JSP stands for Java Server Pages. The idea of JSP is to allow Java code to be embedded in HTML this is done uising XML tags. JSP allows you to dynamically add content to your pages, and also offers the facility to send Java to the web browser easily. The Lack of...
Designer's need photography. But the choice of what photos to use in a design can either make or break a design. There are some cheap stock photography agencies out there where you can find cheap stock photography that is not widely used. Istockphoto.com offers...
While many websites seem to assume that everyone lives in America and speaks English, most of the world, oddly enough, doesn't. If you want your website to be successful internationally, you need to make your content available in languages other than English. Machine...
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to go with some friends over to Brooks Ayola's photography studio and take some photos. He has an amazing studio out in LA filled with awesome equipment and toys. Besides being a fashion/commercial photographer Brooks also likes...
Despite Microsoft's dominance of everything to do with computers, their web server software sits on a relatively low 20% market share, thanks to the popularity of Apache. However, 20% of millions of servers is still a pretty substantial number of servers, and so IIS...
Have you thought about starting an online directory? Directories can be a fun thing to start if you are passionate about a certain subject. If you regularly research a certain subject on the web and happen to find a lot of sites on that subject a web directory might...
Once you've chosen your web hosting, you'll often find that you're given a set of passwords and technical details, before being left to more-or-less figure it out on your own. If you haven't started a website before, that can be a daunting experience. Point Your...
If you want your visitors to come back again and again, you've got to get them to add your website to their favorites (also known as bookmarks in some browsers). That's the menu where they can save websites that they want to use again, clicking them easily to get to...
Once you've built your website, you might like to offer your visitors an opportunity to interact with it, and to talk to you and each other without having to use email. Forums are absolutely ideal for this purpose. Choosing a Forum. Before you can install a forum, you...
Blogs are a very powerful force on the web today. Have you ever wondered why searching for something seems to turn up so many blog entries as results? That's because blogs link to each other all the time, creating a strong network of links that does very well in the...
Almost all of the most useful sites on the web use databases to organise their content, and they often use them to allow users to register and leave comments too. Any time you do something that a website seems to ‘remember' the next time, the chances are that a...
One of the best ways to make your site easier to use is to provide hints to your visitors everywhere you can. You might think that sounds simple enough, but the amount of time required to do it and the number of things to consider puts a lot of web designers off....
