| 591 | Table Tip: Border Control Preview: Want a border for your table, but don't want to use the standard border? Need a table cell outline? Here's how to do it. A SINGLE ROW, SINGLE COLUMN TABLE Insert a table with one row and one column. Make border equal zero. Set cellspacing to one. Set cellpadding to whatever you want it to be. Choose a background color for your table that will ... (more) Published By: Thomas Benton Submitted: 04 November,2002 |
| 592 | The 25 Deadly Sins For Your Internet Marketing Website Preview: Content Is KING! If you create a website, be sure to have valuable content you can offer. Try to find facts which cannot be found anywhere else on the Internet. It can be a lot of hard work, but if you can deliver unique content, you will certainly have visitors which will appreciate this. Especially, having dozens of banners at your homepag... (more) Published By: Detlev Reimer Submitted: 07 November,2002 |
| 593 | Why choosing form over function kills your site Preview: Never put form over function. Why? Because it's crucial that visitors actually be able to USE your site. Everything you do must be designed to be as easy for the visitor to understand as possible. Everything should be functional first. If you put form before function, you sacrifice your visitor's best interest for your own preferences. By definit... (more) Published By: Jamie Kiley Submitted: 15 November,2002 |
| 594 | The immutable laws of effective navigation - part 1 Preview: The first immutable law of effective navigation: It's gotta be readily available. Visitors should not have to hunt for your navigation or wonder where to find it. If you've done your job right, it will be right there when they are ready for it. The struggle in creating good navigation is to figure out what type of navigation the visitor is going... (more) Published By: Jamie Kiley Submitted: 15 November,2002 |
| 595 | Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Preview: The great debate: how much copy you should have on your site, particularly on the home page? Do you subscribe to the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words--and therefore images, not a lot of text, should be the main thrust of your home page? Or do words have more power to capture a visitor's attention and compel them to buy--meaning you s... (more) Published By: Jamie Kiley Submitted: 15 November,2002 |
| 596 | The Home (Page) is Where the Heart Is Preview: I know your online business has heart... miles and miles and miles of heart. But how come when I visit your site, I can't find it? The "heart" of your website is the thing that makes your company tick. It's the compact yet vital nugget that lets me know in short order what you do and how you can help me. It's the thing I need most when I ar... (more) Published By: Heather Reimer Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 597 | Finding the Errors on Your Site Preview: When you are building your site, and try to test it in a browser, do you sometimes (or perhaps more often) get an error message telling you that your site contains a script error, and would you like to continue running scripts on the page - yes or no? If so, look at that screen before discounting it - it should tell you which line has a synt... (more) Published By: Paulina Roe Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 598 | How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 1 Preview: A ship captain traversing the open seas without a good navigation system will surely get lost. Maybe he'll strike sharp rocks and his ship will sink. A visitor who arrives at your site and can't navigate it for the information they seek, will surely get lost also and leave in frustration. Your ship (your web site) will also sink if this continues ... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 599 | Route to a Publicity Bonanza Preview: 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 this. First, there were less than 800 entrants in six categories. If we eliminate entrants that were clea... (more) Published By: Marcia Yudkin Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 600 | How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 2 Preview: Searching for information on the Web has recently become like a mine field. You find the site you want, only to be greeted by pop-ups when you enter, pop-ups when you are on the site and pop-ups when you leave. Other sites use a flash introduction, make you wait several minutes (which feels like hours), until the page finishes loading. Heck, you j... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 601 | Would You Buy There? Preview: So you have a product that you want to sell on the Internet. What is the first thing you think about? Some may be thinking, "I need to set up a link directory, or maybe fork over some cash to overture and get some traffic in here." Others may be thinking, "I need a lot of great content to keep those precious visitors here." "Catchy url, that's wha... (more) Published By: Jason D. Huhtala Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 602 | Can Your Web Site Win The Tour De France? Preview: It's over. After three grueling weeks of racing, Lance Armstrong has won what some call the world's most difficult sporting event, the Tour De France. The US newspapers gave the event a cursory notation the Monday after the finish and showed a single photo of Lance in his yellow jersey (used to identify the Tour leader) sporting an ear-to-ear grin... (more) Published By: Ken Hablow Submitted: 19 November,2002 |
| 603 | Develop and Host Distributed Applications on Your Apache Server Preview: iConductor is a new Apache server module that allows you to develop and host distributed applications on your Apache server. Through its unique Variable Management System and extensible tags, iConductor provides the robust power required for today’s electronic business systems. Whether you need to create complex sales and accounting systems, or ... (more) Published By: Tara Rinke Submitted: 20 November,2002 |
| 604 | Website Updates are a SNAP With Server Side Includes Preview: If you ever had to make a change to your website that needed to be carried onto every page, you know what a tedious job it is.Well, have I got news for you. It doesn't have to be. Welcome to the world of Server Side Includes, also known as SSI. The best part about SSI is that it will make your life as a site owner 'oh so sweet.' You're going to w... (more) Published By: Merle Submitted: 21 November,2002 |
| 605 | Where Is My Pizza? Preview: Customer Service starts with the customer ... in applying just a little thought. Let me try a scenario ... You see an ad in your local newspaper for a new home- delivery pizza service, so you decide to give it a try. You call them, you order the one with all the trimmings and they give you the usual response that your pizza will arrive in 10 minu... (more) Published By: Pamela Heywood Submitted: 26 November,2002 |
| 606 | More bread and butter for Graphic Designers Preview: As a graphic designer myself, I know the benefit of regular studio work, the sort of work that keeps the studio alive, not the most exciting, usually referred to, in designer's terms, as ‘bread and butter' work. In the Graphics world bread and butter work takes the form of regular, heads down, non-award winning briefs: a daily stats sheet, t... (more) Published By: Alec Ellis Submitted: 02 December,2002 |
| 607 | I don’t need a website!….Do I? Preview: 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. Our entrepreneur, we’ll call him Bob, runs a computer repair business. His services ... (more) Published By: Janice D. Byer, MVA Submitted: 17 December,2002 |
| 608 | Find a Hidden Fortune in Your Website 'Stats' Preview: Most people never bother to look at the statistics program that comes with virtually every website because few realize the goldmine of information it contains. Your website statistics hold the key for understanding your traffic, improving sales and increasing the overall effectiveness of your online selling. Whether you realize it or not, your w... (more) Published By: Jim Edwards Submitted: 20 December,2002 |
| 609 | Designing Above the Fold Preview: The most value part of any web page is that part which is shown in your browser before the need to scroll. This is generally known as "above the fold." Arguably, you have just 10 seconds to grab your visitors' attention. That doesn't seem long, but as the brain can absorb thousands and thousands bits of information per second...10 seconds is lon... (more) Published By: Rich Baker Submitted: 20 December,2002 |
| 610 | Web Accessibility. . . Making your Pages Friendly to People with Disabilities Preview: Did you know that nearly 20 percent of all Web users have some form of disability? “Making your site accessible for all is a matter of courtesy, is good business practice, and is not difficult,” explains Robert Roberts, a professional SEO who owns the SEO Toolbox (http://www.seotoolbox.com). In fact, Roberts believes that Web accessibility issu... (more) Published By: Robin Nobles Submitted: 29 December,2002 |