?The basics of web design Now, as you have designed and have launched your site, you are having a powerful marketing tool for the business. However, your site would be only useful while the content is current. Procedure for keeping the site current is known as web site design and maintenance. It is necessary to [...]
Setting Up a Mailing List. If you want people to come to your website more than once then you need to remind them, from time to time, that you exist and give them the latest news about what’s changed and what’s been updated. One of the best ways to do this is to collect email [...]
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. While you could upload your pages to your web host every time you make a change, this quickly gets time-consuming and tiresome. Wouldn’t it [...]
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. As web designers are, by their nature, very likely to be web users and website owners, there?s [...]
Taking HTML Further with Javascript. Once you’ve built your HTML pages, you might need them to do something a little more interactive on the client-side (that is, in the visitor’s web browser). How can you do that? Javascript is the answer. How Does Javascript Work? To add Javascript to your HTML, you simply insert it [...]
Taking HTML Further. HTML might seem like a simple language for web documents, and to an extent, it is ? that’s what it was intended to be. If you know what you’re doing, though, you can do a lot more with HTML than you might think. This article should give you a few ideas on [...]
Taking Your Website Mobile. You might have tested your website on every computer browser you can find, but nowadays that?s just not enough. Nowadays the web is getting more and more mobile ? it?s being used on mobile phones, PDAs, and all sorts of other small devices that can be used on-the-go. You need to [...]
Text Ads: Unobtrusive Advertising. Advertising on the web is big business again, but idea behind the revival is quite strange. Back in the dot-com boom days, all ads were graphical, as it was assumed that this was the best way to get people to click through. However, modern ad companies, led by Google’s AdSense division, [...]
The 5 Principles of Effective Navigation. A website’s navigation is one of its most important parts. Sure, your users mostly come in through search engines now instead of via your homepage, but how can they get from whatever page they’re on to any other page they might want to go to? The limited space available [...]
