| 511 | Choosing An Internet Merchant Account Preview: Title: "Choosing An Internet Merchant Account" Copyright (c) 2002 Author: Andy Quick Contact Author: mailto:andy@findmyhosting.com Publishing Guidelines: You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as a link to FindMyHosting is included. For the link, please use http://www.findmyhosting.com, and ... (more) Published By: Andy Quick Submitted: 01 May,2002 |
| 512 | Web Source Web Design Tips - Cascading Style Sheets Preview: The FONT tag is used to display your text in a specific style. Using fonts within a table requires you to add the FONT tag to each individual cell. This technique will cause your page to be larger than necessary. By using Cascading Style Sheets, you can, not only save yourself a lot of time, but keep your page size down. Place the following code... (more) Published By: Shelley Lowery Submitted: 02 May,2002 |
| 513 | Don't Be Held Hostage! Kill Your Web Designer Preview: Don't Be Held Hostage! Kill Your Web Designer by Tom Antion No, I'm not suggesting that you yank out an AK-47 and blow your Web designer's life away. I'm using "kill" here in the same sense as you might say "kill the lights" or "use the kill switch." Turn off your Web designer's money-wasting flood of hostage-taking tactics. If you read this art... (more) Published By: Tom Antion Submitted: 02 May,2002 |
| 514 | Update Your Entire Website Instantly Using Server Side Includes Preview: Imagine my plight... I have 100+ pages on my website and I have to change my e-mail address and the copyright info on all the pages. The reason... My mail box is over-flown with junk mails. My only option is to edit all my web pages offline and then upload each one of them again, not to mention countless errors I make in the process. 100+ pages... (more) Published By: Vishal Rao Submitted: 06 May,2002 |
| 515 | Product Review: FrontPage 2000 Preview: Several years ago (way back in 1994) I had to put together a heck of a lot of documentation to help me get my job done. I started with Microsoft Word, writing over a thousand pages in a couple of months. This was all documentation about how to manage our mainframe computer system and it's associated application programs. After a while, I dec... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 06 May,2002 |
| 516 | Why FrontPage XP? Preview: I must admit that I use Microsoft FrontPage quite a bit. It's not that I am particularly fond of the product, it's just that FrontPage has a very simple, easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. This is especially true of it's support for tables and lists. In fact, I'd venture to say that FrontPage has by far the best WYSIWYG edi... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 06 May,2002 |
| 517 | "No Giant Pop-Ups, Please!" Preview: Everyone loves little pop-ups. They are handy and helpful. You can sign up for a newsletter, download a free e-book, sign up for a mini email course, do a little quiz, enter a contest ... and so on. These wizard promoters usually pop up in the corner of a webpage and are not much bigger than a notepad. Giant pop-ups are another matter altogether.... (more) Published By: Polly Hummingbird Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 518 | How To Set Up Your Own Website Preview: This article deals solely with the mechanics of writing a website and placing it in the search engines. For an explanation of why you want to do this, and how to determine what your target audience is, send a blank email to websitenewsletter@sendfree.com. That article will also tell you how to harness the power of newsletters to bring in traffic.... (more) Published By: Michael LaRocca Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 519 | Keeping Your Pop-Ups - and Your Audience Preview: In "Why Pop-Ups are Pop-Bad", we looked at the pitfalls of pop-up advertising, the most significant of them being the way Internet surfers feel about pop-ups. As I mentioned in that previous article, when you use pop-ups, you take the risk of your visitor count suffering and the reputation of your site being damaged. Despite that, many use pop-ups... (more) Published By: Lauri Harpf Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 520 | How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 2 Preview: When surfing the Web, you will have noticed web sites where the images load very slowly whereas other images don't match with the theme of the site or appear blurry. Presenting a professional image for your business means your web site design must be professional also. Part one of this article discussed when to use images for your web site ... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 521 | Top Secret Tips for a Perfect Color Scheme Preview: Many Web page builders agonize unnecessarily over choosing a color scheme for their pages. In addition to the color choices themselves, the proportion of those colors is also critical to the overall look of the Web page. Fortunately, there is a very simple, foolproof way to create a perfectly harmonized and proportionate color palette. This metho... (more) Published By: Mike Morgan Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 522 | Why Pop-Ups are Pop-Bad Preview: Not too long ago, seeing a pop-up ad appear meant that you were either on a page that distributed illegal software or looking at something that isn't suitable for the eyes of under 18-year-olds. Back then, pop-ups were seen as an annoying but inseparable part of the Web's dark side. However, encountering them while visiting larger and more reputab... (more) Published By: Lauri Harpf Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 523 | How to Prepare Images for Your Web Site – Part 1 Preview: You are staring at the your monitor waiting for the image to download. It finally appears but it has blurry edges. You go to the next page but can't read the text because of the dark image in the background. The next page has animated images, that don't seem to stop. The spinning globes keep spinning. The last page has a large graphic on it, which... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 524 | Your Web Copy is Too Skimpy to Work! Preview: Almost every day I hear from somebody with a web site that isn't selling well. "Can you please take a look and let me know what we're doing wrong?" they ask. Sometimes their product isn't very good. Other times their price is wrong. But more often than not, the problem is with their web site copy. People have really gotten the hang of creating fi... (more) Published By: Keller Flynn Submitted: 09 May,2002 |
| 525 | Do This One Thing to Create a Powerful Product-Selling Web Site Preview: Spend time planning your Web site. Before you design a page or write a word, get a visual, and mental picture of your preferred audience. Your visitors will spend up to 10 seconds on your home page, so plan accordingly. Draw your specific audience's attention with compelling headings that include benefits that will solve their problems. 1. Defin... (more) Published By: Judy Cullins Submitted: 09 May,2002 |
| 526 | Top 10 Signs Your Site Needs An Overhaul Preview: These are the top 10 signs your web site needs an overhaul. # 10 The images used on your site include a revolving globe, bevelled horizontal line separators, and one of those animated mail box icons that were popular in free image libraries around 1995. If this is you, listen up. If your site looks dated and unprofessional you will not make a... (more) Published By: Sandi Hunter Submitted: 09 May,2002 |
| 527 | Fix Your Website Or Say Goodbye To Sales Preview: Your website tells a lot about you and your product so if your website is poorly design you are sure to loose your entire investment as you will be loosing sales by the minute. In this article I have outlined some of the common problems common to website. In the age we are today, things change fast in the Internet and so if you are to keep up wit... (more) Published By: Jeffrey Benson Submitted: 13 May,2002 |
| 528 | Increase Your Sales By 25% By Implementing One Small Change Preview: How much would you be willing to pay to learn how to implement a guaranteed 25% increase in your online sales? Given the current sales situation on your website, how much would that 25% increase in sales add to your bottom line? $250 per month? $500? $25,000? The good news is that I am not going to charge you for this information. I am just ... (more) Published By: Bill Platt Submitted: 13 May,2002 |
| 529 | Planning a Web Site Preview: Have you ever wondered why some web sites look like the marvels of creativity and some look like specifically created to confound visitors? Ideally, no individuals make a web site to inconvenience their visitor but end up doing so because no serious thought is put into the planning face. Your web site on the Net is your virtual office - it repres... (more) Published By: Amrit Hallan Submitted: 13 May,2002 |
| 530 | How To Get Better Results From Non-Targeted Hits Preview: There are two types of visitors that come to your web site, targeted and non-targeted. Both can lead to sales, however they should NOT be treated the same. Targeted visitors are people that have either found your site through a search they conducted, have clicked on a link from another web site, or have clicked on a link in an ad you placed or a... (more) Published By: Joe Bingham Submitted: 20 May,2002 |