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• 5-Simple-Steps-to-Accepting-Payments
  5 Simple Steps to Accepting Payments through your Web Site
  
  
• 5-Steps-to-Understanding-HTML
  5 Steps to Understanding HTML
  
  
• 10-Easy-Ways-to-Promote-Your-Website
  10 Easy Ways to Promote Your Website.
  
  
• 5-Ways-to-Avoid-the-1998-Look
  5 Ways to Avoid the 1998 Look. If you've looked around at a few websites, you might have noticed that many of them look absolutely terrible. This is because they were produced in the early days of the web's mainstream popularity, but haven't been updated since.
  
  
• 6-Reasons-Why-You-Need-a-Website
  6 Reasons Why You Need a Website.
  
  
• 7-Ways-to-Make-Your-Web-Forms-Better
  7 Ways to Make Your Web Forms Better.
  
  
• Ads-Under-the-Radar-Linking-to-Affiliates
  Ads Under the Radar: Linking to Affiliates
  
  
• AJAX-Should-You-Believe-the-Hype
  AJAX: Should You Believe the Hype?
  
  
• All-About-Design-Principles-and-Elements
  Home Page - All About Design: Principles and Elements.
  
  
• An-Introduction-to-Paint-Shop-Pro
  An Introduction to Paint Shop Pro - Producing Graphics for your Web Site.
  
  
• An-Issue-of-Width-the-Resolution-Problem
  An Issue of Width: the Resolution Problem. Different sized monitors can handle different widths of page, and yet HTML doesn't really let you take width into consideration when you're designing.
  
  
• A-Question-of-Scroll-Bars
  A Question of Scroll Bars. Does your website have scroll bars?
  
  
• Avoiding-the-Nuts-and-Bolts-Content-Management-Software
  Avoiding the Nuts and Bolts: Content Management Software.
  
  
• Beware-the-Stock-Photographer-Picking-Your-Pictures.
  Beware the Stock Photographer: Picking Your Pictures. You can always tell the websites that want to be big, but aren't. How? By the sheer number of stock photographs plastered all over the design.
  
  
• Building-a-Budget-Website
  Building a Budget Website.
  
  
• Building-Online-Communities
  Building Online Communities. When you're thinking of starting a website, you have a few problems. Where will you get content from? How do you keep visitors coming back?
  
  
• Clean-Page-Structure-Headings-and-Lists
  Clean Page Structure: Headings and Lists.
  
  
• ColdFusion-Quicker-Scripting-at-a-Price
  ColdFusion: Quicker Scripting, at a Price. ColdFusion is a rapid application development language for the web, developed by Macromedia.
  
  
• Column-Designs-with-CSS
  Column Designs with CSS. CSS columns aren't that difficult to produce once you understand how CSS float rules work.
  
  
• Content-is-King
  Content is King - Your visitors are at your website to get information.
  
  
• CSS-and-the-End-of-Tables
  CSS and the End of Tables. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS lets you apply styling information to specific parts of your HTML,
  
  
• Cut-to-the-Chase-How-to-Make-Your-Website-Load-Faster
  Cut to the Chase: How to Make Your Website Load Faster.
  
  
• Designing-for-Sales
  Designing for Sales. The Headline is Everything.
  
  
• Designing-for-Search-Engines
  Designing for Search Engines. Search Engine spiders control probably the largest section of your traffic.
  
  
• Dont-Be-Scared-Its-Only-Code-HTML-for-Beginners
  Don't Be Scared, It's Only Code: HTML for Beginners.
  
  
• Dreamweaver-The-Professional-Touch
  Dreamweaver: The Professional Touch. Dreamweaver is sometimes seen as FrontPage's main competitor.
  
  
• Encryption-and-Security-with-SSL
  Encryption and Security with SSL. What is SSL? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer
  
  
• Finding-a-Good-HTML-Editor
  Finding a Good HTML Editor. which program are you going to use to do it?
  
  
• Focus-on-the-User-Task-Oriented-Websites
  Focus on the User: Task-Oriented Websites.
  
  
• Fonts-are-More-Important-Than-You-Think
  Fonts are More Important Than You Think. The web has a big font problem that you might not know about. The problem is this: you can only specify fonts by name in HTML and CSS.
  
  
• Free-Graphics-Alternatives
  Free Graphics Alternatives. There are plenty of free graphic editing alternatives out there.
  
  
• FrontPage-Easy-Pages
  FrontPage: Easy Pages. Microsoft's FrontPage is one of the most popular WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editors.
  
  
• Hints-All-the-Way
  Hints All the Way. One of the best ways to make your site easier to use is to provide hints to your visitors everywhere you can
  
  
• Hiring-Professionals-5-Things-to-Look-For
  Hiring Professionals: 5 Things to Look For. So you've decided that it might be best to leave web design to the professionals, have you?
  
  
• How-Databases-Work
  How Databases Work. Almost all of the most useful sites on the web use databases to organise their content
  
  
• How-the-Web-Works
  How the Web Works. Many people think the Internet and the web are the same thing
  
  
• How-to-Get-Your-Website-Talked-About-on-Blogs
  How to Get Your Website Talked About on Blogs. Well, to get your website talked about on blogs, all you have to do is create some content that would be interesting to bloggers.
  
  
• How-to-Install-and-Configure-a-Forum
  How to Install and Configure a Forum. Once you've built your website, you might like to offer your visitors an opportunity to interact with it
  
  
• How-to-Make-Visitors-Add-You-to-Their-Favorites
  How to Make Visitors Add You to Their Favorites.
  
  
• How-to-Run-Ads-Without-Driving-Visitors-Crazy
  How to Run Ads Without Driving Visitors Crazy. As you travel around the web, you'll notice that most sites now have ads in some form or another.
  
  
• How-to-Set-Up-Your-Hosting-in-5-Minutes-Flat
  How to Set Up Your Website Hosting in 5 Minutes Flat.
  
  
• IIS-and-ASP-Microsofts-Server
  IIS and ASP: Microsoft's Server.
  
  
• Image-Formats-GIF-JPEG-PNG-and-More
  Image Formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG and More. When you want to put graphics on your website, you'll face an unexpected problem:
  
  
• Its-a-World-Wide-Web-Going-International
  It's a World Wide Web: Going International. While many websites seem to assume that everyone lives in America and speaks English, most of the world, oddly enough, doesn't.
  
  
• JSP-Java-on-Your-Server
  JSP: Java on Your Server. JSP stands for Java Server Pages. The idea of JSP is to allow Java code to be embedded in HTML.
  
  
• LAMP-The-Most-Popular-Server-System-Ever
  LAMP: The Most Popular Server System Ever. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP.
  
  
• Making-Friends-and-Influencing-People-the-Importance-of-Links
  Making Friends and Influencing People: the Importance of Links.
  
  
• Making-Searches-Simple
  Making Searches Simple. One sticky point with many websites is this: they have absolutely terrible search engines.
  
  
• Offering-Free-Downloads-on-Your-Website
  Offering Free Downloads on Your Website. Here's a question: how can you make your website wildly popular overnight?
  
  
• Opening-a-Web-Shop-with-E-Commerce-Software
  Opening a Web Shop with E-Commerce Software. Have you considered, that you could sell your products directly, online?
  
  
• Perl-Cryptic-Power
  Perl: Cryptic Power. Perl is, let's face it, a programming language for people who know programming.
  
  
• Photoshop-a-Graphic-Designers-Dream
  Photoshop: a Graphic Designer's Dream.
  
  
• PHP-Easy-Dynamic-Websites
  PHP: Easy Dynamic Websites. PHP is the most popular scripting language on the web, and the reason for that is how easy it makes it to create dynamic websites quickly.
  
  
• Picking-a-Colour-Scheme
  Picking a Colour Scheme. You need to check that the colours you've chosen provide enough contrast for your text to be readable
  
  
• Printing-and-Sending-the-Two-Things-Users-Want-to-Do
  Printing and Sending: The Two Things Users Want to Do.
  
  
• Putting-Multimedia-to-Good-Use
  Putting Multimedia to Good Use. Multimedia can enhance your website to no end, putting you light-years ahead of your competitors
  
  
• Python-and-Ruby-the-Newer-Alternatives
  Python and Ruby: the Newer Alternatives. Two of the newest and fastest-growing players when it comes to open source web languages are Python and Ruby.
  
  
• Registering-a-Domain-Name
  Registering a Domain Name. Before you can start a website, you need to come up with a domain name.
  
  
• Registering-Your-Users-by-Stealth
  Registering Your Users by Stealth. One of the best ways to collect information about your visitors and let them interact with your website is to register them.
  
  
• RSS-Really-Simple-Syndication
  RSS: Really Simple Syndication. The format aims to provide a standardised way to obtain a website's content.
  
  
• Setting-Up-a-Mailing-List
  Setting Up a Mailing List. One of the best ways to do this is to collect email addresses and use them to create a mailing list.
  
  
• Setting-up-a-Test-Server-on-Your-Own-Computer
  Setting up a Test Server on Your Own Computer. When you're developing a website, you need to see it in action on a real server, to see how it will work.
  
  
• Some-Places-to-Go-For-More-Information
  Some Places to Go For More Information. If you feel like you know quite a bit about web design now, but you’d really like to explore the details a bit more, then this is the article for you.
  
  
• Taking-HTML-Further
  
  
• Taking-HTML-Further-with-Javascript
  Taking HTML Further with Javascript.
  
  
• Taking-Your-Website-Mobile
  Taking Your Website Mobile. Nowadays the web is getting more and more mobile – it’s being used on mobile phones, PDAs, and all sorts of other small devices.
  
  
• Text-Ads-Unobtrusive-Advertising
  Text Ads: Unobtrusive Advertising.
  
  
• The-5-Principles-of-Effective-Navigation
  The 5 Principles of Effective Navigation. A website's navigation is one of its most important parts.
  
  
• The-Art-of-the-Logo
  The Art of the Logo. When visitors happen across a website that they haven't seen before, one of the first places they look is at your logo.
  
  
• The-Basics-of-Web-Forms
  The Basics of Web Forms.
  
  
• The-Basics-of-Web-Servers
  The Basics of Web Servers.
  
  
• The-Case-Against-Flash
  The Case Against Flash. The reaction of most visitors to something starting to load will be "oh no, Flash!", followed by a hasty dash for the back button.
  
  
• The-Confusing-World-of-Web-Hosting-Making-Your-Decision
  The Confusing World of Web Hosting: Making Your Decision.
  
  
• The-Evils-of-PDFs
  The Evils of PDFs. PDFs are marketed as an easy way to re-use print designs and content online.
  
  
• The-Importance-of-Validation
  The Importance of Validation.Once you've written a web page, you can upload it to an HTML validator. This site, run by the web's standards body, will check that your site is valid ('correct') HTML.
  
  
• The-Many-Flavours-of-HTML
  The Many Flavours of HTML. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language of the web
  
  
• Theres-More-than-One-Web-Browser
  There's More than One Web Browser.
  
  
• The-Smaller-the-Better-Avoiding-Graphical-Overload
  The Smaller, the Better: Avoiding Graphical Overload.
  
  
• The-Top-10-Biggest-Web-Design-Mistakes
  The Top 10 Biggest Web Design Mistakes.
  
  
• The-Web-Designers-Toolbox
  The Web Designer's Toolbox. When you're a web designer, there are lots of little programs that you'll gradually accumulate to make your life that little bit easier.
  
  
• The-Web-is-Not-Paper
  The Web is Not Paper. The web is a relatively new medium – in fact, it's often referred to as just that, 'new media'.
  
  
• Time-for-User-Testing
  Time for User Testing. In software development, testing is a key word.
  
  
• Titles-and-Headlines-Its-Not-a-Newspaper
  Titles and Headlines: It's Not a Newspaper.
  
  
• Tracking-Your-Visitors
  Tracking Your Visitors. Once you've got some visitors, the chances are that you want to know more about them. How many are there?
  
  
• Understanding-Web-Jargon
  Understanding Web Jargon. Don't know your HTML from your HTTP?
  
  
• Uploading-Your-Website-with-FTP
  Uploading Your Website with FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It's a standard for transferring files quickly and easily between computers.
  
  
• Using-Flash-Sensibly
  Using Flash Sensibly. So you know Flash can be used for bad things, but you think your website would really benefit from it.
  
  
• Using-Quizzes-and-Games-to-Get-Traffic
  Using Quizzes and Games to Get Traffic.
  
  
• VBScript-Javascript-Made-Easy
  VBScript: Javascript Made Easy. VBScript is a web language for inserting into HTML documents. It's a lot like Java, but is easier to write thanks to its Visual Basic-like code.
  
  
• Websites-and-Weblogs-Whats-the-Difference
  Websites and Weblogs: What's the Difference?
  
  
• What-Do-You-Want-Your-Website-to-Do
  What Do You Want Your Website to Do?
  
  
• What-You-See-Isnt-Always-What-You-Get
  What You See Isn't Always What You Get. When you use a visual HTML editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, they tell you that WYSIWYG.
  
  
• Which-Database-is-Right-for-You
  Which Database is Right for You? If you can choose your database, you're lucky: few hosts offer anything more than MySQL.
  
  
• Why-Doing-It-Yourself-is-Best
  Why Doing It Yourself is Best. There are two ways that most people who create web pages do it: either they hire a professional web designer, or they use some visual HTML editing software.
  
  
• Why-Java-Will-Drive-Your-Visitors-Away
  Why Java Will Drive Your Visitors Away. It's yet another plugin that users hate, and Java has an even worse reputation than most. Why?
  
  
• Why-Word-is-Bad-for-the-Web
  Why Word is Bad for the Web. Every so often, you might see text on the web that appears to be corrupted in some way. It's full of odd foreign letters to the point where it's almost unreadable, and it took ages to load.
  
  
• Why-You-Should-Put-Your-Content-in-a-Weblog-Format
  Why You Should Put Your Content in a Weblog Format. Once you realise that visitors and search engines prefer regularly-updated content to static archives of never-updated articles, there's a simple way to make this a reality.
  
  
• Why-You-Should-Stick-to-Design-Conventions
  Why You Should Stick to Design Conventions. A mistake often made by people who are new to web design is thinking that they shouldn't pay any attention to what has come before:
  
  
• Working-With-Templates
  Working With Website Templates.
  
  
• Writing-for-the-Web
  Writing for the Web.