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,...
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...
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...
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...
