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How Important is Website Design? By : Chris McElroy AKA NameCritic In this article I will be writing about Website Design, how it affects sales, and how it compares in importance to other aspects of Website Management. Lets list the different aspects of owning or managing a Website. Do Search Engines Care About Valid HTML? By : Adam McFarland Like most web developers, I’ve heard a lot about the importance of valid html recently. I’ve read about how it makes it easier for people with disabilities to access your site, how it’s more stable for browsers, and how it will make your site easier to be indexed by the search engines. So when I set out to design my most recent site, I made sure that I validated each and every page of the site. But then I got to thinking – while it may make my site easier to index, does th... Of CGI And Java Scripts By : Andrew Corner As two of the most used scripts in computers, CGI and Java Scripts have their own functions, similarities and differences. Outsourcing The Building Of Websites To Low Wage Countries By : Danny Wirken Understanding Outsourcing Outsourcing is the delegation of tasks or jobs from internal production to an external entity. At present standards, it has become more related to hiring the services of staff overseas where salaries are markedly low as compared to the local existing standards. It is primarily done by companies to save money, improve quality or free company resources for more important activities. Low-cost countries such as China, India and Venezuela continue t... Help For Joomla! Users: The XML Setup File Error Message – Upload Failed By : Editors TheScoopSite.com The content management system known as Joomla! is a powerful and versatile software system that will not only become increasingly popular, but will become more usable as program developers create more and more extensions. However, not all software additions are always flawlessly easy to install, especially in their first releases. If you are a newcomer to Joomla!, and if you have tried to add on any extensions to the basic Joomla 1.0.10 software, you may have encountered an e... Does Your Website Need Some CAPTCHA? By : Craig Ritsema Many Business website owners have faced this problem: They want to provide a function on their site for visitor’s to send feedback to them without opening the floodgates to spammers. Posting your email address on your website is generally an invitation for spam. Automated programs better known as “bots” will eventually scan your website and parse out your email address from the rest of the source code and use it for purposes other than what you intended. There are vario... Where To Get Content For Your Blog By : Danny Wirken Blogs and websites that have rich content are always going to do better than those that don’t. I am sure you wondered where these blogs get their ideas, views and opinions. It is easy to write about something you are passionate about- but to do that most days of the week is extremely hard, since you would probably run out of things to talk about or you simply don’t have the time. So how do they do it? Where do they get their ideas? Do they get help from tools and other source... Design Conventions: A Good Idea? By : Ken Snodin Even while searching for innovative ways to make their websites work, new designers should follow the established design conventions. These conventions have evolved along with the Internet, and users expect web pages to function in a certain way. If there were only a few websites, designers could expect visitors to spend time learning how to navigate their sites. There are millions of pages on the web, however, and if visitors do not see what they have come to expect, they... Qualities of a Good Web Designer By : Jeremy Hoehn Tips on how to identify good and bad web design firms before you waste far too much of your valuable time and money on a poorly designed website. 3 Tips For Choosing A Payment Gateway: Collecting Money Online By : By Chris Malta & Robin Cowie 3 Tips for Choosing a Payment Gateway As a consumer, when you check out of your local convenience store, you may swipe your credit card through a point-of-sale device and your gas, coffee, and donut are paid. But what if you are the retailer and your business is online? It’s not like you have a card-swiping device at every customer’s PC! There must be a way for you to process that information. Essentially, that is the job that a payment gateway does for online retailers. R... How To Increase Your Targeted Website Traffic By : Shon Christopher When people start a website they feel they need to make changes to increase their website traffic when in reality it is their targeted website traffic they need to focus on. Having hundreds of thousands of people come to your website a day means nothing if what you offer isn’t what they’re looking for. You have to find out what people want to know and what they need to help gear your website towards your targeted website traffic. So how do you do this? The first thing you ... Build A Website - The Easy Way To Profitable Websites By : Alexander Marlin Everyone talks online about how easy it is to build a website and make money online. Is is really that easy or pure hype to get you to purchase the next great thing to hit the online market. All I have to say is that it is not that easy building highly profitable websites online. But, you can learn how to build a website, that will be fully optimized for the search engines and highly profitable in a couple of weeks, using the same simple tricks I use daily. It doesn't matt... The Wordpress Plugin Repository By : Danny Wirken WordPress is a great open-development community that encourages its users to innovate. But a few years ago, it started getting hard to keep up with those innovations. That's when the WordPress Plugin Repository was born (currently hosted at http://WP-plugins.org). The repository is a place where all WordPress plugins are pulled together and shared with the community of users. But more than that, it's a place where developers can go to see what's already out there, what the... Designing A Personal Webpage By : Jordi Shoman Creating your own personal space on the Internet can be a great deal of fun. At the same time it can be rather difficult if you choose to create a really elaborate space. Constructing a visually rich webpage with intensive graphics and a multiplicity of options can be very time consuming and require a lot of work. Generating such a webpage will also require you to have a fair bit of knowledge about computers. If on the other hand your webpage has more of a no frills, textual ... Good Web Design By : Daniel G. In today’s highly technical world, everything is online. There is nothing you cannot buy, sell, trade, research, find pictures of, or play if you have a computer and Internet connection. These days, there is a web site out there for anything you could name. Which means that someone probably has a web site a lot like yours? As competition for page views grows more intense, web design more technical, and the Internet more popular, good web design becomes more important than ... An SEO Tip – Pay Attention To Your Imbedded Links! By : Danny Wirken Optimizing any web page involves both on-page and off-page optimization. Whereas on-page optimization emphasizes the use of carefully selected keywords to write a web page, off-page optimization is all about building links to the web page from other web pages as well as other websites. The leading search engines’ ranking algorithms have placed much importance on links that it is not possible to achieve a high-ranking based solely on competitive keywords. Links There are... The Importance Of Sound Website Design & Search Spiders To Internet Marketers By : James Opiko Google currently is reported to have indexed 8 billion pages and counting. Google utilizes an array of bots A.K.A. spiders or crawlers. Among the specialized bots Google uses include: The web spider Googlebot, the Adsense spider MediaBot, the image spider ImageBot, the AdWords spider AdsBot, the RSS feed spider FeedFetcher-Google, and Googlebot-Mobile spider for mobile devices. MSN & Yahoo, the other two of the 'big three' have their own proprietary versions of spiders. ... Website Navigation - Some Tips By : Richard D S Hill The navigation scheme you set up for your web site acts as its road map so it needs to be clear, structured and intuitive. No matter how good a site looks or how much useful information it has, if it does not have sensible navigation it will confuse visitors or drive them away. If a person has to look hard to find where they need to go, then they quickly lose focus and that is fatal to your chances of keeping them on site. Navigation (and page titling and headlines) needs ... Web Site Analysis 101 By : Richard D S Hill Eliminate guesswork and measure success – that is what analysing your website visitors' behaviour [or web analytics] is all about. Understanding where they came from, where they land and what people are doing on your site. Virtually all web-hosting services provide rudimentary analytics that can help you begin to understand what users are doing on your site. But most hosting services just don't provide more sophisticated tools. Tools such as funnel reports, which show how ... Creating A Website That Sells - How To Keep And Convert Viewers By : By Chris Malta & Robin Cowie Designing a good sales website can be the difference between losing a visitor and making a sale. You’ve got ten seconds to capture a viewer’s attention and convince them to stay—that’s how long it takes people to decide to keep reading, or move on. Make Your Site User-Friendly You need to plan your website carefully to make it really sell your product: • Have an attention-grabbing headline that tells viewers what they’ll gain by staying. It should list some clear, co... Reasons Why Fresh Content Is Imperative To Successful SEO By : Danny Wirken Gone are the days when people memorized website URLs to get the information or service they want. With the exception of a few popular websites like http://eBay.com, http://NBA.com, and http://CNN.com people have come to rely more and more on search engines to get to websites containing the information or service they need. Because of this, search engine optimization has become an invaluable tool in website design for people and companies to be able to reach their target audie... Combining Subscribe Button With A Help Button By : Danny Wirken Most sites, especially blogs have feeds associated with them, but Internet users do not know what a feed is or how to use it. You’ve probably seen the little orange button with white writing (XML,RSS, Feeds, Syndicate This Site) on a web page or blog post. If you are a non-techie, you must have wondered what this little button is for. To ensure that Internet users know what a feed is, Dave Winer, RSS creator, advocates the use of one simple and universal button Subscribe, whi... Know Your Goal In SEO By : Danny Wirken A search engine optimization (SEO) service aims to make your website more search engine ready or friendly; optimize the web pages for targeted and highly relevant keywords; increase the over-all visibility of your website on the major search engines; generate more qualified website visitors and ensure that you get a return on your investments. To maximize the benefits of SEO, you must have determined what it is that you wish to accomplish in your website. Your SEO needs would... The Best Places To Put SEO-Friendly Links By : Danny Wirken There are four usual locations of links. Links can either be placed at top-left of the document, at the bottom of the document, at the same height corresponding with the document or embedded within a document. Each link arrangement has its own set of believers as with regards to its efficiency in relation to SEOs. Discussions on Individual Efficiency At a study conducted among twenty volunteer participants with age ranging from 18 to 49 and an average of 3 years college... What Is Search Engine Optimization And Why You Should Care By : Deanna Mascle Search engine optimization, also known as SEO, is simply adding certain design and content elements to your web site, blog, and/or RSS feed to make it more attractive to search engines. If you are interested in generating traffic for your web site, blog, or RSS feed then you must spend some time working on SEO. Of course, you can ignore SEO and depend on other methods of traffic generation but this can be very expensive and time-consuming. SEO can be expensive and time con... Three Useful Free Blogging Systems By : Burt Cotton The number of internet users is increasing everyday. This is because there are interesting and knowledgeable discoveries found online. What most people like on the internet is that they are able to send messages in an instant. In addition, they are getting more and more fascinated with other sites. Sometimes, people use the internet as their online diary or journal. Others would use it to promote a product. Either way, there is one site that is famous for these things, we ... Index Tab Templates Made Easy By : Joe Torrence If you been through the process of trying to set up tab titles for printing on your laser printer and have become so frustrated that you given up, then this article is for you. Blank, copyable tabs are now readily available over the internet and your local office supply store but effectively using these products takes patience to set up for your laser printer. The most common tab cut is the 5 bank or 5 tabs per set. Each tab is 2" wide x 1/2" tall. By taking the total numb... Three Different Ways Of Getting A Wordpress Blog Up And Running By : Roger Loh The purpose of this article is to outline three different ways of getting a WordPress blog up and running. WordPress is a free blogging software, has many benefits and is supported by a large community of users and developers. A "blog" is abbreviated from the term, "web log" which is a form of online diary or journal. Since its advent a few short years ago, blogs have found numerous uses. Just to name a few, these include: - teenagers putting their thoughts and rambl... 10 Effective Seo Design Tips To Impress Both Website Visitors And Search Engines By : Barry Fenning If you are professional with your search engine optimization efforts and keep your customer in mind before you start considering “what the search engines will think” you will reap a lot more than what you sow. Chances are, if your visitors like your website, there is a very good likelihood that the search engines will like it too. With this in mind the following 10 tips focus on how to develop your website with your visitors in mind whilst also conducting effective search ... The Ultimate SEO Strategy is a Useful Website By : Joel C. Carlson Before you spend money optimizing your website for top search engine rankings, you first make sure your site deserves to be there. Wordpress And Content Management System: How To Make It Work By : Danny Wirken Since the release of WordPress, web users have customized this blogging software to suit their own needs. On of the most established needs in today’s computing world is the need for content management, particularly, a Content Management System (CMS). With its rich set of features and flexibility, WordPress can be customized into a major CMS. Content Management System Content management can be described as the process of creating, managing and publishing online content s... AdSense is for Everyone By : Brad Jensen You don't have to be a full time professional or intend to make millions, for AdSense to work for you. Start with the existing pages that you already have on the web. They can be personal pages, a blog, or a aite on some topic you are interested in. Choosing A Web Developer By : Craig Rowe A web developer is a company or an individual that will help you with the technical and even creative aspects of your website. A good web developer will help with designing the graphic layout as well as the website architecture and website navigation. Web developers are also responsible for coding the HTML and the cascading style sheets, also known as CSS. Many web developers also help with the creation of graphics, adding pictures to the website, creating links, as well as t... Designing Your Website For Affiliate Marketing By : Jude Wright If you want to be successful as an affiliate marketer, you have to have your own website. It doesn't have to be fancy, but it does need to look professional. Have you seen those websites that are completely filled with banners? I call them banner farms. How many of those banners do you think that YOU would click on? Enough said! Now that you know that you need a website, how do you get one? The first thing you need is a domain name. Ideally, it should contain the main k... The Basics Of Customizing Wordpress Templates By : Heris Yunora Do you want to change the look of your WordPress site or maybe to put something like a banner or adsense code on your blog? In order to do this you need to know about three important things: template files, functions and CSS. - Template Files These files are stored in a directory (wp-content/themes/template-name/). So if you are using "default theme", you need to access the files that are stored in "wp-content/themes/default/" directory. There are several common WordPr... Just How Important Is Navigation? By : Danny Wirken Importance of Navigation According to an article written by Jacob Nielsen, typical user behavior shows that users almost always ignore navigation areas of a web page and look straight at the content. He asserts that “navigation is overdone on many sites” and that most users are extremely goal driven and do not understand nor spend time learning navigation and global design elements of a website but will click the back button in a few seconds if the page does not seem to co... Use A Web Site Template? – Make It Original! By : John Dow A lot webmasters go for the ease and speed of using a web site template of some type to get a fast start. And a web site design template, whether you buy it or make it can be a big time saver. But you also always want to make sure that you customize each one enough to stand out from the original. Especially when you use a professional template bought through the Internet. There are a lot of good designs out there that can fit multiple subject areas. The color and design ar... Website Basics – Increasing Website Performance By : Scott Lindsay A website is a very important and powerful sales tool. It’s this very tool that opens your business to the world. A website can substantially increase your corporate presence on the market while functioning as a very effective PR tool. To achieve public awareness it is not enough to just set up a website. You need to define the website goals that will transform your web presence from a simple announcement that you are in business into the very sales tool we were talking about... What Does Seo Mean? By : Chris McElroy AKA NameCritic - Every new webmaster will eventually run into the term SEO (Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Optimizer) when he or she is working on marketing a website. This term can be generic and decisive all in one study. The term came around at about the same time as the Search Engines started to take hold. Infoseek was one of the first broadly used search engines and the SEO crowd quickly grasped onto designing the sites with SEO as the main intent. The first technique was... Web Design – The Importance Of Design Simplicity For Business Websites By : Scott Lindsay Search engines don’t care about web design. People do. While search engines will not index a website for its great layout, but for the content, people will forget the website that has nothing distinctive about it. No visual impact, no interest! Now, if you are a serious online entrepreneur and want to have a website that sends the right message to the visitors, you must know that there are some web design techniques simply inappropriate for a business website. Many web des... A Word To The Wise, Why Are Keywords So Important? By : Andy West Keywords. For a word that was essentially introduced to the English vernacular only a decade ago, it sure has become a part of our everyday vocabulary. How many times have you sat in front of a computer, loaded up Google, and then tried to think of the best words to describe the information you are seeking? In fact, you’ve probably gotten quite efficient at running searches on the web. It is estimated that 91,000,000 searches are conducted each day on Google and 213,000,00... SEO For Flash Websites-is It Possible? By : Scott Lindsay If there is one tool to create astonishing websites, that’s Macromedia Flash. However, it is not that easy to learn and is difficult to use. But the results are incredible: web pages that mesmerize us with special effects, including image and sound, animations that make us feel like we are in a theatre, interactive applications and so much more. Inexperienced online entrepreneurs ask web design companies to create Flash websites. Many of these firms are indeed able to desi... The Basics Of Website Design By : Scott Lindsay When you are on the Internet, you cruise websites for certain kinds of information. You may know of a website that you are familiar with, or you may have to type in a keyword, to find the website that you need. No matter what website you find, the premise is the same, you find information on it and your browser displays this information. How does your browser know what to display? It goes by code. Your browser was created to recognize HTML (HyperText Markup Language). This is... Building A Successful Website In 10 Easy Steps By : Scott Lindsay So why do you want a website? Would you like to create a personal page to tell the world who you are and what you dream for? Or maybe you have a large family, with members living in different parts of the world and you’d like to keep the family together at least online. What about making a living online or promoting your business? No matter the reasons, here are a few tips that will help you create a professional website. 1. Design a website focused on a particular topic a... Web Design And The Psychology Of Colors By : Scott Lindsay Web design is not an easy task, especially if what you need is to create a business website in plain HTML, with a very simple layout, easy to navigate, fast loading and, above all, distinctive. To reach this purpose web designers don’t have too many options. Typically all they can do is blend colors harmoniously to create an appealing website that combines attributes of simplicity and logic while providing valuable content. It is therefore important for any designer to kno... Web Design – Is It An Art? By : Scott Lindsay Web design is an art. There’s no question about that. The question is: how many websites designed by real web designers are out there? With the amount of crap that purely invades the Internet and suffocates the users nowadays, there are serious reasons to doubt that web design is an art in its own right. So called web designers create terrible made for AdSense sites, or those awful personal pages that have nothing to say. But the Internet is a World and you should expect t... Elements Of Great Websites By : Irene Kopaliani There are literally millions of websites on the Internet these days. How do you make sure that your website is not lost in virtual obscurity? Well, there are several key elements that every great website has. These elements are described below: Visible Elements How eyes see the site The first item that's seen on the website is the upper-left corner. From there, the eye moves to the upper-right corner, and then it moves in a zigzag fashion from elements that grab its at... Choosing And Using Keywords Effectively By : Barry Fenning Correctly choosing the keywords that your website wishes to compete on is the single most important aspect of a search engine optimization campaign. Proper keyword selection can provide your business with an extremely solid foundation to build upon. However, the opposite can be said for websites that make mistakes at this point. If your website dives straight into a competitive keyword selection there is a good chance of drowning in the oblivion of search engine results. C... How To Create Your Own Website By : Ron Eletrick Are among those who are fond and know about computers? Computers were surely not my cup of tea for a very long time. But now the situation has changed. Now, I bank online, surf the net daily, know to used MS Office, and understand gigabyte concepts, hard drives and difference between cable and DSL. Even better, I also know how to create a website. Are you aware of all these too? If yes then you are definitely computer savvy. It does not matter if your creating a website fo... Codes And Scripts At Your Fingertips By : Word Content Creating beautiful websites is no longer the monopoly of techies. Now, with web designing codes made available through the Internet, anyone can dabble into the exciting world of web development and web design. During the early years of the Internet, only a handful of people were capable of developing a blank webpage into a site that not only attracted a new breed of surfers, but conveyed the company’s thrust at one glance. These people, called developers had a world of the... Useful Scripts For Your Business By : Word Content Anyone who is managing a business would have a wish list similar to this: a demand for a product or service that he or she provides, a streamlined base of operations in making and providing the product or service, besting the competition with a plan of action, having loyal customers, having even loyal employees and getting timely information relevant to the business. The Herculean undertaking of putting all of these together is another predicament to be sorted out. No matter ... How Architects Can Optimize Their Websites By : Madison Lockwood Architectural firms with any sense of marketing at all have long used the internet as a portfolio. Both commercial and residential architectural firms publish beautiful photographs of their work, many of them employing professional photographers in order to maximize impact. Architects that specialize in restoration projects will often post pictures of the project before and after their work as been done. For most established architectural firms, this is standard fare. A we... Do-It-Yourself Or DIY Websites By : Madison Lockwood What's the Attraction? Today, with the cost of ready-made products continuing to rise, more and more people are finding it prudent to make or do things themselves. Sometimes kits are available, such as those for birdhouses or jewelry and sometimes it's necessary to build it from scratch, such as wood planters or an extra bedroom. Whatever your preference is, don't let potential customers miss the sense of accomplishment they'll feel when they're able to stand back and say,... Writing Web Content By : Scott Lindsay Professional writers find it hard to read web content. Not because web content lacks quality, but because it lacks literary style. Obviously writing for the printed media and writing for the web are two different matters. There are not too many people ready to give up the morning newspaper for the, let’s say, “morning e-zine”, but more and more users browse the web looking for information, news and entertainment. It’s easier to follow a story in the printed media than onli... Web Design And Navigation By : Scott Lindsay As people “browse” the Web, they “land” on a page and “navigate” on a website. To find their way around they need a “navigation” system. Navigation is as important for web design as for a real life drive: when you drive on a new road you want to see clear marked destinations, exits and parking lots. You want to know where you are and where you go. So do your visitors. Fail to provide a clear road map and they will go back to where they came from. Navigation should be clear an... Designing For Web Browsers By : Scott Lindsay Web design is always a challenge: new web browsers make website owners to turn to web designers to redesign their web pages; different web browsers display websites in different ways, leading to the same problem: redesign. This is costly, needs time and if the job is not done right, the release of a new web browser may lead to the same trouble. Moreover: a non-standard-compliant website is not a user friendly website (obviously!) and it might damage your business, by driving ... Choosing A Computer For Freelance Graphic Design By : Jonathon Hardcastle For many years, when a freelance graphic designer chose a new computer, Macintosh was the automatic choice. Macintosh computers provided the memory, processing speed and storage necessary for large design files. Most graphic design firms and printing companies used only Macintosh computers. Today, that trend continues but PCs are making inroads in what used to be territory exclusive to Macintosh. Therefore, the decision on what computer to purchase is not as clear cut as it o... 10 Suggestions For Blog Usability By : Danny Wirken Ignoring key usability issues on blogs may make it difficult for readers to understand a site. Writer confidence can also be hard to attain as well. This would certainly not work well for the site since all sites strive to reach the widest audience possible. Here are some suggestions to ensure your blog usability: 1.Provide the Personality Blogging has generally been associated with anonymous or geeky-nicknamed authors. This makes it almost impossible to establish trust... Build Adsense Websites Fast \| How To Buy Website Generating Software By : Rebecca Welch There's no denying that Google's Adsense program is one of the hottest ways to make money on the internet today. You don't have to look very far to find internet marketers hawking the latest and greatest way to make a fortune online. Some of the hottest new products are website generating software programs that are designed to build adsense websites fast. Some software programs claim to build a website in less than 5 minutes. But how do you separate fact from fiction and choo... Registration Forms: How To Make Them Irresistible With Personality By : Bill Flagg You can create an irresistible offer by humanizing the registration process. Help your potential registrants know that you are real, caring people behind the scenes. The more your registration process shows you care about your registrants, the more comfortable people will feel signing up for your event. Share with them in a way that you would want if you were the registrant. Ask yourself the following questions: Are you providing enough information to answer ALL questio... Registration Forms: How To Make Them Irresistible With Event Information By : Bill Flagg You can attract more people to your event by giving your prospects an overwhelming amount of evidence that this is THE event for them. Seminar companies who spend millions a year on direct mailers have tested, tested, tested, and then perfected the format that gets the greatest response rates. We dissected some of their most compelling seminar brochures to see what type of EVIDENCE they used. Here's how they do it - each one of these appeared as a list of 3 to 20 items:... Making A Website Using Website Templates By : D. David Dugan There are some amazing websites on the net these days. It used to be that if you wanted a really good website it would cost you thousands of dollars and months of time. Not any more! The quality and availability of website templates these days makes it easy for anyone to have an amazing website quickly and easily. Initially you may be overwhelmed by the choices in templates for your site. There are many sites that have many different templates available. This is a good thi... On-Page SEO With WYSIWYG Website Software By : Steve Leedy Creating a great website isn't the chore it used to be. There are a number of fine wysiwyg web design programs available today that can produce quality web pages for very little cost. Of course, for those pages to have any chance of ranking well in the search engines, they will need to be optimized properly. Any worthwhile website builder software will allow you to enter information for the section of the site code, including a meta title, description and keywords. Obvious... Web Site Templates – Are Special Effects Or Flash Necessary? By : John Dow You see a lot of new web site templates that have all sorts of special effects like noise, moving images, and morphing graphics. The gee whiz or cool factor is used to sell the web site design template and entice the buyer. But what impact, if any, does this kind of special effect have on the value of the user experience? I know that I’m not very attracted to noisy web sites. If fact if your target user is working in an office environment or other quiet working area, noise... Go For Keywords-Add Value To Your Website! By : Scott Lindsay So, what are keywords anyway? Little wonders if you really want to know. They are as important for the success of your website as the advertising and other promotional means. No keywords, no SERP. Linking strategy is probably the most important SEO technique, but keywords follow closely. As a mater of fact, you could exchange as many links as you wish, but, without content, your website has no real value. Without keywords your website cannot be found. People use keywords t... Preparing Your Site For Internet Explorer 7 By : Adam McFarland Here's the scenario: one morning you open your email and your inbox is flooded with emails that your site isn't working properly. Maybe your text or images don't look right, or even worse maybe your site isn't properly processing credit card transactions. How could this happen when you didn't change a thing? Well, that morning could be the morning later this year that Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7. How are people going to get IE7? According to Kevin Yank in a r... RSS Usability Problems And Solutions By : Danny Wirken RSS is a family of web-feed formats that is used for web syndication. It can also be used by news websites, weblogs and podcasting, among others. The acronym can refer to various standards such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0) and the RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and RSS 1.0) RSS Backgrounder Several similar formats already existed for syndication before RSS, but none was able to achieve widespread popularity or are still in ... Why Flash? By : Jonathan White Many possible technologies exist that can power web based games. Php, HTML, CGI and Java amongst them, but the most common plugin used to design browser games by far is Adobe Flash, previously known as Macromedia Flash. One of the biggest reasons for this is that Flash has become a definite web standard. Many PCs come with the Flash player installed. It is compatible with Linux, Apple Mac, BSD, cellphones, PDAs and a whole host of other devices. Over 520 million unique ins... Using Writely As Your Blog Editor By : Danny Wirken Internet giant Google has acquired Writely, an online web processor that also functions as a blog editor. Writely fits perfectly in Google’s grand quest to host the world’s content and adds innovative and easy to use program to Google’s browser-based world of blogging. Writely makes it easy for users by allowing access from anywhere, anytime on any computer. Writely allows a user to write from home or office while using somebody else’s computer. Writely is built utilizing ... Commission Hijacker Hidden Inside Your Web Page Design! By : Vishy Dadsetan As a person almost obsessed with Web site marketing, I am often at odds with my Web site designer friends as to what is important. They know that I love them and I mean no offense so all is good. For all Web masters especially those who count on commissions selling other people’s products, some Web design flaws could really hurt. 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