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Running An Effective Website

Running an effective website is a continuous process. I have compiled five (5) ways of doing it on a regular basis.1. Maintain and Optimize Your Site.Maintenance is making sure your site is technically ready for visitors. To do this, a web site owner...

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CLEAN UP THAT CODE!

How do you write your code so that it shows up on all ormost browsers the way you want it to look? By understandingwhich browsers support which tags, and using a validationservice to check your code.There are different tags that sometimes do the same...

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Australian Web Hosting

Every web site needs hosting. But what is the point in having a great looking website, if the site is down all the time?Many hosts have an unexceptable amount of downtime (the hours your web site is offline) So you need a robust, reliable, always onl...

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What Is Web Hosting

What Is Web Hosting? by Sean FelkerWhat is web hosting?The best way to explain this is by comparing it to a real-life (brick & mortar) situation. Picture a web hosting company as the owner of a shopping mall. The shopping mall owner invested a lot of...

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Cheap Web Hosting is No Bargain!

Ever heard the saying "Penny-wise and Dollar-foolish"?Well bargain priced website hosting may just represent theperfect example of watching a jar full of pennies while bucketloads of dollars fly out the window!When I launched my first website (way ba...

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No Giant Pop-Ups, Please!

Everyone loves little pop-ups. They are handy and helpful.You can sign up for a newsletter, download a free e-book,sign up for a mini email course, do a little quiz, enter acontest... and so on. These wizard promoters usuallypop up in the corner of a...

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NAVIGATION BAR AND BULLETED LISTS

Next, we are going to learn to make a navigation bar so that the Web site becomes "navigable", and then we learn to present point-wise information in the form of "Bulleted Lists".A proper navigation is the backbone of your Web site's success on ...

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How User Friendly Is Your Site

Is an Over-Complicated Site Costing You Sales?Clarity Is Everything. How "User Friendly" Is Your Site?In general, we designers will often find ourselves preaching aboutkeeping things simple when it comes to our design... but is thatall there is to it...

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YOU NEED SSI RIGHT NOW!

I learned of SSI (Server Side Includes) long before I builtmy current site. Since it seemed the only way to go, I checkedit out once again for the new site to be.What SSI amounts to is creating a new page for any elementscommon to all pages on your s...

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Beta Testing

I'm sure as you've cruised around the web you've run across the term "beta release" or "beta test version" or something to that effect. You may also have heard "alpha test" or "public preview" and other similar terms. What the heck do ...

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