Performancing.com is a blog for professional bloggers about how to run a commercial blog. They have a plugin for firefox that allows users to post to their blog directly from firefox. “Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right...
Before you can get a website up and running, you need to have a place to put it. Paying for web hosting is, basically, like renting a small amount of space on someone's server and paying what it costs them to send your web pages to your customers. Fortunately for you,...
I don't know if you've noticed, but people have quite a bad reaction to Flash, in general. Sure, it can be used well, but the reaction of most visitors to something starting to load will be “oh no, Flash!”, followed by a hasty dash for the back button. Why...
There are a lot of web servers out there. Whenever you go to a website, you're downloading it from a web server. When you pay money to a web host, what you're really doing is renting a space on their web server. The Internet consists of millions of computers networked...
Whenever you want people to enter data and send it to you, you need a web form. Whether the data is as simple as a username and password or as complicated as a full address form, the basic principles remain the same. The Tags. Form tags have always been a troublesome...
Logos are difficult to design. Every website needs a logo, and you should spend some time designing them or yours if you haven't already Your Logo is Your Face. When visitors come across a website that they haven't seen before, one of the first places they look is at...
Advertising on the web is big business again, but idea behind the revival is quite strange. Back in the dot-com boom days, all ads were graphical, as it was assumed that this was the best way to get people to click through. However, modern ad companies, led by...
Thanks everyone for a wonderful year and hope that 2006 is totally super. I have big faith that 2006 will be a great year and hope everyone can keep their new year's resolutions. Mine is to stop smoking which is of course a big deal to a smoker, or I should say ex...
You might have tested your website on every computer browser you can find, but nowadays thats just not enough. Nowadays the web is getting more and more mobile its being used on mobile phones, PDAs, and all sorts of other small devices that can be used on-the-go. You...
HTML might seem like a simple language for web documents, and to an extent, it is that's what it was intended to be. If you know what you're doing, though, you can do a lot more with HTML than you might think. This article should give you a few ideas on how to take...
Once you've built your HTML pages, you might need them to do something a little more interactive on the client-side (that is, in the visitor's web browser). How can you do that? Javascript is the answer. How Does Javascript Work? To add Javascript to your HTML, you...
My uncle is a rare book collector and has some amazing books. I totally dig anything that is before my time and rare books are totally fascinating. For one they are usually filled with great illustrations and two they usually have great typography. They are a windows...
