australian business owners.
Domain Names.
Purchasing a .com.au requires an ABN. A standard price for a .com.au is about $100AUD
Try to buy a domain that has your main product/keywords in it. For example abc.co...
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Autoresponder Tips
An autoresponder is useful for, well, responding to people who send you inquiries through email. They are actually more than just merely useful - they are an essential tool in any webmaster's toolbox...
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Autoresponders With PHP
First off, check out the URL below. You'll learn how to make that today.
http://www.jumpx.com utorials/3/signup.html
Fill out your e-mail address on the page you see. (I promise it's not being saved anywhere.) Then, wait a minute or two and ...
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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 addit...
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Avoid These 5 Web Site Blunders!
The Web is intended to help people find information quickly and
easily. So why do so many sites make it difficult for users to get
what they need?
As president of a copywriting firm that writes and edits dozens of
online projects a year...
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Avoiding the Big Page Title Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes made by website owners is leaving the titles of the website pages blank or filled with the wrong words.
The page title of any website page is set using the HTML *TITLE* tag. Even if you don't do the programming yourself...
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Award Competitions: Route to a Publicity Bonanza
Inc. magazine is currently in the process of judging sites for its annual
small business Web award winners. Since I was a judge last year, I thought
I'd offer some observations on how and why to enter your Web site for
prestigious awards like th...
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Award double-whammy for bigmouthmedia
Bigmouthmedia, the award-winning Search Engine Marketing Company, today scooped a second award in just two weeks when it picked up a ‘Best Performing Company’ award at the Business Excellence Awards run by the Edinburgh Evening News.
The agency bea...
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Awards Programs: Ethics
One of the characteristics of an excellent awards program is the
presence of solid ethics. This is very important as all awardmasters
must understand that they weld a certain amount of power over their
fellow webmasters. They have the power to ca...
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Awards Programs: Handling The Losers
Sometimes it's an easy decision, sometimes it's more difficult. Occasionally
you find a site which on the surface looks very good and you spend hours
looking it over, comparing it to each part of your criteria. Believe me,
it's those last one...
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Awards Programs: Handling The Winners
Someone has sent in their site to be reviewed as part of your awards
program. If you've done everything correctly, this should happen several
times per week or even per day. You could review them as they arrive, or you
could set them aside and d...
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Awards Programs: Judging Sites
Okay, so you've taken the plunge and created your awards program. Your
criteria are defined and well written, your purpose is understood and you've
promoted the heck out of your program. Now you've started getting
applications - and the real w...
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Awards Programs: Submitting Your Site For Awards
All right, you've got a nice site. You've worked long and hard to make it as
good as you can. Now you want to get a little recognition for your efforts.
You want someone to take a look at what you've accomplished and tell you if
you've done a...
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Back Door Google via Overture
The importance of link popularity is widely known and many articles, theories and applications have been written on the topic. We all know by now that having many web sites pointing to your web site increases your Google link popularity and can score your...
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Backordering Your Domain Names
As a domain player, you know that almost all the great domain names were taken before 1999. It is difficult now to get an even fairly decent domain name.
Sometimes, however, some registrants do not recognize that their domain names are pretty valu...
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Backup Your Site
Imagine the following nightmare: you've worked hard on your site for
months, tweaking it until it looks perfect. You've got great content,
excellent graphics and a wonderful design. Thousands of visitors are
pouring in every day, and you are...
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Bad SEO and Google Penal
The Big 3 of Bad SEO:
Mirror Sites and Duplicate Content -
Google has a particular aversion towards spammed web site content and Google penalties for mirror sites reflect this.
Hidden Text and Keyword Stuffing -
A common technique for...
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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 i...
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Bad Web Design: Advertising Mistakes
Okay, we know we all need to pay the bills. I know that many of us want to
get traffic to our web sites. And some of us just want to make enough money
to pay for our costs so that this thing we love to do is free.
But, come on, that doesn't ...
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Bad Web Design: Graphics Problems
I know you like to put graphics on your page. There is little better than a
site which has been done by a professional graphics designer. The perfect
balance between graphics, color, fonts, photos and layout is rare and a
wonder to behold.
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Bad Web Design: Looong Pages
One of the sins committed by many inexperienced webmasters is the creation
of very long pages. I've seen this most often on sites created at
universities, although it can happen anywhere.
It's very annoying to run into these amateur sites (...
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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 people
surf the web is to read. Yes, the pictures are great, and yes the
animations are wonderful, but what peopl...
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Bad Web Design: Navigation Errors
Confusing navigation is another way to keep your visitors from coming back
or even staying very long on their first visit. You must provide a way for
your visitors to find out what you've got - it's of no use if no one sees
it.
Link Ever...
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Bad Web Design: Strange Cursors
I've been to some sites lately which have some pretty fantastic cursors. You
probably know what I'm talking about - cursors that have little balls
dangling from them, look like a heart or consist of a string of letters
waving as if in the wind....
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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 con...
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Bandwidth Explained
Bandwidth Explained
by Breal Web Design
What is Bandwidth and Data Transfer?
Simply put, bandwidth and data transfer are synonomous,
referring to the amount of data sent to and from visitors
and your website. It is calculated by the...
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Banned from Google and Wondering Why?
There are those that get on the computer one night and find that all of their Web pages have disappeared from Google. While, others are still in the search engine index, but don't rank high for nothing, not even for their Web site's name. It's a Web si...
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Banners Don't Have to Be Boring!
It's very common to see a banner at the top of most
webpages. Usually, they are 468X60 in size, which is
the most popular format for banner advertising.
But instead of pasting just one banner at the top of
your page, how would you like to put...
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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 artis...
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Basic Design Principles Part 2
Tone and Texture This specifically applies to drawings more than photography, but tone and texture are very important. Tone refers to shading of light and dark on an object and texture is the visual ...
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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 commerc...
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Basic Marketing Principles: Don't Put Up Your Website Without Them
So you think you've created the perfect website.
It looks great, loads fast, and you perform marketing
and promotional duties on a regular schedule online and
off. There seems to be only one problem....no one is
buying your products. Did you ...
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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, y...
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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. 1 > Viewers do not want to scroll horizontally. As a pe...
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Basic Web Design Principles
Home Page Home page should clearly indicate what the site is about. Provide top level navigation on the first page, your logo, and tell to the visitor what he can found on your web site. Your home pa...
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Basics of Search Engine Positioning
A. Terms
Search Engine: A machine "tuned" by humans to index
web pages. For instance, Excite.
Algorithm: The way in which the search engine is
"tuned". An algorithm is the way the search engine will
determine ranks - it is the w...
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Basics of web hosting and what to look for
First Things First
After deciding that you are going to have a website, you need two things, a domain name and a company to host it for you. Domain names are fairly cheap, you can go to www.godaddy.com where they sell them for $9.00 a year or somet...
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Be Creative before you Purchase or Create a Website
Before you jump into spending coutnless hours on designing and publishing your website, or spending hundreds on having it done by anyone else you should plan out your full design (or structure). Thi...
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Be Ready for Change
Change is scary, isn't it? After all, things might not be perfect
right now, but at least we're here and getting through it. Change
might make it worse instead of better!
But without change, there is no growth, no improvement, and in
sci...
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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 yo...
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Beat Google’s Dampening Link Filter with SEO Articles
Most Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts agree
that links back to your site have a great impact on
your ranking in the major search engines. Think of it
like an election; your site is a candidate and every
link to your site is ...
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Beautiful Web Sites Seldom Make More Sales
Designing an E-commerce Web site is not as simple as having a "pretty" site that is a pleasure to visit. While it is important to have an attractive site, as much thought must be given to functionali...
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Become a resource and they'll return!
One of the biggest challenges every person conducting business on the
world wide web faces, is how to get qualified traffic to return to their
web site. Business people are always looking for affordable ways to get
repeat traffic. You need to pro...
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Become a Tracker Outdoors Link Partner
Become A Tracker-Outdoors.com Link Partner
A link partnership with Tracker-Outdoors.com has some major advantages.....
Stand out from your competition! As a Link Partner, you'll have your websites link displayed on a links page within any Top Level...
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Beginner Guide to Web Hosting
What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your web browser is essentially just a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto your web browser. In general, a web site...
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Beginners - Getting Listed In Search Engines
Once you have your web site complete and ready to be listed you need to take a slow step by step approach to get listed in the search engines. If you do it right the first time and then build on that formula, your profits and your site will benefit in the...
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Beginning XML - Part 1 (An Introduction)
Coming straight to the point, XML stands for EXtensible Markup
Language. As the name suggests, it is a language that can be
molded according to the need of the hour. Personally, I don't
think calling it a language is justified, but I fanatically...
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Beginning XML - Part II (XML Style Language)
In order to work with XML, it becomes necessary to know a little
about the XML Style Language.
XSL provides for two forms of output flow objects. The first set
is the set of displayable objects defined for HTML, which allows
XML data to be...
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Beginning XML - Part III (Building Blocks)
XML documents (and HTML documents) are made up by the following
building blocks:
· Elements
· Tags
· Attributes
· Entities
· PCDATA
· CDATA
This is a brief explanation of each of the building blocks:
Elements
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Beginning XML - Part IV(Basic Schema Of A DTD)
In the following two articles, I'm going to wrap up my pondering
on XML. We'll explore the basic schema of a DTD, and the future
of XML.
Let's recall that some basic features of XML are:
· XML can keep data separated from your HTML<...
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Being a Swede can be a GOOD thing!
In my work as a webmaster I have to consider the search engine friendliness of the sites I work on. Sometimes I feel lucky being a native swede, since the competition for swedish words is a fraction compared to english. Recently I was updating a site that...
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Being a Webmaster
It's easy to become a webmaster. But, to become a really good webmaster
takes a lot more. And this takes a lot of work and study.
Many years ago, I started yacht racing in the Caribbean. I had been
sailing since the age of 11. I thought that...
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Benefits Of Making Your Website Accessible To Disabled Users – Part 2: The Business Case
The Disability Discrimination Act states that service providers must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is regarded as a service and therefore comes under this law. Some organisation...
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Benefits Of Starting A Forum Community On Your Website
Forums and online communities are excellent additions to websites that make them interesting and informative. Forums provide a means for your website's visitors to interact with one another to discus...
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Benefits of Web Site Templates
Okay, you are ready to join the masses and put up a web site. You’ve put a lot of thought into the design and are ready to go. Perhaps you should give more thought to using a web site template. Web ...
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Best Adult Awards A Hit
Best Adult Awards A Hit
(Quebec) September 6, 2004 – It was a flurry of traded business cards and appointments, shaken hands, expert seminars, and snapped photos and g-strings. It was an adult tradeshow. It was the first Qwebec Expo.
But the...
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Best Electronic/Dance Album GRAMMY excites electro-pop composers and performers around the world!
A new GRAMMY category enables creators of sonic masterworks, including such influential innovators as BT, the Crystal Method, Paul Oakenfold and Deepsky, to compete against similar artists instead of having to fit into other musical categories - a report ...
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Beta Testing
I'm sure as you've cruised around the web you've run across the
term "beta release" or "beta test version" or something to that
effect. You may also have heard "alpha test" or "public preview"
and other similar terms. What the heck ...
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Better Writing: What Works and What Doesn't
There’s no better way to promote your business for free than to write articles on the Internet. It is particularly good for promoting services, where advertising doesn’t work as well, even if you can afford it.
All business is about relationship. ...
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Beyond Web usability: Web credibility
Web usability: It's old news If you've been developing websites on Mars for the past few years then you'll be forgiven for not knowing about web usability. You'll still be creating splash intro pages...
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Bidding For Business - Expertisers.com Facilitates the Future
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Bidding For Business - Expertisers.com Facilitates the Future
Atlanta, November 25, 2003 – As the world plugs in, there’s no doubt that the business world is fast becoming an international arena....
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Big Site? Make the most of it on Google
For many people a five or six page web site is all they need or want, but for others, selling services and products on the internet, a hundred page site is barely adequate – if you’re one of those companies then here are some tips on making the most of yo...
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Blog Marketing: Guerrillas stalk the Internet
Blogs, are often defined as frequent and ongoing publications of personal thoughts and opinions of the Internet or websites. And, of course - all of certainly know what Marketing is. We are constantly bombarded with every sort of Marketing ploy through al...
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Blog Search Engine Increases Searches By 10% - Here's How!
The Blog Search Engine, a search engine for blog entry results, has recently announced that it has increased blog searches by over 10% with the implementation of a new Blog Search Toolbar powered by
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Blogging Advice - Give Your Readers What They Want
Web gives a lot of exposure; weblog stabilizes the exposure with a profound purpose. The purpose of a Weblog is to complement e-newsletters, serving readers in a way that extends a blogger's expertis...
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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...
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Book Review: The Non-designer’s Design Book, Second Edition
One of the books I strongly recommend for non-designers like me is Robin Williams' "Non-Designer's Design Book". It is a must for dummies who want to have a career on graphic designing even without the formal education. The book is a good primer for n...
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Book Review: The Non-designer’s Design Book, Second Edition
One of the books I strongly recommend for non-designers like me is Robin Williams' "Non-Designer's Design Book". It is a must for dummies who want to have a career on graphic designing even without t...
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Bookmarking with Flash
Do you have a site created with flash? Here is a quick script you can use to allow viewers the opportunity to bookmark your site utilizing Flash!
1. Create a button in Flash.
2. Add the following script to the 'Onrelease' section of the bu...
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Boomerang, Don't Ricochet your Web Site Visitors
You don't win your visitors' trust right away. It may take from
4-7 visits before they buy. You must always give them a reason
to buy, and not offend them in any way because they will
ricochet to other sites. Here's some things I do to get ...
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Booming coding community offers unique niche, member rewards
YoungCoders.com, a new programming community that has amassed 13,000+ unique posts in just over four months, announced today that it has begun a unique contest that remains unmatched by other websites.
The site (Read
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Boost your Application Development
“Reduce Time Intensive Phases during Software Development with TierDeveloper” Software must be delivered faster than ever before, without sacrificing the time taken to design and implemen...
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Bound To Your Old Expensive Web Host by Fear?
Bound To Your Old Web Host’s Sky High Rates By Fear? You're not alone! Many people are bound to the old web host they've used for years because they're afraid of the hassle of switching. Customers wi...
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Branding In Printing
When you encounter the term branding in printing, the logos, designs and styles that are inherent are the first things that come to mind. Branding, if you dig deeper are not just these things. A more...
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Branding Versus Search Engine Optimization
Branding versus search engine optimization is a marketing dilemma that larger companies will need to come to grips with on the Internet. Often companies will need to decide whether to promote their own brand name as their main keyword phrase or optimize f...
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Branding, Sloganizing and Search Engine Marketing
The descriptions search engines offer when displaying
search results are generally retrieved from two
sources:
a) the displayed page's title tag;
b) the displayed page's description meta tag or, in
default of same, the first char...
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BREAK THROUGH THE CLUTTER WITH AUDIO BANNERS
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course, his name is
Mister Ed!" Do any of you remember that silly jingle
from the television show?
That's not really important anyway. What IS important
is that Ed, the talking horse, was quite a phen...
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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. Red - Red is hot...
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Brief web Design Tips
Here is a list of some tips to help you with your web pages. These are
simply suggestions to help you create a better surfing experience for your
visitors.
Avoid Under Construction signs - All good web sites should always be under
construc...
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Bring Your Visitors Back Clamoring for More!
80% of your Web site is Maintenance!
Once your Web site is up, you must maintain it. Maintenance
means changes, and each time you make a change, you may
make a mistake. I'm really grateful when people point out my
Web glitches, and I can ...
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Bring Your Visitors Back Clamoring for More! Maintain and Improve Your Web Site Weekly
80% of your Web site is Maintenance!
Once your Web site is up, you must maintain it. Maintenance
means changes, and each time you make a change, you may
make a mistake. I'm really grateful when people point out my
Web glitches, and I can ...
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Bring Your Web Site to Life With PHP
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, better known as PHP, is a
highly popular, server-side scripting language that can be
embedded directly into HTML coding.
PHP can do anything that CGI can do, such as process form
data and auto generate dynamic...
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Browser "Safe" Fonts
Browser "Safe" Fonts
By Shruti Gupta
Fonts make a big difference to the look and experience of the website. Usage of fonts requires sense of aesthetics and discretion. We have the liberty to use any font we want in an image but when we specify...
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Browser Tips: Browser Helper Objects
I must admit that I tend to install a whole bunch of junk on my computer
system. It is part of my day job as Director of Technical Services at a
major company to review new software to determine if it may be of use. I
just love to look at new way...
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Build a Web Site that Works...Even for a Safari Hobby!
My life's greatest passion is a safari hobby. And what would that be, you ask. ...Simply the conservation of wildlife and the environment. I do this after hours from my 7 to 5 job. And that's how this story started. Read this story to learn how to build...
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Build A Website Your Clients Will Love
You've just spent good money on your first business website. You have invested in search engine optimization, researched your keywords, bought paid inclusions. You have read every article promising unlimited success carried to your front door on the...
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Build Character Now! Practical Tools for Busy Parents
Character is in crisis. Everyday your children see their sports heroes, movie stars, and music idols acting badly. How can you help your children become the people they were meant? As a busy parent, ...
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Build Websites Easier With Premade Templates
To most people the process of building a web site remains somewhat of a mystery. This confusion probably stems from the fact that there is a cornucopia of web sites on the Internet. Even with wide va...
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Build your home on the web today
Everyday hundreds of web sites are launched by people all over the world .There are millions of reasons which make us launch new websites.Let me mention three of them in here by supposing .
1 : If you have any kind of business then sooner or later ...
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