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Selecting Your Web Site Colors

Is the choice of colors for your website and print materials more than just a matter of personal preference? Does it really matter what color choices you make? Will your audience really feel differently because of the color combinations? The answer to all these questions is Yes, Yes, and...

How To Select Web Hosting Services

It’s no longer an option to have a website. You simply must have one.  We consumers of services and products will take your business card, and maybe flip through your brochure, and perhaps even read a letter we receive in the snail mail, but we scan these things looking for your URL (your...

Make Your Website More User Friendly

There are many things you can do to make your website as user friendly as possible. And, believe it or not, this should be your number one goal when it comes to designing a website because if it is not easy for visitors to navigate then they simply will not visit and your business will suffer....

Using Web "Colors"

In 1994, Netscape defined 216 colors that have priority in browsers based on the 256 colors displayed by an 8-bit system. 40 colors display differently between PCs and MACs and are therefore eliminated.  (More)

Add Dynamically Created Graphs And Charts To Your Website

Not so very long ago adding a graph or chart to a web page or application required a fair amount of programming knowledge and was rather time consuming for even the most experienced.  (More)

Using Website Templates

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. If you haven't yet, you should give some thought to using a website template.  (More)

Good Web Site Navigation is Key To Success

Would you buy meat from a grocery store that left the bad meat in with the good meat or wasn't clean? Would you buy a car from a sales lot that had totaled automobiles on the front lot? I wouldn't and neither would you. Your website is your grocery store, your car lot.  (More)

Measuring Your RSS Feeds

For most marketers RSS metrics are still a gray area, although in fact RSS is completely measurable, even more so than e-mail.  (More)

Design Your Website with Sales In Mind

One of the very first decisions we make as Internet marketers inovolves the critical choices in design of our website. We each have differing opinions and viewpoints of just what our website should look like.  More often than not, these decisions are based on personal opinions or selections...

Tips to Optimize Your Web Site For Speed

If there is one thing we have all suffered through is waiting for a site to download online. It seems like it is the worse thing in the world and will never end. We actually either click off of the site or after the initial download of the home page completes it's download, we then click off...

Cheap Webhosting - Is It For You?

There's an old adage which states that "You get what you pay for".  (More)

Creating Rollover Effects With CSS

Do you ever seen those fancy links where they change the appearance as soon as you place your mouse cursor on them?  Here's how to do it.....  (More)

Web Site Development: Become The Expert

It is not necessary to be a computer "wiz" to develop your web site . You do have to know your product or service and be able to follow directions. Even if you have a web site consultant, "hands on" content and presentation development will be your responsibility — the...

Use Internal Linking To Boost Website Rankings

Links pointing to your website are essential for good rankings in the search engines. Most webmasters know how to do this the right way. You should use your targeting keywords in the linking text and description, every time you send a link request. This way you get a boost for that keyword ...

Create Your Own Download Links

One of the great features of working with a website is the ability to download a file by clicking on a link. As most people know, a link is most frequently visible as blue underlined text displayed on a website , or on an HTML email. Links can also be presented as hot spots on an image, or...

Building Ecommerce Web Sites: Where Do You Start?

Building a web site isn't something that is really cut and dry. There's a huge variety of products and services that can either help you get your web site where you want it or simply confuse you. It's also important that you make the right choices upfront so that you don't end up...

How to Write and Use Description Tags on Your Website

Today we have a guest writer contributing to your educational welfare! Donald Nelson gives us some fantastic advice about writing meta and description tags for building your website. Take 2 minutes to read this, and enjoy a lifetime of returns! Take it away Donald...   (More)

How To "See" What's Really Going On With Your Website

Have you ever wondered what goes on under the covers on your website, or any other website?  Are there redirects?  Doorway pages? Here's a great tool to help.   (More)

Website Images

The images on your website can consume quite a bit of bandwidth.  For those who may not know, or have the right tools, you can compress your images so that your website will load faster for your visitors and search engine spiders.   (More)

Proper HTML Coding

So you're building your website and are having some problems or challenges.  What's wrong?  Where are the problems with my layout, css or tables?   (More)

Another Google PageRank Report for Your Website

Yet another wonderful site offering a free check of a URL's PageRank....   (More)

Internal Hyperlinks

Here's a useful piece of html code that you can use on your site to send visitors to specific points in an html page - the internal hyperlink.   (More)

Beware - New Link Tag Being Introduced

Due to what is called "comment spam" on blogs on the Internet, Google and others have taken the lead in introducing a possibly dangerous HTML tag onto the Internet....   (More)

What Does Your Website Look Like At 800x600?

How many of you build a website without ever testing how it looks in different browsers or at different screen resolutions?   (More)

Page Layout For Max SEO Value

Ok, so we haven't given you much in the way of code samples lately.  Well, yesterday, Dave promised me he'd start blogging again.  And today, I learned a nifty little secret about the <rowspan> tag and it's impact on how a search engine sees your website.....  (More)

HTML Forms

Here's a nice easy HTML tip for you - one you can use with your forms. I'm referring to the TABINDEX element. TABINDEX allows you to control the order each item on your form is processed.   (More)

Meta Tags

While the < title > tag actually displays in each webpage, the < meta > tags do not. Yet they describe a lot of information about your web page and website.  They are definetly a valuable html tag to consider to build a website.   (More)

Using Style Sheets

Following on from my post the other day, here's how to use a style sheet to control the background and font color on your web pages: <style type="text/css"> body{ color:#000000; font:14px Arial, Helvetia, sans-serif; background-color: #FFFFFF; } </style> the above...

Add Some Color to Your Web Pages

One of the most popular requests we get is "How do I add some color to my Web Pages?" Actually it's quite easy as far as HTML goes. It requires a small addition to the "body" tag at the beginning of your web page as shown below. <html> <title>Color...

What are HTML tags?

When a web browser displays a page such as the one you are reading now, it reads from a plain text file, and looks for special codes or "tags" that are marked by the < and > signs. The general format for a HTML tag is: <tag_name>string of text</tag_name> As an...
 
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