Ads Under the Radar: Linking to Affiliates.

One way to get a good income stream without doing anything that looks very much like advertising is to add affiliate links to your content. They're just links, they don't annoy anyone, and you can choose where you do and don't want to put them. Sounds ideal, doesn't...

7 Ways to Make Your Web Forms Better.

Since many people who design web forms have never designed any form of any kind in their lives before, it's hardly surprising that plenty of the results could do with a little improvement and if you've spent any time on the web, you'll know just how annoying bad forms...

6 Reasons Why You Need a Website.

If you don't have a website, then you might not realise all the great things they can do for you. Maybe you think there wouldn't be any point, because your business is too small or maybe you don't even have a business! Perhaps you think it'd be a lot of work for...

5 Steps to Understanding HTML.

HTML is a relatively simple language, but that doesn't stop people from having problems with it. Why is that? It's mainly because, while the HTML tags themselves are easy, creating an HTML document that works as intended on a web server requires you to know a few...

5 Simple Steps to Accepting Payments.

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,...

10 Easy Ways to Promote Your Website.

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....

Making Searches Simple.

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,...

An Introduction to Paint Shop Pro.

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,...

There’s More than One Web Browser.

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...

Registering a Domain Name

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...

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