1) Crystal Clear Source Code (HTML/CSS) Many web-designers give far too much importance to the look and the graphics of the website while ignoring the clarity of the source code. Clean and well-written source code is the first step to website design success. If a spider cannot find your ...

My parents made a monster. Little did they know 30 years ago that they would get exactly what they wished for. Like W.W. Jacobs' tale of "The Monkey's Paw", they got what they wanted, for better and maybe even for worse. See, my father is a virtuous man. Never cursing, never d ...

Through the explosive growth of the Web, companies have realized the benefit of building a strong online presence. By publishing a website to the Internet, companies are able to build their brand, market their products, support existing customers, release publicity pieces, and even take ...

Introduction Accessibility is often the last thing on a web designer's mind when creating a website. This is not a trait unique to newbies or people working on a personal page. It is also a trait common to professional web designers (large and small) and even multinational corporations. ...

More and more commercial websites are featuring pop-ups these days. In many instances, I'm noticing more pop-ups being used for advertising, probably due to the harsh reality that is "banner blindness". In other cases, pop-ups are used to display supplemental content to the par ...

Even being as careful as possible with my email address, I still used to receive more than 100 email messages a day, which is no exaggeration. Only about 10% of those emails were from people that I knew and the rest of the messages were unwanted emailspam. And Im sure you can relate to m ...

"I have a small business with just a couple of employees and I dont think my product can really be sold online. Do I need a web site" In this day and time, there is very little that cant be sold over the Internet. There are over 20 million people shopping online, buying everything from ...

If youre an up and coming graphic/web designer just out of university, youll know its quite hard to break into the workforce. You have to contact employers one by one, spend your time traveling and lugging your portfolio to their offices. Well, things have changed, and for the better let ...

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 machine with a little luck and effort. However, the evolution and growth of the Internet has ...

Five FAQ about Google PageRank 1. What is PageRank and why should I care about it PageRank is a formula that assigns a value to every page in the Google index. Google displays search results based on an algorithm which includes the value of PageRank. So the higher your site's PageRank, ...

What annoys an Internet user the most A quick unscientific survey of a local Internet café suggests the top three turn-offs are: Sites that are very slow to download; Ones that are confusing to use; Sites that do not contain the promised information; The single most common reaction ...

In search of a webhosting company for personal or small business purposes We advise you to take a look at this article to understand the hosting industry and study its dynamics to know what to look for before you make your choice. First, a brief introduction to the webhosting chain: th ...

Many elementary school children know the miracle of Charlotte's Web. Weaving the words "Some Pig" into the center of her web, Charlotte keeps Wilbur from the frying pan. E.B. White's story provides some fascinating guidelines for web spinning. Charlotte's wisdom assures Wilbur about ...

The darkest nightmare a hardworking affiliate webmaster fears is receiving a dreaded Google Adsense Warning, or even worse, a notice that Google Adsense has been disabled for the entire account. The notice starts out like this: "It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have b ...

In the region where my company is located, South Bend, Indiana, the demand for web design and associated services could be described as: leery. Its not that the locale is horribly lacking evolvement technologically; rather that so many proprietors in this area are very uncertain as to ...

Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site - What's required to get started All of us knowingly or unknowingly, use a standard decision making process in our day-to-day lives. The very first step of this process is to decide whether TO DO or NOT TO DO. If the choice is TO DO, we think ...

Managed hosting is a dedicated server that is accompanied by a full suite of technical support, maintenance and monitoring services. This differs from dedicated Web hosting, where customers are provided with their own servers but are still responsible for virtually all administrative and ...

If you are already on the web or thinking about it then you must know the terminology used on the web. Here is a Glossary of a few must know Web Terms. Visitors: The number of distinct people who visit your site. Page Views: The number of web pages that have been viewed by the visi ...

On the internet we don't deal with face to face selling. The internet is a visual and psychological medium. The words, or sales copy, on your website have by far the greatest psychological impact on your visitors and thus becomes your most important communication and sales tool. But an ...

Are you building your website If so, STOP! Take a look at what you have done so far. How many images do you have How much text do you have If your website has more images than text then you could be in trouble. Ask yourself these two questions What are my visitors at my website for Ch ...