If you feel like you know quite a bit about web design now, but youd really like to explore the details a bit more, then this is the article for you. As web designers are, by their nature, very likely to be web users and website owners, theres a wealth of information...
When you're developing a website, you need to see it in action on a real server, to see how it will work. While you could upload your pages to your web host every time you make a change, this quickly gets time-consuming and tiresome. Wouldn't it be great if you could...
If you want people to come to your website more than once then you need to remind them, from time to time, that you exist and give them the latest news about what's changed and what's been updated. One of the best ways to do this is to collect email addresses and use...
One of the best ways to collect information about your visitors and let them interact with your website is to register them that is, give them a password they can identify themselves with next time they visit. Unfortunately, people are sick of going through...
Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a programming language and get a significant number of people to use it: and plenty of people have. Two of the newest and fastest-growing players when it comes to open source web languages are Python and...
There's something you have to realise about the way users interact with articles. To put it simply, they don't just want to read them: they also want to print them out, and send them on to their friends, family and colleagues. If you can make it easier for them to do...
If you have products to sell, then your number one reason for starting a website is likely to be promoting them. Have you considered, though, that you could sell your products directly, online? This is e-commerce basically like a much better version of mail order,...
First take a screenshot of the webpage where the logo is you want to use. Or you can usually right click and save the logo to your desktop. Go into your graphics editor such as Macromedia Fireworks or Photoshop and create a new file. I used Fireworks for this example....
Here's a question: how can you make your website wildly popular overnight? The answer to the question is ‘offer free downloads'. Everyone loves to get something for nothing, and downloading is as old as the Internet itself but it never declines in popularity....
There are few more important factors in your website's success than the people who link to it. But why are links so important, and how can you get more people to link to you? Built on Links. The early web was built on links: if people wanted to go to websites other...
You may have heard of a server system called LAMP, and wondered what it is. Well, the answer is that LAMP isn't any one thing on its own it's actually a combination of four technologies. Together, the LAMP technologies form the most popular overall server system on...
Most webmasters or graphic designers need to use icons at some point in time in their designs. Icons can be cool but sometimes finding good ones can be hard. I just stumbled across IconBuffet which offers icon sets that are rather nice. If you've been searching for...
