When you're selling things, you need people to be able to pay you. Sure, they could send you cheques in the post, but that's not really convenient or scalable, is it? No, to do business on the web, you need to be able to accept card payments electronically and,...
Promoting your website can be a daunting task: it feels like there are thousands of ways to do it, but all of them take a lot of time or money for no guaranteed return. To help solve this problem, I've compiled a list of ten easy ways to promote your website. 1....
One sticky point with many websites is this: they have absolutely terrible search engines. It does make sense, in a way, as searches are complicated to program for, and it takes time to write or implement a search engine on your site. Still, if you do search badly,...
Paint Shop Pro is one of the most popular image editors out there. Even though it's increasingly geared towards digital photography, you'd be surprised just how useful it can be to web designers. Features. So what features does Paint Shop Pro have? Well, for a start,...
If you're like 90% of web users, then you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft's web browser. Why? Well, because it comes with Windows, usually, and it's there on your desktop when you first want to use the web. When you're creating a website, however, you have to...
Before you can start a website, you need to come up with a domain name. The domain name is the name of your site on the web – the ‘www.yourname.com' that people will type in their browsers and see at the top of every page of your website. Obviously, it's...
When it comes to accepting online payments and other sensitive information over the web, normal HTTP just doesn't cut it. It's an insecure method of communication where everything is sent over the wire in cleartext – it's completely trivial for anyone in a network...
Many people think the Internet and the web are the same thing. In fact, the Internet is simply a global network of computers – the web runs on top of the Internet, and makes it useful for us. So how does the web work? The Invention of the Web. The web was invented by...
As you travel around the web, you'll notice that most sites now have ads in some form or another. Some of them are subtle, but some of them just aren't – in fact, after a while, the ads at some sites can annoy you enough that you'll either block them out entirely or...
Before you can consider the finer points of your design, you need to make the big decisions. Few of these decisions are more important than what colour scheme your website is going to use. If you choose the wrong one, your site will be, in the worst cases, completely...
