| 831 | Creating Your First Web Site, Part 2 Preview: Creating Your First Web Site, Part 2 By Lisa Maliga © 2005 In Part 1 you learned some tips about the basics of starting your site and finding a home for it, now comes the time to properly name it and get it optimized for the search engines so that your home on the web is easy to locate. Domain Name This is one of the least expensive things about... (more) Published By: Lisa Maliga Submitted: 04 January,2005 |
| 832 | How to Build and Make Your Own Website Preview: Perhaps the biggest mistake a webmaster can make is failing to perform a competitive analysis before building the website. I have encountered many creative entrepreneurs who have spent countless hours designing a beautiful web page that no one can find on the Internet. Many people who want to build a website for a new business expect to gain a cer... (more) Published By: Michael Elder Submitted: 06 January,2005 |
| 833 | One In A Million - Make Your Site Stand Out Preview: "One in a million". What do I mean by that? Well, for those of you who have dabbled in internet businesses such as affiliate programs and network marketing businesses, you would know that these programs generally provide an entire website for you to market their program. That's great isn't it? Your very own website to promote the business, and i... (more) Published By: Steven O. Ng Submitted: 06 January,2005 |
| 834 | Designing for Content Preview: We’ve all been told that a successful website has great content. The problem that I’ve discovered is what do you do with and how to you organize all this great content? Below are some of the things that I’ve learned in the time I’ve had my own site. Now my particular situation is one where my site is constantly growing in content. I didn’t start m... (more) Published By: Kelly Paal Submitted: 12 January,2005 |
| 835 | Why Ugly Sites Sell More Than Pretty Sites... Preview: What the heck is going on lately? Most internet websites I go to now, all I see are pretty graphics everywhere. I see moving images, I see crazy JAVA, things flying around. Don't get me wrong, some of these graphics are truly amazing - I love to see them! But, that's the problem! I only love to look at them, when I'm done looking at them, I LEAVE... (more) Published By: Anik Singal Submitted: 17 January,2005 |
| 836 | How To Take Payments On Your Website Preview: After my two-part article about selling things on your website, I had several people ask for more details on billing companies and shopping carts. So here goes. If you were to Google for billing card companies, you'd find out that there are thousands of places out there. Most of these companies have set up a merchant account for their own compani... (more) Published By: Jeff Colburn Submitted: 19 January,2005 |
| 837 | Building your website for visitors Preview: There are numerous articles and sites that advise on how to improve websites for search engine optimisation. SEO is, of course, vital for increasing the number of visitors to a website. However, never forget that it is visitors that turn into customers and make the money. Remember to keep visitors in mind at all times when building and designing a... (more) Published By: Karl Norris Submitted: 20 January,2005 |
| 838 | Top 7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website Preview: by Richard Wassell www.websitemaintenance.com.au A website provides invaluable advantages for businesses who have one. 7 reasons why your business needs a website are: 1. Convenience for customers Using the Internet to search for businesses and products is much easier and faster than scouring through the Yellow Pages. 2. Provides greater exp... (more) Published By: Richard Wassell Submitted: 24 January,2005 |
| 839 | Is Your Web Site Too Hard? Preview: Is your website 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. 1.Hard to find Is your website easy to locate? Do you ... (more) Published By: Roger C. Parker Submitted: 25 January,2005 |
| 840 | A Webmaster’s Toolkit and Tricks Preview: TERMS OF REPRINT You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included and you follow these rules: *Email distribution of this article MUST be opt-in email only. *If you post this article on a website, you must set any URL's in the body of the article and most especially in th... (more) Published By: Jason OConnor Submitted: 27 January,2005 |
| 841 | 14 Ways to Add Content to Your Web Site Preview: When I surf the Net, I often see web sites filled with beautiful graphics that strive to capture my attention. Well, they do so for an instant, however I click away when I don't immediately find relevant content. The content you add to your web site needs to attract both visitors and search engines. Part I - How to add content to your web site to... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 31 January,2005 |
| 842 | How to Build a Basic CSS Layout Preview: Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast becoming the new standard on the Web because of the benefits mentioned in my previous article. Web browsers used these days are now able to render web pages proficiently. In this article I will endeavor to create a basic 2 column CSS layout which you can use for future design projects. Here is... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 31 January,2005 |
| 843 | How To Design Your Web Site With CSS Preview: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows you to create fast loading pages, increase your search engine rankings, and modify your whole site with one style sheet. So why don’t more people use them? This is because they got so used to html design and are afraid or too lazy to upgrade their skills. Some will also use ready made templates that contain fl... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 31 January,2005 |
| 844 | A Beginners Guide to Server Side Includes Preview: An Introduction to Server Side Includes Beginner? That's OK! While much has been written about Server Side Includes (SSIs -also known as Virtual Includes) much of this information is designed for intermediate to advanced webmasters. This article is aimed at beginners. It is assumed that the reader has no prior knowledge of scripting languages,... (more) Published By: Kabooli Directory Editors Submitted: 01 February,2005 |
| 845 | Building Your First Web Site? Preview: Creating your own site can be a satisfying experience. Here are some tips to help get you up and running. Before doing anything on the technical side, you need some kind of basic idea to work with. I suggest first getting some paper and a pencil. Start by sketching a layout of how you would like your web page to appear. For example, a simple tit... (more) Published By: TQ Submitted: 02 February,2005 |
| 846 | 3 Tips You Can Use Right Now to Improve Your Web sites Usability Preview: Studies done by Jakob Nielson the man touted as the, “King of usability” by Internet Magazine showed that people do not read on the web like they would normally read offline. So what does this mean to you and why should you care? Visitors to your web sites are in a rush, they want the information you promised and they want it NOW. If they don’t... (more) Published By: Jason Mann Submitted: 06 February,2005 |
| 847 | The proper way to use the robots.txt file Preview: When optimizing your web site most webmasters don’t consider using the robots.txt file. This is a very important file for your site. It let the spiders and crawlers know what they can and can not index. This is helpful in keeping them out of folders that you do not want index like the admin or stats folder or content that they can not index. Her... (more) Published By: Jimmy Whisenhunt Submitted: 06 February,2005 |
| 848 | How to create a website; the do-it-yourself way Preview: So you have a product, service or information that you feel the whole world should know about. But you aren't quite sure how to tell them? Fortunately, for you it's the 21st century and we have the internet. By using this short article as a reference we will have you creating your own website in a matter of hours. The first thing you will need ... (more) Published By: Joel Strellner Submitted: 06 February,2005 |
| 849 | OpenSource and OpenSource Template Preview: What is OpenSource? Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program . You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and abo... (more) Published By: Alano Submitted: 09 February,2005 |
| 850 | Do Not Drop Your Web Site Off the Search Engine Cliff Preview: If you've been feeling like Tom Cruise climbing up the side of some remote jagged mountain in the blazing hot sun and concerned you're facing "mission impossible", chances are you own a web site. Adding to the intense thrill of web site ownership are keyword comparisons and bidding for good keyword positions in search engines. You might hire a se... (more) Published By: Kimberly Krause Berg Submitted: 12 February,2005 |